What your Lordship, who has seen a little of the world, can expect from such a meeting, but the usual manners and actions of those several denominations you convene, what you can possibly calculate upon, but the scratchings and sightings, which you know are usual with the parties when on the outside of the tavern walls, it is difficult to guess. Not one friend do you attempt to gain for the church, nor to conciliate a single foe. They are to meet; and by the sweet call of charity, chanted most musically from your Lordship’s lips, peace is to be preserved, and war is no more to be known. But it was to have been expected, that your Lordship, who professes to be of the _established denominations_ of Christians, if you had been disinclined to _assist_ the church, would certainly not have _betrayed_ her, in any degree or mode; much less have addressed a clergyman, inviting him to do the same. My Lord, this I never will believe was your own act and deed. You have lent an incautious ear to some insidious friend, who abuses your respectable name to purposes of his own. How else is it possible to conceive that your Lordship could have invited me into an association, under such a regulation as that which is numbered eleven? in which the committee, (which is “to conduct the business of the society, appoint all officers, except the treasurer, have power to call special meetings, and are charged with procuring for the society suitable patronage) shall consist of thirty-six laymen; of whom, twenty-four who shall have most frequently attended, shall be eligible for re-election for the ensuing year; six shall be foreigners, resident in London or its vicinity; half the remainder shall be members of the Church of England, and the other half members of other denominations of Christians!!!” _We have here a standing majority against the church_! Oh, my Lord, how could you join in such a plot? What could induce your Lordship to lend your name to such a business as this; and why should you think so basely of the clergy, as to tempt them, by you own example and fair reputation, to sign the death warrant of the established church, and the instrument of their own ruin?