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eittolti not allow the &reu . kiant to take that course. By the i v . , of the lam! , no pers on waialliered fi dewy gisi Slide of the Chriatian religion, or to goostiou the divioesuthority o f the Holy Scriptures. Mr. earlde said he was sorry to observe that there was bit!. of Christianity abuse those who Were around him. Mr. P.oor himself said that Jesus Christ was sit amiable .sad ticur..plciii man; he endeavoured to change the system of his made innovation on the powers if tbe lbgh Priests of the Jews; sod what were the come. fr•lice: l —Why. he fells victim to their rancour and milk.. My I toil. the priests in this country are out mere usinrcifec; it is front the priests of this country that this persecution against me lia• originated. The CIIIET Jt STICIr.—" It is unnecessary to read thaw chapters Isms. Genesis, the Jury are anguaisted with thews." Mr. Cartile—" My Laid, l read them fur the justilleatiue of Paine." The cuter Jvrrice—" This surely cannot he a defence." Mr Carlile" My object is to strew that Pulse was justi foil iu shat hr assessed; my. object is to chew that Pause w as rot guilty of a falsehood... The Cm cr Justice—“ I did not restrain you from read. ,„ t .. t h e itself; though if what is contained in it ir,re 11ftril by yourself, I certainly would out allow you to pc ti Carlilt•—" My Lord, in this country it is easy to ex. rite religious prejadies. Paine said that no man slionld be ronoteinnetl for differing with another is opinion; such con duct is surely 11411 consistent with the spirit of Christianity, nor a ith any principle of morality or justice." 'I he Cuffs Jvcrica—“ I have already stated, and I sow rpr-it it. 111:11 Silting here as an English Judge, I cannot st. lon any man to deny that the Holy Bible is of divine audio. rlc Mr. Carlile—" My Lord, the Jury are the judges in my '4I Iwe no law that •pplirs to my case—l appeal to the ulgment of the Jury. My Lord, Mr. Kidd, in his defeece iiliants, as, going into the same lime of defence that I 4,a‘r a ish to take, he was interrupted by Lord Kenyon. Mr. said he stood there the advocate of the Prisoner.—that in a Court of Justice every San Ind a right to a defence— that he saw no course of defence but that which he was about to take, and if he were nut allowed to pursue that, he might :is ~dl lb3lllll/11 the defence altogether. Lord Kenyon de. aro .1 him to go um" Our, Juggler In that very Report you will Ind that Mr. Aida was about to read certain passages of the Ahle, and on an intimation of the Court, be desisted trout du': e NI. I have allowed you !n this case much greater lati. tole than was allowed to Mr. Kidd in that. You may cite passage% hut do not read them." Here the ArroattgY-Gewagat read a passage from the R. putt of the trial of Mr. Corti le—" My Lord, Mr. Paine said that so hook was more read anti less examiaed lima the Bible. Wheel I am prrsented front reading passages from the Bible, is it be. CUM' the Bible is nut It to be read r The Curer .11;sTICE—" Not to be read irreverently—not to he read for she avowed purpose of proving or attempting to p. ore that the Bible is not of divine origin." dery the Foreman of the Jury interfered. He said that Ste lure did not think it necessary for the Defendant to go all% farther jail, the reading of the Bible. Ills bordello,' again said, that as an English J u dge, inde. 1.....1rnt of every other consideration, he wo u ld out suffer ti.. . Defendant to question the Scriptures. li r . csilite—" My Lurd, she Stripimme are here coml. dh•rr d of divine origin. The Mahometams consider the Koran as divine also. The Mshometnns would not per. ni.t a man. however constientiour, to doubt the dogmas of the liorau." The Cute► Jusvice—" If you in the Blabometan entries committed an offence aphid the religion of the Stale, in ►tead of receiving an impartial and patient trial, as you have here, you would be devoted to instant death." Mr. Carlile—" Ye., my Lord, and this .hews how cool men should lw, and how much consideration should be given to matter of opinion." The four JUSTICE—" I 11111110 i allow you to violate the laws of the laud, and in affecting to defend yourself, to commit a repetition of the offence." Mr. Carlilc—" My Lord, the entire is a matter of opi nion. I $1.211 NOW proceed to read some passages from the writings of Doctor Geddes, the translator of the Hebrew Ttsianitut. That celebrated won was educated a Catholic print, and was sine of the moat keened and able WWII of kis day. Here be read a nausbev of passages free Doctor l:etl kw. he was proceeding to read further. ..bell The Arrow's er.Gettgam. said, drat if the Herndon were thus allowed to proceed, he saw *eternisation to the trial; if permitted, the Dereodant weight nation to read every work published oa the Gospel. What the Defeedaat was rea , iug lead no relation whotever to the charge, sod be *Withd sot be allowed to occupy the time of the Court. The Ouse Jurrict- 4 The work the Dereedaot is sow rending, is very different from the poblicatioa of Pane.