The National Register. — London, England, 1819-10-17 00:00:00

ocr. 17. IV hat did Deism present to them as expounded by the author of this work? Cold, proud, and presumptuous, it reserved the blessings and honours of a future state fora few, and condemned the great body of mankind to merciless annihilation, saying that they were neither woi thy of being damned nor saved. Such a system en abled all those who had the vanity to conceive that they had done great good in their generation, to aspire after eternal blessings, while it set aside the great mass of Mankind, those who be their situation in life could nut distinguish themselves, however faithfully they discharg ed their duties, as too insignificant fur the Creator of the world. It Was teittarkable, too, that the better part of the defence winch turned upon the danger of vstrsitiing free discussion was all taken from the works of those who where either Christian divines, or professed believ ers in Christianity and who, according to this publica tion, were Itifideb to God. ‘Vitli regard to the Future colidition of the defendant himself, whica be had brought nailer their colisideration in representing him self as abort to he handed over to a merciless ti ibunal, it was a matter whieli he did not wish to withdraw from their consideration. It was for the July to say, whether Ir. farmer cases of conviction for miskineatiours, the Judges. had deserted a r..proacli of thia nature. It had been argued, that Christiantiy did not requite the aid of the Cast! Government. lie tor one, firmly relied on its divine character, and believed :t would go on till it com prehended, in G.n.l's good time, the whole of tile human lace; but although it clubd not be extirpated, it might for a Mlle lie superseded. They had seen an example of this in a neighbouring country, where it had formedy been set aside. All the bonds of society were immedi ately loosened, and a dreadful anarchy took place. The vs hole tpie,tion turned on the character of the work, and that initst now be collected from it as a whole. Was it a fair and candid inquiry? Look at those epithets applied to the Scriptures—" a book full of lies," "a dangerous heresy," " an impious falsehood." These were a few speciinetts, and he had found none oilier to soften their &vet, or that indicated any other object to defame the Bible, and bring it into universal disbelief and contempt. So, thinking it was Ms ditty, sitting w lucre he did, to express his opinion to the Jury; arid that opinion was, that this publication was a work of calumny and scoiling, ant therefore all unlawful pub lication. lie desired them, however, to think and Judge for thenisebes. O h adther Juries thought is ith tsitn. but they were to forum diet,- own verdict, without any reference to former decisions. Some wituesses had been.ealled, the relesancy of whose evidence might well be doubted, because moral character had no gene ral connexion with profane publications. lie doubted nut that their verdict would be such as their judgements dictated an 1 their consciences approved. The Jury withdrew, but shortly atter expressed a desire to , see a copy of the statute of dte.:34,1 of the King, upon which the A Chief-Justice desired their attendance in Court, and after no ticing his own omission, explained to them the whole centaur of the Act of William, as altered and modified by two Acts of the present reign. The jury ists retired. The jury, after beinteed about half an hour, returned to Cc tut, and pronounced a verdict of—Gear-TY. (FOURTH DAY ~out PUBLISHING •' PALMER'S PRLNCIPLE IV4TURE..' A cutbiderable cram acw•mbled Oa> moral:it, for the purpose of hearing Mr. Carideo recupuirrial, fur the pulali eirthiu of another deistical *oak. The defrodaot, who was taken into custody last night, lowa after the verdict of guilty was recorded against him, entered the Court, attended by rwu 1 , 111Ce1%, at 2i.).-minutt • after nine, . lie looked extremely ta.. lie Nll3 scemu. paoied by u friend, who assorted I • in arrangiiig 011 the title a great iturulwr of volumes.. fur. Ilunt joined him soon afterwards. Chief Justice Abbott took kis seat on the Beoch at half past nine. The Lot d Alayor took his ratiou near The cisme uf " The K isig v. Cathie" h.tv lag been called, 111. tivilsairproceetled to read over the list of toe Special J ory uf »ham only the three to lowing geutlesusu ausuered to t!tei. 'taws. 3. Saaiider.on, of Itnaad-street-buildings, merchant. J. Christlybei, or New Broad-street,nerc Liam. W. Linwood, of Billiter-square, merchant. Mr Gurney pris)cd a tales, aud.the folio% mg individuals 41Cre 5W0111: J. Mt siger, C. Lettermen, bookseller, 1 drtntd I's octet, glazier, C. Grossen )1, viritiallsr, W. Youn;:„ jeiseller tiertjamin Denham, Jaws Wurnieb, baker, W. liuideli,boirkbi.idcr, J. Robins, currier, li hen t he ii.toure were ealle . .l over— II!. titrlile 'me mid said—Before the Jury are sworn, I ruler my I .0 against the legal potency of the •Court •u thy I believe Liao I have a right to reject same of I he lisksmen, if I think proper. The Cilia tut tte Vm, if you have any legal cave to assign: Mr. Carlile : —!his is a cuesti,os of opin:on—and, if I know that there id • man on the Jury opposed to iay upiiiiiiii attat is suifi. tent enu.e. The Chief J itstice..