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In consequence of the decided preference given to the above Coach . the Proprietors are determined no exp,ence shall be spared render it the first conveyance on the Kent road. BROMPION. Chatham, Rochester, Gravesend, Stroud, Sittitighourne Rainham, and Ospringe, Morning, Quarter past 7, at Reduced Fares. The " Royal Eclipse." FALNIOUTH, Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Bodinin, Penryn, Ashburton, Totness, Weymouth, Dorchester, Dartmouth, and Salisbury, every morning at r i `even ; through 'lronton. Axminster, Bridport, lilandford, Stockbridge. Sutton, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Black water, and llagshot. 'l'lle only Day Coach to WEYMOUTH, (driven through with Two Coachmen only), through liagshot, Black water, Basingstoke, Overton, W hitch arch, Andover, Weodyeats, Cashmore, Salisbury, Blandford, and Dorchester, at a Quar ter past Five o'Clock in the Morning, at reduced Fate:. The " Union,"SOUTHAMI'TO:sI, Lymington Lyndhurst, • Winchester, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Blac k water, and Bagshot, New Four Inside Coach, every Morning at lialf.past Seven; arrives at the Coach and Horses, Southampton, by Five. This is a most delightful Conveyance to the isle of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, St. Malocs, Havre de Grace, Cher • hourgh, &c.—The Proprietors of the above Coach hope to receive a continuance of that support which has hitherto been • experienced since the commencement of the " Union." The " Champion, " a New light Day Coach to DOR . CHESTER, in to hours only, through Bagshot, Blackwa . ter, Basingstoke, Overton, Wlinchurch, Andover, Sails ,. bury, Woudyeats, Casliniore, and Blandrord, at a Quarter ' l -' past Five o'clock its the morning. The Proprietors of the above Coach are determined no expence shall be spared to render it the first conveyance on the Western Road. BATH and BRIS'FOL Post-Coaches, through Chippers ., I ham, Caine, Marlborough, Newbury, and Reading, every 1 Afternoon at otie ; arrive at the Greyhound Inn, B a th, th e London Tavern, Thomas-street, and Swan, Bristol, early the next Morning .- --Coaches to Wells, Bridgewater, Taunton, anti Plymouth, at reduced Fares, The " Urn:niter 'a New LIVERPOOL. Light Coach, only ' one Night on.the Road, carrying Four Inside, sets out Daily at One ; arrives at 'Liverpool next afternoon at Five, through Woburn, Lathbury, Northampton, Welford, Lutterwortli, i Hinckley, Atherstone, Litchfield, Stone, Newcastle, Kneti. ,1 ford, Warrington, and Present. SHREWSBURY, Wellington, and Shianal, Light Post- Coach, every A fternoon.—Guariled. ' The"Union,"WEYNIOUTH ; through Dorchester, Bland. ford, Salisbury, Andover, Overton, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, fflackwater, and Bagsbot, new Pest Coach, After. tlatirt,.ak .rctluced Fares.—Packets from Weymouth to Garvin ser,--Jersey, Cherbourg, Sr. Maine's, &c. every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon, at Two o'Clock. BARNSTAPLE and souttonolton New Light Post Coach, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Mornings, at Seven o'Clock. The " Rockingham," LEEDS light Post Coach, seta out every Afternoon at Two-; and passes through Baldock, Big. gleswade, Eaton, Ituaden, Stilton, Wansfora, Stamford, Greetham, Grantham, Newark,. 'Fusion!, Markham Moor, • Itetford„ Bawl ry, Done:utter, arid Ferryhridge,.to th.e Golden Lion Inn, Leeds, next Afternoon, at Reduced Fares.--Lug gage and - Passkag.as-..mly 24 per Ih.—Notwithitanding the uncommon Expedition of this Coach, it is allowed - to be the most' agreeable and comptere Public Conveyance on the North Road, being unequalled by any other. HAttRoatsGATE and Ripon new Light Post Coach, every Afternoon at .Two, and Eight in the Morning. GLASGOW; Longtown, Gretna-green, Annan, Dumfries, • Brownhill, Thornhill,' Sanquirar-Kiln,Canniock, Kings well, and all Parts of Scotland, a liglit Four inside Post Coackdally. 'The "Express," to YORK, Scarborough, Whitley, Shields, Sunderland,Keweastle, and Edinburgh, a New light Four inside Post . Coach, with a Guard throughout ; sets out every Morning, by way of Newark, Retford, Doncaster, Ferryhristge, 'Fade:ester, Darlington, Northallerton, Durham, ' Mot petit, and Berwick, and arrives at York the next Morn ing at Twelve o'Clock, at reduced Fares. Passengers find. iftg themselves fatigued Ott the journey, may rest what ' • time they please, 'and then 'proceed without any additional Fare. . MARLBOROUGH and Swindon, four-inside Day Coach, through Aldbourn, Reading, Lambe/urn, Parton, Lyilingtsin l'ewsey, Wootton Basset, Itateshory, Hungerford, Newbury and Maitienbead. • ' BRIDGENORTH, Walsal, Shrewsbury, Salop, and Holy- ,' head New Light Coach, every Afternoon, at reduced Fares. ' The New Patent Mail, BOSTON and Louth, throng!) ' Royston, CaMbridge, Huntingdon, Stilton, Peterborough, Deeping, Spalding, Spilsby, Alford, Giiii.shy, and Hull, ' Evening, at Half past Sevin o'Clock, 1 Sunday at a Quarter ' . before Seven. 'Flue " Express," a New Light Four-inside Post Coach to CARLISLE, Penrith, and Whitehaven, goes with F our 1 I Horses, and It Guard all the way, passes through Appl e by, Brough, BoWes; Greta-bridge Richmond, Caitterick, Bo- ' I roughbridge, Ferrybridge, D oncaster, Newark, nowt's , ' ' It (lrantham ' Stamford, Greethani, Stilton, Biggleswade, and I. Baldock. Sets out in the Morning, and performs the - jour. 1 ney with the greatest facility; at reduced Far es . P assengers detained on the Road by bus i ness or pleasure, h ave t h e pe t, culiar advantage of their Seats being secured in the next ' Coach.