— Dr. Geddes observes oa the five books of Moses, aad en pirsses his doubts as lo some Of ACM. Mr.Cuble—" My Lord, Dr. Geddes doubts sore parts 4•f the Bible, wed Mr. Paiiseo publicatioa doubled some part of is." The Cm, Justice- 14 No; the publicatios of Poise Dues not go to express doubts, bat it iaspegna the Bible; it that She entire of the Bible is a tissue of falsehood sad icor Null Here the Foreman of the Jury said, that the Joey felt great reluctasce in iiiterferiag with the Defendant—bet they frit it necessary to say, that the course he was taking, did not semi to them to bear on his case." .._ • _ _ . - Mr. Carlile—u Then I cannot are what will bear as my rase ; prejudice has been excited apinst me, and I am to be The Cusco JUSTICE—J° If you will be crushed, it must be h, the weight of your publication. If you love dome true. thing that cannot be firfevided without istpoguieg the law of England, theta yon tenant be allowed to go into that lied of clerence." Mr. eartile—" My Lord, I doo't see that the law Is against air." The CHIC, Juivics- 04 Sir, I have already gives ay opining yrs _ _ Mr. Curiae- 1 ; My Lord, you paid that by the rectal eta tole Ina one of the provisions of the Aet of William and Mary was repealed. I say that the three ImmerWitrus were repealed." The CHIIT JUSTICE—" Well, Sir, that is your opiwisso ; it is for the J wry to say whether they will lake the law toms you or (runs me." Mr. enrlite—N My Lord, the law is n very dubious thing." The roar, 'eerier —" Your course is very smug. Ilr oo urge mestter irrekvaut, it is a lout odium—if you urge what la profine,__it2s still wont." Mr. earlile—" My Lord, obit was written by Mr. Palos WI% Mk, urines by other 'Woad lieu, who were out prow ruted.~ The Cater Jurttea—• It does 160 l follow that if the offences of those men were mot ponished, that others are to follow the same room with impunity." Mr. CArlile—m My lAnd, Mr. Gibbon his attacked the religooss in the most insidious umuser. lam at liberty to me into its examinatioa." The Ville, JUSTICZ—" I toy you are not ; you areaot at to do say shim, to question the aivioe treigie ut Christianity" _ _ _ Mr. Car by Lard, I am • man of bumble life, amid ilseirfure I ant prosecuted. Mr. Gibbuts far front being I.lo , reuted, bold ea neve seder the Cr ow.. Mr. Hew, who far exceeded Hire in his attacks ow religio&—Hunse, nhu was an Atheist, vise seat as Secretary to as F.mbany to Paris, and had afterwards • pennies of COOL a-year. He 4ras error prowecnted, and name inestioased, bet by the phis of the country. My Lord, if lam in error, let me be r , .ssinced by argument; bre let me not he throws into a danesun by those whu are fonned in concert to musk me." The Cults Juainca—" If you attribute say thins of con •cert to me, you attribute that which I am altogether free Crum. I am here discharging my duty as a Judge silk ltiod l and the first dictate of that ditty is not to allow the elieree. ter of the Christian suligime to he &smiled." Mr. Garble—" My Lord, if yes deny mire pert of the Christian religious you destroy the shut.. The first prieel. plc of the Christian ealigiost is des belief is the tenuity of Christ--the natations sla set bedews so, yet they are pro tected by the law ; they believe that Milt was the messes. per sf Cod, aad that be performed sums ntireelesw-that he *nisi from file itted.• The Agit, Si* plants the Veit*. Tinos, and will it bb Raid that theater law Ines et' alp, ap ply to them who, like 116 e 11,6111 rings. do nuettilicre in 004 divinity of Christ?-=-I bold op that statute as the shield of si my protecti•.-1 bawl stated ate law which tolerated the im pugning of the linty Trinity. If the statute was sot passed I never would have mtbliihed those works. 'Me Jury mud know that public opinion is battle to change. Sines- the con victions that took place for puhlishine The Age of Reason. I thought I saw The change in ',abbe opinion mattiTestesl in this Act of the Legislature. The Ape of Itertsoo inculcates morality ; it is as perfect in thi• Mptri as any Isstrok that ever was published of the stiiiie hind. If, however. lam is, error, a loathsome peispn is not likely to convince me a my error. lly bred, one half of the people of this contd.,. are Deime--thousands of persons hull the same opinions that 1 do, but their oilitatiihns in life will nut allow Owns to ex press those opinitswit. 'I believe its one Guil, and no tome. The same law 'bat 'protects others dessuld protect me. The law is exprews—and if I son not to get its protcctiwo, it is of no use to the solject. My Lord. l hare mask great ',Orange menu for my trial, but in coosegoenee 'tribe interru Woos I have received, my line of defence is broken twit. It was my intenkims to examine thirty or forty wiiiiesses, whn should express what their &lief is—they are of diferent sects, 7K they are all tolerates!, because their belief doe. not militate against the intrieste of the Priests of this country. I also wunltl produce person. to speak. as to me moral conduct—persons who have known me since I was thirteen years of ace, and who could swear that I have ever conducted myself as a peaceable and isislustriows citizen, anti as la moral limber of society.. I 1141 nut wish