Excerpt from A Letter to the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval: On the Augmentation of a Particular Class of Poor Livings Without Burthening the Public You abstained, with prudence, at that time, from any disclosure of the nature of the plan, which, at a future period, you hoped to be enabled to propose. But by this declaration mucli expectation, and much anxiety, has been excited. In the general wish to' redeem from poverty the instructors of the people, and to diffuse over a wider circle the benefits of our ecclesiastical establishment, all men concurred. But. There were many who felt alarms of a dif ferent nature, and quite in contradiction to each} other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.