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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1;421.

LIBEL UPON HER LATE MAJESTY.

Mr. Blaenw.--I with to chew that Jr. Brougham is con-
nected with those in, Liverpool who instigated the prosecution.
Mr. Justice Ilot.aoye.—That is immaterial.
Blacow bowed with great.submksion, and said be would
do nothing which his Lordship thought irregulat. _

LANCASTER ASSIZES, SEPTEMBER 14.
REX V. BLACOW, CLERK.

Mr. TYNDALL stated the pleadings. It was an in-
dictment against the Rev. Richard Blacow, for a
scandalous and malicious libel against the late Queen.
The first count charged, that he had composed and
preached the words Charged as libellous ; the second
count charged, that he had composed and published
the words in a pamphlet, entitled "the Substance of a
Discourse," &c. the third count charged, that he had
composed and published the words set forth in the
indictment. The defendant pleaded Not Guilty, upon
which issue was joined.
Mr. BROUGIIANL—May it please your Lordship,
Gentlemen of the Jury—lt is my painful duty to lay
before you the particulars of this case, and it is yours
to try it; and my part shall be performed in a very
short time indeed, for I have little, if anything, more
to do, than merely to read—what I will not charac-
terise by words of my own, but what I wili leave to
you, and may leave to every man. whose mind is not
perverted, to affix a proper description. I read to
you what the defendant composed and printed. You
have heard from my Learned Friend—and if you
have any doubt, it will soon be removed—to whom
the following passage applies. Of the Queen it is
that the passage is written and printed :
" The term ' cowardly,' which they have now laid to my
charge, I think you will do me the justice to say does not belong
to me; that feeling was never an inmate of may bosom ; neither
whet. the Jacobins raged around us with all their fury, nor In
the present day of Radical uproar and delusion. The latter,
indeed, it must be allowed, have one feature about them even
more hideous and disgusting than the Jacobins themselves.—
They fell down and worshipped the Goddess of Reason, a most
respectable and decent sort of being---"

Cross-examination continued.—:%fr.Proti-gham is a Member
of the Concentric Society. I know Egerton Smith, the Edit( r
of the Liverpool Mercuril, perfectly well. I have known him
nine or ten years. His character and principlcs are perfectly
well known to me.

Mr. Justice 11;aorn.—That can have nothing to do with
your defence.
Mr. 13Iacow.--My Lord, I wish to shew the spirit•of the
party in Liverpool with whom Mr. Brougham is connected.
Mr. Justice liotaorn.—lf .I allowed you to go into such in-
quiries I should be guilty of perverting all justice.
Mr. Blacow.—My Lord, I shall ask nothing which your
Lordship shall think irregular or inymper.
Cross-examination continued.—When I was engaged in print-
ing the sermon, you undoubtedly had frequent conversations
with me respecting its principles and tendency. The substance
of your motives, as you stated them, was to expose the views of
,the Whigs and Radicals. You never chewed bitterness ur hosti-
lity towards the Queen on these occasions. You often expressed
your regret that she had connected herself with a desperate fac-
tion in the State. You often lametued the danger to which the
country was exposed ;coin the intrigues ot that faction, and the
dread of its consequences. There was a Procession in Liver-
pool a few days before your sermon was preached, in honour of
what was called the Queen's triumphant acquittal. .1 was not
near the Procession. I cannot testify whether there was con-
fusion and uproar in consequence.

• Thomas Coglan.—l was pres6t at the preaching of • the ser-
mon on the 26th of November, 1620, in St. Mark's. It was a
Sunday evening's discourse. There was a numerous audience.
I believe it is the church in whirls 31r. Bacow usually preaches.
I never heard him but then. I took notes. I ha:•e not a note
beginning with the term " cowardly." I recollect the term be-
ing used. I have a cote respecting the Jacobins- worshipping
the Goddess of Reason. I conceive the expressions used were
(as read by you), " They fell down and worshipped the Goddess
of Reason—a must respectable and decent sort of being com-
pared with that which the Radicals have set up, as the idol of
their worship." I have not the very words, but I have the sub-
stance. I have the very expression—" They have elevated the
Goddess of Lust—an object of all others the most congenial to
their taste, the most deserving of their homage, and the most
worthy of their adoration." I recollect the very words being
used ; but I did not take them down. I have the words down,
" After compassing sea and land with. her guilty paramour." I
have the very expressions—" Even polluted the Holy Sepulchre
with her presence," and " returning home hardened in sin and
bronzed with infamy."
Mt. Blacow.—Aly Lord, is it right that the words should be
read to the witness In this manner?

