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OLD BAILEY NEW COURT, JUNE 9.

CARLILE'S SHOPMEN.—(Further particulars. )

Michael John O'Connor, and Richard Hassell, were indicted
for having published a profane and blasphemous libel against
religion and the Holy Scriptures, contained in " Paine's Age
of Reason."
Mr. FRENCH, the Counsel for the prisoner O'Connor, after
the Jury had been sworn, objected that some of them had been

on the Jury who tried the prisoners found guilty on the preced.
ing day. After some discussion, the Counsel for the prosecu-
tion waved the right of refusing the challenge, which not hav-
ing been made as the Jury came to be sworn, was now in
strictness too late, and a fresh Jury was sworn.

Mr. BERNARD having opened the pleadings, Mr. Bo LLANO,
for the prosecution, stated the case to the Jury, which was
similar to those mentioned in our Report of yesterday.
Richard Lidbetter was called, who proved that on the day

laid in the indictment he went to Carlile's shop, and having
bought a number of " The Republican," he asked for " The
Age of Reason." The prisoner Hassell then said he had only

come in to keep the shop for a short time, all those persons who

had before been in it haring been taken up ; that he could not
sell him the book he asked for then, but that if the witness
would come in about an hour, a man would be there who would
sell any thing. The witness went away, and returned in an
hour, when lie saw the prisoner O'Connor standing near Has-
sell, and behind the counter. Upon the witness asking for the
" Age of Reason," Hassell fetched him two copies, one bound,
and the other unbound, of which witness selected the unbound
copy, and paid 45., the price of it, to O'Connor. The witness
then asked for " Palmer's Principles of Nature," of which
llassel said he had not a copy; but O'Connor said they had
one, and would sell it to him.

[O'Connor was separately indicted for having sold the latter
book, and had pleaded guilty to that charge.]
The passages charged as libellous were then read from the
book, and compared with the counts of the indictment, and the
case for the prosecution closed.
Mr. FrtExcir addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoner
O'Connor. He remarked upon the evidence, which he con-
tended did not affect his client, whose presence in Carlile's shop
was purely accidental, and whose participation in the offence
with which he was charged was without any evil intention.
He then repeated the arguments which he urged in his speech
for Jeffereys, who was tried on the day before, the tenour of
which was, that while Unitarianism went unpunished, blas-
phemy, like that contained in the book for publishing which
the prisoners were indicted, ought not to be the subject of pro-
secution. He concluded by exhorting the jury not to suffer
themselves to become, by their verdict, the instruments of a
prosecution which hoc\ in no instance prevented persons from
exercising that freedom of opinion which was their birthright,
but had always been most hostile to the interests of true re-
ligion.

-The prisoner Hassell then proceeded with his defence, which
was a mere echo of the contents of the " Age of Reason." He
vindicated the purity of his intentions, professed himself to
have no faith in any of the known systems of religion, all of
which he believed were equally fabulous and vain, and took no
small credit to himself for having put the hook he was now in-
dicted for having published, into the hands of many persons of
all ages and of both sexes. He read several very long extracts
from that book for the purpose, as he said, of shewing the
Jury what was the real meaning of the passages laid in the
indictment.

The RECORDER said, that as the prisoner was without
Counsel, he could not help suggesting to him that he was not
doing himself any good by the course he was pursuing.
The prisoner continued to read for some time longer, ending
his defence (the effect of which was considerably enhanced by
his broad Gloucestershire dialect) by an appeal to the Jury,
whose verdict of " Not guilty" he confidently anticipated.
A witness was called to O'Connor's character, and Mr.
Wontner, the keeper of Newgate, spoke to the fact of his hav-
ing attended divine service while in prison. Bishop, the turn-
key, also said his behaviour had been decorous.
The RECORDER then summed up. Some of the Jury hav-
ing expressed a doubt whether both the prisoners were ac-
quainted with the contents of the books they had sold, the Re-
corder said the law held them to be so acquainted, and re-
sponsible for their own acts.
The Jury then retired and. were absent about a quarter of
an hour, when they found Hassell Guilty, and 0 Connor Not
Guilty,

