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".11:0erer be had to offer which I.Fas characterized
by decorum, bat he could not stiffer the re vd-
.h'lr and calumniating of the Ciiiiitian Reli-
gion.

Dar. Car am not disposed tn,,belietre- the
tsi,ith of that Religion, and I.will promulgate my
_opinions whatever may be the conseglience.—
Dome of the Jury here burst into an expression•ot
ludigneition.] , •
Mr. Cathie then went on to lilrea his case to
th,it of Galileo, who tvas imprison,d for asserting
ti doctrine which was alt erw Ards O:Oieved by all
the civilized -.part of tnlnkifid. He. Hvg.ied 111,1
the Christian Religion could not be injured by
fair discussion, and that if error was imputable to
*4ny person for introducing, this subject; that error
was to be ascribed to the Attorney-General. All
be wanted was the examination of this hook (the
I)ibL), vtdiieli be publicly deno:inc.ed a bLisphemy
inward,: God I—[Another shudder .ivaN
iu ihe Jury.]
Ili.e.Chiet Justice once more interposed, and
exclaimrd-1 cannot hear this—it is too bat!

Mr. Csrlile—l am willing to state my reasons
for Ibis belief. .
'11;e Chief 'Justice—We cannot listen to rea-
Sonc for such sentiments.

Mr, Carlile then !everted to his former argu-
ments, contending for the legality of deism, and
his ri;:ht to question the genuineness of the boly
volume.

The Chief Justice denied that any such law
*listed, and clearly exphined the meaning of
the Act, which need only to be read to be under-
stood.

Air. Carl& proceeded in his observations. in the
enerse of which he denied that he had impugned
!iatlit v.
Chief Jui-Aiee said, that be bad beard him
State Hs tip'tnitto to he, that the Holy Scripture
siiss 'iLT,,Splintrons libel
Tr. C,oliie then prleeedecl to state, that an
tdif it,n of the Bible, by a Mr. Bellamy, and to
N't#l,cli his !loyal 1-liJincss the Prince Regent had
a vt-r,, eaten-ire sul,;scriber, was now pub-
T' former ear on, published in
the rtign of James I. was stated by Mr. Bel-
bony to he incorrect ; and to c.rr-ct those
errntr, he, h:id tarred tip the Heblekg'. eiti-
-11"11. and Navin;; cliscoimred the errors, had cor-
ree!cd them in his own. -If Mr. Bellamy's edition
Wet', heliemed then -the 'persons so acing be-
came Helier tinder the Statute; and if they be-
lieedd in the tOrmer one; he mightifind•fault 'vett)
Ua( conuect, dud •theY h,ed acte.tl incortet tly;
sod it was clear 'that 4-11de-edition received
was not a ct4rect translation of tie. 1-Ichrew edi7
tilit); it did not express the rev Piled Cirstran Re 7
It Was !its intention to.linve broligiir for-
weed several pert;Orts, prOtessors of the Hebrew
,to pros that the copy of the reign of
James.;evas incorrect, and '' how," he a.ketl,
could' any o.:e solisCribe.to that of. Mr. Bella.
"tv: owe, as • svasto•siiir the times in Which we
?" It conk! not be denied char the totting-
Irff't incorrect, • for all COnitnentatOrs differed! cue
titit;t,oo By the ~,ts'itt-ithe-Priesls-ot-fi!r..:
'tows, it had been matte" treason td read the
}Aide; t. r 'they knew that what they had written
vet i'not the truth, and feared the serditioizing eye
of tide deAder. If he could saistantiate n hat 'Paine
s'ai:t"-respecting • the 'liable, he thought he
ah'6l'fril be tinkled to a verdict iii 'his -favottr, lie
the Age of Reason for the, purpose.
cnottl
li'ling. it pasSib!e; what he' knew in his 'heart
ri nor be done, namely, a refutation of Paine's
Wolk laid before the public. Paine had heed'
brdnfied as an At L ist, an Infidel, &c. but he so.
le9thly helleYed that'ni; man had done more
. than
Lc had in favour of reyealed religion. He.'would.
114,, proceed with the Bible, if bis Lordship
flea"''
firit that was ,not allnwed to be done,
e elite not krow how he could go forward,
The. Chief Justice said, he might' do all he could
in his own he letlf. but be could not suffer hitn to
'tilify and to use blasphemy against the Scriptures.
-11-1 r• Cartile—But, rimy Lord, which translatiOn
a° you
mean me to refer' to ? •
'1:1)e Chief Justice-Lam not sitting here to an•
abler q
' 7,sest
, Carlile—WEll then, my il you will al.
ow me to use My *owl) Opinions. •
IL)e Chief Justice--4 have told you before, that
tir you conduct ynnt•self properly, I'lM willing to
mein* au-
% y thin; you have to adduce.
1.,(111r2 Carldle said lie bad already informed his
_ "Ishii) of the sufferings of those
,persons who
itiere concerned in t he-early dissemination of the
ti 41e. Ile could not' see any other difficulty than
131,e difference of opinion that existed; for, it the
6,1h1" was correct, was good,-it would not be
,tiected by any man - was impossible to pro-
Z-e(1 if ise:lvet-41 to experience sneb repeated inter?
and foilds.own part be; could not sec that
ie,l-1e existed at\ylaw by which he could be tried. If
tiOtit petiectited than, there never existed
Le' Persecution by'faggots.and flames; nor could
Ikeloin'bts conscience, attribute: it.to, the present
filers fr..... the Information bad been
before he came into office. In fact, he
fl 119 t think that lie .could have acted so, hut he
11ve been excited to his present. conduct by
it. ers; [lie was then about to describe a sys-
-1411!. persectilion to have existed for the last
o:llthed years,* vs hen the Chief Justice again de-
-01:s141.1 that he could not stiffer him to proceed, and
,(81.!et1 that the defendaot had adopted a mode
)(404rguroent. that could not be tolerated. His
ii:jkbif:, Was joined try the. Jury in his expres-
,,n,sr of disapprobation.)
of • Callile—Then I am denied the opportunity
i.eading the Bible in mtlefence,
lie,
are! , Justiee-7-N ys
o, you arc not. You
),,tt thinied to read any passage you please :
its'-h 5 -I leae repeatedly told you, you cannot be
1., .._red to blaspheme it.
itsb4r. Carlile.—There was annually, expended no •
14. SliO! than six trillions from the pockets of
tt,el;e,"ple of the country, in the maintenance of
`;-11 isders of the Gospel, and yet they could
turt:,el"(l.their religion. He called on the At.
, Y.:-Gytieral to produce the Bible he would be
b...
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s',.:7.lchief: ._ ,I.Ustice.—He. has no occasion to
I "Jr.
Ihen, am I to take the one
Just bad in my hands, or stn 1 to take the
puht.
jisultsteitcleb.Lz•Mr. 'Bellathy ?
ain not to tell you which. 41

