The Monday after his arrest the “Journal” did not appear, and in the next number he issued the following notice:
“To all my Subscribers and Benefactors who take my weekly Journall. Gentlemen, Ladies and Others; AS you last week were Disappointed of my Journall, I think it Incumbent upon me, to publish my Apoligy which is this. * I was Arrested, taken and Imprisoned * whereupon I * had not the Liberty of Pen, Ink, or Paper, or to see, or speak with People… I have had since that time the Liberty of Speaking through the Hole of the Door, to my Wife and Servants… and I hope for the future by the Liberty of Speaking to my servant thro’ the Hole of the Door of the Prison, to entertain you with my weokly Journall as formerly.

