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CLASGO Fr CATIIEDIUIL (nom" Peter's Letters bib rinefelA.l #1 The situation of the Cathedral of Glasgow h s been so exquisitely described iir Rob Hoy, that it would be quite useless to do any thing more than refer you to it—only the fine pine trees which, in she vowel, are represented as covering the whole of the opposite bank of the ravine, and extending their funereal shade quite to the beck of the crate we—these (miserobik dieter!) have been mai• fic;ql to the /sari 'sacra fumes, and that bank is now bare and green, as if black pine had never grown there. The burial-ground, with which the Cathedral is on all sides surrouuded, is certainly one of the largest and one of the most impressive I have ever visited. The long end flat grave-stoms, their endless lines, seem to form a complete psvenient to the whole surface—making it a per fect street of the dead—the few knots of tall wiry gran end clustering nettles, which find room to shoot from between the layers of stone-work, being enough to increase the dreariness, but not to tu r b the uniformoy of the scene. The building stands on the declivity of a slight hill, at the hot. tom of which. a brawling rivulet tumbles along with a desolate roar of scanty waters—but it would seem the ground had been dug up originally, so as I. give the Cathedral an uniform and even bile of foundation.. Yet—such in army succeeding cen turies has been the enormous accumulation of the And, that their graves have literally choked up the one rod of the church altogether—so that of a tier 0 1' windows which are see° entire at the east, at the west time tops only can he traced, sculptured and ornamented like the rest, just peering above the surface of the encroaching tomb.. The feelings one has in 'visiting a Gothic cathe dral, are always abundantly melancholy, but the grand and elevating accompaniments by which this melancholy is tempered in a Catholic, and even in an English cathedral, are ainissing—sadly amiss the rase of a cathedral that has fallen into the bends of the Presbyterians. When one enters one of those antique piles in Southern Germany, or in Spain (for there only can a Catholic Gothic ca thedral be seen io all its glory). I know not that it is pos-ihle for the heart of man to desire any addi tion to the majestic solemnity of the whole scene.— The tall narrow windows, quite dark with the long purple garments of pictured martyrs, apostles, tied kings, tinge every ray that ',asset through them with the colours and the memory of a thou rand years of devotion. The whole immeasurable .pace hdow—nave, transept, and sounding aisles— nre left glowing in their bare marble beneath these floods of enriched and golden light—no lines of heavy pews are allowed to break the surface—it steins as if none could have any permanent piece there except those who sleep beneath. You walk from end to end over a floor of tomb -stones, inlaid in braes with the forms of the departed—mitres and crosiers, and spears and shields, and helmets, all mingled together—all worn into glans-like smooth ness by the feet and the kness of long-departed worshippers. Around, on every side—each in their se p a rate e hopel—sleep undisturbed from age to age the venerable Wits of the holiest or the loftiest that of 1 , 1,1 came thither to worship—their images and their dying prayers sculptured and pointed above the resting-places of their remains. You feel that you are hot a visitor amidst the congregation and home of the dead—and walk with gentle steps along the precious pavement, that answers with a clear prophetic echo to your living tread. " The rich old tapestries which sometimes cover the walls of there cathedral., mingle better with the storivtl windows than even the finest of pointing, llosaics—for the exhibition of perfect art throws discredit on rude art. however impressive, and dis. nobs the uniform eloquence with winch the whole should be made to teem. But the greatest of all our wants is, that of the long processions of kneel inir" priest., which carry the eye onward to the steps of some high inseminated altar—where the blaze of the antique cimillesticks comes faint and dim through the clouds of perfumed smoke, swung ever and anon, sh o w and solemn, from their waving censera. It is, I sometimes think, a thousand pities that error. and corruptions, its far different mat ter., should bare made Protestants part with so Thuds of the old hereditary ceremonial of the church. Even the sacred music of our forefathers has latest abandoned, as if poison had been breath td front its most majestic notes. Whn, that ever heard the grand simple airs to which the Latin Psalm , ' ere demoted in the Catholic cathedrals, Galt doubt that iii them we still hear the very sounds which kindled the devotion of the Origins, the A ugustines, and the Gregoeies ? They bear nu re seinhlaiice to any mime of modern days;—they are the eel/to:4We relics of that Greek music which con ri-ted only iu melody. And why should we have discarded them ?