A LETTER TO THE REV. THOMAS BERE, Rector of Butcombe, Occafioned by his unwarrantable attack on Mrs. HANNAH MORE. Price One Shilling and Six-pence. [Printed by S. Hazard, Cheap-Street, Bath.] LETTER TO THE Rev. THOMAS BERE, Rector of Butcombe, Occafioned by his late unwarrantable attack on Mrs. HANNAH MORE. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING Letters and other documents relative to the extraordinary proceedings at Blagdon. By the REV. SIR ABRAHAM ELTON, BART. Printed for CADELL and DAVIES, in the Strand; RIVINGTON'S, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and HATCHARD, Piccadilly, London; by S. HAZARD, Cheap-Street, Bath. MDGCCI. ワン A LETTER FROM The Rev. SIR ABRAHAM ELTON, Bart, I SIR, feel myself called upon to take this public notice of a Pamphlet, which you are pleased to term "the "Controverfy between Mrs. Hannah More and the Curate of Blagdon "—but which I must take the liberty to conftrue into fomething like an attempt to afperfe the name of that admirable Lady, to diminish her influence, and reduce to nothing her institutions. Poffibly, Sir, you indulged a hope, that a mind like hers would take alarm at infinuations of fo flagrant a nature.-Perhaps you even flattered yourself that the result of your violent attack would be an elaborate defence from her own pen-and in truth, this might have been fome trophy to boast of:-but you ought to have reflected, Sir, that the pain refulting from cenfure depends on the quarter B |