SIR,—I inclose a handbill, announcing a sale of goods seized from me for Church-rates, which took place accordingly in the Market-place during a pelting rain. The butchers refused its being sold in the market-house, declaring, that no stolen goods should be admitted there. No bidders could be found but the constable. Within a short time, I have had my goods stolen for Church-rates four times ; and I am happy to say, that in Beaminster a remarkable change has been effected in the opinions of the majority of the inhabitants, on this subject. I have now left the town for a village in the neighbourhood, where no Church-rates are required. I shall now have a respite from this system of persecution. In reviewing the past, I do not regret acting as I have done ; believing, as I do, that the State Church is an evil of the greatest magnitude, I could not conscientiously pay a tax for its support. And now I would call on the Dissenters generally, to be up and doing if they value their principles, (which I sometimes doubt, from their apathy and lack of sympathy for others;) depend on it you will be trampled under foot by this Puseyite Church, unless you act for yourselves. We are too apt to depend on others. It is only for us to will it, and Church-rates in England, like Church cess in Ireland, would be abolished in one year. But, if you have no regard for your principles as Dissenters, do pity the poor and benighted around you, especially our oppressed villagers, who are deluded and led on by blind leaders of the blind, to perdition. Go to our home missionaries, and they will tell you, that theirs is almost a hopeless mission in consequence of the monopoly of this State Church. May all monopolies soon cease, but especially in food and religion:

I am, Sir, yours respectfully,

JOS. TITE.

Clenham Mill, near Beaminster, Dorset.