—Or why, having discarded them f. o a time, ihool.l we punish our ears and hearts by reluone to reiurii to them ? " Lot if t‘rll we have olone somewhat wrong— sila. ! how tutu greeter have teen the errors of our Sivottiih brethren, The line which we have drawn hr tw e e t' ours, Ives awl many of the ideas of our fa thers, has been stretched by than into an impala. guY. It is, indeed, true, that they have se ',hired what they have lost by many things of 'arse other riesetlimoii ; but it is not alien walking the melancholy aisles of a deserted or pro faned caihrural, that one is must likely to do juts. tire to the tame of their substitutes. It is more mowed, in such a scene, to hope, that corruptions lilt the one ride teeing amerided, reweave on the either may i.e restored—that the Christian North tory, in some alter day, acknowledge that the faults were not all on the part of that South to which she owed arts, lonia, sod religion; and, is the words of flit poet, ---" all 'beekersiel driven Roll the b..rhariew tide, and sue to be forgiven." "'The Cathedral of Glasgow, however, with all its nakedllCl.4 and all its desolation without, is a very valuable instil; in Scotland; for it is one of the very few of the great ecclesiastical buildings in this country which escaped from the demolishing tiny of the first disciples of John Knox. You have ay read, in some of tlw historians, the anecdote of the mode of its preservation—indeed, if my revel faction ser►es isle, it is mentioned in the novel of 146 Roy. Witbnr, there is only the centre of the choir, which is left in a cathedral-looking style, witl► pillars, And scutcheous, and monuments; and here one sees thsit the whale t'itilding, when in its original state, must have been a noble and imago'. ficent specimen of the Gothic 'architecture, in its helot and purest, not it, gaudiest ages At either extremity of the Cathedral, spaces loa‘oe been par titioned off from the nave, sufficient to form large and commodious places of Presbyterian worship; and One of these is fitted op with some taste, is well, perhaps, as the eastern end of a cathedral can be, where the site of the grand altar is occu pied with a pulpit—where the lofty pillars and windMvs are cut by heavy wooden galleries—anti the floor loaded with rows of snug pews boxed in, and lined with green cloth, for the accom modation of sitting, not kneeling worrloippers.— The transept seems never to have been finished, for it closes abruptly at either side, so as to of. ford lout a faint idea of the shape of the cross.— It runs nut at one side, however, for n considerable spaces in the shape of u low aisle, with a flat soul, on which, in the old times, a garden had been formed, and where a few very ancient apple-trees may still be seen lingering and drooping along the edge of the atone-work. This aisle has the name of •' the dripping aisle," derived, no doubt, from the water which finds its way through the crinonier of that crazy roof—a name which, 1 think, Mrr. Radcliffe would have borrowed for some of the scener of her horrors, bad she heard of it. It is the sepulchre of some particular family of the city or neighbour hood." NOMINATION OF SHERIFFS. Yesterday being the morrow of St. Martin, and the day fixed on by Act of Parliament for the pro position and nomination, in the Conn of Exche quer. of three Gentlemen for each of the counties of England and %I'ales to be reported to the Prince Regent, by whom one is afterwards appointed out of each l►st to serve the office of Sheriff for the year ensuing, a little after two o'clock the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord Chancellor, the Earls of Westmorland and liarrowby, entered the Court, and took their ►eats at the table immediately under the Bench, the Chancellor of the Exchequer sitting on the right. A few minutes oiler, the Justices of the two Benches, and the Barons of the Exche quer, Sir William Scott, the Chief Justice of Ches ter. and some other eminent individuals arrived. When the three superior Judges placed