Court Of King's Bench, Th...
The Times, 1824-01-16T00:00:00

(Before thc -&rd.C'hieffaeticAw7dii =s a T .. ULse-lon trus day, appearsto havee ,,qtll ',,et' ,iltt n,titpubic ipd. , At rLn xlhoi every parttef tne .court.was -criowded,.anid . abkngtie spectators wa rf'ark.b-3ier.f otiderab1evropolrtion o,f14Ue. ' 'The LORD ZCH1Ef .J1STCE tOO3 Iibs seat on i1e bcc at te o'dlock, and im nediately afterwards this cauise '45 'e311d on. The -followine Soecial Jarors answered'to.tbeir namp,z_ ". Mr. PATTISON opened tho pfeadings. - Thie 'iictet a.a follows: - .* ,. ;P.' MViddkegex- to witd,-.Te .JJtrroi 0f: our 4r tea Rlc-'ing; uitidii their oath present, that--John EiaHu ieon hp~hftqere Han6vei-usqdri, In:tlib - tounty df - MidUcdrx, , boo-kaeller,- -beingA person of witltdd atid mnalle.idus. dispositiQo ~ndvic3F dyif jss ciously contrivingarldinendiig to injuie, d me,-dssrc,srr fy, he mmor, reovitationj and dbdraicter of hiis late MajZt : king U egrge the Thuid, th eiFsthe& 6f ouF$0`are_n LJord th e:isos*Kit g; and of.diiers-&laeiad s s dnaoIi:tslIl aj~y-e bers of.the-Royal Fainilyai this -realini and a~ ~tsigu n tendin to casci td believedhih#this said late Majetsty wais a bad King; jiuilty; miml"1 d,".: f" andthat his death wasunlament'ed andi:unxi&este -even by thRse wTio afiided, his burial4 and thereby' to-disturb-aiid disquiet :the minids and de- 3troy the comfoa t and hlipjihsegs of ouir saiid, Lord-the -now King atiEL otlher the saiil.descendants, aisd tobr1ng .th&einitb public scanidaL infamny, disgrace, anid contem t, with and :amngns't nWI the subjiets of thiis realm, on the second a~y. of December, in the vear of oiti Lord one'thouiaisidx.eikbt. hun4red' aild "lrgnCy two, ar thei-parish aforesaid, iii the. county, aforesaul, 'withi. f6rce~ a-qd arnis, faisty wickedly malicibusly', unila-wfuly did print and puiblsish and cause' tob Vprititedf and psqblish d;iln a certain printed bbok, to) wit, in acetipnti.1ot.ale:2z ie4'cran false, scandalous malicious,: and: difarnitifj~lb oti'an. con- ce.-singb-is said laieMAl3esty,'antd also of znd euniersiiss'hisrin death, and burial ; -codttsining'-therein, - afteongi st ther 1shmg, th following false; scandalous,.nmalicious,- and defahnator.y natter,- of and concerning his said late. MAesy; and als oo andL conearning bis reigni, deatTh, and burial:. (that is to say) "-I1n heheflist year of freedom's second dawn; died,-George the.Third V (mneaning Uis said late Mlajesty) "althoughrno-tyrant,"~one who(qmeaing-his said late Mlajesty) "-shielded tyranuts, -tl each sease withdrtiwn, left-hitsi" (meaning his saicl late Majesty) ."11nor niental nor 'ezternal -sjsn ; a. better farmer ne'ed-i,uh'd dew,fro'mlivns,a worse king"' (meaniiig a worse king thani his said. late Maji*tyy' neve iiaeft aieglm isi- done. He (rneaninghis.e.aid %te aesty.) "I'died, but:left his" (meaning his said late Majesty) "'subjects stmR behind; onehalf as& mad and t'6ther noleissblind. ffc": (kneaniitig his sad,late-Majes.- ty) "1died. nis" (again meanin~ Vsis s~aWkt 1lZe- ajesty'i) "cleatli made no-great stir On earth; ;His'f(meavifiigh is said LteMaj~ty's) "bonn made ome pomp: here. was.pxdfusion''of -velveh4'Id'wg thos ters) she byolluion (threb.tanEiiardtegretoaigi~ gracets snctat hidal fthewrueniorcreteitatin' anertedevnb hs said late Majesty.; to the greatk disquietude'and disgrace 'of buresaid L-ord the now King, and Iisis laws ; to the evil example of al cihers in the lik-e case-offiending, and against th pece of our said Lor~d theno" Kinig, his crown,h slddiuit.LI eoine -is -then- laid: With the usual variaiiohi.J A-nd the Jurors aforesaid, upon thcir oath aforesaid, furtier psie- sent, that the said J'oluin'Runt, so bcing'siich a -prshai'afiSre8aid,' aLnd wickedly aid hnaliciousliv further ~onrivliisg andl I ei8tains to injure, defame, dfs~rand si vRify'th'e 'hiemory, reusin rd charcter of is si Dlt 'aet', so being the f'ather, of our said LordthenowKin, ~d oh sertsaid descendanits; saidalso-con triingan inendngto. cause it to'bebelieved that liasiidXtaWeMa- jett. ha ben, drinhis:teiign,- guiIty'ofruisruIe, and that he ivais; a person of mean and ariou ndad dispositionr, andethqreby~ to disterrb and disquiet the midsadeieti~y - thec - ctffotC and happiness-of-our said Lord-t te now King;.and other the sidi de4 scendants, and to biing theii into piblic scandal; hatredl, and di'hglace wvith and-amo6njntal thesaubjesmiu6f his-realmi, onthe day. pndjai~r aforesaid, at the piiish`aforesaid, in the couinty afQresa:id, wslihfibaec and.arms, falsely, w.ickedlv, maliciously, and unlafully, d'd 'ri t a'nd p'blisli an a bspour.obsart&-n a ina certat oh aer- pnrited bbQk, Lto. Wit".a.'Certs p utebo,okclle Thme Li2eral amnong o-ther' t'hing's a certain otier false, scnaos mialicious, and d`jfmamtorylibe iiif&iiid concerninig his saidatM- jesty, and 4faendconce,rning his caid reign,.. in the forn efisri of a speech thereiin;su~pposed-:tobexspokeni by abeing theri caijedh Prince of Air, cohtffiaihg' fherefii(aniongst otlirs things) the' false, scandalous,,MtaIicioui, iinddeffarnatoty.niattii folliywifig, ofisntl on. cerniing his said late Majesty and' liii said.reigh (4that is to sav) : "He" (nieanin" hib~ssaidalgte Maijesty) "came.toahis" (meaning hiB said Jate-Majes'ty! -rpr~yug e' Oiainnans his s aid late Mtajesty) 1i~ t (mmainXb'!hiS dscptre)" old okt the state 'in which hea(mianing his sAil lota Majesty) " found: hiis real rs'naesniiithisrdmalm'"ind-ftit"Cmeiariing this reahin);"hrnd hiis" (niesnng is-ad laieMijesti's~ " annals'to behold: how to a minion first he" (meningisis gaid-isate -Majesty) "g ave'the-helm"l (mieaning the helmn ot'govei-nusentof this realm); "how grewupnhis (meanring hifs said late'Majesty's) "heart a thirst for gold] hebg gar'As Nice, which can- but overwhelm the mieanest hena; (htb then and there mreaning tliat his said late Majesty hadben uig hig said ieign; giWlty. of' misrule, and that he -was a persnoi ia a6d avaricious disposition : to'the great disgrace 'and scandal s~f th memvory, reputation,-and character; 7bfhisir said:late M1aJesty-; to! the great disquietuda -and ilisgraci of our said L-ord- thie now King; lantd other the said descendanis;' ;in conitempt of'ouz lsaid Lord 'the how King anid his laws-; to the - vil examople, of all others -in the like case ofibending, anid against thepee of.our said-Lord the nowvKi-ng, his crown,a if ddignity. - And'tteJarors aforesaid, upon their oathi afloresaidf,urther present thai-the;said--john Hunt, so being 'mucih person -aforesicl, and wictredl : and maliciously further- coritritifig aiid intendin to,injure',defme, disgrace, and vilify theinenio"ry e- putatlon, aNdcharacter of hiis said late Mlajesty, so being the father Of our said Lbfd the now King amid other -the said descendanits- and also cotriving- and- intenaing to cau'se? it to 'be belitmued that hsaid late M; ajesty was, dutring his reign, an enemiy to the liberties of his peopfe and of other nations, and that his said'reign was remnarkable for great nationial calamities, -and thereby todisturb ad disquie th-e miinds!anca destroy the com- fort anid happiniesn of our said Lord the nowv -King, and -,other the -said descendin'ts- 'and - to bring -diem- into- public sclndal, infamay,- disgrace, asid contempt, with and amongst all the sub- jeets of this realm, on - the- day asiA year-afdresadt at- thejm i aforesaid, in' the 'county afor&Agl,' with -force and - arms, hsy and wickedly, nsalicinusly, and unlawfully, did p1-mt tmnd pub- lish, and cause and pi6cure- to - be~ printed and published, in a certain other printed lbook, to wit-, a certaits printed b-hok called " Time LiberW4," -amojng other tbhigsg, a - certaii -lother false, scandaloufs nialicious, andl defamadtor-y libel, of anfd - on- cerning his sai late lsajest.v,- and also' of and- -coficerning his reign aind history - in- thti form of- -Part of a speech- therein,. supposed to be -spokren by the said being thierein, - cailled -the Prince of Air, containing- therein, among- other- -things, the following scgndfaloul, mnalicious,:- and defasmatory matter, of and conceerninig lIis said, - late - MajestY, atid - of aiid concernding his reign:. that is to - say, -"1 'Tis . - ti-si, he'!-: (meaninp his sad late Mlajesty) , wits a -tobl -from first to lest. -'(meanisig time said Prince of 4irO I"have the worlitmien safe; but- as a tool, - so let - himi" (meaning. Iiis late Mlaj'esty) "1 be cosniumied.. -roross out the-'past of. tsgts, sinee mnankind have known the rutie of Mlonarchs,, ftom the bltmodv rolls auniss'l of sin- and -sl-aughiter, fromh the Cwsaas' acho,l, take tdie Worst piipil, and prodiuce a reign more" (meaning morc thani his-saiid- late: !%ajcsty!s;) '~ cuivihbr&d Vsth thie slain; He" vtineasinklji&ssi late LUtJesty.hier-warrlcd withi fi-cedonsi andI the free nations, as miess n'hosna 6subjectsi,foreign i;ro, so that thes' uttered' the word I Libertv,'- found George flie,Thuird' - (mnis- in6 his Said late illjesty) ", their first opponeftu Wlose- history was verstabed 'i is" m-eantanusg bis aidi late-Maje~sty's) wilt be, with nationalan md individual Woes P" - ('1'ereby then and there isseassing tliatliLs said -late -Ilaje8ty was~ during his said 'Ceign, en eusesity to;he libeRties of his p6apleanud 6f othbrItations, ani thtat hi& reign sa5'Ireirarltablc for greaht -natiasial`bal~iiiities.) T6tbe'ktcat dis- grce and- scatidal-of- the memnory, reputati4ns, and character of his Ctlate (Itjsy "Mnte gred-t dis etrsde-asd'diskirace of'ojur !~aii Lord the minis king', and '90er the su,ied -icetlnts- conternpt-of our sad-odthe nI -n ui i'las othe evil exanmple of all> otheat in'the- like cast-lomiendipig,- and t4aiiist-the p.eace of' bur saidi Lord,tlle7now King, his crown,- and dfignity. LtHere the abusvc charges atre rblWAW;Yq-- 'Andth srra'rai,p ththe zi-othl -fofesaid, further pre.. sent, that thecsaid John -Hunh so being tuhperaonias afo~resaid, and wickedly' and ialieiousiy-furtber contitivinganainteniding s o injure, defamne, disg race and vilify tfie mnerOry, -teput-ation, and character of his -aid fie Majesty, Fo'beinsg the father of-bsir .4aid 'Lord the now king,andf otherthc',saiddescendants,.aitqdJaqLs-conairijng and- fitteidinigtocausis 1-ifto,be bdlicVd thAt his~said late Majesty was a pCirson ef'ba d and vicious.claiacter, an-& thereby tikdstpirTl anid dis-- quiiet the minus and I destroy -the comfort and- hapVpiness of.our siaid, Lord the now-Aing arrdotlier, th'e.saia. descendaints, and'utobrins them into'public seandal,- infamy, disgrace, ani coDntemrpt,,- 'With the subijcsts of this realni. on the .day atnd 'ear arorgsaid, 'at the parisii af'oreso-d,. in- thu. cbuntY~- af&ecsip,$ with 'AIre el and' arms, falstly. wickedly, - maliciously, aA,i&iirdaaifulj 'didpet. apd pubjllIr,inilOs4~.nd.pro5~clie Obe printed-arid publse,i cetibtnot? tp-inteil'b6bik4. 