der a sentence of Two Years' imprisonment, and a fine of One Hundred Pounds, for publishing Palmer's Principles of Nature. And that the Public may not be deceived, in consequence of an Advertisement which appeared in the Republican of the 23d ult., W. T. deems it necessary to state the following facts; viz. that he has now been imprisoned upwards of fifteen calender months, for selling, in Mr. Carlile's shop, Palmer's Principles of Nature; and that, during that time, he has not received from Mr. Carlile any pecuniary assistance. He also thinks it would have been more becoming the character of a man calling himself a "Republican," to have done all in his power to have assisted him who had been prosecuted in his service, and to have disposed of as many copies as he could, instead of doing as he has done, in publishing one in opposition. Mr. Carlile was well aware, before he had incurred any expense, that W. T. had one in the hands of an engraver for publication. Mr. Carlile also boasts that, during the last two years, he has received upwards of 5001. per year as subscriptionmoney, independent of the profits arising from the sale of his Works; so that he ought in justice not to have published in opposition to one who has not received from him any support, but who has shared with him his part of prosecution; and whose only . object in publishing this Portrait was, to obtain a few necessary comforts while in prison.

Sold by T. Davison, 10, Duke-street, West Smithfield; R. Wedderburn, 23, Russel-court, Drury-lane, London: Joseph Rhodes, 56, Henry-street, Manchester; and Wm. Baynes, 4, Water-lane, Bank, Leeds; and all other Print and Booksellers.

The reader of this advertisement must suppose that I have acted some shabby, some dirty part, towards William Tunbridge; but let him here read and judge.

Since I first published Palmer's Principles of Nature, and was the first to brave a prosecution for it, I have been desirous to obtain for publication, both his portrait and his memoir. In the Republican of August 8, 1823, in my letter to William Carver, I desired him to send me a portrait and a memoir of Palmer, if possible. Some little delay occurred, both in his getting my packet to him, and in my getting his in answer to me; but the first that came brought me a proof portrait on India paper, which a friend of Mr. Palmer's had most reluctantly parted with, and which Mr. Carver, who was the personal friend of Palmer, pronounces to be an excellent good one, and the best likeness he ever saw of that great and good man.

Some time last year, but whether before or after my public solicitation of a portrait of Palmer to copy, I cannot now say, James Watson, who was confined in the same room

with William Tunbridge, in Cold Bath Fields Prison, wrote me to say, that there was a fellow prisoner who had an American copy of the Principles of Nature, and with it a portrait of Palmer. I wrote with all speed back to say, that I would gladly purchase it at any reasonable value, in books or money; and particularly mentioned, that it would come well as an embellishment for Tunbridge's Trial, which we were then printing, or about to print. I could get no fa vourable nor decisive answer-and the matter of further enquiry dropped. Not a word further did I hear of this portrait of Palmer in Cold Bath Fields, until it was known that 1 had received a copy from America, and then it was announced to me, not by Tunbridge, but by William Campion, the shopman at 84, Fleet Street, that Tunbridge had obtained this copy in the Prison, and had put it in the hands of the engraver. Now, what was there in this matter to prevent my putting my copy also into the hands of an engraver? Tunbridge had known of my public solicitation of a copy-and I can scarcely doubt, but that he knew of my correspondence with Watson for that particular copy which he had obtained, as the matter was no secret, nor did I dream of a disposition in any other person to publish it. I now understand that he had the copy several months before he gave it to the engraver; and yet, not a breath of its being in his possession ever reached me, until I received mine from America. My first impression was, and still is, that Tunbridge's conduct in the matter was a sly opposition to me; and the spleen which he has now shown in finding me so near on his heels to baffle that opposition, convinces me that my impression was correct.

