assert their independence. It is said that the insurrection in Porto Rico and Martinique have emanated from your councils and influence. In this I consider you highly commendable, so as prudence be connected with the measure and a proper time be chosen. It is more likely to my view that your noble example, rather than your advice and influence, has generated those insurrections. I wish every man whatever be his colour or calling to obtain and to hold his political independence, and shall rejoice if ever I hear it said that there is no such character as a slave among mankind. I would rather prepare my own food and apparel, and do every thing that my wants may dictate, than I would have the assistance of a man or woman in the character of a slave.

The progress of intelligence will decree the extinction of slavery, and a Reformed Parliament in this Island, would, among its first acts, emancipate every negro in its colonies, and the colonies as well. By all means beware of fostering any prejudice that may exist on the ground of colour. Think with one of our poets, and act upon that thought, that the mind is the man, and in mind we are all of a colour. I feel no more antipathy towards a man or a woman whose skin may not be of the same colour as mine, than I do to see a variance in the colour of our dresses. We ought to live for mutual happiness and support, and not as beasts of prey, or worse than beasts of prey, for a variance in colour is no cause for hostility with them. Cleanliness and morality are the same in all men: but filthiness of person and immorality are as disgusting, in a person whose natural colour is white, as with him whose colour is black. All national prejudices, all religious prejudices, all prejudices about colour ought to be laid aside: let morality supersede them, and let all seek that improvement which shall tend to assist, comfort, and improve each other. Life is short and confined; immorality is a bugbear, a falsehood: let us therefore lengthen it with happiness: for one day of liberty, happiness, and peace of mind, is worth a century of slavery, pain and misery.

Republicans of Hayti, make your Island the center of intelligence, humanity, and political wisdom, by the abolition of all those prejudices and restraints which form a bar to buman improvement. Proclaim the fraternity of the human species and pronounce your Island as a hospitable asylum for every moral industrious man who will enter it. Offer the rights of citizenship to every such person disposed to

join you, and you will speedily become to America what Albion has long been to Europe, an independent, powerful, and even invincible government. Persecute none for matters of opinion, but let those that are not good be put down by those that are good and that can be defended.

You are safe now from any annoyance from Europe. We are all striving here to imitate your example, and all idea of hostility to the Republics of America is now abandoned. The government of this Island will very soon seek an alliance with you and leave you to dictate your own terms. Do well: deserve well, and farewell, is the ardent desire of your com-patriot and well-wisher

Dorchester Gaol, December 10, Year 3 of the Spanish Revolution.

RICHARD CARLILE.

THE FOLLOWING MEMORIAL

Was sent to the Treasury by Mary Ann Carlile, to which the following Answer has been given.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY.

THE MEMORIAL AND PETITION OF MARY ANN CARLile, a prisoner in his Majesty's Gaol of Dorchester, respectfully sheweth:

That your Memorialist, for nine months of the year 1821, managed the business of her brother, then and now confined in His Majesty's Gaol of Dorchester, as a Publisher and Bookseller in the City of London, and though, in the course of this management, she had no authority over any other department of the business than to sell such publications as were sent into the shop for sale by her brother's authority, she was subjected to an indictment at the instance of the Society for the Suppression of Vice (as it calls itself) for selling a pamphlet, at the price of sixpence, entitled, "An Appendix to the Theological Works of Thomas Paine," to which, in appearing to answer, the Judge denied her the right to make

defence, and a Jury, having heard but one side of the case, and that for the prosecution, returned her guilty of having published a blasphemous libel.

That, on the fifteenth day of November last, your Memorialist received the sentence of the Court of King's Bench to be imprisoned one year in His Majesty's Gaol of Dorchester, to pay a fine of five hundred pounds to the King's Treasury, and to enter into recognizances to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for five years to the amount of seven hundred pounds.

Your Memorialist, further states, that during the time in which she managed ber brother's business, she received no other profits than such as must have been paid as wages to any other servant: that she never did carry on any business on her own account that brought her more than a daily living: that at no period of her life did she ever possess property of one tenth of the value of the fine imposed upon her; and, that at this moment, she has no prospect of ever being able to pay it.

Your Memorialist has suffered much in her health in the course of the winter part of her imprisonment, and finds it now so much impaired as to dread the effects of another winter upon it. She, therefore, prays your Lordships to remit a fine which she has not the means to pay, and to grant her a liberation at the end of the imprisonment part of her sentence, being the fifteenth day of November instant.

MARY ANN CARLILE. Dorchester Gaol, Nov. 1. 1222.

MADAM,

HAVING Submitted to the consideration of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury your Petition dated 1st ult. praying a remission of fines and your release from Prison, I am commanded to acquaint you that under all the circumstances attending your case, my Lords cannot advise His Majesty to comply with the prayer of your Peti

tion.

I am, Madam, Your obedient Servant,

GEORGE HARRISON.

Treasury Chambers, Dec. 14, 1822.

Mary Ann Carlile, Dorchester Gaol.

The following Answer has been sent to Mr. Carlile's Memorial to the Lords of the Treasury.

SIR,

THE Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration your Petition dated the 6th ult. praying a remission of fines and your release from Prison, I am commanded to acquaint you, that under all the circumstances attending your case, my Lords cannot advise His Majesty to comply with the prayer of your Peti

tion.

I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant,

GEORGE HARRISON.

Treasury Chambers, Dec. 14, 1822.

Mr. R. Carlile, Dorchester Gaol.

In consequence of the careless wording of a paragraph which has appeared in several public papers, the Lords of the Treasury are made to invite Mrs. Carlile to ask for the remission of her husband's fines, promising that they will grant her what they have denied her husband. The following is the paragraph:-" Carlile's Memorial to the Lords of the Treasury for the remission of his fines has, we are informed, been of no avail; but it is probable that the favour, which has been denied to him, will be extended to his wife." Mrs. Carlile, having no fine and her two years imprisonment being nearly expired, has addressed the following Memorial to the Treasury.

TO THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HIS
MAJESTY'S TREASURY.

THE MEMORIAL AND PETITION OF JANE CARLILE, a Prisoner in His Majesty's Gaol of Dorchester, respectfully

sheweth:

That Memorialist has been induced to trouble their Lordships, in consequence of a paragraph which has appeared in the public Papers, holding out a promise, that their Lord

ships are disposed to grant a favour on her application which they have denied to her husband on his, namely, a remission of his fiues.-As she has now no favour of the kind to ask for herself, she cannot misinterpret the statement, however doubtful she may be of its authority. She, therefore, hopes and prays their Lordships will not disappoint her in the views which this apparent public promise has excited, and that their Lordships will not allow her liberation to become more painful than her confinement, in sending her into society, at the expiration of her two years imprisonment, as a widow with four young children, by keeping her husband and their father a prisoner for a default of payment not of his own seeking, or that does not arise from his neglect or indisposition to pay.

Dorchester Gaol, Dec. 13, 1822.

JANE CARLILE.

TO MR. R. CARLILE, DORCHESTER GAOL.

DEAR CITIZEN AND FRIEND, Ripponden, Dec. 9, 1822. FOR such we consider you to mankind, except those who live upon the labour of other persons. Your endeavours to dissever Church and State are highly praiseworthy, for there never can be, either in this or any other country, a good government while they are connected.

The Church does every thing it can to support the State, and in return, the State protects the Church, do what it may! hence the escape of the Clogging Bishop, the Soldier, and the rape-committing Parson, &c., &c.

Please, Sir, accept the following trifles as an earnest of our respects for you; and believe us to be your Fellow-Citizens and Friends,