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• Mr. Hokin—lie it so. He bad intended to read
to thew itlic speech of the Bishop of Clogher, but it
was foa long. He entreated these to cored:ter not
the tendency. out the intention. 'ploy were not bound
to follow his Lordship's opinion. If his Lordship's
opoduri were Adopted, be shoe ld at once have to
walk to the King's Bench. He really felt he had
Sliper t i:r al powers conferred upon him. There
was a siaa al interposition of Providence in his favour.
Ile was standing up there for his lite, which, it they
said not protect iiiin, would certainly fall a sacrifice
to kis s..iir.rings. lie could still go to'the King's
and 1.1 y Lis head down there with the greatest
composure, but for Lis tangly f —lf they felt doubts,
• they would be re.,,anabie &ors, and :hey knew that
Le was entitled to the lwoelit of them. Ile committed
L:mself to them. The liberty of the press was at-
- tacked through him. The prosecution had nothing
but a polaical ground-work. Two Juries of cool
• honest tutu had already acqii:ttcd him ; and he had
no doubt but they, too, would sead bun home to dine
on Sunday with his family.
After a speech of precisely seven floors anti a half,
he sat clown amid the applause of tlw IMMO' 11Se Ma.
cited.: that crowded the Court and all the passages
to it. He declared, as he was sitting down, that be
bad intended no offence or disrespect to Isis Lordship
t.r to any other individual, and throwing himself en-
tirely on the candour and justice of the Jury, he said
• be would only call out: witness.
Mr. Thomas Cleary proved that Mr. Hune, on
Iriday, the 9.lst of February, stated to bins his dit-
continuance of giving publicity to the Parodies, ots-
otrving, that thew were spoken of in the Reports of
both Houses of Pariiasnent. Witness remarked to
him, Gl Hone, I think you are a fool for so doing, as
I do not believe they are either libellous or Liasphe
mous, eseept to the borough-mongers ; and if you
dissontittue them, it will be an admission of guilt
• where there really existed none."
Lord ELL W.:BOROUGH said, that there was evidence
on the previous trials of the suppression of the publi.
cation. This evidence his Lordship read.
The ATTORNEY•GENSZAI. rose to reply.—Before
he called Ote attention ot the Jury to the teal ques-
tion which they had to try. which was the narrow
fact, whether or not this publication was a libel, he
begged to make one observation °tithe complaint
• which the defendant had made, that the three charges
egaLtst him should have been thus sepaiktelfbrought
turward, ince id of being put into one common
Charge. Thus he (the Attorney-General) could not
Lave done consistently with the law of the land; tut
Mr. Justice Buller had laid down, that, it more than
one charge acre included in a singleinformation, he
should 'Lel it Isis duty to call on the prosecution to
selet.t Isar, and one only, and reject the oters as to
that
H. re a considerable noise was heard in the Hall,
sod sootily after Mr. Wontner, the Marshal, eutwed
- the Coin, having a Gentleman in custody. The
Mierb34i stated. that on the steps leading out of the
ton Gentleman had been for some time dispute
log tot power of the officers to keep People hum pas.
sing up to crowd into the Court. He had also dist-
pistea th, authority of his Lordship to give in. offi
cers any such power. The Gentleman in custody
denied that he had called in question his Lordship's
authority he had only objected to the rough course
• taken by the officers.
Lord Et.a.aostotouoti.o.ol Keep him in custody,
.std bring ham before me at the end of the trial."
- The ATTORSY Gauzam. resumed, and lamented
that in oar metropolis any attempt should be made
to distort ti the proceedings of the highest Criminal
Court iu.the kngdom. The Learned Gentleman
then calcined, with considerable energy, the various
• arguments which he had used on the preceding days,
to skew that the great number of parodies quoted by
the tletandant, even if their obvious tendency was
• (which was not the case) to bring into contempt and
ridicule the tenets of the Christian faith, could not be
-adduced as forming any ground of excuse for the
.publication with which be stood charged. It was
impossible to look at this publicatiob,•particularly
at the two last paragraphs of it, without being sada-
:led of its tendency to turn into ridicille sobre ot the
•aacred parts of Christian belief. •'
He defended Mr.• Scott for delltalittni, in the
14 Tales of my Landlord," fanatical persons such as
they bad iormerly existed. The prints brought for.
ward were not applicable to the question. If the cru-
.eifixion ot our Saviour, or. his agony in the garden,
ware made the subject of profane parody, that would
be Lbeflous, as the present parody was. He there.
-fore felt assured, that the Jury must find the defen-
dant guilty, and, by their verdict, make the law
dear au the subject.
Lord ELLINDOROUOII then charged the Jury. He
Jolly concurred in the law of the case, as laid down
by the .Attorney-General. The defendant seemed
under a delusion, when he supposed that parodies
sere exempt from prosecution for libel. He was
smug in that, for there had been several prosecutions
• . tpr offences committed in that shape. He mentioned
the'casee of Woollaston and Paine. Perhaps there
Lad never yet been a prosecution for parody. The de.
lendaut was elm in error, when he assumed that there
was no law of libel known to the Constitutions on
,the contrary, it was of ancient standiuirnd what'
was called Mr. Fox's Bill was-merely atory of
tl.is law, and regulative of the mode of trial.—
.The hilt !moved what was no doubt a grievance,
namely, the powers of the Jury being restricted to the
.mere fact of the publication. This .was very ads-
-ebievow; for the Baste itself might be found a libel.
In vain wiold Mr. Hone defend his act by a reference
to the commission of other offences by other men;
it was a perverbion of understanding to say that an
uopunialwil crime became stripped of its
and became a precedent for other offences. The
defendant had, alluded to what he. calked the subset-
,viency of the bat. He was right in soweing that
so Gentlemad at the Bar would have pursued the
,course be lied taken to-day, and libellailtnnd cann-
Dieted the enacted provisions of the law. The defem.
dant had d. Died that he, Lord EllenborOugh, bad any
thing to otr but to keep order in the Court ; but the
af,:g, worm it said, 4, that the Judge shall give his °pi-
. Moo aei.or-iing to his discretion, ' appeared to him to
'Noise time Jades opinion. It was certainly by thew
irte and tatiotott opittion that the question was to be
decided. The main defence was parodies written by
other men at efferent times. The Exciseinait'screed
• was very offensive. In Whop Latiract's tune much

