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minds may be properly prepared to understand others, which shall afterwards be delivered to you on geography, natural history, mechanics, chemistry, mineralogy, botany, domestic economy, manufactures, commerce, and general histo

ry.

The Library will be ready for your use on Monday, the 8th of March; and it will afterwards be opened every evening, half an hour after your operations in the mills cease for the day, except on Wednesday, and on those evenings when lectures shall be given.

I have to request, that those who wish to make use of the Library, and those who desire to attend the Lectures, will give in their names in the course of to-morrow to their respective superintendants at the mills, mechanical department, store and schools; that they may be accommodated without confusion or disorder, and with the least inconvenience to themselves, and the parties who are to superintend these new arrangements.

The Library will not be opened on Wednesday evenings, in order to give those individuals, who may wish it, an opportunity of assembling in the lecture room for religious exercises.

4th March, 1824.

A SPECIMEN OF THE FRIENDS TO RELIGION!

The following note came from the neighbourhood of Russel

SIR,

Square.

I LOOKED out of curiosity at the plate in your window representing "The Horrid Massacre of the Radical Reformers.' I am astonished! I am shocked! to think, that any human being could harbour such thoughts or encourage such vermin. A parcel of tinkers, tailors, coblers, &c., should think of overturning the laws of an empire, which is deservedly reckoned one of the most powerful in the world. And I wish to inform you, that those infernal principles propagated in the works of that hellish infidel "Tom Paine," will return with double violence on your own bosom.

A FRIEND TO RELIGION.

TO MR. CARLILE.

SIR, Leeds, March 21, 1824. I TAKE this opportunity of writing a few lines to you, to inform you of a circumstance that has happened in Barnard Castle, in the county of Durham. I am a native of Leeds, a carpet weaver. I went to Barnard Castle on the third day of January, in search of work. I got work at Messrs. Monkhouse, Dixon, and Co., when I had been there about two months, I went to a printer to enquire if he would get me the Political Works of Thomas Paine, and some other works, that you published. The printer said that it was dangerous to have any thing to do with them, and I did not trouble him any more. My masters got to hear of this, and they consulting among themselves what to do, determined to discharge me; but did not inform me of their intention until I was told by other people what they would do with me. As soon as I heard it, I went to my masters to inquire, if they had determined to discharge me. The first master I saw, was Ebenezear Monkhouse, a class leader of the Methodists, he said, that they had nothing against me, but they did not like my principles; and I had been to a printer to get some of your works. I went to another, to see what he had to say. This master, Joshua Monkhouse, is a trustee of the Methodist Chapel and lets the seats: he said, that they thought it a duty incumbent upon them to discharge me for my principles, for their men were in the way they wanted them, and they thought that if I was allowed to work with them, I should be the means of turning their minds. I then saw a third master, William Dixon, a local preacher; but this tyrant would not talk with me. These men would have been glad to have gotten me out of the town for ever; but I am happy to inform you, that I have got work at another shop in the town; and I will have your works where ever I go, and will sell them if I can; for they have been the means of reforming my conduct, and I thank you for it.

I remain, your sincere friend, a true Republican,
MATTHEW SUTCLIFFE.

Printed and Published by R. CARLILE, 84, Fleet Street.-All Correspon dences for "The Republican" to be left at the place of publication.

No. 17, VOL. 9.] LONDON, Friday, April 23, 1824. [PRICE 6d.

THE TRINITY OUT OF UNITY,
OR A DIVISION IN THE UNDIVIDED.

DEDICATION.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, AND RIGHT DOUBTFUL, THE EARL OF ELDON, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND, PROTECTOR TO THE TRINITY IN UNITY, &c., &c.

KNOW you, most grave, most doubtful, most tearful, and most cunning personage! that, of late, the Trinity, and the Trinitarians, have been sadly out of unity: that, Satan has learnt the art of the Trinity and Trinitariau Rulers, to divide and conquer, and, that he has played their own tricks back upon them so craftily, as to make his final triumph near at hand! Weep! Eldon! weep Old one! press up those sacred crocodile tears! that the modern Egyptians may once more, and for the last time, tremble and worship!

