Star. — London, England, 1817-12-22 00:00:00

c . O by evils setomokted from enJsavotrit* to , .., those who could not help themselves. Tat. I; . iied td establ.sh sonic/18,g suet as the saving :,,, ks that are now so ee.ii-ral. Vhere W4S 4 own. b, t 4 ss-ciated for this purpose, Aid I was their Sear.. Oor object was to g t thekronag• of Mints tr.,- Ito ~ ,• ; •riichetne. Mr. Fox was then in power ..., t ...s ',. ‘Vhltt Adrnititar iti in. We hoped 1,, to y . Ks Aii. in the earth which might becQnp e , ~,,,. sit 'Walter iirling in th Strand -was the , e .i -. 4 manages. It was very Q six 4.1 c, we were • mad for c4rrytnzt our good intention int .::. We were not i.nmedittiely ilistoaraged, but I ~ --.1 with that triflit.g sod del iein.! Of lii,p, which ,! T .. : s the heart sick (lire 4 person fainted among b e ,• : . ) a el, and was carried out. the telin And it - took the opportunity t i take some refr. s'im e nt.) fi• t f I was entering inn too much detail. I nseant I i mply v' state that I lost every thing, even the inv. 'ore of my hoese. Still a frets t got me 4 :ain . into 1 .....e5s I soon became bankrupt. But, on the ".. ,r, ..t my creditors, the first question Was- 1 W...ie is ) our certificated" All signed it at once A ., . tit, who was naintentionaii y• the cause eft &no te: great failure. TS') years and a hull . ago I went .... prison for debt s and watdischarged by the tn. w eent Act. • Having then got some boobs to sel l . a ?vas always fi.nd of old bnoks, I viols a Arpin! t .0,.,1 ,• at the corner of Lombard-street, It /... ! ht.. ;rut wide in Inn*. I had no place Were i t , . 417 ...i!‘: and my seven children. The shop amain' 0n ,,, v e 11 ,e Ocibtli open three times ltd atkillei vs it it T .ken away. I we! siva hi'destso:asiog. l 1. 4 s .1 riiA Ce iot the *id • ocean without a shorii.astsi I r . : - ....:.i..ak of satiety. II then accidentally wrote 5 .,,.., ::. r , ; which I.ai.pened t.. take. .111thill OaCCeSS l s .l t phtee ter my cannily, which was scarcely • a &en.. . I %, , ..s then attacked with apoplexy, and Ng f., .1 ) Orte!‘eirovni into the u n,ost alarm. The pelilic;.:inr. fit what was called Lord Byr. i n's Po e ms vs socc•fas!ul. I. then. tool: a. Pleie in the Old Bail. y. I could furnish only one room. I would sot let loci. ings bccaose I would not espose rny,aii!ii el de,tiention Just as I thus got my head ebtve Later, this st"nom assailed we. and plunged me dt4per thsa ewer. I am•as destitute as any man in 1.-ndosi. 1 kete net i tie friend in the world It has been said that I am backed : no, Itien.is are got by social to letcoutse, and• the ripens- of social intercourse 1 have suer been able to afford. Hence I am a destitute' gun. I have never done or piinted What 1 1 did no Visit flirt and tree. • 1 have always acted ;or dn . . , ood, according to my conceptiort.—The is. . now apaligised to hi. Lnrdship, the A..tora General, and the 11.. r, if Ile had offended them• 'i thing he had said,ii__ntl entered upon what was didtely connected with his defence. Infurmationi Attorney General had been defended, AS at known in the• practice of the law. He denied to-baiS•for•hbel was ttlegal ; %ind in hin, he quoted a pasta..e Mr. Dunning, afterwards following . 111 , -.1%.4% i htelr. toe Atterney•Georestaopea ssill O libeller, could 'neater" bp Deb:moor It Is a doetrint: will.. 'bier ; derogatory tints ;ha 'old I Beli , 0 not as al t. boyish of 'ill NOT LAW, ASO I Wail if 411 . INMAN . * Lew bobese . ggag 45.. lamination filed ag f rnearp: ,itted that the only . qtleatt.i,, try WAS. att .tO his imitutiini question issued from but was suet' AS Saab imputeJ Nothing WAS further trOnS. is t abgioa and ingnotty in tint. , subjects. Ile Jury were mi. deci $e . both upon the law and dei3o o-4, his t.itc . would be de. presided only .tor-the regale.. wept-the publicatioo, not, as Marne' tirtioaht it.crinsinals ashes of persons not to be i law prole this parody to possible to parody the. must se-. benstlig the. stork itself into villa- Tbe parody might: be need as, ig, by tbss peculiar