The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-27 00:00:00

.. - -, . . . . . . . . .' IN aA- OQLj LI--) _ „ . . . % . . I . Cr ( lit A l-. .- • • ~, • , . J. . , . - • . .. ..1 . t 9 . . iv 8 2 3. . ... ..' . • • .J. O ._. • - _ •- - - - • • - • s••••••• ........• ••••• •••• _2_4_, lb _ LONDON, THURSDAY; MARCH 27, I ;--- TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LAMS AND GENTLEMEN, IFIHE ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS of the • j East India Company, being appointed for IVED- Yesnsv, the 9th APRIL next, the favour of your vote and Interest Is requested for the following Gentlemen, viz.:— Wm. Stanley Clarke, Esq. George Raikes, Esq. John Hudleston, Esq. George A. Robinson, Esq. Richard C. Plowdeu, Esq. John Thornhill, Esq. Which will much oblige, East India House, Ladies and Gentlemen, Stith March, 1623. Your most humble servants, James Pattison. Hugh Lindsay. William Wigrem. John Loch. Josies De Pre Alexander. Campbell Majoribanks. William Asteli. John John Rebb. Charles Mills. Morris. f Jacob Bosanquet. Robert Campbell. Edward Parry. Charles Elton Prescott. J ose ph Cotton. J.Goldsborough Ravenshaw. James Daniell. Thomas Reid. Neil Benjamin Edmonstone. George Smith. ; 1 . W.. Fullerton Elphitestone. Sweeny Toone. Charles Grant. . a/FR. HAYDON'S GREAT PICTURE of LAZA- I RUN, which has been nearly three years on the Easel, IS NOW OPEN, at the /Ezyptian-Mali, Picca dilly. Ground floor to the right.—Admittance Is. Cato logues dd. of election in that borough; and praying for inquiry.— Ordered to be printed, Mr. G. HENN El', pre Bated a petition from the inba- . hicints of the patish of St. Itl-zhael, in the City of Dablin t complaining of the local taxation of the City of Dublin, and praying relief.—Ordered to be prin'ed. Mr. G. BENNET presented a petition from a family of the name of Elliott, of Walsingham, comp!aiiiing of the losses they sustained in consequence of the alteration in the currency, and praying for protection against such a grievance.- 2 .ordcred to be printed. Mr. S. RICE presented a petition from the importers of china and earthenware in Limetielc, complaining that in consequence of the reimposition of the Union Duties, which by the articles of the Union, ought to have ceased in 1820, they were unable to s •il thtir stock to advantage. 'r it e Hon. Member stated that the peti tioners labouring un ler the impression that the Union Duties would have ceased in IbtO, had vested considera ble property in that trade, in the state of which they were, ow unable do complete with their rivals. They roPivettter ardrawback of the - dtity.-Ordeitet • adjourn his Intended statement to some dirt h by which their Lordships would be enabled, to make up eir minds, and be fully qnalitied to give an opinion upon them. There was another point to which lie wished to call the attention of the House, and which he thought it the more neces sary to do, in consequence of what had been stated the preceding day in the other House of Parliament. He al luded to the state of our engagements with Foreign Pow ers in regard to France. Since he saw the statement to which he alluded, he had not time to look at the treaties made at the conclusion of the general peace between Great Britain and those Powers; but he hoped no engagement had been entered into with those Powers of which the Bri tish public was not already in possession ; and that if there were in the public treaties any such engagements as those to which lie now alluded, our Government would not con sider itself so far fettered by such engagements as to be *send to act up to them, in case the Rulers of France, by any rash—and he would add, iniquitous conduct of their -own, were to excite a new revolution in that country. if any such engagements did exist, he hoped they would r iot be thought lightly of by the House, and that his Ma inaty's Ministers would feel it a duty incumbent on them I , to *Ole the Raters of Frame, that the British- GoVerk rent should not consider Itself bound to protect them I *gains the evils which their own rash conduct might bring I upon them, and which, in such case, they would justly de serve to suffer. