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f r : o f r J us tice could not legally take cogmirance 7: c.bphooly. Blasphemy was a wilful misrepre - clar i on o f the attributes of the Deity, and here was ict o f Parliament which to lerated a dissent from 4:•• - e s Christian Deity. The Attorney-General had said 0 information was founded upon the Common Law. Tie starate Law was well known to take precedence, -1t was upon that Statute Law he g rounded his 1 1..- ' j,:itge to publish. There was certainly a part in . e j publication upon which the Attorney-General . ii i g Et have founded an indictment, but the reason , !voto ge was not taken of that circumstance was, o t 6c punishment could not equal that which it vai the turned Gentleman's disposition to inflict. T.s fact to which he alluded was that in which the ,i,j a ity of the old and new Scriptures was denied.— tvith reioect to the cant about Common Law, he (Mr. tsriile) declared that he knew not what it meant. .It u said by the Attorney-General to be seated in the . t r ast of the Judge ; but the mere did= of a Judge t is Sotto be taken as conclusive of what was just and FY ..411 laws should be understood. There should i er he a written Code, by which the People might be in booed of what it was necessary to adopt and reject. There was no written law to authorize the present prosecution. The Attorney-General had not told the hry what the defendant was to be tried for. He left that part of the business to his Lordship. He left it to the Judge to make out a case which he was cot able to make out himself—but he called upon the Jury to End a verdict of Guilty, and declared to them that they were bound by their oaths to do 50..1f that was p Ike case, where could be the use in giving the name r i Jury to those who were to decide. It was absurd ton! he had published with a malicious intention. fils object was to serve and not to injure mankind, ar,d there was not, he could prove, a word of im moral tendency in the whole publication. Mr. Car rie then spoke of Judge Hale, and ridiculed - the vhority of a man who had such belief in witch tuft as to sentence two poor women to be burned for toing practised that formidable but imaginary art. -The Attorney-General, whose speech was full of nritions, had dwelt much on the dangerous ten de...cy cf the publication; but he would ask to whom was 't dangerous? not to the learned, whom he ould not affect ; not to the lower orders, among vin it was not circulated, as few could afford to ear for it ; ar.d, although three thousand copies of the work had been sold since Jannary last, where t•as the proof of its having corrupted the mind of any one ? The speech of the Attorney-General was :othing but declamation and sophistry : bete& the :ary they are not to enquire whether the work was polished with a malicious intention or not ? The Learned Gentleman calls Paine's a gross attack.— He 13bIr. Carlile) did not know what religion the At tarney•General might now profess ; but he believed '..e once professed Unitarianism, which was the reli gion of his father and his family, and that he had held up his hand in that cause. The Attorney-Gen ceral had stated that Paine, in his calmer moments, had confessed the truth of Christianity ; but he (Mr. Carlile) doubted its truth; and he was confident Pinehad always doubted it. This was a:prosecution far difference of opinion ; and if Christianity could =protect itself, he thought it presumption In the Attorney-General to lend it his suppott. This, he thought, was a strong probf that he held the same 9inions as before he became a Law Officer of the Crov:n, The Christian GOD is stated to be a con cord of Three Persons ; the Articles 4 the Church vere full of these assertions : he had an idea of the idea, but a very different one from these Articles. — H.: dcnicd the assertion of the Attorney-General that he had deferred the trial ; since it might have come ^n in April last, if the Law Officers of the Crown tad wished it. The Attorney-General had stated, and the information set forth, that he had incurred thf displeasure of At.mionve GOD ; but he would ask 10 10 was to judge between him and his CREATOR ? The speech of the Attorney-General had, in fact, no '...Cr; tendency than to excite prejudices against him, to prevent him making his defence. He con t!:...ied, that there was not an immoral passage in the F...licatica fur which he was now on his trial. He ce , ::: - .ed candour and publicity only. hie:e :dr. CARLILE produced 'twelve copies of l''S'!•:,; Age of Reason, and was going to hand them I - , t,.., Jury, when he was interrupted by - 7 i.e LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, who stated, that he L.:. Lot wish to prevent the Jury from having every ;:,€?.,.