56wit4.aiertailS" ~it~d hokcal4 T- iiciodishnaddFr ,t~otlibel, of'i?al*idnerlsing .adkt9ar tv, ifi the toins6! t rt.ofaC-peich OiO ,'sO,iPtsdobspkny the said'bet, teihalt'vdPrIni6f- Aiir,! hnanisteen anion-at,othee-thi gs; -the- folloY6ng--faIae, --scausllu,sasits and ae-fanmatory mnatter, oi: ahld c!oncarning 'hisaid lt ijs that is to say,' e(aalg~-adltl.itvi lae er on3 niany thrones tt -allhi (I-1c'meainig hiA si -lateMjsys -"1 vices, without what 'begot. compalission -frdr bls"(mcajgIi said lOMjsy Ii"(etighssi late;Mjsy-)tis virtues- D_ronesw'hpsIepe-, ire~tt h~ eP iigtaso whiili-lsalbumeteuht'them More us~tlie throeocsz 'u let'thent-quaHke "I -thereby then-and there rnwjsIg~fitlsu a''l a156-~y peso of ha n,vcos hrce,t h r dis~ieili'adaihbnenory, rqpst tion-atiti chiiste fls ,;)'c 4.gti'cn rite to the ~pres&ie3 Er ff,dby~4tesd i, A4~beogA imnp-pib1e for thiemit ij o-degl4 b4r W Ip diloyal, aud It was so d u~r~kyilc thembto hddc Atdcor dtos1fwe4keV ;liSeTia&asIa he4jro *?!Luh . - . ~ ~ ~ tb busi rea-llyaf- fiAjth fected bt e~ it, lt p fi' ehm-a 21 wer wh11ib~~~ mlt~~1-htdi~~ua1s mlght~~~ von ?n them to d 1~~~~~~~~r s e6 AnxiI. hib eib5 tb dc b he' y.iwal iiliiti it1t h of'lhreetip~p i nf- tewov h c num ~zhiVi i. shi !br iionjueihe bef-ae i - -- - s iiny.odnaryca& worpav ~~ kingtiibe it;ce341 te was Uoobtit *nna~e eisd~at~ jib lwus dull, ety but tbet~plsii ef ee t -n1ddbdaga 4nfsu pmu And sl'rits*inom. f/re d 1tih1rJiptoi Eak pets,adUi wpx ,NkuTho-=Ctf,.intdd4hotd ox6 his-4nek withi;dO'z& iitAderdilirksce-Nof cnsraeier titjarples o-th 'nce- tofiAceil,ta`nd tolfjiat a! "t: m - ois a eid. ,cnftsoleln Iteari a tl o nutraging ll '~fetl.a thera Thirg wasn jloie- '-and aping, ' fortamin n;- -Theis vaigu n t e i te.Iit ube- t t~aspo he wethelb, u&odrj 49C '.iiiwhd ~irh a degree of Ye~t~"a~ad thirotrid 'iszaee in.. this add,-res hd rwg -ihonvsed ii a thispe io to- s bVoer h 9 cohr hic~ 'bsds tli aszle o C Wta ou ment aii onethAtlie coud ony rear-wa3tlia tror hekdrido not.kno*`H6 iio,.idw niie:1dver4b it.. Me itliw:e wo rk n~~iv rx- whecji the auther6'6uprbfge noribtu-o e-flbeed X tikinhi example, tht t"ho iii6tiii - eri a Aiigeehs% tearto Itreusd`. e their ~jsnch4iek ws dull Sob~-htee lnihtifrebeai. r it gib-o t ce bz 1iirj'lii-Y6+erght, tfim h So~4a it *oWAvbclreimost, wsoinls another way.~th?Mhi with dozen und~~ter.defe. ndta'uf cotn-ith t his '13t fbi"tl), th@ ,t procsa eflthleda A -- utt6noia an ofulAbiun teao at sot ts ate,tsa~ f org a crsln *he a4epsag hrea-ibforhc fie thbddi 4i'piycm Theu lernd Cone Ie'red -e~ps coddxe~oaehAntljlr wth ite- buAlzmitesWkich leavenhit in-. flbtted H5~~~~t liviniM nrchi",a)if sb 3e JA atithero ~~~ ,thql~tild. T i--tin&cobs lsnered which hty wre~jdh tsbatd day to wlxv 0?it tibieauotii the wartbWFou~tW:jr~e ~ioeni cad ts'e effect Olifu mtrkin thei eneieas-maierfrsedsmu b I-~ Woino-by lestinecel bable,'IYIateve inbeth mee'mot r!xQ. lJkbL s4pqori5- chRtoel'r?-i giirbf thiii .itiblidMat' itn Wspi_o haited metrei utb6 l~jiberoths SAhehi, Ca iy-Wouiasn thoonerepow-it ge atordibebybd,thewzuktthe .ewlho asi'tertriowK3a, wlan coued othbey rwotud 'not s& dny Whibil'bee to,to gldl.- nvhiik-deristane bevnn -aith -hV -onei7light ts sae. If thaesu we ihrhoetlns d rsltif~t hhhruk rfiteait, n wboln&:alen bura plot congev tbTE rs- g5pmnlts.of!1beimikliiixe4 w oti6i' 3irubhdtlon. he- at truhliiso d o~hin Thitn-ad wih -soi inipriissfiebusesroittid-it.ohewr`strl that monidertioraVebTee lbbetea.mvd, boencpublsed H6e ti.stae,ad ita siigbt 6e hiki itaagji e~~~d toftfi6-~b;,wiiiw t~C tbWrrt'lone, ano h thew'orll would bllhavet rqjoic~i.thir,t.:hej hadt f read othhee'f-f p it..S?nweh gettc~ing might bedsaido thatg as Sxatin -wsgh ahr fa is hifaitgo fitierh? fitwhlchechin frna un h an-uibelir~a date'd,o t ult.thermwa .n They, h f he uthaag shureeKin Tbn wiah seaifitd -n.ithathe be f erfeully tnoug Jf'trbl tdneisqh tfe pisoem. thJ~ofiiirpido,rraborned suc A-viw-o PATh19i calsei Bt 'I pint of.' ~~~ aisd~~~~t' coud nopconbest, the mait iersofbelomdk gsd't6p Ia !h6dfidtalodixe-a nt,a the hre. - boptTle.L riAofh]a aid*3fobit --T-npit*a5he sed that th chaat~ejctp~ither ed b o v an a WI lie ler~ atp th taiforlk,ffiheaoeRana onrcs,GergeI 1iattbeen :M.Stafrou empluiovn, a eAith-ieshiada iv effenUnk'-afe-pex beforei th boeujht, the tqrscul a rsadtude hilliao:crerty .1f hei had beeukdvi'hdb aorts~ Jois rc~- xntj/i ha r t~enrit afd'ryand beenrule Utya tz"th egt' .ine'Zbe.d tlu ouldrbe taId os him,_ hauhe MiJ& htoewoenre -duodntb regrde th woled*.A, poreo i ie~aaIt yrlgone by prbctirence. bon' k4neroMiy-a 'ther maen nrl tain' Kunowi Ji haether-eis;a amembwhichthi- publicaion .a o hjIicwre attorey. lIbehaois, then Ed theJr'itooldhstoiioonceuhi rp i J icconvcyl Thsaw'Sa the~ ACtf,i~drestoosvet?~se of tht coo judgi~teri wiuth hlinthey Mlgh't-ra e in i w '1'h ough e 6-ltAhbellve Id,;hv -a e ih thrwe~~6ithe ubjct inip mird-lt cn,l~ltnt concbeiether t'laed o.rt'andauth-thn sipreasene. eton ltditon wharsevaid. ous. coSidrto6 Tijl bTe pblihe seome ue ofd Mm ncshj ity'to re - 7e'it- tlcllvha brwuaodbe n a caseuifeinbelu.ui fhria, 1oa dhede othervef. They he wailsure, iWotrld d6wthei=;.ityorrteiocs, hews - ' utsric~lisv.ih hs~ithkxir Witness. I dsttj ~t. -Wasi. Mr Ao~'r-s &~~a~tie assgt a isisned in the in- w4a n v ~oidel Vow- read- ar -OAis ' \dtlthe"Wbole mus ee The Luaut Cift Jusit ard the liest vway 1bl etae pim L-3 chat aslibellous reba fifst. ti~aa comprd ih tb'~ r&oll;ind- aln the' Wbblbe- coulad be- -rea, if W W. &arlett wished sit- k*es ifi4te inidresmees weore-red' - ~Mr.-SL~ma~n d~sre4 th whol tp b ,.Aoikhhe re- grettu0144-$jLitshp etane sbog DIAi'ib.10 ttlqn- ~rdceeded to readthe poem.'.. Several phrssages of it its l *ersuy th.atpiassage in which Thf. ~8uthy'i t ta~rd iPa 'tgadde~tt i-rft0 hth f ib s31yas idx hich he 'Offlers,' ~lU(u~s i~ie4j~l,~e-itxt~ hislife,if Ile Wmilfr.. '!W In. r-;i fp ~se; - --Ni tha i=A~iiy ~Th~cE~ed. fon~ertesgeipull, - . ~~g ~~iIgJth*ttLu~ ThandYomTia 0V6&cbt a oent r heaet1i -.Anrd .ettTiep' hd evn't:t[enenouhtlO d; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~rvn - It gudtnndiffef-ae: -et -h E Achidy. too, slerinsthout nds , ttcWenr Ti = at The pge was llo blaeas lsarpedtandeerduer. Inztis iEy yeaay f It~~ne Thc;notrn1nu-6t)jcasrd one Whchfioikel shrinkiairi teyda zbe very tevise lSoh, sothhemnferef rtnealvm,guiideA t.. ' .Though e e dast ba,i .brea'd evare:cy sword,s -tlma ,bY eflclivdhihiibat tnhirtoml;"'d v,l itfo (HedeISbnroehnis f de ibltV cadetoi;tt.vessntet e on eG:s tomtd.hUl-in g, e - h ' , o -_ th aiih Tss4 tbaliellt~eii~lavev,aeishlbo Ron In the fe o yeag rbebo.g.tathems o r-sac-.eworth: e faintJhhe idithig adths-,. tmabane b ds, tC-dialle o .ttl d; bM, mnainviersla, A Yotf&irshneheadtlaw.f all Inthe foosty wldffrockdom,s?vf bss~eont&da how W Ger .b'dthbt therd; withGught whce pyrcedthoe pal 4-A e-e-inn neveo-I-ferealm aldont.- et his'subje'cts sill behind .S halfmix mad.and bdotber nc lesi bidn '-'t 11eriedt.tis deatifv'df honetwrseo; Te ntiDXual -ctnioadleftslo'prp.ie t e vrghi Wiit fvtel eeNgiuideig,.brass, dtdino brtht aebrth- Afsigth b1Wteaave b hose shued by iollusion- F@tere thbgsmau be boghtet hier.srue worth: rW iBe_nd4Iierivatsth.c wl sitn-. lught clfind the uncdleake , r' d banels, s-4ralas;--2naelles of olddGi's a'gnes, Fr'da-scpulchrsltelodtamc. 'atif all' Th!e fott vlioilock'd-eo swel1 oirsee th? show, WikS-cqSe u~b .he goips'ep Th fitneral htlebeattaetlon, andfibeblack hiwwon 1ere throobb'd not there a thought which pierced the pail; on,d Au Etsh grgeuschl; It.b alaugdelonom Its avdte kote 4-bu f helt -wld: Therotnnesa of ei'ghty years inr gold. Somii l bo2v'i the dustr It might ern to:wlWat it mut fai sooneri were Thlenatural comrpoundlef alone to ffight Ibia bac- into earth, and fire and air; - But tlie-nnntizzgl balsams inerTy blight *- natisye wde him at khis birth ars bare As thamerc r,illio~enn base unmumuiied clay- Yet alx bis sxeib-ut prol^ng deay. iW d idand uaiper r earth lsihfim, has done: i busied't;. saveite teundertker's bilx Arastg eEr, h3e wrdald bs gone -o -hel at ll . :leftd a h }e`oato will Butd lers as who r?ask hish, *In wlhnTi xus qualities sare,reigning still, And:nt thit iored ifticul most uncommon, Of con ancyba Ygv,ugyom'an. ThGns abrenthe tiog i" Itis a lerge economy Ort1soh-t.saveibderke-u m tifhe wdilb .Beaylngl-~e bthetter;.forno[-onenamI OfJfthoae.who'tink damnatior sherter stisll: I No.that I'mofi for-istuc aqnie seh I luthll sms31 bopey-betoeri'g.ue i Bt Peter ribv iheth ome w ligahit restiction, IAnow this is k unpopular * I know I ' * 'Tis blasphems; tIksnoe one inty ed daofuade For hopng n&oi melsfe mtw. e'er be eO. .1iou ko n ind,uwA. istfwe are crsmn'd Illsi)rt, a doeftrine6till wequtite o'erflowe I now hat all- save Enainde chueh have shamm'd, Aid that The other thee two undrdre, chTukes And synagogueghave mnade a damnz'J bad purchase. Sod heclpll rGdhet pme too J I m,fn God-nowus, aselples rleashthellviorcan wish, And n6t a whit inore difficult to danih Than Lis to- bring to land a'itcl.hoaterdsh ur totb the butcher tou Givey the amib, Anotthoiat 'm Gorge - such ad ble dish As5 one day *ill be~ that immortal fry 'Ofclrnoimoeve5y body born oE die. Saint Peter sgat by the celetial gaic And iindde4 o.er his ker s; whenlo! there came A wond'rous noise he. bi w the awd not ke 2ate_ A ruhngut in ordF wind, mfdsatroam, id flame In slpat, ar.oar ofihiga extremely great, hich tuld.have omadie aught ivke saint exla m - 'Butbe, Ibahdfirst adysaid Atart abd iank Said, cuthears o goi out, I thinkm"d Dut-dee hecould return to hi.srepcrse, A * AhichSnt euE dtP ehryarwn',nhdAnubb'd inls nose: ."-Sainit -ptee," saidtBie'Ang,el, "rte priterse.l'; Buhving bagoodlr vtie , vaictgmy'bad, asglows Aa eaoray o cock s tail, with heavenlf dyes; To which the-Saint replied, "Well, what's the matteri? "'Is Lucifer ome *k with alL clatter ?" O ' qoint euothe thewubw "er"heu-teBTh d is dead. ts " I h In Gs&eorge :he Tuip?" repred the Aepostle; "Was toiare a eh at Tdir d n " T hei Engspnde" Thc anga,"el."Wl! he wont- find -ings-to jostle Isaid 'Hiurrbari da; wakbut does wbe whead. -Buehstedhe last we saw here had a- tussle, Thd nere woold have got itTeaenttal totegacea "' Bad he nnr flung bis headin all our faces. ie un -ifiI Temeinber,kingof France; td Toatvey ofbis; h- hich canld ht kee a erown "On eatko yets entunk in my face to advance "' And claim t those of hrnrtyrs_4ike D on: " If l bad kad my swoyd a-s I had once " Whven cutears obe I had eut bim down; I Agel atnowck'dhisPhteadfrom douhiotsPhand. ': And tfienhe setiup such a headless howl, That lnl th esaints uame out, and took him ine "And there he sits by St. Paul, aby jowl- "'That feDlow Pautbeth parvesI'2 The skint "O O~flEn artIiolomew.c snve, wtlh-nks.cowl "in ieaven, and upon earth redeenn' his'sin *"So s ton ake a martyr, never sped oe sier tthars did thls w eak an d wo ode N de . ie "ut Ba ld itW e cu ph upgato n itn ts sru4'lders t Ther rould havl been s differet tale to tedl: "Tlta Fe llnw. .elg ng in the aaints brig le ers ""Seems- ta have acttd on thIem like a spell, A hd so thisvery fooli sh liead heaven soldent 'Be bacln bttrn with tren:t fy b c ies paed "And wnd Me the tdemp here ton fiewttost "Whatever ha beets e wisely dne below." TheAne me anwer' " " Pteer! dr not pout: He pTeking wiho comes bey head ad all entire , "An A nev er new mcinh whi titastoc a b na- "Hr did as doth the isppetuab itts.wrre ThA nd will bv'Judged likc all t he rest, lo doubt: "My l business-and vourosni ndttoisnotuoire ir A Ito such matds' t in to mv d f iecuecue Whichtioy a s at asawe as narebid todo Al.etu thu3 learn th e, hg e afngrea:r AZiving like a rush of osightywind, lAvung the fields of s pace, as ltthi ngew Some silver stream (sayyGantes, Nife, or tilde, Or Thames, or Tweed) and m,nitdst theaodm anolma Wit si ohD soul, sanl, both extremelyelybitd, Illudbefore te gtIe, gand'n his shtsohrod Seated their feUow.thyeller..oon a cload -u-bringbing p-th uDrbrer of thuis bright heot A s>Dint of a different aspeCt waved. His wings, like. thunder.clnudbu1vasc tome coast Whosze barren beach withn freqeent'wrecks is paved;- His brow was like the deep when tempest.toatos; Fierce and unftoal fthought abetogoengraved Eternal wmtbl oOD h'is'immortal face, .... And u'Ycere he gazed a. gloom pervaded space. As hedrew.near4 hegussedupon the gate Ne'er .tobe~enter%l more by him o)r sin, Wilfsuch auh glncofancfspernatural bate, As made Saint Peter wish himself within; He potter'd with his keys at a grea rte,t ' n An'df swecl through his apostolic skii: Of couemc hispe?rspiratior, was but ichor, r Orn suomutersucpihr situalllquor.o Th vTbilerui er.huderbshd-al together,' * Like brshn ords the eahfalcon; andthe fetbe.d A 4 tngling to the tip of every feather,, *Annd foinkanrieiea. Orceio n's? belt .4round their poo aid charge. wlte'-carc-lknew wYhither * Hiaguneds. d 'led thosg they-gheatetly dealt Wiitfrroyal manes 5for,byanuy stristre. And true, wre learn the angels all are l?orie&) *s Aln werewer bVbspbtiiLf pothe-a flgaewf AaSide.'dteflushndo its fahingeoishme ur'z oii?pae arnirspcealhuniers Ofnn.ooue fifinneotu, untl Is untillts tinge i ,caF?d 'frspe eve rth-apdc o ne2dh an' niae an Aiaitoralprealisa sprtingffres. 