The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-10-15 00:00:00

Mc VdRIALIOS TRIAL.

VOURTN DAYS Orr. 13.
The crowd was shimmer thee *tor et tee Noe et
sporting tbvirett doors. Mr. Gentry end Mr. Car.
1110, the letter acceopaaied by hie friends, Mr.
Sheriff Parkins entered the Court at tO selnutes after

nioo. Mr. Cortile rowed edto image his boohooed
mirk ptssegoo. Abeet half-poit sine Chief Jostles
Abbot uttered the Court, sod called AO nese of the
Kin v. Cowin*.
The toilet:leg Special Jerre,* slew, aaswerleg
to their sautes :

Jabs sissiersss.

Joke Cbriitopher. $r.441-.1
Man LIIIIVOOde Meier

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Mr. GUIINIT preyed a

lad do HA was Ailed

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Jaws Mesmer,. 1 Willies. Iregraid
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. Letterime, i.he Wursiell.
Kirapinsia Deeram, Jew Weihme Boldre,
Fillward Precis. i Joh& Rabies.

bipi;iW oirrrrraii►.
Briers the Jury were !were, Mr. Grille re.
word spinet the legal competency oldie Ceara to
try bit cease. Ile moreover claimed the pleat*, of
objecting to sorb of tbe ralesens u be ding•
pored of.
• Jestice AssoT.—" Net without cesse; yes lig
object open a Impel come.
Mr. Carlile.—•• My Lord, I hue, sae of them I.
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°Ninon! t• too in opinion."
lonia Assot.—" That is net Widest easy."

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The -limier Counsel then stated to the Jury that
the pelmet iadiewlent against the Deresdant was NT
pebilsaing a sediliser, wieked, blaspheatees, and
profane libel egeitost the Christian lialigiots end the

Holy Scripturei.
Mr. Guarico stated the case; the indictment was
brought by • society which had interested itself in
the saes of public morals, and bad hreeiht many
prams to the bar of jostle. to answer for immoral
and Weigh's. crimes. Of coats. ihry could sot
pass over the glaring misdeeds of the Derendaot,
who exhibited in a manlier peculiarly public, at a
house la Itleu.street„ which he ilesignated the trample
of Reason, sendry profane and blasphemer's prodee.
Howe, sad soon, dm rest the book ingeestion, es.
titled Priociploa of !Vetere. PefP•foillit so be as
American predectino, by one Palmer, Dative
of thin tallowy. The book was nekton with No
' ether view then that of blaspheishig the authority
slid centrists of the Bible; he bed it before him, and
amid Speedily convince them of the teeth of whit
be said. Tae Defendant had protested •geiast the
legal competeed of that Court to try such a charge,
said he (Mr. G) really 'spaded, obit in future,
whenever a criminal should be pot to the bar. ne
matter hew black the charge against him, be 'sold
cosmoses by challenging the authority of thy Coed
which premised to. oty his'olfence. Did the Defimal.
set leek to hoe. by whet lair he was impeached
He ',sold answer, by that la• which existed sue
'overlaid *kitty 'before-Statute* Law was beard of or
knows—Au qtr which, from unmemorable anti.
quid, bad protecoid the property of brasses, the
chastity of females, and the moist* of the community
from mimeo or pollatiou--,rtiat law *filch, as it
'prom from • dills', sewer, sad us. the first'
to role the coodoet sari opleions of mankind, was
aboveell law. The title .1 the book before them
professed that it was of American aligns ; he could
not tell shore it was published, or who was the author,
it mashie duty, his palate! defy to promote it. It was,
is his epiaien, the most wicked book ever
except the sae open which the Defeodaet had jest
been fogad guilty,-end is acme passages it was eves
worse than that. It was painful to him to read such
a production, but he was under the necessity of poial•
lug sot some pelages, which would prove to them
that the design sod saccades of the work were
such as to leave no possibility of @spiels's/ away,
oar extenvatiog the criminality of pebliahiug it.—
Mr. Gyred then rood • passage which described,
is a patrol position, the plan which had bees adopt.
ed by Moss and Mehemet, to bring their respectivefollowm ender a military bottommost, sod the op.
pulsation of the system of Christianity to the tame
ZNl4is 'feeder& The passage which termed the
Ceeat of the ledictmeat, was one +bleb
waded and satirised the incarnatien of Christ. This,
Mr. Gorge, observed, was freedom of discussion;
this was the allowable variance of oplutoo ,• this was,
the Liberty of tho Press which they were called epee to
witadicate.Notwithstansling the verycersery view he
token of it, there must be enough to /envious them,
that the object said tendency of the week were wholly
immoral sod prophase. Ile went on to read another
passage reproachful of the moral Ammeters of MOWS
and Jesus Christ. He told not forbear stopping at
this past to give them the opinieo of one of the
greatest sod wisest men, one who was skilled in all
science, whose 'runtime was deep, and equally deep
in almost MI laegeages, who was profound le Orien-
tal kriowiedge, sad urea altogether better lilted to
give en opinion es the writing' contained in the
Bible than almost any ether man ; he mast Sir
William Joss, whir had writs, inside the covet
of his Bible, " 1 have regolarly aid attentively rend
these Scriptures, and am of opinioac disc, lode.
*dent of their divine origin, they commie more
tree history,
.More pare eloquesiee, sod more
morality than any boobs ever yet wrist..."
Mr. Gurney 'meld conclude with reading one more
passage, *bleb he conceived le be mere abominable
even then either of those before quoted. It wee
to the elect that, Moses, Mehemet, arid Christ
(41 'pia," said Mr. Gamey, " impiously cooplies
those Dittos Names with the wretch knows by the
fernier") could lay es Molt claim to the character
of beeefactors is maskind se any persons aver known
is the world, as the two bat were murderers in
prettier, and the latte, was murderess in principle;
this was succeeded by a comperidiees view of %hove.
teniiiics which tie propagation of their systems, accord.
mg to the elsren•ons of the author, bad all winkled.
Good ! .her had obis mac acqeired his knew.
Woe of Jesus Christ or his religion, of that seek
intelligence which ease to preach peace and good-
will to men? The D•fendaet hod aid that that
Cerro roes no piece to ad in judgment en epiaioa.--
11 war. to he ted into each an arena, he
treated that be (Mr. G.) was sot so Aesthete of
kosnol..lg. but that he could enter the lisle against a
gre•t•r moo then the Defendant: he would bring
forth w answer to his rash sod calumnious propel.
Outs the opinions of the wisest and best smuts mane