Even for his own interest, had he a desire to publish the thing openly and fairly, it would have been prudent for him to have communicated his intention to me, as it is not a vanity for me to say, that my shop was the best medium for such a publication: but not a word did I hear of the matter, either directly, or indirectly, until I had a print of my own ready to publish, at least, to give to the engraver, which is the first step to publication. It was nothing more than a matter of respect that was due to me, from him; for though he makes a noise about refusing to take direct aid from me, he knows well what he is about, and that it is of no difference in the end, whether the subscriptions of friends pass direct to him, or through my hands first. No person has yet suffered any injury from a connection with me in the way of prosecution for serving in my shop; that is a great deal

to say, and I hope that I shall not be subject to any upbraiding from Mr. Tunbridge, when we meet out of prison, on that ground. I was delighted with his conduct in the Court of King's Bench: I was delighted with his kindness to those who were imprisoned before him: I declare that I have been secretly disposed to make a distinction in his favour; and had he consulted me about publishing a portrait of Palmer for his own benefit, I would have consented and treated it as my own publication; but I am constrained to say, that his behaviour in prison has been most splenetic and unpleasant towards me, and that I can no longer look upon him as one acting in conjunction with me. Up to this time, I have been even disposed to humour his prejudices, to smile even at his spleen, to which one of his most valued acquaintances might bear witness; but I cannot crouch to insult, particularly from a man who wears no plumes but those with which I have furnished and fastened on him. I would not have said this, bad he not been for a year past misrepresenting every motive by which I have been actuated towards him, and having said this, I leave our friends to judge between us; premising, that if any further justification of my conduct towards him be asked for, I am ready, willing, and able, to give it, so as to satisfy the most querulous.

RICHARD CARLILE.

Dorchester Gaol, May 2, 1824.

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No. 20, VOL. 9.] LONDON, Friday, May 14, 1824. [PRICE 6d.

TO THE SECT OF CHRISTIANS KNOWN BY THE APPELLATION OF ROMAN CATHOLICS.

INJURED CHRISTIANS! Dorchester Gaol, May 9, 1824. INJURED, you certainly are, who to all intents and purposes are put beyond the pale of the law: and if you are neither allowed to assist in making, nor in administering the laws, it is not too much to say, that you are not within that pale.

In making a round of addresses to the Christian sects, I come to address the sect of Roman Catholics, to shew them the right means to be used to obtain CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION, and how they may successfully shake of every Protestant fetter. Sharing persecution with you, from the Christians in power, I feel that I have some claim upon your attention, whilst I state my views of the evils which degrade you, and propose a remedy for their effectual removal. I do not appeal to you upon the prejudices of religious tenets, I seek not your approbation in applauding your errors, I court not your support by flattery of any kind; but whilst I offer myself to you as a physician, I commence with telling you, that, to TO CURE, I MUST INCISE AND CAUTERIZE. Your disease re

quires, your welfare urges, me to offer this treatment. Grant me, first, the liberty, the right, to address my opinions to you; and then bear with me, patiently, whilst I state them.

As a sect of Christians, you claim priority, on the ground of the antiquity of your customs and ceremonies; for tenets or religious dogmas, you can be scarcely said to hold, since

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the decisions of your priests are, in all cases, your decisions: you acquiesce, whether or not, you believe or understaud. The Government then, which you desire, is to all intents and purposes, an hierarchy, as much as was the Government of the Jews. And you do not see, that one of the first principles of that revolution which has hurled you from the prominence held by your ancestors, to be the lowest of Christian sects, was to overthrow hierarchy, and to establish a Government upon popular representation in the legislature.

Such being the case, I rejoice in your overthrow, in the first instance; whilst, in the second, I desire to raise you to an equality with all other persons, under the protection of a well formed Government and good laws.

The purport of my address is two fold: first, I desire to show you, that the whole of your religion is ill-founded and worthless as a benefit to you: second, that the only road to Catholic Emancipation is to renounce Catholicism with Christianity. This is the only emancipation that offers you the least benefit: and further, when it is seen, that you are resolute in this adoption, the Protestants will yield all you ask: they will go on their knees, beg pardon for past misbehaviour, and embrace you as brethren, if you will but continue to call yourselves Christians. You may see this now passing with all the sects, save the one of Roman Ca tholics!

First: to shew that your religion is ill founded, I go to its root, and tell you, that, there is no living personified God, that the history of Jerusalem knows nothing of the history of such a person as Jesus Christ, nor of such a sect as Christians, so long as it was the sect of a Jewish Government and the metropolis of a Jewish nation. It is a most singular fact, that the mass of those benighted, cajoled beings, who have passed under the denomination of Christians, have been, and those living still are as ignorant of the history of Chris. tianity and Judaism, as the heathen whom they profess to teach! It is argued by some, that the thing having existed so