Star. — London, England, 1819-10-14 00:00:00

"•••• •••% •••• • ••• • !, Nib \,rfLa g efellNG STAB, LONDON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1819. TFIE•FUNDS.- OF STOCKS THIS DAY All ONE O'CLOCK : Bank Stock 218 3 per Cent. Reduced 67168 ex. div. 3 per Cent. Consoh 6411 4 per Cent. 8511 ex. div. 5 per Cent. Navy 10311 Bank Long Annuities 17 15-16 India' Stock 210 Exchequer Bills (2d.) par 2s. dis. Omnium, s pre. par. Consols for Nov. 6811 691 69. This being Settling Day, the 'Change was crowded Carly. The variation during this Account has not been more than 31 per Cent. and, therefore, the dif ferences are not so heavy as they were the two last Accounts. No Defaulter was declared up to one o'clock; but the Market looks extremely heavy. Consols began this morning at 65.4, and one great Bull House has been selling to an immense amount. 'or the November Account, Consuls are 63. It is expected that CARLILES trial, of which we have given the continuation till our hour of going to Press, will be finished this day. In our fourth page we have given a full account of the Meeting at Carlisle on Monday last. The Ma • gistrates wer n attendance to maintain the public peace, but ga no inter uption to the Meeting, which dispersed very quietly after the business for which it had assembled was gone through. The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this forenoon. They quote a notification issued by the Board of Quarantine of Copenhagen, according to which Cadiz, Constantinople, Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, Smyrna, Alexandria, Narrenta (in Dalmatia), and the Isle of, Corfu, are declared to be infected with the Plague ; and all the Potts of the Mediterranean and Adriatic, the Ports of Turkey, Barbary, the West Indies, and South America, to be suspected. The Elector of Ilesse has published an Address to " his beloved subjects," in which he communicates to them the appointment by the German Diet of the Central Committee at Alen:T., for the investigation of attempts against the public tranquillity, informs them, that the Committee ate empowered, not only to demand the arrest of suspected persons, but also to have them conveyed to Menu, there to remain until the termination or the investigation respecting them, and their sentence has been pronounced, and informs them. that he is not only ready to assist in carrying the views of the Diet into execution, but will also declare such of them as shall be found guilty of engaging in seditious n. , nd treasonable Associations, unworthy of the fleEtian name, outcasts from his people, and to have forfeited the lights of citizenship. Whether the measures of the German Sovereigns will be attended with the results which they evi dently expect from them is a point which we may well doubt. Persecution is not the way to put down either religi.nis or political opinions. The discon tent, or rather disaffection, already great, will be very much heightened by the dreadful Inquisition' about to be established. The French are by no means itdifferent spectators of these transactions in Germany. They see that the Sovereigns of that country have for ever deprived themselves of the means of becoming formidable to, them. The Constitutionnel observes—" The Ultra- Monarchists threaten us with foreign bayonets. But the times are changed ; it was not with their armies that the Kings of Europe invaded France, it was with their people ; it was with the enthusiasm of indepen dence, and the hopes of liberty. Their Ministers have deprived them of these resources, which are all now on one side. " What Prince would now be rash enough to send his armies against the French people, whose courage misfortune could not cast down ; and who would take arms, not to defend despotism, but to maintain their liberty ? Would not every soldier be a hero ? Would not all those veterans of glory, who are in flamed at the very name of country, and who breathe only for honour, fly to the field of battle? No-- Prancefears noforeigners—she respects the indepen dence of the people of other countries, and is able to cause tier own independence to be respected." Yesterday, the Duke of WELLINGTON bad an au dience of the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton House. A Morning Paper states, as a rumour„ gaining ground, that Lord SIDMOUTII is to be sacrificed to the indignation of the country, and that Lord CoL etrarrza is pointed out as his successor." We know not on what authority this statement rests : the ru mour has probably but a very slight foundation. E..ton Hail, in Cheshire, the noble seat of the Earl of GnosvEmon, is, at this time, the seat of much gaiety, in consequence of the recent marriage of Lord BEL GRAVE; amongst the persons of distinction now on a visit there, are the Maiquis and Marchioness of Sr Av ivito, and Sir R. and Lady Ramie. The Requisition for the Cumberland Meeting, signed by 136 of the principal landholders and people of property, praying the SarRLFI to call a Meeting of the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, and Free holders, to be holden at Wigton, was acceded to by the Stumm who appointed Wednesday, the 13th instant (yesterday) for the said Meeting. F - .. MR. CARLrLE'S TRIAL• V•Rof..• COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHAU. SECOND DAY--(Coatinued from the firAs of ytiterday.) Mr. CARLILE, after alluding to the . doctrines of Johanna Southcote, and others who had not been pro secuted, proceeded to read an acc ount of the life of Martin Luther ; and observed, that if he was to be punished for his publications, those who persecuted '-Luther were justified in their conduct. Luther had opposed the established Religion of his country; but it happened, unfortunately for him, that before the Pope could get hold of him, he obtained the protec tion of the Elector of Saxony. He would not com pare his humble efforts to those of Luther, if they were not exerted in the same cause—the promotion of truth. Like Luther, he would rather persist in his course than retract what he conceived to be truth; and he hoped he should find the Jury disposed to pro tect him against the Attorney-General, as the Elector of Saxony had protected Luther against the Church of Rome. He did not ask them to adopt his opinion ; but if they were convinced that his object was fair inves tigation and the search of truth, they would not, surely, turn him over to the Attorney-General ? Had their ancestors not resisted superstition, the Jury would not be now sitting in that box, and he would have been delivered up to the Inquisition for his opi nions. Look to Spain—there they would see the effects of an Inquisition. He would ask them what was the state of morals in that and other countries where the same system was followed ? There assassins were protected by the Clergy, and the patriot who wished to deliver his country from oppression was sent to the scaffold. There the Jury would see the effects of an established religion supported by law. He then repeated his argument, that the late Act of Parliament protected persons holding his opinions as well as Unitarians. He could not conceive how a declaration of disbelief could be called blasphemy. He was prosecuted for not believing facts, for the truth of which he could not find evidence sufficient to con vince his mind. It was rather too much to try to compel him to believe what he could not believe. It surely was a great hardship to say, that a maR was to be punished for 'denying a proposition which he thought repugnant to his reason, even if that denial be founded in error. lie then referred 'to the Gos pels of St. Matthew and St. Luke, to shew that they had given diff,!rent accounts of the birth of Christ. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL again appealed to the Court. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE did not understand what object the defendant could have in the reference he was making. Mr. CARLILE thought he was justified in the re ference, from its connexien with a passage in The Age of Reason, for which he was indicted: it related to that part of the Scripture which a particular sect was now allowed by law to reject. 'The Loan CnirF JUSrIFE•-" But not to revile." Mr. CARLILE.—" To reject a thing as false is not revile it." After some further observatiens, his Lordship &- sized the defendant to proceed, but hoped that he would keep within the bounds of moderation, Mr. CARLILE then referred to the Unitarian edi don of the New Testament, in which whole passages were omitted, on the ground of their being false.— Here he quoted Revelations, chap. iiii. v. 18 and 19: For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, Goy shall add unto him the plagueA that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of this book of the pro phecy, GOD shall take away his part out of the book of life," &c. Ncw the Unitarians has e actually taken away and rejected a great part of the New Testament. In his opinion, to reject the Trinity was to take away Christianity. The Unitarian, indeed, appeared to be nothing but a Deist under a cloak. lie intended to have prepared to-morrow to shew that there were fifty Gospels OK isting before the Council of Nice, but in consequence of his chain of defence being broken, he could not go on. His only wish for discussion was to ascertain the truth ; but it appeared that there was no desire to confute him; all that was wanted was to punish him. Could the truth of Christianity be proved by any penalty which he might endure ? It had also been his intention to introduce to the Jury the Works of Bolingbroke, Gibbon, and Hume, and to shew that they had gone