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said their Lordships would he best able to form a judgment on this question, when the papers he intended to produce were laid upon the table; and he hoped the Noble Lord would nut pre judge the conduct of his Majesty's Government, un it lie saw a statement of what had been done at the la!e con gress at Verona. As to the course of proreeding . which the Noble Lord recommended him to adopt at the time of his laying the papers before the House, he did not see that there could be any thing unfair in his giving a ge neral outline of the papers so far as they were connect ed with the negociations. In.all cases in which the country might be engaged in hostilities, the publication ' of papers was always accompanied by a certain declara tion • but now, as we were in a state of neutrality, no such declaration was necessary ; but at the same time it would be proper for him to make some statement respect ' ing the nature of the documents he meant to present. If the informatibn contained in those documents should ap .pear unsatisfactory to the Noble Lord, he might call for fresh information ; but he assured the Noble Lord that the statement be intended to make would not excite any unfair prejudice in the public mind. As to the other question put by the Noble Lord, it was not now necessa ry to enter into any particulars on thtt part of the sub ject ; but be would assure the Ntible Lord that this Go vernment had not entered into any secret engagements that could contravene the public engagements contained in the treaties already before the House • and that those engagements to which the Noble Lord alluded were only of a negative nature, and merely confined to the indivi dual who lately tilled the sittiation.of Emperor of France and his family ; and lie could further state, that except the exclusion of that individual, his Majesty's Govern ment was under no obligations of any kind, except what were stated in the pnblie treaty. On the motion of adjournment being put, The Earl of DARNLEY rose to express a wish that, some information might be given respecting the appli- 1 cation of the segmented force which had lately been 'added to the Navy. Lord MELVILLE answered that it was intended to complete the crews of the guard ship., and to put some vessels of the smaller class into commission. Lord GREY said he wished to put one more questlon to the Noble Earl opposite. He wished to know whether there was any secret article in the treaties with Foreign Powcrsthat went to give greater extent to the obligations which were publicly apt tot th. The Earl of LIVERPOOL replied that the whole ex tent of our obligations were contained in the treaties al ready laid before the Honse. The House then adjourned to the 10th of April. CHILE LOAN.—Notice is hereby gives, That the' SECOND HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND, due on the 31st March instant, will be PAID on that and every subsequent day, Sundays excepted, at our Counting-house, No. 102, Leadenhall-strett, between the hours of ten and two o'clock.—The Holders of %% armada are requested to leave them, with Lists In numerical order, forexamination, on Sa turday the 29th inst.or one day previous to the application for payment.—Loadon, Sth hlarch l iS23. HULTATIV, BROTHERS and Co._ EAGLE FIRE AND LIFE OFFICES, CORNIIILL AND REGENT-STREET, (Corner of Jelifyll-street) ST. JAMES'S. THE Directors respectfully submit to the public the Udvantsges to Persons tnsured at these Offices. —, The terms are unusually liberal with the benefit of every other Office combined. The payment of rent Is allowed to sufferers by Plc. without any Increase of premium ; no charge is made for policies; no responsibility can be in. curred as in Partnership Societies, wherein every one is liable for losses to the extent of his whole property. Life Insurances effected on the same equitable terms, and all Life Policies remain In force during the passage of the assured in decked vessels, to and from any part of the conti nent, between the Texel and Havre de Grace. Lady-day Policies should be renewed within 15 days i from that period. to be printed. The Bill relating to Cliarit .ble Loans in Ireland wai read a first time, and ordered to be read a sccund time on the 11th of -April. oro.AIINV 4 TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. Lapses AND GENTLEMEN. HAVING the honour of being recommended to you by the Directors of the East India Company, as ' Candidates for the Dirt ction to be chosen this year, we take the liberty of requestieg the favour of your Vote on the day of E•ection, WLDNESDAY, the 9th APRIL next. East India House, We are, Stith March, 1823. Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient and most humble servants, William Stanley Clarke. George Ralkes. John Hudleston. G. Abercrombie Robinson. Richard Chicheley Plowden. John Thornhill. BRITISH MUSEUM. Mr. CROKER said that in consequence of a commu nication be had with the Right - Hon. Gent. opposite, be would postpone his nvgion tel to the bt tte of tbi British Museum, till after the holiilays. Indeed he hoped to be relieved from the necessity of making t!tti motion at all, as be believed it was the intention of Vie Committee to turn their attention to th.c subject, shirt would have been the object of his motion. GRAND STATE LOTTERY will begin 9 th of April, 3 of £20.000, and Eighty other Capitals— All Money. IMMO FOR THE FIRST PRIZE: and tne Fifty-two following Prizes will be all Capitals. To be decided iu the first Quarter of an Hour. Tickets and Shares are selling by EYTON, Stock-broker, 2, Corohill, and Lombard - street , where all business In th e Puclic Funds is transacted with fidelity and despatch. 11SERVE.—Now on Sale, OLD POR T Vinta g e, O 1811, 335. per dozen ; do. SHERRY,: 4 6s. (Huth y Solis); CAPE bIADEKIA, 16s. per dozen; a hamper of one dozen each of the above Wines, bottles, Be. included, Rill be forwarded on receipt of Si., or one dozen Port and one dozen Sherry, bottles, Be. for 41. ; or two dozen Cape Madeira, bottles, tc. for 21.; all other Wines and Spirits in proportion. Madeira. Vidonia, Tenerife, Lisbon, Calcavelia, Ac. 21. per dozen; old Cogniac Brandy (Otard Benesie), 235. 6d. per gallon ; old particular Jamaica Rum, Lis.Gd.; Shrub and Cordial Gin, 121. Just landed, Chain paignes Rouge et Blanc, premiere qualiW, in Brilliant con dition (prix Soleaux Adze, Growers), 41. 4s. per dozen ; Claret La Rose and St. Julien. 68s. per dozen. The trade supplied. Fresh empty Wine Pipes, 1752 each.—CHARLES WRIGHT, Wine-merchant to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cterence, next to the King's and opposite the Hay market Theatre, Opera Colonnade, Haymarket, London, -silo pledges his honour and reputation the above Wines and Spirits are genuine as imported, and assures the Public bis is the only establishment where excellent Wines, at such unprececi.mted low prices, can be obtained. A single trial is solicited. 1 TILREI3 OF £20,000! /NAIMOLI , informs his Friends and the Public , that ki the present popular Lottery contains THREE Prizes of 20,0001. and EIGHTY other Capitals, All Money —he also begs to remind them that in the very lost Lottery containing Three of 20,0001. he sold Two out of the Three, BOTH IN SHARES, besides many others of 10,0001. 1,0001. &c. &c. ; and he trusts the same good fortune will attend the Purchasers at his Offices, No. 19, Corahill. end 26. Oxford-street, on the 9th of April. when the first Prize will receive 20,0001. and the Fifty-Two next drawn Prizes will be all Capitals!! ! The following are the Numbers of the Capital Prizes sold in Shares at CARROLL's Offices in the last Lottery drawn on the 15th Jan. last, viz :- 3,425 £20,000 16,522 20,000 N 0.564 lO,OOO 17,100.......E1,000 I 1,341 £9OO 1 11 , 049 £ 9OO ..... 500 I 5,906 2OO 13.609 2OO 841 .300 I 6,829 2OO 19,117 2 OO 16,613. .. .300 I 9,131 2O OI 19,997 2OO I.l' ?.,( ' I.''• ANGEL INN. ST. CLEMENT'S STRAND, •ANZIAL COACU orncs FOR TRAVAILING, AND CON, I. ' R 1 tr. hi ' en a, kit ed. be re h rat- '7 ,11; . say, Toth g.gllr . g the vtvt:va PancELS AND allitCHANDizt. THE FOLLOWI NG MAILS mad ether COAOHR go from the above INN : Paris Royal Mail, via Dover,Tuesday sad Friday Nights, at Twelve. Portsmouth and Gosport Mall, through Godalming, Pa tes-afield, and Portsea, every Evening at a quarter past 7, and Sunday at half-past 6. On its arrival a Packet sails to the Isle of Wight, to convey passenges and parcels ; and a Mail Coach sets off to Chichester, through Drayton, Havant, Emsworth. he. Gloucester Mall, through Henly, Oxford, and Cheltenham, every Evening at a quarter past 7, and Sundry at half past 6. Hover and Canterbury Mail, through Gravesend, Chatham, and Feversham, every Evening at a quarter