baguets, ;a impression of,,a digeem. more ready mine to pro.. on the minds without ridi, contained in.the original tewb. t ,. Marta Luther's parody on tt aluti s ecas the object of Dr. of Health, and a number of description, applying religious, more solemn Unpression to the uscalcisted. In illustration ot , proceeded to submit to the Jury the Whitt be availed himself on tlie.pee 'were 'Dr. Btoyce.,the parody on the Lord's Priliev l Dr. Boyce bad written ltla certainly without a bldit (the 'defendant's) parody GP It lap not written ker. a purpose ; to produce. aWO He **Owed that stock waffle; latigh his Majesty'sidinisters to scorn; • hiteeelf a .parodist, sitting now is at, instigating, aiding, and abet.i: .George Camning was a pa: lone' end Martin Luther.—.: subrinfaing that right honottrallei he wished' to. spare his fecliqgs looe) had I him now in t is inside out. Mt. Cinint the Holy Scripture; ;' but parodied the constnon,rrayer, the earitature called. " The And who was the Elijah per .. who_ eeo thrteistie . same Coorgs,CatotnioehiS WAS persecutors. 'Beton . , :he ' hita 'Spoken Table with • toillearatier ; but ccniterript - of 2 thit'aiin who. , the poor, paitrY, &teacakes Fleet-street. 'fins my caricature was 4uspiees of Mr. Canning ; with his entire suowledge.T. have been a willicg *diets, occasion ; he ought to cstrn colifesi his own sins ,and pleb / 'lt was bOledi be WV' - --. 4 ateuf ate F lea public .00d, according to in now apulisized to act General, and the by any thiog he had said, at di. tel y connected with bytlie /Mornay General h my, known in the. prac tic ..pert of (bat propasiti , ow a I.tter written by ad Ashburton, in th. rein a I serer beard sill Ism lately- uptiwo of a man, .upittsrd a . Tlll r. Clint ir II for his $ Aid orb. to .be frsr,iosn of ',toy sub, • •rt on. Witt avtoient seise !Airy of for Stew I= 'is it To. st.':rip Sq. Mr. , kinsals t f . nA st • reli tlktfic 1'11 ;0 bids sebseit Rick tisk 3ty1.44 to It' hen the pubiteltioo in ad. it hib intention lsim '.e.intertY LiJeis thin to excite • km 'nth o. his. Majesty's . subj Thiry 11110, to der tact icutl:hy their dais Lordsbio , pees ul the mop was a MVP* man, beta' • be gate *SI tii . the . ▪ • cub. He wvuld as libel. It was pussib t • work wittiottt anaguil • and contempt. The • *remelt of inculcating, the thing plat:Wird, an • y. Parody was a ▪ a . certain laptelliin I t i• • g Ire *sentiment' coat , • h was the object ot. fog Psalms and inch sotts's Tberinometei of . forks of'that desc • settiogy tO gisre I nue or the sentiments ISM position, he prowled& works of vihich be a r trials, ithitinist WI • of Canterisory's par e was no'donbt * Oar umidessedit, but 4 It lob. Sinitic:a his (t AthinasiusiaCreeil. a shot for a polities! pi the Ministers. nay;tis Weigh his t! of whom was himself at Cabinet, winking at, is this prosecution. with Viithiat Ho 10 ' had' forborne sabrita st e because be - with uh paid' lose . Iwould twist him patodwd pan of • . Hone) had only pal nest adverted to thi Id tle of 'Elijah." Aat - fied?—why Mr. Pitt ! at- ier ?—why, this sum nee of his persecutor :h t h is Right Honoural me of he must speak with act thus towards tl '.ller of Fleet-street. under the al • •*oly, at least, with is Canning ought to tt 4 L • oa the present o toe witness's bje r eni ' lt tkivad.int's' CAUSE. - illy certain very sr ' a -- Lord Siditsbnik and' n... 1 4 4446 liPas coda •>t stand tilothird day—,tint he would sink under his fatigues and want of physical iv- r. al He can't Stan f th• thin trial." said these i one and Ch o istia u 14 ,6.,e, ~ - w .11411 hive•hini now; he must hr crestPe—t first :haw # . 