themselves to the left of the first-named personages—and the inferior arranged themselves around the table; the oath a►;ainst partiality, &c. was then administered by the Officer, and the ceremony proceeded through with the customary forms; after which, the proces sion retired in she order observed at entering. EMIGRATION TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPS. The following transports are prepsilng to receive settlers proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope : la the Port of London—Chapsnann, 558 tons; Nautilus, 403; Agamemnon, Diadem, and Ocean. Al Liverpool—Thetis, 530 tons; Stentor, 3603. The two latter ships will take up settlers at Liver► pool, Milford, and probably those who will be di rected to Brirtol. Many vessels have been tender ed to Government ; but the above are all that are as yet actually engaged to proceed to the future settlement. Lists of settler., to the number of 1,500 mens exclusively of their families. are now before the Transport Board. which is occupied in making ar rangements fur their conveyance to their desti nation. DREADFUL ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. Yesterday morning Mr. Thomas Smith, saddler, of Staf ford-steel, Build-street, after having breakfasted with his wife, went out upon business. When he returned home be missed her, and he immediately searched for her, when upon his entering the bed-room, he found her stretched upon the bed with her throat cut from ear to ear in a most shocking manner, and one of his razors with which she committed the dreadful act was found lying in a bloody state close by her; the floor was nearly covered with blood, and the unfortunate woman was in a total state of insensibility. A gentleman of the faculty immediately attended, arid suc ceeded in some degree in reviving her and stopping the blood, but be gave only faint hopes of her recovery, and ordered her to be sent to St. George's Hospital, where she now lies in a most dangerous state. It is said they were only shout three years married, during which period it would ap pear that she, in a great measure, laboured under the effect of jealousy, to which her rash conduct in attempting her life is attributed. The husband has been well known to he kind and affeetionate, and bad invariably treated her with the greatest attention. T!.e Right lion. CHARLES GRANT left Dublin Castle on Saturday for Scotland. His Excellency the LORD LIEUTENANT of IRE• LAND has been pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon THOMAS Gass', of Slane Castle, in the County of Meath. and of Burlington-street, London, Evq. M.D. F.R.S. and F.L.S. The receipts of Drury-lane Theatre on Monday evening, when KEAN made his first appearance for the season it, Richard, are said to have exceeded .5601. A GOOD BIGINNING.—Wens sold the First Capital in the present Lottery, viz. No. 4,370, drawn an Tuesday last a Prise of 20,01/01. (Conies and Mosey) in One Half mid Eight Sixteenth Share Nat his fortu nate Offices, 9. Consign, sad 17, Ludgate-sheet.—Six more 20,000/. Prises monis to be drawn; Two of them ten be decided in the first Gee mirages, us the 9th lleceen bet, and the ether Foist may also be drawn on Diet day.— WEBB'S Offices ere supplied with Tickets and Shares I* good variety. The following accounts of the captures of two America's vessels were posted at LLOYD'S yester day afternoon : w The Spartan. Cooper, from Cadis to Vera Cruz, was fakeer 414 July, off the Isle of Vedic, by the Creole loser.. gent privateer, and carried into Old Providence, where she wmcmidemned with her cargo. " The Vermont, Mures of New York, front Cadiz to Vera Criss, was taken 1011 :July, by the Mars privateer, and sent fur Old Providence." A traveller, who has recently arrived at Marseilles from Port-au.Prince, has furonlied the lollowing details respecting this ancient French Colony : " The English are in high f 4 General Boyer is be loved by the people sad by the troops. Frenchmen are not permitted to berm establishments until they have ameralihed themselves as Heirless,. Oiler displays greet Ulnas for government. ley his economy her has relieved the T y from embarrassment, and bees, alatelo provide fur the equip. newt uf an twiny uf 10,000 mem, which may easily, when required, be increased So 30,000. it is believed that Buyer the project of atienepriag the invasion ef the part uf the Wand buliject to Christurbe: VIII JNTL►L.LIGENCP.. 