His efforts for our common object were untiring, and never was his pen wielded more brilliantly.

Perhaps, indeed he overstrained his energies, and thus led to the complete breakdown of his health soon after my imprisonment.
A few days later Sir Thomas Nelson, the City Solicitor, served a summons on Mr.H.C.Cattell of 84 Fleet Street, who had so annoyed the bigots by exposing the Christmas Number of the _Freethinker_ in his window.
Detectives also visited other newsagents and threatened them with prosecution if they persisted in selling my paper.

It was evident that the City authorities were bent on utterly suppressing it.

They tried their utmost and they failed..