AN ADDRESS TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, OCCASIONED BY MR. TWINING'S LETTER TO THAT GENTLEMAN ON THE DANGER OF INTERFERING IN THE RELIGIOUS OPINIONS OF THE NATIVES OF INDIA AND ON THE VIEWS OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY, AS DIRECTED TO INDIA .. by [East India Company]: Owen, John - 1807

London: Printed for J. Hatchard [et al], 1807. [2],36pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume and sewn into later plain stiff wrappers. Divinity library duplicate discard, with small stamp in upper fore corner of title, a bit dusty, very good. Inscribed in the top margin of the title: "With the author's best respec[ts]" (trimmed in binding). The third edition, "To which is added a postscript, containing Brief Strictures on the 'Preface' to Observation on the present State of the East India Company." "Beginning his duties on 1 April 1783 as chaplain of the Fort William garrison in Calcutta, Owen was subsequently appointed in 1788 as the Junior Chaplain to the Presidency (of the East India Company), upon the promotion of Rev. Thomas Blanshard, the previous junior chaplain, to senior chaplain. He is said as chaplain to have wielded an 'immense influence for good', among his accomplishments being the building and subsequent promotion in Lahore, Punjab of a native hospital that survives today as the Mayo Hospital. He spent close to twelve years abroad, before returning to England in 1794 with a personal fortune of some £25,000, acquired in trading ventures that the Bengal chaplaincy used to supplement their meager allowances from the East India Company" - Wikipedia. Of this expanded edition, COPAC locates three printed copies, at the BL, Cambridge and Univ. of London. OCLC adds 4 additional copies in North America. OCLC: 24370618.