One good publication sells another, and the more we print, the more we sell of each work. Some careful expences will be necessarily and prudently incurred, in this quarter, for advertisements. A regular prospectus printed as a circular will soon appear, and nothing shall be neglected to advance the interests of the company. Queen Mab and Good Sense are the best selling books which the company has printed; bat every copy of every other book will be sure to sell. We shall make the octavo books now printed into another or third volume of the Deist, as one means of extending the sale, this work having had near two thousand subscribers. I can only repeat that the property of the company is now visible and tangible and will rapidly accumulate. The interest of five per cent for the money advanced will be payable at the end of each half year, and if not called for at Christmas will be cairied to the amount of the subscriptions. RICHARD CARLILE. 62, FLEET STREET. SOME weeks will pass before we get the business in complete order; but when the intended arrangements are made, we shall put on an imposing appearance. We sell off soiled books rapidly at the old shop, and shall continue selling there until some thousands are got rid off, unless we find a tenant. The coming in is very easy to any one wanting such a shop and rooms. Our present arrangement is to make up for a shilling, books that have sold at the amount of eight or ten shillings: and some of these really interesting books. They are perfect as to legibility but some of them much soiled and others on bad paper. TO THE READERS OF "THE REPUBLICAN" IN NOTTINGHAM AND ITS VICINITY. MRS. Susannah Wright, now a widow, a native of Nottingham, will supply any persons in that town and neighbourhood with my publications, or with London publications generally, where an order is given and a deposit made as a security for being called for. Mrs. Wright's present residence, until she can suit herself in a shop, is with her mother, Mrs. Godber, at No. 10, Kidd Street, Platt Street, Nottingham. Printed and Published by R. CARLILE, 62, Fleet Street.-All Correspondences for "The Republican," to be left at the place of publication. The Republican. No. 4. VOL. 14.] LONDON, Friday, Aug. 4, 1826. [PRICE 6d. EMANCIPATION. We can not recur too often to this subject. We stand in need of all sorts of emancipation. Emancipation from our vices, from our prejudices, from some of our passions, from our enemies, from our friends, from wives, from husbands, from children, from parents, from lovers, from haters, from diseases and lastly from life. The cry of reform has yielded to that of emancipation; but each implies that wrongs. exist. Life, society, marriage, parentage, education, law and custom are all so many sorts of mancipation or slavery, and emancipation seems only to be found in the extinction of life. The Roman Catholics of Great Britain roar for emancipation from certain laws, while their real, mancipation.. would remain in the foundation of that religious system and those tenets which distinguish them from other sects. Man cannot be reformed by others; he must reform himself: and the aggregate of individual reform will constitute all desirable general reforms. Man cannot be emancipated by others, he must emancipate himself, where ill-grounded tenets and attachments enslave him. To cease to be a slave, man must form a strong and individual mind. If he fail to do this, such a mind will always, in some measure, be his master and make him comparatively a slave. It is the property of matter, of each identity of matter, to prey upon whatever surrounds it. This is nature. And with regard to man, nature is only to be corrected by a benevolent disposition, to be formed by education or adopted as a pleasure. In nature, there is no intelligence to direct or to correct its consequences, and all correction desirable to man must be made by the intelligence of man, by his labour, his caution, his art, and his industry. All depends on himself; he alone can emancipate himself from momentary natural oppressions. Daily do we hear the complaints of the Roman Catholics as to their political condition; but if they will take a lesson from my state and example, they may learn that emancipation, in all general cases, is a matter of individual exertion. I have emancipated myself from all political grievances that applied to my espousal Printed and Published by R. Carlile, 62, Fleet Street. of certain opinions. Each Roman Catholic can do this for himself, while the body, by its meetings, its delarations, its resolutions, its protests, its menaces, its prayers, its promises, can do nothing. All its words and deeds become vapour and do but irritate and strengthen the hostile party. The opinions of the Roman Catholic have the sanction of ages, while mine are comparatively novel and established themselves in the first solid act of resistance to opposition. The difference between us is, that the Roman Catholic fails in his claims by discouraging discussion, while I have succeeded by making it most free. Let the Roman Catholics call for and practice the most free discussion and they will soon succeed in their emancipation. Discussion is a matter in which each individual can act and judge for himself, and it is the only source for the establishment of individual mind. In the way of mental or political emancipation, the legislature can do nothing more than remove penalties and encourage discussion. This should be done in all cases of opinion or political and religious doctrine, because discussion will rectify these matters much better than the penalties of the legislature can possibly do. The most violent, the most absurd doctrines will do no mischief, if exposed to the immediate correction of free discussion. The actions and morals of a man want but little more restraint than free exposure and free discussion. Free discussion and free exposure of conduct will produce mind and bring about individual reform, beyond whatever a legislature can do in the matter: and emancipation will only be found in the power of mind that results from discussion. As a proof that a man can only be emancipated from his prejudices by reasoning upon them, we have an instance in the conduct of Mr. Cobbett. He has uniformly denounced what he calls the free trade project; but in the sixth paragraph of his late petition to the king, which accompanies this article, we find, that, on reasoning on the means of relieving the distresses of the people, he hits on this free trade project as one of the main remedies. A few months back, he declared, by both tongue and pen, that two nations could not trade together and both gain, he denounced the notion as most absurd, and here, after thinking of the matter, and of a remedy for the distress of the labourer, he finds, that two nations can trade together, and not only gain, but that each can