cruelty and oppression. No, it is the mites of free minds panting for their bodily liberty, and eager to destroy the power of that horde of plunderers who have brought our country to the brink of destruction. Arise ye the oppressed, the insulted advocates of the Rights of Man, prepare your minds for the great and glorious crisis that is fast approaching; hasten the time with all the powers of eloquence of which ye are possessed, and be ready to lay the foundation of your future government upon the natural rights of man. Those rights which the tyrants have long laid upon the shrine of despotism. Let justice be done to the memories of those patriots whose blood hath been spilt in the sacred cause of liberty, and to those likewise who have been the inmates of the tyrants bastiles. Proceed onward fellow citizen, in the same noble and energetic manner which has hitherto marked your career; continue to hurl the darts of injured nature in the face of that banditti of imposters who have so grossly insulted her just, her noble precepts, for the base purpose of living in idleness and luxury on the falsehoods and lies which they have invented, and which the ignorant and unwary have prostrated themselves to believe; for until the laws of unerring nature become the stimulus by which men act towards obtaining permanent happiness, and every relic of priestcraft, and its three in one and one in three, be abolished, that monster (corruption) will still effect her purpose of dividing the people upon those suppositions which priests have fabricated and which bigots and fools have believed.

In conclusion we beg your acceptance of the small sum of six pounds six shillings and sixpence, towards liquidating the robberies which those vultures the Christian Judges have imposed upon you, assuring you of our ardent attachment to yourself and family."

I am, Fellow Citizen,

For the Republicans of Leeds,
Your sincere Friend,

JAMES WATSON.

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Citizen, Dorchester Gaol, June 11, 1822. THE incessant support which I receive from the brave Republicans of Leeds, makes me deficient in words for a proper acknowledgment, and the sample of the real disposition of my friends in that town, which I have proved in the person of Humphrey Boyle, makes me fearful lest my expression should not duly appreciate it. Humphrey Boyle has acted the hero under the most unfavourable circumstances in which a man could be placed, and I am informed his resolution in exposing the obscenity of the Jew Books is the subject of admiration, and the turning of women and boys out of the Court because the Holy Bible was being read is the subject of astonishment and conversation, in almost every public and private company in the metropolis. Those props of

corruption, the country newspapers, I perceive, have endeavoured to give the matter a turn, by saying, that the language of the defendant was so obscene as to require the clearing of the Court of women and boys: but you know your townsman was incapable of any thing of the kind, and you see what shifts its advocates are put to, to keep up the fraud of a divine and obscene revelation of the will of their idols.

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Republicans of Leeds, I perceive Mr. Wooler has been addressing the Reformers of your town upon the subject of the disunions that have occurred among them: and as far as he thought prudent to express himself, he appeared to me to deprecate your assuming the distinction of Republicans, and my conduct for upholding it: but Mr. Wooler in this instance has dealt in words and name without saying any thing of principles. He does not venture to condemn your principles, which you have so often and so clearly delineated, but attempted to lay down what appeared to me a corrupt doctrine, that an honesty of understanding was of more importance than an honesty of disposition and action. an honesty of understanding in Mr. Wooler's vocabulary expresses, I cannot conceive; which makes me conclude that it means some dishonesty in action; for he seems to contrast the two expressions. Honesty of the mind, I take to be the feature of your conduct, in expressing fully what you conceive to be the very best principles and challenging their impeachment. It is vain for Mr. Wooler to talk about union upon any other ground than this; he must be told that this is the only ground for a practicable, a lasting, and a useful union. I think nothing more of the epithet Republican, than Mr. Wooler does of that of Reformer; but I think a great deal more of the principle of a complete Representative System of Government both in legislation and magistracy, than I do of his patch-work system of King, Lords, and Commons, of Church and State, if he does rest upon this system; for he is as spiritual as dwarfish, and it is difficult to fix him to system or principles; or to say where and what he supports. I grant that he is a man of genius, a powerful satirist, and, doubtless, at times a great annoyance to individuals among our enemies: but, if genius does not invent better principles, or support the best that are known; if satire plays round corruption without diminishing it, and if individuals be but annoyed whilst their system of action stands secure; then, I think genius, the satire, and the individual annoyance, may be compassed within the line of a cypher.

