| Description | Letter of criticism actually sent to Mr Nettleton [editor] of the 'Royal Gazette' offering the letter for publication: he writes to acquaint the public of the contemptious manner in which Clifton had refused to bury the child of Mrs Roberts, saying that he was going out to dine and would bury the child the next day: '... if this be equity, consisting with the laws of the Established Church, the Church ought to be burnt and all such ostentatious men as you kidnappered ... Sir, are you a minister of the Gospel of Christ's - I rather think that you are better calculated for a stage player or a mountebank ... consider your Gothicism ways and be wise for the future, for this is better than fiddling or card playing ... I am astonished that a minister play cards, take care, Sir, that the next game you play won't be in Hell'
28 February 1814 |