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This work may have been published twice. The first edition possibly printed by a printer in Kobe, Japan. See the attached note.

Includes 'Sequel to the Foregoing' . Descibed by the author as 'A corrected account of an extraordinary trial at Singapore on Aug. 18th, 31st, and Sept. 5th respectively.' The account begins: 'Charles Ridgway, known as the blind author, who keeps a temperance refreshment rooms in Anson Road, was arrested on a warrent at the instance of Dr. J. Leask for criminal intimidation, in having on the 16th in[.] gone to Dr Leask's house and demanded the sum of Two Thousand Dollars... Defendent told Witness that he had published a book about the loss of his sight. ... if he,Witness, did not pay him ...he, Defendent, would publish a new edition of the book and that he would publish Witness's name instead of the one he had hitherto substituted in the original pamphlet. ... in Kobe he published a pamphlet in which he gave a detailed account of how he came to lose his sight, but he had substituted another name instead of Dr Leask's in the book...[He] wished to publish the truth, and had already arranged with the printer to have One Thousand and Two Hundred copies strict....Ridgway was sentenced to a month simple imprisonment.'