—lt is not a sufficient enlist in law, in a rase of this end. The Jury were then FROM Mr. A rriott opened the ph saints., Ry the•imlietruent the defendmit, Richard Cathie, wits charged o ith usilnwfully :sad wic edly publishisy, 11 o lased, and prof ne I, of and Concerning the Holy Scriptures ; to hich indictment he had pleaded Nut Gailt%. tourney add.esseti the Jury, and called Thos. Pair, who proved that lie had purr bas^d Palm , is P. inciples 4 Ashore, at the shop of the Defendant, No. Fleet Street, on the 19th of March last. 1 . he Defendant handed loin the book, for wui. I. he paid 7s. The tndictsticut was read—which doted the coat: fur the pc:wry i Mr. Cathie then rove and nclilrested the- Jury. Ile ex- Prc , ved Itiv intent iiiii of appealing tt. the Cour. stl nelllll, 011 the first A ty of atext terns, a,,,at0.: the verdict of the iireciality, evening. the trial Irving itreguhar and the verdict thetebv cuutu iii i i toted. Il.• tlerlitrtd his revotuti 4444 to ;o thron:t is the whole Olt Ilk 1114 . 1 . 110 . , to 110). 0 111nh It • bed beet. prey. Pled front demur, in Ike cower tit Mr I'm net triad., Ile would ttut how tu the no rrupitons '4ll J , wed. if the J UrY stated that the) would nut hear INN (wiener, 4Would ompe.slagaittst thy • whole proct.eding lls irrce,ular. THE► NATIONAL REGISTER: Fle then proceeded to adduce the arum •uts lu favour of a tree diveuwilio, which he kod hewn: advanced, and read copious extracts, without comment, front the body of the work. Mr. Carlile then proceeded with what he termed his defence, hut a hat was tit fact alit emureine aggravation of his guilt, by attempting to prove the Holy Set - quotes what he asserted them to bit daciog hie first trial. The Lord Chief Justice ut Irligib interfered when Mr. Carlile, addressing himself to the Jury said, you, Gen• denten, are judges of law as cell as of fact; if you decide against use, l a ill sit duo it, but soothing hut your decision will plevuo me from going into that defence. The Form Nit thick that It'ib uu improper mode of defence. Mr. Carlite.—Then 1 have done. The Chief Justice instantly commenced his ch trge, which ism very similar to :hut of the day before. The Jury, in about" five nitautes, and without fetirint, from the boa, returned a verdict of Guilty. Mi. Gurney thew said—My Lord there are two oth: r indictments on the paper against the defendant by the Society which instituted the lost pro., cation for distinct offences, it. selling Paine's Age of Reason sut;sequentl) to the commission of that for which he was tried amt con- Flirted yesterday; hotata the Defendant has himself awned that he ha, aold 3,000 copies of the work wire Christmas, and as that fact is proper to be taken intu consideration, as constituttog matter of aggravation in the Court of Kin4's Rem h when he shall be Itrou,;ht up to receive judgment—it seems to me to be unneresaary thus I. should proceed to the rtmaintng itilictments.—litswever I think it my du:), my Lord, now to Wave shut the Detendaut be t utuantittd forth with. The Chief Juvtice—lle is now in custody. Mr. Cartsle—Cannot I give bail my Lord to appear to the delivery of judgment ? The Chief J u.tice answered in the affirmative. Mr. Ca. lile—To what amount, uq Lord Al r. Gurne, —Tia is .pe.ified on the Nisi bond. The Chief Justice.--n e %ill not retinue so watch on the present Ili Cabillll. half the former amount n ill be tittsclent. The Court was then adjourned. SITURDAY, OCT. 111. THE on the Prosecution of HENRY HUNT, V. STOP. I) HT, QV IN, w ad another. This was•an indictment iteanist the defendants for a libel on Henry Hunt. After the putilieishun had been proved, Mr. Him rose to addi ese the Juty. The Lord Chief Justice inlet posed, by observing to him that this was an indictment at the suit of the King, and the unva. ried rule of the Court was, that where. that- was the ease, none hue a Klng's Counsel should address- the Jnry. Hunt persisted. The ClittlJastice threatened to commit him. Hunt still persisted. Mr. Seal lett signed on the subject. Hunt yet persisted. The Chief Justice nodded to Mr. Scarlett not to notice him, and immediately called 011 the next cause. Mr. Hunt collected Ins papers together, and left the Court"! l j ) o t ue. M ANSION-HOUSE. DRAPE:RA-eft ATTFIteT TO ROB A HOC/St.