past 7, and Sunday at half-past 8. From Canterbury, passengers and parcels are conveyed to Deal, Margate, Ramsgate, Sand wich, he.; and from Dover, parcels are conveyed to Folk stone, Sandgate, Hythe, Dimchurch, Romney and Lydd. Milford Mail, through Carmarthen, Llandilo and Haver fordwest, every Evening at a quarter past 7, and Sundays at half-past 6. Bath and Bristol Post Coach, every Afternoon at 3. Bath and Bristol Post Coach, to carry only Four inside, through Reading, Marlborough, Caine and Chippeoham, every Morning at a quarter past 8. Bath Light Post Coach, in two days, to carry Four inside, through Maidenhead, Reading, Marlborough, Devirea, and Iffelksham. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Mornings, at Nine. This Coach is chiefly intended for the accommoda tion of Families, Invalids, he. who cannot undergo the fatigue of such a distance in one day. Brighton Light Post Coach, through Cuckfleid, dm every Morning at 8, except Sunday. Godalming and Guildford Telegraph Coach, through Ep som, Leatherhead, Clandon and Horsley. Tuesday, Thurs day, and Saturday Mornings at 10. Gloucester New Post Coach, the Champion, through W)comb, to Oxford, Cheltenham, Hereford, Carmarthen, Tenby, Ross, Swansea, he. every day at I. • Henley Coach. through Madenhead, every Afternoon at Sunday excepted. Littlehampton, Arundel, and Petworth Coach. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings, a quarter before 7. Margate, Ramagate, Deal, Sandwich, and Broadstalre Light Post Coaches, every Morning and Evening. Oxford Light Post Coach, through Henley, he. every Morning at 7. Portsmouth New and Elegant Light Post Coach, the Re gulator, to carry only Four Inside, through Kingston, Ouildford. Petersfleld, and Portsea, every Morning at 8. York, Newcastle, and Edinburgh Coaches, and to all Parts of the North, every klorning,at a quarter before 0. Manchester, Lancaster, Kendal, Rochdale, Huddersfield, Bradford, Leeds, Halifax, Rotherham, Sheffield and Nor wich Coaches, daily. Wallingford and Wantage Coach. through Maidenhead, Nettlehed, and llarwell, Tuesday, 'Thursday, and Saturday Mornings. at 8. Godalming and Guildford Telegraph Coach, through Kingston, Dittotr, Cobham, and Ripley, on Monday, Wed nesday, and Friday Mornings at 10 ; Sundays at 7, and re turns to London the same day. Boston, Horneastle, Spalding. Peterborough, Stilton and Huntingdon day coach, to Spilsby, Louth, Grimsby and Hull, morning at past IL The only day coach to Boston and liorncastle. Dover and Canterbury Light Post Coach, every Evening at half-past b. Ditto, every Morning at half-past 6. Salisbury Post Coach, to carry only Four Inside, through Staines, Basingstoke, Whitchurch, Andover, he. every Morning at 7. • Chichester, Bognor, and Petworth Post Coach, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Mornings, at a quarter before 7. CARRIERS—To Twickenham, Brantford, and Isleworth, every Monday, Wednesday. Friday, and Saturday. • Wednesday . and Co. Proprietors. Parcels and Packagol ate safely and expeditiously con . rayed from this INN Os every City, Town, Village, and Country Seat in the following Codntles, Hereford. Surrey, Bucks, Gloucester, Sussex, Cornwall, Kent, Wilts, Devon, Oxford, Worcester. Dorset, Hants, Somerset, South Wales, All Parts of the Isle of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, and al l • Parts of France, and to all parts of the North, Neat Poet-Chaises, he. at the shortest notice. 'sire that )wrt dr- - -- INSTANT RELIEF FROM A BURN OR SCALD. TILE VEGETABLE CERATE, or LINIMENT, is a discovery of the greatest importance—it imam diatelyeelieves the torture attending recant accidents, how ever calamitous ; and effectually cures the most malignant cases which have baffled other attempts ; even a scar or mark seldom remains, where these applications have been fairly tried.—As a Dressing for Blisters, (which, from pecu liarity of habit, often leave a very troublesome ulceration,) the Cerate is a speedy corrigent ; and particularly for sore or tender Nipples, its healing properties are especially re commended. Bruises, Ulcers, and Sores of every description, will ac knowledge the sanative influence of these remedies, with a promptitude scarcely credible. The Vegetable Cerate and Liniment can be bad in sepa rate packages, at 2s. 9d. each ; of Mr. O.Colk, Chemist 29, Fleet-street, opposite St. Dunstan's Church ; of Mr. Blake, Chemist, 47, Piccadilly ; of Mr. Weller, Chemist, 63, Threadneedle-street, London—and of all respectable Medicine Venders in Town or Country. