The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1838-11-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AFRICA. s -. ~.... as ss„ ~ a__ anaass Leone. .147 loes timhes Asl - - _ • late John Fenton Cawthorne, of Wyerside, Esq. repress la ..- ni  We give at length the trial of the Friar, Mr. Joseph Jerome"—two very sain:lv prenomina—Carrick, for the cruel and most horrible murder of a poor little babe, of two years old, entrusted to his care for transmission to a monastery. The case was tried at the City Commission, before the new Roman Catholic Chief Baron, Mr. Woulfe, and Mr. Justice Moore; and the court-house, we understand, was filled with monks and friars, all, doubtless, much concerned for the fate of "brother Joseph," in the dock. The case was one of the most revolting and execrable it has ever been our misfortune to read. Burke, the infamous—the notorious Burke of Edinburgh—used to put his victims out of pain at once. He made his livelihood by murder; but he did not prolong the agonies of his ."stibjects:" he put them out of the way as speedily as possible." But the friar, "Joseph Jerome," insensible to the strongest appeal to the heart, the cry of helpless infancy, delighted in the act of cruelty, and with nothing but murder in his intent, destroyed by a slow, and lingering, and horrible ferociousness. Well, after a good deal of thinking about it, the jury have found him guilty of aggravated manslaughter. We are happy that justice ha's overtaken the wretch in the way of judgment—we hope it will not be arrested in the way of punishment. We hope Lord Normanby will not be induced to display the lei, nity of his government in this .instance—we hope he will be firm for once in resisting the temptation of popular applause in exchange for a rank abuse of the royal clemency. We think the complete execution of the law particularly necessary iii such a case as this; because we regard the murder as one clearly flowing out of the influence of Popery, and therefore one which it is the more necessary to punish as a warning and terror to evil doers. The individual, J. J. Carrick, might have conceived the - thought of fraud, deception, and murder; but, let it be well observed, he could never have executed it upon the hapless babe Touche, if Popery, with its superstitious and damnable influence, had not come to his aid. Let this be noted. This is the truth. This is the jet of the case. It was Popery that perpetrated the foul deed. Does any reader doubt this ? Then let him turn to the evidence—let him took minutely to the case. How came the wretch by the child ? Mark ; he was a "holy" man—he was "Joseph Jerome," of the "Balscaddin Monastery." That was the way by which he found access to Mrs. "Letitia Broncardi." Mrs. Bron• cardi, a very sad dupe of the system, no doubt, entrusted the infant with nine pounds, to this villian, of whom she knew nothing, but that he was one of the " professed." Thus Popery blinded her eyes, and deluded her into mistaking a ruthless murderer for a holy —a really holy man ! What a complete and dreadful misconception of an unholy agent of Antichrist—a Popish friar. Titus Popery consigned the infant to his care. Now mark how the end was achieved. The hapless infant was not taken to the holy convent of Balscaddin. Whether there be such a place in rerum natura or not is immaterial ; but the child was taken to the friar's lodging in John's-lane, and not to Balscaddin or elsewhere ; and then the "holy Joseph" commenced his system of a slow death upon it. Now look at the evidence. We say that if the same drunken and stupid deltision had not infatuated the mind of others, the "holy Joseph's" process would have been interrupted by the visit of a police-officer long ere his purpose could have been accomplished. We have one witness at least (Anne Murphy) who acknowledges to have heard and known. what was going on in the friar's roont--,anti there %mist have been other., though they were not called upon. Now why did net these people interfere ? Why did they not call in a policeman, or give information at a police-office, when they heard, as they must have heard, the child's screams ? Let Anne Murphy speak for them—we venture to say, her answer will do for them all—" I thought he was a HOLY man, and used to converse with him about religion." There is the solution of the difficulty—and so thinking=so deluded—they suffered this unholy agent of Satan—the villanous monk of Balscaddin to