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defendact begged to remind the Attorney-Gene-,
red ot what be had stated yesterday respecting the
Ten Cotoatandusents. and the reverential awe which
Ought to be entertained for them. One of these corn
nsands was," Thou. shalt not take the name et the
LIED thy Goo in vain 1" bin it appeared, and he
nided to state it with all aspect possible, that the
Learned Gentleman himself had very recently brokeu'
tams commandment' several times. On the trial of
X7ooler, the :Awing General had tisA the toe
lowing exclAmatioes In the situation I hold, God
how, vet 7 /lonia, 44 In the name a
.hcaren,let him do it." And also, 41 In Gas name,
c1.)%t." was sure that the .I.eii ated Gentleman
1. if en intention of breaking the commandments, or
tle4rasliag sacred subjects,
.and therefoie he was mo-
rally absolved .from the consequences of the impress
vied which such irreverent appeals to the Deity might
I.:n4sce.. The defendant absolved him from any in•
tr4tion of taking Gun's name in vain ; and he wished
t*:,e s ;one construction to be put on his parodies.—
tlr. Hone concluded by imploring the Jaty, it they
dottght hi:n capable of ser.ding fottb 'the publication
lin the intent attributed to him, to find him guilty ;
but it, as he anticipated, they disbelieved that lie had
publdsed w ith such an intention, then he relied 'on a
sadict of not guilty. His politics were his crime,'
sod if he were guilty, the real libellers were those
who institutedthe prosecution against him, for their
viThishment should precede his. Why did Mr. Can-
ning escalw, if he, William Hone, were guilty The
Ministers knew'they had among them those who had
gone ." uttwhipped of-jultice. ' The Right Hon.
Ge.iige Canning was the man represented in Garay's
fa nt, which hefted in his hand, Refolding forth his
arms to catch the Mantle falling from Mr. Pitt., who
was, like Elijah, mounting in his chariot to the skies.
die thankcd th- Jury for their patience ; eves y thing
he valued in life was in their hands.--his character,
his reputation, his subsistence. He asked from them
no mercy, he wanted only justice. If they thought
helsublished the Parody with the intent attributed to
then Ilet him be lashed through the world ; if,
as his conscience told him, they thought otherwise,
thew they would send him home to his family instead
ot to the Marshal of the King's Beach. His con-
science freed- him from the imputation, and their
verdict would relieve his anxious mind.
. Mr. Home's address lasted from a quarter to eleven
o'clock to a quarter past five o'clock. He was about
to call evidence to prove that he stopped the circula-
tion of the Parodies when he found they were consi-
dered offensive—when
The Atreus alt-GrasAhl. rose, and submitted that
evidence ot stopping the publication could not be
re /rived in a case where the mere fact and intent of
that .publication were to be considered.
Lord Etiesieoßonou—" You are right as to the
releof evi.'ence. It has nothing to do with the inns
on the verdict ot guilty or not guilty. At the same
time I'shad take this evidence as a circumstance to
fivcon.idered in mitigation of punishment, if the de-
fitidant should be convicted. This may be a conve•
nient way Of taking the evidence for him, as he
might be put to the expense of affidavits on a future
occasion, if it were now rejected."
