Star.
London, England, 1817-05-01 00:00:00

THE CASE OF MR. JOHN Witr(;:f?.

A considerable sensation has been made i•
quence of the legal proceedings aga.nst Mr. 1.
Wright, schoolmaster, who has lately delivet
gious lectures, and held meetings for public worl
on Unitarian principles, in the Long-room, Mali:.
street, Liverpool.

On the Saturday following his first exNbitier,
Mr. Wright, attended by his professional frie! Ji,
again appeared at the Town Hall, on the subject ci
the registry of the Long-room in Marble street,
stated to the Magistrates that he had been at Chester,
and on inquiry at the Registrar's office, found, to his
surprise, that the registry had been kept in so lime
and irregular a manner, that be could acct trace ts
registration of the room in Marble-street; but :hough
he could not find any written, he had Lucc-dee .5
obtaining parole evidence of the fact ; and Ar. it.-
bert Weston, on being called and sworn, d. Fes._',
that between the years 1796 and 1798, a certitic.c
of the registry of this room- in the Bishop's Cour 4t
Chester was obtained by a congregation of Kibilva
illethodiae, of which community he was and still's
member. This certificate was placed in the hands
of Mr. Lionel' p,:cial, wilo is since dead, :tad
document itself was not to be (cond. After tnc cco
tificate was obtained, the congregation nut for sor'
time in the same room, which they quitted oil :11
erection of Zion Chapel; and that the roan cis
afterwards occupied as a place of religkus
by several other congregations of Prctstaut uisstc*
ters, up to the year ls!ti, khen the new cnnecsil
or Killiamite bletlicili:ts again preached ;n it ;.1114
their own chapel was undergoing alterations.
The Court, without questioning the tcstimenri
Mr. Weston, held, that it required the place t.sbe
registered a!res!) f,)r .every new congregati,tt
considering that Mr. 11 right hid erted
nal:y, two of the itformatior.:i were withdrawn. ad
on the remaining, information he was convict.l
in the mitigated penalty of fikis. Again* this t-1
viction the defendant appeal !d to the Quart.l o(s'
sions, and tile hearing was arpointed for last Saturiar.
At ten o'clock on Saturday manning. the 01r,
assembled to hear the appeal, and in short
Town-hall was fitted with a very respectable
Mr. Laurie having stated that he appeap:d n';'•
port of the conviction of Mr. Join W'right, who Nisi;
been fined 295. for preaching in a room wither:
certificate of registration, called Mr. Camp!':ll to
prove that be let the room to Mr. Wright and Mr.
Rees Davies, to establish the fact that Mr. WOO,'
bad, at the time specified in t!.e conviction, !nod"
in that room. The To•rn Clerk was examine('
prove that Mr. Wright, when the cenvictiA
place, produced no certificate of registration. elr•
Ward, the Deputy Registrar of the Bishop's Cet!:t
st Chester, del.,ned, that he had searched tae
of the Court, in order to discover if any cett;ficate
registration could be found, but that he had scoot''''
vain. The witness admitted, however, that pre*
viously to the time when he entered upon his pre.;:3