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. , -...IVEDNSPDAT. The Royal Assent wee given by Commission to the Na• tionel Debt Reduction Bill, the King's Property Bill, and the Marriage Act Repeal Bill. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Montrose, and Earl of Shaftesbury . herd KINGSTON presented a petition from the Borough of Sligo, complaining of the excessive tolls exacted there, and of a violation of the charter. The Prisons Regulation Bill, end some private Bills, were brought up from the house of Commons, and read a first time. Lord KING presented a petition from the town of Read ing, ageinst the Insolvent Debtors Act. The Earl of LIVERPOOL laid on the table copies of cer tain papers from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. BANKRUPT LAWS. The LORD CHANCELLOR called the attention of the House to the Bill that had been introduced last Session for the purpose of amending the Bankrupt Laws, but which had not been passed into a law. Since that time It had been considered that ft would be more proper to include all the amendments then proposed to be adopted is one Rill ; and he wished to inform the House that it was iutended to in troduce such a Bill shortly after the recess, which should comprise the whole of the provisions that were deemed necessary to be adopted on this subject, and which wen e connected with the subject of bankrupts, except those which It might be thought proper to repeal. lie now pleilsred himself that a measure of this kind should be brought for ward either in this or the other House of Parliament. RELATIONS WITS FOREIGN POWERS. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said he felt It necessary to inform their Lordships that it was his intention, on next Monday fortnight, to lay before the House such papers as were connected with, and were to throw a light upon, the late negotiations carried on between this country and Foreign Powers, and particularly those which related to the approaching war between France and Spain. At the same time, It was his intention, on presenting those papers, to state what had been the conduct and views of the Bri tish Government In conducting those negotiations, and what was the policy which, In his opinion ought to have been pursued with regard to Foreign powers. He did not think it necessary to say any thing more on the subject at present. Earl GREY understood from what had fallen from the Minister on a former day, that all hopes of preventing the wer between France and Spain were not yet extinguish ed ; but every thing still appeared to him to be in a state of uncertainty, and he could not, without great pain, re flect on the mode of proceeding which appeared to him to have been adopted by our Government, and he eauld not help viewing it with great distrust ; for he was confident, if the tone and language which the feelings of the country called for, had been adopted in proper time by his Majes ty's Ministers in the course of the late negotiations, that we should pot be in the uncertain and alarming situation in which the country was now placed. For his own part, he should lad himself, on the occasion of the intended discussion, in this dilemma—either that a statement would go forth with all the evils attendant on a partial detail of events, or that a discussion would be entered into without the documents necessary for coming to a right conclusion upon It. Therefore, be hoped that the Noble Earl would content himself with first laying the papers on the table, and moving that they be printed, and that he would thee HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESD - - - Immediately after the SPEAKER took the Chair, the House was summoned by the Deputy Yeoman Usher of the Black Hod, to the House of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent given, by Commission, to certain Bills. On his returning, the SP EA K ER acquainted the House that be had been to the House of Lords, and heard the Royal Assent giver, by Commission, to the Reduction of the National Debt Bill, the King's Property Bill, and other Bills (for which see Lords' Report.) Certain Returns were laid on the table from the Insolvent Debtors' Court, which were ordered to be printed. The Order of the Day for taking into consideration the petition of Mr. Sheerand and others, complaining of the undue election of Col. White for the City of Dublin, was discharged, the sureties not having entered into the necessary recogniaanees. Mr. Alderman SMITH presented a petition from the Archdeacon and Clergy of Sr, Albans, against the Ca tholic Claims.