Mr. Horir—" I merely adduce it to thew how
!won I stopped the publication."
Lord ELLZ2411101110U011...•64 That will not do away
Abe offence, though it may be a very considerable 011-
.tigation of punishment."
. The ATTuRvitY GINUAL--" In that light I can
Isiverso possible objection twits being received."
Deeds:ix Grimiest. deposed, that he was the Men.
. .daat's sh .pman at the tune the sale of the Parodies
Waif stopped by order of defendant. Witness entered
into delendant's service at the beginning of January
last, at which time the gale of the Parodies was very
considerable. They were, indeed, in the highest sal*
:at the time they were stopped. Thus was a great
deal ot application for them both by private indivi-
-duals and by booksellers, after the sale was stopped.
:It Was stopped on the il2d of Fehestary. There were
'Wont SOW sold altogether.
Ammon GIiaIUIAL-.-41 We admit that the
i;elefeituaist st .pped h.' ovulate on the 4'3d February."
:Mr: HOsis.-Gi I should rather the Jury would take
.4: front the mouth of the witness.'.'
l'f'ilfierti 2116/knerd deposed that he was, the shop.
smut Me. Hone, and had immediately succeeded
Benjamin Grimstone ; that he was never allowed to
tau Wilk s' 8 Ca:Ukiah akhoegh several persons ap.
plied to e
hins.tur it; some of. those applicants having
modemd half a crown and more fora copy of it, while
one acted' pouod note.—To a question from the
'.lt:Poe, witness answered that he entered into the De-
tendant'S seVvice , about the beginning of April last.
Its was cautionetagainst selling any ot these pat odies.
;dud LLLlPthoßuithit—u Then you had them in
.cite shop I—Witness...." No, my Lord."
Lord Eeeindsortrivon—'s What do you mean by
being cautioned I—a cathion would be superfluous it
'the parodies were not there."
rye Witness---" Large sums were offered—l could
'have. got one pound for one, and the caution was,
lest a stray. on; should be picked up in rummaging
the shelves."
.Georgr Birder, bookseller, of the Borough of South.
Wet k, deposed, that he called at the defendant's house
abort April. last, with a view to-purchase, for side
again, some copies of Wilkees Pokiest! Catechism, but
chi the therms. as well as the detendaut himself,
. relused to let him.bave any ; that this refusal served
to interrupt a !headship of twenty years standing,
w.tich he bad bad with the defendant.
iftechise deposed. that be applied. in vain at
the defendant's shop, about the beginning of March
last. for copies of the Parodies, including Wilier's Ca.
Pchuw—that he did not know soy thing about those,
Parodseh until he heard of their having been prose-
ceted, and then, from cutiosity, he became anxious
FAS Set them. -
The AirOrtirai GinfeltAL rose to reply. He cam.
premed by corric-ing a mistake under which Mr.
Bone laboured in his statement of what had fallen
from him yesterday on the subject ot Toleration.
He (the Attorney General) bad not said that he held
all closes of Christians in equal 'respect, for that
would be inconsiitent with his own particular belie',
end the great diversity which prevailed among the
diffcresst ;fosses of Christians ea this point; what he
said was this, that he held them all in resprct and
..-steent—not in equal respect: As to the alotsitai to
his, having taken the name of God in vans un a t
uo-
or-
.pcs, tilia—afl he hod to illy Wabi this; he knew

