THE

LI • N.

VOLUME I.

FROM JANUARY 4, TO JUNE 27,

1828.

London:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY RICHARD CARLILE,

62, FLEET STREET.

CONTENTS.

No. 1.

Prospective Politics of "The Lion."-Prospective Discussion on Re-
ligion in ditto.-Statement of the Arguments on the Subject of Deity.-
Question, as to the Personal Existence of Jesus Christ; submitted to all
Christian Sects, and more particularly to the Catholic Association's pro-

jected Mission to England. Review of the Past Year, in relation to the

circumstances of Mr. Carlile.-The Will of Thomas Morrison, a Surgeon, of

Chelsea.-Notice of the Trial of the Reverend Robert Taylor.-Critique on

the Geological Theories of Buffon and the Bible. Journal of Mr. Carlile's

Tour through the Country: Visits to Bath, Bristol, Romsey, Southampton,

Portsea, Gosport, and Birmingham.-Some Explanations about Mr. Cobbett's

Conduct towards Mr. Carlile.

No. 2.

New Plan of Reform: Treatment before Birth, after Birth, and general

Education. Superstition" under the superintendance of the Society for the

Diffusion of Useful Knowledge."-Notice of the expected Trials of the Rev.

Robert Taylor and others. Of the Greeks, Turks, and European Allies ;

with an Epitaph on the late George Canning, by R. T. Webb.-Philosophi

cal and Epistolary Stanzas, written near the close of Life.-Phrenology of

Animals, an article copied from No. 1, of "The Farrier and Naturalist.".

Equivocal Generation; Plants or Animals produced by Infusion.-Journal

of Mr. Carlile's Tour through the Country (continued from p. 32); Visit to

Liverpool; Notice of "Every Woman's Book;" Mr. Cobbett, Mr. Malthus,

"The British Almanac ;" the State of Reading in Liverpool; Mr. Mann,

Mr. Pegram, Mr. Horrocks the late M. P. for Preston, &c.-Memoir of John

Davies, the Antiquarian Bookseller of Liverpool.-Extract from the Letter
of G. H. of Liverpool.

No. 3.

Putting off of the Trials of the Rev. Robert Taylor and others.-Copy
of the Indictment for Conspiracy. Journal of Mr. Carlile's Tour through the
Country (continued from p. 56): Visit to Manchester; Notices of Messrs.
Wroe, Elijah Ridings, John Gratrix, Archibald Prentice, Elijah Dixon, his
Ass and his Trinity; Address of the Working Classes of Manchester to his
Majesty; Notice of the Israelites of Ashton-under-Line; Letter on their
behalf addressed to Mr. Carlile by Edward Lees.-Notice of the Change of
Administration.-Religious Persecution, in the case of the Reverend Robert
Taylor-Letter from Mr. Rowland Detrosier of Manchester, on the subject
of Designing and Intelligent Deity, with Notes by R. Carlile.-Fecundity of
Vegetables and of Animals; with important illustrations by the Political
Economists, Mr. Malthus, Mr. Owen, and others; Article on the subject,
copied from the Bolton Chronicle.-Extracts from Mr. Malthus's writings on
Checks to Population, Education, Love; with Observations by Mr. Carlile.
Nonsense for want of something better: a Matrimonial Parody on the

Athanasian Creed.

No. 4.

Journal of Mr. Carlile's Tour through the Country (continued from
p. 79): Further notices of the Israelites of Ashton-under-Line; the Wakes
and Rush-cart of that Town.-Superstitious Theism met and refuted; Voltaire
versus Mirabaud, and Richard Carlile versus Voltaire.-Note on G. Kight's
Paper, on the Philosophical Consideration of a God.-Prosecution of the
Rev. Robert Taylor and others.-The Memorial addressed to the Common
Council of the City of London, by William Devonshire Saull.-Original
Biography: Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an orphan Boy, who with others,
was sent from the Workhouse of St. Pancras, London, to one of the horrible
Cotton-mills and Cotton-masters of Nottinghamshire.-Religion of Mahomet.

No. 5.

Change, State and Prospect of the Administration, with a few Hints on
the real Character of the Government of this Country; on the Christian aud
Mahometan Alliance, and on Mr. Brougham's Parliamentary Pretensions.-
The braying of Elijah Dixon's Ass, in answer to the Roaring Lion. His
discovery of the fulfilment of the prediction of ANTICHRIST; and other Mys-
teries by him, more deeply mystified.-TRIUMPH OF INFIDELITY, or
INFIDEL FIDELITY, in the Pastoral Confessions of the Anglo-Scotch-Pres-
bytery. Worship of the Cross explained.-Publisher's Preface to Blincoe's
Memoir.-The Memoir continued.-Religious Persecution of the Reverend
Robert Taylor.-Religious Preachers put to the Test, or weighed in the
Ballance and found wanting. An Address to the Readers of "THE LION"

No. 6.

Religious Disqualifications for Civil Duties.-Obituary of the Mother

of the Reverend Robert Taylor-Address of the Reverend Robert Taylor to

the Court of King's Bench, on receiving its Judgment.-Letter by Mr. De-

trosier, on the Nature of the Deity, with a Note by R. Carlile.-Memoir of

Blincoe continued.

No. 7.

