The Sun. — London, England, 1819-10-15 00:00:00

I v E con' ha" Wai l volo e hlih e nil , r 36' Jolni Saveston, Jo1)14 Christopher, William Lambwood, Jint,s ,Messenger, Charles Lellerift4tl, llrriamin Dinhatn, Edward Proctor, Charles Grosvenor. Younz, junior, James Wornich, V,' ,11i am Taylor, Charles Grosvenor, Specials. e re' n tef' Tales. ) I ' l ' k 0° , eye d d of on e; r to rico' 5 f sf I O r (116 rar° 3 irg e# 010 ,ol 4# 0 1 ; oo l `' t 11)C 1 (i) rii 4j# f:J # licsig ) f )ti 0 114 of 13" (sio' ~ of soW I ett e6 isA, . 1 ,1 oi l • id° CO / f ,1 r , De, Tll {AL OF CA FOR ANOT.IER BLASPHEMOUS LIBEL. Cfrrlile Was this morning pnt on his trial for piotiug and publishing a Wolk of a similar blas• phemous nature a 3 that on which he was con licied yesterday. The crowd was much lessened. Ab.ut 25 minutes past nine, Carlile entered the Court in custody of t‘yo Officers, `shortly ft I , er, the CHIEF JUSTICE entered, and the case was cafled.—Carlile again protested against the competency of the Court.—Tbe following Jury were then sworn : Mr. EDWAIID LAWES opened the proceeding ; be stated it to be an ILIdiCIMerV o instituted by the Gentlemen of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, against the Defendant, as Printer and Publisher of a Blasphemous Libel of and con cerning the Holy Scripture, intituled " Principles of Nat tire,. or a Developement of the Causes of the Miseries and Calamities of Mankind." Alr. GURNEY stated the case. Tip. proper Officer proceeded to the reading of the Indictment, which contained various coants, Carlik objected to the manner in which it was read ; it was then handed to the Chief Justice, who said it corre9ponded with the passages in the book. A proof of the publication b e in g p u t i n , Cerlile, at 11 o'clock, began his defence. lie ws. proceeding in reading the publication when our Reporter left tl:e —Several reports having been circu lated re , ,recting the condnet of Carble rif.ei' the te , dict of the Juiy was delivered, we Wye ascer ' tdined the following to be a Correct statement of ntterior proceeding's :—On his leaving the Court l!e went, accompanir.d by several friends, to the Coff,e-hon,e. The City Marshals be lle iu , ortnt...d of the circumstance, stationed their 9: - Ecers at the back and hunt noor. Abet remaini , g •-• there abort 20 minices, be went to his own house, where also tUe officers followed him. In about ) an hour a coach drew up to his door, when infor ination was sent to the Marshals. The verdict of Guilty had! by 'this tune beets and Mr. I - Vo,,tner arrked with two tip staffs ; they went into Mr. Carlile's shop, who had then just put on 1 ) , great coar., and was preparing to get int o the coach. Being informed they had a warrant detain lvm, •he said he was only going to Blackheath to: see his children, a custom observed every evening, having a residence there. Wootner informed hint it he could uroduce two respectable housekeepers to be bound for his •ppeatance t he next morning, lie: should be at liberty, This Mr. Carlile promised to do, and Tamed several.; these persons were applied to, bttt declined becoming security. Mr. Wontner waited two hours, when finding the security could not he obtained, he left Carlile in custody of Twopennyand Merchant, two City officers, who Tewairied with hint all night, and thi,, morning they delivered him into the custody of the proper - -Authorities. We inserted on the sth inst. an admirable Letter, signed A liarrox, of which The Exeter "'ging Post, one of the most respectable.of our tcsi3cial Journals, speaks in the following libe rh; terms, end thereby manifests its own loyal feelings, and constitutionalprinciples We refer our. Readers to a Letter, copied rt9Hl THE So N Paper, signed " A Briton." It abound s with holt(' truths and Convincing argil ll:lents, and does equal honour to the head "( 1 heart of the AnihOr. We have, with Inuch pleasure, given it a place in our Jour. considering it to be admirably calculat s td to counteract the evil effects. likely to be • produced, particularly. in the miuds of 'the lower. order s of society, by the inflammatory speeches of . the Radical Orators, and the seditious and Ma! - P letbous publications which are every where • industriously circulated : and if the discon tented, who have unhappily imbibed these per ,- on ions principles, will peruse, with atte h • " , the .vholesome l es s ons w hi c h t h e l etter et 1 ` 4 B, lion" holds forth for their consideration, ... We doobt not but the good advice it contains will * wake n many to a sense o f the i r error—and, in ' It!ead of indulging in gloomy murmurings, on ideal tiv , t rmgs‘, and fancied gr i evances , w ill ten d to i nsp i re tuem with love and reverence of a CODSII(W101) that, . I "th all its faults, is still the envy and admiration cr every other country—but which the agit MOIS Of t!'beniOn