—'fire only direct Coach 'to Carlisle. ' The New Royal Patent Mail, .CAMBRIDGE, through Ware, Buntingford, Bucklaird, and R o yst on , Evening , at Half twit Seven o'Clock, Sunday, at a Quartet before Seven. KENDAL, Lancaster, Preston, Kirby-Lonsdal e Bolton , Ohorley, Or mslork, and Gar s t ang Li g h t Post Coach es,: ever; Afternoon. The " Royal Express," New Light Four Inside Post I 'l l 1 I I to LIVERPOOL, in 28 hours sully, through ‘1 , b4 r ,.;,. ac t ' • Prefteot, Congleton, Lawton, Newcastle, Iti , '„l - "'..y;roii, I Stone, Staftord, and Litchfield, fo.-! '''..y, Knutsfurd, t' Road), ever y Af ternoon 1 arri.. , -.y One Night on the ; ilalesatTeet, Liverpo , ' ...es of the Saracen's Head Inn, Fares, ....., next Evening, at Seven, at reduced a • WAKEFIELD Four inside Post-Coach, every Morning Ally} Afternoon, at reduced Fares. ' HESITR; Newport, Whitechurch, Tarporley, Nampa , wich, Nurthwich, and Middleslich Light Post-Coach, every Afternoon. - ; . SUNDERLAND, Stockton, and Yarm Light Post Coacoh, every Morning, to the George Inn, Sundeslaad, at reduced Fares. Mountain's " Express," to MANCHESTER, Winslow, Congieton, Newcastle, Weisel, Wolverhampton, sird Knots ford,. new Four Inside Post-Coach, every Aftertioon.—Only Otte Night an the Road, at reduced Fares. SHEFFIELD and Rotherham New Four inside Post Caaeles every Morning, called " 'the Express," and also t,' Theitockingham," every Afternoon at reduced Fares. The "Royal Express," New BIRMINGHAM Light Post Cotsch, acts nut every Afternoon, carrying Four Inside only; ; 1 p_ asses through War w i c k, L eam i ngton, Southern,' Weetlon, Darentry, Stoney-Stratford, and Toweester, to the Saracen's Head, Bult-street, Birmingham, early the next Morning, at tedneed Fares. ~.Tila" ESPreta , ," a New Light Post Coach, to HULL, Lin; Oatii, N,iri heave, HoWden, and Doncaster, every Morning at Iglit o'('ltick ; to the Cross Keys, Market-place, Hull; and !- afro the " Rocklirgbam" in the Afternoon at Two °Thick. - fitiltlFOßD, Ware, Hochlesdisn, and Cheshunt Coach, 1". at reduced 'Farm TOTTENHAM add Edmonton Coaches daily, at Eleven,Helf.past Two, Five, and Eight. Si .. a a At Reduced Fares to Leeds, York, and Dopeasteri , 44 lggage and package' at only 44 peikpound, , lI I' S, A. MOUNTAIN an d C o . res p ec tf u lly , acquaint their r len a atm' the Publ i c, that they Witt not he accountable for ,UY Parcel*, Passenger's Luggage, Writings, Prate, tkc• of 1 . Th°,t's plan 'Five Pounds Value, if lost, stoles, or damaged, k IT Its v entered ars - such, and the Insurance paid accord /Cl' '4 the S 'lsHe d I ' Strirmer- street,`Snow-hill 4 ant . ' X' t on*. *1"C" ARMY CONTRIII TS. Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, Jan. 26, 1813. VOUCH is hereby given to all Persons de sirous of contracting to supply PEEP and MUTTON to his Majesty's Land Forces in Cantonments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the under-mentioned Counties and Islands : Bedford, Berks (including the Town of Hungerford), Ber wick, Bucks, Cambridge (including the Town of Newman. ket), Chester, Cornwall (including Scilly), Cunsberland. Derby, Devon, Dorset, Durham (including Holy Island), Essex (exclusive of Tilbitry Fort), Gloster (including the City of Bristol), Hants, Hereford, Hertford, Hunts, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Kent. (ir !tiding Tilbury Fort, Lan caster, Leicester, Lincoln, .Middlesex, Monmouth, Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Nottingham, Oxford, Rut land, Salop, Somerset, Stafford, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick, Westmoreland, Wilts, Worcester, York. in tire'Se‘ veral Counties in North and South Wales, and in the several Counties in North Britain. -That the Deliveries are to commence on and for the 25th day of March next ; that Proposals iu writing, sealed up and marked, " Tender for Army Supplies," will be received at this Office on or before Tuesday, the 25th day of Fe bruary, but none will b e rece i ve d a ft er T we l ve o 'Cl oc k on that Day. Proposals must be made separately for each County and Island, except for the Counties comprising North and South Wales, all of which must be included In one Tender; as also must the several Counties in North Britain; and each Proposal must hare the Letter which is annexed to the Ten der properly f►lled up, by Two Persons of known Property, engaging to become bound with the Party tendering, in the Amount stated in the printed Particulars, fur the due per-, .formance of the Contract; and no Proposal will be noticed, unless made. on a printed Tender, and the Prices expressed in words at length ; and should it so happen that during the continuance of the Contract no Troops . should be supplied by ►•irtue of the same, the amount of the Stamps on the Coo• tract and Bond, paid in the Spa instance by the Contractor, shall be refunded to him. • Particulars of the Contracts may he bad upon application at this Odice,.lietweetalie hours of Ten and Four. MA NSFI E LD-STRE ET, *CAVE N DISH-SQUARE. .rFO BE SOLD for it Term of nearly Thirty. five Years, free from (hound -rent, a FAMILY MAN. SION, with or without Furniture, comprising a spacious Din. , ing-room, Library, Dressing-room, Vestibule, handsome Stone Staircase, 'Three Drawing-rooms, Five'Bed-rooms on the Two Pair Story, Four Attics, Two Water Closets, Numerous Of fices' Cellaring of every descriptlon, Laundry, very large. Coach-house, Stabling for Five Horses, Lofts and Dwelling.. rooms over ; the whole fitted up, and replete with every Con venience.