Mr. Carlile.—My Lord, the law is the same in
both cases ; the fact,is we differ in opinion ;- you
profess yours, but you refuge me .to express mine.
Chief Justice.---I do not ; I only stop you
from acting contrary to law ; and if I did not do
so, 1 should myself be blameabig..
Mr. Carlile then went on to contend that the
Statutes of the. 9th and tOth of William and Mary
wire the same, an'd that the .53d of the King over-
ruled them. He described the latter to have pro-
tected blasphetny.—[Considerable disapprobation
was_ here expressed.]--He had, he said, all the
law on Otis side, fOr the present quoted Statutes
were so unlike others, that they could not be
misunderstood.

Chief Justice.—You have invited my opinion;
will you itow go on, and 1 will give it yon.
•Mr. Carlile again read the 53(1 of the King.
The Chief Justice expressed his opinion to
be, that the 513 d of the fling left the other two
Statutes wiio!ly untouched, with the exception of
tliose Persons•who.denied the Trinity.
Mr. Carlile--r cannot agree•to that. It is not
so, my Lord, as far as my rea,on goes. No Iter-
son say, that the Bible was the " handy-
work" of the Deity, The answer given to Paine's
opinion was, " That nothing Was impossible -to
God ;" but this did not disprove the justness of
his opinions. if be (Mr. Carlile) erred, he was
open to conviction, but it would not convince him
of his error were they merely to send him to pri-
son, for he could only be convinced by'argument,
He then proceeded to read Paine's letter to Mr.
(now Lord) Erskine, on the occasion of the trial
of Williams, and in the course of it,.atte.nied to
the practice of packing Juries, and proceeded to
ahu'e again the Holy Writings, when he was in-:
terrupted by the Attorney.General'i applying to.
the Court, to prevent the defendant going over
the same grounds, after the frequent admonitions
he had received.

The Gentlemen of the Jury again expressed their
disapprobation uf the course adopted by the de-,
iendant.

Carliic—After siornP farther observations, "
can outy say, my Lord, that if the law of the
laud is groonde,'. on Christianity, I do not see any
'of that Christi.inity arounr! me."
again latincw.d out into expressions
which called forth repeated expressions of disgust
from "and, in 'procee•ling., an universal
burstot ioriignation took place; %nd

A Jnryina-n, said, " My Lord, it is the
mianittuois -)pinion of the Jury, 0i :a the defen-
dant net d not again refer to Sk:riiiture."
The Chiet Justice having ag,tin occasion to ex-
prei, his conviction hat the Defendant could not
suffered to porsue his present course,
Carlile s4id, I,e had contended, and would con-.
tique to no so, 'teat the question was merely whe-
ther the 13;hle might to he treated with more re-
spect than Paine had give_ii it.
The Chief ,Itiee---Tnat is not the case. The
Holy Scriptures must not be thus.blasphemed and

Mr. Carlile—They have not been proved holy.
TakinK op ti.c Korio:he said, here is a book cOn-
sideied by millions more holy than the Bible.
The Ch 14 JiWice-said, that 'bad he been placed
its, the situation of a blasphemer in Turkey, not a
'tithe part of w bathe had this day said would have
been heard. • • •

Cathie then. proceeded to read extracts from
the work of Dr. Geddes.

