does not fail me, of two entire families, were barbarously put to death by a man named Kolodemas *.

A very respectable Jew of Corfu assured me that no less than five thousand Jews perished at the capture of Tripolitza. Certain it is, that the Jewish population of that city, whatever may have been its amount, was destroyed. I heard only of one individual who was spared: he was a man of very large property, and, by means of his wealth, purchased protection from one of the Greek Chieftains. Thus did Jewish blood, mingled with Turkish, flow down the streets of the captured city. The sons of Isaac, and the sons of Ishmael, on this as well as on every occasion during the Greek Revolution, met with a common fate. Their corpses were cast out of the city, and, like the ancient sovereign of Judah, they received no burial superior to that of an ass.

*This wretch had murdered, according to the computation of the Hydriotes, six or seven of his own countrymen; and, amongst the number, his own brother-in-law. No estimate could be formed of the number of Turks and Jews he had assassinated. I was informed in Hydra, that it was the same man who fired upon the boat of the Cambrian (or Naiad), and thus brought upon the island the misfortunes consequent on that deed. He was taken away in the Cambrian; but after, I believe, a year, returned back, to the horror of his countrymen.

It may be remarked in general, that the Greek Revolution has not left a single descendant of Abraham within the liberated territory. Thus do we find ancient Prophecy still fulfilled in the distresses of this people: Deut. xxviii. 63. It shall come to pass, that, as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought.

Is any prospect afforded of the conversion of the Jews of Turkey ?-This is a question of considerable interest: and though I do not discern any certain indications of an event so earnestly desired by Christians, I deem it proper to advance such facts as bear upon the question. One hopeful intimation is presented, by the circumstance of many Jews of Constantinople having requested Christian baptism. No less than eight solicited this rite at my hands; and eleven have subsequently been baptized by the Armenians. From what I observed at Constantinople, I was led to believe that there were many Jews of that city eager to become Christians. Those, with whom I was acquainted, hesitated not to assert, that hundreds were secretly desirous of it. I cannot but think that a large number of Jews are become weary of waiting for the Messiah. "We have waited, age after age, for

the Christ. Our Rabbies have continually been cherishing our expectation. We have been living on the hopes of his coming, for twenty centuries: but we are disappointed. Either he must be already arrived, or we are encouraging a delusion."- Such ideas, I believe, have begun, at length, to produce influence on Jewish minds; and hence we are to account for the eagerness with which some, though very partially instructed, have sought for Christian baptism, and for the reports which are in circulation in regard to others.

Our hopes receive further encouragement, from the fact, that now, for the first time since the primitive ages, a regular attempt to preach the Gospel to the Jews of the East is in progress, It would indeed be a preposterous expectation that the Jews should admit the Messiahship of Jesus, in connexion with the errors of the Greek and Roman-Catholic Churches. Such a corrupt view of the Religion of Christ has doubtless contributed to confirm their prejudices; and to increase their aversion to a Religion, which, with too much reason, they deem idolatrous and impious. I have heard Jews express their conviction, that the worship of pictures is idolatry; and Mr. B. Barker, of Smyrna, related a most interesting

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anecdote of a Jew of Salonica, who had been exceedingly impeded and embarrassed in his desire to embrace Christianity by the worship of statues and pictures in the apostate churches. When this individual heard from Mr. Barker, that there were Christians who worshipped God without any such visible intervention, and was directed to the New Testament as the sole directory of faith and practice, he laid hold of his hand with eager delight, exclaiming, "At length, I have found a true Christian!”

The Truth is now offered to the People of Israel, by Missionaries resident amongst them, and by means of the New-Testament Scriptures presented to them in an intelligible language. The Hebrew New Testament was first given them. The knowledge of this ancient language is not sufficiently extended in the Levant, to render the Hebrew Version intelligible to many, except the Rabbies. It has, however, been read. It has opened the way for the proclamation of the Truth; and it will, probably, with the more learned Jews, be ever the work most studied. Shortly before I left Smyrna, in the year 1829, a considerable number of the Christian Scriptures in SpanishHebrew had arrived; and I should hope that, at present, they are in active circulation. As the

Jews of Turkey are, for the most part, descendants of those who were expelled from Spain, it is still a dialect of Spanish, which is their usual language. The New Testament, therefore, in this language, and in their peculiar character, is an inestimable benefit conferred upon them. And thus, how interesting to observe, that the Gospel, which in Apostolic times was the power of God unto salvation, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek, now again, after the lapse of ages, is offered unto both!

The conversion and sufferings of three Jews at Constantinople attracted considerable attention in England; and, we trust, are only the precursors of a more powerful impression to be produced on the great body of their nation. As the facts connected with them throw light on the circumstances of Missionary labour amongst the Jews, I shall enter into some details on the subject.

The slightness of the means which were instrumental in bringing them to a conviction of the Truth, is worthy of notice. When I asked John Baptist Castro, what had first led him to believe in Christ, he referred me to a conversation which, as a child, he had had with an Armenian, as the origin of his faith.