References are continually made in the Press to certain events recorded in this chapter founded upon statements made by myself, but lacking details and without the official substantiating1 documents. The original summonses and other legal instruments were preserved, and copies of them are given herein. Reports only would be incredible to the new generation, and it is necessary to publish them to give authenticity2 to the narrative3 of what really took place.
It seems better to say "Trouble with Her Majesty4" than Trouble with the Queen, "Majesty" being more official than personal. The three indictments5 to be recorded in this narrative all took place in the Victorian reign7. It seems a disadvantage of the monarchical9 system that the name of the head of the reigning10 House should be attached to all proceedings11, great or petty, noble or mean, honourable12 or infamous13. It assumes the personal cognisance and interference in everything by the occupant of the Throne. It is the same in the theological system, where the Deity14 is assumed to personally cause or permit whatever takes place in this inexplicable15 universe. If the glory of the mountain be his, the devastation16 of the inhabitants of the valley by a volcano is also his act. The Church is beginning, not too soon, to discourage this theory. The curate rescued from a wreck17 who reported to Archbishop Whately that he had been "providentially" saved, was asked by the logical prelate, "Do you intend to say that the lost have been 'providentially' drowned?" Thus blasphemy18 is made one of the wings of religion—just as sedition19 becomes a wing of loyalty20, when discreditable incidents are represented as the personal acts of the Crown. Lawyers know that the King or Queen is not directly answerable, but by acute legal fiction, odious21 responsibility is transferred to others. But the people always think that he or she, in whose name a thing is done, is answerable for it, and theologians all teach that everything, even rascality22, occurs by the will of God.
References to my indebtedness to the Exchequer23 of ￡600,000 of fines incurred24 by publishing unstamped newspapers, seem to readers of to-day a factless tradition. This is not so, as will appear from the warrants and notices of prosecution25 which follow, copied from the original documents in my possession, which have never until now been published.
Early in 1855, I received the following message from Her Majesty, in the 18th year of her reign:—
"Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender26 of the Faith, to George Jacob Holyoake, greeting. We command and strictly27 injoin you that (all excuses apart) you appear before the Barons28 of our Exchequer at Westminster, on the thirty-first day of January instant, To answer us concerning certain Articles then and there on our behalf to be objected against you. And this in no wise omit under the penalty of One Hundred Pounds, which we shall cause to be levied29 to our use upon your Goods and Chattels30, Lands and Tenements31, if you neglect this our present command. Witness, Sir Frederick Pollock, Knight32, at Westminster, the eleventh day of January, in the eighteenth Year of our Reign.
"By the Barons.
"H. W. Vincent, Q.R."
Mr. George Jacob Holyoake,—You are served with this Process to the intent that you may by your Attorney, according to the practice of the Court, appear in Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, at the return thereof in order to your defence in this prosecution.
"Mr. George Jacob Holyoake.
"At the suit of Her Majesty's Attorney-General,
"By Information.
"Folio 9—1855.
"Somerset House, London.
"Folio 9—55-
"Inland Revenue, Somerset House.
"Solicitors35' Department.
"The Attorney-General against George Jacob Holyoake.
"The penalties sought to be recovered by this prosecution are several of ￡20 each, which the defendant36 has incurred by publishing certain newspapers called War Chronicle and The War Fly Sheet on unstamped paper."
As I had published 30,000 copies, the penalties incurred were ￡600,000.
These alarming documents were accompanied by intimation as to the question at issue, and the penalties to be recovered. My solicitors, Messrs. Ashurst, Waller and Morris, No. 6, Old Jewry, put in an appearance for me, but on the repeal37 of the duty shortly after, a hearing was never entered upon, and the penalties have not been collected. How they came to be incurred in respect of the War Chronicles the reader may see in "Sixty Years," vol. i. p. 287.
No intimation was ever given to me—there is no courtesy, I believe, in law—that these intimidating38 summonses were withdrawn39. I had no defence against the charge. I could not deny, nor did I intend to deny, that I had knowingly and wilfully40 published the said papers. In justification41 I could only allege42 that I had acted, as I believed, in the public interest, which, I was told, was no legal answer. The law, which ought to be clear and plain, was, I knew, full of quirks43 and surprises; and, for all I knew, or know to this day, the payment of the fines incurred might be demanded of me. It was communicated to the then Chancellor44 of the Exchequer (Mr. Gladstone) that in case of the full demand being made upon me, I should be under the necessity of asking him to take it in weekly instalments, as I had not the whole amount by me.
