Star. — London, England, 1819-10-12 00:00:00

IF I 11 i .♦ . -. 1 1 1-1E EVENING 'STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1819. TitE FCNDS.- PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 3 per Cent. Reduced 67ii 68i ex. div. 3,per Cent. Consols 6811 a, 4 per Cent. 86 85ii ex. div. 5 per Cent. Navy 122 E 103.1:- Bank Long Annuities.lB 1-16 17 13-16 Irisll 5 per Cents. 102 India. 'Bonds 11 pre. Old Annuities 6SI 67i ex. div. Exchequer Bills (2d.) Is. pre. par. Omnium, 0 dis. par. Consols for Acct. 6S;I 69 682. It is, we understand, now fixed, that Parliament small meet on the 23d of November. Every person must approve of thir determination on the part of his MAJESTY'S Ministers. Special Messengers have been sent abroad to Lord COICIIESTER and Mr. CANNING, to recall them im mediately home. From the official statement of Revenue, given in another column, it appears that the Quarter just ex pired, compared with the same Quarter for 1818, exhibits a deficiency of £1,151,556 ; but compared Kith the corresponding Quarter of 1817, an increase of 1:531,192. On the Receipts of the whole Year, as compared with 1818, there is a decrease of 063,942 ; but as compared with 1817, an increase £4,080,212. The long-expected trial of M r.O ARM L E, for-re-pub lishing Peine's Age * of Reason, was brought on this morning, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall. We have given a full report of the proceedings up to one o'clock. We cannot avoid mentioning, in re ference to this trial, the accommodation given to the Gentlemen attending on the part of the Public Press, for the purpose of reporting the proceedings on this important Trial. The Paris Papers of Ft iday arrived last night; and this morning we received those of Situraay. On Thursday the KING transacted business in the Cabi net, and afterwards took an airing. The Duchess of BERRI, and her daughter, now named Mademoiselle of Alums, are both in the most satisfactory state of health. An Ordinance of the 6th inst. respecting the export of Corn from France, reverses that bf the 3d of Au gust, 1815; and permits the free exportation of Corn of all kinds, according to the terms of the law of the Sd of December, 1811, modified by the 9th Article cf the Law of the 16th of July last. The export of Flour is also placed under the same conditions. It is said to be unttue that the Emperor of Russia has 7+0,000 men under arms, and that his new levies s- amount to 160,000 more.. The effective strength of the Russian army is said to be but .1 00,000 men; and that the new levy will produce but 60,000 mole. The Central Comn:ission, at I\la:.ence, for the trial of political offences committed in Germany, will be in full activity the middle of this month.— The Judges, seven in number, who are to form the Commission, are already nominated. A Harnburgh Mail arrived this forenoon; but its comet-as are no way hlteresting. Yesterday, at three o'clock, the PRINCE REGENT held a Court at Carlton-house, which was attended by the Marquis of lIEADFORT, as Lord in Waiting ; Mr. Boum+, as Clerk of the Council ; Lord LtvEn- Pooh, Lord llnnnowni, Lord STAMFORD, Mr. VAN :air-mi., Mr. AnnuruNor, and the SOLICITOR-GE NERAL. Ilis Royal Highness was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood on the SOLICITOR-GENE RAL, now Sir JON Corti:Y. The Duke of N H ORTHUMBERLAND, Lord SIDMOUTII, Lord CASTLEREAGH, and Lord Hmtuon BY, had au diences oldie Puttee REG ENT at Carlton-house. Letters from Palk, of the 6th inst. mention a fatal duel that took place on Mont Martre, between Cap tain PEtisay, of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards, and Captain THEODORE WALSH, of the same Regi ment. A* the first fire Captain Pm.t.mv was shot through the temple, and expired without a groan.— Mr. FRENCH was second to Captain WALsti ; we have not !ward the name of Captain PELLEw's friend. The cause of this melancholy affair is the elope,ment of Mts. WALTH, some short time ago with Captain PELLEW, and who was with him at I'a'is, to which place the injured husband foil , wed them. Captain VELLEW was a near relation of Lord Exstourn. fie was killed on the spot without having fired. The body, for a considerable time, was refused admission at the Hotel whir' he lodged. Monday se'anight a meeting took place, within a mile of Cheltenham, on the Winchcomb-road, be tween C HART , E s PHILLIPS, Esq. of the Irish Bar, at tended by Colonel O'NEIL, and llExnuatie, Esq. attended by ;dajor PENRICE, when, after an exchange of shots, the tiff:tir terminated, and, before leaving the ground, the parties shook hands. • A dun was to have taken plact', yesterday morning, on Old Oak Common, between Captain D-- and a Stirgeon.of some eminence in the neighbourhood of keley-square ; but the affair being known, officers t;:e anival cf the parties, and prevented the !d breach of the peace. The dispute originated nv a female, and matters were afterwards ave.. just heard, 07. the authority of api itrate letter, that fas t.Len place betwcen Mr. Lowe WILLIS! ry and Mr. , the Member for Wiltshire, which Lib fruved fatal to r Gerakahisi,—L'rynsoia4 Paper./ 3 1 wa,ited intendei . I ac.',Juste, Nc e ha a Zu I h.:: • II rlf TRIAL OF