The National Register.
London, England, 1819-10-17 00:00:00

BANKRITTCY ENLARGED.

.
J. Meek, Vine Street, St. Martin in the Fields, victualler, from
Oct. 23 to Nov. 30.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
R. S. Daplyn and 'l'. Swavne dealers.
BANKRUPTS.

J. Iles. New City Chambers, Bishoplgate Street, insurance
broker. Solicitor, Mr. Cottle, Aldermanbury.
W. Edwards, Langlonl, Somerset, tanner. Sols. Messrs.
Clarke, Richards, and Medealf, Chancery Lane.
0. Whitworth, Mists!, York, blat.ket manufacturer. Sul.
Mr. Evans, Hatton Garden.

11. Candy,FrofneSel;;d, Somerset, linen draper. Sol. Mr.
WO'Mum, Red Lion Square.
W. Collingwood, North Shields, earthenware manufacturer.
Sols. Messrs. Ikll anti Brodrick. flow Church Yord.
R. Bird, Kingstanley, Gloucester, thither merchant. Sol.
Mr. King, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street.
T. C. Hodson, Leominster, Ilerefintl. draper. Sols. Memo.
Clarke, Richards, and .‘lcilcalf, Chancery Lane.
C. Hodgkin, Bishopsgate Street Within, merchant. Sul. Mr.
Pope, Rishupsgate Church Yard.
11. Evans, Cheapside, silk manufacturer. Sul;. Messrs.
Stratton and Allport, Shoreilitch.
T. M.Niut, Queen Square, merchant. Sols. Messrs. Walton
and Gliddon, Girdle's' Hall, Basingliall Street.
T. Prichard, junior, Bristol, merchant. Solt. Mass... Bout-
tbLon and Ilewitt, Bread Street, Cheap-We. •
1/IVIDENDIi-
Oct. 30, W. Hallett, Spa Fields, cattle dealers-48, nick-
ingten, ‘llintliorp, and W. ILii:kinson, Newark-upon-Trent,
'Nottingham, bankers--10„ J. Stevens Unylelant, Cornwall,
farmer—s, J. and B. Slater, Liverpool, joiners—Co J. P. H.
Ilagedorn„ Ohl Broad Sutet, inereltant-6, T. Walcor. l'ortsea,
linen draper-3..1. Giuins, Ludlow, Salop, iniller-6, IL Harris,
Wood Street, Spitaßields, stationer-6, A. and J. Payne, St.
John Street, Lierkenwell, flutir-factors-6, 11. Higgins, Fins-
bury Square, mercliant—J—lenkins and 'l'. Pamir's, Piccadilly,
brerrhes makers-6, G. Charmer, Sutton. Nlitklltticx, me:chant
—6, G. Whitehead, jun. and Choke, ltasingliall Street,
lflarkwell hall-factors—l 6, J. Tuptuan, Great 'tassel' Street,
Bloomsbury, watchmaker-11, W. Kirby, Chilvers Caton, War-
wick, talow chandler-11.3. Hindus, Arbury Warwick,
miller—l s, J. Thorpe, and W. Paul, lieddilf Mills, I.ancrishire,
calico printers-16, Ir-hiatus:, Yidc, coal merchant.

If Coda.
ombium
Imp.. per Ceut.
luilia Butt& 8w tlis.
hattia Stuck
Lacitrquer Balls 2t.
Cl/116. fur Ac. NL
Luttery rickets 119

THE. N ATIONAL . REGISTER.

toms:in.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17.
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The Trial of Mr. Curlile for re-publishing the
Age of Reason commenced on Tuesday, anti on
Friday evening the Jury found him Guilty.—
From anxiety for the well-being of Society
we had hoped that all the Newspapers would
have refrained from publishing the different
counts in the indictment, because those counts em-
brace the most objectionable parts of the work ; as
however we have ascertained that all OUR CON
TEMPORAPTES mean to give them at length, WE
UNWILLINGLY insert them to-day, lest some of our
readers not properly appreciating our motives fur
the suppression, should be dissatisfied ut the omis-

siun.