as far as Paine with im punity, Gibbon had done insidiously what Paine had done openly and honestly. Hume had advo cated Atheism, while Paine's Works were full of ele vated sentiments on the character of the DEITY, and the soundest morality. Why was he denied the right of justifying his belief? If the Attorney-General had not sofnething to fear from the effects of that justifi cation, would he shelter himself under the Statute of William and Mary, or under the Common Law, which was founded on the mere dictum of any Judge? There was, however, a written Law, a Statute, to which he appealed, but he was denied the benefit of it. Had it not been for that Statute, he would not, as he had already said, have _published The Age of - Itea;on. That Statute, he coz!ended, was the tolera tion of Deism. As he had been deranged in his de fence, he thought it would be but justice for the Court to adjourn till to-morrow morning, to give him tinre for fresh preparation. The LORD CHILE JUSTICE.—" For what other pur pose do you wish the Court to adjourn ?" Mr. CARLILE said, he intended to call a number of witnesses. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE had again and again stated, that no defence which tended to deny the Di vine authority of the Christian Religion could be ad mitted. If Hnme or Gibbon were to be referred to for that purpose, neither could be read. The evidence of witnesses for the same purpose was liable to the like objection; and as for the moral character of the defendant, that was not in question. Mr. CARI.ILE wished to call different sectaries; because, in stating their opinions, the Jury would see how diffetent the grounds of their belief were. He would also have called Jews and Mahomedans. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE could not permit per sons of different sects to come there to give an ac ' count of their faith ; still less could he allow any to stand up and deny the Christian Religion. He could see no object in calling such evidence, unless it was for the purpose of drawing a conclusion which he could not permit the defendant to come to. His Lordship afterwards observed, that the question*as t Whether the book for which the defendant was hi dicted was a lawful, calm, dispassionate inquiry, or a book of calumny and reviling? Mr. CARLILE intended to bring witnesses to shew that there were essential differences between the ori ginal Scriptures and the Translation. Mr Bellamy, he observed, gave it as his opinion, that the passages objected to by Paine were not in the original. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE again remnided the de fendant, that the book he was indicted for did not question the accuracy of the translation of the Scrip tures, but charged the whole as false. Mr. CARLILE said, he intended to bring Locke and other authors to shew the necessity of toleration, and requested the Court to adjourn for tbitt purpose. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that tolera tion was allowed by law. But if the defendant wished to produce authors to shew that the Christian Reli- 1 gion might be denied, that could not be allowed. If the evidence was of this character, it was inadmis sible; and if of the other, the defendant would not suffer by the want of it, because that toleration was conceded to him. After much further observation, Mr. CARLILE said he had a great deal of impor tant matter to introduce in his defence, but that the interruption he had experienced had deranged him. He was also quite exhausted, having tasted nothing but water all day. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, he could not ad journ unless the defendant shewed that the matter he wished to introduce was relevant to his defence. He was placed in a very painful situation, between his wish to grant indulgence to the defendant, and the consideration, that, as an English Jude, he could not suffer the truth of the Christian Religion to be impugned. The defendant had, unfortunately, con sumed his strength in a struggle to introduce into his defence matter which was inadmissible. After some further conversation, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE inquired, whether the Ju try wished to adjourn? The Jury intimated that they did. An adjciurnment was then consented to, upon a pledge being given by Mr. CARLILE that he would not seek to introduce into the conclusion of his de fence any matter which had been decided by the Court to be inadmissible. Adjourned to half-past nine this morning. THIRD DAY. The Court Was more crowded this morning than it was yesterday. As soon as Mr. CARLILE made his appearance, Mr. Sheriff PARKYNS rose, and addressed him : " Mr. Carlile--I have been given to understand that you have met with some interruption in getting into Court certain books you require for your defence. Will