_ LONDON.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1817.
PRICE OF STOCKS TM DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK I
Ettlisced 91 I s3—Car. dist.-Far Opening. Ili
4 pet Can. 1,91.-.4 per Bat. Navy dot .
• India Bowls 97 99 pre—EWA/OF Bills It $4 pr.

Mr. HoNz's third Trial, given at great length in
oar columnsthis day, ended, as might havelems ex-
pected, in another acquittal—another proof that the
palladium of Trial by Jury, handed down to us by
our forefathers, has not yet been invaded or injured
by encroachmentseitherot tart Government or the Law
Officers. Whatever ignorant men may have been led
to believe to the contrary, it is still an efficient pro-
tection to the subject; but all good men mug wish
to see the day strive when prOcess by exijicio infor-
i matins shall be abolished and declared illegal. It is
not enough that oar laws can protect a man against
a final judgment without it Verdict of his Peers : they
ought to protect him against a previous punishment—
a.punisinweni of imPrisonintrit before convict% in-
flicted at the will of any Law Officer whatever. They
ought to protect him, especially in the cue of im-
puted libel, against that accumulatinn of expense
*hid) operates not
.only as a punishment against an
individual whom a sworn Jury of honest men may
declare innocent, but which by its magnitude pro.
dices absolute ruin to families which happen not to
be in affluent circumstances.

