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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1961, 17 April 1875, Page 3

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Mi ehartWs Eeade W for some time past been? en£?>fiLged in I controversy with the Leeds Melifijry .rtajive.to hiß story in the Pall MallL GaUte : relating to James Lambert, theV'hdD and martyr," andy 4 Friday that jol^il published^ the fcllbvffag letter: — '" Sis,— ydu^ublisheff^large slice of my narrative,/ James Lambert'] and illuminated your dull columns iwith it, and I do not object.. Yet you were ao unscrupulous as to publish a letter misrepresenting me and my treatment of the provincial press. I sent you a temperate^ .reply, which, if you had been a gentlem an, would have closed the matter. Instead of that you encouraged a literary Jgotile to write a long, insolent retort, jpft" to 1 challenge-a reply. I reply. You basely and fraud--■ulcoily suppress my r?ply. Yet you " proceed to fresh attacks, though I am silenced. Your reptile fraudulently suppresses my principal letter to the Bailie, and you contradict publicly the letter you are not man enough to encounter in a fair fight, so you suppress it. ■ In other words, sir, you are a liar, a coward, and a blackguard. — Charles Eeade, Magdalen College," Oxford." , Concerning, says the editor of the Mercury* the epithets whicuAthis person is good enough to toss at oucjheads, we only care to make one obsen;atipn, and that is, that the word coward would have been better omitted by a writer who takes advantage of the changed state of the law to use language which we are.quite sure would not have fallen.from his lips in the days when the slanderer had at least the " courage of his opinions," and was personally answerable for any Billingsgate that he might chance to utter. We can only recommend bini to address his future, .effusions to tho editor of the Englishman, whose interpretation of the amenities-of controversy accords much more with Mr Beade's tlaan with ours. ; The editor of the Leeds Mercury (says the Manchester Guardian) seems to be angry, with Mr Charles Eeade; hut there he is wrong. Tjiis is not a case for wrath. It is a-case for the gentlest treatment, for soothing words, for the distraction of healthful, diversions, evfen for a^piayful submission! to Mr Beade's practicarijoking, based-ijn the. conscious-:,, ness that< so long/as~ stones are kept out ■s\M his-way he can do no serious harm /^rith the mud. 4 we had^ rea£< the above,letter (remarks to-day's Manc;hester Examiner)' we were at a loss to account for Mr ' Charles Eeade's sensitiveness on the subject of lunatic asylums. ■" '■'}..