quite to my mind, situated in the
_Calle del Principe_, one of the principal streets. The rent, it is
true, is rather high (eight _reals_ per diem); but a good situation, as
you are well aware, must be paid for. I came to the resolution of
establishing a shop from finding that the Madrid booksellers entrusted
with the Testaments gave themselves no manner of trouble to secure the
sale, and even withheld advertisements from the public with which they
were supplied. But now everything will be on another footing, and I have
sanguine hopes of selling all that remain of the edition within a short
time.

A violent and furious letter against the Bible Society and its
proceedings has lately appeared in a public print; it is prefixed to a
Pastoral of the Spiritual Governor [_i.e._ Bishop] of Valencia, in which
he forbids the sale of the London Bible in that see. About a week since
I inserted in the _Espanol_ an answer to that letter, which answer has
been read and praised. I send you herewith an English translation of it.
You will doubtless deem it too warm and fiery, but tameness and
gentleness are of little avail when surrounded by the vassal slaves of
bloody Rome. It has answered one purpose--it has silenced our
antagonist, who, it seems, is an unprincipled benefice-hunting curate.
As you read Spanish, I have copied his own words respecting the omission
of the Apocrypha; nevertheless, lest you should find some difficulty in
understanding it, I subjoin here the English.

'If the works of Luther were to be given to the world curtailed of their
_principal chapters_, and his maxims and precepts to a certain degree
transformed, what would his followers and disciples do? Would they not
rise with one accord in numerous bands, and, in order to sustain the
honour of their preceptor, would they not recur to the original writings
and produce in his support his manuscripts? Would they not resort to all
kinds of argument to prove the spuriousness of that edition, and employ
declamation and reasoning in order to blacken the illicit and fraudulent
means which the Catholics were employing?' etc., etc., etc.

I deemed it my duty, as Agent of the Bible Society in Spain, not to
permit so brutal an attack upon it to pass unanswered. Indeed I was
called upon by my friends to reply, and though I am adverse to all
theological and political disputes, I feared to refuse, lest the motives
of my silence should be misconstrued. But now I mus