their guide; he is certain of becoming the object of their cares, of their respect, and of their veneration, he has all reasons to think, that nothing will be wanting to him. Such are the true motives that kindle the zeal and the charity of so many preachers and missionaries, whom one sees overrunning, the world.

To die for an opinion, does not prove more the truth, or the goodness of that opinion, than to die in a battle proves the good right of the Prince to whose interest so many people have the folly to sacrifice themselves. The courage of martyrs intoxicated with the idea of paradise; has nothing more supernatural than the courage of a military man intoxicated with the idea of glory, or retained with the fear of dishonor. What difference is there between an Iroquois, who sings whilst he is burnt at a slow fire, and the martyr, St. Lawrence, who, on the gridiron, insults his tyrant? The preachers of a new doctrine shrink, because they are not the strongest. The profession of the Apostles is commonly perilous; of which they foresee, previously, the consequences. Their courageous death does not prove more the truth of their principles, nor their own sincerity, than the violent death of an ambitious man, or a ruffian, proves that they had a right to molest society, or that they believed themselves authorised to do it.

The employ of a missionary always was flattering to ambition, and commodious to subsist at the expence of the multitude. These advantages were sufficient to obliterate the dangers that surround them.

COPY OF A LETTER SENT TO THE KING, WINDSOR CASTLE.

SIR,

Dorchester Gaol, Sept. 26, 1825.

I WILL Confess all my sins. I confess, that I have sinned past all forgiveness toward the Monarchy, the Aristocracy

and the Priesthood, the three estates in power, the trinity in unity, the Dagon, the Idol, of this Island. I have no hope of forgiveness; no, not even with repentance, which is an act or sentiment impossible to be accomplished by all powers: so I may as well sin on and triumph by moral conquests.

But this is the sum total of my sins, with the exception of a few imaginary ones towards my wife, who has always called me a great sinner for neglecting and deserting her and our children for books and writing and printing and publishing principles which she does not understand to be useful; because there is no momentary visible gratification arising to her from them. Your Majesty will admit that there has been more than one Xantippe.

I have sinned beyond measure; your, or you the Trinity in Unity, have or has punished me beyond measure for it; but with directly opposite effects to those for which punishment is generally useful. You do but harden, strengthen and increase my means of sinning against you, by your excess of punishment, by your violation of your own code of laws, by your "vigour beyond the law." Your vigour or rigour towards me becomes your weakness and my strength so pray go on, until I get more power to punish, in return, than I already hold and apply. .

Your very respectful prisoner,

RICHARD CARLILE.

It is so difficult to be grammatically correct, when treating of the Trinity in Unity! Here is a problem for the Christian Doctors, Doctor England, the Archdeacon of Dorset and my persecutor in particular:-Is the Trinity in Uunity of the singular or of the plural number?

The sum of Trinitarian Controversy in verse.

"Talk of Essence and Substance, and no one knows what, God either made Christ or else he did not;

If he did, he's a Creature 'tis plain at one view,
If not, he's a God and then we have two."

Note. All the Nos. on Masonry of this volume of "The Republican," which were out of print, are now reprinted, in large editions, and in full sale. The subject will be finished in about two or three more Nos. After which, if possible to obtain the particulars, I shall unmask the "Odd Fellows," the "Orangemen," the "Druids," and all such secret associations, the spawn of Masonry, in as brief a manner as possible. Masonry could alone claim amplification in an exposure.

R. C.

I Do not propose to occupy any portion of your useful paper with a reply to the malignant criticisms which either the ignorant or the bigotted or those whose influence depends on maintaining ancient errors, have written on the Explanation of the Apocalypse." The writers of the latter class ought to perceive that, by struggling to preserve a spurious book, they may attach suspicion to others in their collection. As the Old Testament has not suffered in the estimation of Protestants, by striking from the canon the stories of Judith and Holofornes, and of Tobit and the Fish, so it is presumed that the New Testament will not suffer in the estimation of benevolent Christians, by striking from it a spurious book, in which the writer triumphs over the suf ferings of unfortunate men, inflicted by a cruel tyrant.

At some convenient time I will publish, either a second part or a second edition of the Explanation, having found some errors to correct, and many additional proofs, that the

Apocalypse is, what I have declared it to be, "an enigmacal history of the Roman empire during the last twenty years of the second century:" but being desirous to convince, with the least possible delay, the common reader of the truth of that declaration, I request you to give a place in the National Intelligencer to the following.

Very respectfully,

ALEXANDER SMYTH.

An essay toward a Glossary explaining words used by the writer of the Apocalypse in a figurative sense; some of which are also used in their proper sense,

ANGEL-A bishop, chapter ii. verse 1; ix. 11; x. 1; xiv. 6. BLOOD-A soldier or executioner, vi. 12; soldiers, viii. 7, 8; xi. 6; xiv. 20; xvi. 3; xix. 13.

BABYLON-Byzantium, xiv. 8; xvii. 5; x. 21; xvi. 19; xviii. 2. EARTH-The empire, x. 2, 8; xii. 12; viii. 5. 7; xvi. 2; xiv. 18, 6.

EARTHQUAKE--A revolution: on the death of commodus. vi. 12; on the death of Portinax, viii. 5; on the death of Didus 11. 12. on the death of Niger, xvi. 18; interpolated xi. 19; omitted. many copies.

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FIRE-Destruction, viii. 7; xi. 5.; xiv. 8; xvi. 8.

FOUNTAINS OF WATERS-Villages, viii. 10; xvi. 4.

GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES-Antioch, (or Byzantium) ix. 14; xvi. 12.

20.

GREEN GRASS-Quere, prosperity, viii. 7.
HAIL-Oppression, viii. 7; xi. 19; xvi. 20.

HEAVEN-The government, vi. 13, 14; xi. 6; xiii. 13.
ISLANDS Great men of Rome, quere Senators? vi. 14; xvi.

LIFE-(Psyche) the spirit of freedom, viii. 9; .xvi. 3.

LIGHTNING Sedition: against Pertinax, viii, 5; against Didius, xi. 19; against Niger, xvi. 18.

MOON-Emperor's wife, vi. 12; viii. 12; xvi. 8.

MOUNTAIN-A great man of the empire, vi, 14: viii. 8; xvi.

20; xvii. 9.

SMOKE--Quere, ignorance? ix. 2.

SEA-The city of Rome, viii. 8; x. 2, 8; xii. 12; xvi. 3.
SHIPS-Quere, wealthy men of Rome, viii. 9.

SORE-A proscription, xvi. 2, 11.

STARS-Officers of the government, vi, 13; viii. 10, 11; ix.

I; xii. 4.

SUN-The emperor, vi. 12; viii. 12; xvi. 8.
RIVERS-Towns, viii. 10; xvi. 4.

THE GREAT CITY SODOM-Rome, xi. 8.

THE HOLY CITY-Quere, Lyons? xi. 12.

TREES Quere, wealthy men of the country? viii. 7. THUNDER-Shouts or murmurs of an army or other multitude,

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