The RECORDER sentenced Hassell to two years imprison..
ment, to enter into his own recognizance in 1001. to be of good
behaviour duringliis life. The prisoner heard his sentence
with great composure, and said, " I have fortitude enough to
bear such a trial."
The trial of the other prisoners was postponed until to-
morrow, in consequence of their objections to the Jury, which,
although they might have been overruled, the Counsel for the
prosecution acquiesced in.
The following prisoners this day received sentence of death :
1-31ary NVatson, j.
James Thomas, and William Reynolds, for stealing in a dwel-
ling-house; Richard Hart, J. Williams, Thomas Davis, John
Thompson, John Johnson, and Donald Ili‘Croy, for burglary ;
T. J. Boyce, for cutting and maiming ; Richard Cornwall and
Ann Gates, for highway robbery ; William Whalley, for
secreting a letter cantaining .5/.; Thomas King, for horse-
stealing ; John Coldough, for personating a pensioner to
Mary Watson and Ann Gates pleaded (we believe) preg-
nancyy; and J. Clarke, for abettting Colclough.
obtain prize-money;
in stay of execution.
Four prisoners were sentenced to transportation for life, and
46 for seven years ; 3to whipping ; 2 to whipping and im-
prisonment ; and 78 to various terms of imprisonment and hard
labour, and minor punishments.

MR. HAMILTON'S APPEAL.

The HAMILTONIAN SysTr.st-ins now been be-
fore the public above nine monCts. The number
of pupils formed by Mr. HAMILTON and his part-
ners, or others who have taught on the system,
exceeds 1,000. Its principles have been deve-
loped, and its efficacy exemplified, in 30 public
lectures. A specified and positive degree of pro-
ficiency was promised in every instance by the
teacher, and paid for in advance, as the infallible
result of a certain number of lessons ; and yet no
reclamation, no complaint, has hitherto been beard
of on the part of the pupils—no instance of failure
pointed out by the host of enemies its success has
created. Public testimonies of the most unqua-
lified approbation have been offered by Mr. Ha-
milton's classes, until it was supposed no further
doubt could remain in any rational and candid
mind of the reality of the effects ascribed to it.—
These facts are of public notoriety, and are surely
a sufficient answer to the cavils of ignorance,
jealousy, or self-interest. Besides, Mr. Hamil-
ton's pupils are of age ; they are generally per-
sons of education and respectability, and many of
high rank ; they can surely judge for themselves,
whether or not they have derived and continue
to derive from Mr. Hamilton's instruction all the
benefits he had promised. If not, can it be be-
lieved that they would wink at delusion, and not
only suffer themselves to be defrauded with im-
punity, but continue to pay, section after section,
in advance, to promote the interests of an indi-
vidual whom they had never seen before ?
Among the opponents to the Hamiltonian system
are two young men, one named Corny, who
styles himself the Champion of the Greenwich
Schoolmasters, and a Mr. Hartnol. Mr. Hamil-
ton is pleased to perceive they have given up the
ungentlemanly practice of interrupting his public
lectures, and offer themselves to the notice of the
public as authors, rather than as rioters. They
are now so perfectly harmless, that Mr. Hamil-
ton is willing that their pamphlets should reach
their destination without any comment of his,
except one line—not, indeed, theirs, but Radon-
villier's, a sensible writer on education, who, as
well as Locke, Dumarsais, and others, saw ob-
scurely the Hamiltonian system. How far they
were from executing what they believed possible
—how far what was then and is yet called literal
and interlineary translation differs from the ana-
lytical translations introduced by Mr. Hamil-
ton, a short comment on this line will suffi-
ciently show;--besides the inaccuracy of their
ideas of translation, these gentlemen did not see
the abuse, the perversion of reason and justice
already introduced and universally practised in
their times, of ordering to learn, instead of teach-
ing. This is the great principle of the Hamil-
tonian sytem—analytical translation and repeti-
tion are its handmaids : " Let the mother make
the boy read the Evangelists in Latin two or three
hours in a day," &c., says Locke. Had he said,
" Let the mother (or the teacher) read for the
boy," Locke would have been the author of the
Hamiltonian system. The line alluded to, with
its translation, runs thus :
" A principio reges habuere urbem Romnm.
"Au commencement des rois eurent la ville de Rome."
A is not au, but des ; a is a preposition govern-
ing the ablative ; au is the dative case of the de-
finite article : the word principio is therefore
translated by a dative case, and not by an abla-
tive, as it ought : reges is rois, and net des rois;
urbem is vale, and not la ville ; Romam is Rome
the accusative case, and not de Rome the geni-
tive : so that of six words which compose the
line, five are incorrectly translated. But if the
two teachers, or champions of the Greenwich
Schoolmasters, who have cited the line so triumph-
antly in their pamphlets, are ignorant of French
and Latin, as well as of the nature of analytical
translation, their knowledge of arithmetic is un-
questionable. Ten thousand words, said to be
learned in ten lessons, of one hour each, they
rightly calculate make sixteen a minute, which
they,assert is impossible ; and in this they are
joined by a gentleman of equal genius and learn-
ing with themselves—the Editor of the Metropo.
litan Literary (Monthly) Journal. It is true,
1,000 persons in London assert that they have
actually learnt these 10,000 words—that is, the
whole of the Gospel of St. John, comprehending
the inflections of the verbs—in ten lessons, thus
fulfilling Mr. Hamilton's prediction and engage-
ment. Whom are we to believe ? One thousand
persons wholly disinterested, or interested only
in detecting delusion if any ; or the Greenwich
Schoolmasters, and their Champion, interested
only in the success of their craft ? But the Ho-

