Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-12-13

Hlr. Blacow: Aspublic men?
Mr.. Justice HolrOyd Not on another trans
action.
Mr.. Blacow: It was said that the Queen had |
been ready tom make an affidavit, as il had been |
said, that she would not receive the money
Let them not believe il, as coming from Mr.. |
erougham he had been guilty ola moral deg
radiation, which he hoped would never again
he seen at the bar. But the good aud great
old Chancellor nobly replied to him fat ;usttiid
ynd! cdiem he was like Il venerable oak i'm his
native SOIL Dir. Brougham had endeayoured
TO intlmidate by his threats when he could not
'elole by his sophistry. That was the practice
ct his fcrocious school. He borrowed the
word rom Mr.. Greevey, ofWhig-radical noto-
rety--ior Liverpool had the honour of giving
mat statesman bir,h.--(The Rev. defendant
again plunged into the vortex Of the French
revolution, and the comparison To the ferocious
monster Nero. They crept into Parliament
after ALL through the CRANES of rotten no.
roughs. Mr.. Brougbam aud Sir Francis Bur
deti, and Others OF that pestilent faction, were
members ofthe Concentric Society, that horde
OF ferocious persons. He tMr. Blacow had
not detained the Queen and he was prosecut-
Gil moi Tor deiamlng the Queen, but for the
many editions Ofhis sermons against the Wings
ana Rad'cals. When it went through two e.
dltons, a full conclave of raging Liverpool ra-
dicals resolved TO prosecute him. Here. quo
tauons of proceedings in the Lords and Com
mons were repeatedly checked in vap) In
the pc;urr between the frrocous Nero and our
generous King. was it not Il direct call to re-
hellion This had been the intention of the
radical Faction IN taking up the Queens ease.
me well known Journal % f this faction was
the &" L,rerDool .MetrurY," the common reccp-
tncle of scdition and basphemy, and attacks
ON private character. He(Ar. Blacow) knew
me faction. They had fury on their lips, ven
geance iii the!rhearts, and blood on their hands.
The Rev. defendant next entered into a long
history OF his efforts to deprive an Atheist of
parish offices, and of his failure through the
conduct of" the weli-known colleague of Il IA
dIca counsel for the Queen, and member for
Nottmgham.1
Mr.. Justice Iloroyd As man of ed.ca
lion, conducting your defence, and protesting
zcal for submission to authority, am surpris-
81 That You can go on so.
Mr.. Blacow again reverted TO Nero and the
comparison 10 him, abiding to blnsphenies
against ministers, and said the Queens an
s"ers, to use we'll known expression of Mr..
Scarlet's,." smeit oil b!oal." Why was this
prosecution brought against him after the
Queens demise? Why was he selected ? He
next lauded the Judges of the land, and Ia.
inented the aulacious saunders even upon
them, and concluded this part by cxclainling
=" Perish the arm that would not he raised
at such crlsls-silent forever ne the tongue
that would not speak" He DETAINED not the
queen. Ii was utterly impossible if had the
cloluence of Sir liarcourt Lees, in Ireland, or
OF that MAJ of straw, John Bull, against which
ne understood Sir John Coplcy set his face
Inc interruptions were incessant here, and
unaAaiiingl His arm might have drop ped
from The shoulder blade before he would have
suffered the finger OF pollution to touch the
sacred symbols of Christ's BODY. He next
proposed 10 read passages mush stronger than
hc mad used, from volume called {" Gunai-
Nocracy," hut he was prevented from that
course, rs irrelevant. He pleaded the exam
PIE OF Hone and Garlic, and complained that
the whole ofhs defence would be cut ap.l
Mr. BrouSham explained that Hone had
quoted parodies, not To show that others had
not been prosecuted, but to show that he was
NOT 6"iiiy OF protane or biasphemous parody,
inasmuch as parodics, as liable to that charge
bad been written by persons of undoubted nj
e'y, and ornaments of the church.
Mr.. Blacow.-lf racks, tortures, even the
Siobet, were his reward, he would moi abatc
one word OF what he had said The IMAGE of
The Pedestal of Shame he borrowed from
letter IN London paper--not the "lcadinr
journal; )" no. it was not from the Times. the
most raise, most presidential, most licentious.
most Iniiammatory paper that ever dissraced
any country nor from John Bull, the rays Of
whose honest truth dispeied the mists nj de-
fusion which anarchy had raised. But hon
est John was sometimes beside himself, for he
attacked even Mr.. i5rougham, whose malipui |
~ now ranked IN the gloomy recesscs of his |
Vengcllh heart bat they would deliver him |
! W. biacOwl rom his merciless grasp, and lei |
hlm and John Bull fight it out. John Bull bv |
snierrosatores, put cross grained questions.
vi the purity of Mr.. Brougilam's family he
knew nothing; hut the Duke of Wellington
said TO the mob, May all your wives be like
me Queen" 1.-THE cap fitted Mr.. Brougham,
he might take it.
Mr.. Justice Holroyd 1t is quite irregular.
Mr.. Bklcow But theletter he alluded TO was
IN the Courier, which prded itself on decorous
ana 6entlemaniy language, and which admit
tea nOthnS low or scandalous. lie had been
happy to borrow from Ms well attrmpered
page lie mentioned this to show that there
were some other reasons for fixing Mr.. B's
legal hdrp0on in him. He had probed the
apple OF hss eye when he had praised the
hinS's Ministers. Hone was properly acuuit-
ted because he had not the intention for which
hewas prosecuted so ought he (NIr. BIaco,vl
10 be now acquitted.
Mr.. Brougham. Ii is quite untrue that Won
alone are selected. Bills are found by the
drand Jury against Others,and tits well known
MIR. BlacOw Before God he solemnly swore
he was not guilty ofthe charge. I'm the argr.
lnent to show tlatle had not Detained her late
DlaJesty, he used such terms of ribaIdrous oh
sccnity as brought down the indignation of the
Judge.) The Common Council of London
was a viPerous brood, d nest Of presidential Ra-
ideals, and mOunebank dealers in disloyalfy.
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 az {
ter much petulant resistance to the authority {