He could only set up four pages of type, and only print copies with a hand-press.

Even that was better than nothing; anything being preferable to lowering the flag in the heat of battle.

But alas! fate is stronger than gods or men.

I was foiled at the last moment, just as victory seemed within my grasp; _how_ I forbear to explain, although the incidents of that eventful day would form an interesting chapter of my Autobiography.

Enough copies were pulled to constitute a legal issue of the paper, and one of these is safely deposited in the British Museum; but none were printed for the market, and it was everywhere reported that the _Freethinker_ was dead.
Christian Evidence lecturers joyously announced the fact at their meetings, and Mr.Maloney ironically alluded to it in Court.