to occupy unnecessarily the public time, love there have heels cases of much less impairtauce—the CIO! of Saelleverel, who was . . - . . tried foe holiii . sg the doctrine of mutsive obedience—a doc trine which is wow publicly preached from the pulpits, of this metropolis, and is hauled by the rest nt system of in sensate's. ; his ease took up ten days. Trials fur high tees sou, foamiest on the must frivolous charges, which were attetteal to be Worked up to high treason, nod which were not of half so willeft importance as the quest Ma between ate and the Attorney-General, took up many days. The Allot my-Cameral, in this question has left hie case to be made mint by the Court; 'b e has failed to make it out himself. But I wilt not fakir the law from the Court; the Jery are my Judges; t will nut take the dictum of his Lordship. I caw- NM sit down without going further • my defence, rulers it is positively Betided that I shall nut proceed." The Caller JUlrriCe—" YOU Omni nut deny the truth of the Christian religion, our are you to go into irrelevant matter; if I am wrong, you can appeal to the Court of King's Benek-"_ Mr. Carlile--" By what means ran I appeal to the Court of kisses Basch when lam confined within the walls of a pekoe?" The Ouse Jimcw—" I know nothing of the walls of a prison. If lam wrong in point of law, tun sidl be entitled to the benefit of my error." Mr. Cathie—. The law tolerates those who deny the 'Tri nity—therefore it tektites Deities. I bare hero frequently interrupted by the Attorney General; it is, I believe, the first time an Attorney-General has attempted to dictate to a Defendant what line of defence he sl Id pursuit—that at least should be kft to the Court. My Lord, the work of Dr. Geddes is a fair examisatiou of the Ilihrew Scriptures." The CHIEF Jurrtcw—" Geddes doubts some points— Paine denies all." Mr. Carlite--" Paine, my Lord, I enissider one of the finest writer--his Apo of Rewrote is One of the most useful and able works that have been published. My Lord, lam prepared with 'salter to thew that its all ages great doubts were entertained of the truth of the Christian religion—and that the works of the Fathers were composed of the must idle and ridiculous tales. Must of them professed to work miracles." The Ouse JUSTICE said, these works had no bearing on the question. Mr. Carlile--" My Lord, I am left then without a de fence—there are two books, one is protected by au Art of Parliament, ard the other I am not allowed to support." The CHUM JUSTICE—' I cameo( let men be acquitted of • charge aviolatiug the law because they are unbelievers." Mr. Carlile—u Every thing that is true should be allowed- Aso' her part of my defence is to skew the general persecution that has existed since the commeocement uf Christianity— .. that same system of persecution is sow exerted sgaiost we ; because I have published certain opinions, I am to be sent to prison without a defence. My Lord, for the truth of haadreds have bees beret is Smithfield and thou. sands on the Coolineat.—The Attorney-General, I am sure ' would plena' me to the stake with the same pleasure sod avidity that he sow pennies use to a prisms." The alter Jusucc--" You have no right to say that Mr. Carlile—u My Lord, I shall now proceed to a short rntaaimatioa of a ttttt meat wade by Bishop Burnet. The Bishop says,' that damnation is repugnant to the wisdoms and matey of God: He says in his Charge to the Clergy, that they should not give their real °Oak's, to the world. He says, that the idea of bell is as ridiculous as the idea of Transohataatiatioo. But it should be recollected, however ridiculous it may appear, hundreds have suffered death for saaistaining it ; ad though be treats it as absurd it was a few years before his be. the sacred doctrine professed by the Christian world, venerated as ancient, and reveres! as the essence of the established religion of his country. Here he went into a recital of some observations of distiu. guithed authors, on the dignity of avowing the truth. Taci. tus exclaimed, when will the blessed time arrive when men may think without awe sod speak without danger. Milton, Bacon, aad Boyle, eariessed themselves iu the like terms ; bit the Attorney-Garen! said he would send we to a prisms, alertly because I would uphold what I thick to be true; nut that ray opinions are different from his; no, I could bold up the had of fellowship to Sir Robert Gifford, he is a Usitariaa, sad a Uaitariaa is a Deist. I( I ant once fond guilty, I know well that no objections will avail me. I shall be placed in the hands of these who are now my pro. 