Star.
London, England, 1821-09-18 00:00:00

Mr. Blacuw.—My Lord, there is a variation in the/hie.
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The variation was, that the whole title was not set forth, at
least that the words " and an Appendix hearing on the Radical
question" were not added to the rest of the tide, after the word
entitled. His Lordship thought the objection immaterial; but
the third count having no title set forth in it, it was read and
compared, and no variance found.
Mr. IS/OUGHAIL—That is my case.
Mr. Illacow.—lt is my desire that the whole sermon should
be read. I don't wish the notes, except perhaps one note.
Mr. BILOUCHAM.—If the whole sermon be read, I shall insist
upon the notes being read.
Mr. Justice lloutovo.—Do you wish the whole discourse to
be read, as bearing upon the charge against you, and material
for your defence?
Mr. Blacow.—Yes, that is my desire.
Mr. Cross rose to his task, but our limits will not permit
us to report even the substance of this sermon of tlarty p .tit s,
But two notes in one pate, and attached to the subject of
libel, as they were read in continuation by Mr. Cross, made
such an impretsion on all who heard them, that they never
can forget them.

(Not; to " guilty paramour."—" See Juventl's account, in
his sixth Satire, of llippiali s journey:imp in the self•same region
,of the world, by sea and land, with her paramour Serg!es. But
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not to be adduced, while the advocAt-s of ' injurtql inno:cnce
and ' unsulli d purity' feel no scruple whatever in holding up to
public ex. cration, as the very antitype of Nero himself, one whose
forbearance and generosity of character—whose great, noble,
and truly maznaninions tpi ilities place him in the very fir:t rank
of Princes, who have adorned and tligrilled their exalted sta.
tions; and who, ever since the sceptre of power was loclud in
his hands, has swayed it with so much honour to hitnself, such
glory to his country, and such ine,timable advantage to those
who have the happiness to live under his mild and auspidoua
rule and governance.'
(Mute to " mock Majesty astride upon an ass".)
" Enter Jerulalein nn an a s,
" Then on ete stage act Columbine;
" Attend with Ilergaini at Mass,
" 'Then to St. Paul's, oh! Caroline !!

Mr. ('enss got thrcrieh the printed sermon in about an hour.
Mr. /meow next read a summit in manincriPt, which occo.
pied about two hours and a half. We offer only a few spec/.
wens. 'the Jury having heard the whole of that discourse, he
would now proceed to state his motives, and then he would con.
elude with some reflections. lie entered on this subject with
great reluctance, owing to an event so awful and sudden as the
queen's death. That event ought to have hushed all angry feel-
ings—(ilere the defendant appeared to weep.)—But her Conn..
.el, Mr. Brougham, was the first to disturb her ashes. Masi
alas! on that party death made no impression. The malignant
feelings which were brooding in their hearts vegetated in their
breasts even beneath the cypress. The hydra of faction had
reared its terrific head on the day of her funeral. That dis•
cloaed the unparalleled malignity and atrocity of the designs the),
had entertained. Iler Counsel were determined to carry their
vindictive feelings beyond the tomb. Her mantle was on their
heads, and they were endeavouring to raise trophies on her tomb.
This was a posthumous effort of heir malice; nothing but the
lowest and most malignant feelings of revenge could have drawn
him into this Court. Bi:sphemy and Sedition had ranged them-
selves beneath her banner; treason itself had been distilled trona
her pen. Previously to her trill, he had always felt the warmest
interest in her favour, and supposed that it was only levities and
italicretions that were brou,lht to the country with velocipede
celerity en the wings of the wind. Favoured as she had been
by the late King, and widowed as she had been from the first
years she was in this country, he hid lilt great interest in her.
lie felt for her, perhaps, with rreater thicerity than her vaunted
professional champions. But wnen the foul, filth-, and abomi-
nable charges against her were e,taLliFbed—.

Mr. BILOUCIIA3I. I should not wish vaneee,;sarily to interfere,
and I have stayed long before I offered any intereiiptioa ; but
surely this is notto t.e endured.

Air. Justice HOLILOVD.—No 'evidence would be admitted of
what you assert, if you could produce it ; and we must not there•
fore heir assertions resorted to.

Mr. Ltlacow.—When the foul and filthy--
Mr. Baonenasi.—lle is just repeating the very terms.
Mr. Justice Iltimtovn.—No, Sir, you must nut use such lams
guage. I ant softy to interrupt you on your defence, but I catty
nut in law hear such assertions.

Mr. Blacow.—Surely I may 'hew what my motives were%
Mr. Justice Iloi.novn.—You cannot make assertions of guilt,
when prig& would not be admitted. You may state your owl"
opinion and belief.

