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HANDLINGAR TILL GEORGE SCOTTS VERKSAMHET I SVERIGE I 6 7
82. Från J. Beeckam.1
W[esleyan] Missionary] House,
Bishopsgate S., Within, London.
April 15. 1842.
Dear Brother,
Your letters, describing the circumstances in which you are now
placed, and requesting prompt interference on our part in your
behalf, have engaged the anxious attention and consideration of the
Committee, and they have directed that there should be conveyed to
you the expression of their deep sympathy, and the assurance of
their readiness to afford you all the aid in their power.
The question of difficulty, however, is — What is to be done?
Immediately on the receipt of your letters addressed to Lord
Blom-field and others, we went down to Woolwich to consult his Lordship
on the painful affair. He was ill in bed, but admitted Dr. Bunting
to a long audience, in which he strongly advised that no newspaper
controversy should be engaged in; and your letter was therefore not
sent to the Editor of the Times. His Lordship, moreover, expressed
his great concern that you should be placed in such a trying
situation, and said that had he been well, he would have waited
personally upon the Earl of Aberdeen. He also told us that the Earl
of Roden was out of town, but proposed to write to a friend to
engage some Peer to speak to Lord Aberdeen on the subject, and
said he would write in a day or two to Dr. B. to let us know what
had been done. A week, however, has elapsed and nothing further
has been heard from his Lordship.
No official application has been made from the Mission House
to the Earl of Aberdeen for the reason that we know not how to
word it. If our business was merely to secure for you, as a British
subject, protection from bodily violence in your own house, or while
transacting that ordinary business which you were authorised to
engage in by virtue of the peaceful relations subsisting between the
two countries, the way would be clear. But we want more than
this. We want protection for you while prosecuting your ministry
among the Subjects of the Swedish Crown. This is altogether
another question; and Lord Aberdeen would probably tell us that
with it he cannot interfere; and that it must be referred for decision
to the Swedish Authorities as to whether the laws and institutions of
the Country allow a foreigner to officiate as a Minister of the gospel
among Swedish Subjects. And we cannot but fear that should a
1 J. Beecham var en av sekreterarna i Wesleyan Missionary Society.
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