tiHdet the specious pretext of reform, It insidi ous l y an d actively labouring to destroy. our intention to give further publicity to productiou, by printing it as a small • race, too dish ibut ion, at a cheap rate ; and we trust it will find its way into every part of this txte us:ve county." h. C ' H ui-ExcitANGE, OcT. 15 —We continue to ): a b " d awl) , supplied with Wheat and Barley, t ." l for II hick th ere is v er y li tt l e d eman d ; an d .though juwer prices are asked, scarce any sales "'"h be effected, even at a redaction of from 2i. l " 3 3. per qui-trier how 111oiqlay's prices. O a t s : I T' S • t•tt (platter l ower ; White Pease are dull e . at a reduction of 2i. per quarter. in other tlelts there is no alteration. t,tlis.,lll,l,r,ELD, OCT. 15.—The Market, this morning, was V rre i pplithan ( Ii uith cattle, in consegitence the pi:tces the last Alatket- eal, \luttilti, are a:so higher than our last quotation.— (~„,e , 7 xi.) focal, alteratiun iu the ilay Market. Stiaw kind lutuait. Fv%;eic. SECOND EDITION. SECOND CONVICTION OF CARL] LE. SUN - OFFICE, lIALF-PAST Two. \Ve slop the Pre” to announce, that since our former Account of the Proceedings at 'Guildhall, Cor/i/e's Trial has finished, and the Jiffy, without leaving the Box, returned a VERDICT of GUI LTV.. SHIP DEAL, OCT. 14.—Arrived, and SaP4l for the River, the Hunter, AmnnosE, from Trinadad ; Harmony,WoonALL, front Demerara ; Symmetry, Caam, from Riga tot Portsmouth ; and fßoeis, WAIT, from Norway for Dublin. Came down front the River, and sailed, the Margaret, SIMP bON, for the Isle of France ; Nereid, from the South Seas ; Spartan, FAWCETT, for Rio Janeiro ; and Sovereign, NIXON, for Jamaica—the latter remains. PoRTsMOUTH, OCT. 14.--Arrived the Goede Hoop, Boox, and Margaretta, Doss, from Ant werp ; and John, SMITH, from London for Ber bice. Sailed the Mangles, LARDNRR, for London. Pr.i . siouTu, )cr. 13.—Arrived the Francis and Harriet, Btrurr, and Mervin, BECK, front Riga; Caledonia, Rona, and Elbe, Aatiow, from St. Petersbngh ; City of Bourdeatix, HALLETT, from London for the Cape of Good Hope. LIVERPOOL, OcT. 13.—The Jane, MARROW, from Wigton for this port, was wrecked the sth inst. ; the crew perished. The hull of the vessel is on shore near Formby. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE. OCT. 14.—0 n Sunday the 10th instant, being the first day of term, the following Gentlemen were elected University Officers for the present year PROCTORS. TAtham, M.A. Fellow of St. John's College. :Joseph Jee, M.A. Fellow of Queen'► College. MoDEHATONS. Henry Wilkinson, M.A. Fellow of St. John's College. IVhewell, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College. TAXORS. James Cumming, M.A. Fallow of Trinity College. William Procter, M.A. Fellow of Catherine Hall. SCRUTATORS. Edward Ilene Payne, M.A. Fellow of King's College. John Wood, M A. FriROW Of Pembroke The following Gentlemen were ou Tuevolay last appointed the Caput : Tire Vice-Chancell;ir. • Rev. Wilktm Webb, D.D. Clare ULM —Divinity— lob Rev. L. I). Clarke, LL.D. Jesus College—Law. 1 .. • Thomas In g l e , M.D. tit. P e t er ' s College—Physic: • Thos. C. Willats,'M.A. Downing, Coliege—Sen. Non Reg. non. J. Foitescue, M.A. Alaediene•—•tien. Regent. The Rev. Hastimgs Robinson, M.A. Fellow of St. John's College, and the Rev. John C. White, M.A.: Fellow of Pembroke Hall, were on Wed nesday last elected Pro-Proctors. 'The undermentioned Gentlemen were on the same day admitted B4chelors of Arts ; Geor g e William Craufurd, Fellow of King's College. Thinnas Park Brymer, Fellow Commoner of Trinity College Thomas Yates Ridley, of St: Peter's College. Samuel Godsell, of Jesus College. Charlton Lane, of Jesus College. Ilenry Owen [Amides, of Magdalene College. Join Lafout, Fellow Commoner of Emmanuel College. Messrs. Edward John Gambier, John George Shaw Letevre, Thomas Flower Ellis, and Ben. jamin Heath Malkin, Batchelor% of ;Arts, of 1)1- ' nitv College, were on Friday the Ist hut. elected Fellows of that. Society. Lord Henry Frauds Charles Tier, son of the Marquess of Lothian, and the Hots, Henry Law, son of the late Lord Ellen borough, are . admitted of St. John's College. The Rev. John Thomas Huntley, M. A. of Trinity. College, has been appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Right Islonuurable the Earl of Sand with. . THE THEATRB.