The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-09 00:00:00

T HE R ADICAL,
A WEEKLY JOURNAL;

The FIRST NUMBER of which will APPEAR on SUNDAY
NEXT, the 13th of MARCH, 1836, Price Sevenpence.

The RADICAL will be (as its name in politics denotes) de-
voted to democracy, and therefore to the true interests of the
people ; seeking to bring into active operation the only honest prin-
ciple of government—the greatest happiness of the greatest num-
ber, to be defined by the will of the majority of the whole, mani-
fested by the assent of the Representatives of all. The RADICAL
rejects all political terms which admit of the fallacy of confusion,
and therefore does not adopt either the many-meaning phrase of
Constitutional Monarchy, or the equally vague, multiplied, and va-
rying expression of ideas involved in the word Republic.
The RADICAL. is an advocate for Liberty and Equality. By
" Liberty" we mean the laws made by the full Representation of
the People ;—by " Equality" an equal opportunity to every man
of obtaining all the advantages of -society; no one having a mono-
poly, and each exclusively enjoying the produce of his own industry
and intellect. The principles of the RADICAL, so far frora tend-
ing to destroy society, necessarily conduce to its advancement in
civilization, by substituting for its existing bases of idleness,Nanity,
ignorance, and exclusiveness, the solid foundation of industry, in-
tellect, and universal benevolence.
Truth will never for one instant be wilfully violated by the
RADICAL. To ensure that personal responsibility in regard to
its own writers which it contends for in respect oUall other servants
of the people, no article shall appear in its columns which is not
signed either by the actual Writer or by the Editor, who, thus de
liberately adopting the opinions of others, makes them his own, and
become personally responsible for them. Even this partial secrecy
is forced on the RADICAL by the corrupt state of society, which
renders this protection necessary for many honest men, whose situ-
ations prevent their boldly maintaining their opinions, it being often
a crime, under our existing institutions to tell the truth, and more
than all a crime to tell those truths which bring the people to
know, and knowing, to demand, and demanding in unison, to EN-
FORCE their rights. The responsibility of the Writers and Editor
of the RADICAL shall be voluntary and deliberate, and therefore
not only legal but also moral and personal, not as in the present
state of the Press, when innoeent printers, unconscious and igno-
rant of the writings for which they are made responsible, are com-
pelled to sell their liberties and their characters, by enduring in a
prison the punishment which the existing law intends, and vainly
intends, to inflict upon the irresponsible anonymous Editor.
The RADICAL will be the indefatigable opposer of all public
abuses, and the untiring advocate of the People, never ceasing to
contend for their entire right to send such Representatives to Par-
liament as will make their wishes known, and give them full secu-
rity that their complaints will be attended to.
The RADICAL will wage constant war against the tyrants who,
refusing to unfetter the Press, design to perpetuate the thraldom of
the people by compelling them to remain in ignorance. On the
subject. of the Liberty of the Press there should be no compromise.
No friend of the people will ever rest contented till the atrocious
laws which intend to give a monopoly of the Press to wealth, and to
strangle public opinion, are entirely repealed.
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The Political Creed of the RADICAL may be thus abridged—
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS,
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.

The RADICAL will urge the principles thus avowed by all the
means that reason and truth can supply, the only moral arms which
are worthy of the People and its Advocates.
Whilst .the Writers of the RADICAL will be thus striking at the
evils which beset their fellow-men, the Foreign and Home News of
the Week will not be lost sight of, and the latest intelligence will be
found in their columns. An edition for country readers will be
published at an early hour on Saturday afternoon, which may be
sent by that evening's post. The town edition will also contain
reports of all the Saturday's Law and Police News worth recording,
as well as of any public meeting of interest to the people which may
have taken place.
It is requested that orders may be given to the newsvenders, or
sent to the office,• No. 344, Strand, one door from Catharine-street,
where all advertisements and communications should be trans-
mitted. AUGUSTUS BEAUMONT.