Oling of the zrenracy of the report; but if Mr. Hone!:
could derive' the smallest advantage from his ad.'
mission, he was free to say, that he had thus '
much blame to take to himself for making too tree
an use of the name of his Maker in attesting the
sincerity of the opinions he was then delivering.—
This he confessed was wrong, for it would be much
better to adopt the Christian maxim of Boyle, the
great philosopher, and never to use the name of Gon,
except where legitimate occasion called for it, and
then with a reverential awe in the mind, while it was
so used,- and a corresponding humility by an obei-
sance of the body. But again, and again, he would
say, that one man's improprieties formed no excuse
for another. On the subject of the proceeding by
information, called in question by the defendant, be
had to say, that it was not only part of the common
law, but also recognized in the statute law. Com-
plairtts of the abuses of this mode of proceeding
were made before the Revolution. One complaint
was, the right to file informations exercised by
the King's Coroner, or Master of the Crown Office,
as well as the Attorney•Gemeral. The abuses ari-
sing out of this were brought before Chief Jus-
tice Goold, in the Court of King's Bench; but his
reply was, that the law authorised the practice.—
This led to the introduction of an Act of the fourth
of William and Mary, enacting, that the King's Co-
roner should have no such power, unless by the con-
sent of the Court, and under certain circumstances;
so that the Statute Law authorized and regulated the
ea tifeis information, as now practised. The Attorney.
General also explained Tway the complaint mace by
the defendant of the delay in bringing him to trial,
in the same words as those he used on the preceding
day. The mode of defence just exhibited to the
Court, and the mode of compiling and detailing here
the loose publications of other men, afforded a deep
lesson. It strewed individuals how scrupulously they
should refrain from even the use of levity on the
most trifling occasions, and in the ardour of youth,
lest, in the decline of old age, these publications should
not only be held up to -their eyes, but pleaded by
liter offenders as a precedent for their licentioarness.
Ai to the-setting to secular music particular Sacred
Hymns, it, were well to refrain from such a practice.
though he was not prepared to impugn it, as he saw
nothing in the airs that ware substituted which was
likely to impair the effect of the Hymns. He, how.
ever, had no hesitation to say, that if the airs substi-
tuted were not harmless, if they for instance, were
calculated to raise impure and improper notions, and
as such were applied to the Psalms of David, then the
act would be that of. bringing the Psalms into con.
tempt and Adicule, and therefore a libel. He could
not help thinking that the defendant was the pro.
perest object of, all.those concerned in the sale of
those Parodies for punishment. He had first sent
them into the world—he may be said to have written
them.--Mr. Hose ....44 I am not the writer of them."
—The Artosraz Gainuut.—The defsndaot most
be virtually considered as the writer of them, for be
first gave them currency—without his aid they would
never have been heard of. In vain would be declaim
upon the purity of his intentions : a man's intentions
could oily be gathered from his acts. It would not
do, after he bad scattered arrows and firebrands in
society to ssy, “ 0, my motives wampum. my inten-
tions were innocent." If the doctrine of the &few
dant be trues and if be were once able to establish k
in a Court of Justice, then indeed there'would an end
of law, and an inundation of impious and blasplie.,
moan publications must be the inevitable consequence.
The Attorney-General here referred to the pubikes.
nob, and commented upon it in detail, energise es
the baneful tendency of such a work going abeam!.
He begged to say, that whatever verdict they gave,
to die latest moment of his life he shoulethiuk be
had acted rightly in assisting to bring forward this
prosecutioo. Had be not done so,. be should have
been unworthy of the situation he Wed as Law Of.
fiver of the Crown, and also as an Officer engaged fns
the protection of the public interests. He stood them
for the sake of preserving the proper reverence which.
must be du to the sacred service of the Church at
Englaad. He concluded in the following manner :
84 . Gendemen, take this hook (the book of Cow. es.
Prayer) in one band, and the Parody in the otitis',
land say upon your oaths, if you can, whether the.
`latter is not calculated to bring the former into con-
tempt ? I have done my duty, I leave you to do
yours."'
Lord Euersoitovon then proceeded to charge die
Jury. They would recollect the evidence they had
heard on the part' of the defendant, that he had stop.
ped the circulation of this work on the 27th of r..
bruary 1 but when he told them this, it was no mat-
ter of consideration on the question of " guilty or
not guilty." Every man might endeavour to do
away his offense by a sort of reparation s he had,
however, had the painful duty of sitting, when the
crime of forgery was brought before him, in cases
where the money had been sent back; but so little
had this been attended to, that the severest penalties
of the law had been enforced. The fact which the
defendant bad proved could only have effect in mid. 1
gation of punishment. The information chars
that this VMS.an impious and protanelibel : it was a
libel on one of the most beautiful compositions that
ever came from the hands of men ; it was a pat' nt
the ritual even before the Protestant form of worship
was established; and to bring this into ridicule, to try
to write down the Litany, was Impious and profane....
It was said that there was no such intention, but the
law considered that every man intends that which he
has done. The smallness of the price for which these
works were sold only accelerated the sale, and in.
creased the danger. One offence could not be jot&
fied by another : on the contrary, it was an aggrava.
nun to say. that persons had done so before, and
thence to add to the number of offenders. Amongst
all the parodies which the defendant had reed, be
could not find any that here any proportion tb the
euormity of the present. The Litany and all the
forms of Prayer were.in our Statute.books, as much
s the law of inheritance, which gives to a son the
estate of his father. Lord Hale, venerable as well
for the sanctity of his characar as for the profundity
I d his learning, h id declared, as the Atturney-Gesieraf
had told them, that Christianity w le part of the coal.
non law of the land. It this publication were nut to
ridicule reiigion, let them take it with them and see
what other purpose ii could ;nurser. To raise a laugh
—(a laugh at whom 1 if it *ere not at religion.'
t'be lest pessege.in the work seemed to be the woist ;
fur these, instead of the solemn and impressive words,
-: . .