—Tbere was a very,,oumerous audience last night at Prury-lane Theatre, at the representation of the Comedy of Wild Outs, which in all, the characters was supported with as much spirit as on the former occasion. It was followed by the facetious Afterpiere of No Song no Supper, in which Mr. PEARMAN, from the English Opera House, nede his first appearance in the part of Frederick,, and was very. well received. It appears that some boys, in coming dotvii the Gallery stairs, made a considerable noise, and durumd the sentinel,. upon whose b4youet one of them accidentally tell, and received a wolind, but not of a dangeroos nature. We are sorry to see an account of this unlucky event in a Morning Pa per, severely reflecting on the soldier, as no doubt the matter will be properly examined. Prince LEOPOLD has visited the town of Shef field, where he was received with every mark of distinction, 14 d received a present of cutlery, Value 50 guineas. The illustrious Visitor pro ceeded to view the tilt of Messrs. Withers, Ward, and Co., the scissor and : razor manufactory of Messrs. Rhodes and Champion, the Pond Forge and other worki of Messrs. Kenyon and Co., and the plated manufactory of Messrs. Roberts, Cad man, and Co., xvith all of which he expressed himself much gratified. It was his Royal Eligh• ness's intention to have visited several other worlor, particularly the cutlery manufactory of Messrs. J. Rodgers and Sons, and the extensive works at Roscoe-place, but he was obliged to leave Sheffield at twelve o'clock for Derby. His Royal Highness passed through Chesterfield on Wednesday, on his way to Derby, where he was weleotued by the tinging of bells, and every de monstration of respect by the inhabitants, who were highly gratified by his urbanity and gracious condescension to all who approached him. Ott his arrival at Allreton, the Rev. Henry Case Morewood, in his carriage and four, with outriders in splendid liveries, met his Royal Highness at the entrance of the town, and invited biro to his house, where an elegant cold collation had beet► provided. After a vety short stay, the Prince and suite lett tl►e noble mansion of their hospitable Lost, and proceeded on their route to Del by. ilult LAW INTELLIGENCE. CARLILE'S TRIAL. THIRD DAY.-[F71,1, PAR ['ICULARS] coma OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, Ocr. 14. Before Chief Justice AbBoTT, and a Special Jury. THE ATT ,, RNEY-GBDIERAL V. RICHARD CARLILK. The Court was opened this morning at the usual hour. The intensity of public c , iriosity, except as to the result of the trial, having in a great measure subsided, there were very few per sons present at the commencement of the pro ceedings, but the crowd gradually increased as the day advanced. In the anticipation that Mr. Car lile would shorten his defence, and that the case would in consequence be brought to an early con clusion, the Juries on the information for the se ditious libel, and on the three indictments for bla•phemous libels, were summoned to attend.— It is stated that the next trial will be upon the first indictment instituted by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, which, like that now in pro gress, is founded on Paine's Age of Reason. A rumour was circulated in the course of the morn ing, arising, it is said, from an expression used by some of the defendant's friends on the preced ing night, that he had gone off to Diver on his way to France, and that in consequence he would not appear, to await that fate which the expres sions of the Jury have pretty strongly indicated. This rumour was, in some measure, supported by the non-appearance of Mr. Carlile until after the hour appointed for the sitting of the Court, and until the Attorney-General and the Counsel for the Crown had arrived, but at 35 minutes after Hine, the supposed fugitive entered the Court, ac companied by Mr. Fry, and bringing with him several hooks. Mr. Sheriff Parkins immediately addressed Mr. Carlile, and begged to ask him a question ; he said he understood that he had been interrupted in his entrance into the Court, and that lie had been deprived of some books. He considered such conduct very improper, after the pains that had been taken to keep. order. Mr. Carlile said, both himself and his friends had found difficulty in pining admission to the Court ; and some of his books hail got into :he hands of strangers ; l.e a herwArds ascertained that two of his parcels of hookehad been left in the coach. Mr. Sheriff Rothwell then addressed Mr. Car lile, and said—Yon will be pleased to recollect that I expressed a desire you should receive every accommod4- ion. Mt. Carlile assented to this declaration. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Hi:zh Priest of the Jews were in attendance soon atter nine, and were seated together in a *mall room behind the justice seat:" The names of the Joy 'having been called over, ,;", • Mr. Carlile proceeded to address them.—He commenced by adverting to the pledge which he had given at the rising ot the Court yesterday. He then apologized 1 . 01" any detects which might have been remarked in the course of his speech, and said these were to be attributed to his wa n t ot practice in publi c speaking. He still thought that it' he had not met with so many interrup tions, be should not bee (ailed to have satisfied then; that his motives were of the purest and tnost unexceptionable character. 