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nister is to me a mystery. Since your incarceration I have declined subscribing to the Missionary Society, fearing our preachers may get into some country, where there may be a Vice Society and a Lord Sidmouth's administration, to fine and imprison our missionaries for preaching and blaspheming against the established religion of their country. The heavy sentence that the Holy Protestant Inquisition have inflicted upon you, can only be repaired by your friends stepping forward numerously with their subscriptions. Your losses are so amazingly grievous.

First, The great loss in your business being stopped.
Second, The expence attending your trial.

Third, The expence of living in jail for three years, and
Fourth, The two fines charged upon you.

Let every one who feels sorry for your sufferings contribute according to his ability. Consider what a large sum all the different subscriptions amount to, that the conscientious dissenter pays, owing to the belief, he maintains. A friend of mine who is a Calvinist dissenter, told me the other day, that he pays upwards of £50 annually to various pious lustitutions!

What a much smaller sum, from your friends annually would raise you your expences.

If all the misery mankind suffer either from their own misconduct or that of their neighbours, were felt by our God himself, I think he would not permit man to have the free liberty of sinning against him.

If government would destroy priestcraft and employ all their pay to establish temples of science, divided into classes to teach those arts and sciences, which are so useful to mechanics, tradesmen, and gentlemen; each class according to merit, to have some national honour conferred upon it by the sovereign. If any had been guilty of those vices, whereby either society or their own health are injured, to be punished and put back so many classes and so again go through the regular gradations. How much better effect, this would have on the succeeding generations, to bring them into a virtuous and enlightened state of society. This plan would put the golden principle of honour and interest, in the scale against the load of vice, that the world is endowed with, and would I am sure, mightily prevail over vice. For virtue and happiness which are inseparably connected, only want placing in their right altitudes, to be preferred to vice and misery, which are equally inseparable.

It would be very proper for all your friends, in every county, in England, Ireland, and Scotland, to commence a weekly subscription for you, and appoint some respectable man in each town, a treasurer, and once a month remit the money to your order, something of this sort might be done very easily.

I am dear, Sir, yours truly,

AMICUS.

The foregoing letter was put into the Post Office at Manchester, postage paid, a private communication was attached to it but no further signature or reference than the above. Should the writer see it in print he is assured that his recommendation with respect to the child, quite accords with the views of its father, particularly that part which prefers the study of the mathematics to the Greek and Latin Classics. The boy is now a prisoner, with his Father and Mother, and cannot obtain a nurse, to carry him into the open air. He is a fine child, in good health, and fifteen months old.

SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR MR. CARLILE.

Amount of various sums advertised in the Republican £.150 0 0 From Manchester and its Neighbourhood.

TO THE

REFORMERS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Dorchester Gaol, April 23,

FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, Year 2, of the Spanish Revolution. SINCE I last addressed you the Italians of Naples and Piedmont have proved themselves cowards, and undeserving of that freedom to the possession of which they have made pretensions. They can brandish the stiletto in the dark, but coward and assassin-like, they dare not openly meet an enemy, even when every thing that is virtuous, honourable, and dear to man, is on their side, and every thing foul on that of the enemy. The Neapolitans could attack and murder the unarmed inhabitants of Palermo, but dared not face an inferior number of Austrians. Slavery and death to such men, or such wretches, the disgrace of their species. They are unworthy the fertile soil on which they tread. Let the present race perish in their chains, or from shame bury themselves in their volcano, and let us hope for better conduct from the next generation.

But the Continent of Europe is not yet without interest: the inhabitants of that spot which nurtured the brave, the virtuous, and the hardy Grecians, of old, are in arms against the despotic government of Turkey. They too have hoisted the tri-coloured flag! let us hope they are not so degenerate as the present inhabitants of that soil, which nurtured the hardy Roman. Oh! what a glorious sound it would have been to hear, that the modern Romans had expelled the Goths and Vandals from Italy, and that the modern Grecians had cleared their soil of the Turks and Saracens. This would have been a regeneration indeed! Still let us hope it will come, and not only hope, but let us contemplate the certainty.

The Holy Allied Despots will soon find more work on the Continent. The effluvia of Spanish and Portuguese freedom must naturally infect their neighbours in France, and then the ignorant barbarians, which rule the empires of Russia and Austria, might pour forth their hordes in vain. Italian cowardice might retard but cannot effectually frustrate the event.