'ethe-Norh PolOth&.hiulef'ten sr^l~eien ice.b6tin By ctl~ gy Ccres tt@lres~ "IXelvies ttelvll'sSond" {nahfoii:,.igate{iibd ii;liid be-aming P be- pS. bkin m fLi t, I : z- Itl. le~ aIZDe 9tcn ., t'e-tc r,a1ui faia?i;or&ldtbrhiowiumgfight; vYj 2siLWl.Sbeteeiuigete?n -b . iy1trjesldrtb eiejeierc,Tlle night icnrptchre %bne,'int a nsg . JonnnaSoarb oe,-o Ebb Sourle rabSouing.ti 'stharcangtelMchanel; Mich2 * eniqow n naniot n4aDhangaLce I I I I I I ,1 TIicye' s iMale*haim one te,shv AN1 ,*,>l0 > t? 4agpA 3 ;~canra tt~hy" .e',muqkefti . PMereh se.x c a nain-C o sm lets. * r bris4 bsandglo ila g sood y, * o c -t t.?. e r MMoryie.6nzn ee, .... -La wriila th, ,3etait| sFter. ,a o .ve uy b#vre:E27udd'th'bow.'d down before That arcb.angeli0 Hierarch,-te fir:st:' Of.Eeaessangeuec, whr w J_WOM I , The asp ctea god; .but tnis.ne!ernurst Pride in his heavenlv3osomwinxwhose core No thoughi,save4or his Maker's service, durst He knew himlJheviceroyofthe-s - e-a4d the ombreip-sit spirt met'- *They'knbw erac't liofitbotlforgodandill; Such t,ws'thilr power; that neither cculd forget H-sfornerfrieud- and future fbe. -but still There wea a high, imortal; oud reget . .Itelthar's&eye, as if-'?were lsbsthieir will 'Ihan.deatmy t make the5etinal-ears.- Their dateofwai and their OChatip Clos"s the sphere But here they were in neutral space : weItiiow From Job,-that Satan hathlthe poertl.'bpay A heavenly.yisit thrice a yearoi sb'- A, nd.itat CC the %6ns o " -like thoie.ofc3ay, Alust keep hirm company and we tiught show, Froiiithe aiue book, in how -polite.' way The- diogue is.held between the Powers Of Good- aid Til.but 'twould teke-up -hours. And this is not the -theoloc t Abt c To Ptove*ifh Retivi aud with Arabic If Jobo.'he. aI2egory or fa act, r #at 4.lrue naeratjve;tand thus I pick. trmout the v:hale, ut i.ucb aued sacb an act As sets asie the saghest thought of trick. - 'Tis e.very :tiKle trit, beyond~suspicion , AL7accurateas any other-vis en. The 5tiiits-lpee in neutriitl-pk*e before The gate of hbaven; like eastern thresholds is 4Tireplace whete Death'gs graxid-ce-jA a o'er, And souls I s. h'd totat i'or or to is; * *gAnd therefore Michaet arin he other wore At civil tfpc :-though tlsd9 did no6ft iss, yet stilI astweeqX uia, lakn ow.,and his Brghtness there passel-a mutual glance of greatoliaeness- Tqhe Archangel-bo-qed,povt like a riodern beau, P Bue vith a graeibi Oriental bend, Presing nei radiant ardibust- where below The heart in goodmen is aupposed to tend. H2eturnjed nas o an equal, not-too low, Butlkiedlyl Satan met his ancient friend With more bauteur, as nmight-an olda Castilian Poor noble m eetanushtqomic4civilian.; Hie me ely bcntthig diabolhic brow "An ijotant, and then raising it, he stoad In-act-to assert his right or wrong, and show . Cause why FingGeorge by no means could or should Alake out a case to be exemrpt from woe Eternal, mnore than other kings endued With better sense and hearts, whom history mentions, W:ho long have " paved hell with their good intentioiis." ?Jicbaeflbegan:.-"' What wouldst-thou with this ma, " Now dead, -and-brought before the Lord? What ill "Hath heswrought since his mortal-race began, " That thou can'st claim him? Speak! and db thy will, If it be just: if- in fhis earthly spati "He!hath been greatly failing to fulfil His duties as a king. and mortal, say, " And he is thi:e; if not, let him-have way." " Aichaell" replied.the Princeof Air, "even here, " Befote the gate of him thou servest; must "I elaimrmy aubject; and. wiU make appear " That as he wP4 mv worshipper in dust, "So shall helbe in ..spfit,.although dear " To thee and thine, because nor wine nor lust "Were of his weaknesses;- yet on the throne He reign'd o'er millions to serve me alone. LoQk to oufr earth; or rathernmine-; it was Once,.tnore tby master's: but-I triumph not " An this poor planet's couquest nor, alas! " Need he thou servest envy me my lot: *'With all-the mydsdX of .brnght wor.lds which palss " In tvorship rcund him, he may have forgot "Yon weak.ereation of such paltry thinga; "I think few worth damnation save-tbelrlcigs, " And these but as a kind of guit.rent. to Agssrt.fmy.right as -lord ;.and even had I au1-ehan inclination, .twere-(as -you WcU know) superfluous ; thevare grawn so bad, " Thathellhas nothing better left to do " Than leave them-rto themselves: so much more mad "And evil by their own internalcurse, " Heaven cannot make them better, nor I -worse. "Look to'the earth, I saia, and say again: " When this old, blind,-xrad, helpless,--weak, poor worm, Be' an in youth's -fitst bloom-and flush-to feign, A'nhe world*and he bbth wore a different form, - mAnd much of earthand.all.the.-watery plain ' Of ocear; caR'd- him king-- throusgh -many a storm His isles bad floated-on the abyss of Time; "For the rough virtuen chose them for their clime. H" e came to his sceptre, young; he leaves it, old: "Lookt to the state in which le fouad -his realm, "And left- it, and his annals, too, behold, "H How to a 'iniontfirt he gave the helm; Hlow grew upon'his heart a thitstforgold, " The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm 'The meanest hearts; and:for the rest, but glance Thinceeye along America and France-! "'Tis true,- he wasa ttool from first to last; "(I have the workmen safe;) but as- a tool So let hmr-be-consumed! From out the past ").0fages since mankind hayeknown.the rule "Of ronarchs-.4rom.the.bloody rolls. amass'd "Of sin and slaughter;.fconi the.C&zsars' school, " Take the worst pil and produce a reign " More drench'd With gore, more cumber'd with the slain! " He ever warr'd with freedom and the free " Nations as men; home subjects; foreign foes, " So that they utter'a the: word' Liberty ' "E'ounuidGeorge the:Third their first opponent. Whose *Histor-y was ever stain'd as hig will be ". With national-and individual woes? "I grant bis housebold abstinence* I grant "His neutral- virtuesj which most monarchs want; " I know he was a constant consort; own " He was a decent sire, and middling lord. " A 11 this-is much, and most upon a throne; " As temperatice, if at Apicius' board, "Is more than at an anchorite's supper sbown. " I grant him all the kindest can accord; - "And this was well for him, but not for those " Mllions who found him what oppression chose. "The new world shook him off; the old vet groans " Beniath what he and his prepared, if not "Completed: he leaves-heirson-many thrones' "To al hia.vices,.vithout what begot Compassion-for himrnhis tame. virtucs; drones "WlVho sleep, or despots who haie.now forgot "A-lesson which, shall be re.tangbt them, wake "Upon the throne of.Earth bat let tbem-quake! " Five millions of the primitive, who hold . " The faith whichtnakes ye'great on earth, implored ." A parf of.that vase all they held of old,-- " Freedom to worship_not alone your Lord, " MIschael, but you, and yon, Saint Peter!I Cold " Must he your souls, if you haie not abhorr'd "The foe to Catholic participation- " In all the licenceofa-Christian nation. True I he.allow'd thene to pray God; -ut as " A consequence of prayer tefused the law "Which wold have placed them- ti1po the same base " Wifthose who did not hold the saints in-awe." Buit here Saint Peter started from his place, Andcried, ' You-naytheprisonet withdraw: " Ere Heaven shaU ope.her -portalsto this Guelf, "`While Im guard, may I. be damn'd myself! "1 Sooner vil I with Cetberus exchange " My ofilc6 (and his isno sinecure) - - Than-see-this royalBedlam bigot range The azure fields 4f heaven, .t'that be sure !" Saint !" replied Salan, " you do well to avenge The`wron6s he-made your.sate1liteN-enaure; " And if to tibis .gchaiige youa'shoild be-given, "I'll'try tocosax *e 'Ucr -s up to haveV. Here Mlichael-interposed: " ona saint! and devil I " Ptay not so fast; you both out-run discetion.. "' Saint.Peterl you -were wont to be more cvil: " Satan ! excuse.this warmth of his.expression, " And cond-eacension-to the vulgar's level: ". 'Even lsaints sometimies forget. themselves in session, -Have-you gotmore to.say ?".-.'. No!"-"."It you please, "I'll trouble you to call.your witnesses" Then Satan turn'di aoi wav'd his awarthy- hand, Which stirr- with.its electric qualities - Clouds farther off thil- we can luddertand, Although we findhim.sometimesirourskies; Infermal thunder shook both sea- and.land In all the planets, and h.eU's batteries Let offf heaffilery, wvhieh Mlilton mentions As one of-Satan's moat sublime inventions. This wis , signal unto such damn'd souls As have the privilege of their damnation - Ixtended far beyond-the mee'controls Of worlds pist, -resent, oi to omt; no:station I6 theirs pa etlclarly in the rolls * - Of hell sssignod4 bpt whertbelr inclination .Or business carries them in search of?game, They my range freely-being daa the same They areproud of thie-as-very-well-they may, It beinp-a sort of knighthood, or:gilt key . Stuck in thei loins; orlike to an entra" -(pthe backstairs, or surch-free masonry. I borrow mycomparisois.from clay, : -'eing Cay WyAelf. Letpot those spirits be -Ofended hsuclbaae low likenesses; . We hnow their Tets? Are nbSer far-than these. -When the great signal tan froti htivehi fo hell_ . T.Ab:obd'ten.raillion:til*s:~the'distgsice re'ckon'd * .grol.arjon Xi'tteahjaswe.-canCtl Ho-W much tmne it takes -ut even to a,6&Ondj For every ray that travcl to dispel ad bcd .The fogas,fLondon-i through wzhich, dimfly beacou'd, The waeathtrcodcs are glt.some thrice a;.year, .' If Xtb siC zrs c;1X pgtte tfj sv? 'm - ' . Oeracl-~i .got.f,av deiaO.t'halfa.day. s ,, ,i,,zn'Itlse g,eaq:99equp,lI:;)t neaat,nW-. -+. MO - . , --<dTggblge;pook-anotherglle4;'t '-, . .But tah1e-yoiuchoice}; rnd~thenlcgrew'a cloud,- ....And sozjt wtd cbud - of iittesseg > .:Batsuch acloud tV Nelandr e v.ae.jwd -- . .Oflocusrs-num~etous athelheavens gais these*- . They.shsdow'4'with theitrmyriads space -sheir loud And varied cries Were likeZ ihose of-idgeese, And ealzedthephr,se f-4 hea bokeloose." Here crash'd a stuardypoath of stont John Bull, - -- Who damn'd away his eyes as heretofore;s There Pedd'r brogued " Be Jasus I" "What's your wutll ?' Th'e temnperateSgeot exclaim'd: the French ghost swvore In certain ternis I shan't tsanslatein full, * As the first coachulan will; and.midst the war T.he yoice pf:Qnt'bpn was heard-to express, " Or President IS g_ing to war, I gaess." Besides there wvere the Spaniard, Dutch, and Dane; In short,-c an miversal shoal of shades . From .Qtaheite's Isle to Salisbimry Plain, Of:all. dimes and professions,i yearc and tiadeWs, Ready .to swear agatist the good ktng',s reign, Bitter asedyubs iards areairist-spades: All surnmon'd by this grano. " subptena," to Try if kngsnmavn't be damn'd, like me or yon. When Mkihael saw this hlost, he first grew pale, As angels can; ne;zt, like Italuin twislight, ea tumnedall colosirss...n a peacock's tail, Or:sxnsdt streaming'through a Uoibi c skylight mn some old abWey, ot a troutiit stale, Or distant liglitning on the horizon by night, Or a fresh rainbow, -or a nd review Of thirty regimentsrin red,green, and blue. Then headdiess'd himselfitosatan: "oWhy- "M<;hy-good old fieud, fbiisuch I deern you, though "Our dirteitntparties mnakbisfglttso-shy,. *" I ne'er iis'take you .Rhrra pesonal foe; (Our differenbe ispolikica, and 1 *" Trzust tat, whatever nay occur bdeow, "You kinow mr great respect for you.