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of what you assert, If you could produce it : and we must
not, therefore, hear assertions resulted to.
Mr. Illacovr.—W lien the foul and filthy—
Mr. Bo on4ham.—lle is just rein-snug the very terms.
Mr. Justice liolrosd.—No, sir, oil insist not use such
lusignage. I nin Lorry to Wen opt )on on your defence,
but I cannot in NM bear such

dl r. trail oii.—No Ingetmity could pervert the
evidence of her own willietres; and then he fell indigna-
tion and disgust in place of pity and respect. 'Dien there
14011 a mock pi uecssiopi In the place lie lived
howling tempest desolated the land. Then, and not till
then, it was th..l lie took op his pea. Every 111:111 who haul
a spark of Illy all, a grain of rellgion, a partit le of affrc-
I' ler his cottony, was honed to arrest the 'progress of
the desolating sham, lin was sali•li.ii that it was his
duty to bring all the duce tiles of the pulpit to hear upon it.
Party politics were far beneath their 'mike, but there
west. Christian politics which had a sit iet claim to their
(Ilene the defendant quoted the several pas-
sages of Scripture that nee 'enmity applied to polities.)---
If they would lend an ear to the factom w hick brought
him there, to the advocates who had the audacity to
thrcaten the Peers— .

Mr. Justice lliilruyil.—That is finite irregular.
Mr. Blacuw.—lt teas so reported in the newspaper'.
Mr. llrottgliam.---If it was, it was most falsely reported;
but it never was so reported.
Alr. Ithicow.-11 was nut contradicted ; and it was on
the lips of every Radical.
Mr. Justice I intro) o.—You must not express your opi-
nion here upon matters before the Peers.
Mr. 1114C0W.--What would be your feelings in this
comparatively humble Court, if' similar expressions were
addressed to you ?—(llere lie enteied into observations on
the situation of the Queen, and said the Qom' had been
allowed to come into this Court in very indulgent ciratmi-
SI4IICCR, and without an affidavit.)
Alr. Ju>tice Holroyd.—She did not stand on the same
footing its oilier subjects.
Mr. Illireow.-I'll talk to you by and by. (The rev.
gentkinrit next talked of what he called Air. Dtalaall'S
filthy tsteek.)
Mr. Justice lfulroyd.—You have nothing to do with
persons who me not here.
Air. lllacow —As public men?
Mr. Justice liulroyil.—You ale not to be suffered to go
on because you calculideil upon it.
Ali. Illacow next ►poke ut •• such reptiles as Wood and
Waitliman, %silo 11.4,1 talent only to weigh a ding or me:t-
aint' a yard of tape, regular trader] in guile and &cep-
nun."

Mr. Justice llolroy.l.—lf you go on so, I must stop you.
Mr. Illarow.—Ti,en I cannot gu vu.
11r. J.tice thdroyd.—No slauderis are to be repeated
Item

