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7 25th June, 1855, as remuneration for personal services, 10l.

Also a loan of Ps.8,000, or about 72l. of which sum only Ps.6,000 was repaid by 1857, and of the remaining Ps.2,000, or 18l. only the moiety was received in 1861, and the remaining moiety was remitted him by Captain Layard, as he pleaded poverty and inability to pay.

In addition to which, the late Rev. H. Crawford, one of the Society's Missionaries, in August, 1852, advanced as a loan to Mr. Rosenthal, out of his own pocket, the sum of Ps.2,000, or 18l. of which only Ps.800, or 7l. was ever repaid, the promissory note for the same being now in the hands of the Society; all tending to show that, until the unhappy differences which arose between the Missionaries and Mr. Consul Finn, in the autumn of 1857, in respect to Mr. Rosenthal, there was no disposition wanting on the part of the Mission, or the Missionaries, to help the Rosenthal family as occasion served, without any consideration of the question of their worthiness or the contrary, having respect only to their temporal necessities.

I am also instructed to forward for your Lordship's information, copy of an extract of the Rev. J. Nicolayson's Journal, dated December 25th, 1841, —two years after Mr. and Mrs. Rosenthal's baptism; and in the confident hope that the explanation now briefly given will be sufficient to satisfy your Lordship of the groundlessness of the charges made in Mrs. Rosenthal's pamphlet to the prejudice of the Committee and the Missionaries, the Committee feel that it would not, on their part, be demanding too much of Mrs. Rosenthal that she should withdraw from sale or circulation all the remaining copies of the pamphlet in hand, and that she express in writing her deep regret at having caused the same to be printed and circulated.

I have the honour to remain, My , Your Lordship's obedient humble Servant, (On behalf of the Committee)                  , Secretary. To the Right Hon. the, &c. &c.

Mr. Goodhart's communication having been considered at a meeting called by the Bishop of Rochester on the 22d of February, and it having been ascertained by unquestionable evidence that the greater part of the representations made in it by the Committee of the Jews' Society were incorrect, and that all were calculated to mislead, it was resolved, “That the explanation offered by Mr. Goodhart is wholly unsatisfactory, and that the condition with which his letter concludes is unreasonable, under the circumstances in which the writer was placed.” And on the 13th of March, the Bishop of Rochester sent to the Jews' Society a Statement of Facts on the subject, with a request that the President and Committee would appoint some members of their Committee to meet an equal number of the Bishop's friends in conference upon it. That statement was adopted as the basis of conference, and is as follows:—

STATEMENT OF FACTS CONNECTED WITH THE CASE OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY.

1. The case of Mr. Simeon Rosenthal and his family was brought under the notice of several friends of the Jewish cause, and supporters of the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, at a Meeting held at the Bishop of Rochester's House on Thursday, February 22d, 1866, when it appeared, that Mr. Rosenthal had at one time been in the employ