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' I • • '. • g yre that Christianity w* noting bat of those who advocate toleration. :all Ca attention of the Jury to the Ingo great man, the immortal Locke, that ail the absurdities that had been raised and folly in the Christian World.— then read several passages from Locke, a striking contrast to the line of ar ;anced by him in his defence After le this, as emphatically as he could, he there having been dropped yesterday upon the subject of blasphemy, which e r an unpleasant feeling, it might not be. ty something at that moment upon the ie considered, that to think of speaking b lftaihSt GOD was vain and idle. Bias said. to be nothing else than evil speaking llasphemy might be applied between man In d was generally called libel t it meant I of a man, and might be prosecuted in a ,aw ; but what need was there, in a Cour: of attempting to protect the character of It by no means accorded with his ideas and irtue, to be guilty of such pre- Blasphemy was then nothing more than md, and had no effect upon the mind. Ltts now commenced reading a pamphlet, entitled " The Christian Reformer for the ," to prove that there could be no blas airst GOD, nor against the Scripture; and '.,ccute religious enthusiasm, which was but dream, wus as preposterous and as unjust 1 lunatics in Bedlam for treason or bias his, said he, was a work edited by the Rev. ,pla:td—Ca well-known Unitarian preacher, the side of Mr. Hene on his trials3—who ion preached five years before, contended ie authority of the State in matters of reli nion—tnat as our LORD and the Apostles, • propagated Christianity, did not place it patronage of the State, hence worldly au ight not to interfere, or to place the con an individual against that of a community. clue Chief-Justice retired for a few minutes, had resumed his seat, %RULE: proceeded—" I shall now quote iu:hority, that of a Tract, written by the stopher Wyvill, entitled, • Intolerance, the cf Christianity.' The ears of the Court ;e at the words of this great man, who still ornament to our age. This Tract was in ion cf all persecution for religious opinions, particularly to Sir Thomas More, who, al a herwise distinguished by virtue, purity, riotism, and sincerely attached to Religion, :ted with the guilt of torturing and de the Reformers, in contradiction to that pre. CHRIST, which said, love one another ; he that denieth Ms, shall be denied be. Angels of (ion: Tract next noticed the religious toleration in a, which it contrasted with the persecutions !t. countries; these, however, it attributed to the professors of Christianity, for the Gos fif was pure, and breathed in every page, :sr., candour, and liberality; the persecutions icc, under Louis XV. called forth Voltaire, ibe.tered his zeal against religion. Ilad the been tolerant, or Voltaire not have judged of i by that of France, he might have been a pan. The Church of England had nothing to :flier as to safety or power, from religions ion, and the laws should not punish men ming different opinions of religion from those State. :a Mr. CA RLIL E had finished reading this pant ;wok up a volume of Tillotson's Sermons, "Towering above all authorities rises the truth in the person of Archbishop Tillot b:g,ary writhed beneath his power; he was the . 1 ;::a of the honest, and the glory of English but he did not escape the charge of heresy —fidelity, although he filled the high office of )111 , -,p of Canterbury." .er re 7; ling a few passages from one of the Arch , S.-rrnons, asserting the right of religious tole th it, if Religion was too good to be ems :...tred it was too bad to be believed, • r I. E continued:" I could have read nu . p.,:iges from these sermons, to spew the L!.f. , ..starlon of persecution; but, Gentlemen 1 -:y, yua kilt;w his worth too well, and though is too feeble for his praise, I may be ex :'t sii ag my humble admiration of his exalted . ( i , :ntic:nen, had more time elapsed since I • )esterday, or my sleep been re. I c mld in a foy hours have collected more gal l rill this table in favour of a free ';' ) lt'ligious opinions, and against persecution . .!:;ic Works by the greatest and chiefest to which this land has given birth; ;:ecessatily intrude on your patience. :.; -• cloisters of ecclesiastical power '7 per,,:cut ion are not now to be found, • ''.r • .vgh their domes in silence and :: •• : 2i. ke Vampires, to be met with in our 1 ! ' L squinting through the parchment ' information.—Mr. Carlile next •P., : ;t't by Dr. Squire, to the SAM! pur- authorities ant a, letter written Fuulcs% to Sir William Blackstone re- tpeeting a passage on Religious Toleration k the Learned Judge's Commentaries. Mr. CARLILk begged that the Jury would calmly and deliberately consider, whether he appeared to have any bad view in publishing sentiments which he had done every thing in his power to prove he che rished and adopted tiom principle. He had heard that an impression to his prejudice had been already received by the Jury, and that there was little doubt of a conviction; in which case, it was his.intention to move for a new trial. But before any determination was come to, he trusted those before wham he stood would reflect, that if a verdict of Guilty were found against him, the utmost punishment the vengeance of his persecutors could inflict would await him.