-. GI judging of the question; but as the books . ( I ,:estion were not produced in evidence, the pro. `"‘:•r , g was irregular, and he did dot wish to do any '' . 7 • , ,-,,, sthich might be afterwards quoted as a proce 'lt. Besides, what proof was there of their being ' • ; , Des of the work, for the publication of which this 1. s, etution had been commenced. -'Jr. CARLILE pledged himself they were the same. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, if the Jury wished Lave copies, he did not object to it. 4r. CARLILE presumed his Lordship had given his . "LTA, and copies were immediately handed to the ''''-• lie then proceeded to read the title of the ' ,. ": - k and and the p re f ace , i n w hi c h h e h a d sta ted his ~ 't'''es for publishing the work, as truth was his only I-'ct• His firm conviction was, that the publica !... of it was essential to the interests and welfare - tile country ; and that his fellow citizens were prepared to discuss the subject; indeed, It `‘'• o, lly by reading Ltd perusing such works as these that the Age of Reason 'could commence.- - - He now entered on the work itself: he read Paine's avowed reasons for publishing it—his refutation of the charge of Atheism, made against him, for he believed in one Gon only, but not in the creeds of any Church. The sentiments of Paine were his, he was bold and confident, but did not condemn those of a contrary opinion. He now proceeded to read Paine's Age of Reason, without the slightest comment, and had en tered on that writer's examination of the Holy Scrip tures when we left the Court. It is the general opinion' that he will read the whole work to the Jury, whom, with the Judge, we left listening with great attention. —The Hall is excessively crowded, and great num 4)ers are accumulating in King-street. The Arch bishop of CANTERBURY is in attendance. We understand that Mr. BELLAMY, the author ofl the New. Translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew, is subpccned as a witness on the trial of Mr. CARLILE. • Raby Castle, the residence of an ancient and truly British family, was lately honoured by the presence of the Prince LEOPOLD, and his suite. On the ap proach of the illustrious visitant, his Royal Highness was drawn by the populace, through the park into the hall of the castle, and was saluted by the dis charge of 21 cannon. The Earl and Countess of DARLINGTON received their Royal guest with every other mark of honourable distinction, and with every possible token of English hospitality and dignified respect. Advices•• from Batavia of the beginning of May, state, that the English Expedition from Bengal, under Sir T. RAFFLES, consisting of several of the East In dia Company's cruizers, with troops on board, had arrived on the coast of Sumatra, to take possession of all the ports on the west side of the Island, which were ceded to the British by the King of ACHEEN. The Cadiz letters, received by the Mail of yester day, describe the situation of that place and neigh bourhood as very melancholy, in consequence of the contagion, which was making serious ravages. As the troops intended to go out in the expedition were dispersed, it was supposed the armament, if not to tally destroyed, was at least suspended for a chnsidera ble time• The impression with regard to the distem per still is, that it was brought to the Bay of Cadiz by the ASIA, 74, that arrived some time ago from the Havannah with money; and, for the sake of, landing which the usual restrictions were dispensed with, although the Captain on his arrival made due notification that he had the fever on board, and that he had lost 120 persons on the voyage horns. A hat-maker in Leeds, in order to suit the temper of the times, has a label stuck in his window—" Ra dical Hats sold here." A laundress in the same street, wishing to increase her custom, has stuck up a bill— " Radical's Shirts washed here." The Radical exhortations to sobriety have found their way to Ireland, where such advice may at least be as usefully given as in this country. From the Dublin Papers it appears, that the following inscrip tions are seen on the walls of that city, chalked in legible characters :—" Be sober."—" Be sober and free."—" Sobriety and Reform."