I went at six o'clock in the evening in company with Mr. S. the brother of the Austrian Consul residing in Malta, to the Jew, Dr. M. I met there Dr. H., who travels at the expense of the king of Prussia. Dr. M. introduced me to him; we sat down together upon a sofa, and Dr. M. gave me a large Turkish pipe for smoking. The conversation was in German. Dr. M. speaks German well, for he is a German, born in the city of Goerz, and has been for many years physican in the Turkish army.

1. In what university have you studied medicine? Dr. M. At Vienna, in Austria.

I. Did you know the famous physician, Peter Frank? Dr. M. I have been one of his pupils.

1. Are there many Jews in the east, who are physi cians?

Dr. M. I do not know of one except at Salonichi. I. Are the Jews in this country friends of science and literature?

Dr M. Not at all, yea, not many, friends of their own Talmudical divinity.

I. Is the Rabbi at Alexandria a learned man? Dr. M. Only middling in the Talmudical knowledge, and ignorant in other sciences.

1. How many Jews are here?

Dr. M. A hundred and fifty families, but all are very poor, few rich, except the Rabbi Hediya, Signori Fua, Loria, and Tilchi, Suarez, the broker, Abraham Cesana, and Serafo, the broker. Signor Fernandez was baptized, and turned to the Catholic religion, in order to marry a beautiful Italian lady; he is very rich, and has business with the Pacha; but there is a Jew, called Mirza, who lives at Cairo, who turned from principle to the Catholic faith.

I. What is the state of the Jews residing at Jerusalem ? Dr. M. There are there nothing but dervises, who expect their Messiah, who will deliver them from their wretched state. The Jews at Jerusalem have pronounced an anathema against those Jews who settle themselves at Jaffa, for Jaffa being a commercial place, they

fear all may leave Jerusalem and go to Jaffa. The most liberally minded Jews are at Salonichi. I. How many Jews are at Salonichi?

Dr. M. More than thirty thousand.

I. How many Jews do you suppose are to be found throughout the dominions of the Grand Seignior? Dr. M. Do you mean with the Barbary states? I. Without the Barbary states.

Dr. M. Six hundred thousand.

I. Are there Caraites in this country?
Dr. M. At Cairo sixty families.

I. Those are surely more reasonable than the Talmudists, on account of their having rejected the Talmud. Dr. M. O no, for they have embraced, instead of the Talmud, another fanciful philosophy and explanation of the original text.

I. In what does this explanation consist?

Dr. M. I am not very well acquainted with it. 1. How may I be easily introduced to them? Dr. M. I will give you letters of introduction for some who may introduce you to them.

1. Have they communion with the Talmudist Jews? Dr. M. No communion at all; and I think, indeed, that the Caraites are not descendants of Jews, for their very physiognomy is entirely different from those of the Talmudist Jews.

I. Do you not find a great similarity between the physiognomy of the Jews, and the Christians upon the mount Lebanon?

Dr. M. Very true, indeed, but the Jews in Germany have from year to year, more of the oriental countenance; this is not the case with the Italian Jews.

I then addressed myself to Dr. H, and talked with him for some minutes about the German universities, about magnetism, which prevails in Germany; and we came finally in our conversation to the University of Cambridge, and then to the institutions for Missions.

Dr. H. I do not think that the Missionary Societies will ever have success either among Jews, Mahomedans, or Heathens, for the Mahomedan is too much accus

tomed to his ceremonies, and the Jews too much oppressed.

1. We must recur to facts.-Have you read Henry Martyn's life, Schwarz, or the conversion of Otaheite? Have you read the accounts of Moritz and Marc, with respect to the Jews in Russia? I know myself the Dr. Emanuel Veith, Director of the Hospital at Vienna, a Jew, who for a long time took Voltaire as his guide, and is now preaching the Gospel at his own expense. I know the daughter and the grandsons of Moses Mendelsohn, who are true believers in Jesus. And why should the power of truth not prevail over some, that by the assistance of God, they may renounce their worldly conveniences and lusts.

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Dr. H. I cannot conceive that any body should the East, and expose himself to such an unhealthy cli-, mate, and to so many dangers, for the Missionary cause without being a fanatic; and especially to the Jews.