—Ordered to be printed. Mr.. DAWSON laid on the table the Reports of the Royal Society relating to Gas Lights, which were or dered to be printed. Mr. SYKES presented a petition from the inhabitants cif Kingston-upon-Hull against shop rates.—Ordered to be printed. INSOLVENT DEBTORS ' ACT. The LORD MAYOR presented a petition signed by above 1600 most respectable Merchants, Bankers, and Traders of the City of London, praying for some altera , tions in the Insolvent Debtors' Act. He presented this petition with pleasure, not merely as Chief Magistrate and Chairman of the Meeting at the Mansion House, but also as a Member of Parliament, being perfectly con vinced that this Act, originating in benevolent and pure motives, had given rise to more fraud and robbery than it was possible fur him to describe. This feeling *was now universal, and all parts of the country were as desi rous as the metropolis to procure some change in its pro visions. It was unnecessary for him to go at much length into a subject so much discussed, but he would beg to suggest these alterations in particular, viz.—that the first step in taking the benefit of this Act should he an Act ofi Bankruptcy, thus leaving the creditor the op tion of availing himself of that mode of proceeding ; that the consent of a part, at least, of the creditors should be necessary to the discharge of the debtor ; and that the detaining creditor should no longer be at liberty, at his own pleasure, to relieve the insolvent. As this Act was confessedly only a measure of experiment, which had been found to fail, he sincerely hoped that it would be speedily and effectually amended. Alderman THOMPSON spoke to the respectability of the petitioners, and expressed his concurrence in the ge neral object of the petition. Mr. Alderman WOOD said, that the petitioners sought for no measures of severity ; they only looked for justice. Mr: T. WILSON was of opinion that justice should be done to the creditor without adopting any blush mea sure towards the dehtor.—Orderetl to be printed. Mr. G. BENNET presented a petition from the town ; :and borough of Sligo, complaining of abases _in the tuode MARY ANNE CARLTLE. Mr. HUME said that he was requested to present a petition from an individual, named Mary Anne Car lae, and in doing so, he felt it necessary to state, what was already well known, that a great prejudice existed against that name, but he hoped the House would, in the pre sent case, divest itself of all prejudice against her on account of her brother, and view toe facts independently of any extraneous matter. He conceived that an im portant principle was involved in the call of this indivi dual. She was prosecuted not by the Lim i t's Attorney or Solicitor General, who were, to his opinion, the great preservers of the morals of the country, but by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and a Society - s'iling itself the Constitutional Association -a Society which arrogated to itself a right which properly belong ed to the law officers of the Crown. In fact, she WWI prosecuted by a number of individuals, who entered into a conspiracy to oppress those whom they intended to snake the victims of their malevolence. And for this purpose they hail a joint purse, which, along with the, influence they possessed in forming a Jury to suit their views, rendered it perfectly useless for any individual to attempt a resistance. However, be would at present con- • fine himself to the case of *he petitioner, as there would be other opportunities of going more at large into the conduct of these Societies. The petition hail been in his possession one month, being unwilling lo present it, till he bad ascertained the names of the prosecutors in which be found great difficulty. She was tried on one day, at the prosecution of the Constitutional Societe, for a blasphemous libel, of which she was acquitted, and on the saute day she was again tried on a similar charge, at the prosecution of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, of which she was fount guilty. He hail been nearly ten or fourteen days before he could find out of whom this Society of Vice was composel.