Anti you know, Gentlemen, that she was a com-
mon prostitute taken from the stews of Paris.

" A most respectable and decent sort of being, compared
with that which the Radicals have set up as the idol of their
worship. They have elevated the Goddess of Lust on the pe-
destal of shame, an object of all others the nio.t congenial to
their taste, the most deserving ofrlicit homage, the most worthy
of their adoration. Aft.r exhibiting her claims to their favour
in two distant quarters of the globe, after compassing sea and
land with her guilty paramour to gratify to the full herimpure
desires, and even polluting the Holy Sepulchre itself with her
presence, to which she was carried in mock majesty astride upon
an ass, she returned to this hallowed soil so hardened in sin, so
bronzed with infamy, so callous to every feeling of decency or
of shame, as to go on Sunday last"—
Here, Gentlemen, the Reverend Preacher alluded,
not to the Public Procession to S:. Paul's to return
thanks, or to other processions which might, partly
at least, be considered as political, but to her late
Majesty's humble, unaffected, pious devotion in the
Church of Hammersmith.

Mr. Justice HOLROVIL—No ; you may refresh the witness's
memory, but not more. You may suggest the subject, and the
regular way will he for him to read from his notes.
I have these words (witness read from notes) " Last Sunday
she went clothed," &c.

Mr. Justice Hossoyn.—You cannot support the first count,
you cannot prove the tenour.

Mr. TYNDALL—It is only the substance that is set forth.
Mr. Justice llocuovn.—Yes, but you must prove the tenour ;
you must prove the very words.
Mr. Tvs;DALL.-1t is perfectly immaterial, my Lord; for the
other counts are quite the same.
Examination continued.-1 read the sermon, since printed,
yesterday. I compared my notes with the sermon, and found a
great portion word for word as I took it down, and the substance
the same as I recollected him to have preached.
Here a minute examination as to expression took place ; and
after some legal conversation, the first count, charging the precise
words preached, was abandoned.
Witness proceeded.—Without doubt the words applied to 'the
Queen. I have not the least doubt of it.
By Mr. Blacow.—l am not in the habit of attending Saint
Mark's Church. My motives in attending that evening were.
that I had heard you intended to preach a sermon, the chief ob-
ject of which was to animadvert upon the Queen. It was from
curiosity I attended. I do not recollect any individual that com-
municated it to me. I believe it was genet ally talked of. I
usually attend the Unitarian Chapel, of which Mr. Harris is
Minister.