The Paris Papers of Thprsday and Friday arrived
this morning, and are, wish the exception of a very
few notices, wholly occupied with the continuation
of the Debate in the Catawba of Deputies, im the
Liberty of the ins&
' [The Boclii,et for 1818, which was premented on
Stoitday, is to be discussed after the discussion on
the Liberty of the Press is closed g and in order that
lour readers may have a connected view of the sub.
feet, we think it better to defer the analysis of the.
Budget, which we promised pn Saturday, till the ¢g-
bate upon it comes on.]
M. LAS CAMS is stated to have arrived on the 111th
inst. at Frankfort, under theepcoet of a Russian Ocrm.
nissary at Policc. lie is on 44 vey !1:7 elm; Austrian'

re sue it seems the Allied Powers' Mee as-
signed him his Intim residence.
Intelligence f t m Constantinople me ntions the birth
of a young Prince, on the 2kh o. October. who has
received the mime (+1 SuLIISAN.
French 5 per Cents. Dec. 17. 63 fr. 95 e.

Mails arrived yesterday and this morning from
Hamburgh, Hollantl, and Flanders. The only ar-
ticle which they present, deserving the slightest no-
tice, is the result of the Duke of Wautrorron's Ap-
peal to the High Court of Justice sitting at Brussels i
against the sentence of the Correctvinal Tritrakil-df
Ghent, which had acquitted the Editor of the Journal
of East and West Flanders of a libel which they
were charged with having published against
Grue. The Appeal, after a long tearing, has been
dismissed, and his Lordihip sentenced to pay the costs.

NAVAL lIVTELLIGENCII.
The whole of the crew and passengers on board
the Forth packet, which was lost or Montrose
the 13:13 instant, were, we limeat to say, lost. The
number has not been accurately ascertained ; some
accounts say that there were only fifuten passengers,
and five of a crew—others state that there were thirty
io all.
ADMIRALTY OFFICE, DUNMORE 19, 1617.
Tile following Official Notification has been
ceiVed at this Office s
Vor the infutmation of Vassals demised for thi Archipelago
of Gothenburg, and the Quarantine Pun of Lbws—Madre Is
hereby Given, that oa Island of Storer Kanto, a mond Toner
bas been bask, high fitters Yards, terminating in a Platform,
with the tipper part of &Ick. and the Coping painted white.
This lower, which from the great height of the spot where
is raised, should be sew at an equal distaneo witl the Lights
house of Wings, is Aimed South 71 East of Winp;--Netth SO
Wed of Ytira istianta k—end South 710 East, by the Gempaes,
of Buskar's-arms

“ In entering these Roads it is to be observed that when
Vessel has passed to the Southward of Wings, say is to steer
reef for the fewer of Kam, until she arrives to the Northward
of Kall6o ljarskar, situAted West of Kanso, and pointed spat'
a Stone Beacon. The entrance betweenianso and Vargo,
the ?on of Vargo-hala, South of the Tower, will then be seen ,
and the. Vessel may proceed by the Northward of the Tower,
directly lad without danger to the Quarantine Pon of ,Irainao:
navigating aloes the 4onb sled Ndrtheerest Coast. of 'Kansa.
” JOHN BARIONCE.
PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 20
Arrived yesterday the Retrieve, HAGUIC
London for Rio Janeiro = and Emily, HAVLIS, free
lisbon. Arrived today the Adler, ' KinstLisb,
from Bremen for Havannak, wish her sails splits and
Ike Mary, from London for the .West
PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER St
Put back yesterday the Jane. Gstnisicatu. with
,loss of all her boats, her sails split to pieces, her bl
walks and stauncheons carried away, and other

wage. whieli she sustained off the Lizard on the I'
instant, in a gale.—Also put back the Dmd.lus,
Catharine, and the Endraghion. from Bsenien, Inlet
passed by lot Coa.es, all with damage... Sailed his
Majesty's ship Glasgow, for the Mediterranean; and
lit is opposed that the Fort William has sailed, asi'
wind is from the Northward.—Arrived today ,
Lively, Annamos, from Jamaica for London; also
the Russian fleet illOOl the Downs, coosistibig of
sail of 'the line and two frigates; and the blobb.,
Nonuni...!. from London for Bengal; she has saikd
with the whole of the outwardboand, 'Kept
Lady C.ssiereegh and the Arabella schooner.—Aiws
*Abed blaiesiy's ships Sybille, tor the Webt Indies;
Andromache, ter the Brazils; Semiramis, for Africa
and Falmouth, for Cork.—Wind E.

