ameliorate the condition of man; now, has it done this? Christianity has swayed the minds of the people of Europe for fifteen hundred years, and we see to what a degraded and miserable state they are reduced: Ireland has had her belly-full of Christianity, and now she cannot get a belly-full of potatoes! Well, I hope I shall never taste the blessings and comforts of religion.

There are people, I suppose, who are still so infatuated as to believe that the preachers of the Gospel are called by the Holy Ghost; now what can these people think of Percy Jocelyn being one of the called, one of the favourites of the third person in the trio of Gods? The Holy Ghost either knew or he knew not the real character of Percy Jocelyn when he chose him to tell the world that God the Second died to appease God the First, and to save the whole human race from eternal damnation, which had been pronounced against them because a man had been so wicked as to eat an apple presented to him by his wife! If he knew his character, who can murmur at such a monster being a bishop, without arraigning the wisdom of Providence, who, we are often told, has a right to do as he pleases with his creatures? If he knew not his character, then, God the Holy Ghost was as ignorant and had as little foreknowledge as God the Father had when he made the world, and afterwards repented of it because of its wickedness.

The pious methodists, too, could circulate thousands and thousands of tracts about the drunkenness of Paine; will they be as zealous in exposing the vices of the Bishop of Clogher? If these sectarians are really desirous of exposing the vices of individuals, without respect of persons, let them circulate Mr. Cobbett's exposure of the profligate Bishop. There is nothing in the writings of Cobbett that will shock their delicate ears about religion, nothing to convince them that one cannot be three, and that three must be more than one; nothing in these writings, although there is in the JewBooks, that represents the God whom they adore as a cruel, malignant, and impotent being. Mr. Cobbett says nothing about these things, so that they may, without having their feelings hurt by reading such truths, read his complete exposure of the Right Reverend Father in God, Percy Jocelyn, Lord Bishop of Clogher. But neither the Methodists nor any other sect bearing the name of Christian will do this: Paine was a Deist, and endeavoured to make man intelligent, happy, and virtuous; and the Bishop is an idolator, that would keep him in ignorance, slavery, and misery.

By this morning's papers I learn, that a clergyman has been brought from the country on a charge of violating the person of a child under nine years of age; so that it seems the clergy are determined not to let you have all the glory to yourself of bringing into hatred and contempt a system that clothes with sanctity the most infamous of men. The more effectually the clergy work in this way, the sooner the nefarious system will have an end.

Your's, &c.

H. BOYLE.

TO MR. R. CARLILE, DORCHESTER GAOL.

SIR, Bath, August 21, 1822. Ir appears by the Trial of Mrs. Wright that a part of our Correspondence which did not appear in the Republican, has been printed in some other publication which I have not yet seen. I should therefore be obliged to you if you could favour me with a copy of it, and I shall be happy to return you an equal or greater favour should it lie in my power. I often think of you with sincere regret, and frequently pray to God to give you repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.

I am, Sir, with the best wishes for your present and eternal welfare,

Your sincere Friend,

WILLIAM WAIT.

P. S. A parcel or a post-letter, directed for me at No. 10, North Parade, Bath, (if sent within a week or ten days) will find me here, but if not sent till after that time, it had better be directed to King's Square, Bristol.

TO THE REV. WILLIAM WAIT, A. B. 10, NORTH PARADE, BATH.

SIR,

Dorchester Gaol, August 23, 1822. I HAVE received your letter by this day's post and readily. comply with your request. The copies I send you are the only copies I have by me, or I would have sent them clean and uncut. The passages underlined in the small pamphlets are those which were selected for Mrs. Wright's indictment. I cannot conceive the kind of regret you feel for me, unless it be for the success of my endeavours. I am happy to inform you that I prosper in my undertaking beyond my own expectations. As to your prayer for me, it is evidently made to an idol, for it avails not your wishes. Repentance and an acknowledgment of the truth becomes you, not me. I feel the comfort that no one action of my life requires repentance. I have neither assisted in cheating the industrious multitude, nor have I lived in idleness upon the produce of their industry.

I am Sir, yours, &c.

R. CARLILE.

SIR,

TO MR. R. CARLILE, DORCHESTER GAOL.