— They were to consider that a mass of prosecutions still awaited him from the same vindictive source, and that on a former occasion the Crown had thought proper to let go by an opportunity upon which it would have been defeated, as it had been under the hands of Mr. Hone. The Jury were to consider that ruin would be the inevitable consequence of conviction; for pecuniary penalties, as well as a long imprison ment, would most certainly be visited upon him. They were to consider that the liberty of the press, with which nothing should be allowed to interfere, was at stake, and that the verdict must either support it , against the enemies of all freedom of thought, or , deliver it into the custody of those who would keep it safe, and never let it wander again." It was the general opinion that Mr. CARLILE was here about to conclude; but it was a mistake. He again proceeded in the old track, and told the Jury he should, he still hoped, be able to convince them that he was entitled to a verdict of acquittal. He ' sp:,ke of other authorities in favour of his opinions, and declared that he was himself an Unitarian, though not an Unitarian of the Christian kind. He commended the bold spirit that animated Paine in his public attack upon Christianity, which attack had so effectually removed the veil of error which had been placed before the eyes of the world by a crafty and designing priesthood. Mr. Cathie entered into a general praise of those who risked ' their own safety from their love of truth, which could not be more accurately ascertained than by an exa mination of all religious disputations. He then took bold of several books and began to read one which did not appear to have a tendency to serve his cause, and in this situation we left him. According to letters from Madrid, Lieutenant- General Don NEMECIO SALCEDO had been appointed Minister to the United States of America. The ra- wages of the yellow fever at Cadiz and San Fernando are unhappily increasing. At the former place up wards of 3,000 were sick on the 20th ult. aid the deaths were, on the 17th, 37; the 18th, 44; the 19th, 45 ; and the 20th, 56. At San Fernando the deaths were, on the 15th, 48; the 16th, 43; the 17th, 50; and 18th, 62 ; and the number of sick upwards of 4,000. The following i-; an extract of a private letter from Liverpool, dated October 9:—" The Betty, Captain WEDGEWOOD, arrived here this day from Philadel phia, with upwards of 160 men, women, and chil dren, returnesii emigrants. The tide of emigration has turned, and those poor creatures who have been in duced to leave their country, their homes, and friends, from the flattering prospects held out to them of that land of plenty and freedom (the United States), are now happy if they can find the means of paying their passage to return to Old England." An Englishman who lately ascended Vesuvius, and approached too near the crater, had his arm broken by a stone thrown up by the mountain, and suffered amputation. Monday se'nnight the remains of the late Lady Essex Kaa arrived at Kelso, and were deposited in an apartment in the Cross Keys Inn, where they lay in state till the following day. They were then con veyed, with much funereal pomp, to the family vault of the House of Roxburgh. The workmen in the King's Printing-office, Edin burgh, from their contributions of a penny per week, have purchased forty large New Testaments, and presented them to the Committee of the Edinburgh Middle District Bible Socicty, for distribution among poor and aged women. The Magistrates of Glasgow, in conjunction with the County Gentlemen of Lanark, have resolved to erect a new Bridewell, the expense of which is esti mated at £36,000. The present Bridewell was erected so late as 1799; but so rapid has been the progress of delinquency, that this Establishment, though suf ficiently extensive then, has now become insufficient. The average number of prisoners was '2lO for last year; and the whole expense of maintaining them was only £96, or 9s. 3d. per annum for each per son. It appears from the Magistrates' Report, drawn up by Mr. EWING, of Glasgow, not only that there has been an increase of crime, but that this in• crease, since 1809, has been constantly progressive and exceedingly rapid ; in short, . that it has all the character of an evil deeply seated, and threatening the most appalling consequences. In ten years, end ing with 1818, the number of annual commitments has increased from 387 to 1443, and the average num ber in the house from 86 to 210. This goes vastly beyond what could be accounted for by any sup posable increase of the population. THE UNICOEN.