* and this "Takes me regret whate'ryou.do auuss- . "IWhy, my der Lucifer, wtnld vou -abuse c; ey.fcallt?or gaitneisesa Indidnottmean The .youie ould halfofearth nd hellproduce; "'Tis even superguous,since two hbnestg lean, " True testimorries are enou;h ; we lose '"Our timne, nay, our eternity, between "?1Theaceusatiop and def'ence; if we " Hear both; 'twillatretch our immortality." Satan repliedw "Xome the matter is Indit, haei yn a personal point of view:- " a aeffty better souls than this "mith far less'tr4uble than welhae gone through OAlready; andI merelyoargued his " Late Majestv of ritain's case with you Upon a point of fori: you may dispose "TOfryim! I'vekings enough below, fode knows !" Thus spoke the Dernen late calltdt" multifaced" By multolsdibbling Southey.) "Then we'll call One or two persons of the myriadz placed Around our congress, and dispense with all "The rest," quoth Michael: "who may be so graced " As to speak frrst? There's choice enough-who shall "It be ?" Then Satan answered, " There are many; Butyou may choose Jack Wilkesbas well as any." A merry, cock-eyed, curious looking Sprite, Upon the instant started from the throng. Drest in a fashn no r forgotten quite - For all thefashions of the flesh stick long By people in the next world: where unite All the costumes since Adam's, right or wrong, Frown Eve's 1ig-leaf down to. the petticoit, Almosteas scanty, of days less remote. (Laugh.) The Spirit looked around uon the crowds Assemblade and exclaim'e , "My friends of all "The spheres, wershallcatch-cold amongst these clouds; ISo -let's to business:why this genera call? " If those are freeholders Isee in-shrouds "And 'tis for n election that they baorl, "Behold a candidate with unturu'd.ooatl "SFaint Peter, may I count upon -your vote ?" " Sir," replied tichael, " you mistake: those things " Are oF a former liFe, and what wro do " Above is more august ! o judge of kings "Is thetribunal met; sonowvonkknow." "Then I presume those gentelmen yrith wigms, Said :VVilkes, " are cherubs, and that sonul below "Looks much like George the Third; but to h n y mind A guod deal oldersBless me! is he blind ?" "He is what you behold hfi i and his doom- Depends upon his deeds," the angel said. "If you mave ought to arr,ilgn in him, the tomb "UGives lscenceo the humbslest beggar's head "To li itself agaihi t the loftiest."-" Sme," Said Wilkes, ." don't wrait to see theml,aid in lead, "For such alibertyfand I, for one, . . "BHave told them what I twought beneath the sun." "Aboll the sunmrepeat, then, d ham , thou hast "Tom urge aainst him," said the ArchangeL " Why," Repled the Spirit, "ksince old scores are past, "Amust I.tarn evideuce P In faith, not I, "TBesides, ,I beat im hollow at the last, "With Adl his Lords and -Commons: hin the sky I don't lke npping up old stories, since "His conduct was but yxuturel in a prince. " Foolise, no doubt,: and wicked, to oppress "A poor unlucky dleil without a shl(ling "But then I blame the man himself much wls "Than ,Bute and G rafston, and shal be unwiUing "To see hm punish'd here for their excess, " Sinoe-they were-both damn'd long ago, and stil in " Their platce below: for me, I have forgiven, And vote his s habeas corpus' into heaven." I " WiUkes," said thc Devil, " I understand all this: " You turn'd to half a cournier ere you dted, "And seem to think it would not be amiss "To grow whole oneaon the other side "SOf Whlron'sferrys you forget that hsi "HReign is concluded; whatsoe'er betide, " He won't.be sovereign more: you've lost your labour, "For, at the best,-he will but be your neighbour. " However, i knew what to think of it, "pWhen I beheld you in your jesting way " Fltting and whispering round about the spit " Where Belial. upon duty fer tbe day " With Fox's lard was basting William Pitt, "oio pupil; I knew what to think. I say: That fllow even in hel breeds farther ills; "I'll have hIm gazmg'd.htwas one of his own bilLs. " Cal Junius !" From the crowd a Shado staUi'd, And at thc name there wa a getneral squeeze, So that the very ghosts no longer waUc'd ThIn comfort, at their own aerialvease, Bat were eal ramm'd, aned jams'd (bat to bebalk'd, As we shalU see), and jostled hands and knees, ,ike wind compress'd.and pent within a bladder, Or like a human tcholic, which is saddr. The Shadow came !, a tall, otin, gray.hair'd figare, That ook'd as it had been a shade on earth Quick in its cotions, with an air of vigdur, But nonght to mark itg breeding or its bruth; Now it wax'd ltte, then again grew bigger, With now an air of oom, otr savage mirth, But as you gaz'd upon yts features, they Changed every instantgto rout, none could say. The more intently ia ghosts gazed, the less Could they distinguish whose the features were; The Devil hinIself seem puzzed even to guess They varied likeow dream-now here, now there; And several people swore ferom out the p2regis, They knew him perfectly; and onecould zswear Ie was his father; upon which another as sure lie was his mother's'cousin's brother: Another, that he was a duke, or knighst An orator, a lawyer, or a priest, A nabob, a man- idwife d but the wight wysterious changed his countenance at least . A4fet as,they their minds: though in fuUl sight re stood, -the puzzle only was increased; The man was'aphantasmagoria in Thimelf-le washso volatile a ynd tkir. The moloent yon had pronsuncd him one, Presto ! his face changed, andhe was another;- And when-that change washardly well put on, ' lt varied, tilo I don't think his own mother- (If that he had a-mother) would her son have known,r be shited sofromonesto tgother, Till guessing-fiom a pleasure*treTsra task, At thisepistolary sIiron mask." *,F,qr sometimes he like Cerberus would seem- T- Three gentlemen at once,"-(us sagely says ..G6d Mrs. *lalaprop;) then gou-might deem - 'Thathe'was not even oan; .now.many rays -W6re flashing round him; ifd now a thici steata Hid him fronitbsct-.like fogs on liondon dayi': Now Butke,=tio oke, he grew to people's fancies, Asidcertgs of& ieSir Philip Frincis. I've an hy potheps.-'tis qisiteinyown I neverlet it out till iow, .for fear Ofdoung,peopl'e,harm about the throne' I ndeinjuFgsome miniskr or peer On whom-'th'e-< a isaiglit perhaps be-blown; is -i ygen'tlepubli;lend thineearl wTis, that -what J uailus we are' wont to call, I don't see wherefore letters shoald not be - Written without hands, since we dailv view Themwritte-n withoutieads ;.and bookswe see A re fill'das well-withot theUlitter.too; .And rfallytill'wefixonesomebody ' Forcemeinture to claim them as-his due Their authoriJlike the Niger's mouth, *ill obther TIwborldato sayifftIicre bemnouth orauthor. , -: '':Xpd;s?'a,.d'1na.ts l - 'ib the-Arehangel said. ',FortJust you mas.-cbnsnlt-sny-title.page, " Reflied this 'mighty ShadoLw of a Shade.- IIf I baye kept my sieset half an age, -, scarcesb'aU'tell it no'w."--" Canst,thou upbraid," : UaoluC *4 t ji, * ; "{ ~au -e O m y ?,-,-; -,g p pXPQJladbter O 'Opassjn-?e:" "Passion!"criedle Phautomdisi,I * 'Tls~r~beo hi had oirmine!" So -spoke -Old" ~No'minfiLTmbra " fnd while speak-ingyet, Away.moeitcdin celestialsmoke s - Then Sat.sh to-A Michl `'wDatfbrget - Franklineoe Wshington andJohn Horne Tooke, "-Ad Fankin ..Zbut at thistime there was heard A Ofrypfoiron?; thuh Psnotn !phanton stiremd. Atlengtla, withjbstling, elbowing, and- the aid O -cheubim. alyounted to tat-post, The devil Asmor to the circe miade His way, and look *'d a d i his journev cost Some trouble.- -When Ii-burden down he laid,. "Wh.ts this?" riaedlMich4el ; 1 why., 'tis not a ghost?" know it," quothF the incubus; a but- he Shall be one, if you leave the affair to ie. Onfeound'the renegadoa! I have sprain'd y left wing, A oe's so heavy; one would think "Some of his works abothis neck were chain'd. mBut ttothe point: whilel overing o'e he labrink "Of Skiddaw (wh?re,ias usual it stil rain'd), " i saw a taper, far beloin me, w uink, "And stooping, caught this fellow at a libel- "No less on ifoyu than the Hely Bible. 'L The former is the Devil's scripture, and " The latter yours, good Aichael; so the affair " Belongs to all of us, you understand. " I snatch'd him. up just as you see himi there, "And brought him ofFufor sentence out of haind "- I've scarcely been ten ninutes in the air-. "At least a quarter it can hardly be: "I dare saytihatlhis wifeis still attea. (Laugh.) Here Satan said, o I know this Huau of old, ",And have expected him for soie time dere "A sillier felow you will scarce beliold, " Or more conceited in his petty sp here "But surely it wa noteworth while to fold " Such trash below your wing, Asmodeus dear! "We had the poor wretch safe (without being bored " Wit carriage) coming of his own accord. "But since he here, let's see what he-has done." " Done " cried Asmodeus, " he anticpates "The very business you are now upon, " And scribbles as if head clerk to the Fates. "Who know to what his ribaldry may run. " NWhen such an ass as this, like Baalam's, prates ? "Let's hear," quoth Michael" what he has to say, "You know we're bouind to tt in every way." Now the bard, glad to get an audience, which By no means offen was his case below, Began to cough, and hawk, and hem, and pitch His voice into that avrful tone of wo To all unhappy hearers within reach Of poets when the tide of rhyme's in flow; But stuck fast with his first hexameter, Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr d Into recitative, in great dismay Both cherubim anti seraphim were heard To murmur loudly through their long array; And Michael rose ere he could get a word Of all his founder'd verses under way, And cried, *' For God's sake stop, my friend ! 'twere best- "N'on Di, non honines-"-you know the rest." A general bustle spread throughout the throng, Which seem'd to hold all verse in detestation; The angels had of course enough of song When upon service; and the generation Of ghosts had heard too much in life, not long Before, to profit by a new occasion - The Alonarch, mute till then, exdaim'd, " WVhat! what! " Pye come again ? No more-no more of that !" The tumult grew, an universal cos_gh Convulsed the skies, as during a debate, When Castlereagh has been up long enough, (Before he was first minister of state I mean-the slave.s hear now); some cried " off, off," As at a farce; tiU grown quite desperate, The Bard Saint Peter pray'd to interpose (Himself an author) only for his prose. The varlet was not an ill-favour'd knave; A good deal like a vulture in the face, *With a hook nose and a hawk's eyd, which gave A smart and sharper looking sort of grace To his whole aspect, which, though rather grave, Was by no means so ugly as his case; But that indeed was hopeless as can be, Quite a poetic felony " de se." Then Michael blew his trump, and stiUl'd the noise WVith one still greater, as is yet the mode On earth besides; except some grumbling voice Which now and then wiU make a slight inroad Upon decorous silence, few wiU twice Lift-up their lungs when fairlv overcrow'd- And now the Bard could plead hiis owu bad cause, With all the attitudes of self-applause. He said-(I only give the heads)-he said, fie meant no harm in scribbling; 'twas his way Upon all topics; 'twas, besides, his bread, Of which he burtered both%ides; 'twould delay Too long the assembly (he was pleased to dread) And take up rather more time than a day, To name his works-he would but cite a few- Wat Tyler-Rhymes on Blenheim-Waterloo. He had written praises of a regicide; He had written praises of all kings whatever; He