Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ... it as my opinion, that Jews and Roman Catholics may try to convert his Majesty's liege Protestant subjects, " publicly and indiscriminately," and in "opprobrious and offensive terms too," whenever they please; and fur As Peter fiamlolphy the Catholic, and David Levi the Jew, welt know. ther, that if the magistrate were to scize their bodies for.such offence, the news of the event would soon reacii the East Indies. 11. If, then, there was no commotion among the people in Bengal, what was the cause of the procecdings against ihe Missionaries? The massacre of Vellore--the fatal massacre of Vellore. That event, which had taken place upwards of a year before, had filled the minds of the rulers of India (as it well might) with apprchensions for the safety of the English dominion. It was some time before Christianity was thought of as bcing a cause of that event; but as soon as the suspicion was presented to the mind, it was eagerly enteiiained, and specdily magnified (in some imaginations) to a certainty. This jealousy of Christianity was farther inflamed by communications frosji England--by heart-sickening, criminatory communications. Those who were at the helm of affairs thought that something ought to be done; but what to do they knew not. The ship of the state was in danger, agitated by the waves; and, like infatuated mariners in a storm, they resolved to throw out the compass and quadrant, to lighten the vessel. To prove the sensations of alarm concerning Christianity which the Bengal Government suffered about that' period, it is only necessary to refer to thcir letter to the Court of Directors of Nov. 2, 1807, containing thcir proccedings respecting the Missionaries. In that dispatch, they declare without...