—Far further particulars apply to Mr. Coate., 13, Crawfottl.strect, Portatan.aquare. HIRTY-SEVEN CAPITALS in th e LA ST T LOTTERY, No; 4,600, 'the Grand £90,000 in the pre vious 'Lottery, and several father Capitals.,:were Shared and sold by • BISH, whose Qtfcgs Rtand pre-politica for the sale of Capital Prizes, Its he is the only Office-keeper who ever sold'TWO Nikes of Vo,ono, TWO Prires'oPTlO,ooo, and SIXTEEN Prizes of £30,000, besides . Prises of -1C15,000, 1:10,000, &c. 1 1 / 4 c. too numerous for insertion, amounting to several Millions. • A NEW STATE. LorrERY, consisting of only 6,000 Tickets, yet containing Prizes of .£20.000, .£16,0(x), &c. &c. All Mangy, and all to be Drawn in ONE DAY, 25th of FE BRUARY, it now Selling hy, T. insff, Stock-brolier, 4. eORNHILI., and 0, CITARING-CROSS, And by his Agents in the Country. IV The Prices of Stocks are affixed hourly against Offices in Cunard!, by which: the Public may see the fluc tuations. • FOR COWS, COUGDS, ASTUMAS, tkc. THE PECTORAL ELI XI It. Eiperience during a very long period', has incontestiOly proved the superior efficacy of this Medicine, in all cases of Colds; ,Coughs, and Asthmatic Affections. By promoting gentl e expectoration, it very shortly relieves the Patient of a slight or recent Cull, and a few doses are generally s'gilelent to remove those which neglect has rendered morg confirmed and obstinate, and which are accompanied win tough, Spitting of Blood, and other serious symptoms, Its peculiar balsamic powers tend to heal suturing, ana allay the irritation of the lungs, in cases of Cough; abut in Asthmatic Affections it as. ails rind gives fTeedom to thia Breath. Sold in bottles, at Is. I j d. and 2s. 9d. by Butler' s Che 4,Cheapside St. Pauls, and 120, Regent-street, (near the Argyle Room:), London;_ 20, Waterloo-place, Edit). burgh ; 34, Sackville-street, Dublin; and by t he principal' Medicine Venders throughout the roiled Kingdom. N.8.--Be careful to ask for Butler's Pectoral Elixir, and to observe the Government Stamp litts.the words " Butler, 4, Chearptitle,* engraved on it. LAW INTELLIGRNCE. .......~r.~r--'. COURT Olt CHANCERY, FEB. fl. PERUVIAN LOAN:—JONES V. EVERITT AND CO. J!tst before the rising of the Court, the ATTORNEY-OEN r.- RA stated that he had a very important motion to submit re. lative to the Peruvian Loan. It was for an injunction to re strain the defendants from parting with a very large sum of money now in their hands, and paid in tri the part of the Con tractors of the Loan. The grounds upc.n which he made this application were, first, that the Loan had been contracted by false representations ; and secondly, th.et there was in fact no Peruvian Government, nearly the whole territory which it claimed being in possession of the .9irtiniards. The LORD Cu ANCEI.I.OII.—Take your Injunction. COURT OF RINti'S.RENCH, Frs.& KING V. WM. TONBRIDGE. The SOLICITODA4V)/VRAL moved fot the Judgment of the Court on this defendant, who was tried before the 'Lord Chief Justice at the last Sittings at Guildhell, on an information filed by the Attorney.tioneral for publishing "Palmer's Principles of N ature." The LORD CittEr JUSTICE stated the substance of the in formation, and read his notes of the trial. The publication of the work was brought home to the defendant by the evidenced Bow-street Officers, who obtained a copy of the work at the shop, No. 5, Water-line, Flcet-street, where it was sold by means of a machine, and where the defendant acted as shop man. At the trial, the defendant conducted his own case, and proposed to read the whole of the book as part of his speech. After he had read about four chapters, which contained strong reflections on the Old and ;New 'PLatament, the Lord Chief Justice interrupted him, and said, that as he was reading the work, not toe lain, the passages set forth in the information, but to defame ifweltristian Religion, he would not allow hint to proceed, but. told'hint that .it he would address any legiti mate topic of tiefenee to the Jug, he should be fully heard.— The defendant persisted in reading the book, and refused to take any other line of de&nee ; upon which the Lord Chief Justice shortly charged the Jury, who immediately returned a verdict of guilty. The defendant was then dominated to New gate, and a as taken from the Milk, declaring that hettiti been Condemned unheard, by a partial Judge and a corrupt Jury. No affidtivits wereputeither by the Crown or the defendant. The defendant then began oxtail a written paper in a very elear and' firm yoke.; 'lle could Show, In the most satisfactory m anner, that no penal judgment ought to be pawed 'against him. Rut he must beg of their Lordship* not to interrupt him; not to stop him in the midst.orsentenees which they were afraid to hear ;! and he was auitiottato make this treaty with the Court, because interruptions from Judges, in cases of this kind, were now almost of course ; they were growing into fatal precedent, and -woulesoon, unless resisted, become •• 6 part and parcel of the law." At the trial, three Bow-street. officers had appeared against him, hut not one even of these men ventured to swear that he assisted in the delivery of the work for the sale of which he had been, called to answer. He would candidly acknowledge that he had sold many copies of this work, but he could not admit that he sold the identical copy in question, because none of the circumstances brought to his memory any share that be took in the transaction. Vet the Jury, in this absence of all proof of publication, f oun d hi m gu ilty—after no mature deliberation, but by a verdict caught up in a squabble, and given before its proptr time. For his part, he had no desire to court persecution, he had no wish to encoun ter such prosecutors, such Juries NO such Judges, as appear. ed in cases of alleged blasphemy, ,4i!io confounded the philo sopher with the felon; and if any nurcy was in contemplation, manifested that the felon Was the favourite. The LORI)CuiEr JUSTICE.