The Attorney-General objected to :he
,Defend•
ant going on with the.matter in the book he was
reading, on the ground that it had not the least
application to the defence.
The Chief Justice callea upon the Defendant to
explain his motive.. , You' are going on to proNe
the Divine authority of the Scriptures. We don't
doubt that. . • -

Mr. Carlile—h. is the work of a learned man,
who had doubts.of•Certain parts .Of Scripture,. 'I
have doubts perhaps. • Paine had dalub:s,- and I.
mean ,to. show we,. are not the' only persons _who
have,dqubted parts. of the Scripture. ,1
The Chief Justice—Noryou have not doubted
parts,.you have doubted. -the whole. The whole
is irrelevant. lan most anxious to afford.,you
the . legislative means ,of defence, but you are
taking up the time.of the, Jury to no useful pur-
pose. . „

One of the. Jury; here said—My Lord, the Jury
do not think This .applies to his defence.

Car feel myself crushed.
Are crushed by the weight
of your own publication. It you have done some-
thing which you cannot,defend ,withont i►npugn-
ing the law of England;-you cannot defend your-
self at all. •-• ,
-definition your-Lordship has.given
of the law, as-applying to the Act of William and
Mary is, that only' one of the provisions is re••
pealed, and that tb•ree remain in force, I con-
tend the last Act: repealg the whole of William
and Mary:

Chief Justice—The Jury will judge • whether
you or I are-hest acqUainted with the law.
Mr. Carlile—l-may judge froth a right view.
Chief. JuStice—YeS , but if you judge right,
you must not go ma in error. •
Mr. Carlile—lf I produce learned men who
have published works like Paine's, without being
Prosecuted, I may ask the Attorney-General why
he prosecutes me ?
Chief Justice—l know of no such works.

Cat-tile—lf I take in band the volumes .of Gib-
bon., I find he undermines the Christian religion.
Chief Justice—Well; what then—am I to al-
low you to impugn the Christian religion because
Mr. Gibbon did ? I tell you again you are not to
(to so, because others have,
. Carlile—lt is because I stand in an humble si-
tuation that I am prosecuted, Gibbon, after his
writings, received an office under Government,
Hume, who went further than I have gone, re-
ceived 5001. a year! His works were answered
by Mr. Campbell—why not answer mine ? Why
throw me into a dungeon for what men of all de-
scriptions have done before me ? There is an in-
tendon to put me down, and prevent we froin
going to a dose defence.

Chief Justice—ln justification of myself, I must
declare I am no party to any such intention. Ask
yourself why should I he called upon as an Eng-
lish Jutl,ge to do what 1 and not tillowed to do by
law ? 1. am not to allow tiny Man to deny dm

ttuths of the Christian religion by the expression
of Ills own opinions. or the opinions of others.
Mr. Carlile—lt appears that the statute law is
to avail' nothing, but 1- hope- the Gentlemen of
the Jury will consider the Act the 53d of the
King as repealing the Act of William. He then
proceeded to argue that the Unitarians were pro-
tected by the last Act, and they were as far op-
posed to ths? principles of the Christian religion
as himself, who was a Deist. It eould not be
eharged.that he had any malicious intention. He
sold the book because he conceived that it incul-
cated more morality than any book he knew.—
There were tens of thousands, nay, half the peo-
ple of the country were Deists; .but from their
situations in life they dared not express their opi-
nion. He believed in one God, and the statute
law would not make him helieee more. It had
been his intention to place. before the Jury 30 or.
40 persons of different sects, to prove that their
tenets were tolerated so long a. 9 they did not in-
terfere with the Priestlitiod.. He was thrown
down, by being driven out of his line of defence.
and he could not convect his statement with the
evidence. It was said he improperly occupied
the time of the Court. He reminded the Court
that trials had lasted a fortnight or six weeks.
The Chief Justice said, any thing short of evi-
dence denying the truth of the established tell
gion, he would hear. Lne was wrong in the
law he had stated, 'namely, that he ought not to
hear the Christian religion degraded, he was
amenable 'o the judgment of a- higher tribunal.
Mr. Carlile said, he did not know any case in
which an Attoroey-General had objected to the
line of defence he had adopted. The next work
he shook! read, Was nothing; more than a fair ex=
aminstioh of the Hebrew Scrip- tire. Ir was a
line of argument to prove ilia,- (bete cas -a foun-
dation for Mr. Paines attack on Christiaoity. He
was pla-ed in a most unpleasant situation ; he
wished to justify the act he 'had done, and being
denied the Means us FStifiCalion, had no defence.
He considered Paine the finest and .most able of
writers. lie had a mass of information to show
that others had done the acts imputed to Jesus
Christ

Tile Chief Justice said be had nothing to do
with writers of that description. He was in duty
bound not to suffer books to be reel which denied
the truth of the Established Religion. No man
ought to stand up in an English Court of Justice,
and defend himself by proving he win not the only
unbeliever. The law declatCd the Chtistian reli-
gion to be pure.