MR CABLILE. COURT OP KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL. As early as eight o'clock this morning, Guildhall and all the avenues leading to it were crowded to excess, with indiiiduals anxious to obtain admission to hear the trial• of -Mr. CAALILE, for the republics= tion of Paine's Age of Reason. Mr. Sheriff PARILYNS was in attendance before eight o'clock, and we were informed that upwards of SOO Constables were also present, to assist in the preservation of order. It was, notwithstanding, with great difficulty that the Barris ten, Jurymen, and other persons engaged in the cause, could force their way through the crowd. At five minutes after nine Mr. Sheriff PARICYNS ordered the public door of the Court to be opened. The rush was tremendous, but ia consequence of the floor of the Court having been prudently pen:folded with strong wooden partitions, it was immediately filled without any accident occurring. Mr. Sheriff PARKYNS now took his station on the right of the Chief-Justices chair. Mr. Sheriff ROTH WELL entered a few minutes afterwards, and 'hewed by his looks the advantage which his junior•coadju tor had gained over him. At a quarter past nine, Mr. HUNT entered the Court with a large bundle (apparently of books) in his hands. He took a place at the Clerks' table. Mr. CARLILE entered the Court shortly afterwards, attended by two Gentlemen, one of whom, we were informed, is engaged as a stenographist, to take a re port of the trial. After a few minutes had elapsed, Mr. CARLILZ rose, and, addressing himself to Mr. Sheriff PAR KYNS, requested that he would order that certain persons who were outside, with parcels of books ne cessary to his defence, should be admitted.—Mr. Sheriff instantly gave an order to that effect. The ATTORNEY•GENERAL and SOLICITOR GENE RAL now took their places within the Bar. Mr. CARLILE again addressed Mr. Sheriff PA a- KYNS, and stared, that his order for the admission of the persons with the books had not been obeyed. Mr. COLINGRIDGE (whose polite solicitude for the accommodation of every person necessarily present cannot be too highly praised), observed, that five per sons had already got admission as friends of Mr. Carlile. Mr. Sheriff PARKYNS asked Mr. Carlile whether the parcels of books he alluded to were necessary for 1 1 his defence ?—Mr. CARLILE—" Most necessary." Mr. Sheriff PARKYNS—" Then by all means let them he brought in. What are the names of the per sons carrying them, for whom you want admission ?" Mr. CARLILE handed up a list of their names, which Mr. Sheriff PARKYNS gave to one of the Under-Sheriffs, and in a few minutes afterwards the Radical Library made its appearance on the table. At half-past nine the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE took his seat on the Bench. His Lordship was scarcely seated, when Mr. HUNT rose : "My Lord—l was informed that my cause (al luding, we were informed, to his prosecution for libel against the Editor and Publisher of The New Times) was to take precedence of all Special Jury cases, and now I see a Special Jury case about to commence, and five others on the list." • CIIIEF-JUSTICE—" My uniform desire is, that all causes should come on as early as possible in the ordinary routine. It was at your own desire, Sir, that the cause you allude to was postponed till Thursday." Mr. Il UNT•-- 4( I have been repeatedly in attend• ancc for these twelvemonths, with my witnesses." CHIEF JUSTICE (interrupting Mr. 114—Your time, Sir, for addressing the Court will not be arrived till Thursday. I will not allow the present proceedings of the Court to be interrupted. Mr.HUN r again attempted to speak, but the CHIEF JUSTICE put him down by a few hasty words, among which that of Depart !" was chiefly distinguishable. Mr. llt'NT.—" Depart!" CHIEF JUSTICE.—" The Court, Sir, must not be interrupted." Mr. HUNT.—" I only wish to know, my Lord, whether my witnesses are at liberty to go?" CHIEF JUbTICE.—" It was at your own election, Sir, that your cause was put off till Thursday : you knew it was not to come on to-day : and if you wish the cause put off even to a more distant day than Thursday, the Court will have no objection," The colloquy between the CHIEF JUSTICE and Mr, Iltrwr here ended, with some understanding as to the postponement of Mr. HUNT'S cause, the particulars of which we did not collect. The Secondary was now proceeding to call over the names of the Special Jury, when Mr. Carlile rose. Mr.CARLILE—" My Lord, I challenge the corn• peeency of the Court to try the question on which ] am now called here as a defender." CHIEF-JUSTICE—" The Court is competent to try any indictment preferred by h;s Majesty's Attorney- General." Mr. CARLILE—" The indictment is not-founded on the breach of any law.", CHIEF Juszice.—" If it is not founded in any law you will of course be entitled to your acquittal, and I dare say you will obtain it." Mr. CA nuip.-- , . My Lott], I enter my protest against the proceedings." CHIEF JUSTICE—" Oh!" The names of the twenty-four SRecial Jurymen were now called oar. Only eight answered to their names, viz.