FALMOUTH, SEPTEEIDER
Wind N.W.— Arrived the Fortitude.
and Flora, W. MG trnni Liindnn nutward-bound.
DOVER, DECEMBIR so.
Arrived last slight use Log George, Capta
Ewa Defenses Captain Aram i and a IPreia
packet. all from Calais, with passengers.—Carne
this morning, wind-bound, the Commerce m Almon.
dria, with inbacco, hanud to Rotterdam. Passed
this day the. Russian &et from the Downs to Cadiz.
DIEM= 21.—Wind E. S. E. and blows strong.
Sailed this morning the Princess Charlotte packet,
Captain 1140.1.axws. with a Mail mid Passengers,
Ostehd ; and the Chichester packet, Capt. Kuril*,
and Cumberland, Captain BLAIN, for Calais, with
passenger.. Arrived this afternoon the Data Don.
cane Captain HAMILTON ; Favorite, Capt. rowaft
and Ant, Captain BALIMITTo from C:.l4is, with
stagers. Sailed the Bestiii packet, (transport) wit
troops ter Calais.
DEAL, SEPTEMBER 21.
Wind S.E.--Arrived yesterday • the Eghans; ,
BANES, from Demerina : sailed the 18th October.--
Came down from the River the Orb. for Peroam.
buci, f mod John, for Jamaica.—Sailed the Vittoria.
Mamma, for Ceylon.-Bailcd tb-day the Esher's, f-
the Rivera Arrived to-day the Cenral Pike, Par.
airman.

IiARWICH, DECEMBER at.
Sailed the Pilate of Orange Packet, for Holland
and Castiermieb Packet, tor Cushman* The John,
104yr.a, in ballast, frpok toothin for Shields, camp
in yesterday, with ion of ,as attestor 'and a 'Dui
overboard.
RYE, DECEMBER U.
The Rachel and Mary, of Poole, is totally womb.
ed between St. Valery and &Moine, and is gone to
pieces.
COWES DECEMBER io.
Arrived the I.aac "Fint, burns, trim Quebec. With
loss of rudder and otherwise daniageJ.
NORTH.3HIEI.D3, DECEMBER so.
List night ti.e brig aniy, Juliana. of Arondel,
gin on the- Herd Scut, itad r. likely to be a total foss.
The Master, Matt, one man, and a buy, are drowned.
lames Price; Charles Squire, and Richard Adams
'tonic to the boat, and were driven lOW this harbour,
and thereby saved.
I.llll'H, DECEMBER it.
•
The Mitty, bolo Gottenburgb. with timber fordw
Frith of Psath, was totally lost on the coast,. of
Montrose.. • . .

• LIVIIRPOOL..I)ZcZmuIt so. • •
The tarry, Aviaouarsa, a Newry packet, (spin
Neiry. r this port, was stranded yesterday at three
o'clockosear §ontli Port. The Master, Mate. and
setters others, 'ere sated by the boats born Lydia's,'
but siltV1:11 MAI'S that were on board were ulifortu-.
natf)y arowtred. The London packet, C44I9ZINGUAMP
Kum due, purr, p,r, coos, is on shore in linlybead
liay.:„Tbe Ebgabstka. hum St.. lobes, stud .1e Wen.,
derisive, for Bombay, ars on shore rear ihe King's'
Duck Picr.'