Mr. Carlile—But I deny_ it is pure. The Bible
is set up. as being good, yet the advocates of the
book are afraid or ashamed to have it read; He
could prove that every sect or religion• had been
persecuted by the sect more powerful. It %vas:a
lamentable fact that he was to be immured
within the wails of a prisod, for publishing
liberal opinions. The • same spirit had led
men to the fires kindled by superstition. Ile
then cited a work called Stattt • illortttorum.—
It said God could not be so unjust as 'to damn
hie own creatures. The writer went on to in-
struct the Clergy, that they were not to Preach
from their own feelings., hut received opinions.
He also said men's minds Must be hrought by•de.
grecs to bear the lighi of truth. Too moch.light
at one bole was otf,,,sive to the eyes. The De-
fendint contended that troth' was never too strong
for the human mind. It was evident the writer
had doubleA the troth of the Scriptures. 'radius
bad praised the time when men could speak their
mind. Milton,• adopting the sentiments of. Eur-
ipides, had said the same. Judge Bacon was of
the same opinion. Mr. Boyle said, " The Mo-
narch may command me, but not my opinion."
He could not tall an Unitarian to give an opinion.
,He could not ask him whether he believed the
-doctrine of diels'iini7y.
, Tire bave only excluded you
front the fine of defence which leads you to deny
the truth of the Holy Scriptures..
nr. ei4lile-1 know well, if the Jury return a
verdict of:guilty, I any thrown into the hands of
those: who are my persecutors. I.know not bow
to make my defence.
The Chief lustice:—Make it according to law.
• Mr. Carlile,--The!Conrt lies nothing to do, it
says, with private opinions.
The Chief Justice—The law does not allow
you,.or any roan,_ to state in a COurt of Justice
OpFnions tending to revile the Established Reli-
gion.
Catlile—l do not know how-to proceed, I
am chained I can go no fa.riher. .
The Chief jos-Hee—Theft you must stop. Have
you any-wirnessesi . .;
.114r..Carlile—The-tinie is not come. I have
not made my : defeoce. He then proceeded to
read' passages from the Ecclesiastical History of
Cusebius aml otliers He -read the story of
•Sinion,Magus, the Magician, and said, all the
tales of Scrip tire were replete with absurdities of
'the same description. '
At ten minutes after four the Chief Justice call-
ed for lights, and the defendant was allowed a
short pause.

1 He then contended that the book wa3 read by
all .Christians as a proof of the truth of the Scrip-
tures. It was, how...ver, considered irrelevant ;
and he proceeded to the history of Martin Luther,
saying that that person was puroued with the same
spirit of persecution which the Attorney General
adopted in his case. Proceeding with his defence,
lie compared himself to Luther for devotion to the
cause of truth, and anxiety In benefit and enlighten
his fellow-creatures. The Jury, he hoped, would
not use him worse than Luther had been used by
the nig:tors of Saxony. He did not ask them to
adopt his opinions, but be trusted they would
not give him up, to the Attorney General.
contended that he had done nothing to call for
punilitnent, and asserted that he had only imi-
tated those men whom they had all been taught
to admire—he meant those persons who brought
about the Reformation, by attacking the super-
stitions of the present day, as they had attacked
the superstitions of other times. Those Re-
fortneis bad been pursued by law and persecu-
tion, as be was, and loaded with all the oblo-
quy and reproaches, which bad been lavished
upon him. They had been excommunicated
and anathematized—to this he had no objection
in his own case, so be were acqaitted by a ver-
dict of the Jury. The principles of the Ite•

formers had triumphed in spice of all opposition,
as he was confident those would do of which
lie was the •advocate. Ke thew called upon the
Jury to leave him to be dealt with as they would
have had the Reformers dealt with at the pericd
in which they lived. If he were in error, the
er-
ror would soon correct itself ; if he were not in
error, how unjust would it be to punish him tor
what he conceived lo be the truth. Ile then pro-
ceeded to examine the sroey (as he called it) on
which they differed, and at great length he con-
tended, that there was no evidence (nn which
lie could rationally depend) of 14. the Miraculous
Conception." Dilating on this subject, he con-
tended, that if there were blasphemy in the case,
it was committed, not by him, but by the com-
pilers of the New'restat»ent. These, he said,
were his own sentiments, they were written in hit
own hand, and had not been prepared for hint hit
others. He went on to compare the accounts
given of the birth of Jel,is Christ by St. Matthew
and St. Luke, which he described to he at vari-
ance iu many essential points. The Unitarians;
in the course of his address, he represented to
have published a New Testament for themselves,
In which the chapters containing the accotw. of
the Miructilous Conception, did not appear. That
part of the Testament they had rejected.
The Chief Justice—But not reviled it.
Mr. Carlile contended that to reject a part of
it as false, weifi to tevile it.
The Chief Justice—Go, on Sir, with your de-
fence, and. it you can, confine yovselt within the
bounds of mo4eration.

