TOLEItATION RECIPROCAL, 



the public serrico, and by the success with which tJicy 

 have thcmsclyes maiiitained our national honour. 



In seeking to conclude usefully an egotistical cliapter, 

 I would Tenturo to remind my British fellow subjects, 

 who may find them selves where otlicr laivs and other 

 creeds prevail, that tlie duty of private imlividuals is 

 often different fi^om that which is officiall}'^ incmnbent 

 upon us* who bear about our Sovereign's flag. Let thcni 

 never by indiscretion invito a difficulty, from which they 

 must afterwards invite their country's belj> to rescue them. 

 Let them remember that customs ami religions are 

 reciprocally strange ; and that, if (hey are allowed in 

 a foreign land to practise unmolested their own obser- 

 vances, it is by virtue of that same forbearance, which 

 they are doubly bound to exercise m turn. No ignorance 

 was ever dispelled, no creed ever purified by the con- 

 temptuous sneer of a " conscientious foreigner- I liave 

 the greatest respect for the devoted missionary ; but with 

 Teference to such scruples as I suppose to liave actuated 

 Mi\ Summers, I humbly think that, when his conscience 

 forbade him to bow himself in the house of Rimmortj 

 it might Iiave whispered that principle would bo satisfied, 

 and contention avoided by his quietly taking las wafk 

 another way. While the military or naval ofl&cer, 

 follo™ag his severe path of duty, may be piu-e from the 

 blood of all men, self-acquittal may not be so easy to 

 him, who, having gone forth to spread the Gospel of 

 peace, calls into action liis felloW'Subjccts militant, for 



