Star. — London, England, 1819-10-15 00:00:00

tLe Deformers t.pon some dangerous producing pike!, and suggesting other bat he cautior.ed the people to be on igainst such characters, for under the dom, they carried a dagger fur its de- her persons addressed the. Meeting. A rho had urged the necessity of forming' c e emanry Cavalry at the late Lanark , a' as honoured with three . gr . pans. c i were earnestly recommended. Resti usual sort were carried unanimously, 'Thanks Vele - passed to Woolar,• Cob. , ad Maior Cartwright. 1g then dispersed an peace. E 4 151 - 4511 - g6 STAR. LONDON. , . DAV, vac:ma 15; 1819. THE . . sTOCKS THIS DAT it7I . :01111 0 . 4140111: xk 218 219 • .. r.t. Reduced 68 671 Consols 68ifi , 'ent. 77; ee. die. nt. 851 b 6 85j en. div. !nt. Navy lon 104} 104 ing Annuities 171 15-16 . mds 13 11 12 pre. ,er Bills (2d.) ls. 2s. dis. 3 ! dis. for Act. 69 681 69i. Trial, for publishing Pitine's Age ef bed yesterday afternoon with a verdict We are not the advocates of persecu contrary, we have always been the ad aleraticm, or rather of the right of all to GRIAT CREATOR of the Usrviasz ac he convictions of their own conscience; ;rateful to the DaVISTX BEING, who rules r the affairs of men, for having cast our where this right is secured to every in he laws of the country. But we'Cannot of Revelation an exercise of religious r consider a man as any way restrained us devotions by the enforcement of laws iit the promulgation of such revilings. =not but strongly suspect the sincerity a, set forth as resting on conscientious in vindication of the publication of blas rather there can be no suspicion of the —when the exercise of the pretended ierted into a matter of commercial prqfit. a Code speaks pretty plainly of the cha :h as substitute gain for godliness; nor nistries of Infidels ever prevail over the nse of mankind,, so as to lead them .usion on so plain ,a point, different from iolume so sealousirreviled by bad nie , * c Jury returned their verdict, Mr. CAll:; 1 horn the Court, accompanied 1:114)9"5 the Guildhall Cog:cc-Kix*. The •city ir.fruned of the circumstance,.: placed' the !tont andlsack doors, - till he left the . t twenty minutes diawards, ! .and pro s cwn dwelling, a Itither e thei'follo‘%•eg . 1.on: :r. I.cur after; a -cpac4..drew wpm 1441; notice sVaisilitla . ..7lllo.par#4is.• t ariag• by this lilac okieest fittly Mr. an:vcd with two Tipstkicc, 3 44*A l / 4 4 .. : 4 4 9 .1:q. who Lad then putsonskia goaa.taioatis. wetting into the *cekiaCiliker#: l o l l, c(.•.-s had a warrant to detain iimi.64l; .e "as only going to Iliad/An* tz see h.? did every evening.. • ::ex i nfnrmed him, if le could .prodace ln.ll ,e-keepers to bebound for his ap -1 is morning, he siouldlie at liberty ; thiS 'LE rn mised to do, and named several... c.r.s %len: applied to, blit declined becoming Wfuvr:l}n vaitesttyra bows,when could not be . 0b4i014 ..ke left I. I: in the custody of Turnpeisay end 111ek k.i4y Officers, w h o : retnAthed . -I ! jet km all rucriting.they dot verid-liutiinto.,* the proper authoritiii. • • : • • r this da rupon his trillarfp-publi shing phernous libel against the - Help Scrip :e!7, Palmoos -PrincipktV Netum :Us ;i are given at 'considerable leng93 in °ur t columns. • " TWO Cr..CLOC4 7. ;• , c.r.er Itzs just arrived wi th th e intilliVot* Jul ?crclict of Guttme has been fosuid.• Lan Inquest has been .adjourned to the lit on what rest, ground' ice ire not ' in: )4; us should be no way surprised if the ;3 1 u ere, hereafter, proved.tollPt been in , :mething connected with the facts tLe 1 , 1:,, , ,Aing letter, ,the ~contents of which t elcite alarm in the breast of every per. k:s for the good erdni 014 preser ,• pubic peace, and security of private . • . LLAcKent,..v .