Mr. Cartile had no wish to offend.. He, how-
ever, still contended, that the tenets of the Uni-
tarians were opposed to what his Lordship said
was protected by :Statute as the law of the land.
Rejec!ing .a part-of the New Testament, he must
still consider that they reviled it, That they in
this had ()Mooted against the Christian reli-
gion, must, he thought, he admitted, from a
reference to the 22d Chapter of Revelations, in
which it was stated, that '' he who should add
to that book, should have added to him all
the curses that it contained; while from hiaa
who look away from it, God would take away his
part of the Book- of Life " He was of opinion
that the principles of the Unitarians, making as
they dill against the- Trinity, made against Chris-
tianity altogether. An Unitarian he regarded as
it Deist With a cloak on. From Eusebias he
knew that the books of the Testament had not
been written by -those persons whose names were-
attached to Went, amd he had it►tended-to show
front various books with which he
was provided, by whom the Books in the New
Testament were held to have been written, helot e
they were examined by the Conncils of Nice
and Laodicea. He strongly insisted that lie
had committed :no offence. His diligent in-
dustry in seet:ing troll merited applause ra-
ther than punishment. He had sought the
tenets of the Christian religion by referring
to those who were most eminent among
its supporters,—froth Or igen, Ensebins,
others, down to the pretended Evidences of
Christianity, collected by Addison. He had done
'this, not with the wicked intentions imputed to
him, but withohe.view of improving the morality
of the people; for, the was of opinion, that mora-
lity could not.fiourish if it were not founded in •
truth. He denied that he had any evil intentions,
and he declared that he believed himself to be
sheltered i 'making the publication, now the 50)ject
of prosecution,hy the Statute of t hes3d of the King,
to which he had before referred. On that Statute he
contended that he was fully eutithol to an ac-
quittal. He had made most extensive arrangement,
for defence, but the defence be had intended
to make, and which was his only defence, was
taken from him. In this he conceived himself to
be unfairly treated. When a man was accused of
an improper act, and offered to justify that act, if
he were not allowed to do so, he might be re-
gaoled as being condemned unheard. In conse•
quence of the interruption he had received, lie
could not proceed further with his defence that
evening. He heal many witnesses to call to his
moral character, and to the tenets that he had pro-
fessed. Many of those were already subpoenaed,
and more would be so by to-morrow. He there-
fore requested his Lordship would adjourn the
Court.

The Chief Justice inquired for what purpose be'
desired the Court should adjourn.
Mr. Carlile—To give me an opportunity of ex-
•amining witnesses.
• The Chief Justice—And for that alone ?
Mr. Carlile did not exactly say that.
The Chief Justice said, the Court could not
adjourn to give him an opportunity of doing that
to-morrow which he could not he allowed to do
to-day. Ile might now examine witnesses to
his character, but his moral character was not
arraigned but inasmuch as it was affected by the
publications now under prosecution.
Mr. Caine said it certainly was, since he was
called in the Information a wicked and depraved
person.

The Chief Justice said, if accused of theft, it
..vonld be proper that he ~hould prove his honesty
—if of murder, he might show that he was of
peace Ade h:ibits; but in the plesent instant , e the
evidence he proposed to bliug forward did ti,r
seem necessary, and :my thing that might be
feted to show the differences existing among Chris-
thins of various denominations, would be rejected
as utterly irrelevant. Probably he might nave
some of his witnesses in attendance now who
could speak to his moral character.
Mr. Carl& hail none present then.
The Chief Justice said, Ire ought to have had
theta is attendance.

Mr. Carlite ha►d supcenaed the Chiefs of different
Sects, with a view of making them state to the
Court the grounds of their belief, in order to
show, front the differences existing among then),
the necessity of inquiring into the origin of
their tenets,

Tha.Chief Justice would think it improper that
such evidence should -be given, and mote especi•
ally must he object to any eidence that went to
prove the Christian religion untrue.

Mr. Carlile thought it would be important to
place one or two Unitarians in the box, in order
to show that with their tunets, they ttnuld nave
felt instiritd in offering remarks on the Christian

sitylidr to those twere to be found
in Pirine's " Age of Reason."
The Chief Justice could not stiffer this to be
(100 e. In answer to a remark snide by the de-
fendant, that his witnesses were not present, be
observed this was not his fault—they ought to be

theft.
Mr. Cathie linew tit it was not his Lordship•i
fault. But lie, expectintz his defence would oc-
cupy a longer period, had not thought their at.
letortuce necessary, nor had lie those books with
hilt to which he wished to refer, lie tool been
careful not to eucumber him,ell with mote than

lie thought lie should %yaw, for yesterdAy he had

neatly lost I%vo pat eels ot his books %clic%) getting
into Court. There seemed a dispo,ition to get
thvm from him.