library Secretary of the Metropolitan Literary,
Society is not to be thus dismissed. This gentle-
man, in a critique of eleven octavo pages, uses
language in praise of the Hamiltonian system,
more strong and decisive than its author has ever
done. He assures us, " that it is not only essen-
tially good, but that it will ultimately super-
sede the present mode of teaching practised in
our schools; that it will, that it must, be adopted
by those who are not wholly blind to their ow❑
interest and to the benefits which it confers ;"
and yet blames in terms equally strong the mode
in which it has been introduced to the public :
" pulling," 66 exaggeration," 66 empyricism" are
the expressions he applies to it. It way be asked
by what species of metaphysical transmutation•
it happens, that the eulogium of a critic by no
means friendly to the author, should be only the
tribute of strict impartial justice in his mouth, and
yet become downright puffing and quackery when
used by him who during eight years had witness-
ed its effects. If truth be puffing, Hamilton has
puffed ; if truth be empyricism, Hamilton is an
empyric; but if falsehood only renders men justly
liable to these imputations, it was incumbent on
Mr. Jennings to prove the falsehood before he
made them. But though Mr. Jennings admits
the citadel of this system (to use his own lan-
guage) to be " impregnable," he contends that
some of the outworks are untenable. For ex-
ample, Mr. Hamilton asserts that though some
words in all languages may have two or three
meanings, yet that, as a general rule, one word
has but one meaning, and can be correctly trans-
lated into another language by one word only.
The Honorary Secretary here exclaims—" Surely
Mr. Hamilton does not mean to aver that coup
and lumier•e have each but one meaning—that

lepus, which C implies' a hare, and wit, has
l
but one meaning ?" Coup means a blow, and
lumicre light, and nothing else ; but 1"r;
Jennings, who, if ever he knew any thing of ail
language, translates it only a coups de dictionnakel
has mistaken idiomatic phrases for the meaning
of words. He is yet more unlucky in Latin;
Lepus does not " imply," but means a hare, an“
never wit. Will it be believed that an Honorary
Secretary of a literary society, the Editor of a Lite-
rary Journal which appears once a month, in the
discussion of a philological question, confounds
lepus with lepos, and having but two words °,
Latin to write, wholly mistakes the meaning 0
one of them ? Has he never read In sylvis leports
inverbis qua]re lepores Mr. Jennings is not con'
tent thus to expose his ignorance of French alai
Latin, he must bring in the Greek too ; but more
cautious—he speaks only of the alphabet, %%hid'
he first assures us is not taught on the Hainii"
tonian system. Finding out his mistake by look"
ing over the Greek key, he thinks it necessary to
say something of the translation ; and citing 01111
five or six words, has contrived to render his ig:
norance of this language as palpable as he had
already made it in the Latin and French. It
may excite surprise that the author of the Hata'
tonian System should enter the list with such
puny opponents. He regrets that none more for-
midable have presented themselves. It was ne-
cessary, once for all, to notice them, lest a should
be supposed that an objection had been brought
against the system which could not be instantrine.
ously obviated; henceforth, satisfied with the
patronage of an enlightened community, and the
continually increasing popularity of his system,
the author intends to pursue his professional la-
bours, without adverting to the frothy declama-
tions of conceited ignorance, or the peevish per-
sonalities of interested malignity.

