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T 3 E JUDGES ARE GOING TO JAIL . x torxxux sons fob 1840 . f Jrrm the John BvU . ) r ~~~ i > *~ thnmnimn . The lawyer * « e uses , - Their gammon aad spinach is tbtle ' . TZte lew ia illegal , Hhe Commons are regal , And the Judges axe going to jail . Hurrah for the masses ! 5 % e lawyers are asses , The Judges an going to jsiL Ixt&TXamftfa been prigging , So bell have * wigging ,
And be hin % * like his wig , on a sail ; What s > time to t « ret fogies , * Chains , parses , * vd ogles , Xow the Judges are going to jtSL Enrrah for tie masse * . ' Well cot off the garnet , To bother the Judges in jail little Johnny give * orders , AH Beaks and Recorders , The stairs without landlng + to scale , White "we , down It Wapping , Are drinking hot-rtopplng , Xo the health of the Judges in jafl . Bnmh for the masses . ' Well kiss all the lasses To the tone of the Juiges in ja £ L
A » d when soundly rated , Their goods confiscated , Well jist ieep an eye on the sale ; For the times ore a mending , When ' stead of sending , The Judges are going to jaiL Hurrah for the masses ! Well fill oar carcases With the prog of the Judges in jail , For old HattoB-garden , We daat care a fardsn , The policemen look seedy and pale : Thai dkop-sad-ehange Har * ey , Who plated the jarvey , BhaU follow the Jadges to jaiL Hurrah { or the massss ! ¦ Well roh all that passes ,
As a sell for the Judges in jail They jsifd us so cruel , And fixed us to gruel , And sent us to grin through the rail ; Bat , by gales , now we ' re broke " em , Theyll sit picking oakum—Hurrah for the Judges in jail ! Hurrah for the mxiaf ^ Well eat sparrow-grasses , While the Judges get porridge injaO . -Cose feather the nests ¦ Of the Court of Requests ,
Which we'll hold in the streets without fail , And if say besieges Our just privileges , He shall g » with the Judges to jaiL Hurrah for the masses ! There are no upper classes , So reckon the Judges in j * ii We are true British cracksmen , And know how to tax men , And we won t be nobody's tail ; Bat well each use a halhert , 3 ? or the Queen and Prince Albert , Who haTe sent them old Judges to jaiL
{ GRXKD CHOfcTJS . ) Hurrah f er the masses ! The lawyers are asses , We'll cut off the gasses , Aad shiver the glasses , And eat sparrow-grasses , And fill our carcases , And kiss all the lasses , And job all that passes—There are no upper classes , The Judges are going to jail ! * Pocket-handkerchiefs . + Treadmill .
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Aristocratic CoiCHiSQ—As w » walked along , Mr . Boggles and I , who were comparativel y sober , fell into conversation , which turned naturally upon our eccentric leader , of whom 31 r . R . spoke in terms of great esteem and regard . " He ' s a gentleman , every inch of him , " said he , ** and if he could bat keep his hand from his mouth , he'd make a very sooperior coachman , I say . He isn ' t like your swells who mount up a-top of a drag , and drive four made horses down to Kichmond and back again , and then [ fancy themselves coachmen ; bat I don't call ' em coachmen , I don ' t . 1 like to see a man get on the bench , and work a team of rum uns ; that is summnt like . I ' ve been on the road bow near thirty years , and have seen my lord do some Jobs that I wouldn ' t
bare done for a bit of money . I suppose jou ' ve beard of his ordering four nutters oat of the stable to be put to his drag at twelve o ' clock at night ? Well , that ' s a blessed truth , for 1 was stopping down alosg with an at Ms seat in Northamptonshire at the time it came on . I said all as lay in my power , and so did the other gents who were were , to prevent un from doing it , bat the more we argued , the more he wouldn ' t listen to us , for he was precious swipy . "WeL , after a good deal of trouble , these here hunters was put to , for none of ' em , in course , had ever looked through a collar before , and my lord orders the company to jump on the drag . § ome of ' em choked off , and wouldn ' t have it at any price . Mr . PArcy was the first to follow the governor , and took