—Three young men, all ut a hoot are kiwis n to the police in a particular way, wear brought up to suspicion ut haviug conspired and attempted to rub the house of Mr. lux, decals', ofßridge street, filaelariars. At the latter end of September, Mr. Wuntner, the City Marshal, ordered -three men to watch HI the home of Mr. Fox, in the night, it being expected that rubbers would attack and attempt to plunder it. Drinks* ater, Forrester the younger, and Dare, we'll futile house oar toe night up. pointed, but all was quiet. They. were Writ assured tuat the business was postponed to the next night, and that four able fellows, who %mild feel no hesitation an cummtting murder, were then to commence operations. The older. procured the assistance of another. udicer, . named brown, w Ito is expert in the use of weapons of defence, and look their stations in a room ut the hack part of the house, to which there aas a large a indow offshoot 14 feet from the g' mind. They retimined.io their places a few hours before u footstep was heard. At eleven o'clock a creeping noise ails heard by them, arid a man wits seen descending firm the .cads over the stables ado she yard, anu utibult nig the stable-dead. Ile did not remain bug in the stable, and uu siis return avid seri, to place a :udder against the wall. Three inbred fol lowed over the lead►, and upon dropping into lie yard, advanced towards the kitchen a halms, %%bleb aas hulled, and %Web they ti led to open mall constdriable v hut ineffectually. They then placed thy ladder La the window of the MUM w witch the ,hirers were et", limed, tad, after short deliberation, our of them ascended, and gently taierd the window, fhe officer► suppressed their breath, and the rubber put cue font a tibial the ruoneand beat his body.— He then drew hack It Illtte, and the ,tabors oho' led a fez sparks arise from something its has baud.._ lie again obtruded his burly huh tiy into the atom, and suddenly darted the gleams of a dark lantern ',mod it.—Three ut the Mb en were at mime dui:mice f.oNr the leiskluit, and Brown stood close to it with a cutlao. rn his baud. The rubber glanced round upon Linens all, anti exelaitniug, " Lord :" uropprd into the yard. tfrown made a desperate cut at the initialer, but he missed him, and struck the ladder. The companions in the rotes prise all ruatwd through the stable door arid escaped thiough the surd and the roach-house into the Street. The palters email rot recognize any of them, for the Might was dark, and the escape am effected in the ta ink Itirg of an eye. It was in the pour, ut Bruno to hare put to death the rubber who climbed the ladder, hut he thought proper to hold back, in .expectatiou that all Ilan robbers would enter. A person, a hie said he nuts or accomplice in the projected nibbrry, gayer niformatimi awls 1111 , 01 Yet the coachman of Mr. Fax, and two desperate characters. Is he necoiant given of • the transaction it 'ayyra.s, thal three month, before the Ii the attack wigs tu.s.de, it had brendeterinineob this formidable rtitsih to colt Air. Ewe. house. The iicknow waged accomplice , was She prism. K i ec t e d t o admit tin I ind, and was fur tout 11111111.. t. 1 .1.111: by the COACblUali in the hay loft, un•ier o 49. a, with direction, not to move uutit• lir br mu Ih.. ttttt bolting the doors nit! E :mg lid't felt SOIMIOLUe..t...Ii.is. mi making the entrance without tlie ~s.ostaine era frtewil, wL was lurkeo tip I but the DUZV , =IIO , I of I.l.llmne• ❑1 ..a, overruled. As sl.Oll as liir mishlr• mo.. - bed been r the i-liornumt sopped dibwu .front Laic hay fort, :sod hi sir, sumilied as,tt s .•, which wit • tioakie.t.osia uu aux let In his rumrail.s. 11 had been, he ans.!, agreed urou s that if thcie einta‘c of detection 303 the servant maid. simuld be murdered. There was au iron • chest which contained. a ;reds deal of property, in a roma near that lit winch the officers were stationed, and tools had been placated for that is the event of the failure in the ex periment to unlock it. The• itsomeut the at* ers were observed by the climber of the ladder, the %showe gang rm.; off in the greatest consternation. '1 he Lard hi.syur ordered that all the' witnesses should appear early in the week to gist. esideuer. The prisunots were remanded. MURDER 47' eL.4I'TO.V. Wb lately gave the particulars of a Coroner's In- - • quest, which was held on the body of Anne Homes by, at Clapton, where she was •murdered by her: husband. 'l'he following is the •confession of the unhappy criminal, who has since surrendered him self into the hands of justice : . CONFESSION. Kent 'The voluntary examination and confession of Cinque Poita. John Humesby, bricklayers-labourer —taken to wit. by and before us, the under justices, of and for the said Cinque Ports.