The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-28 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, AlAucu S.W.--Carne down from the
River last night the Woodford, Lumbon, for Jamaica; the
Prince Regent, Lamb, for Bencoolen, Madras,l, and Calcutta;
the Whitby, Scott, for Quebec; ltlosson,t.Williamson, for
Pernambuco ; and Orion, Gallela, from Shields to-New York ;
the whole remain in the Downs with the outward-bound as
before.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH S.S.E.--Sailed the
Magnet, Thost, for Rochelle ; /3e Clair, Seori6eld, for Lisboa ;
Blakett, Benson, for Jamaica; Vittoria, Hear, ditto; Ham el,
White, for Brest ; Spanish-Patriot;Bery, for Cadiz; Arethuha,
Anderson, for the Cape of Good Hope ; Allies, liirtou, for
Buenos Ayres; Briton, Reed, for Alicant ; Alexander, Erripg-
ton, for Madeira; Henry. William,, Worts, for .Malta; Zifferi,
Lowther, for Tobago ; Java,-Meel, for Batavia ; • Hooghty,
Lamb, for Gibraltar, • Valparaiso and Lima. The Zephyr
transport, for Plymouth; and his Majesty's • ship Bann, for
Africa.

PLYMOUTH,' MARCH 26.—Wind N.W.--.Arrived the
Barque Nepos, Trader, from London.to Montserrat. Sailed
the Dwarf cutter,: on a cruize. • ..-
FALMOUTH, MARCH 20.—Wind W.—Arrived the Peace,
Chisnell, from Southampton to St. Michael's'' with loss of bow.
sprit; the Fly, Hone, from Dartmouth for Newfoundland.—.
Sailed the Union, Brokinser' for London. . , •
BRIXIIAM2 TORBAY, MARCH 26.—Arrivegl yesterdgathe
ship Woodbridge, Mewsort, from London to the Isle of stye
and Bengal.
Yesterday a Court of Directors washtld at the East India
House, when the.following ships were thus timed, viz.:—
For Madras and Bengal—Astell, to be afloat April 4,_sail to
Gravesend April 14, stay there 30 days, and be in the Downs
on the 17th of May.
For Bengal—Warreti Hastings,' Winchil 'se`tt , and Dotiet-
shire, to be afloat April 20, sail to Gravesend 'April 30, stay
there 30 days, and be in the Downs June 3. ''":4
For Bengal—Coldstream; to be afloat the.2oorMay, sail to
Gravesend the 30th May, stay there 30 daps; and be in the
Downs July 3.

GREAT TROTTING MATCHES.
The two great Trotting Matches, for ItiOga::a4ide, made on
the 12th inst. took place yesterday morning, inliorsonlark or
inclosure, in Essex, over a' two-mile piece4of: ground. The
first' match was between Major Hawbrey's _brOwn mare and
Mr. Phillips's Arabian, ten miles, to carry 9st. iach. The two
miles were done by each as follows: .
MR. lIAWBREY. Min. Sec. Mr. PHILLIPS. Min.
Ist two miles - 6 40 Ist two miles - 6 41
2d ditto - - 6 42 2d ditto - - 6 39
3d ditto - - 6 41 3d ditto - - 6 37
4th ditto - - 6 43 4th ditto • - - 7 le
15th ditto - 6 N bth dttto •- - 6 41

33 48

33 36
The match was lost by Mr. Phillips's horse breaking iota A
gallop in the ninth mile, which detained him more than-Wiwi, -
hour.
' The other match,
.for alike sum; was made to do the gsOtsiti
in less time than the winner, by Mr. Wilkinion, to ndeltiti
OVITI horse, llst. lie did the first two miles ip 6 min. 32 se&
--:Second, 6 min. 30 sec.—Third, 6 min. 34 sec.l-Fangh,
7 min. 14 sec.—And. fiftht in 6 min. 29 sec. making in the
whole 33 min. 19 sec;—This horse broke into a gallop in the
eighth mile.. • • • ,

Mr. CHARLES KEMBLEAS How on an excursion
to the North,. for the pur.pope of engaging per-
formers for Covent Garden'Theatre, to fin up
the vacancies that will occur at the end of the
present season.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

IXTRACTS• FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
March 28, 1822.

[MOR HONG POST.]