Our constant readers, and those who know us
best, will least of all suspect us of an inclination to
offer adulation to any one, however exalted his situ-
ation;. but as we *ensure when we see cause so to
do, so we are certainly justified in praising where
praise it due, and with these feelings we cannot pass
over without eulogy the conduct of the Lord Chief
Justice of the Court of King's Bench during the
late trials for blasphemy. If he erred, it was on
the side of mercy, when he allowed the defendant to
go such lengths in derision of those sacred institu-
tions we have all been taught to feel deference for,
from our earliest infancy. In his charge he was so
perfectly impartial, an fair a representative of the
Goddess who ought always to be considered as pre-
siding in a Court of Law, that we at once honoured
him us an upright Judge, and drew a comparison
between his liberality and the conduct of his into-
lerant predecessor.

la this day's raper we have given the nett pro-
duce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years
and Quarters ended 10th October, 1818 and 1819,
spewing the decrease thereof. Comparing the two
quarters in 1818 and 1819, there is a deficiency in the
Litter of 900,0001. in the Customs. 're,ers is also a
diminution in the Excise in the quarter just ended,
Of 192,Q001. compared with the correspcnding quar-

CCT. 17.

ter of last year. The whole of the Revenue of the
year ending with October 1819 has fallen short of
that oflBlB, to the amount of 370,0001. There is
a very serious falling off in the last quarter, and
there is no prospect that the Revenue will improve.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will find it diffi.
cult to provide for the deficiency.

It will be seen that the Inquest on John Lees hes
been adjourned to the Ist of December. Our law
libraries are yet incomplete; we want a digest of
the Laws of LANCASHIRE, thr sure we are, that the•
practice there is any thing but the Law of ENG-
LAND',

Berge the Jury returned their verdict on Thursday,
Cathie retired from the Court, accompanied • by sonic
friends, to the Guildhall Coffee•lionse. The City M.r.
simile informed of the cirzontsiance, placed offic....rs at
we trent and back doors, till he left, the house, stout
20 minutes afterwards, and proceeded to his own ribs el.
nig. whither they followed him. lu about an hour
a:ler, a coach drew up to the door, of which notice was
sent to the Marthals.—The verdict having by this time
been &yeti, Mr. ‘Vontiler arrived with two tipstalts,
and went into.Carlile's shop, who had then put on Ms
great coat, preparatory to getting. IMO the coach.—
I 'thinned that the officers had a warrant to detain him,
he suit!, that he was only going to Blackheath to see his
children, ,which he.did every evening. Mr. %Vollmer
informed him, if he could produce two respectable.
housekeepers to be.bontirl for , his appearance the next
incrning. lie would be at. liberty ; this Mr. Cathie pro-
mised to do, and named moral. These persons were,
applied to, but declined becoming security. Mr. Wont-
tier waited two hours, when finding the security could
not he obtained, lie left Mr. Cathie in the custody of
Turimeiniy and •Merchant, two city officer., who re.
Ilijitied with him all night, and on the following 1111 l ru-
ing they delivered Ilink.outo the custody, of the ruler.

Thursday• was settling day in Consols, and it pre.
sewed a remarkable contrast to the settlement of
the last account. No fluctuation of any consequence
occurred, nor does any apprehension appear to be
entertained on the score of defalcation. it is now
evident, .that the effects of the inordinate specula- •
tion that prevailed at the time the loan was nego.
dated, have. passed away, .and that affair• at the
Stock Exchange again find their natural level. The
price of Consols at • the close of the business was
GBi, and Oinnium is quoted at a discount of per
cent. The continuation for November is per
cent.

in the year 17$0 a message was sent by his Ma•
jesty to each of the twelve Judges, offering theca
the protection of the military, to which Judge Gould
returned the following answer :—" I am grown old
under the protection of the English laws ; and I
am persuaded, however some per.sons may be mis-
led, the people in general love and respect the
laws; .and so great is my attachment to them, that
1 would rather die under them, than live under the
protection of any other laws,"

We wish that all the admirer of Curlih and Paine
would read the eighteenth Chapter of Leviticus,
and Paley a Sermon on Joshua xv. 40th T. before
they attempt to pass such decided
,judgment on the
command of " the Lord God of Israel," that hii
people should utterly destroy all that breathed in the
land of Canaan. Archdeacon Paley, be it remem-
bered, was the warm friend of both civil and reli.
gions liberty, although he was no less the enemy
(,f that, mi•called liberty, that blasphemous licence,
which disgraces the writings we allude to.
On Tuesday, the Mayor of Hull declined acceding
to the re•it:isition from the Radical Reformers, fur a
public meeting of the inhabitants of that place. A
meeting has, however, been appointed by the Radi-
cal Reformers of Hull, for Wednesday, the 20th
inst. The notice is signed with 24 names.