Proposed Abolition of the bad Practice of Oath-making, as the best
Means to remove the Complaints and Asperities of the various Religious
Sects. First Letter from Mr. Taylor in Oakham Gaol, to Mr. Carlile.-
-Advertisement for a Subscription for the Reverend Robert Taylor.-Note
for Elijah Dixon.-Corresponding Superstition of the Deistical Lord Herbert.
-Philosophical Abstract of the Proceedings of the Parliament.-Abortive-
ness of Mr. Brougham's Speech on the Law and its Administration.-Notice
of Mr. Morrison's Will: of Mr. Baskerville's Will and Epitaph of Dr.
Monsey's Epitaph.-Epitaph on Thomas Paine.-Lines on Matrimony.-
Crime and Infidelity contrasted in its different Punishments. Speeches of the
Solicitor-General, Sir James Scarlett, the Recorder of the City of London,
and Mr. Justice Bayley, in the Judgment of the Court of King's Bench, on
the Reverend Robert Taylor, with Observations thereon.-Memoir of Blin-
coe continued.-Notices of Publications.

No. 8.

Mr. Tierney, the Cause of the last Change in the Administration.-Secret

Influence over the King. Letter from Mr. Cheese, on the Inefficiency of all

Systems, to improve the Condition of Mankind, but that of agricultural

Co-operation Letter from Oakham Gaol, to Mr. Pitkeithly of Huddersfield,

by the Reverend Robert Taylor.-Second Letter to Mr. Carlile from ditto,

with a proposed Defence of the Manifesto of the Christian Evidence Society,

and Observations on his late Judgment.-Notice of further Subscriptions.-

Letter from a Friend to Truth and Candour.-Ditto to the Reverend Mr.

Blackburn, from a Lover of Truth.-Memoir of Blincoe concluded.-Confir-

mation of its Veracity.

No. 9.

Co-operative Competition against Competitive Co-operation, being an

Examination of Mr. Cheese's Letter and Robert Owen's Co-operative System.

-Rights, natural and social, considered.-Misgovernment, its Cause and

Remedy. Third Letter from the Reverend Robert Taylor.-Subscriptions

for ditto.-Voltaire's Dream.-Ditto on Quacks.-P. R.'s Review of No. 1,

of The Lion, with Notes.-Journal of Mr. Carlile's Tour through the Country

(continued from page 104.)-Philosophical Abstract of the Proceedings of

the Parliament.-Test and Corporation Acts in Danger.-Letter from John

Joseph Betts of Ashton-under-Line, in Confirmation of the Statements in

Blincoe's Memoir.-Letter from Mr. Birt on the Profligacy of the Proprietors

of certain Newspapers.

No. 10.

Letter 4, from the Reverend Robert Taylor-Contrasted Cases of the
Rev. Gentleman and George Hale.-Letter copied from the Stamford News.
-Journal of Mr. Carlile's Tour through the Country, continued from p. 287.
-Visits to Wigan, Preston, Padiham, and Blackburn. Articles from the

Blackburn Mail, with a Letter to the Editor, &c.

No. 11.

Fall of the Brunswick Theatre.-The Theology of the Rev. Master's
Mate, G. C. Smith of Penzance, thrown down with it-Letter from W. B. on
the Rev. G. C. Smith's Appearance at the Freemason's Tavern.-Letter 5,
from the Rev. Robert Taylor, with Petitions to the Magistrates of Rutland,
and Mr. Justice Holroyd.-Note by R. C.-Consolation to an imprisoned
Infidel, administered by the Rev. Officiating Chaplain.-Confirmation of the
Memoir of Robert Blincoe, by a Derbyshire Correspondent.-Fox Hill Bank.
-Letter of Simpson, Haigh and Co. to the Editor of the Morning Herald,
with a Note by R. Carlile.-Letter from Mr. Detrosier with a Note by R. C. ·
-Letter from Edward Howard of Kensington, with a Subscription for the
Rev. Robert Taylor.

No. 12.

New Emigration Project.-Letter from a Canadian Planter.-The Pro-

gress of Sectarianism.-Title and Preface of the Diabolical Christian Liturgy

of the Rev. Robert Wedderburn.-New Sunday School for Men, Women,

and Children, to be established at 62, Fleet Street.-Description of the Co

operative and irreligious Institution of Nashoba, established by Frances

Wright.-Letter from Wisbech, with a Subscription for the Rev. Robert

Taylor. Letter 6, from the Rev. R. Taylor.-Note on ditto by R. C. with an

explanation of the Malthusian principle of population.-Progress of Scepti-

cism.-Infidelity of modern novels.-Juvenis, an infidel of eight months

standing, on the Deity and its Attributes.

No. 13.

Description of the Public School and Lecturing Establishment at 62, Fleet

Street. Letter 7. from the Rev, R. Taylor.-Letter from Stockport, with a

Subscription for ditto.-Lines on reading the Age of Reason, by a Lady,

Jately a Christian.-Critical Letter from P. R. of Aberdeen, with Notes by

R. C.-Journal of Mr. Carlile's Tour through the Country, continued from

p. 320; Visit to Bolton, with a notice of Colonel Fletcher, Major Watkins,

William Lever, William Bamber, Scowcroft the Boroughreeve, Marsden the

Methodist Preacher; Letter to Holden, the Astronomical Lecturer, &c.-

Statement of the progress of the Joint Stock Book Company.-Letter from

Bristol, with a Subscription for the Rev. R. Taylor.-Confirmation of Blin-

coe's Printed Memoir, by himself.-Notice of Simpson, Haigh, and Co.