had written for republics far and wide, And then against them bitterer than ever; For pantisocracy he once had cried Aloud, a scherme less moral than 'twas clever; Then grew a hearty anti-jacobin- Had turn'd his coat-mand would have turn'd his skin. (Laugh.) He had sung against all battles, and again In their Ihigh praise and glory, he had call'd Reviewing0 'f the ungentle craft," anid then Became as base a critic as ere crawl' l- Fed, paid, and pamper'd by the very men By whom his muse and inorals had been maul'd: He had written much blank verse, and blanker prose, And more of both than anybody knows. He had written Wesley's life. Here, turning round To Satan, " Sir, I'in ready to write yours, "In two octavo volumes, nicely bound, " With notes and preface, all that most allures "The pious purchaser; and there's no ground " For fear, for I can choose rmy own reviewers: "So let me have the proper documents, "That I may add yoa to my other saints." Satan bow'd, and was silent. " IVell, if you, " WVith amiable modesty, decline "lily offer, what says Alichael? There are few " Whose memoirs could be rendered more divine. " Mine is a pen of all work: not so new " As it was once, but I would make you shine "Like your own trumpet; by the way, my own "Has more of brass in it, aud is as well blown. "But talking about trumpets, here's my Vision! "Now you shall judge, a'l people; yes, you shall " Judge with my judgment ! and by my decision " Be gu-.ded who shall enter heaven or fall!t "I settde all these things by intuition, " Times presenit, past, to come, heaven, hell, and all, " Like King Alfonso St When I thus see double, "II save the Deity some worlds of trouble." He ceased, and drew forth an -M S.; and no Persuasion on the part of devils, or saiiits, Or angels, now could stop the torrent ; so He read the first three lines of the contents; But at the fourth, the whole spiritual show Hiad vanish'd, with variety of scents, Ambrosial, and salplhurcous, as they sprang, Like lightning, off from his " melodious twang." Those gtand heroics acted as a speU: The angels stopp'd their ears and piled their pinions; The devils ran howling, deafen'd, down to hell; The ghosts fled gibbering, for their own dominions.- (For 'tis not yet derded where they dwell, And I leave every man to his opinions;) Michael- took refuge inlisyrump-but lo I His teeth were, set on edge, he could not blow! Saint Peter, who has hitherto been known For an impetuous saint, upraised his keys, And at the fifth line knock'd the Poet down; Who fell like Phaeton, but more at ease, Into his lake, for there he did not drown, A different web being by the Destinies Woven for the Laureate's final wreath, whenae'er Reform shall happen either here or there. He first sunk to the bqttom-Iike his works, But soon rose to the surface-like bimself - For all corrupted things are buoy'd, like corks,? (Laugh.) By their own rottenness, ligh1t as an elf, Or wisp that flits o'er a morass- he lurks. It may be, still, likedull books on a shelf, In his own den, to scrawl some " ife" or " Vision," As Wellborn says-" the devil turn'd precisian." As for the rest, to come to the conclusion Of this true dream, the telescope is gone Which kept my opdis free from all delusion. And show'd me what I in my turn have shown: All I saw farther in the last coDrfusion, WVas, that King George sllpp'd into heaven for one; And when the tumult dwindled to a cahn, I left him practising the hundredth psalm. James Buckmaster was then examined.-I know Mir. John Hunt. that is the getlciman sitting there. Cross-examined by Mr. StA5tLETT..-I am an army-lothier; I have nothing to do with this prosecution. I am not a n subscriber -to the (iostitutional Association. I have been called upon by .Mr. Murray to attend here, and have been keptfrom my business several. days, Idon't know why. I have formed no judgment upon this poem. The case for the prosecution here closed. M\r.- StARLSETT then-rose for the defence, and first disclainlingall pretensions to that dloquenee and ability which his learned frientihad .been plessed to ascribe, said, henever regretted the want of thosequa- -lities more than he did- now. Never before had any occasion presented - - see. "Lifeof H. Kirke WVhite." hf t IngAlfonso,spealdngof the Ptomean-systema,said that "badI the basaeaosultedbat thel creation of the svor1d, he wou3& tave spared t see Aubrey-s account of the apparltlon v. hich disappeared " with couriomis perrume and a uelodious twang:" or see theAntiquary, l A drowned b0dy lies at the bottom tll rotten; it thea loats. AU ~1ustpeoI)hc know.:. ., I iI I I I I i I I II II II I II li i .1 'itselfon isiich-he wasi-moedesirois to expresswithtthe greatest eneegi ihe'cbnt6t.an-a lqdfgiairon wlhich he felt, and which every honest maumirt?fel~~bepresent prosecution. He had n Lever expected eatieahuldeeeiieday whben in a.Court of Justice it should'be adsi,tfd,'thatfbs.aman to speak openl~ his sentiments upon thee ela- racteraud Teign Olf a deesdmnr , was an offence against -mo- TaiEty or-good order ; he never expected to bear such an expression if' sentimnents tortured into a libel on a living sovereign, or that it ~sho`uld he deemed.unecessary by such means as the present to pro- wtecthe charac-ter of thd monarch who was in his grave- His learn- ed friend had abstainied from stating hiis own opinion,and hiad left it to elteiory to comneto aconiclusion; he~(Ar.Scarlett) could hiWli wished, *itne ad-oftehisseemning candour,that h7s learnedlftiendliad-forborne to enter-upon-thatideclamnation theobjectofwvhich *iitii.-e's~ejudices in thte- mind of the jury, attA to excite in'ch -hostile feelings as ought never.to enter into the adtministratioxi of jusigei 'RePcould. have wished that, instead of doing tliis,' his 'learrned ftidfi'd-had'favoured the ury-ith tru defnitin ofh-rime, of li 7.piifiitin_' _out the dsfi~ence etwen a lbel ponaKng, nd' bie egaina-Etit indivi- dual; ad inoriini thejur undrwhch -tthdeseh&4 sihe pre-. sentproeeuionbadbee intitted sothatt they m:to1sI. a in pos- sessin of is larnedfried's ntion ~on the subjecet- -.He (M r. Scarlett) should the have known wa f.adogape it,arnd in which shape be was to contend with his l&arned Mfried The teak being, however, left -to himself, he should discharge- a-toihe best of his ability ; and, according to his econception or thelsu!bject show themn why lie thouaht this-prosecuticin (as he ass;uted thetii he did think it) a disgrace to an English -court of justice. A MAbe was, by the law of England, defined - to be a crimne,~ because it tends to a breach of thie peace; for ais attack upon a rnia`ss'it Thiracter'and con- duct by means of a printed publication, was ms ilytextein the individual attacked, such a desire of -vengeance. - as was incompatitble with the Preservation of the- -public fleace ; and( unless the law shiould suppress such- excitements, societv would be reduced to a state of nature, and its chief bless,ingg a.inulbilated. It was, therefore, the ebject of all good governxnents -tovest the re- dress of private wrongs in ?he hands of th6 publicateministrators of justice. Butto makteany attack- on the chuaracter'ofa aliviny Sove- reign,roold not c-ause a breach of the peace,because fretashis situatioft he was anot expjosed to any suc~h excitement as individuals- ' A libel on a Sovereign was therefore quite a different. mnatteri' A monarch was entitled (as in vrirtue of his functions) to the reverence, respect, and attachment ofe alL his sub~jects : hie had an indefeasible claim to their duty andobedience, andall the outward forms of respect wh:ih denote su'bmission to the cizil authority. Any attempt, therefore, to insult or degrade the Sovereign, partakes of the bairactee of sedi- tion : zuch attempts afe attacks Upon the general peace, not because a monarch cani be moved to revenge it, buit becauie -iti object is to produce a weakenkink of that allegiance and attachment -which are due to him, and upoa which the preservation of the executive power depends. The governmetnt in all free counitries is- the result Of the public opinion ; the strengtb, it. is true, isalwray with the multitude, but the sentiments of.the populatioi, -the welli.Winstructed, antl regulated mindI of the nation, teach them obedience to the civil officer. Any attempt to weaken this bond, is.in itself' an attack uponi the best Principles of civil society. To libel, therefore, an ex- isting Sovereign, though it~ might be an ittack upon the state- thlough it might be seditious, treasonable, and dangerous, coDuld nevec fOrm a part of that other sort of libel which he had described, the objects of which was to provoke the individual attacked to a breachi of the peace- Of what character, then, was a libel upoita person de- ceased ? His learned friend had stated, (and very,correctly), that the law of' England had provided for the protection of' the good fame of the dead, not for the sake of the dead, but for the- living. And if' any mnan should libel his ancestor, or the ancestors of' the juries,that offence would come within the true definition of a libel ; be- cause to attack, the meinery of the dead, might provoke the, living to a breach of the public, peace, anid this would be! both a libel anLd a crime- But should it be held that to state (if a dead king what might wvith trath be said of' so many kings wvho hiad reigped in England, was criiniial couild this be said to call for tue punishment of the laws, because it tendf- a to affect the happiness of' the living Sovereign ? He (M5r. Scar) hiopedl never to see the day when such a maxim should preay' in a British court of justice, for it would put an end to free Opir'.son, do- sryrational liberty, and abrogate the beat principles 0j ionl whiich all civil institution w'as founded, and which, he pray ad Heaven, mnight long continue to prevail. If there were ainonus'e cn any cha- ractr upn whch t wa of mpotac that manWkTIdri-hould have the oinio of'the imes n whch tey lved, sP4_ ezt opeQiy for eol and r bd, aterhe ws dad, s ws tat of a),ig.it wvas of' little trn~rtace t hi or o te juy wat ren 1 ~?ht say of them after ther ueah, r heter her eisenc &ould be remembered: it was not so wit the ings. The happioue5 of'nations, thie intere-sts of history, required that the recordIs of the reignls of monarchis shouldl be preserved, that they, might be hPnded down as lessons to posEe~. rity ; and that truth 'which monalechs were doomed never to hecar. Was, by the diligence of hiFteorians, told to the advantage of after times. The"1 Divinity, that does hedge abOut a King," leaves hlim in thle grave- W1hile he lives, the sanctity Of Ilis'character: protects him ; lie is safe not only from all personal attack, huit evenk from the breath of public opiinion ; but wheil lie reaches the grave. undistinguishied in this coinnoson lot of mnortality from all other men, hissactiy nd ispriilges leave hiim. It was of theVeepest in- terest to miankind, to the liberty and safety of men, and of Englishl- mien, that tile character of' kings should then undergo a Lull -and a free discussion. Should it be said thie truth onlyv must be spoken ot- a1 k-ing providled it consisted of panlegyric, or that all should be crilij.. nal wh9ichi might be offiensive to his successor ? Int the latter crse, thle truth or the! falsehood would be equally dangerous;; for either of them might be offensive to thte successor. 