— CHARLIE Womb, Abchurch-lane. ROBERT HUTCHINSON, Clement's-lane. Jona Hisa:os, Rooked-lane. Gsoass Ilaavre, Lawrence-Lux. ASTEUIL CHICRESTILL ALLEN. R. Clumsy's, Dove-court. Wutum Nails, John-street. Joint Wusox, Queen-street. The SECONDARY was then proceeding to draw four ,talesmen, when Mr. CARLILE desired him to shake the box. CHIEF JUSTICE—" You ' ale not to d i rect the Of ficer of the Court how he shall do his duty." Mr. CARLILE" I only ask that the talesmen shall be fairly drawn. The first which the Secon dary has in his hand he selected." The SECONDARY denied the imputation. Cuter JUSTICE. "Shake the box well, by all means." The- box was accordingly shaken well, and four talesmen drawn, whose names were— ROPLIti PLANT. Groitor Coors, Baker Farriagdon Without. Jovw TatoGY, Chairmaker, ditto. MATIMW HOLLYEI, ditto. The Jury being sow sworn, Mr. CAMPBELL rose from behind the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Mr. CAMPBELL—" My Lord, and Gentlemen of the Jury, the defendant is charged with printing and publishing a certain scandalous, impious, and bias phemous libel on the Holy Scriptures." Mr. CAROLE here rose, and demanded that the In dictment should be read at length. The CHIEF JUSTICE stated, that it was nor the usual practice of the Court to read the.lndictment, " at least;' added his Lordship, " where Counsel are employed." The fashion of persons pleading their own causes is quite a new practice. Mr. CA RLILE urged that it was of essential impor tance to him that the Jury should have the Indict ment, on which they were to judge, read over to them. The CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that, if it was essen tial, Mr. Carlile might take every word of it into his speech in defence. Mr. CARLILE reiterated that he considered it Aost essential that the Indictment should be read. He , would not say when it should be read. All that he insisted on was that it should be read at the proper time. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL now rose to address the Court and Jury.—The Learned Gentleman began ' with expressing his conviction that k would not be necessary for him to encounter any prejudice on the solemn question on which they were now sitting in judgment. He felt fully satisfied, that if the Gentle men of the Jury were not already apprised of the character of the publication which was the subject of I prosecution, that when its contents were shortly and plainly stated to them, not only they, but all who professed themselves friends to the real Liberty of the Press and liberty of discussion, would allow that the present prosecution was far from having for its object any thing like a restriction of that liberty, and that the Officers of the Crown would have been guilty of one of the grossest derelictions of duty had they refrained from instituting and persevering in it. Without repeating every word of the atrocious libel with which the defendant was charged, he would en deavour briefly to give such a general, yet satisfac tory view of the offence imputed to him, as might enable the Gentlemen of the Jury to come to a fair, unbiassed, and impartial decision upon it.— It was our boast to live under a Religion the most benignant ever propagated—a religion which had its origin from the DEITY himself. We had long lived and prospered under it ; it was part of the Constitu-' tion and Law of the Land its elf The Defendant had been pleased to say that sent prosecution was founded on no law. Foitunate would it be for him could he prove this to be the case; on that, in deed, must all his hopes of an acquittal depend.--- The present prosecution was, unfortunately, however, no novelty in the legal proceedings of the Country: on repeated occasions, similar actions hail been insti tuted ; and, as the learned Judge would confirm to the Jury, no action could be better founded in law than one which complained of a foul and infamous attack on the Religion of the land. It would be idle, (continued the learned Gentleman,) it would be idle, when addressing twelve Gentlemen, who have just taken their solemn oaths on the very book which has been defamed, to declaim to them on the-eacellence or benignity of that Religion which that Sacred Book has revealed unto' men. - It would be most idle to descant to thedi oh the_divinity of a gion, under the sanction of which they were now sitting in judgment, and had sworn to determine well and truly on the matters submitted to them Unless the defendant could wipe away the authority of ages—unless he could swipe away the best part of the law of the land—unless he could persuade the Jury to perjure themselves, he could-never succeed in obtaining from them a verdict of acquittal.— Christianity was part of the law of the land, and there was no person, whatever his political or reli. gious sentiments might be, but must admit that the defendant had violated the law, by the publication in question. The I,earned Gentleman then proceeded to esta blish the law of the case by a variety of precedents— by that of Tayler, in the time' of Charles 11.--ot Whiston, in the reign of George IL—of Williams (for publishing The Age of Reason in 1797)—and lastly of Eaton, in 1812. Thus Lai twee; Courts . and Juries found Defendants gul ofi:. 