The Chief Justice said, a e:ilm dispassionate
inlviiry was desired. Any thin;z th,“ bore so,ll
a character mi..:ht be bionght for+vard. The
questions be should leave for the Jury would be,
whether the work row mi,ler prosecution merited
such a character. It it did. not deserve the cha-
racter it had received, he would be entitled to his

aeTrittal.
Mr. Carlile wished to briny; wi!ncsscs to prove,
that our version was iu some respects different
front the original Hebrew.
The Chief Justice said, such evidence would not
he received. It was irrelevant, as the %Yolk which
the defendant h'ad published, did not attack a part
of the Bible, but the whole tabric of the Christian
Mr. C,o We wished to hrin4 forward the worth
of Mr. Locke and other eminent persons, in favour
of Unit ersal Toleration, These, as they would
go to prove that the Christian Religion cordd
sostain no injury from free and fair di;enssion,
would be likely to have more effect on the Jury
than any thing that could fall from his own mouth.
The Chief Justice was of opinion be ought to
have been prepared with these.
Mr. Carlile did not expect that he should want
them to-day, as he had not expected the inter-
ruption that he had received.
The Chief Justice said, be had only been inter-
ritpted when he attempted to introduce irrelevant
matter.

Mr. Cathie was anxious to call witnesses to
his moral character, as he did not think the
Jury would semi Lim to three or four years
soiitary confinement, if he were likely to do his
duty in society as a man and a father on being re-
turned to it. fie had an infant family that look-
ed ty to him for support, and it was on this oc-
ession that he was the more anxious to vindicate
his moral character. Whatever the tendency of
the book might be, he had published it with a
good intention. lie had now no witnesses in at-
te•►rdance; he had much important matter to offer
to-MOITOW, and was now, after standing there
from the morning, taking no refreshment but wa-
ter, so completely exhausted, that he had scarcely
any recollection left about him.
The Chief Justice repeated, the Court could not
adjourn to give him au opportunity of bringing
forward any thing, the object of which was to
deny the Huth of the Christian Religion.
Mr. Carlile wished to bring forward persons of
various persuasions to show that in which they
believed was ab•iird and ridiculous. Such were
the doctrines of Johanna Soutd►cott, yet she had
been allowed to go on, and thousands believed in
her still. He wished to examine the Bible—he
would use no sarcasm—all he desired was to com-
pare and examine.
The Chief Justice could not allow him to pro-
ceed as he was disposed to do.

Mr. CArlile then Raid, he had some observations
vthiel; wished to address to the Jury.

The Chief Justice—Well, make them.
Mr. Carlife could not do so with the necessary
effect, his strength leas so far exhausted.
The Chief Justice replied, if he had consumed
his strength in a struggle tor the introduction of
irselevent 1113ItCr, he WAS Sorry fur it ; but as yet
he had laid no 'ground for the adjournment he
desired. He could not be allowed to recruit his
!strength, merely that he might be enabled again
to combat the law. Any thing that could be
properly urged in his defence, lie had every wish
to gke hint the fullest opportunity of addressing
to tie Jury. . . .

After many other remarks, Mr. Catlile pledged
himself not to htin44 forward any thing new
;against the Bible. The Jury expressed a wish
that the request of the defendant should be com-
plied with, en an understanding that he should
limit his defence to addressing them on matte's
immediately connected with the prosecution and
the Chief Justice relying on the defendant's pledge
to pursue such a course, adjourned the Court till
hall-pAst nine tlis morning.

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I.()NDON ,
OCIOBEII 14, 1819.

receic.:el this morning the Paris Papers of
Nondoy last. The following are extrdcts :
" Ocr. I.—The King yesterday re-
ceised the .\liuts:ers, a great number of public
Functionaries id igh .rank, the Marshals, and
many supelii,r 03icers. His Majesty afterwards
the

" lido: ue B,r:y Lad on faturday a con-

c;idernble acce!'s of fever. The Ductess de Petry
and :NlAdemoiselle, continue in the must satislac-

rory •rare.

" Preparations are miking in many of the
Churches of Paris, for the Funeral Service to the
memo, y Nf Queen Abuja Antoinette,, which is to
take place !he 16th instant.
" The Duchess of Marlhorotigh with her fa-
mily, and also Loid IVbitwoltb, have uriived at
Pat is.

" The Prefect of La Gironde has issued two
all C 3, containing various regulations, for the
Purpose of preventing the contagious disorder in
Andalusia, from extending itself to that Depot t-
TII e n t

" The bust of the Liberatrix of Orleans will
soon ornament the place pnblique of Domremy
(Vosges). On a pedestitl, from whence will flow
a pure and limpid stream, four pilasters of the
Doric order will be raised, serving to support a
"roof of stone having two fronts. A cruyp, placed
nutlet this portico, will receive the bust of the
heroine : on the (rise is to be placed the follow-
ing inscription—To the Memory of Jeanne d'..4re.
A second inscription will state, that This Monument
has been voted by the Department of Vosges. The
execution of the bust is confided to Al. le Geudre
1-16ral.

" SEPT. 22.—Lucien Buonaparte, re-
cently returning from a promendric, was attacked
by two Brigands, but a Carabineer who accom-
panied his carriage overcame Gem, utter 41 severe
contest, end they were both taken.

