PREFACE.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE BISHOP OF LONDON,
IN 1833, ON THE SUBJECT OF A REFORM IN THE CHURCH.
"To the Right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of London.
"62, Fleet Street, November 18,1833.
"My Lord,
"I have long and deliberately thought, that the state of the Country, the state of the Church, and the state of the Public Mind in relation to the Church, calls upon me to offer myself for an interview with your Lordship, as my Diocesan, that your Lordship may hear from me what I have to advance against the present state and condition of the Church, and what I have to propose as an immediately necessary and proper Reform.
"I offer to wait on your Lordship, with your Lordship's consent; and promise, that my conversation shall be altogether courteous and reasonable.
"I am one of your Lordship's scattered sheep, wishing for the fold of a good shepherd,—(which is Christ Jesus),—
"RICHARD CARLILE."