An important- notification was made last night
;,-Tly,his Majesty's, Ministers, in the House of Corn-
,Trions, an:;the presentation of a petition from the
Grand Jury of Essex, complaining of the evils
arising from the length of the interval between
Abe—Summer and Lent Assizes. The petition
was,presented by Sir Eliab Harvey, one of the
llembers for that county, and supported by "Mr.
Western, the other Representative of Essex.
Me latter Gentleman, besides corroborating the
hardihips stated by his Hon. Colleague, rather
venturously propounded a scheme of his own for
rectifying the existing. grievairces. He would
have a sweeping measure at once adopted, by
'which an addition of three should be made
• V. •
to the present number of Judges, and a
,Criminal Commission issued at the period of
each Quarter Sessions, occurring in the inter-
val- between the two assizes. There were also
various ramifications of his plan submitted to
.the House ; but Mr. Peel's important announce-
ment of the determination of his Majesty's Mi-
nisters on this subject, renders it unnecessary for
us to dwell upon the obviously well meant sug-
gestions of Mr. Western. It is with unfeigned
pleasure, and most perfect confidence as to the
result, that we particularly direct public atten-
tion to the speech of the Right Honourable Se-
cretary of State for the Home Department. In
it will be found a notable instance of that paren-
"' tal and incessant vigilance with which the pre-
sent Administration attend to the real interests
tcif,the public, and of their—we will not say
readiness only, but anxious desire, to intro-
duce- all beneficial reforms into the State,
consistent with the safety of those venerable
institutions/ which are naturally held sacred
-by 'us. Every true friend of the Consti-
tution will perceive with heartfelt satisfac-
tion,,that in devising an adequate means of meet-
- ing the evil referred to by the Grand Jury of
rssex, the principle of assimilating such new
measures as may be deemed indispensable, to the
- old and approved practice of the State, has never
been for a moment out of view—there is no other
. safe and salutary mode of legislating, we may
-say in any nation; but we have the additional
motive for uniformly holding fast by precedent
when the experience of ages demonstrates and
sanctifies the excellence of the system under
. which we have the happiness to live. The ob-
servations of Mr. Peel, the Attorney-General,
'and finally of the Marquis of Londonderry last
..tag-ht, all bear upon this invaluable—we may add
. this truly national principle ; for a close ad-
herence thereto, under all circumstances, we owe
our proud pre-eminence among the nations of the
s world.

[BRITISH .PRESS.]
.•-• Sir Francis Burdett postponed until Tuesday
-"rteii•his promised motion which stood for yester-
day-..eyeDing,_•for an Address to the Crown re-
specting the-liberatian of Mr. Hunt, in conse-
quence, as lie stated, of communications he had
received from various Members that they had
not as yet read. the Report of the Commissioners
,on Ilchester Gaol. Au opinion prevails that the
Ministers have taken the case of this unfortunate
Gentleman into their consideration, and are dis-
-posed of their own free will to extend the mercy
• of the Crown to- hiui without the interference of
the
.House of Commons. Such a circumstance
would, we are convinced, be very grateful to the'
_,public. The crime imputed to Mr. Hunt arose
• out of circumstances over which he hail no con-
troul, for it was never supposed that he had used
arJ,unusual means to assemble a crowd, or had
advised the forming of those terrific atra.ys of

'wen which had frightened the ManchasterMa-
gistratet and yeomanry. Mr. Hunt's guilt, in
tr.*, consisted in his personal influence, which
had the effect of drawing so many people together;
and although the Magistrates on witnessing so
Alarming a multitude might have been apprehen-
sive for the safety of the town of Manchester,

arid have been legally justified in dispersing the
.C.T,O4vd, it thence by no means followed that those►
4vho brought the crowd together were guilty of
..so.githat a violation of the law as was implied by
the. severity of the sentence under which Mr.
Hunt has suffered. The sentence was one of un-
.-psu4 4everity, and it has been most Cruelly
executed For this the Ministers are in no respect
_cepsurable ; the terms of the judgment we must
.',Pis.Ourne did rAt proceed from their instruc-
tions, and for the discipline of the gaol of
~ki4oterl and the unnecessary hardships there
: ivied
,upon the prisoners, the Magistrates
:of Somerset are alone accountable. Mr. Hunt
seems to have been chiefly made an object of
• their personal animosity, and it would redound
-highly to the magnanimity and good feeling of
the-Ministers of the Crown if they were to re-.
lease this- unhappy Gentleman from the grasp of
his oppressors. He has been now nearly two
,years in prison—a period sufficiently long to sa-
tisfy the extent of his legal offence.

CIIRONIcLE.]

