ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the farewell address by John Thelwall. In his address, Thelwall explains how his first course on lecture commenced with an enquiry into ‘the moral and political importance of the liberty of speech and of the press’. He points out that there were many feeble passages in his lectures, not worth preserving. Thelwall also opines that nothing (except intemperate violence) can be so injurious to the public cause, as that cringing timidity with which lecturers so frequently meet oppression, as it were, half way; and when a part of rights is violently taken from them, forbear, with what is miscalled prudential caution, to exercise even those that remain.
