I confefs it was not without much concern, I found you accused of broaching fentiments, hoftile to the doctrine, which I have ever confidered as the truth, and I do moft unequivocally declare, that I neither heard you make use of the expreffions imputed to you, nor did I perceive any thing in your conversation, which conveyed to me the most distant idea, that you were capable of treating so serious a fubject in fo light a manner; had I, I truft I fhould not have expreffed myself as I did, by faying, I approved your fentiments, and coincided in your opinions.

Mrs. Bere I have every reason to esteem as a Lady of ftrictest honour and integrity, and it is with much deference, and very fincere regret, that I transmit to you an evidence, which differs fo very widely from hers. And Mr. Descury must have the goodness to draw a diftin&t line, between my testimony in his favour, and any wish positively to contradict her statement.

I have the honour to remain, Sir,

Bath Printed by S. Hazard, Cheap-Street,

Moss, Charles, bp. OF OXFORD

STATEMENT

OF

FACTS

RELATIVE ΤΟ

Mrs. H. MORE's SCHOOLS,

Occasioned by some late

MISREPRESENTATIONS.

Bath:

PRINTED BY S. HAZARD,

SOLD BY CADELL AND DAVIES, STRAND; RIVINGTONS,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; AND HATCHARD,

PICCADILLY.

1801.

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Statement of Facts.

MRS. H. MORE's fchools, for training

up the

poor in religious knowledge and habits of industry, having been grossly mifrepresented; the following ftatement, from the Clergymen of the several Parishes where these schools have been established, is submitted to the public.

I was eleven years curate of Nailfea. During the three first years of my refidence, I, with little fuccefs, endeavoured by admonitions from the pulpit, and (as I thought myself authorized) by private advice, to reftrict the immoral conduct of the poor. The

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