Dr. Lushington presented last night a Petition

frona..john Barkley, the boy lately tried at the
Oidnailey, for selling a blasphemous work, by a
Jnry.which had already returned a verdict of
guilty.against another individual for selling the
very same• work. Though there might be no
legal :objectiOn to this mode of proceeding, a
Judge-certainly had it in his power. to allow:the
defendant the benefit of a fresh Jury ; and it has
always,we believe, been usual to give way to
an application to that effect. Of the proceed-
ings at these trialsswe expressed our opinion at
the time, and we are, confident -the impression
Ihey made on us is very ,general throughout the
country. Those who think it .a inatterof no con-
sequence how a conviction for certain offences
is obtained, 4'lll be ready no doubt'to bestow their
approbation on the manner in which these trials
were conducted. It may be quite enough for
the to kilo w that the charge is blasphemy, to deny

T the. person against wham it is brought, even the
4reans of defence. The Solicitor-General seemed

really to go nearly as far as this, and to think
thatall'trial in 'the • case cif- Batkley was quite
superfluous. Thank God, these sentiments are
yet, in a great measure, strangers to the breasts
of Englishmen. We say nothing as to the pu-
nishment allotted in all or any of these cases.—
It would be difficult, perhaps, to satisfy the
'Solicitor-General now, that any degree of pu-
nishment is disproportionate for such an offence.
" Lord Chief Justice Hale," he tells us,"w ho could
pot be considered a cruel Judge, had, in such a
case, not only sentenced the defendant to fine,
imprisonment, and hard labour, but to give his own
security, and to find the security of others for his
good behaviour for life." If the Honourable
Member for Norwich had happened to live in that
merciful Judge's days, when Unitarianism was
blasphemy, according to the Solicitor-General
he might have esteemed himself happy in escap-
ing with imprisonment, aggravated by hard la-
bour. But we would point out a more congenial
case, tried also under most merciful Judges,
since the glorious Revolution, namely, that of a
youth, also under IS, named Aikman, actually
hanged for Unitarianism (then blasphemy), to
the great edification of the orthodox. This, to
be sure, took place on the North of the Tweed ;
but we have no doubt the Bridge-street Gang
would be glad to see this wholesome rigour intro-
duced among ourselves. The policy of all these
prosecutions is very questionable. They argue
a doubt in the minds of those who have
recourse to them of the efficacy of the argu-
ments in favour of religion, and lead many
weak persons to believe that persecution is re-
sorted to as a last resource. It is certain
that more efficacious means cannot be resorted
to for extending the circulation of works, than
to bring them to notice by prosecutions. No se-
verity of punishment can prevent the .circulation
of such works, when they ate thus brought into
request. And the misfortune is, that the avidity
is directed by inflaming curiosity in this foolish
manner altogether towards irreligious works.
We have no hesitation, therefore, in saying, that
if ever religion suffer any thing in this country,
we shall owe it entirely to the Bridge-street and
similar Societies. The presumption that thoSe
who feel the firmest conviction of the solidity of
the grounds of their faith (especially Protestants,
who assume that all men are capable of judging
in these matters), will be the last to resort to
the penalties of the law as a means of giving
effect to them. •

ETII E TIM ES.]

Mr. Canning, it will be seen, has at length
received his expected appointment as Governor-
General of India. Thitherward his eyes pro-
bably were turned while executing the office of
President of the Board of Control. Some inti-
mations were given at the last Court of Pro-
prietors of opposition to the appointment, pro-
bably springing out of the general circumstances
of Mr. Canning's political life, which have not
been such as might have been wished. That
opposition, however, would no doubt have been
easily overpowered : but the man wouid have
remained still the same in public estimation ;
it not being in the power now of any class
of political men, however numerous, to raise
a fallen brother by their applause, on account
of the suspicion under which all labour. (What
a scene is disclosed by the return published yes-
terday of the Ambassadors and their salaries;
and above all—the Swiss Nuncio!) Mr. Can-
ning might seem to have been nursed on Fortune's
lap. His, therefore, is the usual fate of a spoiled
child : his temper has been ruined by early in-
dulgence, and the too easy acquisition of his
wishes ; so that if the, end of his career be che-
quered by disappointment, the change will be
the more keenly felt. We are sorry to mingle
a taunt with what may probably be a leave-
taking : but he was never one of those who
was inclined to spare a fallen enemy. The
Brazils are in more senses than one " all in
his way." First, they are on the road .out to
India. Secondly, there is no Court at present,
no Sovereign there : so that if the Right Ho-
nourable Gentlelnan should pop in and execute
an important diplomatic mission there, to the no
King and no Court, at an expence of fourteen
thousand pounds to the country, that also would
be " in his way :" the thing is so exactly to his
mind. " Why," it may be said, " the House of
Commons approved of the Lisbon job !" Yes,
and a former House of Commons voted a one
pound note and a shilling to be equal to a guinea,
when every member of it knew in his heart and
conscience that a guinea was equal to a one
pound note and seven shillings, and that the coin
could not be purchased for less.