1101711T•OF CHANCtRY. WrisTiitgrrra, FRSDAT, Notwits= 12. DAVIS b. HUI GRACE THE DUKE OF MART.DOROUGN. A receiver had been ►ome lime hack appointed to the estate of the Noble Defendant, for the pot. post of paying the Plaintiff a debt on it to the amount of 6001. Before the lag Sitti ng , is motion was made for an order to remove the receiver, on payment of the demand. His Lordship granted the order, including, however, in it the condition that it il Id be without prejudice to uny future application from either of the parties. Iu writing out the order, this specific part was by mistake omitted. His Grace's Solicitor tendered payment of the debt to the Solicitor for the receiver, MI the terms of the order as drawn up. The latter re fused to take it, but on the terms of the order as pronounced, and the money was subsequently paid into hie hands. Mr. HART now moved the Court to have the order amended, by the introduction of the omitted words. &Ir. CRAY, of Counsel on the ether side, said he did not mean to oppose the m His Lordship said he perfectly recollected hay ing. iii making the order, used the words alleged to be omitted, and h►s object iu using them was, that that particular question might be disposed but that at the same time the order should not affect any ulterior questions which might arise between the same parties. His Lordship accord ingly granted the order mored for. The Court rose at two o'clock. COURT OF KINGS BENCH, Warramnsit, FRIDAY, NOVEMSIIII It. MR. CARLILE'S CASE. Immediately after the Judges hid taken their •eats this morning— _ .. . .. . . Mr. Serjeant PEs.s. rose and said, lw would, with the permission of the Court, move for a criminal information, which would occupy but a small por tion of their Lordships' time. He was anxious to move for it u soon as pos.ible, because it was im portant that the parties implicated should have an opportunity of answering the chaige in the present Term.—[We understand the Learned Serjeant alluded to the case of Miss Maria Glenn, who, it will be recollected, some time since prosecuted a family of the name of Bowditch, for conspiring to carry her from the house of her guardian, for the purpose of marrying James Bowditch.] The CHIEF JUSTICE-" Brother Pell, you had better make your motion later in the slay. There is, 1 believe, a person attending who has been brought up in custody in order to move for a hew Mr. Cartile, who had been brought into Court at ati early hour, immediately stepped forward. The CHIEF JUSTICE—" You wish, I believe, to set aside the verdict in your case ?" Mr. Csrlile—" My Lord, I understood that I was to have two or three days notice, before I was called on to appear." The CHIEF JUITICZ—" Nothing was said about notice. IVe told you that we would iteav you on the earliest possible day—und this morning is the earliest we could select, with convenience to the Court." Mr. Carlile" I was not aware of what I was this morninK brought iuto Court for. I have at affidavit in my hand relative to my case, shall it be uow real ?" The CHIEF JUSTICE —" The usual course is. to state shortly the ground of your motion. You can state, in a few words, what it id, and then we shall see how it is to be disposed of." Mr. Car The first point id, that the pro. ceedings iii my trial were irregular." The CIIIEF JUSTICE-.." Which trial ? The in formation ?" Mr. Carlile—'s Yes, my Lord. It will be in your Lordship's recollection, that, before the swear ing in of the Jury, I entered my protest against the competency of the Court—" The CHIEF JUSTICE—" Mr. Cerlile—" On the ground that there was no law applicable to the charge of blasphemy." The CHIEF JUSTICE—" Weil, Sir." Mr. Carlile—" Consequently, my Lord, that the charge of blasphemy could not beau offence against the laws of this country. The record did not charge that any person was reviled or libelled ; and I understood, my Lord, that, according to the law of libel, some person must be defamed to constitute that offence. It has been laid down, I believe, by nearly all the legal authorities, that, to constitute the offenee of libel, it is necessary that some indi vidual must be defamed. The record did not charge that ally person was so defamed, but that a book wag revilen." The CHIEF Justice—" Perhaps it may be convenient for the Court to know what was the charge, although there can be no difficulty in un derstanding the meaning of a charge of blasphemy." Mr. Carlile--" Another point of objection, my Lords, is, that during the trial the Court was twice adjourned." The Cuter JUSTICV—" 4t your request." Mr. Cathie—is Yes, my Lord ; and that the - - Jury did separate, contrary to my wish—winch, I believe, my Lords, to be contrary to the law of this country--and, 1 conceive, to my great injury. Auother point of great consequence was, that the Jury were not nominated according to the rule of this Court, and conformably with the statute iu that case mode and provided." Mr. Justice BAYLEY ••• You should then have challenged them at the time." Mr. Carlile—" My objections to the Jury are, that one of them, John Phillips, whose name was left on the list when reduced, hail died at least one year before the nomination of the Jury ; and that W. Alderson. 