And perhaps they hoped, by eliciting the truth, to allay public excitement.
Dr.King proceeded to Malta in November, that he might be nearer Athens, and Mrs.King joined him there in February.

About that time, by advice of his counsel, he petitioned the Greek government to bring the examination to a speedy close.

While in Malta, he printed his "Farewell Letter"1 in French and Italian, and the edition was distributed in Malta, Sicily, Rome, Tuscany, and other places.

An edition of two thousand copies is said to have been printed in Sicily in 1849, of which nine hundred copies were distributed in one night, and seven hundred in another, apparently with good effect.
1 This letter is mentioned repeatedly in the second, third, and seventh chapters.

The reader, who is curious to see precisely what it was, will find the translation of a large portion of it in the _Missionary Herald_ for 1828, pp.