'What wvas true -as to political evenits, was always a matter of dispute; imen looked at it through the deceptive medium ot their own opinions; and all rnen could niot be expected to agree- They, muist pronounce upon th'e conduct of kingsi as they think and believe : they may differ from othiers ; but. if nothing is to be permiatid thsemn hut what may be pleasin, to the successor of a deceased maonarchi, what would become of history ? How could the future historian dis~chars-e hiis duty in chrouiclfng the actions of' a kig bitt by colleiting and 'comparing the various ojpinions of the teen in whose timies he lived,' and thiu, teachinggpsterity howv to pronounce upon hiS Character ? 1-low shOuld th futulre monarch discover the true principles by, which he ought to govern. his subjetis, if,-his predecestors' con'- duct wvas only, recorded in the largagl~e of panegyric ? One oh' the greatest of the ancient histonians, and one Of the most Perfect miasters of hiuman wisdomi, had said, speaking of the difficulty he; found in writing the history of the Roman Emperors, that it wvas not because the age of Augustus was wanting in nmess of' bright genius who c6uld have well described the events of that Emuperor's reg.9 but that their adulation prevented them. Should this rcmarrek be~ realizedl in the present day, and couild at Court of Justice and a. jury of this country he tounid to sancetion it ? He trusted not ; Ilie trusted the 4ury hei addressed wvas not sucli a hiry.-, and unltss hie was much mnistak-en,he would demonstrate to thiem,, that iftshey' gavet, the verdict his learned friend asked them, thiey mnust sanct ion tJ.i odious principle- That lie might not be misundjerstood, hle ol make tis concession-he would admnit, that it'any inert shoul,4 write oni any subject withi a view to 'Insult the "t~inring o- narch, to attack hiis feelings, or to wound his peace ofmid whether it was in the language of ofevtco enue truth or falsehood, it would be a libel; hle . ~Itould say that it w,as crim-inal, and the party, deservedly' sjubject to punlishmnent. if the jury should find thnat, to attack, the liappiness or Deace of his Mla- jesty George IV. or any of Ihis descencdants, had bet&n the object or mneaning of the author or the publisher in the work before' them, then he (Mr. Scarlett) would consent to their verdict bein~ against, his clienit. That such. was not thicir objeci or mleaning, he lioped to satisfy the jury. But lie wishied it to be undcerstood how far this dliscussion was' to extend. If an individual should write any thling concerninig a deccaseri mionarchl, inl which hie should attribute to hitit all the virtuesI which cani belong to a iinaii and a king, antI his sue. cessor being deficient in both, the object Of tile Panegvric should be to point oat by .the powverfulI etffect of Ccntrast the deficienacy of his successor, then he (Mr. Scarlett) should say, rhat such a produc- tion, although true in every tittl, would be a criminal one, H ig learned friend liad said, he suippased lie (11r.Scarlett) wvould tell the jury, that thlis prusecutioii was not by the Attorncy--Gnemrl. nor tbyany other public officer; buIt that it procee'dcd frour w~ac he wa's pleased to call the effusiuon of a subject who had chosen to elect himself iiito the office of n publAic prosecu- to;he shiouldi not, indeed, so far forget hiis duty, as. to omlit noticing thssingular feature in the Prosecution. Ile, (Mr. Scarlett) standin' there as ani advoCate, shouldl proliounce no political opinion; lie 22ke'l the jury to Pronounce-no political opinion ; whatever differences thlere i"iight be, even among thienms:elves, upon suchl subjects, wvas perfectly- immaterial, for the path to public justice imuss, in tile present in. stance, be the same for all of thear-but he asked themi tn look for a moentat he roscuton s i stod,liebes~ought themi not to foret vhie tey erecosidrin ths sbjet,the forbearavice ofhisi presnt Mjest. Th Kin wassurrunde by te Couneillors of' hisfater-y mn wo wedther frtues,thir proniotion, their staton,to is fthe's avou. Tis a, a tiram ncse not only- rare, but whih praps, had never befr o-ccurred in the h,istor of this Or any te country. These persons would bg tbe first to feel most senibyany attack-, if such ani attack hia l b;een nmade as, was by this prosecuition alleged. But these Personss, although at t'his rmoment in the exercise, ihe honour-shin exercise of thos~e powers which - they had receivedl first from the late King, not one of whomn but hiad se' d this work, dlid not feel it in(umnbent upon them to take any notice of it. They whio could appreciate best this poem-(for thejurywouldPerceive that it was awork for the closet rather than for generaZ erusal-that it was not for the vulgar mind, because a vulgar mind could not understand ; hut that it was the Production of a wit and. a scholar, and destined for the perusal or scholars and statesmen)-none of this latter description of' persons, had been found who tbought it a fit subject for prosecution. Ought, then, the task of vindicating the character of his late Mlajesty, antd an attack uPon the happiness of his Present Mlajesty, to be left to his attorney, 111 r. Murray, or so an Association, after it had been liselamed by the Attorney-General.? Did not this prove to the satis.- Faction of the jury, that no mnan of' letters, no statesmnan, no man or' 4igh s;tation, had ever put upon the poem that construction which Pdr.Muray nw askd the (theury) t uupon it ? Whbo was,1r. )!mirayrha he houht imscffitoadsi Gloverninent in the disa- rhage f is utis, ndtoo upn is own shoulders a burden whih hd ben ejetedby ts ttitithat cunsellors? R e had :houht it tis ay o prentto te jry subject of a verr' sove chractr, nd ne wichhadneve beorebeen tlioughtlnit. -or dsucussion at. this tnibun,al,; fel, with all Ili$ re5pect for the jury ie (AIr. Scarlett) did not think that an exanunation into the cna. acter of a deceased king, or a criticism upon an ingenious poem, aere subjects most tit for their consideration. He should be ip_. :ined to question very much Mr. Alurray's competency as a judge f these matters ; and he was disposed less to deny his ability as an ittorney than to admit it as a statesman or a critic on this poenu, nany.parts of which he understood as little as he did his business. rhe indicttmient charged it as a libel to have said that the late ujo. iarch was bad king. He(Mr. Scarlett) denied it to be a crime to eek to have it believed that any deceased monarch had been a bad ting, guilty of misrule, and a protector of tyrants. lfbe and the ury were of epinion (he did not say that either of them were so) hat his late lajesty was socl the person so described, might he not ay so? iAlight he then say of his tather, or of bis grandfather, or of is great grandfather, or of which,- o4 his-ancestors? Was ie not descended from Richard 1IL.? and, had not Shak-_ peare described hiim as a inurdeger- and .a tyrant-? and might ione of bis Mlajestv's subjects hc - prc't- at- the reprcsen ationi of that tragedy without. -.comtnittig Au ,ftunce against lis peace andadiguity? - Did lUr. l1urray ever -hear of -such .monarch as JameslI. ? Did he knowvr hat Sir ahlter Scott (he 'egged hi; pardon)-a popular writer-4he aufsor.6f Warecrlc&, bad Lescribed that monarch exhibiting in various conversations his total vant of all the qualities thaiare esential,to adkng and-a man ?- Was &r. -Iurray so leirned in the literature df his country as to knowv fihe cxistence ofsucii asian author a.-Shiasicpeare ? ' Did he knowv hat such a King-as Henry VI ii. had lived'aendreigned, and that no. istoriancould speak of him vwithout libsror of his tyr2nnyt nhis b v- octisy, and Iris cfutlty to. his ivcs ? -Had be ever hieard ot' Th.- Ifenrcsirs of tlse JRarl o.f IValdfegra th'e l'at'e Kig's' tu'tor ? Did lie nowr aught of Tkzc.hetnoirs of Hos'ace Walpole (Lord Orford)? Vas he acquainted with the details which thie laitte author had i~i,ofhiner l 0f (,eozsefll p, ,get 4-9S&I'P.N cafiienaconstenaeri for shsoulatbie day b~e establishea, thepsiblisbieTs of those Memoir-iought alsoto betheobiects of itea1 prosecution. He be';ered Mr. Muirray knew none of these things, and to thait ~rcst'urd ignorance alone couild lie attribute the present prosecution. lie couild not fiiid terms to express thte mingledi ethotifons of' indig- ination and contempt which he experienced at that par f h n dictment which charged the deendan with having publse ie 5tating that the latp King"s "1 death msvg unlamiented anureete c-van by those who attended the buriial of' his late Majesy" Wa dilthe jury think of'this as acrim~inal cha.rge ? The hl itr ef indictments in that court (and its files containedI sonesfietl absurd neebfoedpledo chiildish and ridiculouis an accu- e Uin.le (Mr. Scarlett) aid not know whether the late King's death was lamented. or nor : his own feelings (withi which the jury hlad nothing to do were fiul of' respect on ilhat owcasionl, and as far as he knew, hie hail rweason to believe that in his assertion onthis point the POet was Wronlg. In general, nothinga could be more true thani that the deaths ot kings wereunlamented ; the very condition of a cirng prevented thtat close sympathy wvhich prevailed among persons5 of less exalted station; their friendships, foundi(ed on, asttnority, exKisted but irn name, their rank forbade all those endearin- cfnnexionq, and deprived them of aUl those tender cares, w'liicI eaoothed the dying beds of otlier po!rsona,. But he remnembered that a report was prevalent att the ti;ne, which if' troti would incline himn to believe that the late Kinsg's dleathi was deeply XL- gretted ; for it was saidI thlat the Ministers, all of' whomn wen, &I-wn to attendI the funeral, wvere in expectation that they shtouald notlkeepthieir pieces four-and-twventylhouirs. If this were so, he couldl believe that the death of few kdings hiad beeni niore deeply regretted than that of George III. If history spoke the truth, many kings had not o-ly died unlamsented, but had even been left, in the articlie of' deathi, without the attendance of common servants, and of this the death-beds of' Louis XIV. and Louis XV. furniished re- markable illustrations. Tue libel, the jury wvouild perceive, seas not ,charged as being treasonable or seditious, and it could not be ottiesr. wise if it had aimned at the peace and happiness of the reigning uio- naurch. To say that a deceased monarchi wa, a bad king, and that he died withiout tears being shed at hiis fuineral, would not of neee.-- sity woind the peace of a living onie. Suppose that a king sliouldI have pursued a course of policy riot approved of by his successor, -;ousld it he libellous to say- that suchi a Kinig was abail one-wouhilc this be to attaetc the existing monarch ? Suppose, on the oilier hand, that his sacce-is;or shotild thiink every thiing his predeces- For had dobfe was right, ought thierefore every miani's mnouth to be stoppd? Ife could nioti suppose that any man wouldl alr sch a proposition andl if he hieardI it conifirmned by au- thority, hie should indeed he astonished. Before he descendedi to e-amnine the cha-racter of tite poemi, lie wouldl first look s little at its meaning, andi see whether thtat woui d bear nut the cliarge of libel. In order to do thisk, arr. Murrav- liadl comnpelledi him to take a review (it should isa as Iitsot a one a- possible) of the events ofthie late Iii.g', reigni. Georg e III . causie to dhe thirone undler the most favourable ausp:tes ; the country was int profounid peace, enjoying enviable prosperity, htavinig 'so heavy ineumbrances, andi po-ssse of an extensive and minihtyemnpire. The first evil that occurred arose fromn a system of fisveuritiam, wvhichi was thouight to b- injurious to the interests of sitie nation, asod a political writer (Wilkes) thought fit to) expose this systemn in a periodical pub- lication called" 1rthe Vorth Britont." Among othier things he wrote a letter supposed to be addressed hv the minister (whiom he accused oif a design to restore the houtse ol' ttuar' to thec sovereignty of these realmhs) to the deposed m-onarchi James Ifr.. so which he prefixedI as a moGtto aL quot,tion from Ovi,I- 11Nil inilsi reseribas ; attamen ipseveni and- in wvhich he invited hiim to come to England. Irinsediately after this, it appeared as if the sole object of the 0overnment of the coun- tT'., was to Oppress this unlocky' person. 