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ceCuriit". Creed was wriiten with the assign and in •
tension to ridicule St. AthAnatiues Creed. His Lord-
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ship was once a Membrt of tbe Ctbinet, and had

iered on a great questiOn io State lion/ the other
Membees. Has L.,rdship was tif one • ;
rest were a .nutlet opinion; yet there brit n t two
Cabinets, bet one Cabinet. Was this blasphemy or
impiety.* He %ad I ken ihAt mode of expel/sing truth(
which he could tint h ve otherwise. declared. if he

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hAd Attended at the Prince Regent's 1. wee, and in his
presence called any • f his Ministers An inciinprehtn-
sible fool. • huicliu„, ur a mystitic "tie, nos Royal
114.41 mess might, initial)), be of a d fferent
Re now recApitulited tier priactpal points of his de.
fence. The Attorney General And his Luidship had
excused Lusher, As he had done it io a moment of

ritAtion against persons whu had beet. troubl.::otne to
him. Ovid not the same persons find any excuse
far Wiliam Hone? He had been Attacked is shov-
ing A bad example to his family. He 11.. d indeed
mitten this prody in 'went) m 00000 while he held
his infant on his knee. But let toem recilLect that
Martin Luther had a family. Yet he paitalitcl the
first Ps.ilm. He Kali as pure as ',litho., and chimed
same excuse. But no excuse was necessity, fur
there was no wrong dune. Gifray Wall A par.ishst s
he tmpluyed his transcendant calculi in pato.iyigg
Scripture for political purposes. Fox, the must hu-
mane, the b.st man t tat ever sat in ai. EliAl.ste Ca-
binet, was repres:nted on a dunghill with a Jaci.bin's
red cap on his head. He wished Mr. Foes spirit
.predominated now in our councils, and uie nation
woo dbein a far different state. The power ot Go.
verument would not be made execrable by the perse-
cutlin of an inhocent And defenceless matt. 0. the

isersecionrs, the peirecutens, the perseuntors, unit
obliged Lim rift* to stand the third day im Its triad
Why did they not, to save Mr. Ca mt's
ratter, abstain tr ;al thus prosecuting him ?—Mr.
Canning would have thanked them, and said—
" Hone is a poor fellow. I am a pariahs' tun ; this
prosecution is a nasty thing, I don't like tt " There
was Loss, Sidmoutti, a grave. a good, a religious,
and surely a charitable Mali there oar Lunt Eden.

borough, a very grave man, [his Lordship could not
resist a smile hire] & why did they nut step or ward
td held a poor oppressed man 1 0, no I hr could
not stand three days Their united force would stately
crosh the insect I No, he defied their power. l'hey
could orny immortalize ham. He would go down to
p..sietsty with George Canning. If this Right Ho-
nourable parodist ascended after Mr. Nett, he would
Fay bold of his lett leg and ascend along with hint.
They would, perhaps, have spared hm this third
tri:l, it he had implored their mercy. But, not he
disclaimed, he atiathematiatal their mercy. They
were below William Hoc,. 67, Old Bailey! Walter
Scot had edited the parody of Lord Sunsets. Why
was he nut prosecuted? 0, nol vas Mr. Scott, a man
of great talents, was ministerial, and nail held a little
ogling for the tauretteship with Robert Southey he
was plain Robert Southey when he wrote Wet T)ler
and such publications as displeased Mouisters—he
as now a pensioner, and Robert Southey, E5q.....
He, Wm. Hone, had occasion while he edited the
Cri.icra Review to see the Stuart Papers. The,/ were
published by Geertot Nicholl, librarian to the Prince
Regent. There was no prosecution against him for
publishing a partial and insidious apology tot these
tyrants.—No ; a great deal ot the spirit of " the
bonny king and rneickle %mimeo" staastifl to be per.
calved. Reeves had parodied the Cat. chum. but
afterwards obtained a pension.. Ro)alty had sit glad
him (Mr. Hone) out for prosecution only on account
Of his politics. He now made a soleion appeal to bits
conscience as to tile innocence of his intentions. He
would sub nut t t be posted as a liar and to bend his
head when he walked in public, if heunce uttered theft
or any where else what he did nut believe to be trues
Upou his conscience, then, he assured them, that
he had no more intention t* ridicule St. Athens-
sius's Creed than he had now of murdering his wits
and childien when he went home—tor tie was sure ..
the Jury would send him home to his family. He
anew nurse of them t but he hoped, and he believed,
that they wae honest minded and independent men.
The Stile-clauses' Creed had an extraordinary sale, but
not so extraordinary as the Litany. However, he
stopped it.trom the motives he had mentioned. He
conndently-put himself under their protection. As to
St. Athanasius's Creed, Gibbon stated that it eras not
written by Athaoasius, but was in tact a parody upon
his Creed, and written by Vigilius four centuries at.
ter Athanasius had died. Warburton expressly states
that it was not his. Waterlaad mentions that it was
doubted. Archbishop Tillotson on one occasion es.
" I. wish we were well rid ot it ;" and rn re.
cent days, upwards of 200 Clergymen met, and soli-
cited the late Ur. Pontius, Bishop of London, to take
some steps to put an end to the obligation at present
imposed on diem to read it. Even his Lordship's fa-
ther, the Bishop of Carlisle, he believed, took a simi-
lar view of the Creed. '
Lord Em.mitonovoit.—l do not know what his
opinion was on this point;. you, perhaps, have had
better opportunity of knowing his belief. Whatever
that opinibn was, he has gone many years ago Where
he has had to account for his belief and his opiatens.
Mr. Hogs was about to make some particular re.
ferences to the Bishop of Carlisle's opinions, when
Lord Euateananvit interrupted him, and said,
" For common delicacy, forbear."
Mr. Hopis.—O, my Lord, I shall most certainly.
Certain it was, that this Creed was not generally be.
iieved even by Churchmen.
Lord ELLErianaounti...-It is not alleged to be
Athanasiena's Creed here. It is said only to be cons.
.manly called the Creed of St. Athanasius. •
Mr. HoNs.—ls it not, then, as it would seem so
be, the Attorney-General's opinion, from the (arm of
the information to which your Lordship has just re•
furred, that d e Athanwian Creed becomes apoory-
phal, and cannot be viewed a, at is by my prosecuted
Lord Zi.Lieksomaloa.—Yes; but the Act ot Usti.
f •Igoity made it that which it is now described to be.
Mr. Houle.—.The Act of Uniiormity! God foss
bid that the Act Of Uniformity could have had the
effect of m: kng this what it is deemed to be, trans
us import, by some persons. God forbid that this
Act could make all men think alike on si e s a sub.
jest as this.
Lord Etuurnonotion.—lt is nest intended to haw
that effect. It merely operates to create unitsarmitr
mooort. those who conform to certain religious opi.
aims. It is not intended to compel those of a dies-
'e rent persuasion to believe it. f: lal 3 me.