1. Dear friend, you have been sent by the government in order that you may acquire more knowledge in natural history, which is very well; but should not there be likewise some who have pity on the degraded state of the Jews and Mahomedans, and try to give to them some good, some better things?

Dr. M. If you would consider the state of the several denominations of Christians in this country, who murder themselves before the altar, whilst Jews and Mahomedans live together in perfect peace, you would no longer make trial to join Jews to their communion.

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I. God forbid that I should try to join Jews, my brethren, to those Gentiles, who only call themselves Christians this never came into my mind: my only desire and wish is, to make them acquainted with their holy writ, and with their Saviour, in order that they may become a light to enlighten those Gentiles, who call themselves Christians, but are not worthy of that sacred name. From Zion must go out the law, and Jehovah's word from Jerusalem!

Dr. M. If the government in Europe should give them privileges, they all would soon be Christians.

I. I may tell you, that a gentleman, the Rev. Lewis Way by name, did travel to Berlin, and interested the king of Prussia and all his royal family for the Jews; and he went from thence to St. Petersburg, and interested the emperor of Russia in the cause of the Jews; and what is more, he travelled to Aix-la-Chapelle, and interested the Congress for the Jews.

Dr. M. Could you be so kind as to give me some. particular account of the Jews in Germany.

I told him of the establishment of a new synagogue at Berlin, and Leipsic, and Hamburg; about the baronized Jews at Vienna and Prague, about the schools of Peter Beer, at Prague, &c. Dr. M. then gave me the account of a Jewish merchant at Cairo, called Mirza, who turned Roman Catholic from principle. I must look out for him, as soon as I shall arrive at Cairo. There is another Jew, who professes Christianity, residing at Alexandria, his name is Fernandez, but he did it merely for convenience.

We then turned our conversation upon some works of physicians in Germany.

I can never pass over in silence the profitable conversations I enjoy at dinner with the British Consul Lee, and the Consul General Salt. They give me information about the antiquities and inscriptions of Greece, especially Consul General Salt, in which, indeed, he seems to be very well skilled. He shall write to you about my proceedings among the Jews; he has promised to do so. We conversed and admired likewise the great Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, whence that great man was driven by the horrors which the Arians committed in the town. The Consul General was glad to learn from me, that my beloved Count Stolberg had so well described the life of that great bishop of the flock of Christ.

I have spent to-day the fourth hour, (for I take every day two) with Padre M., the monk of mount Lebanon. The conversation was as follows, in Arabic.

I. You are a schoolmaster? And what do they learn from you?

Padre M. They learn their doctrine: First, That there is one God, and that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, was conceived of the Virgin, and suffered and died, and rose again on the third day, and ascended towards heaven to 66 save sinners, of whom I am the first."

I desired him after this answer, to read with me in the New Testament. The merchant Mosdia and other inhabitants of mount Lebanon entered the room. Padre M. asked me, Whether I knew what book the Gospel is? I. The word of God.

Padre M. Then it is proper to make the sign of the cross, and to exclaim "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost."

I replied that I am ready to perform every thing which the Gospel tells me, and showed him Rev. xxii. 18; he no longer insisted upon my signing myself with the sign of the cross. The merchant intimated to Padre M. that my New Testament was after the English translation. I protested against it, and told him that it is the same translation which was approved by the council of Trent. They were satisfied with my assertion. We read together several chapters of Matthew, and after we had finished, I asked them, what was their opinion about the Jews; whether they think the Jews shall be converted to the Lord? The answer was, No! I read, therefore, in Arabic, the ixth-xith chapters of the epistle to the Romans. Mosdia asked me, whether I understood all that I read? I replied, Yes. He tried me, by desiring me that I should give him a proof of it, by translating it into the Italian tongue; he shewed his surprise, by exclaiming, Blessed Lord! They will give me letters of several convents upon Lebanon. Every one of them knows Lady Esther Stanhope.

Sept. 6, 1821. The Jew, Dr. M., and the Natural Historian, Dr. H., called on me in the English Consulate. Dr. M. gave me accounts of a manuscript of the Pentateuch, preserved in one of the synagogues at Cairo, which is supposed to have been written by Ezra, but an anathema was pronounced by the Rabbies at Cairo, against every one who should open the gate wherein it is