Transcribed from the 1805 F. C. and J. Rivington edition from Bodleian Library scans by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Pamphlet cover] AN ADDRESS TO _LORD TEIGNMOUTH_. PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY, OCCASIONED BY HIS ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. * * * * * _BY A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN_. * * * * * LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, No 62, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD; _By Bye and Law_, _St. John’s-Square_, _Clerkenwell_. 1805. * * * * * AN ADDRESS, _&c._ MY LORD, THE emotions of my mind, upon receipt of your Lordship’s address as President of the British and Foreign Bible Society, were such as I am not inclined, for several reasons, to describe. Your friends represent you as not hostile to the established church: nay, some assert that you are its firm supporter; and doubtless it never could have entered your Lordship’s mind to address a clergyman with proposals of lending his zeal and exertions for the promotion of religion, but in the character of the church’s friend. Judge then, my Lord, at my surprize, to see your Lordship’s name at the head of such a list of subscribers as that enclosed to me; to find your Lordship’s patronage and protection bestowed upon every description of its enemies, and your request that I would promote their design. Judge, my Lord, what must have been my grief, to find a man of your Lordship’s respectability deserting the cause of sound religion, and our poor country’s best defence, and confederating with persons openly labouring the destruction of all that is sober, or established!