--If you will take this course, there is only one way for us. to pursus. The defendatit:—lt is true, and yt know it, that your Lord. ship seninie to mingle with the worst of felons—anti this front a Christian Judge in the 19th century ! He then proceeded to allege that he had been condemned without trial. He was pre pared with a defence as sccnnplete as ever was offered to any charge in a Courtof Justice. Ile could have shown that there was no evidence to fix on him the publication of the work; that the work itself was a highly moral and . philosophical treatise, which it was no breach of law to circulate; and that the offence charged was an act which ought: not be subjected to the cognizance of human 'laws; but he was stop ped before he had proceeded with &quarter of his defence, and condemned unheard. lie did not malt to rely on th e absence of all proof against him, but desire!' to take the far stronger and higher ground, that these prosecutions were impolitic and wicked—impolitic; because they tended to fan the flame they were intended to extinguish • and wicked because they vio lated the first rights and duties ofman. lie would fearlessly con tend that the Judges had nothing to do with the protection of religion, tor in the darkest ages the church managed its own affairs without resorting to the Court of King's Ranch to burn heretics. The pious Judges, indeed, had the honour of de stroying a number of old women for the air of witchcraft, but they left the church to deal with heretics ; and lie denied their right now to erect themselves into religious inquisitor's under pretence of the common law, which ought to have been obso lete for a century. Once witchcraft was " part and parcel of the law ;" now the same thing was saki of religion ; but both rested on the same superititious feelings, and the philosopher could smile and dispense with both. Religion was not matter of compact; it was a thing of opiniori anti feeling, and was no man's property, like liberty or lif e . He had been t o ld at hi s trial, when he urged there unwarrantable reasonings, to confine himself to " legitimate topics of defence." That fine word " legitimate" was fitly used, for it now signified the pretensions of absolute power over the consciences of men ; and in courts of law, as in kingdoms, it implied absolute dict a ti on an d tyranny the will and pleasure of the ,lodges. Mr. Justice lia YLEY.—That is the conscientious decision of men acting under the solemn obligation of an oath. The defendant proceeded without paying, any attention to the Judge, or indeed, appearing to hear him the down. fall of " legitimacy" wasapproaching : in Spain and Portugal it was overthrown, and would loop be driven from its stronger 'fasuiesses. Mr. Justice BE ST.--11 - 1w is our time, the time of the public, the time of the:suitors of the Court, to be taken up by all this trash ? Are we to be occupied by hearing matter which is quite unintelligible, and has no bearing whatever on the case be. fore us The defendant coolly went on :—.lt would be curious to ob serve the carious excuses to which persecutors had resorted. In former times, they .justified their cruelties as necessary to the salvation of their victims; and had this been true, they Would have been • right ; a t au events, the I.,tonnots. of Mary's reign were morerespectable than the puny periceutors-of the present day, who had no honest prejudice to excuse them The defendant proceeded to argue that morals had no connetion with religion ; that the Supports of society were not to. be found in shifting and wavering creeds ; and concluded by declaring that he stood firm and undaunted to abide the issue ; clear in his own conscience that the Judges were bound by their' duty, by those oaths to which they . appealed, and by the great interests of the human race to dismiss him free from this prosecution. The SoLICITOII GENJoiIAr • said that h e wo uld oot offer a pro w ordpero to urge ; g - c h n e er ;general wouldtopicsy on l which the defendant reply Lion, that he did not sell th e p art i cu l ar volume in question, that he admitted the sale at the t r i a l. the defen d h an ad e t e h user. I TtieLonn CREEP JIISTICT.