- Mr. Dlacow.—Thm this is my opinion.
Mr. Justice Ilor.soyn.—But you may not prove your opinion
from newspapers or other sources. The law will not allow it.
Mr. lilacow.—The highest Court of Law tried the question,
and gave a verdict.

Air. Justice 11oLnom.—We don't legally know what was
done there.

Mr. lilacoor.—lt appeared the highFarverdict that could be
given.
Mr. llrouctrea►.—llicre was no verdict.

. Air. Blacow read on.—No ingenuity could pervert the evi-
dence of her own witnesses; and then he felt indignation and
disgust in place .of pity and respect. Then there was a mock
procession in the place he lived in. The howling tempest dew.
laced the land. Then, and nor till then, it was that he took up
his pen. Every mats who had a spark of loyalty, a.grain of re.
ligion, a particle of affection for his country, was bound to art.
rest the progress of the desolating storm. He was satisfied the it
it was his duty to bring all the energies of the pulpit to bear
upon it. Party politics were far beneath their notice, but th.-ro
were Christian politics which had a strict claim on their atten-
don. (Here the defendant quoted the several passages of Scrip.
ture that are usually applied to politic•}. With all the systems
of Dissenters )14'1 and disaffection were interwoven ; and
if they were not checked, they would soon revive an Oliwrian
dynasty. having made tht se remarks, he would go on nest to
shew that the symptoms which had preceded the French Revo-
lution had begun to appear in this country when he preached his
sermon. " When bad men conspire, good men must combine."
In their ranks he took his stand against the raging waves, and
the blood-hi tmes, and ten thousand other figurative horrors. It
was a cool and deliberate act he did. Ile had yet to learn " the
head and front of his offending." Ile had supported the sacred
shield of protection, the banner of the hovereign, against the
standard of anarchy, tutinit, and rebellion. If the moral dean.
lotion had not been turned by the pen, wherewould the diadem,
where the stars of Nobility, where the mitres have been ? The
democrafe mob, under the many-headed monster, the 111a:edy
of the People, would have niumplied. " Thank Goo, who gave
me 'mirage to do my duty in affliction," &C. quoting the fine pc.
roration of Burke to the *Electors of Bristol, " this will be my
consolation." If they would lend an ear to the faction which
brought him there, to the Advocate who had the audacity to
threaten the Peers—

Mr. Justice flutatorn.—That is quite irregular.
lilacow.—lt was an reported in the newspapers.
Mr. littourinam.—lf it was it was most falsely reported; but
it never was so reported.
Mr. illacow.—lt was not contradicted; and it was on the lips
of every Radical.
Mr. Justice Ifoutovn.—You cannot assume it as fact.
Mr. Buot:c-aissr.—Read it.
Mr. lllacow.--1 brought none with me ; but I have read that
you said it.

Mr. Justice Ikraovn.—lt is not evidence.
Mr. Llacow.--Suppose—as sup; usitioi:t i, it not !strictly right?
—such arrogant threats were addressed to the Peers.
Mr. Justice Houturix—Assuming th:it they would allow it.
Mr. Illacow.—lf they did, they acted wrong—(a general burst
of laughter).
Mr. Justice Ikt.sovn.—You must not express your opinion
here upon matters before the Peers.
Mr. lhacow.—What would he your fee lirps in this compara.
tirely humble Court, if similar expressions were addressed to
you? (Ikre he entered into observations on the situltio !of the
Queen, and said the Queen had been allowed to conic Et° this
Court under indulgent circumstances, and wis hour an affidavit.)
Mr. Justice Ilixsoro.—She did not staid on the same Note
lug as other subjects.
Mr. lilacow.—She is a subject.
Mr. Justice llotnovn.-1 know R ; but on account of bet
peculiar connexion with the King, :the is not bound to make
affidavit.

Bnotnatrast.—lt was tendered.
Mr. Blacow.-111 talk to you by and bye. (The Rev. Cent.
next talked of what he called Mr. lkinnarri. filthy Greek.)
Mr. Justice HOLIWYJNYOU have nothing to do with persons
who are not here.
lihnow.—.ls public men?
Mr. Justice lloutovu.—No, when they have nothing to tle
with this issue.

111 r. IS.lacow. —This is mate dal, being imd in her Majesty t
delence.

Mr. Justice Hor.uorta.—But you must ❑ccompany it with no
exprft-s,ion.