keep a large portion of the people of the other from starving I have printed his petition as a proof of his late ignorance and present improvement. Reader, have you vices, have you prejudices, have you fears, have you errors, determine to reason upon them, and to wear them down to the standard of universal opinion, by speaking dogmatically only of that of which you have a knowledge; by listening patiently to, and considering well, every objection to your conclusions that can be advanced by any person; deem no man presumptuous for contradicting you, it is a proof of his independence and good spirit; and, above all things, ask yourself, when you cannot agree with another on a given subject, if it be not possible, that you, a fallible being, might be in error, instead of your opponent. Observe these rules in your discussions, and you will soon emancipate yourself from whatever is disagreeable in society. RICHARD CARLILE. MR. COBBETT'S ACCOUNT OF HIS VISIT TO THE KING'S COTTAGE. BEING wholly unacquainted with the hours of rising, and so forth, at the King's Cottage, I went to Windsor, where I arrived about eight o'clock on Saturday morning. I knew there was a gentleman there who regularly attended in order to supply the "Court News;" and I thought he was a likely person to give me the information that I wanted. Having learnt from this gentleman that the hour of twelve, or thereabouts, was the proper time to attend, I proceeded from Windsor to the Cottage, so as to arrive at that hour, or thereabouts. When I spoke to the Court News Writer, whose name is Dowsett, I told him my business; I told him that I wished to present a petition to the King, and that my intention was to send a note to the Marquess of Conyngham, in order that he might put me in the way of doing it in a proper manner. Towards the Cottage I went, then, in my chaise, with my note (No. I.) for Lord Conyngham ready written. The Cottage is in the midst of a little wood, surrounded, wood and all, with a high paling, there being a gate and a porter's lodge to keep a passage open through this high fence. This fence, or line of circumvallation, is an interior line, there being another line of circumvallation drawn round this interior line, and at a considerable distance from it. This exterior line has a gate, and, indeed, it has several gates to let people in and out at. At this outer gate there is a park-keeper, dressed in green, and there is a sort of rural sentrybox in the inside of the gate. When I came to this outside gate, the keeper asked me who I was going to see, or who I had business with at the Cottage? I told him with Lord Conyngnham. He hesitated a little before he opened the gate, looking hard at me, and observing that the usual way was to send in a message, or letter, or whatever it was. I, without appearing to pay much attention to what he said, bid him to open the gate, which he did, but then I said to him, "I want to have this note sent in to my Lord Conyngham, while I wait for an answer;" upon my asking him to do it, he, with great civility, took the note from me in order to carry it in, or to cause it to be delivered to Lord Conyngham. He went on before me, and I followed with my chaise; but we now came to what I was not aware of, namely, the gate in the second line of circumvallation. That gate was not open, though the porter, indeed, was there, and standing by the gate. Here, also, I found Mr. Dowsett, whom I had seen at Windsor. Now, when I mentioned my business to Mr. Dowsett at Windsor, he asked me if he should ap prise Lord Conyngham of it, as he (Mr. Dowsett) should be at the Cottage before me. I said "No," because there could be nothing to justify me in sending such a message to Lord Conyngham; but I knew very well that Mr. Dowsett would tell his Lordship that I was coming; and, the fact is, though I did not think it right for me to send a message, I thought it was right, and for my own credit, that his Lordship should be apprized beforehand, if I could with propriety cause it to be done; because, otherwise, it might have appeared that I was desirous of getting in slyly, and taking his Lordship by surprise. Mr. Dowsett did then tell Lord Conyngham that I was coming, and that I was coming with a petition to the King; and, now, Mr. Dowsett I found at the gate, in the interior line of circumvallation, prepared to inform me, which he did, that Lord Conyngham was GONE OUT; that it was impossible to say when he would return; and that Lord Conyngham had directed him, Mr. Dowsett, to inform me, when I should arrive, that, if I would leave my petition with him, Mr. Dowsett, he, Lord Conyngham, would take care that it should go through the proper channel. I, however, took the note from the Park keeper and gave it to Mr. Dowsett, requesting him to carry it to Lord Conyngham, and to bring me an answer of some sort or another, giving him clearly to understand that I was resolved not to go away without some answer or other to that note. Mr. Dowsett took the note. The cottage gate, at which I was, is situated at about 400 yards from the cottage itself; so that to go backward and forward could not be a work of more than ten minutes, that being at the rate of only three miles an hour, yet Mr. Dowsett was absent three quarters of an hour, though he found Lord Conyngham at the cottage. However, he brought me a verbal answer from Lord Conyngham, which answer is stated in the note No. 2. When I had written that note, and given it to Mr. Dowsett to carry to Lord Conyngham, I returned to London. As I think that these particulars are of some interest to the public, especially as connected with the Petition which it is my desire to present to the King, I enclose the whole of the documents to you. I think it right to add, however, that the presenting of this Petition, though an object, in my estimate of the matter, fully justifying my requesting an audience of the King, was not the only object I had in view. My intention was, and indeed my resolution was, to tell his Majesty of many things, of which I am pretty sure he never yet heard one word. It was my resolution to tell him the naked truth, with regard to the measures which I deem absolutely necessary to be adopted, to save the country from a terrific convulsion. It was my resolution to tell him, upon this subject, that which I would have told the Parliament, if I had not been kept out of Parliament. Now, then, I have done, up to this moment, every thing that it has been in my power to do. There remains but one thing more, at any rate; and that one thing I shall endeavour to do in the course of a few weeks; it is, to get together the people of Westminster, or of the County of Middlesex, and to induce them, if I can, to join the people of the North, in praying for Reform, and for a total repeal and abolition of the Corn Laws. I am, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, |