'motors." The Cuter JUSTlello u I repeat it, if I am wrong in point of law, you will he entitled to rectify that mistake by enthral to the Court of Bisig's Beach. I shall, indeed, myself, consult the Court on the subject." Mr. Carlile--" My Lord, I have Ito f.ith in the Cunrt—l hope fee so iedulgeoce—my defence rests on mailer of optaion, set of law. Where Legislatures enact laws spins' opinion, their arts are a nullity sod absurdity. My laird, I have so hope of brining the Jury round twiny opinion ; bid I had 111 Mon hope that if I was allowed to proceed, I should sheer that I had was mums to doubt, and that sight have doubted without a malicious intentims." The Colts Justice--" I have mot estimated you from that lime of defame; you may, if you can, show that your intro- Hone were impeceut—but your t, soil must not du that by impeaching the Holy Scriptures " Mr. Catille--" My lord, these are some parts of the Scriptures which Paine has not touched or, or to which be has slightly alluded ; for iostance. the Soap of Soloman, la the Old Testanstat—them contain the most voluptuous tales—it was my Wadies to read them—sad then I would ask you, Gentlemen of the Jury, whether you would put Mto the heads of your children that book id prettiest* to Th e Are q Masan? 'I he liable commie. tales which so ram' mind cam read racuotaneinated; The AO el Ranson rescues the character of the Deity from the de graded situation in which the Bible placed it, sod instead of suppressing the weeks of Pails. by peorreutiosee, a statue should be tweeted in Has Hall mierod So big eamaiwy iu this Hall, and in every public place is this mousey, My Lord, there were SO Gospels afloat until the Llaseseds of Bite and Lamilime collected them, anal selected them Gospels out of them which are now professed by Christians. I am not precluded front .hawing yea the authority of these Councils. The early Christians were celebrated fur arm eosin each other."--(Here he referred to Breelthsee Mete unfitted iiirforg.3—After reading moque paeoupo. toe Comet asked with what object he ? He replied, he roof it to abew that the Slew (stoutest was so gift of God to nom. The Cats? 7urries- 4 la this Court we arieume that the Ariake religios is true. lam ailtdbus to give every possi ble laths& of defence, bat I esseo4 permit the latrodoetkia of blasphemy ; 1 rousse allow this Oafs prOmidlitge lotions a retake* that might be dangerous in future tissies." Mr. Carliies- 0 1 within rise that thbre ere ease mamas to doubt." The Coin* loartev.-0 4 The publicatioa you are noir to maw* ftir deli set espesedviabw—but it ealeausiatie aid MI reviles the Christian You russet justify by deny. I tor lice truth of the Ch4latiii religion." Mr. Cubit..." Year de:: 4 :a s itio, my Lord, sets aside the statute " The Crita lorries..." I have given my opulent um the statute. It is useless, and it certainly is net decorous, to motorail against that opinion now. If it be a wrong sow, you will have an opportunity of rectifying it." Mr. earlik--" My Lord, I feel that I do Not stool in a Cowl orliistice, bat that I steed is an Inquisition, where I am prevented from cubic Mtn soy defence. The CtiteSe .Meld in a Court where the Christian rekinso roust he °Meter.' as the law of the land, • sail where no man is attuned to revile it; yen .stand iu Coact willing and swot anxious to give yes lie tell hearth of • (sir, Incl. and decorous defence." Mr. My laird, I am petseented bicinse these publications are directed against the revenues of OM 'Church. If it were not fu. this, the publication would he Are. How many odious and absurd doctrines have been tolerated, hay, supported in this country' Johann.% Stantheute had twenty thousand followers is tats country--.he was encouraged in her impious and h.deceut couduct—whil.t the publisher of The Age elf' Ream* is prosecuted, bet not allowed to he defended. My L.A. I shall now take leave to skew yogi the persecutions which . Luther endured. That persecution ori ginated in the maim spirit that now assails der. Luther was the son of a Saxon minister; be was sent to a school is Itlarriehurr, blit was afterward. obliged to beg for his breast; he wrote seldom the authority of the Pope, and the practices of the Clinrch of Rotor, and hr was demittorml as a heretic. He was grievously persecuted for maiotainino .whoa be eausir/ered troth, soil if the Cueit is nut prepared 11.611.1111 that persecution, his 1.11,111111111 Cata l og defend his sumamdsiet i nor the conduct of the Atioreey.Generai as against f Luther was exposed to a trial of this kind— like me, be was prevented from interim: into a deferice, , Imtemmid weer have been able to carry the Reformation effette:s.but happily for hi*, before the Pope tenahl lay his hands on him, he found a (Mead in Iffie Elector of Seemly; if it were *not for that fortunate Iliketwastasece, the pietas Christian's of those days would base committed him to the dames. The Atturney-Geue ral, like the Friar Ilieoostratnii, who advised the Pope to commit Luther to the dames, now calls fur my cosmic. Lion, to send me to a dinireon—to have my family reined— and to prevent me from ever rising in the world, Isy any effort of care aid of industry. Lather was sentatimed be fore the Contact'. He attempted to defeat himself on groom& of sersiusimt, hat he would not he heard, and finding that his person was in &serer, IN was übliged In Ay. He was excessininiticated—he was iuterdiried...he was hunt. d dime like a wild beast, bed this be here for einiatieoce sake. He hail idea of truth—and when the 'Wed of MIN is its premed with that heavenly sentiment, he sill suffer a hero and a martyr to his principles. Though humble my efforts, yet, like