MANileim, OCT. 4.—lt is understood that
this Austrian and Prussian Miuisters are to be
alternate Presidents of the Committee of the
Germanic Diet, which is to remain assembled at
Frankfort in pursuance of the recent artange-
ment3.

" ZURICH, OCT. 2.—lt appears by letters from
Genoa, that there is not a word of truth in the
report of the debarkation of an English corps at
Genoa, nor are any foreign troops whatever ex-
pected there.
" IlAmnuaGn, OcT.2.—We learn from Dantzic
that the Count Capo &Istria had disembarked at
that port, and that he was to proceed from thence
to join the Emperor of Russia at Warsaw."

By an arrival in the States from China, it is
said, that a Russian frigate had artived at Can-
ton, and reported that the territory on the Coast
of California, which is about 800 miles iu length,
has been et.(kl by Spain to Russia, in payment
for the assistance afforded by the Emperor ALB%-
ANDlitt to his Catholic Majesty, in fitting out the.
Expedition for Buenos Ayres 311(1 Limi.

The Morning Chronicle, which is too apt to give
credit to every idle and loose report, in referring
this day to an assertion in an Evening Paper of
Tuesday, stating that expresses had been sent off
to •Lord COLCHESTER and Mr. CANNING, proceeds
to say that a " report, which was before preva-
lent, had in consequence gained ground, that
Lord Stpuou-rst is to be sacrificed to the in-
dignation of the Country, and Lord CoLcuEsTER
is pointed on.: as his successoa." In the first
place the Evening Paper (an Opposition unclean
know nothing of the substance of any expresses

to Lord COLCHESTER and Mr. CANWING, but the
folly of connecting any such expresses with Lord
6'll)l4O[3TH belongs wholly to The Morning Chro-
nicle. As to tl►e other report " before prevalent,"
it has existed only in the imagination of The
Morning Chronicle, and is wholly destitute of all
other foundation. It is indeed nothing more than
a side-wind attack upon a Nobleman, who is
always anxious to discharge the ditties of his
office with a strict regard to justice and humanity,
and who, upon the Subject alluded to, most na-
turally have revolted from the idea of giving any
sanction to illiberal, Absurd, and unconsitutional
prejudivation.

is impossible to read the proceedings on the
Trial of CAP.I.ILEC without deeply lamenting that
some legislative measure has not been adopted,
which should exempt the Public Feelingi and the
National Faith from receiving such a shock as
must necessarily have resulted from the mode of
defence which has been adopted. But it is a
great satisfaction to find that the JUDGE is reso-
bitchy determined to support the Law and the
Religion of the Country, and not to suffer any
mode of defence which may tend to shake the
foundation of that hallowed truth on which our
happiness here and hereafter essentially depends.
But it is an additional satisfaction to find that
the Julci• strongly participate in the same feelings,
and revolted with horror front a discussion of
topics which never should be discusbed in a Court
of Justice.

There WaS a paragraph in our Paper of the 6th
inst. implying that disrespect had been recently
shewo by the Mayoress of a " Notthetu Corpor-
ation to a Noble Lady, most deservedly beloved

and divlnguishea for the kindness of her disposi-
tion and her a►uiable manners." This partigrlil.l,
accidentally found its way into our raper among
those which are usually taken from other Jour-
nals, for the sake of affording variety, but we
have since been induced to inquire into the real
state of the case, and we find that the Mayoress
is full as amiable a character as the Noble
Lady, to whose merits we readily subscribe.
The truth is that the Mayoress acted, as all her
predecessors bad done, in claiming the precedence
attached to the situation which site occupied;
but we are perfectly persuaded that rather than
have given the slightest occasion for offence on
the ground of etiquette, she would most willingly
have practised every courtesy that superior rank
could have required. This, however, is not a time
to abolish those forms which custom has establish-
ed, and which are necessary to give due weight
and influence to Authority, if only of a tetnporlry
nature. We have deemed it our duty to make
this explanation, because we unwarily inserted a
paragraph conveying a reflection upon a truly
amiable Lady, whose family and connections we
have always held, and always shall kohl, in the
highest respect, esteem, and veneration.

Letters from Newcastle, received this day, state
that the Meeting of Radicals in that place ter-
minated peaceably.

B E It M U D A.

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CARLILE'S TrAL.

THIKD DAY.

