Carlile and the surgeons / by Charles Wortham Brook.

  • Brook, Charles Wortham.
Date:
1943
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Carlile and the surgeons / by Charles Wortham Brook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    man in discussion upon any one subject. A learned man never fears discussion with an unlearned, nor with a learned, mail; whenever you hear a man say, that he will not discuss a subject with another, you may be sure, that the first fears his ignorance rather than any abatement of his professional consequence. I am free to discuss, with a child, any thing- that relates to my profession, and feel the greatest of pleasure, to find, that I can increase the knowledge of any human being of any age or of either sex. To you, the surgical soldier of Dorchester Gaol, by your own confession, as ready to kill as to cure, as orders may run, to the Gaoler, as your fit companion, a mouton; and to the Visiting Magistrates, who have conspired to make my imprisonment as painful and as unwholesome as possible; be all the punishmeiit that you merit, with that amendment in character, and deep regret for the past, which you so much need, prays, not to your God, RICHARD CARLILE. In November, 1825, within six months of the publication of the letter, Garble was liberated from Gaol. His unpaid fines were remitted and he was unconditionally released from his recognisances. The Fleet Street publisher, who less than three years prior to his conviction had been working as a tinker in Holborn Hill, had completely triumphed over adversaries of great might and influence. Garble had challenged and completely routed the Constitutional Association, whose leader was the Duke of Wellington, who had demanded in the House of Lords that Carlile should be outlawed and sentenced to transportation for life. Carlile and his shopmen and shopwomen had discomfited William Wilberforce and his Society for the Suppression of Vice. The political reputations of both Wellington and Wilberforce were shaken beyond recovery. Carlile had, by his courage and determination, in the words of Professor Trevelyan, “ Suffered and achieved more for the liberty of the Press than any other Englishman.” miMMiimiMiiiiiiiiiimimmiiHiimiii