Mr. Mark; Henry, it/aping.* Jens Colley*
Me. Fraud.Rapp twat. of Chi iv: Untritit.
Wave. Wm. &mai, Gilbert neuderaop, Frederick
and I homes Julhoots. 01 Brasesinave t:pilqpr,
Mr John Woodtotilt, ot New College;'
Mr. George lobo I Mona, ot St. Mary Hall.
Mes n. Nicholas Aylward Winn and George %%M, cr
oltytollege,
Mt. Philip Mini. of Pembroke College.
• • ItCCL,ESIAsTICAL PROMOTION'.
Rev. Daniel Cretwell. M.A. helm* nt Crirsty Colletel h
M.ttgd to the.perpetual curacy ot Urrat St Ma. y's •:.
P.ev. John Hatbewe. M.A. one ot the aeniors or r nilY
lefts Cachbridgeli to the vicarage of rumphigwn, in 14..11
Raw. folilisCirr. M.A. fellow of tale, ,
bridge, tee the vicarage of Shady Cannes. in that •ounty.
Rev. John Lows' ion. MA. Fellow tit y (
to We vicarage ot Kilinigtvis, Yorkshire
key. /semi Meeks% M.A. to do etc...rage of Lin I:1.'1:k.
the OOPS ot jraifsiden and Pallas annexed, ero
And diocese of flotaterel.
Kee. Cheeks itigharde.llL,A. Chaplain to the Marciu
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By the latest ac:( wits •ti m Coati, aye
rth. • h thi.vmt.it'of the B. itu.;. le. wit!t :• c •
3as Coming' id, is rein !..1 at,
all the old tiiises have b e • .
We 'have every reasim b•.i.eve that th i, •
. L rd.Custnassatens going out to Canada 3* C.
am minder of the Faces. is iocurrect, as apt (vent
art Lieutenant.Ceiter ii S•t Joire Sitrautftnn lessi. '
that country, the Earl til DAI.IJ uslE, 4 ~re-eh'.:;
nee. ova !ill succeed to that imp ttia,
kp. Lordship is an Officer of the hkhe
els; haraetetr imaliirirersally respected and esteenle!
.the•Britltl!?kaiiiy,
mai ail:lament of the Seth marched oct.
Winchester Garrison, lot Cumberland Fort.
bey
his The fumes REGENT has ni.t 'eft the Pavilion
een Briglgon, since yesterday se'nnight, but his 11,..y
its, Highness regularly takes his morning exercise :a t.
• grounds, or on horseback in the riding.hoese, and
in health.
and red Qur.sti left. Bath at seven o'clock this mo
od in& for Windsor, where she will pass a few days, a
('he their proceed to the Pavilion at Brighton.
nne COAL Mum .EzkebioN.—Dusuiram, 20th Dm.
as. Yesterday morning a most dreadful accident emu.
irty in the.Plain.pit ;It Reiman Colliery, by an expiss:
of fire damp, by which six men and twenty.one ho
lost their lives... The explosion took place at th '
re. o'clock in the morning, before the hewers had
tended•the pit, and from thiecircunrstance about I
lies lives have been preserved. Every exertion was ma
c'e I" to reader assistance to those in the mine, and we
,wer
' Fret to add that two men MI a sacifice to their
mane endeavours, having been suffocated by the i
re it pure state of. the air. The 'jesters and agent; s •
.o'l.extresielyactive and had.nearlysbared the same (
`▪ ft Seven of. the bodies have already been brought
Poor
bank. The in which this accident occurred, • lj
ea a -always Considered to be quite free from explos
matter, and ire crmseqience of this sopposed secs':
aAra the safety lamphail never beenintroduced into it,
by,
led miners continuing to worb'by the light of candler.
set; COEN EJtOtIARCII 114Altit-LAXE V.. 4,
wars marker was well supplied With Wheat this morn'
from Emers.lEcnt' and Suffolk, when that of I
quality obtaltsvolast Monday's prices; but the
„: were liirtitotibrlik, and a tolerably large qua
rensainrikatrii"lord at the close of the market.—.
kgb had a large arrival of Barley from Suffolk ; yet, •
isb, prime samples sold early in the morning at '
