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This request was faithfully attended to, and the result 
communicated to the directors in London, and to Mr. 
Campbell, then in Africa. 
Early in the year 1814, the Rev. J. Le Brun sailed as a 
Missionary to Mauritius, furnished with letters of recom¬ 
mendation to his excellency, Governor Farquhar. The 
directors remark, in connexion with this appointment, “ An 
important object of this mission is, to prepare the way to 
the great island of Madagascar, and it may be hoped to 
Bourbon also.” For obvious reasons, the latter has not been 
attempted, Bourbon having been restored to the French 
by the treaty of Paris in 1814. 
In January, 1815, the directors acknowledge receiving a 
letter from his excellency Governor Farquhar, expressing his 
satisfaction with what he had seen of Mr. Le Brun, and 
warmly recommending the Society to commence their long- 
intended mission to Madagascar; promising to render every 
assistance in his power to that great and good work. 
In the Society’s report for 1817, the directors, expressing 
themselves much encouraged by the representations and 
promises of Governor Farquhar, state their hope of being 
able, in the course of that year, to commence the mission. 
Accordingly, in August, 1817, the Rev. Messrs. S. Bevan 
and D. Jones were ordained at Menaddlwyd, Cardigan¬ 
shire. They had been formerly students under the Rev. 
M. Phillips, of Newodalwyd, and subsequently finished their 
missionary studies at Gosport, under the Rev. Dr. Bogue. 
They sailed for Mauritius in February, 1818, and arrived 
there in July. 
At that time, as has already been stated, his excellency 
Governor Farquhar had returned to England on leave of 
absence, and was succeeded, pro tempore , by General Hall. 
Messrs. Jones and Bevan were courteously received by 
