to see the day when those principles will be acted upon, and a Republican Government founded upon the base of a complete representation of the people. Those who contend that a Government founded on any other principle than the will of the people is good, may as well say, that the West Indian task-masters are very good because they have slaves under their command, whom they can lash, lacerate, iron, and imprison with impunity. But, Sir, you are to recollect, that we are in a land of Bibles and Christians, with eight or ten thousand or more Clergymen preaching salvation to us poor famishing sinners, as a reward for our toils here below, while they are rolling in luxury and rioting on the spoils of industry. Give us example before precept, that may lead to virtue: but listening to precepts from those who live on the industry of others, without being either virtuous or industrious themselves, is that which leads many thousands into error. We confidently hope to see the day when the principles you have promulgated with such care and assiduity shall be attended to and generally adopted, as they are founded in Nature and in Truth. The principles of Materialism are truly Republican, and the principles of Republicanism are truly material, as the only principles that will give happiness and prosperity to the human species.

I am, in the behalf of the subscribers, yours,

J. ANDREWS.

CITIZEN, Dorchester Gaol, June 3, 1822. THE Republicans of Portsea share my thanks and esteem for this renewal of their support, and this further expression of attachment to those principles in which we proudly participate. Communicate to them my satisfaction, and the pleasure I feel to see them beginning to avow their sentiinents in full. Mental reservations are a disgrace to mankind; and indicate any thing but honesty in such a country as this. When all men think, and speak as they think, they may severally begin to talk of freedom or liberty, but that man is a thorough slave, be he who he may, that holds a sentiment he fears to utter. Where the certainty of losing bread renders a mental reservation prudent and necessary, there it may be and must be excused, but where there is no such ground of excuse, I can think but lightly of the man that can submit to it.

I feel assured that if all the men and women in this country, who have given up the Christian Religion as an

imposture, would but confess it; the remaining Christians would shrink from all idea of persecution and begin to tremble for themselves; though I should be very sorry that the Christian Religion should ever lose a member from the power of persecution or intimidation: all I wish is that those who prefer remaining Christians shall pay their own Priests and all other expences attending their idolatry, as I see a motto on the subscription intimates. It is monstrous to think that I should have to pay tithes to the priest of the Christian Religion; but such has been the case even within the present year, and in default of payment, my goods and chattels were threatened with seizure. No sooner was the thief of a priest satisfied, than in came another gang of robbers and actually did seize my goods and chattels for another purpose connected with the preservation of the Christian Religion! This is Christianity! This is the peace and good will it inculcates among men! There can be no lasting peace but upon the principles of Materialism and Republicanism such as you have described.

Yours in civic esteem,

R. CARLILE.

SIR,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE REPUBLICAN.

By your giving the following remarks a place in your next week's Republican, you will oblige a truly sincere Christian of the primitive age; one so from principle, because he is fully convinced that Christ himself, (if ever there was such a man) was a true Radical Reformer and Deist.

London, May 27th 1822.

Yours truly,

1. TELA.

Mr. Denman, the new Common Serjeant, presided this day at the Old Bailey, on one of the most extraordinary trials ever witnessed in an English Court of Law, and of course gave countenance to all its new anomalies and dangerous principles.

1. The charge was against a Bookseller's Servant for performing his duty to his employer in selling a book, an act not essentially illegal.

2. For performing this duty for his employer, in a lawful calling, he, the servant, was accused of acting maliciously and seditiously.

3. His name was unknown, because, as a servant, no criminal responsibility could attach to him for any act not essentially illegal, and therefore no guarantee is required of a servant as from a principal or housekeeper.

4. Such a case involved all the points of social subornation; for if servants were to be held criminally responsible for performing acts not essentially illegal, but only so by inference of law, no setvant ought to obey any master.

5. The crime was merely of a speculative character, and as an act of the Press, not of a kind so enormous as to render any stretching of law necessary.

6. Yet the man was held, even by Mr. Denman himself, more culpable for defending himself, and his defence was urged as an aggravation of his offence.

7. In fine, Mr. Denman, as the organ of the Court, passed a sentence on this unknown servant, for performing an act for his employer not of itself essentially illegal, of Eighteen Months Imprisonment, with an obligation to find securities for five years!

Query.-Will any bookseller, in future, be able to get a servant to sell his books? Will any master be able to get a servant to perform any act as innocent as that of selling books? What will the independent Electors of Nottingham say and think of their liberal Candidate? Will the men of principle among them vote for him at the next Election? It may be hoped not! Could "Little Jeff" himself have done more? Could even "Best" himself have done more?

And finally, to crown the folly of this trial, was not the prosecution against a publication which stated the Bible to be full of obscenities? and did not the Prosecutor's Counsel himself openly acknowledge its truth, when the Defendant began to read the chapters and verses from the Bible, by moving the Court to order the females and boys to withdraw, knowing the language to be too grossly obscene for them to hear it read?

The only difference between the mild, the humane Judge Best and the liberal Judge Denman, is that the former punishes the Defendant for his own mode of defence, with numerous arbitrary fines, and the latter with a much longer period of imprisonment, even by his, Mr. Denman's own statement, than if he had only defended himself agreeable to the manner in which all the Judges of the present corrupt day wish Defendants to submit to their dictation.

What excuse will the saintly Evangelical Preachers make to their flocks for recommending the Holy Bible as a book which contains the only pure system of morality, when they learn that even the Society's own Counsel for the prosecution acknowledges it, in this instance, to be too obscene a book to read openly in a public Court of Justice, by his application to the Judge to have the Court cleared of all the females and boys? How will the Clergy explain this

to their female auditors? For surely they ought to require some explanation from them, before they put the book into the hands of their children. If the Clergy wish to discourage the reading of obscenity, we recommend them to examine the Penny Bible published by R. Carlile, 5, Water-Lane, Fleet-Street, wherein they will find a selection of more than thirty chapters such as those read by the Defendant in Court.

TO MR, R. CARLILE, DORCHESTER GAOL.

CITIZEN,

Canterbury, May 30th, Year 1822 of the Carpenter's Wife's Son.

THE enclosed one Pouud was subscribed by two of my friends towards paying a part of your Fines. I have the pleasure to inform you, that in this den of Priests your principles are gaining ground; and you may rest assured that I shall propagate them to the utmost of my power, being fully convinced that if those principles were acted upon they would produce the greatest portion of happiness among the human species. I wish you to acknowledge the receipt of the sum subscribed in the Republican, as it will not only be a satisfaction to my friends to know you have received it, but it will shew the Tyrants that you continue to receive support from all parts of the country. Give my kind respects to your Wife and Sister. In the hope that we may have a speedy and joyful Resurrection from Despotism to Liberty,

I remain, Citizen,

Your sincere Friend,

B. A.

P. S. My two Friends also desire their respects to your Wife and Sister.

TO MR. R. CARLILE, DORCHESTER GAOL.

SIR, Newgate, May 28, 1822. BEFORE you receive this you will have learnt that I am to be confined in the House of Correction for Eighteen Months, for the glory of God and the preservation of the true religion. You see, that