Mr. Blaeow.—.ls public nice?
Justice Illroph—Not on another transaction.
air. !liar° was said that the Queen had been
ready to make un ailidavit, as ii was said, that site would
nut reeeit, the in‘incy. Let 111e151 not believe it, as cont-
inG Mr. Ili otigliam. Ile had brew guilty of a moral
dew adation, whick lie hoped would never again be seen
at the bar. But the good mid great old Chinicellur nobly
replied to him, " Fiat justitia teat cu lain:' he was like
a veliet able yak in its native toil. Ale. Hi oughain had
endea soul ed to intimidate by We threats when he could
Ina cajole by bib sophistry, That was the practice of this
ferocious school. He bortuacd the word from Mr.
Crrevey, of 11 big-radical notoriety—for Liverpool had
the honour of gis mg that statectiati birth. (The rev. de.
froilatit ag.dti ',lunged lido the vortex of the Fiend'
'evolution, and the comparison of the f unions monster
Nero.) They crept bat' Parliament after all, through Ike
crannies of rutteu boroughs. Mr. Ilrougliani and Sir F.
Burdett, and ethos of that pestilent faction, were mem-
bers of the COneentlie (11111, that horde of ferocious per.
suns. lie (Air. illacovv) had out delanied the Queen
and he was prosecuted, nut fur defaming the Queen, but
fur the many edition's of hi, sermon against the ti lags and
Radicals. (The rev. defendant 'text entered ions a long
history of his eiro is to deo ise no Atheist of parish offices,
and of Isis Milan', thiusigh the conduct of " the well-
i.tiown colleague of a radical Counsel tat the Queen, and
Aleusiber fur Nottingham...)
Mr. Justice liolioyd...—No, Sir.
Mr. Ulitcoas.—As issiblie characters?
Air. Justice liulrey.l.—As a man of education, conduct-
ing your own defence, mid prutessis.g Reel for submission
to autliority, I am surprised you eau go on so.
Mr.lllarew again reverted to Nero, and the comparison
to him, alluded to blasphemies against Mihisters, mod said
ttu Qiireies matures. to to.e a w eil-knoon exirtssion of
,Ur. brarleit's smelt ut blood. Why Was Otis TrOaeetnilin
'nought agao,t him alter the Qllren'S decease? WII)
Vain• be swim ? ( lie nokt landed the Judge* of the land,
mill lanittiled the audacious sleuth is even mum diem, and
concluded this part by Pei hill the elm
that would not he raised at snub it cripis—.sitent for ever
lie the tongue that would slut speak." 1-in defamed not
the (Ihreo, It was impossible, if he had the eloquence
of sir ilia feint Lees, hr It ciao', ur oh that sotto of alli4W,
Joins liult sigundd uldeis lie moues-stood Sin Julius Cupely
set his tac e. (The inlet options a ere Incessant here and
Illin14;11anl explained, that Honse had quieted parts.
dies, nut lu show dud others bail slot been prosecuted,
hot to thow that lie wts hot guilty ut pi ofnue or 111.1.1111e-
mous inn oily, inasmuch as Tallinn-as, liable to that chat ge
had heel, written by persona el undoubted piety, mot or-
naments of the church.
_ _ _

Mr. blaeow..-4( rocks, tortures, even the gibbet were
his reward, he would nut abut., (me nun' of what he had
►aid. Tim image of the a Pe desist of SliallIC" he bor-
rowed from a leiter he a London ravel—nut the Ivaditta
Janina) I no, it was nut 110111 The t joins. the mutt 141-r,
MOM hect.tiuus, Usual atilimmilututy vs.
per that ever ilispaced any cooties.); slur bums Jahn auQ,
the rapt or whose honest truth tli-l•clled the mists of do-
instate whirl, anarchy had raised.
Mr. J,•stit•e Huito)(l..—lt is (mite irregular.
Nr.1.114c0w.--litit the letter he 'sanded to was in the
Courier, which prided itself tat de cot ens ni,tl
lini:o;:ge, awl ri ltich admits Cl' notiiiug low er seam-141011s.

lilt • iil;altthallt.—lt is quite mittut that you moue ate
seo Lill* die (cunt' by the Cit.att! July :labial
oth, IS. Mitt it Is NCH UKIAH. .

Mr. 11Iscovr.—I3e(:te God ho solemnly swore Ito war
tied guilty of the clam:o,(lW the Plguntrut to sleon, that
he had not defamed leer tote 'Alsje..l), ho meeel bait'', It IMP.
of tebeldrotts obscenity, mi hrooght down N.c audigunliolt
of the Judge.) Tim iousauot. Couueit et Loaseloo IIAS a

viperous brood, a nest of peatileriiial Radicals, and um on-
tehaiik dealers in disloyalty.
Mr. Itroughain.—There is not a syllable of troth in that.
When lie concluded his fel, id language, Mr. Justice
Mulroyd, gave his opinion that it was a libel. The epi-
thets were most abusive and derogatory. Could lie be
ignorant that lie was traducing awl villifying the Queen ?
—By a particidar statute they were to Judge a bather
the defendant was guilty. As a Clergyman 01 the Outrch
of England, lioldiug I elf out as very loyal and very
desitoiss of the preservation of the wane—be gave his
opinion of the Queen's guilt, and left not the people
to their own reflections, and thus lie distur.oed the peace.
—hot it %as for them to judge whether it was a libel
or not. They were to lay nut of their minds all other con-
sideiations, and totall their owl, oi respecting the
finest ion of the Queen's guilt ar 1111 l °entice. The only Ties-
tom was, whether the publicist tended to degrade the
Qiiten,to traduce her, and is as published with intro to wilily
her, and to break the peace. In his opinion it wits ti libel.
The Jury retired for a quarter of aii hour, and found a
verdict of GUILTY.

The Reverend convict was gone before the verdict was
returned.