The patronage which the Marquis Wellesley (then Earl of Mornington) extended to a plan for translating the Scriptures into the languages of the East, had excited the hope that our rule in India would become the means of imparting the knowledge of the true God to millions of our fellow men: but the retirement of that large-minded Nobleman from the government of India, was followed by that determined opposition to the diffusion of the gospel among the natives of Hindoostan, of which so many traces have already appeared in the pages of this Memoir. The consequence was, that notwithstanding all attempts of Dr. Buchanan, Mr. Brown and others, to procure translations and copies of the Scriptures; and though aided in their efforts by grants of money from the Bible Society in England, yet there was a famine of the word of God even among the native Christians of India. This dearth of Bibles seems to have pressed more especially upon the Christians of Tanjore, so that in a sermon preached in Calcutta, on New-year’s day 1810, Mr. Brown was induced to make an appeal on their behalf. The result was that a liberal subscription, headed by General Hewitt, the commander-in-chief, was raised for the purpose of forwarding the distribution of the Tamul Scriptures in Tanjore. Encouraged by the success which attended this effort to procure a larger circulation of the Word of God, Mr. Brown and his friend proceeded to originate measures of larger enterprise. They established a _Bibliotheca Biblica_, an institution which consisted of a “Translation library” and a “Bible repository.” The “library” was intended to contain the Scriptures in the original languages, Lexicons, Grammars, works on Biblical criticism, and generally, all such books as were likely to be useful to translators. The “Bible repository” was designed to contain Bibles and Testaments in all languages, European as well as Asiatic, to be disposed of at moderate prices.[54] It will be seen that with “this judicious and efficient instrument” for good, Mr. Corrie readily united himself. TO THE REV. J. BUCKWORTH. “March 12, 1810. “I cannot recollect how long it is since I was favoured with a letter from you: so many are the accidents to which our letters are exposed between Britain and India, that I attribute the little intercourse we have had to some of these; and, therefore, add one more to the many letters I have sent you; and trust to hear of you when opportunity serves. Sometimes my mind has been deeply affected with the idea of growing old without a friend, or solace of declining years. Gray has well described the feelings of Nature in the lines: ‘On some fond breast the parting soul relies Some pious drops the closing eye requires.’