THE BATTLE OF THE PRESS

As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter,
Theophila Carlile Campbell

By Theophila Carlile Campbell

1899

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

THE BATTLE OF THE PRESS, AS TOLD IN THE LIFE OF RICHARD CARLILE

PART I.    

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

APPENDIX IV.   LIST OF CARLILE'S IMPRISONMENTS

PREFACE.

In presenting to the present generation of England and America the comprehensive though necessarily condensed history of the life and work of the great pioneer in the cause of mental freedom, I am actuated by two principal motives, the foremost of which is the desirable duty of presenting to the people of to-day a faithful account of the work done by Carlile and the enormous sacrifices he made, as well as the terrible imprisonments he endured in the accomplishment of the task he set himself to do, namely, to establish for his countrymen a really Free Press, and the right of free oral