'lI'ey were at peace abroad, hut at nonte the kingdlomi was disturbedI by the voices of the King and isis 11ir,isters, which were raisedi forzno othier object than to decstroy Mr. Wilkes. lie continued to w-rite foolish books, ant i v/.sexpelled fronm his seat in the H-ouse of Comn-oni. The absurdity of all tliese dloings seas best proved by thiis circ;ssn%tancc-tha; a Asubsequient I louse of Coni- mni-is orderedI the Whole of theC pTOITedisisci to be expu(ngedI frioos their joornal~.i. new event siren t,rok plaits- .- itwa, thoughit tisat A use- -i ', t!hen rising itito prosperitv, mii iht Iso taxeuh. The Kinag's 51 inis. j,-s passed a law in th.lt eWs-s-s.r Whisith Wasa opposedi by ursa party the ,1,'eople at first took- p;srt with tile M- irnistcrs, but soon aftcrwvarids thb O.cc 0, ft hat stisall sisoi nnty, whit iri ail Isren udespised.. Iinsj.osil. edb ht o - ti hoeble natiorn. The rcsiiltivwas. thlat Amiseria WaLs isstlisusis of nsontsev wcre expendsi-sil an extestsivs- tcrrisors' was snatceise trons the kingingtss : andsti e Ritig wasi n--duced-i di'ce all this dis&strousz "'cate, to rihe humssiiai:tions tf recogni.,issg tise iiiteleien- denre of those 5! ties, seho-se tinls-s ansi vlesv it liafl isnee been to lic called his; sssbieel:Lt. Il'isethser th.ese tIling-s were wise, or wlisetier th-eir result tiad bisen CIro pcrouiS. it Ivas tint fur the juiry to Say :, hisS it was for thens tn sat wl,ls Crle at 155t flitghlt write Isis owss ospinion of sich events. I insost all .,i,cn were ugrees l :tht rise Frenich revolis- tion was hsastenedil; ts ile Amesrican war, the trisisiipljisnt ces- tablictsment of the repub)lsCe Of Asier-i-a wasI bselievedl to ha';e sown the sees,s wlit~-IT snon rittenesi in France itito) thisse events whicli mere at fir-st l:ai-ihd 5.5 tisSpiciotts to liberty, huut wrhich were followed by scesses of hixIui' whliels iisade the ntc(-sstnty recoil withi horror asiit ani-iditi. T'ML'h TreyOIsIion naturallv gave rise to a war which, if not necessar'y, w.is pssrb~aps inevitaisle. Still (lite historian wosiltd ha-ve a righit to say tlsat somse dictinitte cauise of rise war should have been stated, its order that ps-ace irsiglist the s-oossr have bsetn arrive-I at. If its object were ttis restoration of the it- n:ilv of l',osrirbo:s it becamen tse G~overnmient at' England to Fay sit :if tili eslaislis'snnent of a nioderate los-tn pf (overnmtelist or the pos,csession tif an i-llands, theSe eauses shiottld have boeet stared. On tile e,,strar,is every sc,'itmn (if' Parlaiament thec ohjcct oif the war scessiesl to siave been cisanged ; the- care. expression thenr Itccamit, "1 indlemnity fuse thie past aiti( secuit y for tue fdturc." 'rise nationa expenidedi GRI) millions of imoney, and is-isat indemrnity dliti tibte procure ? Torrcists of blood were spilt, some ecountrics %iacr aistrost delpoisulatcd, in the course. of this eadainitous wvar. and iso secisritv- for the ftitnjre was nit. trained. Wre lhail ouir na;al glorieq ito roilso'le us SLite gallantry of our seanien.n of which stl.'n ad ever titiastced. ans(I of weichi lie hopeda she would always c-tontinuec to boast, lIad prttviticd u, %vitih utmie consolation, bsi t wit h thtat alonle. Nr.%v, that pteace liash been olitusiiieh, woulid the jury sa-y that all ciiii wvere gistiltv tf libels initk vessisired to assert that our indenmnity wait intlhisg,-anth -tir security worse than r,ithing-thatat thissiti moncnt,ptcrftahttsthc -secr tt, is-tsr is-erc ripening.- that the fraines ,sf goverutiiernt iti all tile cittititries of liurojte, cx. eetig ourwst haplypr allor. svere lo-scretd anti di.sjiinted Al- rhetbn ite' cottil ileny to (lcorge III. titss ttstessittt of atll the pia u-tus in an elitistsnt dlegree, yet fittitre ages, look-itig tipion th vu'of h is reign. cttliti not tfail to cisu0clieIis narit withs w.aste of' bIoou4, hiss (itf territtisr, hlitiisliatiots, and expense' of' money. In his reigts tte tsxxe hiadl tieen raised to altl atriotint ot which no iistan htad ever bsefore slreamedl ithe fIlhab.a ,or-- pgus act bail been sustiristied lie (M1r. Scarlett) w-as mhaliasid to recollect ho(w ofteon a tid the principles on welielcs lite bsest liber- ties Of EnZeliaShMen had been aecustonted tos repose hail heeti takets awayv,and thetteople taught1 to live wvithiout thesis flra seasots. Mlight. then.not all this he s3ithan situritten Itn verse tor in prose. withiout tbe Ii,istorian sue tse poet coaunitiittig a libel Any sanIap,lo the othier han-d, might si% . .ail tu"te-i-venits iatal beet brougjht abouit by wise counr.-;Is and ltiAt hieir re%itlit huid bs-il tprospterous to tile tiation. Mr. Nhu itiielit. if is- pleaseCd, write t historey of tltenti, and say so. lie ( lfr. SeArlett) woutit tnot bltine hint ,buit if'oilier, shiotld. as thy did, ilifrer t'roit hitt, was is not fit t hi-xt fsttsi re Isistorisusss ShOUhI kInosw v1is tile opinion of' thole Whll liveti wish) Itins ?It was. Well known by everyv titan whio kniew atty tliirg of tle consstitutions of, his country, that thte acts oftise Gjoverrinsient were never ascri!)ed to the will of the Alloiareli. Whatever lie did, or rathier wlitatever was done, his Minister- wyere reptonsilec toe. If the scomsequsens-es were glori ous, then, indeed. isis ntstte was uasociatetd withi their glory:. if they were disastrous, althuough lise was exeniIpt Feont all liersonal re- ap5-sibility, posterity wouldl not faiil to runners himn witls thes-e consequences. Fronti rte begitining of thte Frenchi Rteoltitiots, almost every niilitary attempt by rise zrisis oif Gireat Britutin failed; while by berenem ies whlole elsutitries were ravaged,and empires taken. I Te intepsto fone itidividusal divertedi thec course of even)ts. The Disks of Wellingtn commusencing Isis cssiiiPaigne at the very extremity of the continent, and after figlhting niore Piteliesi battles thnever cosmmandier hadi Insight before, camuie at last, having hceaten all his generals, to a struggle withi the ittaster-Tsarrinr, aid diefeated ihim, and chansgesd the destinies of' Esirtipe. WThen'the historiati should write ite hiistory of theC reignl Of' George Ill., the mottareit's name would go siting witis tue ittmorrtatl natise of AiVellingtots to ptosterity, as well as withi ttiose of tlse ess worthiy persons withi witotai the earlier events of isis reign bhrl connecteI hiini. It v-as inspossilsie to believe that hiis )ir-Sett Maj6estY, who isad it, Isis y'outb been the friend and compi;anion of' that illsistriotis titan (tite lasle C. J. Fox),; to wisoisi tiowv lie was ini Isis grave all niess agreedi in giving rise title of!: ani ardent friend to liis cotintry's connstitution, shouLilI be s,o itio)inil. fli of thc principles% wticiih Itha~cd hisi familyv sirs tlse thrnne,sss to hold any man critisinal lire piubli-shing his opinion, lhe it wehat it niiglts, it'' the transactions of his father's reeigss. Ile (Ill r. Sicarlett) should lire- I s-anie that the jury were utitHlcientit' acqusainstedi witi tile literature of 'he day, to kuiriw tlhat Mlr. osstyetsthe P'oet Laureate, and hzd writeess mans- distirsgssislised work-,% as teih as tile authior of tuse puozi, the sub~cct of thiis pro~secution, lie lhad iso wishi to enter into the quairrels of rival bards, of winsos prodticstions, pterhaps, lIis cutrly diuoces wouldc irsake hiint a fastidious critic. M1r. Soutisey, uport thedeatlt of hsisitUate Majesty, as ithe jury pr(ibably ktnew, liadl Writ-' ten a poem called 7Teo r'fuion of -fi tgmentt, insa isew fornm of'verse. ~it tess here siiges9t.Af to il r. S~carlett, that hiexilmieter.wre not en- tilely new to Einglish poetry, havn been' essayedi by Sir Phillip Syd.,icy. Spenser., and otiser-. lfteb wr", 0 tsieyne,te w,ere, at lessst, new to tite nmajority of English ears. Milton hiail once attemptred to imnitate tile nsetre of. Horacc, in lIis odti Qusis ritlitto " Wliat slrnder youth bsedsss'd wtth II tush odours, C outts tisee on r-ses in '-uorii pleasant cave. Pvrrila ? but the attc'tttpt failed. Mr. Southey, howvever, not therelore nle- tercrd, tvrtcte his poem in hsexameters', in which Ire earri-si. as every body kniew, dUle dis-embodied spirit of' 6eor-e If. to Ithe i,ortalii of Heaven ; krnd sben diti what his lcarised friend, hash cliargetd the au- thor of ithe poitin b,'(0- tilens svithl dloinig ; indieed, Isis learneti frienid's erisicisin aplilied minch mnore strongly to Aire tinuthey's I0m thats totlise oilier. jor the formser hfad imitroeuced the Almiighty in person. M1r. Soutis.cy theni made " the mnulti- fi-cos de'mon," the father of lies, a;ithne accus-er of George iII, call his wfitnesses. He called tlhs very samc witncsses as wery in tie other poem, Wilkes and Jzllius; and as in that poem also. neither of then, bad anything to say aeaimst hibt. fie then, after a high naxtegyric, produces 4General Washisgton, whioim ihc makes tu ay, at althoughbe hlooked upon hi:in as s tvrant in his life-tine, nosy that he is dead, he is conv-nced that he did " act with upright heart, as befitted a novereign. " Tbiis poemn -as aup- -osed to b^ written at the foot-f Skiddasw, where Il r Snutliev lives. o-w the object ot the other lioen was merely to lash ilr. Soutitiey for his adulation. and to show how anothier poet, looking at the sime su'i-ect from a different point of view-, wouldl write upon it. Lord ByT-O7- might be supposed to have said to Llr. Southsey, " Yot are a cotsrdy mission. I think your poem dull, vapid. ann stupid; and I will produce anotlier poem, in which I will prove the truth of my opirnon." WVith this intention he produces hts own Visionf Judg, m !