—I directed the Attacks:l of the jury to the evidence of publication. The Judges consulted together for a few minutes, afturwhich Mr. Justice IIAYLEY proceeded to pass sentence. Theconvic. , Hon of l ir. Carlile, for the sale of this book, ought te 'have ope. , rated as a warning to the defendant that it could not legally he sold. With respect to the assertion that Christianity wasnot pare of th:: law, it was sufficient to reply that the subject had been carefully considered in the time of Lord Hale, and that the doctrine then laid down had been invariably acted on till the present boor. .The English iaw, with respect to' opt , nion, was as liberal, nay, more so, than the law of any other country on earth ; it allowed every mart to judge for himself; it forced him to adopt no partteu. ur system ; it left him free to choose in what form he would worship, or whether he would Worship at all ; but it did not permit him to vilify, to calm. niate, and abuse the rillgion of his country. In attempting to promulgate irreligi.trus works, the defend ant knew not the guilt which be was incurring; for if the y oung an d t h e unwar y W ere led by those works to cast off fear and shame, all the crimes which they might commit would he laid at his account, and their b!,00 would be required at his hands. This was not the place to discuss the truth of Christianity ; but certain it was, that the best of men, the profoundest of reason era, had expressed their firm belief that it was calculanAl to diminish crime, to „repress the violence of the strong, and to protect the innocent. Ile (Mr: Justice Bayley) thanked God that, after careful exa mination, he had arrived at a - firm . belief that this religion was divine : but the judgment of the Court did not proceed on this ground; it was dicutted by the law, which, thongh it allowed men temperately to discuss the evidence of Christianity, would not permit them to revile it. The interruption which the defendant had, received 'et the trial was most proper, nor could the Judge have avoided it, without a gross violation of his duty.' The Court, taking all the circumstances into their consideration, did adjudge that he should be imprisoned in the House of Correction at Cold Ilath,lields, for two years; any a fine of MIL to the King; and find security for Ins good beha viour for five years, himself in 1001.,' and two sufficient sureties in SOL each. _ The defendant..—liis a sentence worthy of a elitititiati COM., . It is worthy of a Court that. LAIRD CHIEF Jt►STICF..--Officer, take Mm away. The defendant then left the Court in custody. TIU XING , v. ANDEttBON. Mr. SCARLIVIT showed cause :within a rule obtained by Mr. Brougham in last term for a criminal information against the defendant who is a tea.tleakr at it village in Curnbeiiand, for sending a letter to Captain Backhouce, designating hint as "a cowardly incendiary, and no gentleman." The offensive. expressions were contained in the postscript to n notice not to trespass on the defendant's grounds. The bearneti Counsel now entered Into a long detail of the previous disagreements between the parties, to which the language complained of foul relation, and further suited, that two 'friends of Captain .Itack house had called on 'Mr. Anderson with a hostile message in consequence of the provocation which he was Rupp:wed to have given. The applicant stated in his aflidatit, that be had con sulted his military friends, and that they advised him he &tad only obrain•proper redress by the interposition of the Court o f Xing's_Bench ; but, notwithstanding this °pink*, the Court would probably leave him to his ordinary remethei u Mr. lin ll Oo it A st, on the part of Captain iliteith se, replied.' that if his friends h a d ' called on Mr. .Antlerson,they had done so without his authority; and prayed for , time to answer affidavits put in on .the part of the defendant. The: Loan CtriEr JUSTICE Said it was centrary to the uni fonn practice. of the Court to allow of .any affidav i ts in reply. -By discharging the elite, they by no mean* excluded Captain Bacithouse trom obtaining retiree* , as he might still pre f e r en indictment ; but they did not think theca was one in which a plosecu;ion should be instituted under their sanction. They • therefore discharged the rule. sell KING V. ST11411:*8. The SoLterrott-titlNEuet, imwt'".. the ittdgment of the Court on the defesulani, wbo was foundiruilty at the Last sit.' tings in London or indecently 0430544 bus Person to yo4ng. females in x 0040426 w hen Judgment was tint timed' for, . . the defendant did not appear, and was calied on his rung. nizances ; but he afterwards Came into Court, and the J..4=ned Solicitor renewed his MOtiCID. The 1401 u CHIEF read his notes of the trial. On the part of the . defendant his own affidavit was read, stating that he had a steo- and several children . dependent upon him for support anal:hat he waS4lgicted with a complaint in his head, which threatened to deprive bun of his eyesight, and sometimes reduced hiM to a state htwhich he was not the master of his own actions. This statementiWas corroborated by the affidavits of several witnesses who.had known the.defendant many years, and who had always regarded hint as a map of on blemished character. The managing eleticof the meteantile house in which he was employed - also: stated, that he had re cently been compelled to take a hurried journey to seotiand on business, which had produced a very sensible effect Millis bodily and mental health. The Juilgts consulted together for some tinier„after Which The Loan Cum VSTICE , said; that there were circum stances disclosed in the affidavits which blade it advisable thut the judgment should be postponed till next term. The Mince W 1144 $ very serious one, and could not be visited by a lightjud ment; but under the CaCUITIStalleeS disclmed, the Court wou l d direct the dekndant to attend on the second Monday in next tutu to •receive sentence. The defendant then and one of his bail entered into reeopi_ nuance for his appearance, and left the Court. TUE KING V. WRIGHT. ;)Ir. Gun/4El . lllond for the judgment of the Court on Mrs. Stlssannali Wright, wht, having been found guilty of publish ing a libel on the Chr*thikreligion, waseonunittedlast term to New,gate, for persisting to o'ffer matter *Welt the Court deemed offensive. • Mrs. Wright now appeared on the floor of the (hurt, attended by a female friend. She was neatly dressed,• but appeared ,to have suffered in health from the imprisonment winelt she has undergone. • The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE asked her if she wished to offer any thing in mitigation of punishment. Mrs. Wright replied that she did. The Lour) CHIEF JUSTICE.