The position of an "unstamped" debtor45 was not, in those days, a light one. My house in Fleet Street could be entered by officers of the Inland Revenue; every person in it, printers, assistants in the shop, and any one found upon the premises46 could be arrested. The stock of books could be seized, and blacksmiths set to break up all presses and destroy all type, as was done to Henry Hetherington; and for many weeks I made daily preparations for arrest.
The St. James's Gazette (April 13, 1901) referred to the fines of ￡600,000 incurred by me. What I really owed was a much larger sum, had the Government been exacting47. Previously49 to the War Chronicle liability, I had published the Reasoner twelve years, of which the average number issued may have exceeded 2,000 weekly, or 104,000 a year—every copy of which, containing news and being unstamped, rendered me liable to a fine of ￡20 each copy. Now 104,000 x 12 x ￡20 exceeded more millions of indebtedness than I like to set down. Any arithmetical reader can ascertain50 the amount for himself. A friend in the Inland Revenue Office first made the calculation for me, which astonished me very much, as it did him. Had the whole sum been recoverable it might have saved the Budget of a Chancellor of the Exchequer struggling with a deficit51.
The Government were frequently asked to prosecute52 me. It was not from any tenderness to me that they did not. It was their reluctance53 to give publicity54 to the Reasoner that caused them to refrain. It was the advocacy of unusual opinion which gave me this immunity55.
The St. James's Gazette asked me: "Is it justifiable56 for a good citizen to break a law because he believes it to be wrong?" I answered "No! unless the public good seems to require it, and that he who breaks the law is prepared to take the consequences." I never evaded57 the consequences, nor complained of them when they came.
If every one who breaks a law first satisfies himself that public interest justifies58 it, and he is ready to meet the penalty, only bad laws would be broken. It is also the duty of a citizen to find out whether there is any practical way open for procuring59 the repeal of a bad law before breaking it. Respect for law, under representative government, in which the law-breaker has a share, is a cardinal60 duty of a citizen.
On my violation61 of the law in the matter of the War Chronicles Mr. Gladstone (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) said to a deputation, that he knew "my object was not to break the law, but to try the law."
The impulsive62 and the ambitious of repute may overlook this consideration, but as I sought neither distinction nor martyrdom, I acted as I did because no other course was open, and no other person would take this.
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In the year following the prosecution in the Court of Exchequer, Her Majesty gave me further trouble in discharge of the odious duty imposed upon her as collector of debts for the Church. As few know to-day how hateful this impost63 was, it will be informing to see how the clerical case was officially stated to me. It began as follows:—
"Mr. George Jacob Holyoake,—Take Notice that in and by certain Rates or Assessments64 made by virtue65 of and for the purposes mentioned in the Act of Parliament passed in the 4th Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Ann, Cap. 27, intituled, 'An Act for settling the Impropriate Tythes of the Parish of Saint Bridgett, alias66 Bride's, London,' You are assessed in respect of the Houses, Shops, Warehouses67, Cellars, Stables, Tofts, Grounds, or other Tenements or Hereditaments, within the said Parish occupied by you, in four several Sums amounting to One pound four shillings and eightpence for four several Quarters of a Year commencing at the Feast of The Birth of our Lord Christ, 1854, and ending at the same Feast in the Year 1855, and that such assessments are made on a Rental68 of ￡74. Dated this 22nd day of May, 1856.
"John William Thomas,
"Collector of the said Rates."
These ecclesiastical cormorants69 took a hungry survey of every place containing property on which they could lay hands. After the Rathcormac massacre70, where two sons of the widow Ryan were shot by the soldiers, employed by the Church in collecting its rates—how appropriate and consoling it must be to a bereaved71 mother to read that the rates commenced to be due at "The Feast of the Birth of our Lord Christ!" Yet there are people who go about promoting prosecutions72 for blasphemy, and with a holy partiality leave untouched outrages73 like these. The summons sent to me speaks of the "late Queen Ann," who had been dead 140 years. Her name being spelt "Ann" shows that she had been dead long enough to lose the final "e" of her name. The rent of the Fleet Street house was ￡74, ￡400 having been paid for the lease. Each time there came on the scene the local agent of the Church, who delivered an interesting intimation as follows:—
"Mr. George Jacob Holyoake,—I do hereby demand payment of One pound four shillings and eightpence, due from you for Rates made in pursuance of the Act of Parliament passed in the 4th Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Ann, Cap. 17, intituled, 'An Act for settling the Impropriate Tythes of the Parish of Saint Bridgett, alias Brides, London.' And take notice that unless the same be paid to me within Four Days next after the demand thereof hereby made, I shall Distrain75 your Goods and Chattels, and sell and dispose thereof, and out of the Monies arising thereby76 pay the said Sum of Money, and the Costs allowed by the Acts of Parliament in that case made and provided.
