Transcribed from the [1822] J. L. Marks edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Pamphlet front cover] A CORRECT ACCOUNT OF THE _HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE_ Which took place at a Public-house in St. James’s Market, in which it was discovered that _The Right Rev. Father in God_ THE BISHOP OF CLOGHER, Lately transferred from the Bishopric of Ferns, WAS A PRINCIPAL ACTOR WITH A Common Soldier! To the disgrace not only of the Cloth, to which he was attached, and as a Commissioner of the Board of Education, and a Dictator of Public Morals, but as a Member of that Nation which gave him Birth! * * * * * _LONDON_: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY & FOR J. L. MARKS, 23, RUSSELL COURT, COVENT GARDEN. * * * * * _Price Sixpence_. PREFACE. TO hold the vicious up to odium and contempt should be at all times a particular care of the Press; but when every powerful engine is exerted to veil the vices of the privileged ranks, and to make it appear that crime is peculiar to those who constitute what _are called_ the lower classes, it becomes a sacred and _imperative duty_. We know there are some who, from a pretended regard to religion, would suppress every fact that exposes the licentious conduct of its ministers, but, nine times out of ten, this is mere hypocritical cant to support those who “bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay on men’s shoulders.” The mistaken infidel may connect religion with the conduct of its professors, but the truly religious person makes no distinction of vice but its comparative enormity, and the more he venerates the doctrine of Christianity, the greater abhorrence he feels towards the wretch who violates every principle of the religion which it is his duty to inculcate.