NEW TIMES.]
This day a Common Hall will be held, when
the same individuals who, in the Common Coun-
cil, so audaciously violated the privileges of the
House of Commons, will, no doubt, endeavour to
obtain the sanction of the Livery to their un-
constitutional proceedings. We trust that they
swill be disappointed. The Livery, we hope, will
not take up the quarrel of a few individuals of
the Common Council, who feel offended at the
plain blunt manner in IV hid! Sir William Curtis
has spoken of their conduct. Sir William is
not the only individual who has publicly ex-
pressed au opinion that the Commo❑ Council
has of late years disgraced itself by several of
its proceedings. The same sentiment was ex-
pressed without hesitation by Mr. Oldham at the
inaugural dinner of the present Sheri ffs : and it
is, indeed, too self-evident to be disputed by any
candid man. Of coure, when we speak of the
Common Council, as having disgraced itself, we
refer only to the majorities by which the ob-
noxious measures were carried ; and eve❑ of
those majorities a large portion were merely led
away by an ill-judged confidence in two or three
factious and turbulent individuals. The mass
are no doubt loyal, and have been unconsciously
instigated to the commission of insults toward the
House of Commons and the Sovereign himself.
Whatever grounds of disagreement there may be
between Sir W. Curtis and the Common Council,
these do not,and cannot,touch the Livery; and it
is merely making a cat'3-paw of the latter body,
to engage them on the side of the Common Coun

61. We have said the late proceedings of the
Com Mon Council were Inticonititntional ; for the
Constitution does nat :allow of the =freedom of
speech in Parliament being. restrained by the act
of any other body in •the State. •We are far
from saying, that incidental remarks in the way
of argument on the reported debates, within
the fair limits of free discussion, can or ought
to be restrained. But there is a wide difference
between these and the formal act of a public
body. If the latter be allowed on one side, it
must on the other. If Sir W. Curtis be cited
before the Common Council, and publicly cen-
sured by them for what he has said in Parlia-
ment, Mr. Alderman Wood may be cited before
the King in Council, and subjected to the like
public censure for a similar cause. The Consti-
tution is equally adverse to both these proceed-
ings ; and we say the Constitution ought to be
maintained. It is by suffering such gradual at-
tacks as these on our constitutional principles that
the whole fabric of the State becomes weakened,
and all our liberties are rendered insecure. The
Common Council hang braved Parliament with
impunity, will be thought to have established a
precedent for so doing ; and the House of Com-
mons will see its privileges successively trampled
upon by all the Corporations in the kingdom.
The consequences of such a state of things it is
not difficult to anticipate.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We yesterday received Paris Journals. Tran-.
quillity appears generally prevalent both in
the capital and the departments. The supposed
disturbances in the department of Isere con-
sisted merely of the cry of Vice l'.Empereur,
by two persons during the operation of swear-
ing in. recruits. Of General Berton there is
no account. All that may be inferred is,
that he had not been yet apprehended. About
a hundred of his accomplices, only a few of
whom had actually joined his standard, are
about to undergo their trial. Nothing im-
portant has passed in the Chamber of Deputies.
The amendment of the Peers, which adds the
epithet " Constitutional" to " the King's au-
-I.thority",iu-the law on the- Press, has passed by
a-great Majority.— The most important political
occurrence in France is the determination of the
Ministry to resort to an election. Only a fifth,
we believe, can be elected at one time, accord-
In.- to the laws of France. It is an experi-
ment of some importance on the part of the
Ministry—as it subjects the question of their
possessing or not possessing the public con-
fidence to the only criterion. Each party
augurs advantage to itself from the trial. It ap-
pears, from the statement of one of the Journals,
that there 'are 86 outgoing Deputies, of whom
36 are Liberals." The Liberal Journals ex-
pect that the new returns of their party will
considerably exceed that number. The fo-
reign articles are not of later date than
some that had already reached us. It seems
the German Journals maintain that Ali Pacha
was still among the quick several days- after
his supposed decapitation. It is asserted, how-
ever, by the Journal des Debals, in the most
positive manner, that he was made a pri-"
soner \on the Ist, and decapitated on the sth,
of February. It appears by accounts of. the
19th of February, from Zante, that the military
affairs of the Greeks are about to assume new
vigour and activity. Men's minds had been for
four monthi kept in suspense by the discussions
relative to the form and name which the new
organization of Greece should bear. There is
at length an understanding as to the basis of dis-
cussion; and the Greek Chiefs have re-com-
menced active warfare. Already had Pallascos,
the successor of Odysseus in the post of Ther-
mopyl, obtained a fresh victory over 12,000
Turks, who attempted to force a passage into
Livadia. On the other hah'd, Colocotrone, one
of the four chiefs of the Peloponnesus, had ad-
vanced with 8,000 men into Acarnania—and
Demetrius Ypsilanti, with 1,000 men taken from
the Peloponnesus, Attica; and Boetia, was in full
march upon Thessaly. These details are given
by the Courier Francois, a journal somewhat dis-
posed to exaggerate the successes and chances of
the Greeks.