111 r. 111.1cow.—Theft put nut " filthy," though every one who
understands Greult knows it to be so. He woull meeb rater
regard whist Mr. Brougham did than what be said. Ile tetust:d
the money to be voted by Parlisateut for the Queen. %Votild he
gt.r up and deny that ? was nuble. Not a penny of .1.4. n
l3u l's mr,;:ey would she rec.iva till her name was restored to tbs?
Liturgy. 'l his was worthy of the "brave Brisniwick" ati

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The Tinter called her ; but M. Brougham advised her to take
hat Parliament gave with far ton generous a feeling.
Mr. BitGrt.stAst.—lle has no right, my Lord, to make such
assertions, pore especially, as they ale notoriously false. •
Mr. Blt4feW.—lt it reported.
lira Bb Or :treat.—No, it is nut. I was more than Sri) miles
from town when the money was accepted.
tr. Ju.tice llotuovo.—l hope, Sir, you have good sense and
feeling enough not to go 00.10 this way.
Mr. Blacow.—Hone and Cathie were allowed to go very far,
and am I not to be allowed to go so far?
Mr. Justice Hotacorn.—Tbe Chief Justice doubted *lace whe-
ther he was justified in letting him go so far. In the case of ano-
ther person, we were all of opinion that it ought not to be done.
Mr. Illacow.—l calculated on going on so; if this be cut off,
I may as well sit down.
Mr. Justice llot.sorn.—You are not to be suffered to go on
bccaute yen calculated on it.
Mr. nlacow nett spoke of" such reptiles as Wood and Waitb-
man, who had talent only to weigh a drug or measure a yard of
tape, regular traders iu guile and deception."
31r. Justice /1011l0V EN—lf you go on so, I must stop you.

Iklr.lacow.—Then I cannot go on.
Mr. Justice llocaovn.—No slanders are to be repeated here.
Mr. I.llacow.—A4 public men ?
Mr. Justice HOLIWYD.--Not on another transaction.
Mr. Blacow.—lt was said that the Queen had been ready to
make an affidavit, as it had been said, that she wilted not re-
ceive the money. Let them not believe it, as coming from Mr.
Brougham. Ile had been guilty of a moral degradation which li
he hoped would never again be seen at the liar. But the good
and great old Chancellor nobly replied to him feat jutting rad
c:Vuie he was like a venerable oak in his native soil. Mr.
Brougham had endeavoured to intimidate by his threats when
he could not cajole by his sophistry. That was the practice of
his ferociouS seboaL He borrowed the word from Mr. Creevey,
of ‘Vhig-radical notoriety—for Liverpool had the honour ofl
giving that statesman birth. (The Reverend defendart again'
plunged into the vortex of the French Revolution, and the com-
parison to the ferocious monster Nero). They crept into Par-
liament after all, through the crannies of rotten boroughs. Mr.
lirougham and Sir Francis Burdett, and others of that pestilent
faction, were members of the Concentric Club, that horde of
ferocious persons. lie (Mr. Blacow) had not defamed the
Queen; and he was prosecuted. not for defaming the Queen,
but fur the many editions of his sermon, against the Whigs and
Radicals. When it went through two editions, a full conclave
of raging Liverpool Radicals resolved to prosecute him. (Here
quotations of proceedings in the Locds and Com:noels, were re-
peatedly checked in vain). In the picture between the ferocious
Nero and our generous King, was it not a direct call to rebel-
lion? This bad been the intention of the Radical faction in
taking up the Queen's case. The well known journal of this
faction was the lioerpoel ifemary, the common receptacle of
.edition and blasphemy, and attacks on private character. Ile
( Mr. Biscow) knew the faction. . They had fury on their lips,
vengeance in their hearts, and blood on their hands. (The Rev.
defendant neat entered lute a long history of his efforts to de-
rive an Atheist of parish offices, and of his failure, through the
traduce of " the well known colleague of a Radical Counsel
fez the Cbseen, and Member for Nottingham.")
Mr. Justice 11oLuorn.—No, Sir.