41/ I tlhnise.) " Oh, no I no I be must mit be crtistied." He had a sparhot lioeruy in his breast, which, the mitre it as farnivd, became more intense in its brsghtuess, And never would sutler him to be crushed iu a just cause: This spirit would support him under the most ru t ociating suffering—ihe most grinding oppression . ' . —and would go with him to Ids grave. The con• , seiotisness of his innoc-nee gave him life, spirits. and strength to go through this third ordeal ot per• secutton acid oppression. Hr should -rder a frame fil Elijah's mantle in !iis way home to his family, be cause he had no doubt that the Jury would acquit bim without retiring horn the box to-day -( Great aji• blotto.) He next adverted to Lord S imera's tracts, 1 1 and called in aid the parody of the Genealogy of Chnisr, and accumpanied it with a powerful appeal io the Jury, upon the iniquity of this last elf 41 to .verwheim him—to send him to Gloucester gaol to rot and perish under the weight of his afflictions.— l'he Harleiaa Miscellany contained a parody on the Loao's Prayer. . The ATTORNEY GENERAL objected to its being read, as too indecent for the ears of any persons in these times. Mr. Hon li did not persist in reading this work. He then went over the same ground which he had pursued yesteid.y. bringing under the attention of the .c..ry a great variety of &demi parodies written by ,chtlyclimen and many other persons considered it% their times as most religious and venerable mew. One which he had,oot before read, was by the Rev. Mr. Topiady, whose object was to ridicule Lord Chester find's Letters, and the morals therein inculcated. It was entitled ~ Christianity reversed, aka; or, Lied Ch. stribeld's N. * Creed," and we, as follows: • A I behave, that this world is tar object of my hopes sad morals; and tits, the little prettimetees of life Will answer all the ends of lotion mistimes. " I believe, that we are to lllCCired ID ail thillp, by the green *roomy stud automat ; t at there is no shi t ' tv.tt a g aost good matinees ; and that all -religion and virtue consist in outward a t pearauce. . •• l believe. that all women are children. and all men fools ; except a ew canines people, who see through the rest, and make ' their use us them. ' 4 . Ibtlievr, that hypocrisy, &Wotan mu. and adultery, ars with. • in the bows of morality; that a wangle may be honourable when she his kat net Namur, and virtuous a ken .he has bet liar vi.-toe. w • I.hb. sad whatever .Ise is necessary to obtain my awn' lude, ano Innis ...e stitu repute, i rooms to tollaw; and to avoid all mural oftences such as scratching my head before cumpaity, spit ting uputt the iner,and og to pick up a ladei lad. And in dos p. (Nino's* l will persevere. without any regard to the reSlif. section oh the body ur th- lite tr.:lasting 41111 n. . " V.' Wilt tilos b • imitated into the.. principles? - • w .4- • I hat Is my suclivauto. w Q. Wil . ii.ou keep up to he rides of the Cksarrfiefirmitalltyi • , 6' . • 1 will, Leal elarat.rheki bat% my wino:Abstr. " Tice the °Plater 14all vsy, • . 64 b1 : 14118 this chial.—.4 1 net ..;111/11LZDIAlla • Thar Ise ad 1.40.-j, • " • I introduce thee to the %emit:, the 11:sh, and the devil, that Ohs utopia triumph ever all aw kronur's, and grow up in all pelitiasets; that thou mayo.' be nee . able cu the Ladies, ado loatt4 tor reboot breed, og, able to sp rat Fr. neb sad read Italian, wiresed with dome pubte sup e rninotras y oaracia 111 a tiesiee Leis: get Imo east amens ( l ersaps, hue .he Privy Corinail)i Mid tj:st. when thou set dead, Sae later. wriiten to' thy billiards Amy be pablohed, tn seven edttons, fur the Umelelo.lpli at- all lbw tandlios. • • • -!* • Ye are to take care, that dile child, when he bog 1.1111/e age, be brought, to. C-..at, to be taisiassed.' . '.! .. .--• .- -..- l elletiket Viol ill -I. b which tie periiittlaely allude at Mt: Reeves' ••• British . fr e eholdee's Political Ca it:chile? 'fiat'Oeolleataii he'd hiniselt beep probe. third';' hot, hcivistir,..tur his Catechism, but for haw/ tit- depicted the British Coiastitution as a Inc, the, branches of which" might .tie &opt off, and yet the trunk 'main. kOr tnis libel he was prosecuted under the dirkiiion of the Hoise of Commons, Although st;was. tamed on very unwillingly. Mr. Reeves' ' Cate: CDISID was, no dotibt, written with the best intentions, . ' acre be used the Parody as a popular relotie of iicaliating wit &souse truth. Such was the object "ot toe Parody now Prosecuted. But what was the shit rirocp between his situation and Mr. Reeves's I he was tlaskingunder the sunshine of the Court, and hneris a i'laceman. It, be (Mr. Hone) was ensivic ted, there was no . doubt that he also world become a Gtairetiment l'laceiiian—but where t- r i# •Glopcitb . Ire Jail i To the Jury, however, the Gnosis ocit. hie ireicsk • truss this bigotted persecution. He wr 'charged with parodying tholanguage and style of heeled Works. ' But whatever was that style and lap. 