The force of public opinion on the necessity of
imposing on the electors in close boroughs the same
regulations which apply to •he voters in counties
and cities, begins, it is said, to be extensively felt
throughout the kingdom ; and, as evidence of this
opinion, a Correspondent informs us, that there
are at present several of these boroughs for private
sale ; amongst them, one in Surrey, two in Sussex,
two in Hampshire, three in Wiltshire,. two in De-
vonshire, two in Cornwall, anal one in Yorkshire.
Extract of a letter from York, dated Tuesday
evening.—" On my errival in this city, I fount
every one of its inhabitants whom I conversed witli
unwilling, I had almost said unable, to converse
upon any other subject than that of the county nice -
hag which is to be Kid here on the ensuing Thurs.
sh; Their expectation is, that the meeting will
be more numerous than any which has taken place
in the county since the celebrated meeting of 170 ;
and their boast is, that if the numbers answer their
expectation, it will be protluctive of the same benc.
facial results to the country. Among the requisi-
tionists arc to be found setae of the stubborucst
Tories in the count•.

r OCT. 17.

LAIV J.NI'ELLIGLCLz.

TRIAL OF CARLILE.

COUICT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL.
Before Lunt Chief Justice AuBoTT and a Special Jury.
BLASPHEMOUS LIBEL.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. RICHARD CARLILE.

Tuesday morning, at nine o'clock. the long expected trial of
Richard Carlin.. the bookseller and pamphleteer, commenced at
Guildhall, before Chief Justice Abbott and a Special Jury. All
the avenues to the Hall, as well as the Court, were crowded to
excess at an early hour, and continued so. Notwithstanding that
300 constables were io attendance, and that bars had been placed
to prevent pressure, the eagerness of the crowd to witness the
proceedings was so great, that very great difficulty was expe-
rienced in procuring admittance for the Judge and Officers of the
Court.
Mr. Carlile entered the Court sonic time before nine, and tank
his sent on what is called die Solicitor's Bench, on the right of
the Court. Th.: Lord Chief Justice took his seat at half past 9.
When tile trial was about to proceed, the business of the Court
was interrupted by Mr. Hunt, who thought proper to charge the
Bench with something like a breach of an arrangement stipulated
with hint—that a trial of an alleged libel, in which he (Hunt) is
the plaintiff', should take the place of the trial. which war about to
Fooled, and all others. He had, he said, been waiting with his
witnesses in the Sittings Vienne and after the two last Terms, in
this Court ; and his Lordship had assured him that it should be
the very first trial taken in the present Sittings, and lie settled
it for this day. But now the trials of Mr. Carlile, which
might occupy a month, would again postpone his trial to an inde-
finite time. The Lord Chief J ustice told the applicant that his
statement was erroneous, that he had not fixed a day; but lie
expressed a wish that the business of the trials shmild goon as re.
ularly as possible in their usual order. The Court was not to
be interrupted in the proceedings it thought most eligible to
adopt; and the applicant had no occasion to detain his wttntsses,
but inig'it postpone their attendance to some day in thuniurse of
next ive.k.
The Secondary was now proceeding to call over the names of
the Special Jury. when Mr. Carlile rose.
Mr. Carlile.—" My Lord, I challenge the competency of the
Court to try the question on which I um now called here as a
defender.
Chief Justice.—" The Court is competent to try any indictment
preferred by his Majesty's Attorney General."
Mr. Carlisle.—" The indictment is not founded on the breach
of any law."
Chief Justice.—" If it is not formatd on any law, you will
of course he entitled to your acquittal, and I dare say you, will
obtain it."
Mr. Carlile.—" My Lord, I enter my protest against the pro-
ceedings."
The names of the twenty-four Special Jurymen were now
edited over. Only eight answered to their names, vi;.
Chart:* Wont!, A Ix:llinch Lane.