'lle was convinc e d, however, that he was the object of prejodice and misrepresentation, and marked out for sacrifice and persecution, In defiance of ibis, he could not help hoping, that, from what he had read, the July would give him credit for not being the not licious and infamous individual which the Attor ney-General Would insinuate, merely on the ground of his having published the Theological IYorks of Mr. Paioe. Although he could not ex press himself With eloquence, and although he deeply deelored the want of Words to convey his sentiments, yet he felt assured that the Jury I would ~d eliberate with due -solemnity on what they' had heard, and that they would giVe bins credit for the sincerity of hitt intentions:- They would recollect that Jesus himself had been'called the disturber of he people, and was persecuted in his tittle for blasphemy, and thete being no trial by JUry, was condemned to death, and finally ex ecuted as the founder of Christianity, in defiance of the established religion of the country. For himself (Mr. C.) he was but an humble man— he was one 'of 'the humblest of his countrymen, and, in all thing which he had done, he could not have been influenced by the hope or expecta tion of revvVid.. As he said before, if he bad not been interrupted in thaLcourseofargument which he conceivedieSiential to his defence, be had not a shadow oriblAt that he should have been able to justify the'eniblication Wh.ch had exposed hits' to tilt censure of the Attorney-General. But he believed this Prosecution would be the last of this kind witich;WOuld ever take:place in this country. Attorney4iesserals, although" clever Lswyers, and although° they might hereafter Make good Judges, %vete vets incompetent judges of the progress of the finnan mind : they might peifectly under stand tilt march of crime, but- they heeded.not the march of intellect. A lawyer stood still, like a milt-stone upon a deserted road, while human improvesent advanced in an incalcolahle Ile held is his hand one of a few books which lie had hastily collected since the preceding evening, which, it: a 'forcible and conclusive manner, ad vacated the Policy of enquiry into the divine ori gin of the Christian religion. It was a small tract, of wlich Thousands had been circu lated. It was intitleti, " A Sketch of the Denomi nations' of Lie Christian World,'' and was written • by the Rev. John Evans ; and in substance urged the folly of objecting to an investigation of the Christian religion ; but for which, the writer said, that Religion cre this would have become universal - --[,Mr. Carlile here . read trout the work to which he had alluded.] • He next read an essay, written by the Rev. Dr. Enfield, an author well known for his efforts to improve all ranks of a 'ciety, and which was pub lished in the Is: volume of The Monthly Maga zine. This writer also contended, that it was highly inexpedient to restrict inquiry into the Christian religion, and commenced his observa tions by quoting this passage lions Bishop Wet sou's Aiiology for the lith:e„ 1 ' God fothid that A ' , search after troth shoold t,e discottrAgeol . for fear of the consequences." he essay concluded by advisini all lovers of their ernintry to call for some universal law to permit and sanction every impliry after truth. Ile thought it might nut he improper here to state, that the whole of the works of Mr. Paine were admitted hoo the public libraries and pill the colleges of Anieriea, and copies of them were kept in the London Institution in this metropolis, which were open to the inspection and perusal of all the subscribers. He t ben quoted the begin ' nil).* r " of a Treatise by Li m b urg , P ro f essor or M- trinity in Holland, in favour of the most impar tial inquiry into religious matters and the most disinterested freedom of discussion on every sub ject connected with it. Inqiiiry, the same writer contended, was peculiarly agreeable to the prin ciples of the Christian religion ; and he proceed ed to show this from the example of the Saviour and his disciples, and col - masted their exemplary condoct with the intolerant proceedings of those who had followed them. and been looked up to as the lathers of the Holy Religion w hick they bad taught. These were described to have made the names of Bishop and persecutor almost sy nonimuus ; for they had punished those who dif fered from them with an arm of flesh, instead of being content to do what they were enjoined to do—" Put on the armour of righteousness, and combat opinion in the only proper way, by rea son, and admonition, and argument." The ob servations. he (Mr. Carlile) had read from this work he had brought under their attention, be cause he conceived the present prosecution to have been brought forward under some other influence Oran bad at present appeared. From something that had fallen from his Lordship himself on the pre ceding day, he thought he could perceive triat he had some.objection to this question coming be fore that Court. From the known opinion of tint Attorney-General he could not have been fao our able to its coming there, and he cold therenre only regard him as the agent ; the mere ince! aui cal 111311 . 