you inform me by whom you have been inter rupted? It is painful to have such an imputation thrown on the Court, after the great attention which has been paid to secure order." Mr. CARLILE explained, that he had, indeed, been thrown into great embarrass lent on Tuesday, for the want of some books which he requited ; but that he had since found, that two partels of books, which he chiefly missed, had been left in a hackney coach by the persons whom he had entrusted to bring them to Court. Mr. Sheriff PARRYNS was glad at the explanation that had been given, that it might not go forth to the world that any obstacle had been thrown in the way of the defendant. Mr. Sheriff Rornwetr. appealed tt) Mr. Carlile, whether he had not personally stated to him his anxiety to do every thing he could for his accom modation ? Mr. CARLILE bowed his assent. Mt. HUNT had, by this time, entered the Court ) and placed himself on the right of Mr. CARLILE. The Orme JUSTICE shortly afterwards took his seat on the Bench. He was followed from the Judges' Room by the High Priest of the Jews, who was ac commodated with a seat beside the Sheriffs. The Archbishop of CANtEREVRY is also in attendance, but remains in the Judges' Room. The Jury having been called over, and impanelled, Mr. CARLILE rose— " Gentlemen of the Jurrnia stand pledged to ab• stain from any farther observations on the Old and New Testaments, which may be offensive to the most scrupulous believer in Court, excepting only such as I am absolutely obliged by this prosecution to make. 1 1 fear much that my want of practice in public speak ing, and my previous habits of life, may have dis qualified me from delivering those sentitnents which I intended to convey to you, with that order and clear ness which I could have wished ; yet I cannot help thinking, that had I not met with so many annoying interruptions, I should not have offended so much in these respects as I am apprehensive I did. have all along felt, and I still feel, that I am an object of prejudice and misrepresentation —that I am marked out as a victim, for openly believing certain opinions to be true, and'publishing them, be cause I believe them to be so. If my defence has' not been of the best order, I flatter myself that it , must at least have been such as to shew you the purity of the motives by which I am actuated ; that I am not a wicked, a malicious, or an evil disposed man, merely because I have published the Theolo gical Works of Thomas Paine. Most deeply do I deplore, that I haVe not that eloquence which might give to the truth all that persuasive force of which it is susceptible; but it 'is no more in my power to command the gift of speaking . as I c )uld wish, than it is in the power yf the. Attorney-General to make me think as he desires.---.lf t have succeeded in convincing you of the sincerity -f heart, I have done all that I wish. I shall ha dane my duty : it will remain with you to d o y our Before, however, proceeding to deliberate on si,; ;; , t ,you have heard, I entreat you to remember the gn u solemnity of the subject on which you are air ( ' upo n to give your decision. .I entreat you to rem that all the advantages which have been ever to society, have been gained by men of horectv a n d sincerity—gained by them ftom the clutches and the grasp of the oppressor. CHRIST hill): ; C: a Refol nner—a great sufferer for cnizscience CIiRIST himself was prosecuted for blaspLemy; and, as there was no Trial by Jury in Jerusalem, the At. torney-General of the day got a Judge to cord ,m 1 t a i l h a y t t e d t n e i i i n n o o:i e t t nre h d o , him to death. Yes, Gentlemen, the very Foimeer or Christianity was executed for opposing the EstaEho:. ed Religion of the country in which he lived Remember, too, Gentlemen, that every man who ha. conferred ehde,ir benefit rbeevsitleidn to:nraensdt smankind,interests, rssecbeeu b tn y e ed en lu l a a s tta to ck t have struggled the longest, who have cc - Serred the greatest blessings on society, have always been those who have suffered the most. In me, Gentlemen, )ca see but an humble individual—the humblest among the humble of my countrymen—but you see one uha is acting from the purest motives. For me there is neither hope nor expectation of reward. I look not up to office; I aspire not after place of emolument. No, Gentlemen !