—" Whiskey and Slavery:" " The Man that whihes to be free, " Must not use 'Whiskey, Wine, or Tea." Tuesday the tops of the western hills in Cumber land were covered with snow, being the first indica tion of the approach of winter. There is a holly-hock in a garden in Elgin, of this year's growth, now in full blow, of the extraordinary height of eleven feet. There is at present growing in the garden of kens Manse, Galloway, a holly-hock 15 feet in height, con sisting of four stalks all of the same elevation, and luxuriantly covered with different coloured blossoms. BETTING ROOM, OCTOBER 11. TMs being settling day for the disputed Leger there was much bustle and plenty of money exchanged. It had been stated, that although the Jockey Club bad decided that Antonio won the race, they had not decided that bets were to be paid, they were however, paid yesterday, as if no dispute had taken place ; but as usual on great races there were two or three defaulters. There was but little betting, it was as follows : 5 to 4 Boniface agst. Allegro, the match next Monday. DERBY. 15 to I apt. Mr. Pierse's Wizard colt, out of Lisette. 14 to 1 apt. Sailor. RICHMOND (YORKSHIRE) RACES, OCTOBER 5. Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, for three-yr-old fillies, Sat. 21b. - Once round the Course.—(Three Subscribers.) Mr. Pukinson's cb. Rosary, by Walter - - - 1 Sr J. Byng's bl. Marianne, by Sorcerer - - - 2 WEDNESDAY. Sweepstakes of 20gs each, for 5-yr-old colts, Bst. 21b. Allies gst, Once round,—(Six Subscribers.) • Mr. Lambton's b. c. Agricola - - - - - Mr. Cradock's b. c. Sir Walter - - - - - Mr. Riddel's ch. g. Whiteley - - - - Agricola the favourite ; an excellent race. The Dundas Stakes of 30gs each, Xogs. ft. for all ages. Onc round the Course.—(Seven Subscribers.). Mr. Riddell's br. h. Doctor Syntax, aged - - Lord Milton's br. f. Galatea, 3 yrs old - - Mr. Garforth's ch. e. Swift, 3 yrs old • - Duke of Leeds's ell. e. Mortimer, 3 yrs old - - 2 and 3 to 1 on the Doctor ; a good race. His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. for 5-yt-old mares 10st. 4 miles. ° I , Mr. G. L. Fox's ch. m. Trictrac Mr. Garforth's gr. m. Julia Mr. Hartley's b. m. Jenny Horner - - - - 3 2 to 1 on Trictrac; won easy. The Gold Cup value 100 g s. with 341. 4s. added, for all ages. Four miles. Mr. Garforth's b. c. Othn, by Sir Paul, 4 yrs old - Mr. Riddell's br. h. Doctor Syntax, aged - - - 9 A Handicap Sweepstakes of 3gs each for horses, &c. of all ages, with J.... 10 added. Once round. (Seven Subscribers.) Mr. Petre's b. h. Roman, 4 yrs old - - HUNTING. The Fife Hunt met at Cupar on Monday, the 27th ult. The Fox Hounds hunted on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, and had good sport. The meeting was more numerous than it has been for some years past. The Balls on Thursday and Fri day were attended by a great display of beauty and fashion. Thursday, the Stag was turned off, as usual, at Countess Pillar, in Brougham Parish and, after a chase of several miles, was taken at Poke Mill, in the River Lowther, near Eahtont-bridge, not far from the place of its starting. BOXING. Dustps, Ocroara B.—Donnelly has refused to fight Carter. Tuesday the friends of each of the combatants met, according to agreement, at the Committee-room, Fownes-street, for the purpose of adding 301. a-side, according to the original agreement. The backers of Donnelly were ready with the blunt, as were also the friends of Carter, when the Irish Champion declared off, giving as a remor. that 100 guineas, which had been promised to him, win or leer, had not been handed over. tilt Wait Mayor-General Sir T. BRADFORD, K.C.B. has taken the command of the forces in Scotland, to which he was recently appointed. Lieutenant-General Sir WILLIAM LUMLEt, k.C.B. is arrived at Portsmouth, to embark for Bermuda, of which Island he is appointed Governor. Captain ()Ares, of the Glengarry Fencibles, embarks with the General as his Aide-de-Camp. The 13th Regiment, Colonel Sir W. WILLIAMS, which left Portsmouth with the Rific! Brigade, arrived at Stirling the day before the Brigade reached Gies:- gow, and were immediately quartered in gtirli ng. Tuesday arrived at Portsmouth the Thomas and Mary transports, from St. Kitt's, out forty-two days, bringing detachments of troops. Wednesday arrived the Chapman, from Quebec, in twenty-seven days, with detachments of the 37th, 60th, and 70th Regi ments, and a party of Artillery. Tuesday thirty-six fine young men, enlisted in Scot land for the East India Company's Artillery and Inn fantry, embarked at Leith for the East India Depot at Chatham, previous to embarking for India. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 11.—Wind a—Arrived the Augusta, On.son, from Christiana ; Alexander, RITCHIL, from Riga ; ana the Harmony, WOODALL, from Demerara. Sailed the William, Gomm, for Trinidad; Comet, HALL, for New York; Columbus, Aux's, for Jamaica; Governor Harcourt, Wu.v.os, for Deme rara; Bacchus, HoncsoN, for Algiers; Eliza, FIELD, for New South Wales ; Oromocto, STRICKLAND, for Bombay ; and the Active, JEFFERSON, for Gibraltar. DEAL, Ocroaxa 11.—Wind S. E—Sailsd the Regent, An nERSON, for New South Wales. Came down from the River and sailed the Lonach, Diuseort., for Bombay ; and Medina, KENNEDY, for Jamaica. Facstourn, OCTOBER 9.