TM: LATE Mn. HARRIS AND SOPHIA. STOW"
—An altercation has for several days past existed
between the committee of the unfortunate Barris
and the parochial officers of Beddington,as to which
party was liable to pay the expeuces incurred
there by the lamentable affair. It appears that
after the coroner's jury had returned their vet'
diet, they sat down to a dinner; for which wits
charged ss. per head. The committee have re-
fused to pay this expence, on the grounds of its
being not only an exorbitant, but an illegal
charge, according to the law relative to coroner's
inquests, which only awards 4d. to each jury-
man. The committee have also rejected
paying the expences incurred at Mr. George's,
the Plough, by Sophia Stocks, and contend that
the whole amount should fall upon the parish, 05
in all other cases of accident. The parish officers,
however, are of a different opinion, and are de-
termined to enforce the payment of the bill from
the committee, and have refused to give up the
watch and pencil case belonging to Mr. Rich-
mond, the clerk at Bow-street, and also the
duplicate of Mr. Harris's watch, which was
pledged for 61.105. at a pawnbroker's in Prince's-
street, Soho, and was found in his pocket.--
Sophia Stocks still remains at the Plough ; she Is
fast recovering, and Mr. Weaver, the surgeon, in
Blackmoor-street, Clare-market, and Mr. Wal-
lace, of Croydon, have given it as their joint
opinion that she can be removed with safety.

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL.
BY R. BANKS.
PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMP.NT MAKER.

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COAL-MARKET, JIIXE 9.
Ships at Market. Ships sold
62 Newcastle -
17 Sunderland - 17

Pried.
27s Od to 398 6t!
30s 6d to 40s 6d.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTIMAILIC, JUNE 7.—The hop trade is totally at a stand,
and the prices merely nominal, so that we cannot quote then:
with any correctness. The duty is at 120,0001.

MAIDSTONE, JUNE 7.—Since our last the Hop plantations
generally have altered for the worse ; the bine has grown
but very little for the last four or five days, it is now turn-
ing yellow, and has a sickly appearance ; the fly keeps in-
creasing, and we now feel pretty confident a great deal of
the weakly bine has not sufficient strength to rally after a
blight; the flea is still doing mischief, and in some places the
honey dew appears. We have now a more unfavourable:opinion
than we have had heretofore.

WORCESTER.—OnWaIUrday 183 pockets of Hops were
weighed in our market. There is much inquiry after IBl9's
and 1822's and the prices are looking up. The average prices
may be stated as follows:—_1818's 31. 3s. to 4/. 45.-1319's
3/. 12s. to 51. and 51. 125.-1822'5, 7/. to 81. and 91.95.

DIED.
Yesterday, at his house in South Audley-street, Thomas
Chevalier, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S., and F.II S. surgeon
extraordinary to the King, and professor of anatomy and sur-
georyn stouthnedaßy7 thea
lC6olthlegneisot.f, Sautrgelloisn
As
liannLorogoe, London.
down, in Somersetshire, at the close of his 78th year, Thomas
: at Ambler-
L
Samuel Jolliffe, Esq., descended from an ancient family, which
traces its origin to the Personal followers of the Norman Con-
queror, and collaterally allied to some of the Chief Nobles of
the kingdom. Mr. Jolliffe filled an elevated station in society,
with distinguished ability and credit. Of late years ho resided
almost entirely in the country; but he formerly mingled in the
brilliant circles of the metropolis, and sat in several Parlia-
ments during the government of Lord North, and the first
periods of Mr. Pitt's administration. In the House of Com-
mons, as in every other situation, he sustained the character of
a high-minded and scrupulously honourable Gentleman. Upon
taking leave of His constituents, he fixed His residence on His
domain in Somersetshire, where, in the calm scenes of domestic
retirement, he became the centre of a grateful and an admiring
cirele!—( Courier.
On Sunday last, the 6th inst., John Bryan, Esq., of Swans-
comb, in the county of Kent, in the 69th year of his age.
On Wednesday, the 9th inst., Mrs. Bradshaw, of (kunhill,
in her 70th year.
On Tuesday, the Bth inst., at Ford's Grove, near Winch-
more-hill, Sarah Thomasin, wife of Edward Busk, Esq., in the
63(1 year of her age.
On Friday, the 4th inst., at Down-terrace, Hackney, Miss
Jordan.

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