But now, Sir, to business. You open your Address to Lord Teignmouth with a preamble, which sets forth, that you are “not inclined, for several reasons, to describe the emotions of your mind upon the receipt of his Lordship’s Address, as President of the British and Foreign Bible Society.” There is an air of mystery in these words, which recommended them strongly to my notice; and if you do me the favour to turn back to my first page, you will find that I have employed them as you have done, _in fronte operis_. I am, however, upon reflection, inclined to think that “there is,” to use your own words upon another occasion, “more of sound than sense” in this affectation of reserve on both sides. For, to say the truth, I have already revealed _my_ emotions, and I am sure you have taken no pains to conceal _yours_: and yet it must be manifest that if each of us had not been _inclined_ to do it, neither of us would have done it. However, the preamble has its use; for it invites the reader to believe, that we are both of us men of peace and charity, and very unwilling to injure the feelings and reputation of our neighbour: an assumption which, in your case, it was the more necessary to make; as otherwise the reader of your pages might, innocently enough, have concluded the reverse. This brief exordium dispatched, you enter, pell-mell, upon the matter of your indictment, and prefer your charges against the Noble Lord with as little ceremony, as if you had borrowed the robes of his Majesty’s Attorney General, and were prosecuting the Noble delinquent at the suit of the Crown. But let us hear the accusation opened. His Lordship (you say), by taking the presidency of the Bible Society, has “bestowed his patronage and protection upon every description of the church’s enemies.” Now here I doubt the accuracy of your representation: I am strongly inclined to think that you do not mean to affirm quite so much as you say. The church’s enemies are so numerous, and some of them so little known, that I think it very probable many descriptions could be mentioned, which have never obtained a place in your enumeration. I have _your_ authority for setting down all the individuals who dissent from the church’s communion as her decided enemies, for they wish to a man to blow up the national establishment, “clergy and all:” you know they do—“_one_ of them said” so. Such evidence as this, to be sure, must not for a moment be questioned; though I should have thought better of it, if your informer had shown his instructions for saying so much in the name of the rest. But if I concede to you that _these_ are the church’s enemies, I cannot admit, what I suspect you wish to imply, that these are the _only_ enemies with which she has to contend. What think you of “those men of influence and consideration, who continue to revile the church, and still think proper to remain nominal members of her community?” {6a} Into what class do you throw those “men of the world,