[273a] This letter, in which there was a hint of desperation, disturbed the officials at Earl Street a great deal. Mr Brandram wrote (28th July) that he was convinced that the Committee would “still feel that if you are to continue to act with them they must see you, and I will only add that it is utterly foreign to their wishes that you should expose yourself in the daring manner you are now doing. I lose not a post in conveying this impression to you.”
[273b] The Translation of this communication runs:—“Madrid, 7th July 1838—I have the honour to inform your Excellency that according to official advices received in the first Secretary of State’s Office, it appears that in Malaga, Murcia, Valladolid, and Santiago, copies of the New Testament of Padre Scio, without notes, have been exposed for sale, which have been deposited with the political chiefs of the said provinces, or in the hands of such persons as the chiefs have entrusted with them in Deposit; it being necessary further to observe that the parties giving them up have uniformly stated that they belonged to Mr Borrow, and that they were commissioned by him to sell and dispose of them.
“Under these circumstances, Her Majesty’s Government have deemed it expedient that I should address your Excellency, in order that the above may be intimated to the beforementioned Mr Borrow, so that he may take care that the copies in question, as well as those which have been seized in this City, and which are packed up in cases or parcels marked and sealed, may be sent out of the Kingdom of Spain, agreeably to the Royal order with which your Excellency is already acquainted, and through the medium of the respective authorities who will be able to vouch for their Exportation. To this Mr Borrow will submit in the required form, and with the understanding that he formally binds himself thereto, they will remain in the meantime in the respective depots.”
[275] General Report, withdrawn.
[277a] Borrow’s letter to the Rev. A. Brandram, 1st Sept. 1838.
[277b] To Lord William Hervey, Chargé d’Affaires at Madrid (23rd Aug. 1838).
[278] To Rev. G. Browne, one of the Secretaries of the Bible Society, 29th Aug. 1838.
[279a] To Rev. A. Brandram, 19th September 1838.
[279b] The Bible in Spain, page 621.
[279c] Letter to Dr Usoz, 22nd Feb. 1839.