'guasS f—Waa it nut quaint and obsolete ? Mere was iota doubt that . it Use bib'..:w:as revised, it n.ust be so altered as hardly to be known, except by its sense. If 'a parody on :lie style only was, the offence, even Mr. nig himselt, as a literary man, es a man tat taste, and a man of words, would acquit him. Whatever aught be the, motive of this persecution, there could madly be any doubt that at was an unchristian feel ing on the pert of my Lord Sidnouth, to suffer bins its stand here tot theftnird time, to take his welter ad offence which two Juries of indepen ant English men bad prottuthiCA tiattO be libels. •He would woo say that Lord thslmouth was a bigotted man ; but he must say . that-the xpirit of persecution and unehris- Ban trek:lie-nudged' this abominable attempt to-ia. orifice,' by ad or toy means. a detencekss and laro.. cent man, for party purposes. Bishop Latimer, who bad been burnt it the stake as a martyr to religion, had written Parodies of religious works for the pur pose of promoting the object of relig i o n. Profane ness and irreligiou must be the same at all times and in all places; 'and theretore if the must venerable and sacred ;Alan' of religion had resorted to this mode ot iocuicating religious sentiments. the olfince must have been as culpable is their times, it it-was an-offence, as in the present. Bishop Latimer bad spiritualized the pack of cards, as John Bunyan,had the fig-tree, for the most mural . purposes. Ale blamed the ' Attorney -Genera for the cruelty of cut-, ting one crime into piece-meal; for all these thief informations might 'have been . Incleded in ouse.e=. AV hbndred libels might have beenwistirseml-in l istin freforinalion. Buti no ; the , object was to elibirtgits" him with snares. . One chance of catching hitavas. ivot sufficient for the lribilietife 'Spirit of his Majesty's• Ministers. They were deter:eh:4.d to hate him at atk events; and therefore threestMoks were Limieti ; *bet -he hoped the Jury would rescue bin: trim uie theta relate. 'He thenoaddresied himself to the pipiciAg ' ,parody chattni as n libel,' and adduced Genial - tit . iltanees 11001 'the old aunt. Neer Finedirerirotirt/A ~ w here tie Creed..ot it: Athanatiut MI lietOly:pirodidAhei with . thii differentiii' Piirodiestiziocis'ot the'Creediasa4ll* W.% ~-;-~-- . Wined for 'Pe.rposes cat tie incst proper; whereas the parody in question only preserved the scafinlding nr frame work, if he might so say, of the thing paro died. I'he Chatham Faith was one of the parodies to which he alluded, and was one of the description now prosecuted Ltird ELLatinottotton said, that every one of the parodies now alluded to were prosecutable in like manner as the present one. qr. Hose admitted this s but why, he asked. were they not prosecuted ? Where were the Attorney-Ge nerals of those days ? Why did they abapdon their duty ? Toe Attorney General might any day go into the Crown-office. and file an information against any an who wrote a y .y thing in opposition to the Go vernment. A parody was never seized before. Why was his parody now attacked ? Was it because Lord Sidmouth was the only good Secretary of State for the Home Department ? He charged that Noble Se cretary with having put all the people of England against him as a blasphemer. These were protects. lions and persecutions of various kihds for blasphemy. A man charged with blasphemy had been punished in Poland, in the beginning of last century. He be lieved him to have been only an honest man. How. ever, he had at first one hand cut off, and then aoio 'ther. l'he