—Mr. BOWDICII, when on his mis sion to Ashantee, inquired of the people of that country, and of Dag% .urnha, whether they had ever heard of an unicorn : " Yes,"• replied they, "in the white wan 's count rj Wednesday se'nnight a parcel, containing Notes of various Banks, to the value of £2527.45. sent from the Bank of Scotland's Branch at Kelso, to Edin burgh, was stolen fi oni the Oifice of the Twied.ide ooach, at Kelso. The theft was not discovered till after the coach reached Edinburgh, the depredators having had the address to substitute, in the place of the one stolen, a parcel directed in the same manner,' and nearly resembling it, which, when opened, was found to contain bundles of grey-paper, cut in the shape of Bank-note:. UAW. INTALIGENek DOTER, OCTOIRA 15.—Sailed this day,'the Printess Charlotte packet, Captain HALLAWRO for Ostend, with a Mail and pas. stingers; also the Lord Duncan, Captain Hasawrott, and Flora, Captain Wamost, for Calais, with passengers. Arrived this day, the Susanna, Captain Moen; Lady Castlereagh, Captain Mama. ; and Flag, French packet, from Calais, with passengers. FAIXOUTEI, OCTOBER 11.—Wind S.—Arrived the Lady Ara bella packet, with a Mail front Lisbon, in sir days. PLYMOUTH OCTORRR 11..—ArtiVed the Tarantula, Pootxres, from St. Domingo; in two months, last from Port Royal, Ja maica, with army accoutrements, is hich she carried from Lon don in May last, for M'Garcon's army.—AWind S.W. HIARWICII, OCTOPUS. 13.—Arrived the Jane packet, with a Mail from Gottenburgh. Sailed the Prince of Orange packet, for Holland, and Henry Freeling, for Cuxhaven, both with Mails. Deat, Gerona!' 15.—Wind W.—Passed through the Downs, the Enigheden, Pananson, from Dram for Falmouth. Came down from the River the Isabella, Baown, for Sierra Leone. A galliot got on shore on the Goodwin Sands, but was got off without assistance, and it now in the Downs. RAMSGATE, OCT. 13.—The Dutch ship Camillus, TUIPPENCEft, I from Amsterdam to Rio Janeiro, got on shore on the Sandwich Flats during the fog last evening, but with assistance was got off and brought in here this morning, after cutting from her cable and beating off her false keel. Poftessicouzn, OCT. 15.—Wind W.—Arrived the Medina, . KINNIaIr, from the Downs for Jamaica; and the Mangles, LAILDALR, from Madras, with six Companies of the 25th Light Dragoons, under the command of Major Hoez—she left Madras 7th April, and St. Helena Bth August :—on the 18th August, in lat. 5. N. long. 22. W. spoke the Kingston, Bloom, from London for Bengal.—Of the Azores fell in with two ships and a brig, armed, which hoisted Spanish colours. Wishing to com municate with them, the Mangles sent off a boat, which was fired at, and not permitted to go alongside. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East-India House, when the under-mentioned Ships were taken up for one voyage, in addition to those already engaged for the Company's service, viz. Winchelsea, 1351 tons ; Dorsetshire, 1260 tons ; and Lady Campbell, 684 tons. Captain Wit.uast MaJoai musics was sworn into the command of the ship Thomas Courts, consigned to Bombay and China. Extract of a Letter from Gibraltar, dated Septem, ber 18:—" The Expedition is certainly knocked in the head, if not totally, at least for the present. The fever is in Cadiz and alParound, and the troops dis persed, in order to take up cantonments. With a view that the transports may not quit the bay, they have taken away their rudders. Since this, it is said, the fever has made its appearance on board of some of them. They made several futile plans and at tempts to keep things together, but they have all proved abortive. One was to send the troops off to the Canaries, another to Mahon or Galicia, to pass the hot months. As it is, nothing has or will be done. The Contractors had been much deceived itr the quantity of tonnage, the vessels being over-rated. They found it impossible to stow the troops even itr bulk, when they had calculated on ton per man." • Extract of a Letter from Saint Petersburgh, dated September 18:—" Our beloved Emperor returned here on the 15th from his long journey through all Finland, which has not been performed without great fatigues, privations, and even danger : the satisfaction of all classes on his return is manifested here in a manner the most marked. This journey Was under taken for the sole purpose of a personal observation of the distant Provinces of this extended Empire, for the benefit of the people so far from the imperial residence, and has endeared him the more to them all. The sacrifices the Emperor makes of all per , sonal comforts and indulgencies, and his unceasing energy and activity for the benefit of his people, are gratefully felt and warmly acknowledged by 11.