(I,Awymnuita), .00T "re thi own into some alarm, in this place, evening, by the appearance of a large sr4 g'lons, headed by our Constable (Mr. )seeding along our strega, for tie: PYPWCF Pi eared, of r xeceitin& an arrest of SOIT!e pa!, ti Pr at et de d immediately to the work-shop.l blackenith, vt horn they secured, and., nip. h.. b slim'', eleven pike beads were found . • on the premises. The prisoner was immediately carried before Dr. WHITAIKFR, who, after an exami. nation of some length, committed him•to Preston, to which place he was sent off in a post-chaise, accom panied by a proper escort: " I need hardly say, that the discovery• of such dangerous weapons manufacturing here, excited no small sensation among a considerable concourse,which the event brought together; nor did subsequent events tend to lessen our apprehensions ; for, at four o'clock, this morning, a person, named Morris, a machine-maker, was brought here from Pike Law, near Bellthorn, in this neighbourhood, by a Con stable and a party of Dragoons. It is understood: that some pistols, bullets, and unfinished pikes, were found in his possession. PI Aboui eight o'clock, -another person, named Knowles, was brought here from'Rawtenstall, escorted • by a party of Dragpons. " Both of these, after an examination, by Dr. WHITAKER, were likewise committed to Preston.— The Police are active in the pursuit of other indi duals, who are suspected of being _concerned in this infamous business ; and hopes are entertained, from the clue that has been obtained, that none of them will be able to - elude the pursuits of justice." A Flnders Mail arrived last night. The Em peror ALEXANDER was expected to be at Warsaw (from Finland) on the 2ith ult. to which place the Austrian Ambassador to the Russian Court was to proceed by the end of September, to lat before him the Resolutions of the Congress of Carlsbad, to whiCh he will no doula accede. Indeed being the founder of the Holy Alliance, it would be strange should he dii sent from any of its proceedings, in matters 4hat re late to the restraint of popular claims.--Already the Press has been laid under restraint in various places, in Germany, and in consequence several Public Jour nals have been suspended. It is denied by the foreign Journals that any mis -understancling exists among the Northern Potentates ; but it is believed there will be a highly important 1 change of territory, and even of Thrones; and that the successive journies of the Margrave Litoroto of BADEN and of the KIN° Of WIRTEMBERO, are rela tive to it. It is also certain that the KING of PROS . SI4 will have An interview with the Emperor of RUSSIA. The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived"this forenoor.. They contain rumours of a change in the . Ministry. Lord W4trwortra has again made hia appearance in the French capital ; and, "it would seem, that his' Lordship can w , nowhere without -being Made the harbinger of some wondrois Qolitical change. French Five per Cents. Monday, K. fr. 90 c.. .. • . . . . , . . .. .. . - Vhb . clay We iiCeived Niw Yari, Phifidelithfit; and ir' :altitslOre Papers to the 16th'UltimO.--The iltdepe . n- W itlenceOflqie B.epulific of Texas. June. was proclaimed by e Supretkithe 2 e*Council on gd of J .. . .. • The deaths by yellow fever at .Charleston, in tire' week ending la Septe!nbet, were thirty-Sir; at Bal lt.iiiOre, on .the 7t11,15th, and 9th, titeritf-three in an. 1 li;e alai-in at New York has subsided,. the Board of :Health basing reported on the 7 th that no new cases bad occurred. Accounts from South America in - the - 21st April "state that Lord COqIRANE had not, to tkat date, re: ;sewed his attack on Calao and the Royal Rect, but was still hovering on the coast of Peru. • ... Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT, accompanied by tie BILMIAAIIN B L OOMFIELD, left Carlton House nil half-past four o'clock - for Brighton. • Prince LEOPOLD has visited the town of Sheffield, where be was received with every mark of distinc tion, aad received a present of a case of cutlery, value 50 guineas. Iris Royal Highness passed through Chesterfield on Wednesday, on his way to Derby, where he was welcomed by the ringing of bells, and every demonstration of respect. On his arrival at Alfreton, the Rev. IlENay CASE Moaswooo met his Royal Highness at the entrance of the town, and in vited him to his house, where an elegant cold colla tion had been provided. After a very short stay, the Prince and suite left the noble' Mansion of their hos pitable host, and proceeded on their route to Derby. BETTING-ROOM, OCTOBER t 4. There was more anxiety in looking after money won than them was.in naming wino's . s to tome. The only_ rient whist: excites interest is the match between Lord George Cavendish's Allegro and Benniface, on Monday, at Newmarket. 6 to 4 on Bonniface. 14 to 1 against Mr. Pierce's colt. 14 to I against Sailor. SilOOTtrie EXTRAORDINART..