[107] A fuller account of the baptism of these persons is given in the Missionary Register for 1820, p. 123. [108] The magistrate of the district. CHAPTER XIV. REMOVAL TO CALCUTTA. It was not without regret that Mr. Corrie quitted a place which he had found (to use his own words,) “a scene of delightful labour.” In anticipation of his probable removal from Benares, he had written some time before TO THE REV. MR. SIMEON. “I am at a loss to decide how to act should my removal be determined on by Government. You will see a report of our Church Missionary proceedings here, no doubt, by Mr. Thomason. There is a great deal too much said in it about me, especially should I be removed soon, so as to be prevented establishing the plans in agitation. But I pray I may be able to go on in simplicity of mind, in obedience to the will of God’s providence, and seek nothing for myself; who am indeed nothing, and deserve to be the ‘off-scouring of all.’ If I were professedly a Missionary, and had the same prospect of entrance into this very citadel of Idolatry, I should consider it a call to live and die in this place; but as a Chaplain of the Government, am I not to consider the disposal of Government, as the voice of providence to me? I can truly say that, in the prospect of leaving this place, ‘I am oppressed; O Lord, undertake for me!’”