— His Imperial Majesty left us again last night, the third day after his return, having been in the midst of us at the consecration of a new church, and the launch of a man of war of 100 guns. He goes by way of Novogorod, Pleskoff, and Riga, to Warsaw; his return is fixed for the 2d of October. Prince Wolkonsky and Sir James Wylie accompany his Majesty as usual. Exchange again looks up, and Inscriptions have advanced to 94, which proves thatl our national credit is good. We have had the finest summer in the memory of any man living. The capital is deserted ; every body continues still in the country. By the arrival of many ships trade ksl rather more brisk." MALTA, SEPT. 12.—Some apprehensions are en tertained for the Pomona, of Southampton bound to Zante, as she left this on the 2d instant, with 13,000 dollars on board, and the piratical vessel William Delans, from Liverpool, sailed the day after. The Frederick, O'HARA, with 20 men, from the ships of war here, (namely, SP E Y and R ACEHORSE,)'e and commanded by Lieutenant Hoßsow, of his Ma jesty's ship SPEY, sails immediately for Smyrna in search of the pirate. The Frederick has been chartered by the Insurance Companies here for that purpose. Letters from Naples mention Admiral FREMANTLS having proceeded with his squadron, in cdthpany with the French division and a Neapolitan ship of the line, to the coast of Africa, to notify to the Barbatt Powers that their piracies would no longer be suf fered in the Mediterranean. The following letter re lates to this business : • " ALGIERS, SEPTEMBER " An English and French combined squadron , composed of the Rochefort, of 80 guns, and a brig of war, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE, and the French ship Colossus, and frigate Galatea, commanded by Vice-Admiral LUREIN, arrived here on the 3d inst. on the 4th, the two Admirals came on shore; on the sth, they pre sented to the Day, in the name of their Sovereigns, the Resolutions of the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle, relative to the Barbary Powers, one of which was to the following effect That the Barbary Powers will no longer be allowed to re- main on the footing they had been ; and that they must hence forth, in their political relations, consider themselves to he viewedl in the light of civilized nations,' &c. atc. " To this the DEe replied, that he really could not comprehend what the Admirals would say to him ; and they have, in fact, left Algiers without any further arrangement:: Extract of a Letter from N.l , ,sail, Bahamas, from an official Gentleman, dated the 12th July, 1819 : ~~ We have, within a few days past, convicted in the Court of Admiralty Sessions, one Frenchman of mur der, who has been executed ; and two of piracy, whose sentences have this day been respited by the Pees:- DEN it, until the PRINCE REGENT ' S pleasure is known. A Bill of Indictment was delivered to the Grand Jury by OUT ATTORNEymGENSIIAL against Sir GREGoR MACGREGOR, for having aided and assisted one of the pirates, named DAVIS, by furnishing him with a commission, which was returned a True Bill." SPORDIVC TNITLLWPNCE. Monday, g match was run over iiarbant Course, which has excited much interest in the sport& ing world, between Mr. Pullen's mare Fidget, and Mi. Howard's horse Randall, eight stone each, for two hundred guineas, and was won by the mare in good style. Large sums were depending; the horse the favourite—and the knowing ones taken in. This Mare was beat by Mr. Cramp's Pimlico over the same Course, in August last. Spring, the boxer, has got from the Bristolians half of tie &- posit, which became forfeit to him, in consequence of Neale being unable to meet him, viz. £25. The Trial of Sir Cnazi.se WoLaura, for sedition, has beets moved, by writ of Certiorari into the Court of King's Bench. In consequence he on Tuesday gyre fresh bail at the Judge's Cham. bers. His bail were ALMANDISS GALLOWAY, of Lawn-Place, Shepherd's-Bush, engineer ; and NATIIANIXL 81X110148, of Glou cester-Lodge, Croydon, Gentleman. Friday, a Court Martial was assembled• on board the QUIEN CHARLOTTE, in Portsmouth harbour, and continued by adjournment during Saturday, to in quire into the circumstances of the supposed conceal ment of two deserters from the Band of the 18th Re giment of Foot, on board his Majesty's ship Plurrow, Captain W. H. DILLON, in the month of October last, when that ship was about to proceed to the East Indies; and to try Lieutenant JOHN Gewas, the First Lieutenant of the said ship, for his conduct upon that occasion. The Court was crowded with Officers, &c. from the shore, each day. The prosecution was closed on Saturday afternoon, and the Court adjourned till ten o'clock on Monday, when Lieutenant GEARY made his defence. The Court having considered the whole of the evidence, were of opinion that the charge was proved, and sentenced him to be dismissed his Majesty's ship PilitrON, and severely reprimanded. MArisioN-Housz.