LONDON.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1817.
PRICK OP liTOCKS THIS DAY AT TWII.VE O'CLOCK s
RedasectSlli—Cons, 1681—For °Pain& gsti
4pi Cos. Sill OP-5 per Cam. Havy
falls Kook SS fr.—Subelast Sills IS 114 F.

Mr. Home's Trial yesterday, like that on the pre-
ceding day, terminated with a verdict of Not Gerilll."
The Trial of. the third Information has also been
proceeded in to-day: It is for the publication of,
44 The Sinecuriste Creed," which is alleged to be a
Parody oa the Creed of St. Athanatins. Lord Ea
ossLatotrois presides, and Mr. Hos' is again bib
own advocate. At one o'clock oar Reporter left him
speaking. There is every appearance that hit de.
fence of to-day will be fully as long as either of his
preceding defences, which.do not seem to have in the
least exhausted his powers. either of elocution or of
argument. The.grounds of this, his third defence,
are, of course, nearly the same as those which bave
operated his acquittal on the two previous trials.—
The crowd in Court, and in the avenues to it, is ex-
cessive, but a good deal more orderly than yesterday.

Atter the conclmion of this Trial, there are four
other Informations oa the Roll to try against Caa-
u►Le, for publications alleged to be also of prophet),
and seditious tendency, aad the re-trial of Woo Lea
for the libels imputed to him, will bring up the rear
of this phalanx of prosecotimis.-

The Paris Papery of the 15th, 16th, and 17th, ar-
, rived this morning. The continuation of the debates
on the Project of Law respecting the Liberty of the
Pens, and the &signior 1817, which was presented
on Monday, occupy nearly the whole of their columns.
Want of toots obliges us w defer giving the substance
of them till our Gt Zl.—The Loan for ISIS is to be
16.000,000 of rents.—Nu foreign intelligence of any
importarste.—Fin per Cents. 16th Dec. 63f. 75c.

We regret to state that a confirmation has been re-
ceived of the ravages of the late hurricane in the
Wes; Indies. In bt. Ann's, Marin, and Vauchsu,
(Martinique) nothing remains but the soil, the Ne.
roes, and the cattle.--Many lives were lost. At
'ninny, same island,.every vessel on shore. Thirty.
three French and AtnericAn vessels driven out to sea,
not since heard ot, one overset, and a French frigate
on shore, having lost above 100 men.

The gale did not mead further North than Goa-
&loupe, nor Southward than Grenada, which suf-
fered very little. Upwards of forty vessels were
driven out of Si. Pierre. St. Lucia, whetelhe Go-
vernor's house and the barracks wercoverthrown ;
is dreadfully devastrited.
This m roing we *yodeled lonelier' Papers ,to .the'
llth ult.• The House ut Assembly wet opened on'
the 28th of Octob:ri bra Spied) 4otti

go

The Papers before us contain no sews from
sish Main. Oa the 22d of October, the
of Orange encountered a severe gale,
her on her beam ends, mad washed or,
head of ms►les, mad otherwise damaged
and cargo. She was then in lat. 17. long.
was the day after the hurricane—wV
.reached Jamaica.
His Majesty's ship LA PIQUE, of 3$
for Trinidad, de Cuba. and the Havel
4th of November, to demand, at the lat
restitution of specie taken from his Makr

Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet
held at the Foreign Office, which sat
All the State prisoners conned in Chell
have been lately liberated by an order '
CIETARY Of STATE.

