The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-10-13 00:00:00

dined le them? Unless the Defeudant geoid wipe
eon, that oath, it wield be impsseilde fee him
to be acquitted of she olleoces laid to his chore.
The first case to shit!' he would call the etiolation of •
the Coot loccurted se 'engage *sin Iberia* of Kist
Charles 11. It was hied before a J•aalge, who. se
long as Raitish law skeletal end•te.vo est.! be held I. the
highest estimation as a lawyer sod ass men. It wes
an information against a person of tbe sake of
Taylor, fur merely altering blasphemous repetition*.
Tey lot. it was lamed, had called religion a cheer, •
mod declared that he feared lola,' God nor Dealt—.
pei us on his Wel, he owned the weedy, bet vedette
toured i• show that part of them had .been settled
•with a meaning different from that little% hall been
Apposed to attach to them. The Judge d.. tad,
that to say religion was a cheat, was wet only aii et. f
bee* apical seligion, bet oleo en °Weise aultettiltlt. •
Mw, as it went tp emote, all OW ebliffillons tolkich
.4111110ciety let Who?. .Thie sea the deckle" Jatiir
Hale; yet sow they were laid bry ilteramsetlit M&
ant, that the eh.see looeten-iipTiist 14m bad ottlealibir.•
detests in law. Taylor sat convicted, led st, totetiell
seams was given against him. Doi they 5ta...... •
that might be adduced did net stop at thef
to which he bad gone back. At the eensnieotteelvest `.
of the tap of George Il ..i 1_ Second, a person was ion.
vivid on foie haformatioos. Ile attempted is jeotcfp
himself by impugning the miracles of oar Savior*,
sad the belief which all Christians. profess. This wads'
of defence the Court *field not saes his to proceed
with, and without sighing te interfere each the iik•
cessions of learned men on particular points, it was
forbidden to make a generki attack on the Christian
Religion. In this ease alto teevictioss took place/ .
sod sentence was gitee against the Defendant. lie t
might refer to what had been dope at a later period.
when ens Williams had had the Lvdibond to send
forth the same iolabsons sod Irlsspheionos publication
which was the soltjoct of the Ine4llol preS•rlifimn..lo
On that occasion, the Defendant WWI promoted
by an advocate who had ewer been disiingiaisked
among the friends of fie' dlrcus.inn and .the
liberty of the Press, the present Lord Erskine....: -
On that occasion, the Defendant ass convicted, after
en attempt to do Mit which he hoped would not they ..
be attempted, to defend the puttlication. In halts
person of the name of Eaton, soot forth the Veil
same book. lk vas stied before the predecessor of
site resent Chief Justice; bet was it held by the
*need persons engaged oo that occasion, that to re.
elle the Christian Religion was not comfit', to the
Gig el the Lon '? No seek a doelthe had ever
obtained their and soccessive Jeries,..frod lecreseitta
Comm, heal mend sive defendants guilty of a
• Peelle! spinal the lies of their coootry.—lf
It Wiese adoalated that the Christi.. Rrigiq mess •
otetwai she Law oteelidaniados evaiiiriose to he shoes
Whetter or net the.Thefiudint bed violated that kw,
by publishing one of the most ahotninilile, di4gostini,
said *irked Warty on religion that had ewer appear.
.4 its the ourld.—The Attorney Geneva' them pro.
ceedeal too comment at great leegth en the *e-
yelet pesssges cooled in the Indictment. H. Mad
soar gobs through the shale of the caveats;
he would ask them, if he had suit prayed, morning
Christianity lo be the law of the land, end that which
was Yet to be mard by word or waiting, that that
Woodall's had offended the law ? Hid he, or had
he net fettled the Christian Religion? This was the
lerstioe en which they wore called epos to decide.
Daley could pet their hands on their bosoms, sled say
that he had not done so, then is settle Defender( ea.
titled to hit acquittal ; bet if they should be of ti
contrary opinion, they could only discharge their duty
Ile God and to thcit couutry, by finding hint Guilty.
This presecetiou was not insti•ute.l for the purpose
'of oppressing say particular Liditrideal; bet fir the
purpose of protecting the lower and illiterate classes
of society from listing their faith sapped. and their
sleds diverted from those psinciples of morality,
Which were so powetfeily inrolcaled by the Christie&
Religiou. When soch terrible productions et these
to which he had 'elected, were deliberately pet Into
the bands of the Ignorsnt—into the heeds of thew,
• ho, unlike the rich sod nowelf.l, were enable to
draw distinctions beteren ingeninas, bet mischievoie
liniments, and diiine troths—lke rice as they be.
came familiar to their minds—all respect end venom•
lion for religion and virtue diminish—sod c 005...
I[
'spine. too poloist to cnistemplat• most accrue. It
was net (or him to dictate to the Jrry the-petit which
they were to follow. Tho eyes of the &lowly *ego
epos their recordings, and their delibeistioris
cud dinelesination w.fe looked to with a solely!
settee). block did he israent that the sohjecc
had Soot before been biought ender their cooftekrire
titian. No time, however, bad been lust, anti
whatever delays had taken place, wets solelf
It be attributed to the forms of law, and so other
occutrences stitch were not eithio lii, contioul.—it
use to be decided by the laity whether Chtistiouity
was a labile,. imposture, anti whethel they were in
continue under that religious part of the systeut of
their Contatitoti•e, t• which they had hmerefo looked
with confidence and veneratinu. If they !volleyed flail
the Defendant had cilretaded Diplom stn L- ws of*Go4
said the causally, they wouldosithoot the .tightest he.
hitaliosr, rye d verdict to that effect. It out; rtanaltnol
fur him io pros• lisp ease wh co he had mated. This
try preying the sale of that
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oath which ylioY
.nily as a fable, ass:fd.i eengel::e.luslaleeniraihipnia,
oejsbi:s4:l7i gin:el.ei
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as
he
was satisfied, upon elm facts, that the only ver•
diet giblets they could return oa this occasion was that
of guilty.
The scums ...smut. now ailed Mr. nettle Simatere,
who deposed. ghee rar she 1711/ at lbeeraileer. he pre., to tie
home or she liedirodoot, I. tteer.oreart, tu.tf perciewed a 1 she
1N*14661 hlrsalf The Aft uf Rraw..B. be paid for tt hOo•lio•
hen. Oldie Imo ultimo so be the (Turk to the holiewore or
the Taman. ese set haa temOolimellll to Mr. Wavle. neesue,
If be wooleeltmer Ms to eat his (Arm= combo at beam, he
itself be propmed le met hi..