Brikrt Ilmehinsun, Clement's Lane.
John Hanson, Crooked Lane.
George Harvey, Lawrence Lune. .
A. C. Allen, Ironmonger Lane.
IL Chambers, Dove Court.
William Parker, John Street..
John Wilson. Queen Street.
The Secondary was then proceeding to draw four talesmen,
when Mr. Cathie dcsired bim to shake the box.
Chief Justice.—You are not to direct the Officer of the Court
bow lie shad do his duty.
Mr. Carlisle.—l only ask that the salesmen shall be fai.ly
drawn. The first which the Secondary .tad in his hand he
selecoil." _ _ .

'ft— Secondary denied the imputation.
Chief Jusiice.—Shake.the box well, by all means.
The box was acconlinAly Marken wall, and lour talesman
drawn, who. names were—..

litibert nun.

George Coitus, Baker, Farringthin W
Trigg!, iairmaker, I hit°.
Matthew ilollyer, Glazier. Ditto.
The Jury being now swum, 31r. Camplu Il rose front behind
the Attorney General.
Mr. Ciimpbell.—.. My Lord, and Gentlemen of the Jury, the
defendant is charged with printing and publishing a certain
scaadsloui, impious, and blasphemous libel on the fluly Serip-
sums." _ _

Mr. Carlile here rose, and demanded that the indictment
should be read at length.
lie ChielJustice stated, that it was not the usual practice of
the Court to read the indictmeut, " at least," added his Lord-
ship, " where Counsel are employed." The fashion of p.rsons
ph:tiling their own curses is quite a new practice.
Mr. Carlile urged that it was of essential importance to hint
that the Jury should have the indictment, on which they were to
judge, read over to them.
The Chief Justice observed, that, if it was.essetithil, Mr. Car.
lile might take every word of it into his speech in defence..
Mr. Carlile reiterated that he considered it most essential that
the intlit Latent should be read. Ile would not say alien it should
be read. All that he insisted on was, that it should be read at
tile proper Unit.
Attorney)-Gzeerel then addressed the Jar) at great length;
in his speech there was nothing of novelty.
The Solicitor-General then called Mr. Grifrai Swanson, who,
on being sworn, deposed that he was clerk to the Solicitors of the
Treasury. On the 17th of December he went to the house of the
tiefentlant, in Fleet Street. lie saw the defendant himself, and
asked for " Paine's Age of Reason." Ile delivered it to him, and
charged him Ins. eat. They had very little conversation.—
.Ir. Carlile knew witness to be the Clerk to the Solicitors
of the Treasury. and sect his compliments to Mr Maule,
addiag, that if he would allow him to eat his Christmas dinher at
home lie would be prepared to I.IOA him.
Cross.exanained by Mr. Carlile.—" Was there any hesitation on
my part to serve ion- ?"
itness.—" None at all. You did it rather cheerfully.—You
asked me if i did not w.ait half a dozier% colors."
The Chief Justice now said, that as the defendant wished the
Infontiation to be maul, the counts and passages ie. the book to
which they referral, had better now be read to the Jury.
first Count charged, that Richard Carlile, Lee of Ltlinlon,
bookseller, being a wicked, impious, and ill disposed person, did,
on the k7th December. in the Stith year of the reign of our pre,
sent Sovereign Lord George the Third, &c. print and publish,
and cause to lie printed oral published, a certau saindalims irupi•
tots, and blasphemous libel, of aid concerning that part of the
I holy Bible, which is called the tlkl Testament, cow aiiiing therein
ainougst other things, divers scat.dalotts, impious anti blasithe-
nima matters, of and concerning that part of the Holy Billie
which is called the Old Tcseatment, aceordirg to the tolor and
effect following (that is to ray). " Whenever we read the
obsetne-stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the caw' and tor-
turous executiom, the unrelenting tindietivek:ess with which
utore than half the Bible" (meaning that part of the Holy Bible
which is called the Old Testament) " is filled, it would be more
consistent that we called it" (meaning that !Ali Of the Holy
Bible which is called the Old TaaaMent), " the woad of a
demon, than the word of God. IC' (meaning that }out .of the
Holy Bible which is called the Old Tatement) " is a history of
wickedueseltbut has served to COI rupt and brutalize mankind: "
to the Lust displeasure of Almighty Gal, to the great reantral,
infamy and contempt of the sod part of the Holy Hit& which is
soiled tho Old l'stasucnt, to die evil example aid! When, and