Mr. Blacow.—As public characters ?
Mr. Justice Iloinoro.—As a man of education, conducting
your own defence, and professing seal for submissionO to autho-
rity, I am surprised that you can go on so.
Mr. !Macaw again reverted to Nero, and the comparison to
hint, alluded to blasphemies against Ministeri, and said the
Queen's answers, to use a well known expression of Mr. Sear-
ktes, smelt of blood. Why was this prosecution brought
against hint after the Queen's demise? Why was be selected?
(Ile next lauded the Judges of the land, and lamented the au-
dacious slanders even upon them, and concluded this part by
exclaiming)—" Perish the arm that would not be raised at such
a crisis—silent fur ever be the tongue that would not speak."
lie defamed not the Queen. It was utterly impossible, if he
bad had the eloquence of Sir Harcourt Lees in Ireland, or of
that man of straw John Bull, against which he understood Sir
Joint Copley set his face. (The Interruptions here were inces-
sant and unavailing). His arm had dropt from the shoulder-
blade before he had suffered the finger of pollution to touch the
sacred symbol; of Caterer's body. (He next proposed to read
passages much stronger than he had used, front a volume called
" Gattsailcueracy," but he was prevented from that course as irre-
levant. He pleaded the example of Hone and Carl le, and com-
plained that the whole of his defence would be cut up).
Mr. BILOCGICAX explained, that Bone had quoted parodies, not
to shew that others had not beets prosec.utede but to shew that
he was not guilty of profane or blasphemous parody, inasmuch
as parodies as liable to that charge had been written by persons +
of undoubted piety, and ornaments of the Church.
Dlr. Blacow.—lf racks, tortures, even the gibbet were his
reward, he would not abate one word of what be had said.
The image of the " Pedestal of Shame" be borrowed from a
letter in a London paper—not the leading journal ; no, it was
not from the Times, the most false, most pestilential, most 11-
centious, must iullatumatory paper that ever disgraced any
country ; nor from John 8011, the rays of whose honest truth
dispelled the mists of delusion which anarchy bad raised. But
honest Joke was sometimes beside himself, for he attacked even
lilt. Brougham, whose malignity now rankled in the gloomy
recesses of his vengeful heart; but they would deliver him (Mr.
Blacow) front his merciless gasp, and let him and John lull
fight it out. 1.11,4 Bell, by interrogatories, put cross-grained
questions. Of the purity of Mr. Brougham's family he knew
nothing ; but the Duke of Wellington said to the mob, " May
ail your wives be like the Queen." If the cap fitted Mr.
Brougham, he might take it.
Dlr. Justice Ilourovn.—lt is quite irregular.
Mr. lflacow.—Dut the letter he alluded to was in the Clastrier,
which prided itself on decorous and gentlemanly language, and
which admitted nothing low or scandalous! Ile had been happy
to borrow from its well-attempered page ! He mentioned this
to shew that there were some other reasons for fixing Mr.
Brougham's legal harpoon in him. He had probed the apple of
his eye when he had praised the King's Ministers. Hone was pro.
perly acquitted, because he had not had the Intention for which he
was prosecuted : so ought he (Mr. Blaeow) to be now acquitted.
Mr. I.laueenass.—it is quite untrue that you alone are se-
lected. Bills are found by the Grand Jury against others, and
it is well known.

Mr. Blacow.—Before Gan be solemnly swore he was not
guilty of the charge. (In the argument to chew that he bad not
defamed herlate Majesty, he used such terms of ribaldrous ob-
scenity as brought down the indignation of the Judge.) The
Common Council of London was a viperous brood, a nest of
pestilential llailicals. and mountebank-dealers in dislotalty.—
When they talked of'- her eminent virtues," the very stones of
this house would start from their beds and speak. (Again he
struggled to go into the evidence before the Lords, but after
much petulant resistance to the authority of the Court, he was
restrainfd.) Who instituted this trial? Was it Alderman
Wood—Billy Au-tin—or that paragon of wit and wisdom and
Ant writing, Lady Hood?-the Escort Committee ?—or the
Common Council? No, it was the Whig-Radicals, because he
had " confounded their politics and frustrated their knavish
sticks." If a London Jury acquitted Hone, surely a Lancaster
Jury would acquit him (Blacow). The Queen left nothing in
her will to AI:. r:ll3n Wood ; and it was said that Mr. Brougham
had said of him, that except the identical animal who eats this.
tic there was not a more stupid animal; from which he sup-
posed he called him Absolute Wisdom.
Mr. USOUGHAM.—TIiere is not a syllable of truth in that.
Mr. Blacow was very glad to bear it. The Whigs in office
were always tyrants; out of office always traitors. They were
a ready to cast off the Queen when abe should have answered
their ; urposes, as that old crazy-headed goat, Lord Erskine, to
east off his concubine.
Mr. Mame 0! There's a Minister of the Gospel!
Mr. illaeow then eulbgizell the Bridge-street Gang, the joy-
gus acclamations of the Irish, and poured forth a fervent prayer
fur every earthly and eternal blessing on George IV.
When he concluded his fervid harangue, there was a very ge-
offal stir throughout the Court.
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Mr. Justjce lotions, iu the most guarded and temperate
language, give his opinion that it was a libel. The epithets were
pttyt abusive and derogatory. Could bete ignorant that he was ,
traducing and vilifying the green? By a particular statute they
were to judge whether the defendant was guilty. As a Clergy-
man of she Church of England, holding himself out as very loyal
and eery desirous of the preservation of the State, he gave his
opinion of the (bieen's guilt, lett nut the people to their own re.
Sections, and thus he disturbed the peace. But it was for them
to judge whether it was a libel or not. They were to lay out
of their minds all other constdoiations, and totally their own
*Wien, rove:sing the question of the Queen's guilt or inntS.
etutte. The only question was, whether the plakatiett tended

to degrade the Queer, to traduce her, and was published with!
lava to vilify her, and to break the peace. In his opinion it
was a libel.
The Jury retired for a quarter of an hour, and found a ver-
'diet of—Guiliy.