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[David Price]

Religion and Morality Vindicated against Hypocrisy and Pollution,by Bell 58555
   [Author: Robert Bell]
   [Subtitle: or, an account of the Life and Character of John Church]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/8/5/5/58555 ]
   [Files: 58555-0.txt; 58555-h.htm]



For those wishing to know: Robert Bell was the editor of the Weekly 
Dispatch, a London paper, when in 1813 he stumbled across a number of 
sexual scandals involving the popular preacher John Church (1780-1833). 
He also had a direct link from John Church to the Vere Street scandal (a 
homosexual brothel raided in 1810).  Bell ran a series of articles in 1813 
about this, his main rage being that someone so implicated was passing 
themselves off as a moral preacher.  The newspaper was soon preventing 
from further disclosures as Church obtained a legal injunction: so Bell 
published the newspaper articles with a bit more stuff as this pamphlet.

All the best,
David
England, damp and cold