The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-10 00:00:00

BLASPHEMOUS WORKS.

GunntrALL.—On Saturday William Campion, who was
the day before apprehended upon a warrant obtained against
him by the Solicitor for the Treasury for selling Paine's Age of
Reason, and Palmer's Principles qf Nature, was brought be-
fore Alderman THORPE.—The Solicitor for the Treasury
attended during the examination.
Thomas Drummond, of No. 30, Lisson.grove, a Bow-street
patrol, stated, that on NVednesday, the sth instant, he went to
No. 84, Fleet-street, over the door of which " Carlile's" name
was written. Witness asked for Palmer's Principles of Nature,
which was immediately served to him by the defendant.—
Witness then asked for Paine's Age of Reason, which was also
readily handed to him. For the first he paid two shillings, and
for the last he paid four shillings. The defendants told him,
that if he would take half a dozen copies, a discount of 25 per
cent, should be allowed.

,
Mr. Litchfield, a gentleman who holds a situation in the Trea-
,
sury, at the re uest of the Solicitor, read several passages from t
Paine': Age o Reason, to prove that the work was a blasphe-
mous libel. le believed those passages to contain prophane
and impious libels against the Christian Religion. Carlile had
been convicted of selling copies of the same.
Defendant—" Allow me to ask you by what principles you
prove those pages to be blasphemous libels, and what is a blas-
phemous libel ?"—Witness—" I shall answer you willingly. I
conceive a denial of the divinity of Christ, and calling Christ
an impostor, is blasphemy."
Defendant—" Very good, Sir; but where do you find these
things in Paine ?—Witness—" All through the work the same
spirit of disbelief and contempt is exhibited. It is impossible
not to see it in every page."
Defendant--" Well, but upon what principle do you say
that the books are blasphemous ?"—Witness—" I have already
told you what I understand by blasphemy."
Defendant—" Aye, aye, you judge rather from what has al.
ready been said upon the subject in Courts ofJustice, than from
your own unprejudiced impression."
Alderman THORPE ordered the defendant to find bail to
answer the offence, himself in the sum of 80/. and two sureties
in 401. each.

The Solicitor for the Treasury stated to the defendant, that
he had sent to inquire after the bail, which he (defendant) had
named the day before, and had ascertained that Mr. Ellis,
whose name had been given in as one of the securities, would
not consent to be bail._ The defendant then was taken to the
Compter in default of bail.

.
At Ahercromby-place BIRTHS
, Edinburgh, on the 2d inst., the Lady
of James Oreig, Es of Eccles, of a 50th
On the Bth inst., Mrs. Brown, of the Old Bailey, of a son.

MARRIED.
On Wednesday, the sth inst., at Chorley, Lancashire, Mr.
Thomas Watts, of London, to Mary, only daughter of Mr.
James A nderton, cotton-spinner, of the former place.

DIED.
On Saturday morning, at Upton, Essex, in her 80th year,
Sally Mellen, widow Of the late Henry Hinde Pellv, Esq.
On the 7th instant, Mr. Timothy Jordan, of Irhitechapel,
druggist.
On Tuesday night, the 4th inst., at his father's house, Patri-
croft, Thomas Willis Creighton, aged 10, son of the Rev: D.
H. Creighton, Independent Minister of the above place.