Yarmouth, Aug. 19, 1822. I AM directed to send you the Subscription of a few Friends to Civil and Religious Liberty in this town, towards the payment of the Fines levied upon you by the " Joint Stock Company."

I am further requested to present their thanks for the bold and dauntless manner in which you have defied Tyranny and Bigotry, and to express their hope that you will not relax in your exertions until the freedom of religious opinious and the Liberty of the Press be completely established.

Of all the tyrannies on human kind,

The worst is that which persecutes the mind;
Let us but weigh at what offence we strike,
'Tis but because we cannot think alike!

TO MR. HEZEKIAH MARTIN, YARMOUTH,

NORFOLK.

SIR, Dorchester Gaol, August 25, 1822. I BEG, through you, to express my thanks to the friends of Civil and Religious Liberty, in Yarmouth, for their subscriptions towards my fines. In wishing to see those fines paid by public subscriptions, a higher object is embraced than as it may relieve me in purse or person: it will tend to shew those who would chain our minds to some superstitious standard, that there are men enough in this country who will not submit to any thing of the kind, and who will share with any individual persecuted, the fines imposed upon him for promulgating philosophical opinions. The two books, for which I have been so long imprisoned, so heavily fined, and, what is worst of all, so outrageously robbed of what property I had accumulated, are as purely philosophical, philanthropic, and patriotic, as any that ever issued from the pen of man or woman. I hold it then to be a matter of great importance, as it may tend to stay further similar persecutions and robberies, that those of the public who disapprove them, should step forward and identify themselves with the individual sought to be crushed upon such grounds, and render all fines ineffectual for the purposes intended. For my own part I am prepared to bear any thing that may happen to me in the course of the career I have taken, and at the same time, I prepare to act in the most effectual manner. The accumulation of property I value no further than that it is the best of tools to work with in this, as well as in every other cause, and beyond the immediate wants of my family I have uniformly sent every shilling to aid the working of the Printing Press.

My friends of Yarmouth may be assured that I shall never become a party to the relaxation of any efforts I may be able to make in the great cause of Civil and Religious Liberty. I can conscientiously say that I have hitherto acted up to the full extent of my ability; and, if I know my own disposition, I can say that I shall continue so to do. I am, Sir, most respectfully yours,

R. CARLILE.

A further subscription of £4 10s. has been received from Glasgow.

TO MR. R. CARLILE, DORCHESTER GAOL.

SIR,

Wingerworth near Chesterfield, August 20, 1822. ALTHOUGH I agree with you in many of your political and theological sentiments, yet I cannot go the length that you do in all. In your reply to Mr. James Humphrey, of Springdale near Huddersfield, you deny (or at least I understand you to deny) the existence of an "almighty power;" and that you ascribe all the varied phenomena of Nature to the action of matter upon matter.

Now, at least, a hundred difficulties arise in my mind as to the truth of this doctrine. I will not trouble you with a list of these difficulties, but content myself with stating one only, as I conceive that if this one be satisfactorily explained it will probably serve as a solution to all the others.

It is well known to astronomers, that all the planets belonging to the solar system move round the Sun in orbits more or less elliptical, yet not deviating far from a circle. It is also well known that this circular motion is the effect of two distinct forces, called the attractive and the projectile forces, and that the eccentricity of the orbits of the planets depends upon the adjustment of these two forces to each other. Now the focus of attraction of the solar system is in the centre of the Sun, or nearly so, and this attractive force has been mathematically demonstrated to decrease as the squares of the distance from the focus of attraction increases. It has also been in the like manner demonstrated that to cause the planets to move in circles (as they nearly do) it is necessary that each planet should have a projectile force peculiarly adapted to itself, the proper quantum of projectile force necessary for each planet, depending upon their several quantities of matter and distances from the Sun (or focus of attraction.)

Now (for the sake of argument) I am willing to allow that the attractive force of the sun and the planets upon each other is a natural property of matter, yet (at present) I cannot comprehend from whence came the projectile force, or how it happened to be in all cases so nicely balanced to the variable attractive force as we find it is; unless it be ascribed to the interference of an "Almighty Power." In hopes that yourself, or some of your intelligent correspondents will assist me with the above difficulty, I remain, Sir, with good wishes to yourself and family,

Yours, &c.

JOHN GRATTON, JUNIOR.