On that very evening (incredible as it may appear) this very man, held to bail for trial on the most horrid charges given on oath, had the impudence to go into his chapel and preach to a crowded audience. But his is a very _convenient conscience-healing_ system of faith, {27} and perhaps his followers do not like him the worse for his system of _practical morality_. R. BELL. * * * * * _Extract from the Weekly Dispatch of May_ 2, 1813. The statements published in the two last numbers of the Dispatch respecting this person have excited a degree of public attention unexampled in the history of newspapers. I am rejoiced at the circumstance; because it serves to shew how large a mass of virtuous feeling prevails among the people of England, and how much alive they are to any transactions that appear to violate the morals, or profane the religion of their country. It is impossible for any one who knows me, or is acquainted with my character, to suppose, that I could have felt any thing like personal hostility against this man. My sole motive for sending forth these publications, has been to defend and preserve the public morals. In doing so, I have disregarded all risks, and set all threats at defiance. The reader may naturally ask whether I have not said enough on this subject already. I thought so this day week. Since last Sunday’s publication, however, a volume of new matter, respecting this prophaner of religion and violator of morality has been communicated to me.