-tit, in whicl he says. In the first year offreedom's second dawn, " Died Georpe the Third --" and aids, that he " hsmelded tyrants." He (Mr. Scarlett) could see no baTm in this. Milton made one of his friends, speaking of the Divinity himnielf, say- - - in ths prison of lisi tyrannsy, We are doom'd to pass oar lays." And yet Mlr. ,Mnrray had not prosecuteeI the publisher of Para- dirc Lott. The poet then saidl of the late King, that_ "A better farmner ne'cr brush'd dew froam lavm, " A worse king ne'er heft a realns undone." To ray that this was a critnina l libel, would be pueriie atid nosisensi. cnI; and any titan who tliould mainitain the contrary, seould desert( only to be treated w-ith contempt and laughter. Upon the follow. -r: ittanzas, ' He died." &c, he snould not clwell; for he was sa fi;ied that the jury couldsce in them nothing libeUous. Ihere was osce P;asage -hich be (Mr. Searlett) could not but condemn, becaust it containea an indelicate allusion, and was the only one which aimn ad ael at lis laelit tJna5est;T_he nlseant the atanzsa begin- ing A"He's ide;liV atS enAing wit -A 14 acon" amey'o a ba'a ugly Worrim." But this, however-, the jury -would recollect, wais not mentioned in the indictment and eonsequf it,y had nothing to dowith the present prosecution. Som of the coitiparlsons in thie poem were base and trivial, as fromijts:burlesqu p natuire they must be, but lie defied his learned friend to produce an.y passake whiich could fairlyv be called impious' Since the Rbioiisai saints- had been expunged tram our ca- lendar, poets had sur~-ly a riht to take lhberties with them, 'without incurrng any sUcIt cliarge. In the description of St. Michael, fore. =7x"pe, there was nothing like lmliiety; and all the speeches, which' th~e author htad put into the mouith of the Devil, could no morvb& considered ns-the 6kjpressicili of his own sentiments than those which MXiltofli had put into the miouth of the Isame personage. In the accuas!tion, pnd in calling the witnesse., ,he I(Lord Byron) badl merely- parodied another poet ; his wittiesse-i were thte same; he mfade theme say the same things. nnd'dismissed them in the same mianner. Then they came tovwhat was rEally theobject of the poem. The fientd Asmodetus, wlho had dliscovered Mlr. Southey at the foot atf Skiddaw, brouight him to Heaven, having tak-en hi'm as it -were committing a contempt of cotirt, giving .judgment on the very afair which then occupied the angelicedeliberatio,ns. The poet, pnrsuing his intention of ridiculing Air.Southey,made him propose to read his own verses,at which tlie aversioni of the company wvas so gret that Atichael was compelled to procure silence by blowing his.trum'n pet. He then mladle him confess that hie had written a number! of inconsi'stent works, In oraise and edisp;aise of the same persons and tM'ngs., and cdler to write theo life of' Satan Ihimself. Dlr. Soutliecy was-thien made to read thc first thiree line of his hexameters. and at the fourth "the whbole s1iirirual sbow" v~nish withi a 'variety of' scents, such a-s belong to their diffierent essences. St. Peter then knocked the Laureat down with isis keys, and he fell into Ihis own lake first to the bottom, and aifterwards, like all otlbpr corrupt [things, come floaRting to the surface. Here the thing' ended the object, which was to"attack a brother poet, being 2ecomplisliet? he (Mr. Scairlett) woutld take this OPPOrtunity of 'saying that hiis learned friend's attack on lIordI By-ron wlas miost. unjutst, . who, he he was instructed to say, would never shirink from appearing to an- swer for thisa or for aiiy otlier of hiis productions, if Mrl. Murray had zi'cn himi due notice of his intention to prosecute. The jury, he trusted, wvere conyinced th4t the sole object of the auithor in the Compihosition of' this imputed libel was to give vent to thiose bitter feelngswhih pets ereknon t inulge, and to characterize Air. Soulic's oety a no tobe nduedby either heaven or hell. 'rhoe prsos, ho wre he ostcompten jugesof the ten. denc of he pcm hen efor th .iuy, hd frbornes to'prosecute, becaue thy knw ho to ake llowncesfor the licence whic a oetdauted,tttd fr te fenzy which lie felt when his peni was in is band. No maita col su se thiat he should he ex- pected to observe truith as closel asIfewere w-rlting a history. " sadszooltv, must onie sea to tetruth of a sonig?" Hei trusted the Jury wouldi not see at teinistance of fAir, Murray ain attempt to disturb) tlhe peace of thie reigning monarch, whert no intention existeJl, btut to satirize the servilitv, tergim'ersation, and badl verses of another poet, whiomi the authior chiose to hold tip to ridicule. Unless, thzerefore, they were prepared to say that no mnan shotuld speak of the pnlitical character of a decewsed mionarch withiout beingiulject-to a rosecutioni,thev couldrnot pronouncesaverdict againist Ithe dlefendani If they were prepRTed to do so, they wiouild set an cxanrele niost fatal to the constitution, woul put a stop to liters.- tCure, to freedom of opinions, and to the truthi of hiistory ; anid these con'teqttences hie besoughit them well to consider. Ihistory, would tlitn, if true, be always libellous ; and the licenice of poets, which enabled thiett to tell the truthi only by mieans of in- sinuation. would) be takeni away. Fromi thec latnguage of exag- geration, which suchl writers were in the habit of us~ing, their, nieatuina couldI oniv be gathiered fromn the niain object of the ur. In the Emupire of Chiina, two of the King's principal M iniseswr emnPloYed in recordling every thing lie said anid did, even dowvn to the most minute actions of his private councils, atidi the collection was alwy published after the Mlonarch's death. Tuie Jesuit, Pere diii 1-a=e in hi's h1istory of China, relatedt, that a King, niot liking that soine of hiis actions; shouldI be recorded, had inspected the volume, .4ndi tc.rn out the leaf contaitiing the offensive passages. On the next dlay lie foundl that it liact htezti re-w.ritten, anid thie adihitiotiel l4rt inserted that hc had torii out the le-.ifT. the actions of kings werec not in he submitted to that tribunal whiere alone tlucy were responisible to pos.teritv, andi if all their niosi secrniciomis actions were oinly to he -traiinsitted in thje lan. qtiage utf panegyrie andil [adudation bv piocts laureate, thten die his. tOrv of the freest coutntries in thte world would be wrapped roundl in gliv,tery andt silence, andt tIme door shut upon one nf the nuost uisefuil soiurces of knowlcdge. If thec errors oF those whio hiave guile were nugt to be lich(h tip to the example- of thecir sixecessors, thle pages of' hiisto,ry wvoiil1 becomie hilank and barren, and tbe filled otils' withi itir dictations of despots, whio saw no frecdloni bitt in thecir 'own licen. tintustiess, no) riches butt in the taxation of their subjecta, and no) gloiry bunt in ltheir ownl %anity. Wlithi these obsaervationi lie shiouild concluide. Hie regretted his irnability to express inuore futillwhti. relt tupots thiis sibjecet; but in all his expterience 55 art attocat'e, h tiail tiever stooti i'n a tiftuation of mnore di Iliculty, in consequence of' diei delicate taiatire of thc topics to wvhidli lie W;ts cloinp ellemh to allude. If it ere sditios to say that the late reign had been nmarked byt a profligate waste of blood and treasure, by loss of enillire and humisiliatini of tiationsia character, leie ust be seditiorts, for it was tin. fortunuicly trite. Hle diid not, however, cotnsitder such a declaration of opinion to he uinbecomting or illegal, and lie thierefore wouild clia. ritaerirza! tile present prosectition as one of the nmost imlpertinenit, ridiculous. ittipolitic, anti oppressive, that hiad ever olr'endcdi a couirt of justice. Mir. At oueitms o~jeccted to any part of the work which had been allud(edi to by his learnedI trietid, n.ttiely, Mr.Southtey's Vbsioui, beinig otfcrcd to thc considheration tif the jtiry. 'rTe Loitin) CH I at' .1iIST IC E.-Mr. Scarlctt lias referredl to themn bsluuim.z within the knowledge ofthcj,iry. The Louins Cnitugt .Itsrtcv. proccededl to suits upj the evidence. Hlavinig statedi the niatuire of thze indictmenet, lie said dlie jury would( see that the charge was of a coinprehiensive natuire. He lhad no hiesitation itr. saving, atid thte counsel for the defetiul. atit, lie was stir', would 'not qiuestioni hii assertioin, that a pill). I icatiotu tetimi uimg to) di!sturb the mnind, of livring indiv iduals, ard to biring thieim int(o rontettpt and( disgrace lty reflectirug uilion persotmas whio were deadh, wea ani oflence atgainst tIfc law. T'imeijury were to wsui- whietimer thec pimetii they h ad hecarth fell wsithtin that dvscri ptioii, asitu whether it iiad been mnade omit to thicir satisfactioti that suichi was its niature atil( probable object. TIheiy were released fronti tiny) en. siileration of hos Iar it svsL% compectent, wheni the grave 1uad closed uver As idcased monarchi, foir aniy mail to disetuss his chara,ctr and rnndtitt. The flnesmonl VAS nfitly- whether the pmihlicatin iiin "~I estio I wzs dcfaninatory of htis l:ute Ma.tusty, anti calculated to disquiet the iiniitid of liis presient Majesty, atid i t(imbing lils descendants into dlii. ~Yace, cotmtempt, and sestidAl In ticcidIitig that question, theyv ouglht tosuirrenidertheirjudg-ment to no titan,lIe askted tseini not.to do' sio: he isketd titenmonly toexcerciaic tlieijejudguiient accorthitig to their owit good tensc,tleier reasoti, andI their confcienccs.,Tlhc presenit lprosecution was instituted byv a private indivitlual :by the laws of the country titis was perimitted for if ito prosuectthiotls wete allowved hut by the c'onstitutetd ,)Ricer,, too iiitic-li woutld be lef't to those ufiMcers, antlI suchi a restice. uioti iutight be miade rthe mneans of shielding offenders fromn punish. nent. Upion the whonle lie thiouglht this priniciple wats highly favour. [ible it) thte ptublic liberties. 'fite onmly way Itn whicha.in ,pargumsentt couild be fountheti upon it. wuis that which hiad been adptd by the Icarncd couinsel for thc tdefcuidant.-natuel v,that if' the prorltictioti hiad been offensive, ijt wouild ty haerbee tak-ems uR by the Crown Officers. IVitli that. coinAOeration the jury oAel nothtng to , do theliy were to foriti thteir opinioti ott the conients of tie libel itself. The poem was of cansithlerahle lenigth, anti the cotmnsel for thec defeitaidait lhad thounghit righit to liave tile wsliole 0t it read. The svhoie being read, hie shiouldI be wantinig in his duty if lie dlid not ileclare his ab. hoirrence at rthe tone of iniupiety whlichi pervadetd it. WVlietlicr ai similar tone pervadcd( anotdier poemn whiichi lad been albtided ito, lie di(i not know. The latter poem lhad been supposed to lie knowii to all ; he could( not say that it was unknown to hirt) bv means of extracts, as well ais Lthat which was the object of the presenit prosecution. But lie did by one as he had done by Ihe othier :lie 1uad nio great leisuire, anti his taste lhad been form. cii in so severe a scliool, that lie soon laidI them both aside as equallyv unworthy in a mierelv literary point of view. .Thecir ati- teuition hiad been already direetetil to somie of' thie earlier parts of theitc p=n. Tlicre was 'anothier stnza in whichi "- A titirsut for gold, "The beggar's vice," occutrreti, atid tite following stanza, " Fromi the Usisar's scliool," scented til hint to contain allusions, not to the events otf his reign, but to his persona! chiaracter and condtrct. Then it had been said thiat all this was pitt into the miouths of the Evil Spirit, and that the poet was not enpressing hiis own sentimients. Of this they were (o jtudge ; and looking atilto whole were to say, whethier the authior in rant to say~ this, or onily to mnake thie Spirit of falseheocd say it. In the coticluisionm he said- " All that I s&w in thec confusion. "Was, thjat King Greorge slipped imito hisavcn." Tue jurty wvould consider whiether this was intended to do away what haul bteen said before. First, therefore, they would examiine wlic- tliter the tendency, of the poe sesto tainit, disgrace, and vilify the flame of the late lXing; and secondly, wh ether it was calculate-d to ditigtexb anti disquiet the mind of the present King, and to bring hini atid otherts into public scandtal andi disgrace. Human society was constituted, for hirnmai nature was so -constituted, that the hionouir and dlignity of a father was connectedl with thlat of a son ; antI there was no son, who nmust not be disturbed and disquiee by imputations on lila fathier. If, thierefore, the jury cosidered 'his piublicaution of thiat character, it would follow that its effect itiustt lbe to bring the soil itito scandal and disgrsice. If it wa's defitinuatory, it couald not kec entitled, to tlhe latitude whichi should be affordled to free distussiort, of the events of tlle relgon and of the cliaracter of the late King, tind must have the effect of disturbing1 the ind ofhispresnt ajety ntithe other meimbers of his fa.- tutly,sodof rinin thm ito lisrac. f the jury thought to,. the wolt. fiiela vrdit aaint te dfedant;, if oihierwibe, they wool acuithim;butthe woud lt teir deeisioni in acty case, he The jutrs' then rtetired ; atid having beviiab=ei hialf an hour, re. tuntiid with a verdict of G'niljy against lhie delendant. "'?V f, - ; : .1 . ?, -- .n ir . : .. , Ir . - T?-;, Ik -- IRT C)R- -VT,,% V.4. RENCH W-1 "C' 'T,TE VISION.OF .JlDGMETw..- N:v. NT. -.