ITORRID MURDER, AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY,
INWHITECHAPEL.—The neighbourhood of W h ite-
chapel has for the last few days been thrown
into the greatest ferment and agitation, in conse-
quence of a barbarous murder committed there,
on the person of a highly respectable middle
aged gentleman.—The individual to whom we
now allude, as having fallen a sacrifice to some
direful assassins, as yet unknown, is Mr. GEORGE
HARE, late an extensive hosier, in High-street,
Whitechapel, and brother to the Doctor of that
name at Hackney. The deceased, it appears, on
Friday night last, was on his way home, after
spending the evening with some friends, at a
tavern, in Nightingale-lane, East Smithfield, when
In passing up Well-street, he was attacked just at
the private door of the Royalty Theatre, (which
was then closed, in consequence of its being
Friday in Lent,) by three ruffians, who after
knocking him down, kicked him about the head
and body in a most frightful manner, and in their
brutal treatment, broke his left leg, so that the
bone protruded through the skin. The villains
having thus disabled him, rifled his pockets of a
quantity of silver and other articles, but in their
murderous bustle, six sovereigns which were in
his fob escaped their notice, they being dis-
turbed, it is presumed, before they could make a
more diligent search. On the watchman's coming
on duty about nine o'clock, he found the unfor-
tunate gentleman stretched in the kennel quite
speechless, and insensible. He was conveyed to
the London Hospital, where he expired. A Co-
roner's Inquest sat yesterday, and adjourned
from want of evidence. _ _

A blind man, a fiddler, of the name of James
Morgan, has been committed to Carmarthen gaol
for, trial, charged with the wilful murder of one
of his neighbours, Jacob Williams.
Saturday night, and during the v'hole of yes-
terday, the wind blew with much violence from
the west, accompanied, at intervals, with heavy
showers of rain and snow. All the hills in the
neighbourhood are covered with snow.—( Edin-
burgh Courant, March 25.)

LAW INTgLLIGENCt.

COURT OF CHANCERY, MARC/I 23.

LAWRENCE'S LECTURES ON PHYSIOLOGY, ZOOLOGY,

AND THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN.

[We gave the substance and result of the following Law
Proceedings on the day when they occurred, but as our legal
friends, and we are gratified in saying that they are very nu-
merous, are desirous of having a more copious account of the
case, we comply with their wishes, particularly as it is by no
means uninteresting to the general Reader. 'We insert the
first Report this day, and shall give the second to-morrow.]

LAWRENCE v. SMITH.