his place on the box with a weed in bis cheek , just as unconcerned 13 if he didn ' t above half like it , » ad a parson , of the name of Brown , or Davis , or some such name , and that was all , except the two poor devils of grooms belonging to the drag . In -eonrse I couldn ' t leave my friend in such a situation , 8 o I bitched up behind , to be ready in case ef acci-| denL " Are you all right , " Bays my lord , gathering » p the ribbons . " All right , sir , says I . ** Let ' em [* o / ' says he , and , at the word , the four men , who i ad been holding on might and main , one to each corse , dropped the reins , and laid hold of the cloths , la a moment , sir , they were all of a heap ; the near wheel horse goes into his collar like a cann » n Ehot , hto partner gets over the pole , and both the leaders , fhtth was maresrun back npon the coachThere
, . to lad ' em , two mining , one bolting , and t ' other kjiog down . You never saw such a mess . The *» k fellows they run forward to help , but got < j « aned for ^^ painBj ^ ordered out of the way . iae captain , who was standing up behind the gover-** looks as if he wanted to cut it , which Mr . ^ Arcy no sooner twigs , than he takes the cigar out ¦« his face , and coolly tells him to sit still—there w « no danger ; but Smallbones swore he did ' nt see f « Jnm ingeuing his neck broke for nothing , so he ! ° rops off the coach without any further remark , and P * ul blame to him , perhaps , for so doing . Mean-*«« my lord wag busy with the team , and what with ffwence and pluck , and the double thong , I ' m l »*» ed if be didn ' t wag ' em in about five minutes , faaataey set off at about .-ixteen miles an hour . We
«« aoout a quarter of an inch to spare going * ™ wigh _ the lodge , and not so much turning the wfcer : I thought we never could have done it . Wejj , resumed Mr . Reggies , after a pause to take « e » h , after travelling at this thundering pice for matter of three miles , I began to look out for a Beepith pitch about a hundred yards forward . So I " >* & out to the governor— " My l ord , " says I , " if 7 « i can ease em a bit , 111 put on the skid . tt Skid f * * d , you old fool , eays be ; " lm a zoin to slip «¦ down this here bill . " " Oh , crikey r says 1 , to ** parson , hold on by yonr eyelids , " bet he sat P hke a brick- However , my lord knew what be *** about , for , as soon as he began to feel their *« Khi , they answered to it , and settled down to * ett work like old uns- To cut my story short , the !* P * hot of it all was , that we drove into , roused JP the people at the inn , had a jolly good supper , and |«« W the team next day vrtih the Book . What d ' ye t » ak of that for a spree ?" - Fitzviagim .
Old Pboverbsj—1 . So much of passion , so much rj aoiliing to the purpose . 2 . Of little xnedaliug | g *« feat ease . 3 . Prayer brings down the first ¦*** eng , aad praise the tecond , 4 . When sorrow iB ¦ r ** P , wake it not . 5 . A covetous Tnn " , like a dog KL \* heel J roasu meat for others to eat . 6 . Peace ¦ ^ heaYea is the best friendship . 7 . He that lies ¦ 5 * 8 as bed , & , eetate feels it . 8 . Fly the pleasure ¦~?* ul bite to-morrow . 9 . Woe be to the homse ¦ j ? ° * were is no cbiditg . 10 . Living well is the ¦ " ^ ireTenge we can take on o » r eneauea . 11 . The ¦ r ^ st answer ia doiDg the thing . 12 . Talk moch KS Bmeh . 13 . In the husband wisdom , in the j £ «« eatleaesi . H . Pardon others , but not thyselr . ¦ iTjake care to be what thou wouldst seem . lo
K * ^ praise nor dispraise tbyBelf : thy actions BwtLr VSn' ^ ' Coorissy on one side only , lasts ¦ E . * * - 13- If the brain sow not corn , it plants ¦ 2 T ** " 1 S - ^ o » ride fair aid softly , ' that we ¦ ftf ** acme the sooner . 30 . A man ' s best fortune , K * ° ^» « » wife . 21 . One ounce of discretion , ¦ m" *^ ° » 5 a worth two poonds of wH . 22 . Use ¦ ^ Wordg s £ d hard Arguments . 23 . The devil K ^ , ° ^ ers . an idle mau tempts t 3 » dtviL 24 . A Mg « a ins money U 9 uoq parted . 25 . Fear of K £ * tte true valour of a Christian . 26 . A friend ' s K 2 * a better ihm a fool ' s smile . 27 . Money is a ^ E ^ f ^ i , but an ill master . 28- Modesty is ¦ | i ! r $ kt hand , and irutfklity is her left . 29 . ¦ H i ? BlUcn . to the poor doth increase a man ' s store . « jgr cfiantable & ^ n gives out at the door , and Bh £ f ? , ln at tLemndotr . 31 . One bonr ' r sleep ¦ K ji ^!^ is worth two hours' sleep after it-. ¦ E ^«*« upe , and it -RiU foUow thee . 33 . Keep Mm c ^ J * ' ^ 4 your Ehop will keep joe . 34 . He ¦ ^ Tet ^ es with no ¥ ody knows cotnisg . 35-.