—Then we are ready to hear you. 'Mrs. Wright produced a large paper, and proceeded to read it. She began by declaring, that having reviewed her conduct in the solitude of her prison, she saw no reason to change her opinions, or to repent of the constancy with which she had urged them. When she was lust before the Court, she was prepared to show that the Judges had no right to pass any sentence upon her, because Christianity was no part of the law of England. In pressing this argument, she had been stopped by their l,ord. ships, because her reasoning was not agreeable to their ears— Mr. Justice BAYLEY.Not because it was not agreeable, but because it was not legal. I will show to you that it Is not our assertion, but the solemn decision of former Judges, that Christianity is parcel of the English law, and we cannot suffer that point to be argued now. The Learned JudFe then read the opinion of the Court in the " King v. Orme," Mrs. Wright, without making any reply, proceeded with her argument, that Christianity could not be part of any human law, and that. no human Judges had a right to punish those who endeavoured to destroy it. The laird Cur Ei-Juter rct then addressed the defendant, who continued her endeavours to obtain a hearing :—Mrs. '.l right, have been informed by the Court thatthey can► not permit you to contend, that to defame and vilify the Chris. tian religion is no offence against the law. If you . can urge any thing to which we may properly attend—especially if you can address to us any topics to Wier/ that a pitying consideration of your case may be taken, wo are moat ready, nay, most anxious, to hear you ; but we will not hear what we cannot listen to without a breach of the dui .we owe to ourselves and to the country. We will not suffer any person convicted of a bias. Ominous libel to repeat the offence under pretence of shewing that no judgment ought to' be pronounced against them. . Mrs. Wright...-•l donot consider it as an offence,' and I will prove— Mr. Justice lixitt.tv- - .4t. is not what you consider which must prevail, but what the Court diteruunei:.in conformity with previous decisions, and under the sanction at their oaths. Mrs. Wright, however, proceeled as if no prohibition had been addressed to her—" The Christianity you say you hold ° — The Lou n CHI EF .1v s`r c you offer to us any grounds in mitigation of punishment ? :Wry. Wright —I shall proceed with this—," The Christianity you say you The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—We are sorry to take this course, but we have no option. The law must not be bathe down and trodden upon by defendanti in this mamier. We can hear no more, union; you will Address us in :a way *bleb we can properly hear. The Judges then began to consult, but during the whole of their carom- tuition,' Mrs. Wright proceeded to read on, quite regardless, and apparently unregarded. At length she was stopped by Mr. dustier' BANIAT, whd rose,- and without any prelimi— minary °bumf:Mon, said, " Susannah Wright, the judgment of the Court CO you is, that for the offence of which you have. been found guilty, you be imprisoned in 'the Iliataeof Cor. rection,' in Cold.liath-Fields, for eighteen calendar months, and that you pay to the King a fine of IOU?., and that, at the' expiration of your imprisonment, you find two sureties fur y•our good behaviour for five years, in AU each, and that you he further imprisoned until such sureties be found and such fine be paid. Mrs.. Wright was taken from the Court, protesting against the sentence, and with a contemptuous smile on her counter nance. TUE KING v. FLINT. Mr. Tairwrox showed cause against a rule obtained by. Mr. Pearson for striking Mr. Flint, art attorney of the county of Stafford, offthe Rolls, on the ground that he had sued out pro cess while in custody for an assault, of which he Was found guilty at the Sessions. The offence consisted in the i conduct mg a plaint in the County Court, and especially in mini; out and serving a stammons. The Learned Counsel now contended that the case was not, within the statute, which was an °lawn* severe one ; and was proceeding to show that the business was conducted, not by his client, ,but by another party during his' imprisonment, when The Cott WV expressed their feeling that, at all orients, the case WiLlr Et very hard one, anti that, if ultimately they' should be comps lled to decide against the defendant i .lt would be with reluctance. As, therefore this was the tirst-case which had been brought forward i under a highly penal law, they would alloy the parties to imparl, and my it they could not agree on some course which should prevent the necessity of a decision. After some delay, this stiggestion was acquiesced in, and the rule was discharged. Thu Lortri Ciaikr ..-InsTICVi said that the Judges, now the individual ease was withdrawn from their attention, thought it right to declare that they had no doubt the statute would ex tend to proceedings in the County Court. The Act, though it severe one, was of great importance to the public. 