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manufacture is a quackery and puff. The best grain roasted and ground in the best manner must form the best powder. It is possible to give it a flavour of a different quality by mixing different kinds of grain, or pulse, or berries, or by adding different ingredients, but this must form an adulteration of the professed article, and perhaps render it as pernicious as it would have been otherwise nutritious. I have never seen more than two specimens of this roasted grain; the one was yours, and the other was prepared by another person with whom I am much closer acquainted than ever I was with you. Yours I have no hesitation in pronouncing was decidedly the best, from a better manner of roasting. This was on its first appearance, in the spring of 1820. I could not make a breakfast from either, and sent both packets back to London, and this at a time when I was neither using tea or coffee. You call coffee deleterious and unwholesome stuff, but give me leave to say that your substitute, further than as a war upon the revenue, is not worthy of mention with good coffee. Those who may roast grain for themselves will find a sprinkling of mustard and ginger in powder, a great improvement to the flavour, and a wholesome addition as a pectoral or medical property. But I would beg to remind the industrious part of the people, that there are many grasses and herbs in this country that make an excellent tea if carefully gathered and dried. The common meadow hay is in my opinion preferable to the roasted grain, to make a beverage pleasant and nutritious, where the mind can be raised above the prejudice of habit. Those who love milk, butter, and cheese, need not feel a prejudice towards the use of grass or hay; whatever is nutritious in the former, is scarce any thing but a chemical solution of the latter. Chinese tea is but the leaf of a shrub, and in point of cleanliness, considering whence it comes, and how it is gathered and dried, clean meadow hay cannot be half so objectionable. There is a grass, called five leaf grass, pleasant as a tea, and excellent as a febrifuge. This is a digression for public good. To the point of exposure again.

Grain of every kind does not now cost one penny per lb. Roasting it does not diminish its weight above one third, according to my supposition; therefore it may be sold ground with a very good profit at fourpence per lb. As a proof that it can be done, you say it has been done, but when you say that Mrs. Carlile bought it for that price and sold it at one shilling as yours, you state, she declares to me, a falsehood; she never bought any powder at any such

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a price, and never sold as yours any but yours. cessary here to give a history of this Breakfast Powder, I will copy what you say about it. I address you direct, because it must be your assertion, Mr. Wilde could know nothing but from you about what passed between you and Mrs. Carlile, as the Knight Errant did not make his pilgrimage to the Saint, until after Mrs Carlile was in this eaol.

You observe, under the pretence of a first letter to me by Robert Wilde: "I believe you say you make your calculation of profit from what Mrs. Carlile sold in Fleet Street, forgetting that she bought most of it of people who had scarcely any rent or taxes to pay, and who knew as little about the real way of manufacture as you do, at 4d. per pound, and sold it at 1s. per pound, as Hunt's Genuine Breakfast Powder and that she had Mr. Hunt's bills in the window to enable her to carry on the fraud more effectually; and indeed she so far succeeded as to physic all her customers with the stuff, to the great injury of both her own and every other person's sale." Mrs. Carlile is sitting by me at the time of writing this, and she declares it to be a vile falsehood, which she authorizes me to explain as follows, as I myself am ignorant of every thing relating to this Breakfast Powder, it having sprung up since I left London. But let us hear nothing more from you about wounding female bosoms: if the plain truth will wound the bosoms of the females of your family, how much more must such a falsehood, such a charge of fraud, wound the bosom of Mrs. Carlile: particularly whilst she is a prisoner and cannot personally contradict your statement, or in any way, but through my pen? This is a specimen of your gallantry, for your Gentleman-Journeyman must have had his information from you, for reasons before stated.

Now for Mrs. Carlile's answer: Mr. Griffin, of Holborn Hill, was the first person to bring out the Breakfast Powder; though I believe it may have arisen from a knowledge of your intention to do it. Mrs. Carlile had promised to sell for you, but before you were ready she had sold a considerable quantity for Mr. Griffin, and as soon as you were ready she took it entirely from you, by doing which, she lost the esteem of Mr. and Mrs. Griffin, who thought themselves ill used in your having the sole preference. She further declares to me that before you were guilty of a most scurvy trick towards her, she never sold the powder made by any other person in conjunction with yours. Being in the habit of sending book parcels into the country, she re

ceived orders for the Breakfast Powder, and you promised her that if she would send it, you would allow her a commission of one penny in a pound, but that she was to be responsible for bags and money. Her country orders increased, and you pretended as an act of kindness, that where she had large orders, it would be as well for your people to take it from the Manufactory to the Waggon Office, and save her the trouble of receiving it and sending it from Fleet Street; adding, you would continue the commission where she received the orders, on the condition that she should be responsible for money and bags. After hav-, ing received orders, and getting you to send two hundred weight to Bristol, she received the money; and on paying you, and expecting to have her commission price, you insisted that she had no right to any thing of the kind, as she had had no trouble with it, because your people had taken it to the Waggon Office! Here she had a complete specimen of your meanness in money matters, and considered your act of getting away her orders a complete trick and fraud; and on account of this act of yours she resolved not to sell your powder in preference to any other persons, and only to those who asked direct for Hunt's Powder. Before this time she declares that she sold yours alone.