"Dated this 22nd day of May, 1856.
"John William Thomas,
"Collector of the said Rates."
The predatory Vicar of St. Bride's, for whose advantage the contemplated77 seizure78 was being made, remained in the background, praying for my soul while he picked my pocket, as I regarded his action.
After two or three seizures79 of property, I sent to the vicar payment "in kind"—the form in which the payment of tithe80 was originally contributed. The chief produce of my farm in Fleet Street consisted in volumes of the Reasoner. I sent the vicar three volumes, which exceeded in value his demand. He troubled me no more.
The last citation81 relates to a trial in which Lord Chief Justice Coleridge was concerned, and Henry Thomas Buckle82 made a splendid defence of a poor well-sinker who was afraid of killing83 the world.
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In a Cornish village in 1857 small patch advertisements broke out like small-pox, of which the following is a copy:—
"BLASPHEMY.
"Any person who has seen a man writing Blasphemous84 sentences on Gates or other places in the neighbourhood of Liskeard, is requested to communicate immediately with Messrs. Pedler and Grylls, Liskeard, or with the Rev34. R. Hobhouse, St. Ive Rectory."
Whether the perturbed85 Rector of St Ive found out anything, or whether ashamed, as he might well be, at being mixed up in so miserable86 a business, he retired87 from it, and the Rev. Paul Bush appeared in his place as a spiritual detective on the pounce88, and a poor, eccentric well-sinker, one Thomas Pooley, was accused of writing in chalk incoherent words in a hand only intelligible89 to the all-construing eyes of the policeman of the Church, who caused to be issued the following ponderous90 summons in her Majesty's name:—
"Cornwall to wit, Whereas Information and Complaint (a) hath this day been laid before the undersigned, one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and (b) for the said County of Cornwall by The Reverend Paul Bush of the Parish of Duloe, in the said County, for that you the said Thomas Pooley on the twenty-second of May last at the Parish of Duloe, in the said County, did unlawfully and wilfully compose, write and publish a certain scandalous, impious, blasphemous and profane92 Libel of and concerning the Holy Scriptures93 and the Christian95 Religion, and for having blasphemously96 spoken against God and profanely97 scoffed98 at the Holy Scripture94, and exposed it to contempt and ridicule99, and also for having spoken against Christianity and the established religion.
"These are therefore to command you in Her Majesty's name, to be and appear on Wednesday the 1st day of July next at 10 o'clock in the Forenoon, at Treean Gate in the Parish of Lanewath in the said County, before such said Justices of the Peace for the County as may then be there, to answer to the said Information and Complaint, and to be further dealt with according to Law.
"Given under my hand and Seal this 27th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, at Liskeard in the County aforesaid.
"James Glencross."
Notes on the summons were:—"(a) If upon Oath insert 'On Oath.' (b) Erase100 the words in italic when summons is issued by Justice acting48 out of jurisdiction101 in which he resides."
There is more untruth and holy malevolence102 in this summons than Pooley was ever known to be guilty of in all his life. Mr. Bush charges Mr. Pooley with "wilfully composing" the words complained of. Everybody in the parish knew that he had not the mental coherence103 to "compose" anything. He had neither spoken against God—for he was a believer in Him—nor was he a preacher either in pulpit or on street corner. Nor did he "speak" about God, except when he was being stripped in gaol104. His "scoffing105 against the Holy Scriptures" merely meant that he was incensed107 against priests. The charge that he had published a "scandalous, impious, blasphemous, and profane libel" was simply the reckless, false, professional language of the clergyman and lawyer who drew up the summons, which would be counted unscrupulous and venomous in other persons. In this summons we have the same profanation108 of the Queen's name as we have already seen. How can a monarch8 expect his office or character to be held in esteem109 who permits his or her name to be cited for the purposes of any bigot who has spite in his heart and falsehood on his lips? People cease to respect a monarch who has no respect for himself.