-GRAND 31•ITTI FOR soo GULVEAS asins.—The wager between rs. Brett and &ebbing, re corgeel in ' a former Paper, ba led to another uvelertaking of a stem sporting and arduous nature. Mr. Tyler, of Golden Grim, late in the Commissariat Department, has betted Captain' cross, of Laburnum Cottage, that he kills the most game in hi sumnalve days, the former to be carfined to the county of Norfolk,•tbe latter to that of Suffolk. They start as soon as the preparations can be completed, probably in a fewer ys, Mr. T. from Creaser, and the Captain from Lowestoff, athey are to cross tkp country 'towards Thetford, and rendezvous lo there be on n the evening of the gist dry .—Ca p tain Twyeross haslong e celebrated f or his excellent p o inters, and perh,aps is ou that ac count backed it sto 4. Still Mr. Tyler is an unerringremsaut Mat, and Me Mends are no less confident of his success. Counties Boast se.—A Coroner's Inquest was yesterday held at the Crassiteys,lnn, in Wood-street over the two dead bodies width had arrived in benmers by the s Chatham coach, on Mies 'day last, and of which we gave an account Wow Police Rowel of yesterday. The ,evidence was nearly the same as that ad doted beforothe MatAstrate at'OtilidhaU.7-Mr. Peters, 004 who bad inspeeged the Wins, pee it as his decided' tipi- Moir that they had died a natural death.—Henn, one of the i 'ollcert nt Vestal-MU; amid he knew the porter who bad been • elseankd as a levier ogent ef the bar awiders in the diets:ice e tittiani, iliere he was. well known. The value of a f i n: was at resent AS, and fir this saltsgreat- numbers of were weekly imported front the country to supply the difz: Idinecting-rooms. The Jury, after a Ilion consultation, b r ain . M a verdict of—Died a Natural Death. • • __.-. 1 • • - r .. .. - .. -' ~.t~l be ested to-day, its ire have boon tidbit-a by what law the defendant is to be tried My answer, Gentlemen, is, - that he is to he tried , by the ancient, the well-known, the universally merry.. nixed Common Law of England , —that law which• existed and was reverenced and obeyed before c was any Statute on the Booksthat law by v: hire our civil rights are regulated, by which our pro perty is protected from the thief by. day, by which our houses arc protected from the midnight• ir-• truder, which our lives are protected from the knife of the assassin, by which our naturel-is pro tected from the violation of unnatural lust.-- Gentlemen, such are some of those crimes wilich the Common Law of this land has denounced-that law which we have been told is nolaw ; and•realh• the defendant might as well tell us that riot one of all these crimes can be competently tried by' anya Celan • in the country, as stand there and maintain that itis incompetent for this Court to try him •for the eqtaally high and serious crime., against Common Law, with which he is now charged. A doctrine such as that maintained by the defendant, would, in fact; set - all law and order at complete defiance. The book, - (len tlemen, which is imputed as a libel to tbe - deferilaht; is entitled Principles of atm e ; or, A..beveldrea ment of the Moral Causes of Happiness and Misr among the Human Species.' It hears to be l3y • Elihu• Palmer,' and. the imprint states that it icas 'America Painted,' but Re painted and Published' in' London,' by R. Carli.e, .55, fleet-street:. Whe ther all these staternedts Le false or true, I , kania.'hot —whether there be any such person as this.' tiilars • Palmer,' or whether the book. has ever before been printed, I neither know nor care. It is enough that • I find the defendant openly publishing it with hit own hand; and as it will be my business to slew to your, publishing it with no other purpose that). that:charged in the Indictment—the profane and wicked purpose of reviling the Christian Religion and Holy scripture. It is a painful task, Gentlemen, to give utterance to such•passages as I shall be 'obliged to read til'lteta in support of my Case; it must be as painful- for tnti to hear, as for me to repeat thern—rassages abonii. nable, that, except certain parts 'of thit - iiifaitcifi• work with the comideraticia of eihich the Cant) as, for these three dap pat;. been ciectipied, I rimeinilci not to have read or heard of nny thiegskrenirfillAe for .wickedness and atrocity:- .. " - The flea' passage to which 1 shall request yosir attention is contained in it Chapter entitled—' The Bible, or the Sacred WI itin,s cf the JCsys and Christians.' I shall read you the introduction to this Chapter, in order that you may see what•it aims at." • Here the Learned Counsel proceeded to' read the introduction, till he came to a passage'in Moses and Mahomet are spoken of in cobjuilaiOn..