stumps were then put into burning pitch. Vho, 0 who, (here he raised his voice to a tone of the utmost vehemence). who were the blasphemers, the unhappy vectim or the in h uman executioners (Gent applause instantaneously burst from every part ot Guildhall i and Lird Ellenlsorongh declared he would adjourn the Coutt•it greater tor ter were not honied). During toe whole ot Pitt's administra tion Mete was not one prosecution far libel, and yet pary_ feeling never ran higher, and cheap publica t.ons were never more numerous. In the volume that contained the parodies on the Westminster Erection. he could find 500 more, and every one of them as strong as his, yet for none of them was ever a prosecution instituted. He on all occasions made frequent use of the language of Scripture. That Proceeded from his intimate acquaintance with it He had ever delighted to read its beautiful nat rations. He had long been employed in preparing a publica tion on the Old Testament ; and be hoped yet to finish it and to give it to the world. notwithstanding he had been called a blasphemer. In no age of the world was there before a prosecution for patody. He h.d seen a letter pretended to have been written by JEsts CIIIIIbT. and found sizty-lour years after his death in the rave of Lady Cuba, in Mesopotamia. He be lieveil-the author was not a blasphemer, but that be ought to be put into a cook-ship and to. be fed on beer steaks. This letter pretended, that a woman in labour, wh; had it, should be safely delivered. It gave instructions as to the Sunday and Good Friday. All this was quite absurd, but he would on his knees entre it the Attorney-General not to prosecute the author. Indeed, he had seen such letters from a child, and a gentleman had one of them that was 150 years old. Parodies of all kinds used to be circulated in Westminster, and even to be paid for by the Trea sury, before Westminster became independent. Mr. Canning, the• Right Honourable Parodist, had been member of Lord Townsend's Committee, though a secret 'one, for• he was then a trimmer, and from s t)lem issued 'many parodies. Why did nut the At - ,iortiey-General prosecute Mr. Walter Scott for the " riles of my Lansilcrti," a work which abounded wfflfe Scrittdral phenols, set in the most. absurd ana sidiculous view t - He was sorry he bad not the book there. If he had, he could point out dozens of pages full of the most ridicul. , as applications of Scrip.tne. His Lordsh p had. said last night. in his charge to Use Jury. that there was nothing profane published under .the sanction at Governinent. He could dis prove that assertion. The Hypocrite, a Play, mo dernised from one of Libber's Plays, had been sanc tioned by tne Lord Coamberfain. Lord Er.t.assonouuu.—l may have said so, but I have no recollection of it. Mr. Hoes.—Those who heard his Lordship must recollect it. ibis platy was sanctioned as acted at Drury...lane Theatre; and in it Dr. Coasevell, intended to represeut Mr. Grine Whitfield, was drawn in the most Oceans and offensive terms. Mr. Whitfield and Mr. Wesley had done much good. Could it be said, that the Man who had reclaimed the Kingawood col liers had done no good to his country ? Toote's Mime was equally abusive of sacred subjects. Lady arsissfras was. represented as uniting the'rnost licen- Woe conduct with the highest raptures of devotion. In the preface to this twee, the artier says. that " It must be use:ul, while there was a bawd in the ,street, an auctioneer in 1. 0 • rostrum, or a methodist in the pulpit." Had lie . nad time, he would have filled the table with parodies. Chalmers' Poets would have supplied an endless variety ; yet he had heard of no indos ex/Jur:alto - Ims fur that work.—He next ex hibited Fuseli's print of the " night mare, " and then shetted a parody upon it representing the Lord Mayo, (Wood), as the night mayor (snare), upon the breast of a girl. Wuat. he would ask, did this parody ridicule? Was it Fuseli's print, or was it Alderman Wood I The Attorney-General had not prosecuted, cur iidicule ;won Ilderman Wood was • not unacceptable to Ministers. Did the Alderman bring as action ? That excellent man and able Magi strate had too much sense to do so. The print ri diculed his well-meant though perhaps injudicious efforts to Clear the streets front prostitutes. 