Excerpt from An Appeal and Address to the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in London, A. D. 1814 IT was my intention to wave the right of appeal to the Yearly Meeting, till the unex pected circumstances stated in the ensuing pages, 3 - 22, altered my determination. The King and Parliament are not above listening to' the complaints of obscure individuals, and such condescension is expected from them under the British Constitution but a standing Committee of the Yearly Meeting, which had inadvertently, as I am willing to believe, con tributed to do me an injury, pertinaciously refused to hear my complaint, even in a re spectful letter. Thus situated, and still enti tled to exercise the rights of an Appellant, I thought myself called upon to claim them, in order openly to vindicate my character in the face of those who had aspersed it, and to shew the Yearly Meeting how I had been treated by the Society in a collective capacity, both before and after my disownment. The latter I wished first to speak to, that I might if pos sible remove the prejudices excited in my judges, before I entered upon the former. 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.