47 very crime with which the preseet Def!Lant now charged. The Learned Gentleman then prreeeded to Ne a variety of quotations from the Work itcl.f, the Jury of its pernicious and libellous terdency, companying each with a most impassioned ap rta ;, the feelings of the Jury. In concluding, F exp v the circumstances which had prerf—.. ? s t th e being sooner brought to trial, and she that it not arise from any hesitation on the part of th e cers of the Crown, but principally ftom courses of the Defendant himself. The indictment was then read. At the yr.d r ., ; of the first count, the.CIIIEF JUSTICE a . .kt!J Mr.C. Lux whether he wished that the pt:r.tel which it referred should also be read ? Mr. CARLILE said, " Certainly not, 1 ate; without hesitation." The CHIEF JUSTICE made the Same iaptiry at end of the second and third counts, and Mr. CAN.i observed, that he readily admitted all Cue " ment stated. The CHIEF JUSTICE—" Very well ; I did know that you would be willing to make such ral admissions." THE. DEFENCE Mr. CA *TALE then rose and spoke to the effect :—" Gentlemen of the Jury, I rise in my defence, and stand hese before you under a deep pression from the importance of the subject on v you are called upon to deliver your verdi:t: ject of no less importance than the question w; man is to be pes mitted to entertain doctrines his experience and reflection have established, ar.:. deliver them to others, or to yield them up in cc formity with the practice of tho‘e who never • coned cr even thought upon the subject? I: is a tion of the first magnitude, for it affects the Religious Establishments of this country. I haw the necessity of examining, with the greatest mini ness, the grounds on which those who might would defend their positions ; and I think 1 prove, that the Author of The Age of Reason, and the publisher of it, had both of us no object h benevolent one, in laying before the Public a tradiction to the general impression ; and I convinced of my power of proving-that blasphl .cannot be charged to either of u% The of the whole country are, Gentlemen, turned you, and, I trust, you will give a verdict f( solely upon the evidence. I make this with peculiar earnestness, for you have to upon a question upon which, though there little difference of opinion in fact, there exists deal in pretence; for I have received nuinberle:ccr_. munications from all parts of the country, mostor convey congratulation and condolence, and a for that the writers believed in Christianity, but dep. cated all inquiry— an evidence that their belief w from being impregnable. !trust you will returnint case a verdict of Not Guilty. Indeed, men uho - . decide otherwise, could resemble no body of in& duals, but those who kindled the flames in Smithtli You will now permit me to make a few remarkstl parts of the Attorney-General's speech. In speliil; of the Liberty of the Press, he says he is the cate for it to the utmost extent that liberty allow ; and then he soddenly calls upon you to stc? short. His address is like that of every other •Itt ney-General. There is no novelty in the argur he has used, and of course there can he no ditEa. in refuting them. Ile says that Religion enn... from GOD, and acknowledges the power of GOD notwithstanding that acknowledgment, he thinl—: necessary to enlist his own talents upon the ..1e his MAKER, and protect him with the very weal,: with which GOD has furnished him. Now, my LF • nion is very different—widely different; for I tl.a. Me DEITY is all-mighty, and that he needs not t!., arms of others to defend him. Mr. Carliic t l.,:a stated, that our Christian Religion declared tlta: there was but one GOD, of infinite power, wisdom and goodness; and that in the unity of this Godhad there were Three Persons. It could not be denied, he said, that this was founded upon the TRINITi. for, without that admission, Christianity could not b. admitted. Now, an Act had passed lately for relief of persons who had impugned the Doctrine of the HOLY TRINITY ; and it had been passed upoa the best principle. How, he begged to know, could the first article of the Christian Religion be reconciled for a moment to the mind of any reasonable creature , when it said in one place that there is but one Coo. and in another that there were Three Persons, all equal power, and of course all Gods. This was pall of what the Attorney-General called the law of t.ie land. Mr. Carlile then read the Act of Parliament favour of the Unitarians, and said that Act was, in tact• nothing less than a repeal of all former Acts era the subject of holding doctrines at variance wi:a those of the Trinity, and of all Acts in support of the Established Religion of the country, for If o;le Act of Parliament affected .Another in any shaP'• t . went to repeal that Act. The Attorney.Geaeral ha said that Christianity was part of the law of the land. He (the defendant) must declare, that deism was 21,0 part of the law of the land, and that those publir . i, deistical doctrines were protected by the Statute La . • and secured from all the punishment that might been inflicted preeiously to the passing of the Act . .' which he alluded. The Jury must be aw are, tba. of.b. St r.iq )tt t 1 c7•4. 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