Hæc à quovis alio quàm à me, scribi velim; à me, potiùs quàm à nemine.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

MDCCC XXV.

5055 .$74198

Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields.

I REQUEST your acceptance of my REPLY TO DR SOUTHEY's “ BOOK OF THE Church;”—a work with which you probably are not unacquainted.

It abounds with the strongest criminations of the roman-catholic religion, and of the conduct of our roman-catholic ancestors. I do not recollect that a publication more offensive, either to the understandings or the feelings of the roman-catholics, has appeared

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