111 X XING V. lIEVAN. This was a rule, obtained by Mr. Campbell at the end of last term, calling on Mr. Bevan, a Magistrate of thicounty of Rad nor, to shew cause why a criminal information sh ou ld net be tiled against him. It was then mated that Mr. Austin, a who resided in the neighbourhood of Mr. klevan, had a right to dear out a watercourse near that (, entionan's house, which he had always exerted. On the 29th of August last his workmen were so employed , when Me. :Bevan came and ordered a con-' stable to take one of them, named Prubert, to the roundohouse, where he was keptlor several hour) in custody, Mr. 'Bevan re futing to take bail. At the petty ;Sessions the Mall was die. charged ; but a few days after, My. Be van or d, tt a the eon- , stable to' take another workman, named Bolton, into custody, anti detained hint for the day at a public .house. Ir.l'nr.x.s:n and . Mr.Citoss showed caused again* the rule, on affidavits, stating, that the workmen were proceeding to - deepen the channel, so as to endanger Mr. limn a house ; that a crowd of DO men were collected; and•that he.Was'assailed with insulting language. Alarmed by these circumstances, he 'had done that which legally he could not justify, and was most anxious tomake compensation to the parties who bad-antlered , by Ids.error. • Mr. - Tatiwrot:, for the prosecutor., -rejected a ll ofra . of compromise, add was proceeding• to argue that thaconduct of the Magistrate was wholly without excuse, when The Con al' stepped him, lind nut4e, be, rule 4bs4lfAte. CONSISTORY COURT OP ROCHESTER, FEfl. 6. VENT "AWD BEST. The arqunnent of Counsel in thi s l ong p r otracted env i e was concluded tuAlay ; his Majesty's Al)l7(iChrt and Dr. Plut. 'Amour, on the part of Mrs. llibst hiring been heard' re. ply.--34dgment denrod. FOIL THE SUN. TO THE R. 1% 110 N. ['ORD VISCOUNT GRENVLEXE. A CALM A PIMA L to the G001)11E1'0% nod CANDOUR of-the PEOPLIIotENGLAND 4 ,on the SUB.TEGTOr ;the ROMAN CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Continoad from TUE titrif cf. Tveigky lot 1' Will the mere profession of the ftiniiatt Catho lic Religion be set forth as sufficient to justitythe disabilities under which its professors labour ? 'At least; midi a Plecwas not considered as sufficient at a time when that superstition wee much more prevalent and formidable' han it is tit Present. To avow and to act upon such a principle would be to violate tbOse wise maxims. of toleration which have been saeCtioned by the approval of the greatest Statesmen and 'Patriots in the best. of times; and to afford a precedent for a narrow and grinding scrutiny upon religious subjects that may be fatal to liberty ; gal that is cettainly.elien to the spirit of the Caustitution. The Ronan Catholics as a *co, it is said, must naturally desire the ascendency of their own religion. And what sect must not desire the same in proportion as they are sincere in their opi Mons ? The point to be considered by the practical Statesman is, not what they may desite, but what they can effect..... And if no sufficient grounds,cen be stated to prove that they are possessed of the' means of accomplishing the sub version of the ,Eetabliebed Church, it is beside the pur pose, and beneath the dignity of legislation, to visit them with disabilities for their speculative principles. " 'The Roman Catholics as : a sect, musrnsturelly deelre the " as- , cendancy of their own religion." True : but would, the naked annunciation of suave truism have been sufficient to induce our ancestors to enact the laws under width that pros trate sect at present suffers? And if not, if it never could be considered as a sufficient reason for bringing them in the first in-- stance into bondage, should it now be suffered to oppose any serious obstacle to the equity of their emancipation'? Shall laws, which were intended to operate as a violent an tidote to a disease that threatened the very exietence of the Go vernment, be continued after every alarming symptom has disappeared upon this ground, that, although it has been cured for the present, yet that it is necessary to prevent its recur , rence for the future ? That would be, to use the language of the faculty,to treat a chronic complaint as-an atsie one. :Or rather, indeed, it would be to have re co u rse so he surgeon in Me that peculiarly belonged to the physician . If there be a ieratmcif in any part of the system to generaten similar disease. Mat should be treated differently surely front the dimmte its4V when it actually appears. To continue the metaphor s we may be obliged .to have recourie . tOldeeding or amputetton in the one ease , whereas, aweetneeeof the blood,' wholesome regimen, healthful exercise, may be found sufficient In the other. In like manner, although the political disease when. it appears, must be counteracted by severity, yetthe tendency to is may be corrected by emollients. 