At home, we are promised Castlereagh (for I shall keep him to his old name) as Prime Minister, or First Lord of the Treasury. We might rejoice at this, as the present system cannot be in better hands, and I further wish him as many of his present colleagues, as are inclined to act under him. The annual fooleries of St. Stephen's Chapel are again near their close; all the usual parts have been well perform

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ed, and the nation has to enjoy its usual misery and distress with some addition, agreeable to the will of this "Great Council," this "Collected Wisdom," this Focus of Talents. It has neither emancipated the Catholics, nor reformed itself, and I for one am heartily glad of it, as I think we had better wait the opportunity of performing our duties, and enforcing our rights, than to accept any thing as a boon from the established or usurped authorities. The Roman Catholics can no longer doubt the path they ought to follow. A reformed Parliament will not be alarmed at any intercourse they can carry on with the Pope of Rome; as any man whose eyes and ideas can extend to Italy, will perceive, in a moment, that the Pope is quite a harmless animal, and that a few years will extinguish instead of strengthen him. His merchandise of bulls and indulgences, of dispensations and absolutions, of comminations and excommunications, are shut out of the markets of Spain and Portugal, and the whole continent of America! Austria is the last prop of the Pope of Rome, and that a very feeble one. The Reformers of Great Britain will pledge to the Catholics of Ireland something worthy of being called an emancipation if they will but tread in the right path, and make their first object a representative system of government, where every man shall enjoy the elective franchise. They shall have it in its fullest extent without any "solemn debates," or acts of parliament as a security. They shall see that the Representatives of the People of Great Britain and Ireland will not degrade themselves by legislating on matters of opinion, but that all restraints shall be repealed, with just the same feeling, as the bill now passing the Houses of Corruption to prevent any modern Sir Matthew Hale from burning old women as witches and sorcerers.

The Whig motion for a committee to inquire into the state of the representation, and the sudden conclusion of the farce, whilst its promoters and supporters were gormandizing at a tavern, cannot fail to excite the further contempt of the Reformers towards that corrupt faction. Could not Messrs. Lambton, and Hobhouse, and Wilson, and the rest have dined at four or at three o'clock, or have taken a crust of bread and cheese in their pockets, so as to sit and hear what their friends on the other side had to offer against their motion? It appears that they have need to reform their own appetites before they would become fit representatives for a reformed Parliament. Only forty-three Whigs to support this long-boasted, this so much talked of motion of Mr. Lambton! I have no hesitation to say, that, after the most mature deliberation; and the best consideration I can give the subject, I am firmly of opinion that no bold and honest man would sit in that assembly to assist in that degraded

and mock system of legislation one moment further than he could be holding it up to the contempt of the country. To countenance its proceedings is to participate in its acts. However, let the Reformers march on-let them look back on Whigs and Tories as their common enemies—but above all things let them keep in one undeviating path, and wait the majestic march of their grand ally, the debt called national: and by all means let as many of them as can, and have any, change their bank-notes for gold, in the next month. Ten guineas with a reformed Parliament will be a little fortune. R. CARLILE.

TO MR. CARLILE, DORCHESTER GAOL. MR. AND MRS. CARLILE, Glodwick, March 13, 1821. A FEW friends of Glodwick, near Oldham, Lancashire, are anxious to offer you a small tribute of their esteem, for your bold patriotic endeavours to rescue our country from the grasp of despotism, and herewith send you one pound note. You are incarcerated for the expression of your sentiments-We abhor all attempts to refute opinion by the manacle and the dungeon. Those who oppose the march of public opinion and light, will eventually perish in the attempt. Cheer up, for revolutions, founded on reason and justice, break upon the astonished world almost daily. Ignorance is driven from pillar to post, and the tottering fabrics of feudalism are crumbling to dust. Sacrifices must be made, and it is yours to glory in being considered the worst enemy of corruption. That you may long live an enemy to tyranny, is the wish of

Yours, &c.

ABRAHAM TAYLOR,

Treasurer to the Glodwick Permanent Reform Fund.

P. S. Your friends desire you to let them know whether you have received the above named sum as soon as you can conveniently.

TO MR. ABRAHAM TAYLOR,

Treasurer of the Glodwick Permanent Reform Fund.

DEAR SIR, Dorchester Gaol, April 5, 1821. WITH pleasure I acknowledge the receipt of your letter containing the sum of One Pound, as a subscription in support of my humble efforts in the cause of reform. Although your letter was dated on the 13th ult. it did not reach me until the 4th instant, and bore the London post mark of the 3d.

I beg to assure the Reformers of Glodwick that both Mrs. Carlile and myself are in good health and good spirits, although persecution falls on us in every shape from the