Mr. WETHERELL, on Thursday, moved to dissolve the
injunction which had been granted in this case, to restrain the
defendant from printing, publishing, and disposing of a book
under the above title. He stated, that Mr. Lawrence was a
professor of surgery, and lecturer to the Royal College of Sur-
geons ; the defendant was a respectable bookseller in the
Strand. The injunction was granted on the ground of piracy.
The lectures in contention were delivered by the plaintiff; at
the College of Surgeons, and he afterwards printed them ; the
defendant had put them together, and published them in one
volume, and this was the piracy complained of. What he (the
Learned Counsel) had to contend for was, that the plaintiff had
no copyright in the work, for it was a publication denying
Christianity and Revelation, which was contrary to public po-
licy and morality. lie would not have his Lordship take it on
his ipse dixit that they were so, but those lectures had under-
gone criticism by persons in the habit of performing that duty ;
they were reprobated by the writers of the Edinburgh Medi-
cal Review, the Quarterly Review, by the Lecturer on Chris-
tianity in the University of Oxford, and by the Reverend
Mr. Whitfield, of Bath, as being irreligious, and of such
a tendency that public policy ought not to tolerate them.—
The object of the publication was to send out to the world
the doctrine, that when man dies, his soul dies with him ;
denying the immortality of the soul. He would admit that
the lectures were most ably and eloquently written, which
only tended to give the poison they contained greater influence
over weak minds. It was impossible that he could express his
opinion of the mischievous tendency of the lectures better than
it was expressed in the Edinburgh Medical Review—that they
could not believe that the plaintiff would have attempted to have
brought his pupils into a state of total darkness ; for what was
the doctrine of the plaintiff?—that a man had no mare soul than
an oyster, or any other fish or insect. The Learned Counsel then
quoted several passages from the lectures, to prove that the death
of the soul was announced in them in as strong terms as it could
be pronounced : it was no accidental doubt that was expressed
in them, but it was a positive assertion, and read at the Royal
College of Surgeons. He not only denied that the race of man
sprung from Adam and Eve, but went so far as to say there was no
truth in the deluge. Having tailed his Lordship's attention
to the passages, it would be for him to decide whether the
plaintiff could have a copyright in such a work, to send its
poison out to the world. It was scarcely necessary for him to
allude to the place in which the lectures were delivered—it was
a place licensed by Royal charter; but he would contend, if
such lectures were allowed to be delivered there, that the char-
ter would be as bad as the plaintiff 's copyright : he, however,
understood that the plaintiff was no longer lecturer there. He
had nothing, certainly, to do with the place where the lectures
were delivered; but lie would deal with him in his character of
an author, and be would dilate on, the poison disseminating
from him as a lecturer to a school, the pupils of which were af-
terwards to become practitioners of surgery. Looking at it as
the work of an author, it did not require criticism to shew its
evil tendency, for it was clear as the sun at noon day. The
Learned Counsel was proceeding with his argument, when he
was interrupted by
The .LORD CHANCELLOR, who stated that he should stop
there for the present, as he was obliged to attend elsewhere.
Mr. WETHERELL this day resumed his argument. He had
but little further to add to what he had said on Thursday. The
article in The Quarterly Review called the work in question an
open avowal of the doctrine of materialism. It was also repro-
bated for the pernicious tendency of its principles by The Edin-
burgh Medical Review, which said that it was calculated to
lead the minds of his pupils into darkness worse than the dark-
ness of the valley of death : and by the Vicar of Kensington,
who was the Christian Lecturer in Cambridge. The book, he
contended, had the same object as the doctrine of the French
Imperialists, namely, to establish the belief that death was an
eternal sleep, and that therefore we were not hereafter to be ac-
countable for our actions in this life. The Learned Courisel
concluded with expressing his regret that such great learning,
I taste, and talent, as this work evinced, should be combined
with such dangerous principles ; which, being calculated to
subvert the doctrines of our religion, deprived the work of all
claim to protection on the score of copyright : he therefore sub-
mitted that the injunction ought to be dissolved.
Mr. RosE followed on the same side, and referred to Dr.
Priestly's case, where it was determined that, although a work
might contain much valuable information, yet, if it was directed
against the institutions of the country, the law would afford it
no support. He also referred to the case of Mr. Southey's
book, and the work of Lord Byron the other day, in which the
Court, to use the language of the poet, refused to " set its seal
on Cain," and sent him forth a wanderer through the world.—
The pernicious principles contained in these Lectures were not
the native growth of this country, but were sought for in the
doctrines of foreign Professors, and imported here from the Ger-
man and French schools. The Learned Counsel then read a pas-
' sage from the dedication, which he said was the first passage com-
plained of : the second was in p. 98, where the learned Professor
said,that the Mosaic account of the origin of mankind,as contain.
ed in the book of Genesis, did not make it quite clear that all
the world had been peopled by the descendants of Adam and
Eve ; and treated the account of the circumstances of the deluge
as a zoological impossibility. Mr. Lawrence (Mr. Rose con-
tinued) had subtilely condensed into one passage all the venom
contained in a whole chapter of Gibbon. He then read an ex-
tract from page 422, in which Professor Lawrence contended,
from the peculiar organization of the brain, that it was the seat
of the sentient principle, which necessarily depended upon it
for existence ; and that the annihilation of the one, must in-
evitably involve the annihilation of the other. He also read
other passages, in which it was stated that many writers had
doubted the inspiration of the Scriptural writers : and contain.
ing other observations, the tendency of which, the Learned
Counsel argued, was subversive of our faith ; and they were
the more dangerous, from the author's scholarlike command of
language, and his scientific manner of treating his subject:
which, acting upon undisciplined minds, was calculated to sub-
due and bring them under its control, and thereby work the
greater mischief.
Mr. SHADIVELL, on behalf of the plaintiff, supported the in-
junction. He was obliged to his friend, Mr. Wetherell, for the
manner in which he laid the question before the Court. He
had condemned the work on the ground of its professing the
doctrine of materialism. The doctrine of materialism was two-
fold. One species of materialism limited the existence of man
to this world only. That was a doctrine which he (Mr. Shad.
well) would be the last person in existence to say one word in
defence of. But there was another species of materialism, which
says, that the sentient principle of man depends upon the organic
structure of the body, and therefore cannot have a separate ex-
istence ; but does not deny that both may exist hereafter, when
the resurrection of the body takes place. That was perfect-
ly consistent, Mr. Shadwell contended, with the doctrine of
the Christian religion, as laid down in the Holy Scriptures ;
while, on the-contrary, the doctrine of the immortality of the
soul, as a distinct and independent principle, was quite foreign
from our Church. There was not a single passage in Scrip-
ture recognizing the existence of the soul in the intermediate
period from the death of the body to its resurrection ; while
there were many which went to confirm the belief in the total
suspension of the sentient principle during that interval. The
words of the Apostles' Creed, to judge the quick and the
dead," implied this notion, as did those of the Nicene Creed,
" both the living and the dead ;" they, however, left it doubt-
ful ; but the Creed of Athanasius left it wholly unambiguous,
for it said, " at whose coming all men shall rise again with
their bodies, and shall give account for their own works."—
Mr. Shadwell then quoted several passages from the New Tes-
tament in support of his position. In the first book of Jo.
sephus' Antiquities, he alludes to the story of Abraham sacri-
ficing his son Isaac, and saying that " the soul of the son
would hover round the father and protect him ;" from which it
appeared that he believed in the immortality of the soul ; but
St. Paul, in his Epistles, showed that he was wrong. 'Our Sa-
viour was described as having risen " in body ;" and the
bodies of the saints who had been dead to have appeared to many
in the Holy City. In the 15th chapter of Corinthians, St. Paul,
talking of our Saviour being seen of 500 of the brethren at once,
says, of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but
some are fallen asleep and again, " of them which are fallen
asleep." From which one must infer a state of non-existence before
their resurrection. The resurrection of the dead is talked of, but
there is not a single passage in Revelation'mentioning a distinct
spirit, independent of the body ; and, indeed, the book of Ge.
nesis applies the term" soul" to the brutes and fishes. In our
English translations that term is not used; the passage is,
" And GoD said, let the waters bring . forth the moving crea-
ture that hath life," &c. ; but in the original Hebrew the word
is lyephesh ; and in the Septuagint Pruche, each of which sig.
nifles soul; and it was therefore impossible to make out that
the soul was separate from the living principle: so that it
was perfectly consistent with Scripture to say that the sen.
tient principle of man cannot be separated from his
body : nor did that deny the doctrine of his accountabi.