0111e11i, of some oil i t r iefheoce„ If, as hail h..ett said, Christianity vv.is that on whivu all the ckil institutions of thi s entity were found ed--if Christianity formed a part of the law of the land, then would he contend, that if Chris tianity did not authotize persention, ,scowl ig: to the acknowledgtneurs of those who ‘, ere op posed to him, this punt:curio!' could not be au thorized by the law of Ei.elathl. The work of Limburg, to which he had irferied, had been pub lished in 1731, and now was he (Mi. Carlil,), in England, ninety years after that publicwion, oft his ilia!, for contending that the Christian Reli gion did not anthorize a system of persecution for opinions. But, it other proofs, it other au•hori ties, were wanting oo his behalf, he might fear lessly refer to the words of the immortal Locke; he, the great luminary of th e w or ld, th e enem y false philosophy, the friend to universal lii)etty of thought ; he was a Christian indeed, ,ind, to that which be had advanced iu his " lasay on Toleration," a work published iii the forte of letter, in answer to certain questions that lesd been put to him, he %vould now appeal. He Then read certain passages from that Essay, condemn ing all persecution lot religious opinions, as be ing totally at variance with the spirit of Christia nity. It was from the enlightened mind ot Locke that the Attorney-General had appealed to them, to prove that he WaS actuated by a good mot ,re a He pioceeded, to..re.ail other p a ssa ges f r om the same author to the like effect, in which it teas maintained that tile care of souls tell 'tot wilrin the province of the Magistrates, but lay with men themselves. The opinions given agaiust all religious persecution by, the distinguished iu dividuals to whose writings he had called the at tention of the Jury, would, he trusted, become more prevalent than • ever, if they did their by the vet Wet they would pronounce that day. — As to blasphemy, snore obserea; ions he had made yesterday seemed • to create art unpleasant feeling in the Court... Beariiig this l o mind, he tooognc it would not be amiss here to offer some ohser various on the word itself, in order to show to whom, and to what, it might he properly applied. He was of opinion, that that which was called blasphemy against GoD, was a vague and idle as sertion. Whatever differences of opinion might exist among men about the Deity, the expression of those differences of opinion could nut be blasphemy. Blasphemy meant but evil-speaking. He had wished to show that Paine's work.; did tot de serve the character that had been given of them, by proving to the Jury that he did out speak evil against GOD. Blasphemy might he spoken he- Aween man and man ; but then it was called a libel. Every man knew that in this coon try he had a remedy for that by its laws If one man spoke ill of another, he might bring his action to obtain redress, .and the of fender would be ,punished. 'lbis was neces sary for the protection of character ; but what necessity could exist for coming into a Court of Justice to attempt to protect the,character of the Deity ? To him this appeared .quite incon sistent and absurd, and it was totally at variance with his ideas of morality and virtue., The charge against hint was, that lie had published a blaspte moos w!)rit. He conceived there was nothior, Wa , plieinous in the book lie had pia forth to the world; and to prove this had been the object of that line of flefence which he had, in the first in stance, adopted : he hail been prevented by the decision of his Lordship from going into tha' of his cond_uct, into which he had sup posed he had a right to enter; and all he could now say on that subject was, that it appeared to him, that it there had not been sortie doubt, some apprehension in the mud of the Attorney-Gene rat, that he should succeed in tois attempt to jusiity himself, the Learned Gentleman would have been content to let him proceed in his own way, and would have suffered the Bible to be open to his remarks. Blaspheruy had a harsh sound ; but the word in itself was haluilt.ss, and of no effect, though in sortie instances it bad been made use of to light the tiles of bigotry, and to sioictiou the most dreadful persecutions. He -moond no , r pro ceed to rend a halter which he had stet with its he " Christian Retoriner," which contained some Idris 'which he thoueili might be very nr,portartc to him, amt siroulti be brought tv•der the consi deration (if the Jury. Ttit deteudaut Elleir proceeded to read the Isiay