Star.
London, England, 1824-06-08 00:00:00

OLD BAILEI--.-nITS DAY.

CARLILE'S BLASPHEMOUS PUBLICATIONS.
Iri/litiM CampioN, formerly a .shopman in the employ-
ment of Coble, was put to the bar on an indictment
charging him with publishing, in the month of May
last, a scandalous and blasphemous libel, of and con-
cerning our Holy Religion. There were nd less than
three other indictments against him for similar offences.
Mr. Shelton having read over the indictment, asked
t ie prisoner if he was guilty ?
Prisoner— Not guilty.
Messrs. BOLLAND and BERNARD conducted the case
for the prosecution. Mr. B. having pointed out the li-
bellous passages, called
Thomas Drummond, one of the Messengers belonging
to Bow-street Police Office.--Knows the house Nu. 81,
Fleet-street. The name of Carlile is, and was, over the
door. Witness went into the shop on the sth of May,
and saw the prisoner there. Bought of him Paine's Age
or Beason, for which he paid him 4s. Witness asked
him, if he wet e to take half a dozen copies would he
take a less sum for each copy ? and he offered to reduce
the price twenty-five per cent.
lircosvEn—Prisoner, do you wish to ask this witness any ques-
tion before the book is read?
Prisoner—When you have done with him.
ltecosoen—Do you wish to ask any question ?
Prisoner—I don't want him.
[The work was litre put in and read, so far as the libellous
pa,sages required.]
During the reading, by the Clerk of the Arraigns,
tf,e priamer attentively followed each sentence, having
been furnished with a copy of the indictment.
The case for the prosecution having closed, the pri-
soner was called on for his defence. He read from a
'written paper, of very considerable length, what he
'blight term an exculpatory answer to the charge, hut,
in truth, a mete repetition of what on former occasions
has been set up.
After going at some length into his defence, he corn-
Ineneed reading extracts from the Creed of Paine, and
defended his opinions, as laid down in his works, until
the Jury interlei ed.
The Re..cottomt regretted that the Jury should have
been under the necessity of hearing the shocking obser-
vations that had fallen from the prisoner ; but it was his
wish that it should not hereafter be said that he had not
been allowed to defend himself. He expressed a strong
Lope that the prisoner would forbear.
Sir CLAUDIUS STEPHEN HUNTER observed, that he,
fur one, would not sit to hear such blasphemy.
The prisoner said, he had no other way of defending
himself, and he was allowed to proceed.
Sir C. S. HUNTER again stopped:him from reading an
offensive passage, but the prisoner again proceeded, and
concluded ith imploring the Jury not to send him to
a jail for publishing a work which he, in his heart, be-
lieved v.) contain nothing injurious to moral feeling.
lie called no persons to speak to his character.
The Rzcoariest summed up the evidence to the Jury,
who retired, and by to time of our going to press, re-
mined in very warm debate, five-sixths of them being
in favour of a verdict of Guilty.

OLD BATLEY, HALF PAS r Two.

The Jury have just returned into Court with t;he fol-
low•ing verdict:—'" We find the prisoner guilty of pub-
lishing the libel in question."

it is a curious coincidence that Paine died this day
fifteen years, expressing his regret that he had ever pro-
mulated his destructive principles.

Yesterday. Robert Perrot, a waggoner, in the employ
of Mr. Isaac Boden, stood indicted for killing and
:laying Ruth M'Kewell, on the evening of the 21st of
April last. The facts of this case were briefly these: The
prosecutor, named Perno was driving the deceased in
a gig, from London to EghaM, and overtook the pri-
soner, who was driving a waggon, near to the Powd, r.
mills at Hounslow. He attempted to pass by the wag-
gon (which had seven horses to it) on the near side, but
the prisoner prevented him by drawing his leading
horses on that side. The prowittor then drew back,
and passed behind the waggon, and attempted to pass on
the off side, there tieing plenty of room. Ile drove his
gig to a-level with the shaft horse, when the prisoner
whipped lii, In rses, and the waggon struck against the
gig, upset it, and threw out the prosecutor and the de•
ceased. One of the waggon wheels passed over the de-
ceased's head, and killed her on the spot, and another
wheel passed within less than a yard of the prosecutor's
head, as he lay 'on the ground.
The Jury retired at two o'clock, to consider their ver-
dict, and at nine o'clock in lice evening found the pi i-
soner—Gu
George Gamble, a person of most re;pectable appear-
ance, and who, we understand, has been a warrant of-
ficer in the Navy, was tried for stealing about eight
hundred weight of lead, which had been temoyed from
certain dwelling-houses in Westminster. After an ab-
sence of an hour, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
lle wai called up fur judgment. He stated that he
liad served his country for 28 years, and borne an un-
blemislieJ character. Some private discussion took
place between the RECORDER and his Counsel, and
judgment was deferred until the CONNION SEn.stANT
should return.