This morning, at ten o'clock, the last .
ing of State Lottery commenced, and soon
hour No. 2141 was drawn a 420,000 Prize, al
by Bug, in Nine Shares, making the Second
shared by Dm in the present Lottery ;
on Monday to announce having Sold on,
At half-past ten this morning the 410,
per Cent. Consols Prize was drawn and Sc
by HAUB% 13urtuz, and Co. Royal Er
number was 4241. It will be iecollec
BURNS, and Co. also sold the last MO,
Prize ever drawn, and five Prizes
within the last Twelve Monti's.

The Yationel lostellipsger, the American
Paper, to the 15th of November inclusive, contradicts
the report of a fresh insurrection having broken out at
Pei nambuco, and announces the presentation to the
PRESIDENT of a Prussian Resident. The Court of
Berlin had not before seat a Minister to represent it
at the seat of the American Government.
•Our Minister, Mr. Benin.. had just returned !a
Washington, from a friendly risk to the late Pres.,
dent, Mr. MADISON.

We have just received intelligence that a
Russian ship is totally lost off Roscoff. and that
perished. This is the ship that
L

from tLe
be ship Prince
, which threw
overboard 100
ged the vend
ng• 71- This
rhich had act
guns, sailed
annals, on tte
atter place, the
sty's ship TAT.
et. Council was
till past thee,.
helmsford gaol
r from the
t day of Draw_
soon after that
me, and share
econd £2O,
and be hope
le or two Inor
r 40.000 Th
Sold in shares
:ischange--the
ctefil HAZARD,
V),000 Money
i of &OAP,
serican ofEciel