lity hereafter, when the resurrection of the body took place.—
'Mr. Shadwell, lfterreferrinteto -the •littofid sioldirie'iirriace,
where he held it to be impossible for human reason to discover
these points without the assistance of the inspired writings,
spoke of the wisdom of our church in laying &int no doctrine
which might not be simply reconciled with what was stated is
Scripture, excluding all metaphysical positions, and therefore no
where setting forth that the soul was immortal, or had a se-.
parate existence from the body. There might be some passages
found, which would seem to imply its existence in the inter-
mediate period, between the death of the natural body, and its
resurrection ; but there was not one which asserted it. The
Learned Counsel then quoted passages from the works of seve-
ral eminent divines in support of his argument. Bishop Law
said that no man could quote passages from Scripture to
prove that the soul existed unconnected with the body. Mr.
Taylor asserted, that all natural arguments to prove the exist-
ence of the soul separate from the body were vain : experience
shewed the contrary ; and as to the faculties of a dying man
retaining their vigour to the last moment of life, when the
body was nearly powerless, it was only because the brain was
the last part of the system which was attacked by death. Bishop
Butler had endeavoured to give metaphysical reasons for a se-
parate existence of the soul, from the strength of a dying man's
faculties when his body had nearly failed ; but Mr. Pitt declar-
ed that that doctrine of the learned Bishop raised more difficul-
ties than it solved. Dr. Bayly's doctrine went still further than
that of Mr. Lawrence; for tlie latter confined himself to the for-
mation of man as a zoological creature. Archdeacon Black-
burn said that the New Testament always spoke of the-interval
between death and the resurrection as a state of sleep. He (Mr.
tihadwell) did not believe it was so : but St. Paul, in alluding -
to it, constantly used the word " slept." It would be useless to
waste the time of the Court in quoting passages from Drs. Wat-
son and Warburton's works. He had done sufficient to shew
that great and eminent men in the church hid entertained, if
not avowed, the doctrine which had been denominated the poi-
son of the present work. It was a work containing MO pages,
on physiological and scientific subjects ; the readers of which r
were more likely to have their attention attracted by its learn-
ing and science, than by an abstract point of doctrine contained
in an insulated passage. It was not like a work of a light nature,
easilyiread, and therefore extensively circulated, like the one which
came before his Lordship the other day ; he thought the present
question materially affected the liberty of the press. It was by the
liberty of the press that this country had grown so great ; he did not
speak of it in its licentious sense. This gentleman had not
spoken of Scripture with disrespect. He had certainly said that
some persons had entertained doubts of the inspiration orits
writers ; but he himself spoke in terms of the highest eulogy'
of the New Testament. He called it " a religion of peace and
love, as unfolded by the Apostles." Ile qualified his denial of ,
those doctrines which he controverted by saying, that " physio-
logically speaking," it was impossible to believe them, calling
them, at the same time, sublime doctrines, and admitting that
they had existed in all places and in all ages, and therefore de-
pended not on his inferences. He talked of Paschal, who was
the best friend of Christianity, as " the profound,'feivent, and
pious Paschal." In short, if there were any exceptionable pas-
sages in the book, there were others which contained their antidote,
and the whole work should be taken together. He (Mr. Shhd-
well) would rather drop down lifeless upon the ground, than
attempt for a moment to uphold the doctrine of materialism, as
tending to overturn belief in a future state. But the principles
in the book before the Court were quite consistent with the no-
tion of existence in a future world ; and a valuable work of this
kind ought not to be condemned, and the author to lose the
price of his labour, because there might happen to be a passage
or two in it which might as well have been omitted.
Mr. WiLnamraat followed on the same side with Mr.
Shadwell, and said that the defendant had no claim to the
favour of the Court, who had taken to himself the fruits and pro-
fits of the plaintiff's labour without any moral right whatever' to
the work ; but merely because he thought there were a few pas-
sages in it which disentitled it to the protection of the law. The
Learned Gent. then contended that the doctrine contained in the
Lectures was perfectly reconcilable with Christianity and argued
from a passage in the burial service, in addition to what Mr. Shad-
well had cited, that a mutual existence of the soul and body was
the result after death. In the sentence " the dead shall be
raised," &c. the words in the Greek were Oi Nekrol, and not
Ten Nekren in the neuter. Dr. Butler had said that that doc-
trine depended on revelation only, and not on natural principles. i
Mr. Lawrence's materialism was confined to this life, and-
contained no principle contrary to the immortality of the foul
hereafter, when the resurrection took place,. and it was coun-
tenanced by Scripture.—With respect to his doctrine of man-
kind having descended from different parents, that opinion was
strengthened, not only by the different complexions of nations,
but also by the difference in their features, the formation
of their bones, and the substantive parts of the body; an!!
he only said that " the Mosaic account did not make it clear,
&c. And as to saying that many doubted the inspiration of tie
Scriptural writings, he was surely entited to say what were the
opinions of others ; but that was not stating that they were his
own. On the contrary he spoke of their simple grandeur,
and said that " they were not inferior to the ,uninspired
writings of the East," from which the inference was, that
he looked upon them as inspired. The Mosaic account the
deluge, the collection of two of every description of animals
on the earth, he stated to be a zoological impossibility ;
but he did not deny the fact, that it took place miraculously-
With respect to a passage in 11r. Wetherell's speech, an
which he stated that Mr. Lawrence was no longer Lecturer
to the College of Surgeons, he should state that lie laid down
the office of his own accord, in consequence of his increased
practice ; and the Members of the College hail expressed.their
regret at his so doing. There lectures were delivered in 181 b
and 1817: in 1819 he delivered other lectures, but in the in-
terval these had been published. The College of Surgeons,
therefore, had not only heard them delivered, but had'them.
in print before 1819, and what was their opinion then of
them? (Mr. Wilbraham here read an affidavit of Mr. Lawrence',
by which it appeared that he had received the thanks •pt
the College of Surgeons for his luminous lectures delivered in
1816, 1817, 1818, and 1819). The Learned Counsel then re-
sumed his argument, and insisted that the wither of our plane-
tary system might as well be condemned for impugning the
passage in Scripture which ascribed motion to the sun, and
affirmed that it stood still on one day, as Professor Lawrence's
Lectures, because they asserted the zoological impossibility of
one or two facts stated in Scripture. He concluded by express-
ing his hope that his Lordship would continue the injunction.
The LORD CHANCELLOR-31r. Wetherell, I shall hear you
in reply on Tuesday; you will lose nothing by the delay, for I
shall have an opportunity of reading the book in the mean tint!.