—As things go, even the laced hat and coat of a parish beadle would, on any occasion, far rather be given to the most dissolute and worthle l hypocrite that ever breathed, than to a man who has the honesty to think for himself, and the courage to tell others what he thinks. You see me, Gentlemen, as I am, without the slightest disguise. Not a word of deception have I made use of in the course of my defence. I have endeavoured to make my ob;ec! throughout as clear to you as the sun at noon day I have laid my heart open to you—you may hare read it, as the Public have read my pttblcations. To you, Gentlemen, I now make my final appeal. I appeal to you, not as men merely: I have brcught with me several Works, written by men of the Chrs tian Faith, in passages extracted from which I shal appeal to you as Christians. One word, howeser, before I proceed, as to the restriction which has been imposed on my line of defence by the Ct I have not been permitted, Gentlemen, to go ir.:o certain evidence, which I considered, and do still consider, as absolutely essential to that defence ; bu: I do say, that this trial will be no ether than solemn mockery, unless you, Gentlemen of the Jury, can imagine to yourselves all the course which I meant to pursue—unless you can suppose, in rest minds, and give du. weight to, all I wt,uld have sal,?, but was not permitted to say. I feel, Gc very sensible of the patient attention with you have heard me; I fear I have trespassed too much upon your indulgence, but I hope I shall net do so now, in the very little that I have got to add. —I believe, Gentlemen, that this prosecution will be the last at the kind instituted in this country. There has been, during the last century, a growing sense of the impolicy and folly of prosecuting such works ai the Age of Reason ; but those are always the last to learn who would be most benefited by experience. Crown Lawyers are bad judges of the progress of human improvement. While others are speedin; as giants in the race of knowledge, Lawyers stand fixed as mile -stones by the way-side. Gentlemen, I 1:all now crave your attention to the sentiments of some of the Christian Authors to whom I have before al luded. The first is the Rev. Mr. Evans, who, Irl as excellent little work, of which many thousand: xe sold annually—his History of the different Dencmi nations of Religion—thus expresses himself—:llre Mr. Carlile read a couple of pages from Mr. EVIVS work, the import of which was, that in Mr. Eran“ opinion Deism should not be prosecuted .:-1 e next, Gentlemen, to request your attention to Essay, by the Rev. Dr. Enfield, on the questirn— Ought freed, m of enquiry to be restrained It is headed with the following motto, wllch i'• believe, a quotation from the Bishop of LiandaE, the Author of the Apology for the Bikk•••= GOD forbid that the search after truth should be punished from any fear of the consequences.' " The defendant, after he had made numerous qvo tations from this Essay, stated, that it might not be unnecesary at that Moment to mention that, in Ame rica Paine's Works were in very general circulation; and even in our learned Institutions in this country copies were to be seen and read by all who had ac cess to them. He then quoted largely from a v-c-: upon the Inquisition and a history of the persecut:o ,3 of the Christians, in the latter of which the character of our SAVIOUR was drawn with much eloquence. Mr. Carlile then proceeded to observe, that his pro secutors were, in his firm opinion, under some extra ordinary influence. He believed the Learned Jude was opposed to the plan of bringing the matter o;:o Court, and, from his knowledge of the Attorne; General's views upon the question, nothing, he sure, could be farther from that Law Offico ., thoughts, than the wish tc, appear prominent i conducting the prosecution. The natural intmena to be drawn from the proceeding adopted Iva , ' that the Attorney-General, as well as the Judl was the mere instrument of some other The situation iu which he (Mr. Guide; swots • indeed, an extraordinary one; for he was 1 II • 4 rf pm ! . ha., pt your), e gro r •dn ixa a memb er , gain . is ms.ty an d row el , 't . 1 *m.e.— e 11 Y ; and, ,S( the At.: s! or.ds.:trn IE ande r stahi h. en ived.-- who h a : d ng them a nonnced, iose wh o erred the e een those men, )ca A among- one uhn 111 e there is 1 look not •a nolument. e. :d hat and asion, fa; worthle l n who has outage to .1 entlemen, im of a word Itse of my my Wet.: noon day may have ltiOns. To appeal. I • re brought the Chr:s. licit I si.al , however, :It has been e Court.— to go into • nd do stiil fence m bu: ier than >f the Jury, se which I se, in ycsr have said, Gentlemen, Nith uhiLh ;passed too I shall net got to add. tion will be tty. Them ing sense of :h works as m the last to experience. progtess of speedin; as stand fixed men, I scall its of some a before al- who, in an Dusands axe nt elf—:llere Nit. Evni'S tfim. Er arc'l e ttion to :ma questien— rst,-ained • ' which is. I land aE, the 30D forbid hhed from erntis gm:m- i g ht not be at, in Ante- :im culation ; his counts} ho had az- om a ..-crk wrsecutV:a e character eloquence. lat his pro- ;o extra- riled Judse matter ist:o Attorne;•- ng , w Officmmr eminent m rl inference opted vas. the Judge mmtluemice. — stood ' • t.. 111 it ! ~' 11 1 k