We have just received intelligence that a large
Russian ship is totally lost off Roscoe, and that 17:J
persons perished. This is the ship that was mistake
for the. Indian transport.
Scum. Daceraass 16.—Arrived yesterday ti
Partridge, FLorisou, from London lt.r the Cape
with loss of fore.yard, and most repair. Also arrive
the Martha. THoMAs, from London for Limerick
• with loss of fore-tops:eller&
LtvitarooL, Dtts.lB.—Tbe Lilly, *Butte, frii.
Lisbon, was totally lost on the Isle of Bass, the 9t;
instant. and two of the clkw, and one passenger
drowned; about 100 hags ofcotton saved. The Gar
land. Foams, of Dartmouth, was totally lostat Fat.
the 28th ult.—crew saved.
"FALMoUTU, DOCRldint 17..-. Wind from N.W. i,
W.S.W.—Arrived tie Sandwich packet, with a M
from Jamaica—she sailed the 10th of November, .
from Crooked Island the 21st of IC 'ember. Sail-
the Fort, William, for Madras and Bengal.
• ToaaAv, Drcmcnan 18.1-arrived the Surat C.
tle, WALKS'S, Isom London for the Ent Indi
having lost her sails in the gale, of last night. Sail
his Majesty's ship Tama. All the ships Su the Be,
ride in safety. . •
Psaysautrra, DlCltatill . 18.--A • the Ho.
Monica., from Quebec tor Lon the 21).•
of November—the day after ure.4o.
mast, bowsprit, all her boats. . 'other •
:nage. Captain Minims reperus,'hit' on .the Ist
November the Camilla, of Loudon, and the Neptur•
were lost at Quebec.—Also 4rtived the Itchier.
HAOUS, ;KM London foe Rio Lath 0.,-.sile. lett F
-- mouth on the 9th inst. and since then .Jki-.has cape
'fined tremendous weather, and *dipped a sea whi
stove her larboard bulwarks—she saw a ship yestE
day with her foremast gone. ,
PoItTSMOUIIis DSC. 19.—.Wina W....-Arreved t,
-Two Brothers, WWII Olaf, from litalsis,.
whence she sailed the Bth September. to comp i
with the American ship P,.tawnier, toe Hollasi-d. •
Patterson, Paiute; bad sailed for Aniboloa, si..•
Dutch troops—lett at Batavia the American fri
New Leda, :Padduas Ariadue.. Heive.eus, eerie •
ranee. Rousseau, Sophia, Othello. and Jane, .
Americans.. The Bothell ships Murky, Bees •
and Shipley, blonitusia, were thartesed, and tuad
for Holland; and the Barton, Ell 401, LirOii..,
berg, Mary Ann, Ocean, and et.n.tantet acre w
ing for freight, but to coffee to be got.. 0 the 1
October spoke the American ship Clarissa, i rum A
sterdarn, off the Isle of France, to which place
was 'sound.
Dent., Dscaunen 19.—Wind W.-. -Arrived t
Prevoyante storeship. mini Portsmouth, ais.l salt-
for Sheerness; and the Borodino transport, from I.
Cape, and sailed for the River. Came down tic
the River the Moira, for Madras and betigal ; Co
merce, for Antigua ; Vends, for Bouroema ; 10
pomene. for Bombay; Fortitude, for Jamaica; 1)
iii i i 'lca. Royal Charlotte, and Canes, for the IV
Indies. The Mercator, for St. Thomas's, And t
ot the Russian men of war, lost anchors ai,d cab:
in the Doens-yesterday.
RASOGIATIS, thellaillitle 19.—.Arrivei several s
for shelter-, among diem are the following, viz. E
cabal*. for Rio Janeiro; Sao Joseph, for roltic
Jason* fur Genoa ; Alin, for Leghurii ; Licsoices I
Gin attar; j..e.fde. for Lith..ti ; LICCIIif I us, lot I 30:.
deaui ; the too iattrp with 10.) IJI sails.
COST; iM HODNE.
Dsconses 15.--1 URA& 1)1. ihe ' Marshal Dleckpr, D.
from St. Mattes; the Watson, Watson, tram •I. tra,%; tJe.• •
Harrison ; liithia:ry, nava ; mut Cas;zr, Harper. If Q..03
Nonliumaeriand, hite.h..katu, Crum nip.; Lt.- , oxtail -o.ere •
Laming, front Rater :am; and the tot sterlou, Irons Lisboa.
(...111TWAIDS —.ll be Eclipse, sect, for Sniyins matt CO,:•:.1::
smile; Musa, Barry, fur Antwerp ; Hope, Conine, for D..::,1'
Juane Chan, Plokkor, fur Anuterclan ; Mercury, V. e Cl',
Genoa and imentrn; Malay, Ent , nor Yucatan era Lay
Honduran; and Man, Hipped, Sro ;twain Ayres.
Friday the •soissiscr sP cli Lirceisaich T:42
gave a clear Benefit to aslist she Funds of the Vi.
Lent Dispensary. The pe• 1.4 niancrs IA the ev-
ing wets, Lie Merchant of Venice. and The Bin.
Miss Sylmar Ilagiatiett Use casardCLeta of Pto iiJ, •
!Grace Gaylests, Auld its ho h parts was 41,,eive
greeted with great applause. The ire dons ,4
Ccnductors of the Dispenaat y. nod their I'm's,'
Colonel Fosiatisa, of Ciiiums.iiiil, in suppor in
Chitt tab tare justly entitled .0 the highest eiscAll 0
COM. Mitttni I, DEClLViiiait ip.
Alpo et Market. blasts fold, traces
It Itesuctale !+1 its 63 to 50S
1' . Underlaid ! .5 not. 93. to 4..:,.
---.--v- '
LulieON s boutsd and rutsi:shed t. 5- Laval. XIN 1 , I'l'
l . fists, Terni le-ter.