The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-25 00:00:00

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CU[ ST.OF CRA NeßßY.—(YurEsDay.)

IMPORTC4T TO THE aUI I'ORS OF THE COURT.
Soon after the LORD Cusstcat.r.na ha I taken his sea•
this morninz, he said he wished 'o obterve, that there wet'.
many causes standiag in the Court for years; they were
originally brought before the Court, and afterwards they
same under threrent pleadings. Last year such causes
amounted to fifty-three, anti at present theyesceedcd ninety.
His Lordship, therefor., wished it now to be understood.
that be ordered such causes to be struck ont, unless good
cause aas shewn why they remained; be blamed no one for
the delay. hut his Lordship considered it railed for his at-
tention ; and he therefore wished his decision to be known,
and a notice sent to all the Law Offices.

PATLE AND OTHERS, V. THR BISHOP OP LONDON.
•: The ATTORNEY4UE:4EIIAG stated that this was a motion
for an injunction to restrain the defendants from instituting
sad directing the induction of Mr. Platt to the vicarage of
St. Stephen's, Coleman Street. notwithstandiog the lapse
which had occurred.—The Bill stated that the advowson of
lit. Stephen's was, in the thirty•secnnd year of the reign of
()open •Elizabeth purchased for 339/. l2s. by the then
parieltiotrra orSe. Stephen's, and by letters patent granted
by ler biajtisty., the.advowson was granted to certain per-
sow, in trust, for the parishioners of that parish.—lo May
last a vacancy occurred in this vicarage by the death of the
and a meeting was subsequently convened on the
27th August to elect and nominate a proper person to suc-
ceed him. The voting at this melting was recording to
the acknowledged usage—by ballot, and the numbers at
the close of the ballot appeared to be 97 for Mr. Platt, and
9:1 for Mr. Fayle, the plaintiff. On this occasion Mr. Opie,
the churchwarden, acted as Chairman, and declared the
numbers to the meeting. Dr. Lusbiagton was the assessor
of the election. Some objections were afterwards taken to
voters on both sides. Those taken by Mr. Platt to the
pinintiffs voters were In particular to two gentlemen of the
Jewish persuasion, who were refused. An alien, and two
persons who were rated neither to the church or poor-rates,
and were not housekeepers, voted fur Mr. PI stt, and were ac-
cepted. The question, however, fur the Lund Chancellor's
decision was, the eligibility of Jews to vote for the election
of a Clergyman of the Established Church.
• The Arroasttv Ogoattat. and Mr. SooDIN contended
in favour of the right. It was quite clear that Jews were
privileged to purchase lands and advowsons, and of coarse
to present to such advowsons. There was nothing in the
low of this coontry upon which their ineligibility conld be
f moiled. Raman Catholics mere by espressand intelligible
language precluded from taking a part in the election of a
Clergyman of the Establishment ; and had the law intend-
ad to deprive Jews of that rivilego, this silence on the
abject was not easily accounted for.—Mr. Sugden had not
ettneluird his argument, when
His LiRDSHIP said, that the Students dinner was of too
oave importance to admit of delay, and he should there.
re def-r the further hearing of the Learned ilentleotan's
observations until to.tiorrow,_

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**URI' OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER, N0v,24

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THE KING V.
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Mr. ANDREtre mentioned the case in which he moved on
Friday for a habeas corpus to bring up a horse-dealer of
Chelmsford, imprisoned on a charge of receiving a horse
knowing it to he stolen, when the Court directed the case
to stand over till he procured the affidavits of two persons
who. us he asserted, •aw him buy the horse. Tlk learned
counsel now prodoced the alb lisle of one of these persons,
and stated that the other was the driver of a stage-coach
between Hwy and hondoe, whose deposition the attorney
for the d 'fondant had not yet been able to obtain.
Mr. Justice Bear asked whether the effi lash stated
That the defendant gave a fair and reasonable price for the
horse?
1111 r. ANDREWS replied in the negative ; bat urged that
the character of his client, who had lived for many years in
tepute at Chelmsford, was a strong presumption of the false-
hood of such a charge.
Mr. Justice Beer (the other Judges not having taken
their seata)said, that the point left unanswered was the
most important in the case, and fur the present refused the
writ.

rite RING V. JOSSPII WILLIAM TRUST.
?be SOLICITuR-OUNERAI. prayed for the judgment of the
Cutlet on the defendant, who was cond. ted at the last
slttings in Loudon on an informatiou exhibited eat officio by
the A ttorney.lieneml, charging him with publishing a
leasphernous libel on the Christian Religion and the Holy
Scriptures.
The defendant, apparently a very young man, respectably
&elle& appeared on the floor of the Court.
Thu LORD Cater JUSTICII read his notes of the trial,
VA abstained from reading the passages charged as blas-
phemous, as they were the same which had been before
the Court on former occasions. The publication took place
ate shop condected by the defendant at No. 126, Newgate
Street, and was managed by the means of machinery in-
tended to Conceal the actual vender. At the trial, the de.
fondant appeared in person, and avowed that Ito was an
agent of Mr. Cedar. and a convert to his principles. He
attempted to read the work prosecuted, but, introducing
matter hostile to Christianity, was prevented by the Lord
Chief Astiee from proceeding.
An affidavit of the defendant was read, stating that he
Td ad given up his shop and all his stock in trade; that he
was not the orieinal publisher of the work, and there-
fore email not offer to deliver up the remaining copies;
saddle he hod been redneed to poverty by the prosecution.
Mr. FRENCH addressed the Court in mitigation of punish-
ment. He felt well assured that amore glance at the youth
oftehis anfortaaate man would more powerfully dtsposp
the Coact to merry than any thing which he could arga.—
He avowed that from his inmost soul he abhorred the very
semblance of blasphemy; and true it was that blasphemy
lad never assumed so bold atone, bad never been sustained
by.so powerful a confederacy, as in the present day; but he
was sore the Court would rather select for punishment the
principel corruptors of the public morals than one of their
utisgaided dupes, a young man who at the age when the
best might waver in their faith, had unhappily been led to
entertain doubts of the truth of Christianity, and whose
necessities had induced him to lend himself to more potent
ecstasies of religion. Bus he (Mr. French) should think
t,mt he deserted his tint), if be forebore to allude to time
snores from which pollution had been cast on the mind
•f ills Loath ; for he would not refrain from presenting
on behalf of a client a solid argument, the power of
which he felt deeply, merely because it might be disagree-
able to others. He did not allude to the execrable works
of . Voltaire, of Gibbon, of Rousseau, of Hume, of
Atirabeau, or of Paine, the bold and open enemies of
Christianity, bat to the more insidious acts of the Uni-
tarians.
The Loan Cater Juserca.—We really have nothing
to do in this case with the opinions of any class of

Christians.
Mr. Facmcn saboaitted that he had a right, in mitigating
the offence of his client, to refer to the cause by which he
bad been led into it. The Learned Counsel then proceed-
ed at considerable length, to uree the inconsistency of
prosecuting unbelievers, when the Legislature had repealed
the Act of William and Mary, by which the impugners of
Ste Trinity sere stibjectel to severepenalties.
The Lost) Cuter JUSTICS observed, that the Legislature
bad rilitved a certain glass of parsons from
.a particular
penalty, hut they had done no more.
Mr. Justice Barr remarked, that he conld not take it for
grouted thetany class of men were guilty of tear hing blas-
phemy. He always endeavoured to prevent remarks on
any one who was not regularly before the Court; no
Unitarians WAS now before them ; and he shonld act with
a partiality which he abhorred, if he did not protect that
* as wad as any other to which allot:on tuight be•
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