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THE NATIONAL ItE6ISTER

of what you asset', if you could produce it : and we mull
not, therefore, hear asset.ions resoi fed to.
Mr. Blacow.—When the foul And filthy—
Mr. Brogegliame—lle is just repeating the very terms.
Mr. Ju>tice tiolrovil.—No, sir, you must nut use such
language. lam sot ty to interrupt you on your defence,
bat I cannot in law hear such assertions.

Mr. Blacow lead on.—No ingenuity could pervert the
evidence of her own witnesses; and then he felt indigna-
tion and disgust in place of pity and respect. Then there
was a mock procession In the place he lived its. fhe
howling tempest desolated the land. Then, and not till
then, it was that he took up his pen. Every man who had
a spark of loyalty, a groin of religion, a particle of affec-
tion for his country, was bound to arrest the progress of
the desolating storm. He was satisfied that it was his
dimly to bring all the energies of the pulpit to bear upon it.
Party politics were far beneath their notice, but there
were Christian politics which had a strict claim to their
attention. (Here the defendant quoted the several pas-
sages of Scripture that are usually applied to politics.)—
It they would lend an ear to the faction which brought
hint there, to the advocates who bail the audacity to
threaten the Peers—

Mr. Justice liolroyd.—That is quite irregular.
Mr. Blacow.—lt was so reported in the newspapers.
Mr. Brougham.—lf it was, it was most falsely reported ;
but it never was so reported.
Mr. Blacow.—lt was not contradicted ; and it was on
the lips of every Radical.
Mr. Justice ft olroyd.—You must not express your opi-
nion here upon matters before the Peers.
Mr. Blacow.—What would be your feelings In this
comparatively humble Court, if similar expressions were
addressed to you?—(Here lie entered into observations on
the situation of the Queen, and said the Queen had been
allowed to come into this Court in very indulgent circum-
stances, and without an affidavit.)
Mr. Justice Ifolroyd.—She did not stand on the same
footing as other subjects.
Mr. Blacow.-111 talk to you by and by. (The rev.
gentleman next talked of what lie celled Mr. Denmen's
filthy (;reek.)
Mr. Justice Holroyd.—You have nothing to do with►
persons who arc not title.
Mr. Illacow.—As public men
Mr. Justice Huiroyd.—You are not to be suffered to go
on because you calculated upon it.
Mr. Blacow next spoke of " such reptiles as Wood and
Waithruan, who hail talent wily to weigh a ding or mea-
sure a yard of tape, regt'lar traders in guile 111111 deeell•
(loll."

Mr. Justice Itolroycl.—lf you go on so, I must stop you..
Mr. Bloeow.—Tben I count), go ou.
Mr. Justice liolroyd.—No blonde's are to be repeated
here.

Mr. Blacow.—As public men?
Mr. Justice Holroyd.—Not on another transaction.
Mr. Bracow.—it was said that the Queen had been
ready to make an affidavit, as it was said, that she would
not receive the money. Let them not believe it, as com-
ing from Mr. Brougham. He hail been guilty of a mural
ilegiadatiou, which he hoped would never again be seen
at the bar. But the good and great old Chancellor nobly
replied to him " Fiat justitia rust ci, luni :" he was like
a venerable oak iu its native soil. Mr. Brougham hail
endeavoured to intimidate by his hit tats when lie could
not cajole by his sophistry. That was the practice of this
ferocious school. lie burrowed the word lions Mr.
Creevey, of Whig-radical notoeiety—for Liverpool had
the honour of giving that statesman birth. (The rev. de-
fendant agMei plunged into the vortex of the French
revolution, and the comparison of the ferocious monster
Nero.) They crept into Parliament after all, through the
crannies of rotten boroughs. Mr. Brougham and Sir F.
Burdett, and others of that pestilent faction, were mem-
bers of the Concentric Club, that horde of ferocious per-
sons. He (Mr. Blacow) lied not defamed the Queen;
and he was prosecuted, not for defaming the Queen, but
for the many editions of his sermon against the Whigs and
Radicals. (The rev. defendant next entered into a long
history of his efforts to deprive an Atheist of parish offices,
and of his failure, through the conduct of " the well.
known colleague of a radical Counsel fur the Queen, and
Member for Nottingham.")
Mr. Justice liolroyd.—No, Sir.
Mr. Blacow.—As public characters?
Mr. Justice liolroyd.—As a man of education, conduct-
ing your own defence, and professing zeal ter
to authority, I am surprised you can go on so.
Mr. Blacow again reverted to Nero, and the comparison
to him, alluded to blasphemies against Ministeis, sod said
the Queen's answers. to use a well-known expression of
Mr. Scarlett's smelt of blood. Why was this prosecution
brought ugainst 16111 utter the Queen's decease? Why
was lie selected ? (ile next landed the Judges of the land,
and lamented the asidanutia sustains even upon them, and
concluded this ',art by exclaiming. —" Pettish the arm
that would not be raised at such a crisis—silent for ever
be the tongue that would not speak." Ha detained nut
the Queen. It was impossible, it lie had the eloquence
of sir Ila route Lees, in behind, or ot that man of straw,
JOllll Bull against which lie intiterstood Sit John Cupcly
set his lac e. (The interruptions acre incessant here and
unavailing.)
Mr. Muni/ham explained, that I louse had quoted paro-
dies, nut to show that others hail not been prosecuted,
but to show that lie was nut godly of pi idiom or biasplie•
mous parudy, inasmuch as odic. as liable to that chaige
had been written by perawis ut tividembted piety, and ur•
naments of the chinch.