There was more of the evil spirit of untruth in the charges in the summons than in all Mr. Pooley's vague and honest anger. I went down to Duloe to see Mr. Bush, and found him residing in a spacious110 house, with a pleasant outlook of roads and fields before it, while poor Pooley lived in wells. Why should one so well-placed as the Rev. Paul Bush conspire111 to procure112 twenty-one months' imprisonment113 for this friendless, half-demented parishioner? Very likely Mr. Bush was by nature a kind-hearted clergyman in whom theology generated—
At the trial Pooley, who was entirely115 undefended received a sentence of twenty-one months' imprisonment. The son of the judge, Sir John Duke Coleridge, who prosecuted116, said, "It was not the prosecution of opinion in any sense, but society was to be protected from outrage74 and indecency." If so, six weeks' imprisonment was more than sufficient in a case in which there was no wantonness and only half-insane conviction in it Mr. Thomas Henry Buckle, the famous historian of Civilisation117, wrote in Fraser an indignant and generous denunciation of the sentence, and those concerned in it. It was the last great letter of a philosopher in defence of the mental liberty of a poor man, and no equal to it appeared in the century. I published an account of Pooley's case, which Buckle saw. Sir John Duke (who afterwards became Lord Chief Justice Coleridge) had behaved, as prosecuting118 counsel, better than I knew, as I admitted when I did know it. Still, the sentence (twenty-one months' imprisonment) will always stand on record as atrocious, apart from the irresponsible condition of the offender119. The words said to be "spoken," and which were made a count in his indictment6, were mere106 exclamations120, provoked by the irritation121 of gaolers, which the prisoner had neither means nor intent of publishing. A barrister in court was struck by the signs of insanity122 in Pooley, unnoticed by the preoccupied123 eyes of the judge and his son.
Pooley, as we have said, was a well-sinker, a tall, strongly-built man of honest aspect and of good courage and fidelity124, who had descended125 into a deep well and rescued his master from death. Though not a philosopher, Pooley, like some who were, was a wild sort of Pantheist. He thought this world to be an organism, and believed it to be alive; and such was the tenderness and reverence126 of his devotion that nothing could persuade him to dig a well beyond a certain depth, lest he should wound the heart of the world.
Some years later Lord Coleridge informed me that he did not press the case against Pooley, and that he had no idea he was of uncertain mind, nor did his father suspect it. I thought it was impossible they could be unaware127 of it, as it was well known to all Liskeard. In justice to Lord Coleridge's father, I ought to say, that when he subsequently became aware of Pooley's condition of mind, he at once consented to his liberation, and Pooley was taken home, after four months' imprisonment, in the carriage of the governor of the gaol, who had sympathy for him. Sir William Molesworth and Sir Erskine Perry were, after Mr. Buckle, the chief instruments of his liberation. The facts I have related of the Coleridges were not known to me when I first saw Mr. Buckle, who wrote upon the information I gave him. Pooley was a resolute128 man, who had self-respect and would not wear the prison dress. When it was put upon him he tore it to shreds129, and he was left naked in the dark cell in which he was confined. He would have been made quite mad had he not been released when he was.
IV.
The last case in which I supply documentary evidence is that concerning the limelight placed on the Clock Tower at Westminster. No member of Parliament had thought of it, nor should I, had I not needed it for my own convenience. I was then secretary to Mr. (afterwards Sir) Joseph Cowen. When he wished to take part in a division he would ask me to ascertain whether the House was sitting. In those days there were two lamp-posts in Palace Yard with three lights each, which were kept in while the "House was sitting," but when the "House was up" two of the lights were extinguished. There was no other sign, and I had often to ride from Redcliffe Square, Brompton, to Palace Yard before the signal-light could be seen. The limelight had just been perfected, and it occurred to me that if an effective light was placed on the Clock Tower it would be conspicuous130 for miles around, and members of Parliament, dining in the suburbs, could learn by that sign when the House was sitting and its absence would indicate that the House was up. I wrote to Lord John Manners, giving reasons of Parliamentary convenience for the institution of such a light Lord John was then First Commissioner131 of Works. The following is a copy of the letter directed to be sent to me:—
"Office of Works, 12, Whitehall Place, S.W." It is requested that any answer to this letter may be directed to The Private Secretary to the First Commissioner of H.M. Works.
"8—1—68.
"Sir,—I am desired by Lord John Manners to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your letter, and suggestions.
"Your faithful servant,
"H. Stuart Wortlev.
"G. J. Holyoake, Esq."
Nothing was done during Lord John Manners' reign as Commissioner of Works, but when Mr. A. S. Ayrton became Commissioner of the Board, he found the letter in the archives of the office, and had the light erected132.
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