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4 factory, I feel bound to declare that Mr. S. Rosenthal is acquitted of the said charges, and cleared of the imputations which may have been cast on his character thereby.”

When the London Committee were informed that this man who had suffered such grievous wrongs for four years was declared innocent by his accuser, they neither offered him any compensation for the injury he had sustained, nor withdrew the prohibition against his employment, which had originated in false charges. A modified resolution was indeed subsequently entered upon their books, but it did not restore to Rosenthal what he had lost, nor was it allowed permanently to benefit him, owing to instructions sent from the London Committee, so that even in 1863 the Rev. Dr. Barclay, the present head of the Mission at Jerusalem, felt himself precluded from giving employment either to Mr. Rosenthal or to any of his family, quoting the original unrescinded resolution as preventing him.

The Bishop of Rochester and his colleagues would urge the Patron, Vice-Patrons, and Members of the Society to unite with them in having this matter thoroughly investigated, and in having some redress made by the Society for the grievous wrong that has been done. This the Reporters feel that the Society is bound to do, as its officials interfered to prevent the parties injured obtaining by law that redress from their calumniators to which they were entitled.

August, 1866.