You have been lately saying, without doubt! that though modern parliaments have been so wicked as to aid Satan against the Trinity; still, the common Law, never having been directly abrogated, is in force, clashing with the Statute or Parliamentary Law, and that the Trinity is still amply protected! In vain were you told, that the Common Law knew nothing but the Roman Catholic Religion, and that, therefore, upon your own showing of the law, you, and other Protestant rulers, WERE ROBBERS AND MURDERERS OF THE CATHOLIC CLERGY AND LAYFOLK. In vain were you told, that the Common Law knew nothing but what could be rendered definite and intelligible, such as property and person, and that, neither Trinity nor Christian Religion related to the one or to the other. In vain were you told, that the whole gist of the Bible is a fable; that no such a nation as

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Jews existed in Palestine before the Babylonian Colonization, in the time of Ezra; that no such person as Jesus Christ ever existed in Jerusalem, and that no such a religion took its rise there eighteen hundred years ago. In vain were you told all these things; but in spite of the fables, in spite of Jews or Catholics, you resolved to protect the Trinity and Protestant Trinitarians upon Common Law! which is another proof, that this Common Law is a bugbear, as a matter of fundamental law, and that it is preserved merely as an engine of power and mischief in the hands of such Christians, such religious men, as my Lord and Gaoler Eldon.

If you cannot give a better illustration of the Common Law, so as to make it suit the Protestant Trinity and Trinitarians; I can give a very good illustration of the Trinity, in aiding you to that object! But, I must inform you, that I am indebted to a friend for this French translation; and that I am not so blasphemously obscene as to write such a thing with my own band. No, not a sentence of it mine. So, pray don't order it to be prosecuted. I am afraid you will! I am afraid you wont! I am in doubt! I will look it over again and consider what will be your judgment upon the matter.It is good, very good, really laughable! Here, my Lord Chancellor, take it, read it, and give us your judgment, at first reading, and without a doubt! Now say, honestly and without a tear-IS IT NOT GOOD? No!—a curse on these philosophical mammifères!

So curse, so prosecute, so do your worst, the Trinity must come down, says your very much amused, your delighted Prisoner

RICHARD CARLILE.

Dorchester Gaol, April 16, 1824. Four years and a half that you Christians have deprived me of house, home, and family! For what? To protect the Trinity? I can laugh yet!

THE TRINITY OUT OF UNITY, OR A
DIVISION IN THE UNDIVIDED.

2d Person. It's clear, therefore, Papa, that I've just as much right to beget a son, as thou hadst. Moreover, knowest thou not, what I said in my song after supper, "I wish to engender, and wish to be engendered?"

1st Person. Yea, Yesy, yea! of course I do. But, I affrm, that thou art a mere ΑΡΣΕΝΟΘΗΛΥΣ, and hast no business to meddle with generation.

3rd Person. Honour thy father a little better than this, Man-God, or, I swear by the Jordan, thou shalt be re-crucified, Thou beget a child? why, thy cerebellum is not larger than a pea! Therefore, squabble not; especially as I wish to know, once for all, how ye two gentlemen made me proceed from you.

2d P. Why, nothing can be clearer; it's a mystery.

3d P. It's very clear it's a mystery; but it's being a mystery doth not make it clear, Mr. Double-Nature DoubleWish.

2d P. Why, dost thou think I know how I was begotten before all worlds? or how I am as old as my dear daddy? By the bye, Papa, I think thou wert rather wrong to have me put to death.

1st P. Why, Yesy, I was in a confounded ill humour, and had got the meagrims, in consequence of that fellow Adam's having robbed my orchard. Nothing would put me in tune again but seeing an execution; and I thought a Deicide would be something new.

2d P. But the Sabelliaus said that thou didst kill thyself. 1st P, Bah! Nonsense!

2d P. Nonsense, Papa? It wont do to talk about nonsense; for men say we are all three a heap of nonsense.

1st P. Curse on those cooking mammifères.

2d P. Nay, do not curse all of them: I only alluded to the Philosophers, those anti-aristocratical barbarians who wage such a bitter war against our triumvirate, I meant to say triumdeate.

1st. P. Then curse the Philosophers: but tell me, Yesy, what are we to do against them next? We have slandered, as well as abused them: we have laid open all the follies of their youth, and we have attributed the warmuess of their temperament to the reasonableness of their doctrines. Moreover, we have banished them, imprisoned them, brow-beaten them, and blackguarded them; yet we make no great progress.

3d P. Progress, or no progress, what I want ye both to grant is this: I am a spirit; consequently ye must " per anti-thesin" be material. Therefore, I am your superior1st P. Dost thou call that logic?

3d P. Logic, Greybeard? Ah! why I've presided over logic at our trusty and well-beloved University of Oxford,

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