Cobbe himself would most probably have brought his benevolent
scheme to completion, if, as a writer of the Bombay Quarterly Remew
says, '^ untoward circumstances had not checked him in his useful
career, and driven him to leave India in diss;ust." What these
untoward circumstances were I hope to be able to recapitulate in
a few words. Mr. Cobbe preached a sermon, taking for his text
the words "Though hand join in band, the wicked shall noik be
unpunished," which text was supposed to reflect on the condneC of
the Government for having suspended Mr. Lawrence Parker^ the
Deputy Governor and one of their colleagues, from the exeroise of
his functions. This sermon was pronounced to be seditious, but his
adversaries stifled for a while their indignation, waiting for a favour-
able opportunity to pour their wrath on the reverend aggressor's
head, and that opportunity did not uke long to present itself. Mr.