A General Meeting of the Noblemen, Gentlemen, Fret-
holders, &c. of the County of Fife, was held at Cupar, on Fri-
day week, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
propriety of continuing the system some time ago adopted by
the county for the suppression of vagrants, and also for con-
sidering the provisions of a Bill for altering the late Act
for the improvement of the Dundee Ferry. On the first mea-
sure, a Committee was appointed to consider what plans should
be adopted to repress vagrancy ; and on the second, the meet-
ing, after a long discussion, disapproved of the Bill, by a, ma-
jority of 13 to 4..—(Edinburgh Courant, March 2.5.)

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
MEETINGS, &C.
Alex. M‘Leod, merchant, Glasgow, to be examined in the.
Sheriff-clerk's office there, 3d and 17th April, at 1. ;
Donald M'Eachern and Co. merchants and distillers, Bridge-
end, island of Islay, to be examined in the Sheriff-clerk's of-
fice, Inverary, Ist and 15th April, at 12.
Matthew Jackson, haberdasher, Paisley, to be examined (bY
appointment of the Sheriff of Renfrewshire) sth and 18th
April, at 12.
William Harley, merchant and builder, Glasgow, to be ex-
amined in the Sheriff-clerk's office there, 2d and 16th April,
at 11.

COAL-MARKET, MARCH 27.
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