te...• which was in 1809, the papers relating to this
o:trent were kept in a very irregular state, and
not imac;itie that more than one fifth, preba-
t,. „ t „, .le-tenth wf them, were now in
1' '64 was the case of the prosecution.
t;
Vriautzs and Mr. LAWRENCe, on behalf of
• e'l ,nt. thei called Mr. Robert Weston, whose
stelst same as on the former
41Jing only, that the licence was procured
b, .1.. ? ry. . • then lived and is still living in
r. Dr. Ste vart, a ciergyni in of the commn-'
Burghers, was also called, and proved
t.; 1... ...4 lie.l in the L'otg-room, Marble-street,
0307. to February, 1808, and that several
cis' yea. 1'..11% bah preceded and followed him.
i.r.,gress of the inquiry, and while the appel-
lot.; were under examination, a question
r„f• woe the room in Marble street had not,
since tine of obte.iiiing the alleged certificate,
t,„a us.d tor secular purposes? and Mr. Penjamin
L:is• on the part of the prosecution, w .s called, and
depoied, that some three of four years ago, he at-
;WO eta Debating Society in that room, of which
Raley, the comedian, had the management. He.
1:50 swore that, abort seven or eight years since, a
etc.;,,,r, the iieur Rep, occupied the room As an ex-
Mb.c _trout for the display of his slight-of-hand:eats.
D.:Cotner. i Airing their decision, said, the case
rir,rd welt t i two parts. lit, Whether there
bad at any time b-en a registration ot this room )-
2,a, iv, ‘lo.ether, supposing that to have been the
D:' :::ere had been, by the purposes to Vitich the
, applied, a discontinuance of that registra-
riv? On t..e first of these points, it must toz
said the ReColtDelt, that the evidence of the
::,s very incomplete. Why was not Mr. Parry,'
on' it was, said that the Certificate was oh..'
;in.!. and who, it was
.ethuitted, was still living
Chester,. 'cal:ed 'to prove this tact ? It was a
Gi law to require the best evidence that could
pit:duce,' ; and as the wise Lay upon the Appel-
, it was lor him to base produced Mr. Parry.
lit ti:c t•cood point, though the Court could not
the ot saying that it was necessary that
,y ',nil t•rogregation should have afresh registry
atit place of worship, yet as the applications for
a certificates generally expressed that the place
br registered was •• set qperr' tor religious worship,
.rtoatnly did appear that the continuity was broken
la the ietroductitio et concerns of a secular and pro-
nature ; and this had confessedly been the case
t. e Lone-toorn in .Marble-strett. Under these
nun:stances, the Court telt it their duty to confirm
o. v.ction ; which was confirmed accordingly.
Severai legal objections were then taken against
conviction, but they weie all over-' uled ; and the
Hain, by hi, Counsel, intimated his intention to
!al IV the Courts above.

THE EVENING • STAR.

J.ONDON.

'HUaSDAY, MAY 1, 1817.
ID ST. Lasaas.-.-Hnliday at tba Bank, Exe.betner,
and South Sea Hausa

. Papers of Monday arrived this morning.
arrest, apparent:), connected with that of
'Aticzt.:, has taken place. One Ornu.s,
lufaeturer, said to be a eastri.• of Esuaftwels's,
apprehended and undergone a strict exarri.
The journals profess to have no knowledge
,asion of these arrests, but Irom the political
of the panics, there err be little doubt
(en to some supposed plot of one kind or
70Ur of the Ex• Emperor.
!so is so far re-established in hisor health,
iday hut he attended Divine Serrice in

of the Palace, being the first time he has
• a great many months. On his return
Chapel, he 'hewed himself in the balcony of
and nothing, it is slid, ,t could exceed
ports of joy **which be ass received by
abled multitside."
lamation from General CASTANOS, the Cap-
ral of Catalonia, inserted in these papers,
the accnunt which has been given of the
of Generals LACY and MILAN% but does
any new particulars. LACY is said to be
gin, and to have served in the Spanish
,ore the last war. MILAss is a gentleman
the KIM distinguished families in Catalonia.
letters from Upper Austria speak of a sect
lately arisen ti.ere, called Petrilions, from
of its founder:olie PETZZL, a priest of Bran-
most abominable things are related of them
inured," says the narrator, " that after the
the Sprit:row in England, they preach
and community et property, and that they
one set of thi to purity others of their sins.
use sit th. 1-1 y Week 01.4 sacrificed a num.
:n, wtio expired in the moat horrible tor-
A girl of three years of age, in the village
'wail, had her throat rut on Holy Friday.
!ri have been Vic Oms of this horrible creed.
ender ct the Sect, Petisel, with eighty-six of his
have been arrested, and military detach-
spread throughout the villages, in order to re-
nquillity among the unfortunate inhabitants."
!at tire h tppened at Munich on the night of
which consumed Wood to the value of
nins, that had been collected for the build-
new theatre. The first report very shrewdly
this misfortune to the reakeillanes of some

icendiary hut from more authentic infor.
we find the incendiary to have been do other
suave spirit of the air, and his firebrand an ordi.
inderbolt. The KING, the PLUMS ROYAL.
HARLV.s, and Prince EUGINg, all repaired to
on the tire breaking out, and contributed
by theirexertions. io its extinction.
APKII, 14.
Department for Foreign Affairs has been for
time muck occupied. Important Negotiation

... . •
with England are publicly talked of, and an arrange.
went is spoken cf with our Insurgent Colonies through
the mediation of that Power. It is also said, that
Negociations are on foot res2ecting the Florida., and
that we a.rr to cede thus: coutaries to the United
States or tcceiving a suitable it:donnity.

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