—Virind Soutb.—Arrived the Nautilus, Atatxws, from Plymouth for St. Michael's. }btman, OCTOBZR 11.—Arrived the Lady Nepean packet, with a mail from Cuxhaven.—Wind S.F. Liantaicic, OCTOBER 7.—Arrived the Amiable, Earcessit, from Philadelphia. In coming up the river she got on shore a little below the Pool, but was got off the following tide, with considerable damage. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The proportions of Prite-money due to the Ramillies, Mar tin, Terror, Borer, and Bream, for property captured at, Moose Island, has been paid into Greenwich Hospital, to be claimed. The Heron, for sundry vessels, on the 20th inst. at No. 3, Clifford's Inn, and recalled every Wednesday and Thursday for three months. _ The Rota, for the Good Intent and Henrietta, on the 16th inst. at No. 15, Surroy-street, Strand, and recalled there. THE REVENUE. ABSTRACT of the NET PRODUCE of the REVENUE of GREAT BRITAIN (exclusive of the Arrears of War Duty on Malt and Property), in the Years and Quarters ended 10th Oct. 1817, 10th Oct. 1818, and 10th Oct.lBl9—sheaving the Increastt or Decrease on each head thereof. YEARS. Years ended 10th October. Increasc as com pared with 1818. 1817. 1818. 1819. Decrease as com pared with " 1818. 1 19,828,821 6,232,213 1,349,006 6,001,99! 1,197,841 297,65: 145,840,125 In &Ito& • 114: . . Excise Stamps Post Office Assessed Taxes Land Taxes . • Deduct Decrease Increase in 1819, as compared with the Year 1817 QUARTERS. Quarters ended 10th October. 3,669,754 1 5,866,8041 1,672,165 360,000 787,426 181,801 49,150 112,587,11 2,753,167 5,674,687 1,575,437 375,000 781,441 198,17' 77,621 111,435,54 , Deduct 1ncrea5e..... ....... !Decrease as compared with the Quarter 18181 Increase SS com pared with 1817. 7114,851 7,675 821' 814;,55 483,161 111,104,357 Customs Excise Postoffice Ass. Taxes Land Do. Customs Excise —I Post office' Au. Taxes Land Do. Miscellan. 3,121,950 4,889,836 1,688,663 354,000 782,602 190,502 76,799 in Custom • Excise Stamps Post Office .... Assessed Taxes Land Taxes Deduct Decrease Increase in 1919, as compared with the Quarter 1817..4. 331,1 , Saturday se'nnight, as Mr. Rooke, of Chale, was sinking a well, the damp suddenly overpowered him, and his son who was near, perceiving the danger, rushed to his assistance, and sacrificed his own lite in saving that of his father. Monday se'nnight, a melancholy occurrence took place in one of the coal pits of H. Fenton, near Ro therham, The inflammable air caught fire, and caused a tremendous explosion of four persons em ployed in the pit, two were instantly killL.i, and the remainder dreadfully blunt. , ' 10,548,11 1 ,e 6,427,971 1,539,00 6,173,95 1,154,92 490,02' 6,411,441 1,416,001 6,178,431 1,199,734 349,05. - 1 - 1,,289,30847,920, Deduct Increase compared with the Year 181: Increase as com pared with 1817. I 650,221 :31154,051 1 ,4,080,2 , Increase u com pared with 1818. Labs; ocTOPEN ltls Some large orders for coat-se Cloths have been fe4 ceived within these few days from Russia, and mote considerable demands are expected, as the Examiners (natives of Russia), who were here at the termination of the lite hostilities; have written over tb the per• sons whom they were then With ) tb *say, that they are preparing to come hither. The Cloth business (as I have already observed), it brisker at the present time than it has been for mats months past ; but there are still many hundreds of persons (I might say thousands) out of employment, who refuse to work unless the " Statement Prices" are agreed to. To the honour of what w e termed the small Masters and Manufacturers, these " State+ ment Prices" have been agreed to ; but some of the owners of the over-grown Mills and I'actories refuse to accede to what both common honesty and neces+ sity so imperiously demand. So great an interest has been excited by the ap proaching County Meeting, that every chaise, car, cart, and horse, in this town and neighbourhood, have been some days past engaged for York ; And, although the Castle •yard occupies more than an acre of ground, some apprehensions are entertained that it will not contain half the expected assembly ; in which case, it is supposed, the Meeting will be ad journed to Knavesmire (the Race Course), where there will be sufficient room to accommodate the assembly, however large. Public Meetings are announced for Dewsbury, Huddersfield, Keighley, and every place of note, in this County, to take into consideration the proceed. ings at Manchester on the 16th of August, and no other topic whatever is to be brought forward at them. As soon after the York Cbunty Meeting as conve nient, there is to be a grand District Meeting of the Radical Reformers, to be held in a central part of the West Riding of this County. MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 10. X 965,383 215,821 14b,965 j 1,522,149 953,408 368,941 Decrease as com pared with IRI7. 