'mother person on the list when the Jury was reduced, had never been summoned. I think, therefore, that 1 was deprived of the benefit of two si.ecial Jurors. The next point. my Lords, is. that I was prevented, by the interpuaition of the Chief Justice, from making that defence which 1 conceived to be necessary. I was proceeding, my Lords, to ohm to the Jury, that my intention could not be wicked and malicious, as it was charged on the record, by pointing out the moral tendency of what was coin oi • Wined in the book, which I had publialied, when I was imerrunted. I was proceeding to prove that the publication I had issued did not derwrve the 'charge preferred spinet it, ■nd had not the immoral tendency which was alleged, hot was ',rearmed. I attempted to appeal to the Jury with reaped to the truth of the allegations contained in the work I pobinihed, when your Lordship inter fered, and prevented an investigation of the hook to whieh,they refereed." The CHIEF JvittcE—r• I certainly stated that you Could not he permitted to read hook, for the purpose of *hewing that the Holy Scripture* were not the word of Clod, or that the doctrine of Chris- tionity ems not true. 1. did rule that. 1 gave you an opportunity of reading the whole of the book you published. because you did lint, on the fist trial, state your object so fully and plainly as on the second. 1 did so, because 1 thought it po.- sible that you might find something in that book. which would alter the effect and character of the particular passages selecte..! for prosecu tion. Ou that grouoil, and that alone, dui 1 permit the cootrute of that book to be read, 1 pro hibited you from no argument that could 'hew you were not wrong. You reed many extracts from the winks of very learned writer. on the topic of the right of free discussion. I remeaked to the Jury. what cannot be too often repeated, that the writers of there works were themitetves Christiana, and that •very one of them came within the observation con tainvii in the pamphlet published by you, namely, that he who believes in Christ is en infidel to God'." Mr. Carideo..." I endeavoured to he tour Lordship that there were various translations of the Hebrew Bible, and that great difference was ob servable in them. I appealed to your Lordship on the first trial to know, which was considered the Parliamentary Bible, or, at least, the Bible autho rised by the statute law of this country. I could have *hewn that the existing tratislatiou is not ac cording to the original Hebrew." Mr. Justice 8ur...." Surely, Sir, this is most improper. In • case of this sort we cannot allow you to proceed with such a course of defence. Cases hive been decided in which the Court would not allow Counsel to state their reasons in justifi cation of • work of this description." Mr. Justice BATLEY—" Christianity is the law of the land, and the Bible is the foundation of Christianity. As I understand it, this is a pam phlet, not attacking any particular passages to the Bible, while it allowed its general truth, but attack ing and reviling the whole, from begi • gto end. To defend such a book cannot he allowed in any Christian Court of Justice, which has no sanction, except under the Bible." . Mr. Carlile—" The work in question speaks in approving terms of many doctrines contained in the Bible. Mr. Justice BATLEY —" If it speak of the whole as an imposture, though it praise particular parts, it does that which nu Court of Justice in this country will allow to be defended." The CHIEF JUSTICE—" The information sets forth, that the Defendant wickedly and blasphem ously designing and intending to vilify that part of the Holy Bible called the Old Testament published a certain work, entitled Paite's Age of Beason, which, amongst others, contained the following passage.—(Here his Lordship read that passage from ihe Age of Reason, in which the Old Testa ment is designated asi being rather the word of a demon than the word of Cod.']