- - ~ Gentlemen, for what other purpose bait thatcf reviling the Christian Religion could any nian think: of coupling together two names such as . theie—one, as exalted and beneficent a character as GCD ever sent upon earth ; the other, the Most impious impostor that ever lived? Atrocious as this is, you will little • expect, Gentlemen, what is to felkw." [The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to read what it would sully our pages to repeat, and what we are happy no necessity compels us to assist in dis . - seminating.D The Learned Counsel; ead one passage from.thlbel, which stated, that the immoral tendency of the Old Testament proved that it was not a work 4ipproved or authorised by GOD ;.anchalso a passage declaring, that our Saviour was not a good moral character, and condemning the maxims of the New Testament as a perversion 'of moral virtue, and cakulated to debase and ruin the faculties of an intelligent being. — " I cannot," continued the Learned Counsel, " help repeating the language of one of the greatest scholars of any age—a man, who to the usual acquisition.; of a refined education, added an intimate knowledge the Religion of all the Eastern Countries,•4 mean Fir William Jones, who says— , I have read, with the ut most attention, the Holy Scriptures, and am con- Tinted, that the Bible contains, independelitly of the Ipowerful religious instruction of its pages,. more' Sublimity and beauty, and-higher strains of eloquence and morality, than, could be collected from all the• • booki thateree were written.' This is thecheracter given of the lloly Scriptures by this powerful-thinker. Now, attend to this sentence in the book-befere.you,' in which the defendant seems to have summed up his rull measure of- reviling— , Moses, Mahomet, and test's, can Lay as little claim to the praise of benetit-. ins mankind as an'. three men that ever came iatorhe World. They are all impostors—two of them were niurderers'in practice—the other a murderer in prin ciple!' What can be said, Gentlemen of the Jui y, of one who issues this abomination, which even exceeds that whik la- was the subject of yesterday's coitclemyra tion? This.Cuurt isn't an arena for theological contro versy ; if. it were, I„; trust niy knowledge of the con tents of the Sacrral-Book would enable me to combat -thrsystcm so wickedly attempted to be •:tditerit:lnsen:mlPh. disseminate d : but te b r u n t al ti r ke 24 7 . -i s cl u e c ors as o t f o l l !h ea ri v s e th i u n ii 6 ty a , ri i i n t; • without defeace or excuse. I might appeal to the evidences of -the ptophecies and miracles, which rue sob -thing else to, con vines . n 4 if w thantiree wanted greaat miracle 'an of the condition of the Nation,. -which -agrees in every particular j d ovi i u ld s; with-the:Words of the Old Testament, and establishes the truth d that histcryi • ilin I am sneaking in a - Mit OMAR'S SECOND TRIAL. At a quarter past rine Ccloc . k this Morning, Mr. CARLILE came it t 0 Court, in the custody of two Tipstaifs. He was follow2d by several friends, who brought with them a large quantity of books. They appeared to us to be the same as those which Mr. CARLTLE had made use of, or rather attempted to Make use of, in his last trial; from which we are led to presume, that he intends pursuing a similar line of defence on the present occasion. The CHIEF JusTicn took his seat on the Bench exactly at half-past nine. The cause of « the king against Carlile" was im mediately. culled. - Mr. BELL MY proceeded to call over the Special Jury. Only three of them answered to their names. These were; George Sanderson, Merchant, Broad-street. John Christopher, Merchant, Broad-street-buildings. William Linwood, Merchant, Billiter-square. • The Counsel for the Prosecution prayed a tales.— The following common Jurymen were then called, and answered to their names:. James Messenger.