—A man charged several of the prisoners in Whitecross• street Prison, with assaulting him and robbing him of his watch. He stated that he had been confined there for debt, and because he was unable to pay the prison -dues, on the day he was about to quit the place, Davis, the steward of the ward to which he belonged, and several other priso ners, seized him by the arms and legs, pumped on him, and pressing their hands violently on his eyes, took from him his watch. The LORD MAYOR as sured him he would go to the prison and inquire into • the circumstances. • GUILDHALL.—A decent-looking labouring man, who gave his name John Williams, was brought up yesterday before Mr. Alderman SCHOLEY, charged under the following rather singular circumstances:— The Chatham coach to London, which puts up at the Cross Keys Inn, Wood-street, Cheapside, arrived there on Tuesday morning extremely heavily loaded, not indeed with passengers, but packages, and the I coachman, who is also the owner of the coach, was condoling himself for the absence of the former, by the unusual increase of the latter; among these packages were two of more than ordinary size, the one, a - hamper, addressed to Joseph Wright, 33, Old. street, to be left till called for ; and the other, a heavy inclosure in a mat, directed to William Simpson, Oxford-street, With a similar direction, to be left at the inn till sent for. This last-mentioned package, from the porter's inattention to the latter part of the direction, was taken by him, in the course of the day, to No. 126, Oxford-street, but no Mr. Simpson was to be found there, nor had they any knowledge of a parcel coming from Chatham ; this, of course, seemed very unaccountable, and'On the return of the porter with his load, led to suspicion that all was not as it should be ; and as, from the heat of the day, and the shaking the package hid had, the effiuvia 'from it pointed out pretty accurately its contents, the people of the inn ventured to open it ; when it was found to contain the corpse of an elderly female. Notice was given to the beadle of the parish, who openeitthe other package, In which was the dead body of. an elderly man. Information was sent to the Coroner, and in the interim, preparations were made for 'the reception of the person who might claim the packagei. Early yesterday morning the prisoner came to the Cross Keys to inquire fur the parcels, and produced cards with the counter directions. He was permitted to pay for the carriage of both, and a coach was called, into which he was about to convey one of them, when the officers, who were in waiting, made their appearance, and took him into custody. The prisoner at that time efused to give his name, or say where he was about to take the packages to. In his defence, he said he was a por..er, living at Star-cor ner, Bermondsey ; that he was hired by a stranger tb .fetch them, who had given him money to pay the expenses, and arras to meet bim at an appointed. lace. He was remanded. QUEEN.-pUAßE.—Yesterday T. Loft, accused of murdering the servant maid of Mr. Rice, at Charing. Cross, was fully committed, on the Coroner's war• rant, for Wilful Murder. The prisoner, when he learned the constables were at his master's house in pursuit of him, endeavoured to conceal himself in the oven, and fterwards was very anxious to escape. He is of diminutive stature. On being questioned, he most solemnly protested his innocence. There were no witnesses examined, T. Cox, a fellow, apparently 70 years of age, and J. Ife, only 14, were remanded, charged with via lacing the person of Jemima Coats, a child only six years of age. The child's parents are poor people, residing in Parker-street, Drt They - •he to her grandmother's, in E: street, when she strolled up pied by the prisoners, where .fence as detailed by the chi tracted to the house by shriel the violence the child receive the floor with her person in described; and he sent for a the prisoners. • Tim MURDER AT CLAY . charged, on his own confession, his wife, was brought to tor -IMonday night, in custody street officer, and safely lod; wretched man appears perfect„ situation in which he stands ; but preparing himself, by Keligious fate, which be seems assured ther a diminutive man, and constitution. • • • 3 ( V 1 ! ~..' 1 1. L.. i IL i. 411 i l ~., : 1 1 , , i, ! .s., ~ :.t,, 1' r 1 1 : 4 1 , . . , I . , .11 I'l i IMP Ii G!~ parents are poor people, rury-lane. They sent her •.1 - ' Exeter:bitildings, Sloane- i. •, . . stairs into a room occu- ', f . re they committed the of- had. A butcher was at- . 4 1 ' ieks, and was informed of , 1 , ved. She was found upon 1 a situation not fit to be $: f a watchman who secured , • . i • i IPrott.--John Homesby, . , ' scion, of having murdered )wn from Canterbury, on . yof Ruthven, the Bow- • . . odged in Newgate. The reedy aware of the awful 1 ds ; and talks of nothing . religious exercises, for that i. k ed awaits him. He is ra- ' 1 apparently of very weakly 1 i i i . r i ' I • . . . I . ~~