--." to go un Sunday last, clothed in the mantle of adultery, to
kneel down at the Altar of that Gun who is' of purer ey's than
to behold iniquity,' when she ought 'rather to have stood bare-
foot in the aisle, covered with a sheet as white as ' unsunned
snow,' doing penance for her sins. Till this had been done, I
would never have defiled my hands by placing the sacred sym-
bols in hers.: and this she would have been comptiled to do in
those good old days when, Church discipline was in its-pristine
vigour and activity."
Gentlemen, the author of this libel is a Minister
of the Gospel. The libel is a sermon—the act of pub-
lication was preaching—the place was his Church—
the day was the Sabbath—the audience was his cone
gregation. Far be it from me to treat lightly that
office of which he wears the outward vestments, and
which he by his conduct profanes. A pious, humble,
inoffensive, charitable Minister of the Gospel of peace,
is duly entitled to the tribute of affection and respect,
which is ever cheerfully bestowed. But I know no
title to our affection of veneration which is possessed
by a meddling, intriguing, turbulent Priest, even
when he chooses to separate his sacred office from his
profane acts ; but far less when he mixes up both to-
! gether—when he refrains not front entering the sane-
! [nary with calumny—when he not only invades the
sacred circle of domestic life with the torch of slan-
der, but enters the hallowed threshold of the temple
and casts it flaming on the altar—when lie pollutes
. with rank calumnies the air which he especially is
bound to preserve holy and pure—when he makes
the worship. of GOD the means of injuring his neigh-
bour, and polluting the flock committed to his care.
Of the defendant's motives I say nothing. I care not
what they were; for innocent they could nut be. I
care not whether he wished to pay court to some pa-
tron to look up to the bounty of power, or whether
it was mere mischief aid wickedness, or whether it
was a union of interest with spite. But be his mo-
tives of a d4rker or lighter. shade, innocent they
cannot have been ; and unless the passage I have
read proceeded from innocency, it would be a
libel on you to doubt that you will find it a libel.
Of 'the illustrious and unfortunate -individual who
was the object of this attack, I forbear to-speak. She
is now removed from such. low strife, and there isan
end, with respect to her, of, I cannot say chequered,
for her life was one continued coarse of injustice,
oppression, and animosity, from all who either held
or looked up to—all who either possessed or courted,
II emolument and aggrandizement ;—but the grave has
closed over her unrelenting. persecutions. • Unrelenting
I may well call them, fur they have not spared her
ashes. The evil passions which beset her steps in life
I have not ceased to pursue her memory, and with a
resentment more implacable than death. But it is
yours to vindicate the insulted laws-of your-country.
If your verdict will have no effect on the defendant,
it' he should still go on unrepentiug and unabashed,
it Will at least teach others or deter them. from vio-
lating the decency of the law.
Mr. Thomas Burgland Johnson.—l am a printer at Liverpool.
?Jr. Blacuw applied to me for printing of his sermon. That
was the betD3o)l now handed to me. During the. time the print-
ing was going on I saw him repeatedly. I delivered to him the
proof sheets. I have one in my custody. It contains a few
marks Made by him. The word " crisis" is altered to " junc-
ture." It was delivere4 back with that alteration to me by Mr.
Blacow. The sermon was afterwards printed by me. fur.
Blacow paid me fur the printing.
By Mr. Blacow.—l do' not know the instigators of this pro-
secutiotr. I don't know at whose expense it Is carried on. I
know Mr. Brougham. He offered himself a candidate fur Lk
verpuol some years ago.
Justice Bosaoro.—Mat has that to do With your defence ?

Mr. Justice HOLROTO objected to the e+idence.
Mr. Blacow.—Suppose I should shew him to be an Atheist.
Mr. Justice Hoaaoyn.—The time was bef.,re h. was sworn.
You cannot examine as to that, now he is upon his oath.
Mr. Blacow.—l am far from insinuating that the witness is
an Atheist; I only supposed a case.
Mr. James Bunnell.—l was at St. Mark's one evening ;I do
not know the date. I heard Mr. Blacow preach.—(The printed
sermon was handed to the witness, and he was directed to look
at the whole passage set forth.)—l cannot swear this to be the
passage, veibalial cl likruiim, that I heard ; but I believe this to
be the sum and substance. Looking over the whole passage, I
certainly did understand the words to apply to the Queen. I
could not, by possibility, suppose that they applied to any other
woman. lam still of that opinion.

By Mr. Blacow.—l am not in the habit of attending at Saint
Mark's. I heard you thrice, with that time. There was a Pio-
cession, I think, before that day. I saw the Procession pass
down Castlz-street. It principally consisted of mechanics, la-
bourers, and others, of the town. There were at the head twenty
or thirty- (tenth men whom I knew, and whom I would call re-
spectable. I cannot speak to the number, but I made the remark
at the time that there were not above thirty whom I knew. I
think, generally speaking, there were from 40(0 to 5000. There
were but thirty whom I knew ; there might be many whom I
did not know, who suit might be very respectable; I wish to
throw no retleftion.

Wash not your impression that they were generally the lower
orders; I mean the very lowest, the scum and rabble?—it cer-
tainly was a motley group, a very motley group, and there ars
nut that portion of respectable persons that I srw at other Pro-
cessions- 51y Lord, I don't wish to be understood to adopt the
words " scum and rabble." They were mechanics, and persons
of that class, that might be very decent persons for anything
I know.

Dlr. BlollollAn—tio, no; we know the words are not your's.
Re.examined.—The Procession was very peaceable and well
behaved.

_
Mr. purchased the printed sermon ; that printed
sermon, at the shop of Evans, Chegwytni, and Hall. It was ex-
posed to sale there.
Mr. Cross, the prothonotary, now read the passage set forth
in the indictment, the defendant's Attorney comparing the in-
dictment at the same time. .