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Champion (Newspaper) - April 7, 1821, London, Middlesex THE CHAMPION L * the liberty of the when we have it is like the air Home No. 431. Saturday April 7, 1821. Price of TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF HARROW Lord President of his Majesty's on the Subject of the apparent Conspiracy of THE SERVILE FACTION against the Progress of Literature and Intellect in this with a Word or two about the BLACK ( Concluded from our Such is the degrading condition to which the science and literature of the country is and there is in at this a professor of &c. nor an adult attendant upon their who is not liable to be at the discretion of any common most amusing it would be to see Mr. Mr. Ashley Mr. Mr. Dr. Dr. &c. with the whole troops of their from Lecture Rooms and trotting up to for the infringement of an act to whose degrading clauses they in as liable as would be the writer of this if he should presume to renew the public promulgation of the principles of that Science to which several of the Members of both Houses of Parliament in their persons or in their under the obligations already alluded My however egotistical it may a sense of duty to the public imperiously calls upon me to amplify a little upon this Had I been twenty years of the existence of such an Act of Parliament as I now complain the Institution which for several years I superintended and conducted never could have been founded and the many persons whose organic calamities were relieved by that institution never could haVe been so There at that exist such an Act of Parliament but I was at the commencement of my conscious of its I sinned in not knowing that to promulgate principles by which the harmony of the English language might be and one of the most afflicting maladies that obscure the intellect and obstruct the enjoyments of society might be was a crime against the In this I was not permitted to Certain magistrates of when I was lecturing thought fit to interfere two * The Lectures actually delivered in the may claim exemption on the ground of at any all professional Lectures elsewhere come completely under the restrictions and penalties of the Act. This circumstance strongly illustrates the degraded subjection to the wantonness of magisterial caprice to which the public professors of any science are reduced by such In the instance alluded the Mayor of Worcester had politely me the use Gentlemen of the whom I sent from their express and decisive that the magistrates were most wrongously that the law was decidedly against and they accompanied their joint communication with a copy of the Act And here might have in the very my project for an establishment of which so many minor attempts have since for the remedy of Impediments of But tho I would not have embarked in such a project with my eyes open to the existence of such a 1 was too far over in an ignorant of which I could not to think of a In it had become matter of small importance to me whether I should be with my science about my on the next or be driven back again into the barbarian solitude of a little farm in and I resolved to fight out the battle between law and common sense I clapped the Act of Parliament and the opinions of my two Counsel in my and from the stage of the Worcester where my Lectures were in the face of the whole publicly threatened to prosecute the Magistrates for a I threatened they and I At my shortly I had a still more hardy conflict with the whole Bench of face to the Rev. Dr. Colthurst at their and a black my Lord you know full and Manchester are apt to be tolerably forward in exercise of real I shall not my at present on the base and degrading conspiracy into which these magistrates had entered with an ignorant shopkeeper and two officers of the army on that I reserve that for some future Memoir of the unpaid Black Magistracy of this most equitably governed or it may form a in some future or judicial Suffice for the to to prevent my as a professor of and my rights as a from being I was obliged to inform these magistrates to their very beards of the Town Hall for my The expenses of announcement and preparation had been all and it was not till I arrived in that city on the morning of the very day on which the Lectures were to that I found that two of the Aldermen had not only gainsaid the but entered into combination to prevent the Lectures on Elocution from being delivered at In this still ignorant of any I hired the Theatre for the * It may illustrate the monstrous absurdity of making such persons the arbitrary judges of what Lectures shall be delivered arid what sciences if I state the that after the Institution which Dr. Colthurst would thus have crushed in its very incipiency was established in I had the satisfaction of seeing that very Dr. Colthurst visiting the son of a particular friend of his whom in that and by the very science he would have prevented me from I had redeemed from a state of worse than and endowed with faculty of human

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