Edward King (1725‒1807), a miscellaneous writer and essayist, was a zealous champion of more enlightened theological views than were approved in his day by the orthodox believers. In one of his books,¹ which is written with intense faith and enthusiasm, and abounds in beautiful passages that appeal to the imagination and heart, the one point in which he is particularly emphatic is the return of the Jews as Jews to the Holy Land. ¹ Remarks on The Signs of the Times; By Edward King, Esq., F.R.S.A.S.... London: ... 1798. (_4to._ 40 _pp._ [B. M.]) Samuel Horsley (1733‒1806), Bishop of Rochester (1793‒1802), Bishop of St. Asaph (1802‒1806), considered King’s book of sufficient importance to publish another¹ in reply, from which one gathers, that the opinions expressed by King were not entirely rejected. “I agree with you,” wrote the Bishop, “that some passages in _Zechariah_ (_fl._ 3408 _a.m._) in particular, make strongly for this idea of a previous settlement ... and so far I can admit....” ¹ Critical Disquisitions on the Eighteenth Chapter of Isaiah, in A Letter to Edward King, Esq., F.R.S.A.S. By Samuel, Lord Bishop of Rochester, F.R.S.A.S. London: ... M.DCC.XCIX. (_4to._ v. + 109 _pp._ [B. M.]) This declaration must have made a profound impression. It was the declaration of a man who was, as a contemporary biographer says, “an ornament to the Senate, an honour to the Church of England, and one of the first characters of the age in which he lived.” In some tracts written at the beginning of the nineteenth century a semi-political note is already sounded, as, for instance, in the tract _A Call to the Christians and the Hebrews, by Theætetus_ (Appendix xxxvii). This call did not find an immediate response; nevertheless, the political idea of the Restoration of _Israel_ reappeared at various epochs in England as well as in the other English-speaking countries and elsewhere. The various efforts to establish autonomous Jewish Colonies in America during the early history of that country are not strictly Zionism, but are not without interest from the Zionist point of view. “Under the authority of the Dutch West India Company.... In 1652, a tract of land ... was granted in the island of Curaçao to Joseph Nunez _da_ Fonseca, and others, to found a colony of Jews in that island ... but it was not successful....”¹ ¹ _The Settlement of the Jews in North America._ By Charles P. Daly, LL.D. ... New York ... 1893. _p._ 9. About 1654 a project was formed for a settlement in Surinam, then a British colony, with Jewish fugitives from Brazil. The scheme is referred to as “Privileges Granted to the People of the Hebrew Nation that are to goe to the Wilde Cust” (_Egerton MSS._, _vol._ 2395, No. 8. [B. M.]). A grant was made by the French West India Company to David Nasi, a Portuguese Jew, in 1659, by a charter which authorized him to found a Jewish colony in Cayenne.