Transcribed from the [1822] J. L. Marks edition by DavidPrice,

A CORRECT ACCOUNT
OF THE
HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE

Which took place at a Public-housein St. James’s Market,
in which it was discovered that

The Right Rev. Father inGod

THE
BISHOP OF CLOGHER,

Lately transferred from theBishopric of Ferns,

WAS APRINCIPAL ACTOR WITH

A Common Soldier!

To the disgrace not only of the Cloth, to which he wasattached, and as a Commissioner of the Board of Education, and aDictator of Public Morals, but as a Member of that Nation whichgave him Birth!

LONDON:
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY & FOR J. L. MARKS,
23, RUSSELL COURT, COVENTGARDEN.

Price Sixpence.

p.3PREFACE.

To hold the vicious up to odium andcontempt should be at all times a particular care of the Press;but when every powerful engine is exerted to veil the vices ofthe privileged ranks, and to make it appear that crime ispeculiar to those who constitute what are called the lowerclasses, it becomes a sacred and imperative duty.

We know there are some who, from a pretended regard toreligion, would suppress every fact that exposes the licentiousconduct of its ministers, but, nine times out of ten, this ismere hypocritical cant to support those who “bind heavyburdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay on men’sshoulders.”  The mistaken infidel may connect religionwith the conduct of its professors, but the truly religiousperson makes no distinction of vice but its comparative enormity,and the more he venerates the doctrine of Christianity, thegreater abhorrence he feels towards the wretch who violates everyprinciple of the religion which it is his duty to inculcate.

We see a certain Association evincing a most scandalouspartiality, by SELECTING theobjects of their prosecution from those most unable to defendthemselves! we participate in the general feeling of censureagainst them, and believe p. 4that they have done more injury to thecause they profess to support, than the united efforts of thepersecuted parties could possibly have effected.  This willever be the case when exertions are influenced only by feelingsof policy instead of principle, for if as muchpains were taken to keep improper characters without thepale of the church, as there is art exerted to defend themthrough thick and thin, when they have entered it, theCLOTH would probably never havebeen disgraced by the “Rev. Father in God,” whosenotoriety promises to eclipse that of all former brothers indivinity.

The name of the Prelate may have appeared in the subscriptioncolumns of a newspaper, the only place where the charity of manyis heard of.  Nay, we have little doubt but it might befound in the list of subscribers to the highly respectableassociation the “Br