11y ne- ' .alerting it, he made it harmless. He was afiaid that his Lordship would think the introduction of all the prime he had before him unmeaning. Lord ELLSinnoiKainis ant afraid I may say so. Mr. Hotta—The olsket . was to thew that the design and effect in all those parodies were to impress some thing on the mind quite unconnected with the thing parodied, and that the thing parodied had suffered loathing from such an use of ii. • Jared 4.l.eateinovetei-The picture is ground for, indictment.. I • #..Hotts granted it; bit what was gained by in ollieti g ? was a than more ridiculed thaw Sir' William Curbs? Yet be only bought as many as he - saw at them to leash at them. Prosecution created a demand for the thing prosecuted. The Attorney " General might depend upon it, that all the parodies Would now be reported and circulated through she kingdom. A great sale would be the contequente of the'prusecution. He then teed the subject of and comoseuted.with great spirit and loom upon the .ditienutperss of it. He would ask any man Molly 1 his bud an his breag, and to say the; the Si- ceCuriit". Creed was wriiten with the assign and in • tension to ridicule St. AthAnatiues Creed. His Lord _ ship was once a Membrt of tbe Ctbinet, and had iered on a great questiOn io State lion/ the other Membees. Has L. , rdship was tif one • ; rest were a .nutlet opinion; yet there brit n t two Cabinets, bet one Cabinet. Was this blasphemy or impiety.* He %ad I ken ihAt mode of expel/sing truth( which he could tint h ve otherwise. declared. if he _...- hAd Attended at the Prince Regent's 1. wee, and in his presence called any • f his Ministers An inciinprehtn sible fool. • huicliu„, ur a mystitic "tie, nos Royal 114 . 41 mess might, initial)), be of a d fferent Re now recApitulited tier priactpal points of his de. fence. The Attorney General And his Luidship had excused Lusher, As he had done it io a moment of ritAtion against persons whu had beet. troubl.::otne to him. Ovid not the same persons find any excuse far Wiliam Hone? He had been Attacked is shov ing A bad example to his family. He 11.. d indeed mitten this prody in 'went) m 00000 while he held his infant on his knee. But let toem recilLect that Martin Luther had a family. Yet he paitalitcl the first Ps.ilm. He Kali as pure as ',litho., and chimed same excuse. But no excuse was necessity, fur there was no wrong dune. Gifray Wall A par.ishst s he tmpluyed his transcendant calculi in pato.iyigg Scripture for political purposes. Fox, the must hu mane, the b.st man t tat ever sat in ai. Eli A l.ste Ca binet, was repres:nted on a dunghill with a Jaci.bin's red cap on his head. He wished Mr. Foes spirit .predominated now in our councils, and uie nation woo dbein a far different state. The power ot Go. verument would not be made execrable by the perse cutlin of an inhocent And defenceless matt. 0. the i sersecionrs, the peirecutens, the perseuntors, unit obliged Lim rift* to stand the third day im Its triad Why did they not, to save Mr. Ca m t 's ratter, abstain tr ;al thus prosecuting him ?—Mr. Canning would have thanked them, and said— " Hone is a poor fellow. I am a pariahs' tun ; this prosecution is a nasty thing, I don't like tt " There was Loss, Sidmoutti, a grave. a good, a religious, and surely a charitable Mali there oar Lunt Eden. borough, a very grave man, [his Lordship could not resist a smile hire] & why did they nut step or ward td held a poor oppressed man 1 0, no I hr could not stand three days Their united force would stately crosh the insect I No, he defied their power. l'hey could orny immortalize ham. He would go down to p..sietsty with George Canning. If this Right Ho nourable parodist ascended after Mr. Nett, he would Fay bold of his lett leg and ascend along with hint. They would, perhaps, have spared hm this third tri:l, it he had implored their mercy. But, not he disclaimed, he atiathematiatal their mercy. They were below William Hoc,. 