'And time polio), of those who are zealous for the continuaneeiof the Roman Catholic disabilities, utter all the original causes of their enactmont have ceased, re sembles the conduct of a man, who, having applied a plaieter to a wounded limb, and accomplished the cure of the pare affected, obstinately perseveres in keeping it on, although the wound -has been completely eicatrizedoind it is only cer tain that it must Ire productive of uneasiness and irritation. Indeed thereare no two things which the tyro in polities is more likelyto confound. with each other than the oeceelons which give rise to temporary, and those which call for permanent eb. actinents.,;.,4,adthegenius of the true Stateeman is differeneed by nothing so melt from the meddling spirit of the political empyric, us the power of distinguishing between them and, signing to each its relative importance. Thc truly generous legislator never has recourse to expedients but for pressing and particular exigencies, and never continues the use of 'them longer than the necessity of the ease actually requires. The mere politician is only concerned for the accomplishment ref his present enzymes, and seems equally , careless and incapable of distinguishing between the rule and the exc e p t i on . .ehe . on e constructs his enlarged and liberal measures for she healthful and permanent meteor the body politic, and, like a view ply, sician, relies much on the native vie medicetrix" of ihe sYt. tem, and prefers assisting to superseding the efforts of nature In endeavouring to throw off any temporary ailment. The other acts as if he thought the system always diseased, and never seems to think of nature at all but for the purpose of counter acting her operations, whil e t he o n e w ou ld convert f oo d i nto medicine, the other isadministeringmedicing as food. ' Alas I how severely have the effects of a narrow and uni versal policy been felt in Ireland :I And with what_pernicions dexterity. have-the penal laws, Which were intended to crueha. dangerous 'faction, been directed against an idle , superstitiOn, until they have actually become the, means of Rertifying.ehe prejudices and inflaming the zeal of its votaries; until a ridi a . culous partiality for the Pretender, which every day must have diminished, has been converted into a deeply rooted antipathy to the British name and influence ; and until a country, for five centuries in connection with Great Britein, anti favoured be. • yond all others in soil, situation, mid the genius of its inhabi tants, is in many plaenelitele more than a nursery for bevies of the most inhuman barbarians. Still, however , thanks to Providence, knowledge and "eivi. lization arc progressive even there. Ilati as is the present state of things, by comparing it with the condition of the country formerly, it will be seen that A great advance has betn . nails"; and this, be it observed, has been exactly in proportion as the system by which the country had been governekl, was changed, anti the people were'permitted to taut the blessing,s of liberal and parental legislation. There are, it is true, some who tell - us that Popery i s on th e increase in Ireland • anti that it is as necessary to b e on our guard against its gloomy and dangerous bigotry now as it in the darkest period of history. Dot how is this gaunt:lit Sup- ported ? Either by a reference to transactions which may *aim explained on an opposite principle, Inanely, the ignorance Aral the irritation consequent upon the system of exclusion under which the Roman Catholics labour, and the ungenerous use which their adverariea too frequendy mike of •their political superiority ; or by an allusion to events which, if truly under= stood, would be' considered as indications rtstlier of weakness than of strength, namely, the revival cif the ireitiiiitiem in Spain, and the restoration of the order of Jeseits throegheat Europe. The former it is unnecessary to dwell upon at any length, to those who are thoroughly acquainted with the state of Ire. hind. It is very well-known, and very deeply to be lametited, that the combined effect of the progress of knowledge anti penal statutes upon the better informed elutes of .the profess. ing Roman Catholics in that country is inch, that they are every day losing their respect for. the superstition in :which they have been brought up, without, unhappily, gaining an at tachment to any thing better. It is now rare to find a men al education or respectability amongst 'them priest.tielden, or hood-winked by. their olergy. Viritheatt becomlng•Protestents, they are ceasing to be Peplets; and have been driven, it is to be feared, in too many instances, by the repulsive character which the penal statutes make the ,Established Church, tee .14. einne t into the. profession of open infidelity. This is a great evil. Those who imagine that in an age like this the Established Church,is only secure by looking with - an angry and intolertint aspect upon till who differ *owe her, but little understand' her character, etid pay but a very eiubiglious compliment to her superiority. Truly it may be most mils. ticaUy said of them, 4 they know not what Intuitive ofipirit they are et." If ever there was a system of relLeion A:alculeted to attract and engage the mind emerging front the darimeas ofsuperstitioa s or escaping from the bewilderment of fenaticism, it ts that for whit+ we are indebted to the wisdom anti piety of our vent. able Reformers. It just retains so much of spleodeur..stod ceremony•as conciliates the seines witheut.diegostmg.tbe terlor and evinces such a respect for entiquityas. eatisfloa the Coe-links without offending the judgment. • 'Vim prechistre formulariet in which its .devotfonal dilutions are . tenehrineii:..ate . eleYated without ruysticiera, epirituel without vstrevegenee, And *flee 'tionate without any irt(:ietent fitteiliarity t While in the tome *nation of our ineompereble liturgy, the imagination is suffer ed to exalt *rid to sublimate the teatior4; yet is the reason never for a .inonient eentroaled•ar over-raLstaT o 4• ll3 its ibscen4tricy, ' but still - finds its highest exercise* to furnishing elearrfaiderree,.a support • " Not trsecherous t .e.minds excursive p‘Mitit," < To -.u- )