Anonymous

“ We know there are some who, from a pretended regard to religion, would suppress every fact that exposes the licentious conduct of its ministers, but, nine times out of ten, this is mere hypocritical cant to support those who “bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay on men’s shoulders.” ”

“ For, we sent to get John’s paper, on Sunday morning about ten o’clock; and the vender of the paper informed us, that it would not come out till very late, because an accident had happened to the machinery in the office. This was the story told to those who went to buy the paper! Yes, our readers will see that John’s machinery had been operated upon by something perfectly accidental, and yet of a very potent nature.
Now. we come to that brace of brothers, the New and Old Times. Perfectly silent both! ”

“ The public will recollect the bail, the sureties to which Mr. Carlile is sentenced, and compare that case p. 15with this. A thousand pounds, not, probably, a tenth part of one year’s produce of his Bishopric. The Observer may be in error about this. The fact has not been officially announced. If all the other facts stated by the Observer be true, what is the sum of a thousand pounds! How is that to hold such a person to stand trial! What sureties are there in a thousand pounds in such a case! Whether he ever take his trial or not; the thing will take its trial before the English people ”

“ In the whole of this 16 feet of square print, room was not to be found for the insertion of one single word about the Bishop and the Soldier! not a single allusion. Nothing that could let its readers suppose that such a thing had taken place. The cause of this need not be stated to our readers: they will all see the cause at once; and they will all despise the man that they shall in future see with one of these papers in his hand. ”

“ We see a certain Association evincing a most scandalous partiality, by SELECTING the objects of their prosecution from those most unable to defend themselves! we participate in the general feeling of censure against them, and believe p. 4that they have done more injury to the cause they profess to support, than the united efforts of the persecuted parties could possibly have effected. ”

“ And we here inform our readers: without anticipating the decisions of courts of justice; without pretending to know whether the alledged crime can be proved or not; without pretending to anticipate any thing of this sort, we inform our readers of that which they all ought to know, that the person, who was taken from the White Lion public-house above-mentioned to the watch-house, and who was afterwards taken from the watch-house to Marlborough-street, and who was held to bail as above-mentioned ”

“ But now, what has been their conduct? The Morning Post, the British Press, the Morning Herald, and the Morning Advertizer, have given a part, and a part only, of what they found in the Observer.
The Morning Herald and the British Press gave nearly the words of the p. 17Observe but inserted the article in as obscure a manner as possible. The Morning Post curtails the article of the Observer to about a fifth part, and puts it at the bottom of a column, in a part of the paper likely to escape observation. The Morning Advertiser curtails the article still further ”