Note 195 — JOURNAL OF ELIZABETH LADY HOLLAND (continued 4)

Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff (1737–1816). His pamphlet, Address to the People of Great Britain, was published in January, and Wakefield’s Reply was issued with such speed that it was finished for the press in the compass of a single day. Wakefield’s Reply stated ‘that the poor and the labouring classes would lose nothing by a French invasion, and declared that if the French came they would find him at his post among the illustrious dead. It also contained charges of corruption against the civil and ecclesiastical system of the day, and detailed numerous accusations against the Bishop of Llandaff as an absentee and a pluralist’ (Dictionary of National Biography). The Bishop never obtained the See he coveted.