—So much for the Old Testament." Mr. Csrlile was prepared to shew that the assertions of Mr. Paine were well supported and warranted, by a reference to the Bible." Mr. Justice BATLEY—" It was utterly iinpos. sible, according to any rule of law, that you could be suffered to proceed with that argument." The CHIEF JUSTICE—" You could not, at your trial, he allowed to pursue that course, sod cannot be permitted to do so now." Mr. Carlile—' , Another point of objection was, that I had subpanaed seseral eminent and learned men—the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Astrono mer Royal, and the High Priest of the Jews—in order to 'hew that Chi tttt ianity could not be de. fined. and therefore could not form a part of the law of the land, but I was not suffered to examine them." Mr. Justice BAT Lit Y....." Most assuredly, Sir, you could not be allowed to take that course." Mr. Justice HOLROY D" Y•u could not so proceed. It is not the first time thut a person in you situation has endeavoured to take such a course, and has been prevented. Christianity is the law of the land, and no person can be allowed to dispute its divinity." Mr. Justice Brut--" You could not be suffered to take such a course of argument. In the case uf Hall, which 1 have just alluded! to, Counsel were not allowed to give reasons for their opinion on this subject. It is • rule not to suffer the Christian religion to be questioned." Mr. Carlile—" My Lords, permit me to ob serve, that Christiattity, as it is received in this country at the present moment. was, in the reigns of Henry the Eighth and Queen Mary, punished with death—and the ground of that pu• nishinent was said to be the law of the laud. It is impossible to define Christianity." The CHIEY JUSTICE" Well, Sir, we will not allow any person in this Court to deny the truth of Christianity. We caunot, and will not suffer ii." Mr. Cathie- 5 g Another ground of objection is, that, contrary 'to the law of this coutstiy, which makes the Jury Judges of the law as well as of die l,cl, your Lordship addressed observations to them which were extra judicial. After th► July had re. tired for some time, they requested that the two sta. totes to which 1 had referred should be produced. Your Lordship hesitated to do so, and sent for the Jury back into Court. You then addressed diem fur several animus' greatly to my disadvantage." Mr. Justice BAT LEY •• 48 It is the bounden duty of the Judge to explain points of fate to the Jury. But, if 3ou can point out any thing objectiobable in my Lord's address, the Court will bear aud de cide on it." The CHIEF JUSTICIC" 1 will explain this meta ter. The 9th and lOth of William 11$. was al luded to. It is entitled, sAu Act to prevent bleu. phewy and irreligion.' It rimmed. that any per *on denying the Trinity, or declaring that there were more Gods than one, or impugning the truth of the Holy Scripture,. slinithi be incapable of en joying boy office or dignity under the Crown. Asa Act was atilnaloently imbed in the 53d year of h Majerty, which esetnptpd prrs•ans front the operat ttttt of tilt. roomer statute. so far as relate. In their ing the doctrine of the T y. The Orlendai.t, wvrtal inotancer, contended that the Act i.f ti . : 93 I of the King was a virtual repeal of the of she statute of and permitted ar y person, or set of persons, to deny the trolls of Chili' , tionUy altogether. I savers! limes stated. its 'tivr course of the trial. that the slew statute had no SOC eti , ct. In * 1111 l ruing tip I intended to have notice.t tips part of the Defeatism's address, but it escope.t me. When the Jury sent for the two Acts of l i nr4 lorment I &fired them to conic into Court. I wive them my opinion on the effect and construction s f the sti s t s it e s, and placed them in the binds of the Foreman of the Jury." Mr. Justice BATLISY.J.." I have not the I.s-t doubt but my Lord slid that which was perferity correct. The 5341 of the King. I have no hr-04. tton in siiving, is not a gener..l repent of the t 0... s Act, and leaves the common lass just us it stool before." 3lr. Justice liErc—" The Act of k altogether repealed. Thinie who were more ui . mediately affected by it, mtpt, since the pas.iiii the late statute, make a declaration that they e,e Christians." Mr. Carlile—" The object of my argument we. to prove that tie doctrines of Christianity .re fou,iled on s belief in the Triiiity—.but this Act !sweet, from molestation those who impugn that doctrine. Impugn is perhaps the strongest word could be selected." The CUTE? JUSTICE—" My exposition of IN it Act has been fully given. My Learned B,,,thtss may oppose it, hut I will not hear it argued by you." Mr. Justice HOLROTD—Ii This is an iliforma. lion founded on the common law." 51r.Justice BAT I.EY.