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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