She says, that so far from the sale ever falling off, it actually went on increasing every week, until the seizure took place, and even at the time that she tricked the Excisemen with the bag of ashes, she had six hundred weight of your powder in the house. She says, that for many weeks before that seizure took place, she paid you weekly for six and seven hundred weight, and that you hardly ever took a bill from her without counting her profits; forgetting that your own doubled them. As for the bills in the window, she can only account for the exhibition of your bill alone because there were no others printed by her other dealers, and yours were exhibited at your own request, and rather against her will. It was the general seizure of the powder which damped the sale, because, after that time, the thing was sold as a smuggled article, and only to persons who were known; at least, this was the case in Fleet Street. She further states, that many persons preferred Mr. Griffin's Powder from having some peculiar flavour given it, and a Mr. Blandford's was considered preferable even to yours. At the time the seizure took place many persons bought utensils for preparing it themselves, determined to continue it as a matter of principle. All this explains the falling off of

your sale, but it is a wanton and infamous falsehood to attribute that falling off to Mrs. Carlile. I have no fear but either mine or Mrs. Carlile's private character will bear a scrutiny that yours will not, though we do not intend to paint it better than it is, by writing our own Memoirs. We fear nothing that you can say against either of us: so do your worst; but, whatever you say, let it be public that we may answer it if we can.

I do not feel bound to defend every thing that Mrs. Carlile did at Fleet Street, she sold, and refused to sell, many things against my will; but in regard to the Breakfast Powder, I never interfered; and, if I had interfered, it would have been to advise her to sell whosesoever was considered best; had I been in London I should not have mixed up the sale of any such thing with books, even though it had been prepared by Mr. Hunt. I am of opinion that Mrs. Carlile did more for you than you had any fair reason to expect, considering the disposition you had shewn towards me, after you found me in prison. Knowing her to possess a very warm temper, as I do, I wonder that she had not refused to sell any thing of the kind for you; particularly as she is one of those who has no mercy or friendly feeling towards you on another account.

I am sorry to find the subject of Parson Harrison is again brought up, and I am told that in attacking a good man without cause I attack every member of society; this I admit, but is the Parson that good man? A high eulogium is passed upon him, and I am told to go and imitate his virtues. I wish he was not a prisoner, but as I am on an equality with him in that respect, I must say what I hear his virtues are, I am told that his coming to Stockport was a matter of necessity from a loss of character and profligacy of manners in two other places, where he had lived as a Schoolmaster and a Preacher of the Gospel. In the first place I hear that he actually seduced a young lady who was entrusted to his care as a pupil, that she proved pregnant by him, and that he was obliged to leave that part of the country. If I mistake not, this happened in the East or South-East part of England, I was told the county, but I did not keep the letter; I will not say positively what county, but I think it was Essex. That he opened the same profession in another place in the North, and actually made the same attempt with another female pupil, but was resisted, and was again obliged to leave that spot. That upon this second affair a collection was made

among his friends, who I understand are respectable, to send him out to the United States, but he thought, that to put himself among the increasing numbers of the.Reformers would answer his purpose for a time, and for this purpose he set himself down as a Reformer at Stockport. I am also informed that he created a strong division, and did much mischief among the Reformers of Stockport, by publicly, in one of his political Gospel discourses, denouncing "The Republican," and advising his congregation not to read it. This latter circumstance would justify my attack upon him, but I should not have made it, had I not been driven to it by your first contrasting his conduct with mine, then by charging me with stating infamous falsehoods of him, and lastly holding him up to the Public as an example of every thing that is great and good. My informant is a Stockport man, and so great is my confidence in him that I have no fear that his information will be questioned. It came, as I before observed, unasked, and I believe my informant did it as an act of duty, to make me acquainted with the true character of the man. It happened rather singularly that the information came to me just at the moment that you must have been writing that attack upon me, and making that comparison.

The carelessness and the wantonness of your attack upon me through your Gentleman-Journeyman, cannot be better. evinced than where I am represented as complaining about sleeping upon a Gaol bedstead. Now the fact is, I have never slept upon a Gaol bedstead in Dorchester Gaol, nor have I represented any such thing. I complained about my Sister being put into a cell, to sleep on an iron bedstead that was a fixture and left no room for another. It is insinuated that I have never possessed a bedstead in London. This part of the attack is scarcely worth my notice, for whoever knew me in London, or any where else, would throw down the insinuation on reading it with disgust and contempt for the lying writer. I have felt distress, but I never wanted a bedstead nor a good bed. I can say this boldly, that I never put an article of furniture in my house at the expence of another man, neither register stoves nor any thing else. I never occupied any lodgings that I neglected to pay for, and never in my life did I receive an attorney's letter for a debt, nor even a threat of law process; or even keep another man's money in my pocket after I had the means of paying him, nor was I ever abused publicly nor privately for not paying my debts by butchers, nor by wine-merchants.

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