the great reformer, I am impressed with the justice and propriety of the coarse t have taken. It will not be denied, my boil, that sometimes it is necessary to resist power; nay, sometimes to resist law ; it is too often the ease that the propagators of mew doctrines fall vic tims to their principle.. Luther, Calvin, snit Knox, might be said to he the exerptiows. My ira, Pals. Mood will not beer the light of inquiry, hot troth is powerful, it is ins. possible to stop it; it is toot perverseness iss me to props. gate what I conceive to be for the good of moo; like lA titer, the mind of a sincere believer, whatever his der. trines may he, would rather perish than retract, while un conscious of error. My Lord, I cannot bet consider that the same persecuting spirit that harassed him is now dimelled against me ; it is true that the Romeo Catholic redeem to his slay bad no Attoroey.General, but it had its Inewiaitioir, its eremitic officers, the Minis of its vengeauce, and the creatures of its power." He then attempted to shew that there was no evideuce the miraculous conception of Jesus Christ—iosisted on the alleged discrepancy between the Gospels of Sl. Matthew and • St. Luke—and was entering on an argument to prove that the latter Gospel was not written by St. Luke when be was interrstptest by the Atiorney.General. He observed en the corseiinenees of the toleration granted to Unitarimes by 'atetute 53 Geo 111. whom, he said, he considered as Drims. Ile had been denied every opportunity of shewiag, tent from Ensehius, that the books of the New Todament were not written by the persons whose manses they bore is oar version. He had intended to he prepared the went morning -with a list of the names of the persons 10 whom they bad AM. attributed before the Cuiencifs of bodices and Nice, but in et of having beets interrupted in his in itialled Itror e ik i feoce, every finer was is confusion and • deemartment with him. He had an extract to produce front 14.• awyoustom, which slated that there was no eel • demi* that the hooks of the New Testament were the weldor' of those who are commonly supposed to be Abair author*. Was it soot Own seems that he should be ptstaiehml ter his industry in starchier out tenth, mad demmeseies to diffuse it amuse the public, for he had most exansioed all the works written as evidences of oebtlaffinnity, front Euerbies and (Mgr. down to Add...? bail nut convinced him. Hs hail bees charged with the work fire the perpone of heutalisin sad de. literalisior his country; but it was sot trite. lie loved his eensory with ardour, and his object bad bees to iuttruet, enlighten, sail improve it. The system of mends which sow obtained its it was &aided on erree— tree morality rould not rest 011 error, and his islets. tion is printing the works of Mr. Paine had been to di.- isle that error, by calling reasonable mire to the iambi 'Wow sod trial of it—and it was fee this he was to be per. termileatied. and punished. He was not to be tun. y argument, but crushed aid oveewichned by penal ties, It behoved the Jury to look well to it whether he de served to be given up by them for what hail origliuded from r% bat pure motives. If be was in the rights would ais boom rajoilt ? if lie was not, would not such means 11.6111* f o his opiniesseaues them to spread the wider! • foll ttlf orlirtlel always had that effect' and was it tie Miclittrwent clffillibtrerd age to lie taxed with attempting to pid dews opinions by torture and impriomintrad ? He hod untested, had he not been interrupted am his &fewest, to read to-morrow tawnier, extracts frees Balssibroke, Gibbs., aid Hume, who had evidently held the same principles with Me. Paine, nail who had published their principle in their writings, thongh these had passed unnoticed nod osishoerved by any former Atturrrey-General. The weeks of Haling. broke went quite as far es Mr. Paine. Gibbous bed adopted a different mode of attic% ; he meant the same thaw% as Mr. Paine, bet he did not go shoot it is so hoarse a way. Paine proceeded fairly and *peaty—Gibbs* insidi. wooly. Haat went farther than either of these, for he emit eemposed • defence of Atheism. Why had all these .soaped with innomity, mid Paine nod he (Mr. Carla') to be singled out as victims? The tenikarey .f Mr. Pain's system, was to enlarge aril elevate the Naiad, by removing. the mt.- meows nod false, sail inspiring tree axiom' of the Deity— not to sink sod degrade it as alleged by the•Attormey Ge neral. Net ;violenr might follow his attempt to render them twain in this country (foe it should be retullected that the two lest Mies bad sot Wes befire published here), snowthing would he suspected tam the Attorney Growlers peeveuhag him from pureeing the line of &trice he hail marked est. Why was the ieforusstinsi againM him (railed rot os the statutes the Mb and 111th of William II t, hist at lbs common law? Whit was. the comosou law? It was supposed to ieside IN the breast of_ the Jodre., B e t what laid dew- • - 0 ir~ik'~.