-- Who renuretes that the letter before us, shall be opened and rtud ; it is addressed to Mr. Liebman, Na 5, Dean -street, Sohn, London ; its purport is a confect:ion of die murder of hie wife, in consequence of having, on Tuesday evening -week, about the dusk of the evening, caught her in the act of adultery, in a tow hovel, opposite lus tather's house at Clapton—the exaniinatt - roaompanied her wife home to her father% house; he was gone on his wwch when they got home ; he, the prisoner, then told the housekeeper, whose name his hurry, of the adultery of lite wife: and alnioet directly after his wife and him had ass &Item. tion about going to bed together, and heaving struck her sl4t ly with his open hand, she threatened if he did nut come to bah to her, she would get up, and go with those she had left p and as he had struck her, she soul& swear her life against him, and lie - should lay in•goaland rot ' • and she would go and live with the , other man, whom she loved. After this, he walked in and out the roam, two or three times ; and she declared, on his hesitati4g to come to bed to her, with violent oaths, that she would be the death of one or ether of them. He, then went for an ..xe that lay in the adjoining room. close ty•her father's chest ; and, with it in his hand, he challenged her to say so-again. She said., rather than suffer the usage she had, she would be the death of one or other. At this instant, he struck heri upon the hone with the back of the axe, slightly. She was then sitting on the bed. pardy undressed, having previously seemed to attempt to dress herself again. When she said, she would go :odic other WWI, after the first blow was struck, he had just time to hese tear • say, '• Oh : you know." and a second blow with the back of the axe immediately followed. He dues not know whether he - struck-her mote or not. She seemed to swoon on the right side, and bled • ito as to be heard by him. He then took her by the left arm, and pulling her to the left side of the Nal, kissed bar, saying, * 6 My dear, you was once my comfort, for a little time; and now lam the death of you, and you of me." She was then alive; and was so when. he left the room, and went to her Ili titer's chest and took a pound note out of it and escaped—having threatened to the children and the woman (the housekeewr), lie would be the death of them, if they made any noise; ohs must have money. for a time, in order to repent, before he went away; and, after leaving his wife bleeding.lte put down the name 4.414 e man his wife had been connected with, and left it with the he lie came to Woolwich about nine or ten o'clock tee next morning, and was at Canterbury last Sunday--was at Dint, yesterday, and has wandered about at different places, withutit - any particular intention, till he came to Widmer. Ile bought the jacket he has on at Woolwich, leaving a brown cloth cower, and a pair of fustian trowsers there; having also bought the striped trowsers he now wears, at Woolwich. He wishes to add, dud on his wife's making an excuse that she had been dragged into the cow-house by great force, by the wan he found her with, lie, the prisoner, offered, if she would swear the rape vein.* him, she would be forgiven; but she refuted, in oosiswesianguage, saying, " She loved his little finger better than her husband's whole body." iI.MIN HO.NIES/11'. Taken and Signed, the 7th day of • Octot.u, 1519, betbre us, J. 13. BACKHOL*SE. M. IlLxximwrini. Deets.—On Monday afternoon, at four o'clock, a meeting took place within a mile of Cheltenham, on the Wincheoinh-road, between Charles Phillips, Esq. of the Irish bar, attended by Colonel O'Neil, and Henriques, Esq. attended by Major Pen.. rice, when, after an exchange , of shots, the affair terminated, and before leaving the ground, the parties shook hands.—On the 7th inst. Mr. fe ll w, nephew of Lord Exmouth, a • captain in the Lifa Guards, war killed in a duel at Paris, by Mr. Walsh, late a lieutenant in the same regiment. • The cause which produced this event was the elopement of Mrs. Walsh some time ago with Captain Pellew, Lind who was with him at Paris, to which place the injured husband fuliowed them. The first shot of the latter gentleman took effect by hitting his ad versary in the head. Captain Pellew was killed on the spot without having fired. The body, for a considerable time, was refused admission at the ho tel where he lodged. We should be less violent in our denunciaticris'of this murderous custom, if in every instance the justice of the- case -guid,:tl the event as nearly as in this. A destructive fire brake out at the 11, - ;ltse of Capt. Turvit, of Stoken Hundred, six miles from Coln. brooke, on Saturday night, which was occasioned by a servant-maid setting- tiro to the furniture of her mistress's bed, in which she slept during. the absence of the Captain and his lady in France. In a few minutos the house, which has been lately buiit - and moat elegantly furnished, was ou tire in all parts, , and at this time a youn. , maa named HumberAsne, - a servant, leaped on the root' of the stabling• broke both his legs, and was besides so much hurt that he t-annot survive. The south-westerly wind drove.the flames to the coach-house and stabling, the whole of which was built of wood and in less than- two hours the whole was one mass of It is said that no part was insured. We learn that Lonl Somerville died on the instant at Vevay, Switzerland: his I .ordb:lir, it is said & will be buriol in Glvcotta3ltirc..