The Battle of The Press

The Battle of The Press
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Campbell Theophila Carlile. The Battle of The Press

PREFACE

PART I. THE BATTLE OF THE PRESS, AS TOLD IN THE LIFE OF RICHARD CARLILE

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II. HIS BIRTH, YOUTH, AND EARLY MANHOOD

CHAPTER III. THE MANCHESTER MASSACRE

CHAPTER IV. RECORD OP PERSECUTION

CHAPTER V. THE TRIAL

CHAPTER VI. TAKEN TO PRISON

CHAPTER VI. SIR ROBERT GIFFORD AND THE ODIOUS "SIX ACTS"

CHAPTER VIII. THE VICE SOCIETY

CHAPTER IX. THE CATO STREET PLOT

CHAPTER X. HOW THE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT

CHAPTER XI. FIRE AND INSANITY

CHAPTER XII. FREE DISCUSSION

CHAPTER XIII. LIBERATION AND AFTER

CHAPTER XIV. THE "PROMPTER" AND THE ROTUNDA

CHAPTER XV. SCATTERED THREADS

PART II

CHAPTER I. "THE STORY OF ISIS" THE LADY OF THE ROTUNDA

CHAPTER II. ISIS TO RICHARD CARLILE

CHAPTER III. LETTERS TO "ISIS"

CHAPTER IV. IN PRISON AGAIN!

CHAPTER V. LETTERS TO TURTON

CHAPTER VI. CARLILE'S LAST YEARS

CHAPTER VII. THE LAST DAYS OF ISIS

CHAPTER VIII. MEMORIES

CHAPTER IX. SOME WHO HELPED IN THE GOOD WORK

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I. TRIAL OF MR. CARLILE

APPENDIX II. A LETTER TO LORD SIDMOUTH,

APPENDIX III. DEDICATION.24

APPENDIX IV. LIST OF CARLILE'S IMPRISONMENTS

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We who rejoice in a Free Press to-day can hardly realise the condition of the Press in Europe at the opening of the nineteenth century. In England, eighty years ago, he who dared to express opinions in opposition to the Established Church, or in any way offensive to the government of the day, rendered himself liable to heavy fines and severe imprisonment. The following extract will show better, perhaps, than anything else what a deplorable state the Press was in when Richard Carlile entered upon his great fight, and the obstacles he had to encounter: —

"It is difficult to imagine a more degraded and dangerous position than that in which every political writer was placed in the year 1817. In the first place, he was subject by a Secretary of State's warrant to be imprisoned upon suspicion under the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. Secondly he was open to an ex-officio information under which he would be compelled to find bail or be imprisoned. The power of ex-officio information had been extended so as to compel bail by an Act of 1808; but from 1808 to 1811, during which three years forty such informations were laid, only one person was held to bail."1

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The following article appeared in the 7th No., Vol. I, of the Republican, October 8th, 1819, written by Carlile.

"To the Public.

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