PREFACE. 
IX 
the support of the Christian world. In the 
fulfilment of this task, he has neither mis¬ 
represented nor exaggerated any facts. 
No little difficulty has been experienced in 
collecting materials to complete the chain 
of historical events—nothing on the subject 
having been published, in a separate form, 
since Rochon’s Voyage: but by obtaining 
access to several of the literary institutions 
in town, he has fully accomplished his pur¬ 
pose. The compilation, under even these 
circumstances, has been attended with consi¬ 
derable labour; but if the reader’s pleasure 
and profit from the perusal be in any de¬ 
gree equal to that of the writer, he will 
consider himself amply compensated for his 
trouble. 
He would feel himself deficient in gratitude, 
were he to omit expressing his acknowledg¬ 
ments to those gentlemen who preside over 
the Institutions referred to, for the hand¬ 
some manner in which they have assisted him 
in the collection of the materials ; without 
which assistance, the Work must have been 
published in an incomplete form. He also 
acknowledges similar obligations to several 
private friends, who have kindly rendered 
their aid in the progress of the Work; and 
he can with confidence assure the reader that 
