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Art . IV . — The Trial of John Barkleg , ( one of the Shopmen of Richard Curlile , ) prosecuted by the GonstU tutionul Association > for publishing a seditious and blasphemous JLibeL Second Edition . With an Appendix , containing an Account of the Proceedings : in the House of Commons on the Petition of the defendant . 3 vo . pp * 33 . Wilson * Royal Exchange . 1 ^ 1822 .
np Wl $ Rl £ are several circumstances A attending this trial of Barkiey , a youth seventeen years , of age , which are worthy of observation ; such aa Ha being carried on * before the dame jury , wb had tito days befbife found a verdict Against ahotfcer person for
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selling the very aame publication , and the judge reacting the application for another jury , arid the counsel for the prosecution representing the identity of the jury as ' * a singular advantage " to the defendant ; the conduct of tha judge , Newman Knowlys , Esq ., then Common Sergeant , now Recorder , of the City of London , who attempted to refuse to the counsel for the
defendant the right of discussing the character of the " Constitutional Association , " the prosecutor , which he had previously granted on the trial of the same charge in the case of another defendant , to the counsel for the prosecution , and who seems to have
considered in his charge that he was trying the defendant ' s counsel , and was entitled to tax him with the crime of his client j and the proceedings in the House of Commons oil the presentation of a petition from Barkiey , when Dr . Lushington boldly stigmatized the
conduct of the Common Sergeant as * not upright , just or impartial , " and accused some one of interlining- the sentence on Barkiey and another in the book of the clerk of the arraigns , and thereby adding to the sentence
pronounced from the bench , the punishment of hard labour : but though all these are memorable particulars , the design and the limits of our work oblige us to pass them over , and to confine our attention to the ' speech of defendant ' s counsel .
Mr . M . D . Hill , the gentleman here referred to , has taken , and will long we trust maintain , ' his rank amongst our constitutional lawyers ; by which terin we intend those pleaders that represent and apply the constitution as a protection to the subject against the
inroads of arbitrary power * With exemplary spirit , he faced the brow-beating of the court , and forced his way through quibbles and rebukes to do right to his client . Disregarding the dicta of mere technical lawyers , he a $ *
serted with great ability the noble principles of civil and religious liberty . He vindicated Christianity by dein ^ r irig , in its name aud authority , toleror tion for the erring . The bench was discomposed by hearimj the voice of enlightened and . philanthropic diviues , re-echoed in a court xrf law ; but the
jury werse deeply iin ^ raased , and this very satnfe body \ vfco t \ w days before had given in an instant a verdict of
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found by many of great Service in ascer taining * e * iptW'altrt&h "~ -Pv . 14 > 19 . M f . Kitcfct had this note upon another of these works : " The Sermon entitled « A Compendious View of the Christian Doctrines / published by the Rev . D . James , when about to resign the ministry , contains a
general outline of the religious sentiments which are held by the congregation of Protestant Dissenters belonging to the Upper Meeting-House , Newbury . The late Rev . Hugh Worthington , who was equally distinguished by the brilliancy of his genius , and the affecting simplicity of his eloquence , designated this excellent sermon ' a little body of divinity . '"—> P ,
18 . Mr . James was assiduous in his pastoral attentions to the young ; these are thus acknowledged by his
successor : " I cannot here forbear to revive in the grateful reconectk > ii of every member of the Christian . society assembling for divine worship in the Upper Meeting-House ^ Newbury , that the exertions of my venerable predecessor , in introducing
the commendable plans 6 f meeting the young people of his congregation in the vestry oil the Sabbath evening , and of annually catechizing the children , preparatory to their admission to the vestrymeetings , have proved * by the blessing of God , dome of the most efficient means of
encouraging that spirit of impartial examination of the Scriptures which has kept our little sdciety together , in an age when popular <* lamOur would drown the voice af conviction * and a mistaken zeal for trath would anathematize a can * did inquiry after trnth . "—Note , p . 15 .
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RevUm * +- * TrialafJohn Barklepfbr Sedition . 631
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 631, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/47/
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