Transcribed from the 1805 J. Hatchard edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org, using scans from the British Library. [Picture: Pamphlet cover] A LETTER TO A _COUNTRY CLERGYMAN_, OCCASIONED BY HIS ADDRESS TO _LORD TEIGNMOUTH_, PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. * * * * * BY _A SUB-URBAN CLERGYMAN_. * * * * * “Unum gestit interdum, ne _ignorata_ damnetur.”—TERTULL. APOL. * * * * * LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. HATCHARD, BOOKSELLER TO HER MAJESTY, NO. 190, OPPOSITE ALBANY HOUSE, PICCADILLY. 1805. * * * * * A LETTER, &c. REV. SIR, ONE of those good-natured friends with which the world abounds, took an early opportunity of conveying to my hands a copy of your Address to Lord Teignmouth as President of the British and Foreign Bible Society; and I can really assume you, that its effect upon my nerves was almost as great as that which his Lordship’s circular letter produced upon yours. “The emotions of my mind,” too, “upon the receipt of it, were such as I am not inclined, for several reasons, to describe.” {1} You must know, Sir, that it had been my fortune to fall into the same ugly snare as the worthy Nobleman whose eyes you have so graciously endeavoured to open. I too had been drawn into the horrid Bible-plot, without dreaming that there was any plot in the business; and, to tell you the honest truth, before your pamphlet reached me, I had actually lent all the name I possessed, and all the money I could spare, in order to assist in carrying its designs into execution. Judge then, Sir, what must have been my feelings upon learning from you, that our Noble President, instead of being, as I thought, most loyally, usefully, and religiously employed, had “bestowed his patronage and protection upon every description of the church’s enemies;” that he had deserted “the cause of sound religion;” and that he was actually “confederating with persons openly labouring the destruction of all that is sober and established.” {2}