' This morning a greater concourse of persons
•ssenibled at Guildhall, and on the doors being
opened an immense body rushed in, and took
possession of almost every vacant space in this
Court. Complete order was, however, restored
before the CEIIEP JUSTICE took his seat on the
Bench. A few minutes after 9, Carlile appeared
in Court, accompanied by Until', between whom
and Sheriff Parkins, some conversation passed re-
spec:ing books necessary for the defence, which
Carfile stated to be in the hands of strangers.
At twenty minutes before ten the Chief Justice
entered the Court, and iheJury being called over,
CarWe resumed his defence to the following
effect :

" Gentlemen-1 pledged myself not to introduce
any twitter for consideration that had been object..
ed to by the Court ; I have endeavoured to prove
(bat I am nut the wicked atrocious individual
that I have been stated to be by the Attorney-
' General, and also that the work of Mr. Paine was
nut the description of work that it had been re.
ft presented ; it was a book written in honour and
not in ridicule of, or to vilify God ; it had been
the practice at all ages to persecute men for el.'
pressio4 their opinions ; Jesus Christ himself
had been prosecuted by the Attorney General of
Jerusalem, and there not being any Jury there,
he was condemned by an unjust Judge. How
ever, Gentlemen, I have dune my duty in vindi•
eating this Publication, and you 11 cI o Tours
this day, by your Verdict of Not Guilty.
Gentlemen, I ant a most humble individual, not
in search of any honours or emolument, nor is it
in my power to have the least e,,Er,oland ever'
the laced hat and coat of a Parish licAle soup
be rather given to the most subservient hypocrite
than the man before you, who holds opinions that
he considers jut, and possesses enough courage to
expres them. I have, then etare, nothing to depend
'on but your honesty, discrimination, and discern-
meat; being restricted in oUrin4 to you that which
would have convinced you of the truth of hat
has been published, I liod the plan of my defence
deranged, and baying spent a considerable part of
the short interval since Inset in the necessary
slumber:, for relievin,; me tram tine fatigue
had undergone, I have not had much opportunity
of adopting another line. 1 have, however,
selected a number of the opinions of eminent per-
sons, well known in the Christian World, and
shall submit them for your enusideration."--r-
-(He then [no:bleed the Hook of the Rev. J, Evans,
called " Christian Denominations," front which het
lead some extracts.)—llaving finished, he re-
sumed—

" The Crown Lawyers see the increase of
crime, but not the march of the mind intellect ,
is on the move, yet the Le %stye.' s retnain ass
'fixed as a able-stone on a turap:ke-road. This
is the last prosecution of the kind that will rake
place, for I have it from good auttiosiry, that this
case was not brought into Cuurt by the con-
sent of the Learned Judge on the Bemis, and
the known character of the Attorney General,
was against it ; he is the mere machine of yrue
authority elsewhere. I shall reed some extracts
front Mr. Locke : this Author, you will recollect,
was quoted by the Attorney-Generil in his open-
ing Speech.--[Long extracts were here read, be-
ing what the delrodAnt thought were ;ti support of
his opinions.] —Gent lemen, it may trot be impro-
per here to cmarlt , that " Paine's Age of Reason"
is read in ell the Colleges of the United Stats-s of
America, and also in the London lostiturioils, to

which the frequenters anti subscribers In3y have
access, if they ple,lsr. I !1114i1 now rear! Ole olli-
nious of Dr. Liikbut, Rev. Mr. Wybell, and
others."

Carhie was proceeding in reading a letter front
the Rev. Dr. lVilks to Mr: Justice Black,:tont.,
when our Reporter left the Hall. At the cow;
elusion of reading the above works lie made solve
ob►ervations of do importanre.
Doting. the Morniog, the Chief Ral►bi of the
Jews appeared in 'C.uirt, and took his seer hf
the side of the Sheriff. ; his appearance cxci;l,l
much curiosity. Carlile cannot coßipl-►in thi4
day of interruption, for not one ofijcctiou v.
made to mu), thing he offered in his defence.

SIM' NEWS.

PoRTSMOUTII, OCT. LL—Arrived the rtrangret,
LAnDNER, from Mi:dras, with six cortsip-nies of
the 25th Light Dragoons, under the co-mniAnd of
Major from She left Madras the 7.h AFril, soil
St. Helena the Bth A trgngt ; on the Mir Aitgo,t
spoke, in lat. 3. N. long. 22. %V. the Kingston,
Bowcu, from London tot Bengal ; aff the Azores,
!ell in with two ships and a brig', Rrmed, which
Hoisted Spanish colours ; wishing ro communi•
sate with them, the MattEleo skirt otf a boat'
which Was tired at, and not permitted to go'
aloogaide.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 1 1 .-Ar.,17:l the Tarantula
PooLtuAN, from St. Domingo, in two months, Iss
from Port Roy; 1, ssi7h army accoutre"
mems, which she eArrit.d from London, in 1116 r
last, for i\i'GRE GM; '5 Hirt'.

The extreme kw price of, Ste ;(as,., being, ".°
believe, under ten pounds the bogsheaal,, present'
► mast fAvonrahle opportunity fur tivannfactoring
horne•rnade Wines. 'l".•h•re is sneb- a vast abut'e
dance of English Grapes, and, clue winutitY °
ripe juice iw so greataiid so low ollced, that ,cle
have no doubt but n Itrgyr. quantity of Eliglis;
win, will be made this year thau at any toro'''
period.

On Moillay morning, the 1 itb instant, at Wan(lie Grove°
Mitehani, deer thrue \seel.:s '
Charlotte Sera
danghter of the late William Stratton, Esq. lierr.ber of Cou"'
ell at Bombay,

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