20,764 20,764 Decrease as com pared with 1818. 916,587 192,117 96,728 5,978 1,.211,410 59,854 11,151,556 Decrease as com pared with 1817. 368,783 .113,226 1,154 483,163 In the hurry of dispatchihg my express yesterday evening, I omitted to mention a legal argument ad vanced by Mr. AsitwoaTit, which, if it had any weight, must have rendered the greater part of the evidence adduced totally superfluous. The Learned Gentleman maintained, that accord ing to the statute of 24th ,George 11. persons en gaged in the execution of any warrant issued by competent authority, were not responsible for any act connected with the execution of such warrant ; and soldiers, who by becoming so did riot cease to be citizens, were as much entitled to the protection of this law as any other class of persons. But that such was the law of the land was, he conceived, dis tinctly recognized in the case of Sir Francis Burdett v. the Serjeant at Arms, where Chief Justice Mans- 1 field so declared it. That case was no doubt a civil action, but then the principle upon which the deci sion of Chief Justice Mansfield rested, was quite the same as that which applied on the present occasion; for here the soldiery were called in to assist in the execution of a legal warrant, and for any events ne cessarily arising out of their endeavours to execute that warrant they could not be deemed responsible. Hence he argued that the Learned Gentlemen on the other side were quite out of Court. Mr. HARMER contended, that the case of Sir Francis Burdett, upon which the Learned Gentle man so emphatically dwelt, had no analogy to the present. For in the case of Sir F. Burdett, the eke cution of the warrant was resisted, and in conse quence of that resistance the aid of the military was called in. But here there was no resistance what ever to the execution of the warrant, a regular line of special constables being formed up to within a short distance of the hustings, and thus remaining undisturbed, until Nadin, who admitted that he walked to and fro between this line, without itrre ceiving any molestatio thought proper to with draw these constables, • er to make room for the charge of the Yeomanry, r rather to preserve them from being trampled upon. This, too, be it remem bered, took place without any attempt having been previously made by the Civil Power to carry the warrant into execution. Was such a course consis tent with the principles of British Law, which for bade the introduction of the Military, in any case where it was not indispensably necessary to the exe cution of a warrant? And in this case he maintained that there was no necessity for the employment of the Military, as appeared from the evidence before the Court, as well with respect to the peaceable cha racter of the Meeting, as to the undisturbed proceed ings and arrangements of the special constables. Yet through this unfortunate and unnecessary employ ment of the Military, murder had been committed, and for this crime all the parties concerned were le gally responsible. But it was evident, from the testi mony before the Court, that cutting and maiming had taken place after the warrant alluded to was car ried into execution, and the parties to whom it re ferred were taken from Sr. Peter's-field; nay, several persons were wounded by the Manchester Yeomanry . . ur C r , S , I ,•~ ~~ {; SIM 'iii iI 11 It lit 211. , i` ,11 )ersons were wuunueu uy cnc inAucurster Levu - iamb order circumstances totally unconnected with the 111 . i ' execution of the warrant ; and would the Learned g ' 3entleman extend his law to the protection of the • . I i lelinquents in such cases ? If he would, he could not iesitate to express his conviction, that an honest Jury l i would not be influenced by his opinion. The CORONER made no observation. • % , If Mr. ASHWORTH'S legal opinion were correct, the i il,i greater part of the Inquest has been a waste of time. r I The remainder of the evidence to be adduced by Mr. HARMER will refer, I understand, to the identi- il; fication of the Yeomanry and others concerned in . . , . actually assailing or injuring the people ;and the In- quest is expected to terminate on Thursday or Friday, if there be no farther adjournment. . . Monday se'nnight, between eleven- and twelve ' .1 o'clock at night, a fire broke out in the stables be- .. longing to the George Inn, Perth. Notwithstanding ' 1 the utmost exertions of all ranks, four houses and a ! granary were destroyed, and ten tine horses were brunt to death in the stales. . . . . . :. ..- 1817. 1818. 1819. 8516,7! 44,81( 67,00( 176,43( ,101,01 20,71 15,000 16,376 28,478 I '