• Mr. Blarow.—lr racks, torture,, even the gibbet were•
his reward, he would nut abate one word pit wl.a: lie had
said. The image of the " Pedestal of Shame" he bun-
rowed from a letter in a London paper—nut the leading
journal: nu, it was nut from l'h. 'limes, Ilse must talsc,
most pestilential, most licentious, must inflammatory pa-
per that ever disgraced any counity; slur 110111 Juba fu',
the lays of• whs.,: honest tooth dispelled the mists ill de-
lusion which anarchy had
Mr. Justice quite irregular.
Mr. Itlaeow.—lint the letter he alluded to was in the
(gluier, which !prided itself on ilecusoil, and gentlemanly
language, and which admits ut nothing low on scandalous.
It is quite• online Ili,' you alone are
'I Is (-It'd. Bills are found by the Giaild July against
utlitis, and it is nen Lnu,s a.
Mi. Itlacuw.—ltehno God he Solemnly secure he was
nut guilty of Ili( chat ge.— l Its the dig -ot to Nhow that
be had slut defamed her lase Alaj..ty, he used spiels Its on•
ill g 0,41414 cm. aobsce till), tv. Ifs slots indignation
ut the. Judge.) 'l he I wmvsl ( LUIII/011 was a

viperous bt ad, a nest of pestilential Radicals, and moun-
tebank dealers in disloyetiy.
Mr. Brougham.—There is not a syllable of troth in that.
When be concluded his fervid language, Mr. Justice
llohoyd, gave his opinion that it was a libel. The epi-
thets were most abusive and derogatory. Could he be
ignorant that he was traducing and villifying the thieeti ?
—By a particular statute they were to judge whether
the delei.dant was guilty. As a Clergyman of the Chards
of England, holding himself out as very loyal and very
desirous of the preservation of the state—he gave his
opinion of the Queen's guilt, and left not the people
to their own ri tlections, and thus he disturbed the peace.
—But it was for them to judge whether it was a libel
or not. They were to lay out of their mind. all other con-
siderations, and totally their own opinion, respecting the
question of the Wren's hoist or innocence. The only ques-
tion wrs, whether the publication tended to degrade she
Queen,to traduce her, end was published with intent to vilify
der, and to break the pence. I n his opinion it was a libel.
The Jury retired for a qua...er of en hour, Ptid found
verdict of GUILTY.

The Reverend convict wos gone before the verdict was
returned.

HORSE RACING.....EDOE V. PILLING.

Mr. Parke stated this to be an action for the recovery
of 2001. the penalty incurred by law for entering and
tanning a horse for a less sum than 501. at a place called
Bagslate Common, near Rochdale, where for some time
past horse races of this description had been carried on,
much to the annoyance of the neighbourhood. The sta-
tute of the 13th Geo. IL. imposed a penalty of 2001. on
persons engaged in these unlawful diversions. The Act
recited, that horse races for small plates tended to the
encouragement of idleness, and were calculated to die.
courage the breed of strong, active, and vigorous horses;
it therefore inflicted the penalty upon persons entering
or muffing any horse, mare, or gelding, for a less stake
than 501. ; and a subsequent clause enabled a common
informer to sue for the penalty.
Timothy Leach, of Witwoi tit, said he knew Bagslate
Common, in tile parish of Rochdale. He was at the
races last year. Knew the defendant Pilling; he had a
horse Wiled Jerey. Air application was made to him
(the witness) by James niggle for his mare. His mare
ion, but Jet, won. Pilling was at the race; the money
was put down on both sides—five onunds each.
Cross-examined by Mr. Justice .lolroyd —He did not
know whether the horse Jery was a gelding; he was
not ce. ; he rather thought lie was, but was not cer-
tain; he had not sufficient acquaintance with the horse
to know whether he was a gelding or a stallion.
Mr. Justice Holropl.—Mr. Park, you must prove that
fact: you lutist prove whether he was a gelding or not.
Mr. Park.-1 cannot du it by this witness, and I have
no other.

Justice liolroyd.—Then you must be nonsuited. You
come for a penalty, 3 ittl you ought to be armed at all
points.—Plaintift nonsuited.
This cause was undefended, and the unexpected result
was the subject of a good deal of mirth in Court, at the
expetice of atm disappointed informer.