The National Register.
London, England, 1817-05-26 00:00:00

MR. BUTT'S LIBELS.

COURT OF KING'S RENCR.-SATt BOAT MAY 24.
THE KING V. 8.0. BUTT.
This morning the above defendant was brought to
trial fur the Libel on Lord Ellenborough, contained its
that placard which has been so conspicuously posted
throughout the Metropolis.
The Attorney General, in stating the facts, com-
mented on the peculiar atrocity that marked a libel of
this kind, which was levelled at the foundation of the
justice of the country ; because it must necessarily
bring into hatred and contempt that sacred function
which the Noble Lord so basely libelled, had for many
years fulfilled to the admiration of all his contempo-
raries, and the veneration of every honest man. He
then proceoled to prove the conviction of the defendant
and others far the Stock Exchange Conspiracy, and theta
called a bill-sticker, named David Tulip, who proved
that he posted copies of the placard in quation in seve-
ral placts about town by direction of the defendant.
After the case, on the part of the prosecution, was
gone through, the defendant entered on his defl:nce.—
He then began calling his witnesses, more than sixty
of whom have been subpomaed, wino merely proved cir-
cumstances relative to the payment of the line imposed
on him in his tbriner sentence, and his liberation front
tile Kiug's Bench.
Mr. Butt said, that he was inv.puble of publishing a
deliberate libel. lie should show to the Jury the just
cause he had to placard Judges and Nlinisters of State.
He would prove that Lord lleuborough had made
private use of the King's money, unl that the gaoler of
the King's Bench assisted him in the transacti. n—and
it could not be doubted, that the person who twaleit
private advantage of the King's money °Agit to be ex.
p used.
Mr. Butt was found Guilty.
The Court then proceeded to try him for e e Libel
Lord Qtalereagh, for which ho aas o fora d

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PO E T It Y.
Lines on Lord Exinvm!h's spleNdid and glorioas Victory
over the piratical and 6arbarons Algerines.

TUN E " Rule Britannia."

Fr..cdont's dame, in double splendour
Smile. o'er Europe's happy Land ;
Afrie's ,ons no I Languish
On the 'rnins.tti.autic strand.
Yet Numidia's mid despot
View'd not eis delighted star,
But to ignominious bondage
Dootu'd his cuptievs ta'cn in war.
Britain's genius could no lonzer
Brook the tyr‘nt's baught• trio t
But her Ex 3401•11 wh• taught him
To submit, and loose their chain.
Long in peace may Britain flourish
And her dauntless glOns maintain
Freedom on their native mountains.
Freedom on their home, the main !

AMERICAN LITER:I7'ITE.

REVIEW.

ale History of the Jews from the Destruction af Jeresa-
km, to the 19111 Century. By Hannah Adams-
-2 t Ws. Boston .

EVERY importation of Literature from the United
'States, cannot fail to excite our interest and to deserve
peculiar notice—this work of a female, whose mind
discovers an assiduity and discrimination, which would
have done no discredit to an English University, will
be read with gratification, and cherished as an useful
appendage to theological study. In the absence of any
table of contents, the preface and its following intro-
duction help us to a knowledge of the previous chan-
nels and history, by which we are led from the year
.536 before Christ, to the ruin of the Temple under
Titus—and we cannot but a Loire the clear manner in
which she has developed this preparatory duty as a skil-
ful pioneer, who well discerns where to level mountains
and raise rallies, to afford a free channel for the conse-
quent journey. The chief merit of a compilation con-
sists in the judicious selection, and accurate references;
and in both these points, as well as in the style of the
author's diction, we cannot avoid the just tribute of
• our praise.
She opens her work at the period when the sacred
-historians leave it, and makes us acquainted with the in-
fluence of the Roman power and its officers in the East.
The subsequent attempts of the Jews to reinstate them-
selves, the persecutions which they endured, and the
favours which they received ;—the introduction of new
sects, the power of the s.!:tlots, the internal contests, and
the reviving strength of Jesus at the period of Titus
and his conquest in A.D. 70. She then adverts to the
wretched state to which they were afterwards reduced,
their state of Literature, and the institution of Petri-
. archs in the West, and the history of the Cabala and
its philosophy. In passing through the reigns of the
subsequent Emperors, we arc made fully acquainted
with the insurrection under Barchocheba, who declared
himself to be the Messiah, his hill, and the cruel massa-
-cres which followed, A.I). 132. Adrian's conquest and
rebuilding of Jerusalem, and the princes of the capti-
.vity in the East, introduces a curious delineation of the
. character of Judah, the saint who compiled the Misora,
with a very interesting account of the Jews under Con-
stantine, and the effect which his assuming the Chris-
tian faith had in regard to them, and Julian's defeated
effort in rebuilding the Temple, wherein we perceive
that she adopts the authority of Am. Mar. respecting the
miraculous fires by which the design was frustrated.
The indiscreet zeal of Cyril, and the death of Hype-
Ala arc related with much interest from Basnage and
slortin nt the opening of the sth century : and this is
followed by the abolition of the office of Patriarch -in
429. and the base conversion, by the Emperor, of the
tax fin. his support, to the use of the Emperor himself.
In the account giVen of the Jewish Academies of that
.period, a brief' detail is selected of the Misora, of the
Sabureans and (fauns—and the state of the Jews in
the Persian empire. The insurrection of Antioch, and
.the conversion of the island of Cyprus, follow Li due
course, until the appearanc? of Mehotnet in 606 ; the
'oaquests of the Caliphs and the revival of the sect of
Sadauces under Annanns occupied much of the eighth
.century. The empire of the west in the eighth century
was greatly agitated by the civil dissentious between the
Iconoclasts and the worshippers of images,and the Jews
were unjustly accused of Ihmenting these discussions :.
their :sufferings under Leo Isauricus are shortly noticed
Smut Fleury. Little seems to have been recorded of
*he Jews during this period in Europe, except that we
"find Serenus, another imposter who presented himself as
,a Messiah, and deluded many followers to the holy city,
A.D. 724.. They altentately received favour and perse-
cution from Charlemigne ; among the latter of which
was his decree, that they should three times every year
'be buffeted at the church door—which opened them to
:many insults, and at 'leviers in Languedoe, it was the
.custom to throw stones at them from Palm Sunday to
.the Tuesday in Easter wecl:—which indignity they re-
•deamed by a tribute to the biOtop. ft is observable
Aisrovgh the course of the Jewish history, that this ex.