—•I Any person reading 11 e 9th and 10111 of and the recent townie, can put no other construction on them than whit has been laid down by my Lord. The former provides, that those who deity any person or the Holy Tr ' yto he God—or who shall declare that there are more Gods than one—or deny the I poly Scriptures to be true—or the Christian religion t o be of Divine authority—shall be subject to w car. tain punishment. The subaiequent statute Its es untouched that part of the Act of Willtarn whic't provides, 11)41 if ally person shall, by worth or writing, deny the Christian religion to be trio-, or that the Holy Scriptures of the Oil and Ni w Testament are of Divine authority, he shall be liable to certain penalties." Mr. Cdrlile—" 1 wish to make an observation out that statute." Mr. Justice BATLEY — " You cannot. because no doubt can be entertained as to its coustruc lion." Mr. Justice HoLitoYD—" If the whole of the statute of William were done away, the comuo law would be still in force." Mr. Justice Ilnyr-6 1 It never was before dreamt of, it could not be supposed, that the L. gi-latine would have passed this at stute.if they imagined that it granted a general liberty to revile and dr. fame the Christian religion. Their object in pass ing this law is very clear. Theta are sects f men who believe Jesus Christ to be the ,it of God, but who do nut believe parts of the Scriptures--and therefore this statute *a♦ passed to bring them within the scope of the T„le►- ation Act. But the Toleration Act. arid the ot he r statutes referred to, all constitute one body of decidedly recognising the truth of Christiandy. How, therefore, it was possible that any man should be so intoxicated as to imagine that, alien rebilme, the Christian Religion, he was sheltered under .1 law which absolutely required a belief in the but:, of the word of God, I can hardly conceive." The CHIEF JUSTICE—" Have you any thing more to offer ?" Mr. Cathie I hope the Court will allow me to make another observation ?" The CHIEF JUSTICE—" Certainly the (*tont will not allow you, or any other man, to argue that the Christian religion is not part of the law o f th e laud, and that it is not an offence against the law to revile and defame it." Mr. Carlile--fi I wish to draw the attention of the Court to the title if the Act of the 53J of the King—and to ask, how Christianity can he the law of the land, when that Act protects persons who impugn a part of it ?" Mr. Justice BATLEY—" Ore part of it only— the doctrine of the Trinity." Mr. Carble—" That is all." The CHIEF JUSTICE.—" We cannot allow you to justify such a publication as that for the sale of which you have been found guilty. is there soy topic which you Clllll urge in proof of the innocence of your intention, or your ignorance of the publi cation ?" Mr. Carliles—co The only parts of the affidas it on which your Lordship will allow me to address the Court, are, that the Jury were suffered to Briont.le, contrary to my wish, and that they were not legally nominated." Mr. Justice BAIL Y—" If that be all, the Court will deliver their opinion." The Office JUSTICILM You points—we have heard your allei already in possessiou of these t. there any other?" Mr. Carlile—co I believe you have of the Jury being called back ?" The Cute, Justice—" Certain! , Mr. Caride- 4 6 These Oita are my affidavit, but t wi►h to make vatiou. It must be strongly im minds of your Lord hips, that the duced into this Court was one quite defence bete." The ('stir Justice—" Now, iug back to hat topic which we 'sow will Ise suffered iu this Court self by denying the truth of the ' You ace out correct in stating that afforded no opportunity of defence You might base chews. that you hat the work, or that you had published for fliese.nright be an imioceut Magistrate fur Matinee. Yon . allowed that line of defence which for you to adopt—and it is not by • have stated thme rgations. We ale two objection.; is have taken a note • r I shay." • e the only points in one slight antra impressed on the the question Mir. i ' + uite inadmissible 4 f P, Sir, you are com- e cannot hear. Nu ift to defend him• Christian rehKis n list the inforinatuni ace iu this Court. had not publish. d bed it iuu ucenily— publication, to a certainly were not liCh it was wilawtnl by au obstimste per-