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other hand in an official certificate states, " I think it faithfully, 

 accurately, and clearly rendered." Notwithstanding the aid receiv- 

 ed from Government towards the publication of this translation, 

 as well as from the two Missionary Societies of the Church at the 

 Presidency, Rottler was for some years involved in pecuniary dif- 

 ficulties by it ; and was finally released from responsibility on ac- 

 count of it so late as 1821, by the Directors of the Male Asylum 

 consenting to discharge his debt to them for printing it, on his 

 handing over to them the unsold copies of the work together with 

 the amount he had realized by the sale of the remainder. The 

 edition was one of a thousand copies, and had cost 1,581 Pagodas 

 for Printing, and 948 Pagodas for paper. Rottler subsequently 

 published a revised edition of a portion of this translation ; an 

 octavo edition was printed in 1828 at the suggestion and with the 

 pecuniary aid of Bishop Heber. In 1846, Rottler's work under- 

 went an extensive revision by a Commitee of Missionaries in Tin- 

 nevelly : and this it is, after receiving a later partial revision in 

 1859, which is used by the fifty thousand of Native Tamil Christ- 

 ians connected with the Church of England at the present day. 



In 1813 Rottler was appointed by Government to the charge of 

 the Christian congregations of Portuguese and Natives at Pulicat 

 to visit them, chiefly for the purpose of administering the sacra- 

 ments, four times in the year. He continued to pay them visits, 

 and to receive an annual allowance from Government for so doing, 

 up to 1817. 



In the beginning of November 1817, Rottler committed the re- 

 mains of his former fellow labourer Paezold to the dust : and the 

 Vepery Mission was by his death left without a Missionary. Rott- 

 ler was requested to take temporary charge of the Mission pend- 

 ing a reference to the Home authorities of the Christian Know- 

 ledge Society, with the prospect of being permanently employed. 

 His Pulicat charge was then resigned : and so, concentrating his 

 remaining strength upon the Female Asylum and Vepery Mission, 

 he passed the last eighteen years of his lengthened life. We need 

 not in the pages of this Journal follow him up through the difficul- 

 ties and trials which sometimes thickened around him during these 

 latter years: it will suffice to add that he passed through them all 

 so as to obtain the encomiums of those who knew him, and to se- 