—(Laughter.) Yes, it was a Society of Vice, and he shoUld prove no thing, if he did not prove that this was a Society foi promoting . instead of suppressing vice. He lead made every inquiry, in order to find out where he could obtain a list of the Members of the Society or what were their objects; of which, after all his inquiry, he could find no p iblication later than Itto7. This led him to the ex traordinary conclusion that the Society was composed of infidels, and persons hostile to the Christian religios, who had secretly leagued together for the purpose of disseminating those Anti-Christian works, which they only feigned an ansiety to suppress. At last he wrote to the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and he was bound to declare the willingness of that gentleman to afford him every information. Pe was shown a list of about t 1.7,0 subscribers, amongst whom were sotne of his most intimate friends, unit others who were excelled by none in worth. There were also some Members of that and the other House amongst the number. In fact, he was bound to admit that this association consisted of men of the most re spectable class in society, and of the most honourable ' and unblemished characters.He believed that the Society acted from disinterested motives, but so far were they froin•seleasiog the object iu view; that they gave eaten: sive circulation to works which otherwise would have 1 been lint little knows. It wit in that sense that be cute sidereil them as promotirs of vice. He had read the par ie phlet for which tile petitioner had been prosecuted, and he was free to confess, in his judgment. it did not.rontain a single word either intemperate in language, or impro per to be used by any Person who professed the opinion* of the writer. (Jr therefore considered the:proiecutiort to be directly opposed to that spirit of free inquiry ' which some of the most orthodox men that this country had ever produced had shown themselves 'nations to up hold. He had also read over that part of the defence which the prisoner was allowed to tnike, as well as that part which she was prevented from making by order o( the Court. It appeared to him most repithensible that the petitioner, while making her defence, should be put 1 down by the strong hand of power, as was done by :Oro Justice Best. This was contrary to the spirit of the law of &gland, which gave dery person the right of erg o ing whatever arguments he thought most ad, antagesei e to his case, while on his trial. It was only of late that !this pernicious practice had crept in, and it was founded on the doctrine held by the Bench, that religion teal part and parcel of the law ofEngland. and as such not to be reviled. He had consulted manly Deistical book*, arid he was sure that nothing could he tumid in the aamplsfet in question, equal to the the language they contained: — language which had long been published, and was mire matter of history. He thought ;hat the Judges in this, case acted with a severity which the principles of British justice did not warrant, and a parallel for it could onl y be fours I. in those ages when individuals were brought to the stake fur the free expression of their opinions. It was in vain that he hoped they would have been hi:Nester:l by a more Christian feeling. Ile could cut help thinking that there was a mistaken zeal shown iii pro...cations of this nature, with a view to pot down o'fflosiout works. It certainly was very proper that those who! made laws shonld make them so as to be motet-too 1, in order that juries might nut be iMsled. By the Lev of the land, juries were sworn. (.1 dec;ije epee the matter of fact brought bi•fare them ; bat in the in stance in q ue s tion , no waver of fact Lad been brau,:ht j before thr ury, They.suight it was try r have had the fact, t h at tile petitioner had published the theologiral works of l'hossias Paine ; b it then islet's the main noint they 'sac called upon to tape the op7rjoa of the Judge