not yet been able to see, nor shall, I suppose, till the rains: at present it is involved in a thick cloud of dust. So much for exordium.-Let me take up my narrative from Mirzapore, where I wrote you a note. I reached Tarra about noon. Next day, at noon, reached Allahabad, and was hospitably received by Mr. G.; at night dined with him at the Judge's, and met twenty-six people. From Allahabad to Cawnpore how shall I describe what I suf fered! Two days and two nights was I travelling without intermission. Expecting to arrive early on Saturday morning, I took no provision for that day. Thus I lay in my palanquin faint, with a head-ache, neither awake nor asleep, between dead and alivethe wind blowing flames. The bearers were so unable to bear up, that we were six hours coming the last six kos (twelve miles.) However, with all this frightful description, I was brought in mercy through. It was too late on Saturday to think of giving notice of my arrival, that we might have service; indeed I was myself too weak. Even now the motion of the palanquin is not out of my brain, nor the heat out of my blood."

Mr. Martyn's removal from Dinapore to Cawnpore, was to him, in many respects, a very unpleasant arrangement. He was several hundred miles farther distant from Calcutta, and was far more widely separated, than before, from his friend Mr.

Corrie: he had new acquaintances to form at his new abode; and, after having with much difficulty procured the erection of a Church at Dinapore, he was transported to a spot where none of the conveniences, much less the decencies and solemnities of public worship, were visible. We find him, soon after he arrived there, preaching to a thousand soldiers, drawn up in a hollow square, when the heat was so great, although the sun had not risen, that many actually dropped down, unable to support it. What must such services as these have been to a minister, too faithful and zealous to seek refuge in indolent formality, and already weakened in health by former ministrations. He complained, if indeed he may be ever said to complain, of an attack of fever soon after the commencement of these services; and there can be little doubt but that they contributed very materially to undermine his constitution. No time, indeed, was lost by him on this occasion, as before, in remonstrating upon this subject, and his remonstrance procured a promise that a Church should be built. This expectation, however, was not fulfilled until his health was too much shaken to profit by its accomplishment.

At Cawnpore, Mr. Martyn's ministerial duties varied little from those which had occupied him at Dinapore. Prayers and a sermon with the regiment at the dawn of the morning; the same service at the house of the General of the station, at eleven o'clock; attendance at the hospital; and in the evening, that

part of his work which was the most grateful and refreshing to his spirit, though performed under the pressure of much bodily fatigue-an exposition to the more devout part of his flock, with prayer and thanksgiving, made up the ordinary portion of his labors.

That love of philology, in which he fondly hoped to effect discoveries, conducive to the elucidation of difficulties in the Scriptures, followed him from Dinapore to his new residence, and so haunted his mind, that, whether at home or abroad, whether by day or by night, he could not divest himself of it. For many successive days did he intensely pursue this study, and for many sleepless nights did the study pursue him. At length he thought he had ascer tained the meaning of almost all the Hebrew LETTERS; by degrees, however, he became less ardent in these inquiries, either from questioning the truth of those axioms which he had laid down, or from finding their inutility after he had established them.

These abstruse speculations, together with duties of a more important character, (one of the chief of which was the superintendance of an Arabic translation of the New Testament, now begun and carri ed on conjointly with a new Persian version,) were soon interrupted, and for a time suspended, by a summons he received to Lucknow, for the purpose of celebrating a marriage, and by a similar call to Pretabjush. Concerning the latter he thus writes to Mr. Simeon, lamenting the inconvenience to which

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he was exposed by such distant demands upon services. "Just after the last ship from Europe arrived, and I was hourly expecting my letters, I was summoned to a distant station, to marry a couple, and did not return till three weeks after. It was a great disappointment to be thus suddenly sent to roam amongst jungles and jackalls, when I was feasting my fancy with delightful letters from my friends at home-though Europe is no longer my home. However, my mind was soon reconciled to it, and I was often able to recite, with some sense of their sweetness, Mr. Newton's beautiful lines,

In desert tracts, with Thee, my God,

How happy could I be.'

"The place to which I was called is Pretabjush, in the territory of Oude, which is still under the government of the Nabob. Oppression and insecurity of property seem to have stripped the country of its inhabitants. From Manicpore, where I left the river, to Pretabjush, a distance of fifty miles, I saw but two or three miserable villages, and no agriculture. The road was nothing more than a winding footpath, through a continued wood, and that, in consequence of the rains, was often lost. Indeed, all the low lands were under water, which, added to the circumstance of travelling by night, made the journey by no means a pleasant one. Being detained one Lord's day at the place, I assembled all the officers and company, at the commanding officer's bungalow, and preach

ed the Gospel to them. There were five and thirty officers, besides ladies, and other Europeans. You will have an idea of the Nabob's country, when you are informed that, last September, a young officer, going from his station to Lucknow, was stopped by robbers, and literally cut to pieces in his palanquin. Since that time, the Nabob has requested that every English gentleman, wishing to visit his capital, may give notice of his intention to the Resident, in order that a guard may be sent. Accordingly, a few months ago, when I had occasion to go to Lucknow, I had a guard of four troop ers, armed with matchlocks and spears. I thought of Nehemiah, but was far too inferior to him in courage and faith, not to contemplate the fierce countenances of my satellites with great satisfaction."

Not long after Mr. Martyn's return from this expedition, letters from Europe reached Cawnpore, fraught with intelligence of a similar nature with that which had overwhelmed him in the preceding year. They contained intimations of the dangerous illness of that sister who had been so instrumental in his conversion to the Lord; and they were but too quickly followed by an account of her death. "O my dearest ***, (he began to write to his sister, with a faint hope, at first, of the possibility of her receiv ing his letter,) that disease which preyed upon our mother and dear sister, and has often shewn itself in me, has, I fear, attacked you. Although I parted from you in the expectation of never seeing you in