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TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.




CONVERSION OF PETER BAYSSIERE
IN A LETTER TO HIS CHILDREN.[4]




[Footnote 4: This Narrative was originally entitled, "A letter to my
children, on the subject of my conversion from the Romish church, in
which I was born, to the Protestant, in which I hope to die. By Peter
Bayssiére, Montaigut, Department Tarn and Garonne." (France.) "As much
of the interest of this Narrative," says the preface to the London
edition, "depends upon its authenticity, the reader is referred to the
subjoined extract of a letter from the Rev. Francis Cunningham, Rector
of Pakefield, dated May 20, 1829, which will probably remove any
doubts on the subject.

"......The autograph of Bayssiére's letter I saw when I was in the
South of France, in the year 1826. It had just then been received by
M. Audebez, the minister of Nérac; who, as appears by the Tract, was
well acquainted both with Bayssiére and his circumstances. Confident
of the genuineness of the account, I am very glad it has been
published in French, and translated into English. It cannot but be