67, Old Bailey! Walter Scot had edited the parody of Lord Sunsets. Why was he nut prosecuted? 0, nol vas Mr. Scott, a man of great talents, was ministerial, and nail held a little ogling for the tauretteship with Robert Southey he was plain Robert Southey when he wrote Wet T)ler and such publications as displeased Mouisters—he as now a pensioner, and Robert Southey, E5q..... He, Wm. Hone, had occasion while he edited the Cri.icra Review to see the Stuart Papers. The,/ were published by Geer t ot Nicholl, librarian to the Prince Regent. There was no prosecution against him for publishing a partial and insidious apology tot these tyrants.—No ; a great deal ot the spirit of " the bonny king and rneickle %mimeo" staastifl to be per. calved. Reeves had parodied the Cat. chum. but afterwards obtained a pension.. Ro)alty had sit glad him (Mr. Hone) out for prosecution only on account Of his politics. He now made a soleion appeal to bits conscience as to tile innocence of his intentions. He would sub nut t t be posted as a liar and to bend his head when he walked in public, if heunce uttered theft or any where else what he did nut believe to be trues Upou his conscience, then, he assured them, that he had no more intention t* ridicule St. Athens sius's Creed than he had now of murdering his wits and childien when he went home—tor tie was sure .. the Jury would send him home to his family. He anew nurse of them t but he hoped, and he believed, that they wae honest minded and independent men. The Stile-clauses' Creed had an extraordinary sale, but not so extraordinary as the Litany. However, he stopped it.trom the motives he had mentioned. He conndently-put himself under their protection. As to St. Athanasius's Creed, Gibbon stated that it eras not written by Athaoasius, but was in tact a parody upon his Creed, and written by Vigilius four centuries at. ter Athanasius had died. Warburton expressly states that it was not his. Waterlaad mentions that it was doubted. Archbishop Tillotson on one occasion es. " I. wish we were well rid ot it ;" and rn re. cent days, upwards of 200 Clergymen met, and soli cited the late Ur. Pontius, Bishop of London, to take some steps to put an end to the obligation at present imposed on diem to read it. Even his Lordship's fa ther, the Bishop of Carlisle, he believed, took a simi lar view of the Creed. ' Lord Em.mitonovoit.—l do not know what his opinion was on this point; . you, perhaps, have had better opportunity of knowing his belief. Whatever that opinibn was, he has gone many years ago Where he has had to account for his belief and his opiatens. Mr. Hogs was about to make some particular re. ferences to the Bishop of Carlisle's opinions, when Lord Euateananvit interrupted him, and said, " For common delicacy, forbear." Mr. Hopis.—O, my Lord, I shall most certainly. Certain it was, that this Creed was not generally be. iieved even by Churchmen. Lord ELLErianaounti...-It is not all ege d to b e Athanasiena's Creed here. It is said only to be cons. .manly called the Creed of St. Athanasius. • Mr. HoNs.—ls it not, then, as it would seem so be, the Attorney-General's opinion, from the (arm of the information to which your Lordship has just re• furred, that d e Athanwian Creed becomes apoory phal, and cannot be viewed a, at is by my prosecuted Lord Zi.Lieksomaloa.—Yes; but the Act ot Usti. f •Igoity made it that which it is now described to be. Mr. Houle.—.The Act of Uniiormity! God foss bid that the Act Of Uniformity could have had the effect of m: kng this what it is deemed to be, trans us import, by some persons. God forbid that this Act could make all men think alike on si e s a sub. jest as this. Lord Etuurnonotion.—lt is nest intended to haw that effect. It merely operates to create unitsarmitr mooort. those who conform to certain religious opi. aims. It is not intended to compel those of a dies 'e rent persuasion to believe it. f: lal 3 me.