Your last frank covered a copy of the Cymmrodorion Transactions, sent me by the Secretary, – thro Bedfords hands.

It is a creditable volume, but by much the most important paper is that which you communicated from Peter Roberts’ papers.

This is indeed very curious, & seems to have been committed to a very competent editor.

I am very anxious that the publication of the Welsh Remains should be fairly compleated, so that nothing which can be of any use to antiquaries, historians or philologists should be exposed to the danger of being lost. When the Cambo-Briton

reaches me I will put together a Saxons view of the subject for the QR.

You should send a qualified traveller to Bretagne to see what could be recovered there.

By what I hear it seems no easy thing to find a successor for the Bp of Calcutta.

The constitution of our Church is such that very few of its ministers are willing to volunteer upon foreign service. I might have appointed a Chaplain to Pernambuco four or five years ago, if I had known where to find one, – the income was 400£ a year, with a house, & 100£ for his expences out.

The person whom the Bp of London found at last was one of ruined fortunes – tho of fair character.

– The question of providing religious instruction – that is of forming a Church establishment, – for our new colonies, is one which should be considered without delay; as ultimately of the greatest importance. It is The want of such establishments which has been one main cause why colonists in modern times have been so much depraved than the people from whom they spring. – e – g – the Dutch at Surinam & in Cape. – With regard to India there are great difficulties no doubt, but it seems to me that the best method would be to educate xxxx some of the half-cast for the ministry there.