~i~.. ~~~~. IA ore, p a►.io ; %stitch h, hail frrqueully Y. Serra, had at length seer and acknowledged the propriety of imlnlging all Ferman its a free professioe and dimassiou of their Mutts in renew'. He had beard moat inielligent men it tee* 'toleration of Mime, and In Mal light, after the most deliberate refltcliots. be haft loam , on it. Debuts had been much abused—but what was Deism' It was a belief in one Hod; aril it might as well be oppo.ed to Polytheism or idolatry, or any of the ancient y►e.•ms superstitioO L M to the doctrine of the Trinity. Hut the creed of the Trinity was out in airy wise essenisal o,i morality of life and rectitiole of conduct. (ime•e, and Hume boomed uf • citleeusiri.iial, if out simerior, in all the *whits which ems:adorn men, to ant• ever Is-aimed lender the Christian code. It was in vain file him to lake up any other volume at pre. Mot. Hiivoloile defence rested uu one point. From that lie hail been iteleirs...l, and, iu eoso.equence, was disabled from proceeding further into his defenc.• that ' , veiling. He hail an 1110114111 F ouniber of swimmers to produce, who would say that his moral character, is every particular, bail hero at all limes onimpeachable; ale,, a vast Moniker to describe the variny'of religious, systems, and tent., held et•rn among Christians. Many of them had been aubparnard, and more would be subpoioned to-morrow. Hot be thought it due to him, when the interruption be had sufferer! we. taken into consideration, that the Court shubld adjuoru till t o -morr ow morning. Hie whole line of defence hail beets thrown into treaullion, and he was totally enable to continue it till to •orrow. . Th e cmg, Joarrice--00 What then am Ito understand?" Mr. clrlite—" That in consrapience of the interruption 11 have inet with, I sin unable to proceed is my defence SA- Welly sad Hoofing request that the trial may be adjourned t►lt to.morrow morning. The Viiter Jurrice—For the purpose •f examining witnesses only ?" Mr Carlile—My Lord, I bare not been allowed this day to 1-!ail any of the books to the Jury I had Ortenited, iu order 10 ynstify what l 'am charged with as au sanity. I *Weld wish to read tome of them, as well as to have witnesses exa mined." The Counts .11711TICE—" It is not competent to be aa Judge, sitting here and expouiuling the law of England, to revisit you to read Bolingbroke, or G ibbon, ttr Hume, or any author who desire the Christian religion to be true, or the Bay . Bcrsplures to be of divine authority, wittier can any WIIIIICOINLII be examined who may be brought forward to mont either of these 'biers. As to your mural character, it is sot at present in qnestion." Mr. Carlile--" Certaiuly, my Lord, I conceive it The CHIMP Juretcn—" You appealed ea Ate; hear me to the end, that you mny me why evidence of that astute would be uselew nail irrelevant. MI evidence to character applies itself nail coiresponds to the charge against the lic ensed. When • man is charged wits uneriterb he brings for. ward witnesses to prove that he ltad the repotatiou of being humane and Iseuevolest, and nut our likely to commit 'inch an offewee; in the game manner of robbery, or any other charge; your moral character, at least in the common SAMS e of the word, is not impeached, therefore there it would he • waste of time to disprove an accusation Not made. Y..a propose to call witnesses, to state the dif ferent systems of religious belief among Christiass, all that I should reject as being utterly irrelevant to your case. If the book you are charged with publishing attacked the opittious of any particular sect, it might be relevant, but yours is an attack on all the systemise( Chris• hastily that ever were known in the world. Perhatp Ohm are some permits here who will speak to your eV .aa slur." Mr. Gillle--" I am lot aware there are, nsy Lord." The Cuter But there should have been Wren wished to produce evidence ed that nature." Mr. Carlde—" 1 had serbpamaed a number of the Modem of different reds to explaiu their virtues doctrines, aid the pounds on which they held liens ; and the interface II 'fo resee' to make from their testimony was, that (be gime of their different creeds might be examined into." The Cuter ,VOTICIre...-' I certainly could not suffer Acre to be examissed into--they would go fur nothing, aa you me charged with d o ing that which would subvert all aerietian rsitle-•-aisless they would lead to a deaial of tile truth of the Christian relights, of of the Minium authority of the Scrip tures, which I would not permit." Mr. Carlile--" Certaialy 1 thlat it would be very useful to MI to rat some Uoitariases in that hos, acid Love these declare their opinion on the Trieity, which bleirastely would come to what Mr. Poise his advaaced." The Cane Jsencs-- 0 If so, 1 would not hear Mr. Cerliin—A I ales istarded to reed the °pinkies of se. venal mast maisest Divines who ieVulcste perfert freedom of *Osiris is religion." The Cuter Jugescg..." Well, if you ate not prepared with them, it is sot my feels." Mr. Carble--" Certainly not, Soy Lord; it was also tap intention to have peewee 'itemised who %meld male she gram variative that exists hetwree the origiaal Hebrew sad the meilmrined version of the Bible here—this is af great' •immielpere to me." Arbodstar Justice -- 44 Neither would I receive sae eoi rimar 1. imposts the comvatesis of our anlhmised maims of the Scriptures." Mr. Caslile—' 4 Mr. Bellamy Muerte it toenail's passages sot is the original Hebrew, and which ought I. be OF The Cuter Jumci- 0 The hook spinet which the lo fueledliss is directed is am an attack on detached passage% but sra the very aulminase and emetic, of the Bible." Mr. Garble- 14 Theo, ray Lord, I pray you to adjourn the Casetore give me aa opportunity of quoting the opiaioas of Locke and others sa universal toleredion." Ti. Cuter JUitscoo.