Would Mr. Woofer call upon you the Republicans of Leeds to congregate with that corrupt and dishonest body calling themselves Christian Reformers: if he will do this openly, I know you will give him satisfactory reasons for not doing it? You will shew him how much better you can spend your time than in listening to Mr. Ward's Christianity, and where your pence can be applied to better purpose than in keeping a priest in splendid and insolent idleness.

If he tells you to confine yourselves to the old system and distinction of the mis-called Radical Reformers, you will, I know, instantly point him to better principles; to a better system of action; you will tell him that the only system of action immediately available and useful to the Reformers, is to practise free discussion, and to examine the principles upon that ground alone; and not as they are connected with this or that name.

I am, Citizen, yours with warmest esteem,
R. CARLILE.

TO MR. R. CARLILE, DORCHESTER GAOL.

London, June 12, 1822.

FELLOW CITIZEN, WHEN the people of a nation are suffering from the effects of a corrupt and cruelly tyrannical government, whether of boroughmongers or any other denomination, when such a people are insolently told that their laws are administered in justice and executed in mercy, what must be the indignation and feelings of that people, knowing as they do, the cruel, vindictive, and unrelenting punishments that have inflicted upon you and your high spirited family, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Wooler, Mr. Swann, your brave Shopmen, and many others, surely it is beyond human forbearance tamely to submit.

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There is only one just and certain remedy, and that remedy by the immutable laws of nature is in the peoples' own hands. Your friends have desired me to forward Three Pounds more, being our seventh subscription towards discharging your enormous, fines, which must have been imprisonment for life to yourself and your sister, and ruin to your family; had not the generous and enlighted Republicans stept forward to your aid. Such a government shows the wonder-working effects of Christianity which says, do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Your subscribing friends anxiously hope and believe that your Christian persecutors, malice and vengeance, will be defeated so far as regards the fines. Í am happy to say that I have almost daily opportunities of knowing that the number of your friends are fast increasing, and I hope they

'will see the necessity of exerting themselves to the utmost, until your fine and Miss Mary Ann's are paid, and likewise a handsome remuneration for the robberies committed in Fleet Street, and for the great sacrifice you have made at the shrine of glorious liberty.

As you have taken some notice of the Northern Union in "The Republican," you ought to be made acquainted that your friends for whom I now write, commenced a subscription (conditionally) toward the Northern Union, the conditions were, that when the sum of five pounds was collected, a proper notice should be given to the subscribers, that the matter should be fairly discussed and decided by vote in what way the money should be appropriated; which has been very strictly adhered to by giving a month's notice and announced four times during the month. It has been debated and decided by a majority that the plan of the Northern Union (allowing every good intention to the promoters and supporters of it) would retard the march of genuine Liberty; indeed it is evident that to send any one to that corrupt House of Commons (as it is called) would be a gross delusion, and a criminal waste of money, while there are so many suffering Patriots pining in prison.

We sincerely regret the difference that exists between yourself and Mr. Hunt, because it certainly does injury; and a third person stepping forward only prolongs and aggravates the matter, you are both very capable of acting for yourselves. Although there is a difference between you as to the means of obtaining our rights, still we find generally that the real friends of freedom are friends to you both: your difference has caused some uneasiness among your friends. We send you our honest congratulations on the birth of your daughter and our hearty wishes for the speedy recovery of Mrs. Carlile, and the enjoyment of good health.

Fellow Citizen, I am, respecfully yours,
ROBERT ROBINSON.

TO MR. ROBERT ROBINSON, LONDON.

CITIZEN AND FRIEND, Dorchester Goal, June 14, 1822. THE Contributions of my friends in towards my fines multiply beyond any powers I possess to vary the language in returning them thanks; but the present has afforded me a double satisfaction, as it bears out my views with regard to the great Northern Radical Union, and you may judge that I am solicitous when opposed to such men as Mr. Hunt, Mr. Wooler, Major Cartwright, Sir Charles Wolseley and Mr. Northmore, to have some corroborations, that my observations on that species of Union they seek to establish are not captious or ill-founded. That I shall ultimately