and week's prices ; but the ' trade. became very be
afterwards, and stir prices were 2s. per qr. clwa
towards noosh—Peaa, Beans, and Oats, no alt.,. I
did 51111THFIRLD MARNE f. DECEMBER st.
bul. Dent as 1141 to fie OC Veld 4. 54 to 6, n
Maven 4s Od to 5' 04 f Perk iss Od re 5.
di. Lasts 160—nheet. and 1amb12.240-•Calre• 150—lige •
17111 The Ticket, No. 5.645, (Crassil.) drawn on
the
turday a Prize of d1e4504.10 Money. was Sold
his Shares by G. Cuanaos,s, ; wh also Said ill SA
and No. 4449. (Class B,) a Prize of L'20,000, the
day of drawing, besides 5,842, a Prize of 500
the fleas, and 4,730 and 2,0211. Prizes of 20a Gni
t. cam • The Fortunate Holders may receive 4
five
IL"' Vaud 011 demand, by applying at G. Calumet I '
oleo, ces, No. Moat axam., and OS. Oarolur ear.
-Two Tasman TraouNittio, ;
oled
Lintbry finished.dra wing,and Of fice • , V
thi
&Lao "re premnrsuent I having sold Two Trak nt T
sand Pound Prim drawn .in Saturday. and ono! I
hes;
K • 1120,000 on the second day of drawing, which, s
other Capitals sold by him in the same I
makes his success, as usual, great-r in sysoiber
amount tilers any other Officeeireeper.—,.The folio ' 4
P. arc the numbers
mast..anomo 11/41111166.* CltWm
sotat...ao.ouo Paimilia.ln Sims. a
Rola s,sve...oe,tion I,
rich 3,9011... 1.000 ramla...an aim
se in leo too Gehl= is Is Own
ajao too ordiera s sites •
ass. . 100 thine= la 0 Shares
d by. too 1P0anda......1a a whole Tirket
adjs. epee-- ISO Pounds.... in It Sham.
Mtg. . • CAMBRIDGE. DECEMBER is
daft, Vb. admit; Prim far the present year Is adjudged to g
y for John W.lsr, SA. of Emmanuel Color, toe hi. 'asserted.
The mbable causes of the apparent mow, wau s.. eh •
4▪ 64S I. ,asbea eiritlis of andcany treated the (Moeda,' se:
with' "the telliswieali the ittljety of the Maven Prase 41.• ,f I
NE. ler the emus, dews the tearable influenced rye e
Ilea apes the writings of the Heath's toaltuseimm. and tbe mu: I
' the Heathen Weald."
ria• The subject the Sufi& Punt fed the Chancefor's
with gehtme&l for thedditdrd year is r ,r 4 hop.nal acid mat r •
IWYORAY._ pECEMIstiR au. a
Tuesdays M ethr Rev, James adre, sometime of Max aro
Sr. 1118. Ceashrldie..and Dow. Vicar of sit. Panama, M 4ulrly
loemporated bachelor hs Oen LaOr of St. Jobn's College 1
"4'l". • Wednesday. the last dared adrelimintai rum, tee lot
cram= .Bshatlevegn were ethnical' to &greets •
aria,. . AOC-MI IN CIVIL &Ml'
hlor. . The Rev. James Moore, et j'it..jetse's Giese,
John Rama, sometime' Simian of Christ ChatO,
now Master'ot the School 4 Clutter 'House. grand coop-
Itev. Charles Wrottesly, Fella* of AN tibai'.4 Vega
•• • • saosrai or oars.
and i The Rea. Milani Sutton, at lfallt9l Colter.
lebn, The ft.:v. Robert Heath, of St. bluer C9lledr•
mi 'l' Row Robert Vai.hfult. Ofillbsenf Coale.
te
unto' •-••• •
Ms Sydenhans, drams
latter eoltese.
Mr. (barks Henry Waging. to /ems College.
Mr. Franck' fawn straw. of Quist Unnett. • .
reek.. Msave. Vs mt. Ikmar. Gilbert *tenderfoot. Fruledrk

CbIISION Sed Of Mita 5W14411114 Mots, to tre cc
Notonart, iume.
MARRIED.
The Itutb Inst. at Quasar. Kelm. hates tie: 1.81 0
phi*, Breit/64i jvlbs Nisalptib Halladay,iatt ut 4y,
LIED.
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AVlid•Morritb, so tbe I Ith unitant, John Ruis. Et
to , Myatt, a ;Arittemais squally eminent fur ai• , a
skill sad istagrity, as Ms urbanity and hrlicvol,nc. i:1
Ms. •
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