- 14 You ought to have bees pre pared with rheas sow; but at all evade, it will do you no ilajory if that they are sot read. Ceti,' one is agreed so the . rormingiltsfes of permitting a freedom of thiokisig on, and illassasins religious ,object*, se long as the discussiow is esorkielail is a calms, temperate wanner • and if your object 'II he eugenic this truth, the vowing th ese writers is to no .pewpmer t hot if yea would grate the,. to disprove Chehalis- Ilkb.aglontil not ware throe to he heard—so take it either Wl,walworiiug the trial would be of so use to yoti." Me. alaelele--" Theo, my Lord, am I so sarderstaud that pil refuse my request to adjourn the trial?" The Clair Juirrice" You have mot advanced any pro pat ye adman* grimed to lad ore the Court to colonist th so airjournowsit" Mr. Carlile—" My Lard, it it of great roosequesce to me to prove to the world, that though I may be seat to a prima for three or four years, I have acted in alt the relations of life, as a conscientious moral wan. I again rattail. iny Lord, you will suffer the trial to be adjourned. I have inure important matter to introduce to-morrow morning. I have done all that any mortal tuold do. I Irate amid the whole of this day without any refreshoseut but when--ire Get. I ow so nussfueed, that I scarcely have a retoaectiosi of may thing.* The Cater Janice repealed that flee adjoarnment would sot he to soy purpose. Mr. Carlile—" My Lord, It Is at I should add a few ob. strratioas to my &irate." The aster Jtiwrlca--A Well, thee, add them." Mr. Carlele--.. , My Lord, I ass really unable. When I tame into Court this worming I was hoarse with the cen times of yesterday." The Cuter Jurricra-u If you have oefortuaately spent year sterngth in doing that which was foolish and improper, you hare to Wow yotirself slope. You have placid .we W a most painful situation, but I must perform the duty width is iscisaihrot on we!' Mr. Carlik—u Do you wish me, my Lord, to proceed wow?* The Cater Julrrttn—" Sir, the Jury are coosideriag." The Joey cositinoed coolierriug with use weather for arms nsioutes, without cowls' to any coochmion. • • The Curer Juvrten— Too say sew that lOU bleb your trial So Iss adjonrissd. If the Coors soutuat to it,. It moat he qN a she outkosrooding flat ilia winillec you efkr is the moraine will* by way of mitigation,. awl Shot you dou't won to ainnsipt lb! awe hoe sit defence yea did to days eiihi r by emleavoieratg a iusilneitioa of the peldiestiosis or by roman( willow who wily repeat what Poi* lase Mr.Carlilleo.* Undisobtrilly. my Leeds I will opts es it • werhi slily, Where toyeelf; liseisald esitossese lee by Inv. tat my spas M isterrisplioas which sitroM thus* sr par ...IV ° wish et di teiste. onto. of the Ittry—u It is de - - .. ume Jo*, is fuse Term. .r is use Court. laid 'Jews to be eussous law,asoilsve Judge 1. swan Tata proisorpelel sot to he eassuoutt his ; pay, Ilse wee Judip ferquesdli varied frost his own opiaiss. mot uver.rekd what be bad oil tomer iireasiuos decidr Ite be low. Let • law be gives which poi. pie mild sodomised. • • a • Ile MMI framed a esas‘eztesivive gam tardeewel`i . hr IWO bee. pir. pool Ilkley babe, tbeis passages Mu, !hg weasel else aunt enamels Stylises is differval age% esfurri.g alvd)istivATlt es lbw *OM" ,A 941. rgligious aesiters—bet he &esti liers:.lr precluded rious'abit be bail sisteaspimoil, jai the sat Adore is We power. Foe be stisioisisatt it that Ifs did spy, ash *set was thee precluded trim joistifiseig ibst art, be us pe.e.fled fr oss. sad £. sad et seatoral defeette.: /be-4w estlirtiseriOr religliall-were gossialty omit aptitaaidst for tlidr el** bilidstlo;—yd . srq._siokioi welt *se Imo. oreereettal is their, dog as bilasetri Lot* isssier. of 'Nub fertber Aare ke --bildsjilte he ilk ' Mb tohl+.'w ale alsl4 'rejif a isstios - easies t as be OW esettbi it ti" AO be hiss lbst she Legit. ' .w • • my 1.0(.1, to sl'u• ►i. WI Is Ismair, &Irate." The Cutae !write..- 01 Theo with she pleige twit you will limit )(our defence ha the ntasuirr I piloted out to you. tie Cow, iv adjourned till ban :past nine eche* to morrow The Court accordingly rose at Half past Severn attack. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS PAPERS. PARIS. *CT. 10. A letter from Port-oo Priweseetertwouicales the noll.rusog extreerdiasry piece of eatothinsee, which we puLlowe with out say guarantee:— "They say that the laid expeditioo formed in Englitwl in favour of the lndepeodents, from the poem of Great Britain on the evening of the day is which the Bill agin.ot such enterprises was adopted iu Parliament. 