BEXLEY***


Transcribed from the 1827 J. Hatchard and Son edition, by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org





                                    A
                                  LETTER
                                    TO
                       THE RIGHT HON. LORD BEXLEY,


                               CONTAINING A
                     STATEMENT MADE TO THE COMMITTEE
                                  OF THE
                    British and Foreign Bible Society,
                                AS TO THE
                      RELATIONS OF THAT INSTITUTION,
                                   WITH
                          FRANCE, THE VALLEYS OF
                    PIEDMONT, SWITZERLAND AND GERMANY.

                                * * * * *

                       BY FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM, M. A.
                      RECTOR OF PAKEFIELD, SUFFOLK.

                                * * * * *

                                 LONDON:
                   J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILY.

                                  1827.

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                                 LONDON:
           IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.




PREFACE


The circumstances which have given rise to the publication of the
following letter are briefly these:—At the departure of the Author for
the continent, in the month of April, 1826, he tendered his services
generally to the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society; and
received from that body the power of disposing of a certain number of
copies of Bibles and Testaments, at any opportunities which might present
themselves to him on his journey.  Of this power he availed himself; and,
on his return to London, in the month of December, he went to the
Committee to give an account of the trust which had been committed to
him.  Whilst he was doing this, it was natural that he should add to his
statement a few observations, connected with the objects of the
Institution itself; and more especially, as various errors, into which it
was charged with having fallen, had become the subjects of public
discussion, both in Scotland