-, Porisoken-Ward. Charles Letterman, Bookseller. Benjamin Denbolm, Smith, Farringdon Within. Edward Proctor, Glazier, Ditto. Charles Grosvenor, Victualler, Portsoken-Ward. William Young, Jeweller, Farringdon William Holden, Farringdon Within. • Joseph Wannedge, Portsoken Ward. John Robins; currier, Ditto. The proper Officer was proceeding to swear in the Jury, when Mr: Citaittat rose. Mr. CAELILE—My Lord. I beg to enter my pro test against the competency oPthis Court' m try the question on which I Am brought here as a defendant. The CHIEF JVSTICE made no observation. Mr. CA RLILE again rose—My Lord, I am entitled,. I presume, to object to any of the talesmen ? CHIEF A:silos—Yes, for cause shown, but not without. Mr. CARLILE—If I know that any of the Gentle men are opposed to me in opinion ? CluE: itTSTICE—That can be no cause. • • ' Mr. CARLILE remained silent: • Mr. MARnYA - rr cher rose, and stated to the Jury, that the present was an Indictment against the de• fendantfor having published a- certain scandalous. impious, blasphemous, and profane Libel of and con cerning the Holy Scriptures and the Christian Reli gion, to which Indictment the defendant had pleaded —Not Guilty.- Mr. GURNEY then rose.—" Gentlemen of the Jury, the short description which has been given of the present Indictment by my Learned Friend behind me, must have been sufficient to apprise you of the grave, important, and momentous nature of the question which you are now called upon to try. The prosecu tion has been instituted by the Society for the Suppres sion of Vice-tea Society which has been of very much' benefit to the Public on many occasions, by prose cuting, and, by prosecuting, putting down wicked and licentious publications, calculated, like the one now complained of, to injure the morals of the commu nity, and particularly the morals of• the young. The Society conceive that the Religion of the - Country, on which all morality is founded, is not less entitled to the. protection of the laws, than any other part of. our invaluable institutions ; and 'when they saw .one of the most public streets of the Metropolis, ,works exhibited for sale; which attacked and reviled the Christian Religion, and the Holy Scriptures in which it is contained—when they saw such works daringly and ostentatiously sold at the shop of this defendant, which he has been pleased; in the effron tery of his impiety, to style the Temple of Reason:l The Office of ihe Republican and Deist—when they saw all this, Gentlemen, they thought themselves called upon to do their part to put down a class of publications, which, were they to succeed in their object, would dissolve all the bonds' by which civil society is held together. They obtained, Gentlemen, evidence of the publication of the book which is the ' subject of the present prosecution, and they submit ted a Bill of Indictment against thedefendant, for that publication, to the Grand Jury. Gentlemen, the Grand Jury found the Bill a true one, and it remains new with you to decide whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty ? The Indictment imputes to - the defendant, that with the profane design of bringing the Holy Scrip turesinto disbelief,' he has published a certainiscan dalous, impious, and blasphemous Libel of and con cerning the Holy Scriptures and the C 1161,6.111 Reli gion: It will now, Gentlemen, be my painful duty to read to you a variety of passages out of the book in which this Libel is contained; and it will be for You to judge whether they do not well wan ant the descriprion which the Indictment gives of them ? " The deli ndant has been pleased to entes ifis pro test against the compttency of this Cons t_td try the q uestion. If such rrotests as this , Gentlemen; are to be tolerated, I know• not what offender may rot in figure unblushingly defy the 'authority of the COurts of. hit country-to take cognizance of any offence im -puted to him. As-well may the thief or the min, dower dispute the authmity - of the laws to prosecute and to punish him for his crime, as the defendant dispute their authority to take cognizance• of an offeeby which -is alike pio scribed by- these laws and . Which, in enormity and dangerous example, yields to none. I. -suppose, Gentlemen, we shall •-• • - - . . • •. I 11111 , . • , 1 ~:~ ~ ~1 t f 117- I A i,. i'i 1 1 1 1 F , 1 i 1 i,. 1" ,'.- lit , i :( : i 1 1 i : . • ~% .... 4 ,-.. , . -. !