'Ellis expedi tion touched at St. Dunnage', where it was apprised t the disaster of SPGregor. A separation then ensiled among these adventoirers, and about 300 or 400 of them, led by two French Officers, brothers, of die name of Marhot, by a carp le main, upon the town of Santo Domino, isial made themselves masters of all the Spauisb part of the / 1.1 J lid of St. Doiningo." The access of this expedition of buccaneers is not bey I the range of probability, but the intelligence wants Owe. Yererdsy after mass his Majesty received Marshal Goo- Saint Cyr, the Minister of War. Letters have been received from the Bishop of Maxiala, written from Macao, the 14th of March last. The Prelate bad arrived there on the Mk, slid was englir din tear c Chinese. He had embarked with M. Thumassin in prucerel to Upper Cochin-China, whence the Prelate lila to pa•s 1.. Taotg-kileg, mud there await the conductors a bu acre to k 2,1 him to China. It is nut probable that he can mrive au China before the winter. A report was very generally circulated yesterday. .at great number*, Depnties had signed au addrei.s in the King, in which they respectfully, but nith energy. pruievt arsiiis4 the admission of M. Gregoire into the Chamber of Deputio a. MAMMON MAIL. BERLIN, OCTOBER S. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland is gone to Warsaw. Of the 53 persons who rigneil the declaration in favour of Dr. Jahn. only Liu«. have been interrogated who fill employments in the service of the Stase s it is entirety false that t!,. have been suspended ; and it is not likely that (:u• Iverrituent should think of such a measure. MCA. SEPTENSEII 25. His Majesty the Emperor Alexander arrived here en the 22d in the evening, and alighted at the Castle; the Grand Duke Nicholas arrived the il.iv before. On the 23d, a part of the lit corps was mastered in an extensive plain, between Riga aml Demimonde, after which the civil and military au thorities were presented. Yesterday there mat grand review of 20,000 men, with 60 pieces of cannon. SEtTtSissa 22. The ship Kanteschatka, which was sent two year• ago by the Government, under the command of Captain Golownin, to Kanttediatka. and the Ku rile and Aleutian Islands, wrrived safe at Cron. mulk, on the 176, from its voyage. The ship Ku- Maw, Captain Hagemeister, belonging to the Arne. rican Company, alb arrived at Crmistedt, on the 19th, with a rich cargo, after eft absence of three years. This ship visited the Spanish ports on the eltele of America, Callao, Acapulco, &c. anti mimes last from Batavia. In the conrseuta mouth, Ilia Company will send two other ships to its settle. meet es the north-west 'Coast of America. CAISELb NYCTOSER 4. A very remarkable prodamation has been ipsuril here, addressed by his Royal Highness the Elector to his faithful subjects, in which he sap:— " They have certainty beard of the secret intrigues snit danger•us ass•ciations bhieh twee for gone floe existed !AI 'Geniis''s, end the Unionists objects of which hare tort n aulficiastly discovered by the islairies that have taken piste Oa this, all the members of the !Germs Confederation, sen sible that the external peen, attend by t►e Divint assist ant, cannot have the beseßend comemsesees naturally to be hoped from is unless inters"l peace and tranquillity be seantained, have found it oecessary to adopt measures its aunt•~ aghast such niftiest attempts; and have ae. Cordiality, by • Resolotios of the Diet si the tOth of Sep tember, established a Central Cogniaillee at Meats to in quire into those illegal plans, and cheek the evil in its origiu Committee is authorised rot only to demand the arrest of the person suspected, bat also that they shill be conveyed to Neat*, there t• rentals is arrest till the inquiry is terminated and senesce peened. His Royal flightiest thee observes how deeply he &said b• afflicted if any of his "objects should become the objeeta of such • measure ; but Batten higemelf that he shall be spared ibis alll;ction. • as be has always had reason to be satisfied with the guest spirit *ad pe•etsMe gebtimeste of his Hessians, and is proud bf being placed by Providence over a people who have always been distinguished . for fidelity sad attachaniat to order suit the laws; should however say such infatuated persona be %audio his country, he will do his duty as a sovereign, and Im • member of the Coufederation, and sot only assist in the execution of the 'senores in question, but, adds he, I hereby declare any of my subjects who shall be found guilty starch seditious coo►ioatioas, unworthy of the name of a and coosegpostly for ever excloded from the min. her •f gay faithful people, sad deprived of all civil rights i.s his essittry. " Gives at Camel, September 30, Isl 9. M, Elretor." Norwith Corn Market on Saturday was not an folly attended as usual, owing to the growers bring engaged ia wheat-setting. Wheat advanced about la. per comb ; but little alteration took place in the mica 4 4 other grain.—There was a large chew of 3coteand homebred Cattle on the Hill, for 101'1(.1 1 very high prices were dernandeti. The pens vre,e half-bred Lambe and fat Wethers, which I aid in& ... • . - St ;14.