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Wit is foUy , unless a wise ^ nuui has the keeping of it . 3 fr . K « owledge of God and of ourselves withe mother of tone derotion , and the perfection of wisdom . 37 . Woros instruct , but examples prevail effectually . 38 . Alwsya refuse the advice whieh passion ores . 39 . The best and noblest conquest is that of a man's , reason over his passionsi and follies . 40 . He haaa good jodgment who does not despise that of others . 41 . The-. best throw « n the dice is to lhrow them away . 42 . Praise does a wise man soo 3 , bat a fool harm . tSw ^" ^ Black Teas into g » ekkrhat Black teas can be manufactured into green , we have satisfactory , or rather unsatisfactory evidence : The remission of the tea duties , in tbe United btates , occasioned , in the years 1832 and 1833 a demand for green teas at Canton , whieh could not be supplied by the arrivals from the provinces . The Americans , however , were obliged tn caii -nn ** . » .. ^
goes of green teas within the favourable season they were determined to have these teas , and the Chinese were determined they should be supplied Certain rumours being afloat concerning themanufaetureof green tea from old blaek leaves , Mr . Davis became curious to ascertain the fact , and with some difficulty persuaded a Hong merchant to conduct him , accompanied by one of the inspectors , to the place where the operation was carried on . Upon reaching the opposite side of the river , and entering one of these laboratories of fictitious Hyson , the parties were witnesses to a strange scene . In " the
nrst place , large quantities of black t » a , which had been damaged in consequence of the floods of the previous autumn , were orjiug in baskets with siev % bottoms , placed over pans of charcoal . The dried leaves were taen trannfe-Ted in portions of a few pounds each to a great number of cast-iron pans , imbedded in chunam of mortar , over furnaces . At each pan stood a workman , stirring the tea rapidly round with his baud , having previously added a small quantity of turmeric , in powder , which of course gave the leaves a yellowish or orange tintbut they were still to be made green . For this purpose some lumps of a fine olue were produced together with a white substance , ia powder , which ' from ihe name given to them by the workmen as well as their appearance , were known at once to be . Prussian blue and iryDSum . These wer « trjtn ^^^
finely together with a small pestle , in such proportion as reduced the dark colours of the blue to a light shade ; and a quantity , equal to a small teaspoouful , of the powder being added to the yellowish leaves , these were stirred as before , over the fire , untri the tea had taken the fine bloom colour of hyson , with much the same scent . To prevent all possibility of error regarding the substances employed , samples of them , together with the specimens of the leaves m each stage of the process , were carried away from the place . The tea was then hanaed in small quantities , on broad shallow baskete to a number of women ana children , who carefully picked out the stalks and coarse or uncurled leavesand when this had been done , it was passed in buccession throngh sieves of different degrees of fineness . The first sifting was sold as Hyson Skin , and the last bore the name of Young Hyson . — AthencEum .
Toaiveatehs , —Go and visit all the courts of Europe , from Paris to St . Petersburgh , and from Stocknolm to Naples , ard if you find a toad-eater caressing the feet of Majesty , and exercising his ntmost ingenuity to be on good terms with the most distinguished noble families , you may be sure he is either Lnglish or American . But the Amercau will outdo the Englishman . He will be twice as humble before ribbons and stars , and three times as insolent to an inferior , as honest John Bull . He will feast six months on the breakfast of a doke , ana then regale his countrymen Bix months longer with the recital of its splendours . He will actually beg himself into society , solicit letters of introduction on the most humiliating terms , pocket quietly a thousand refusal , and , when finally he succeeds in having struggled himself into the drawing-room of a priucess , is the first to betray her hospitality in publishing her follies to the world . —Aristocracy in America .
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An Arkansas paper wishes to know " what the poor Indians will do when the buffaloes disappear . " We suppose they will have to bear it . The religious census of Upper Canada , so far as returns are made , is as follows : —Episcopalians , 79 , 754 ; Presbyterians , 78 , 383 ; Methodists , « l , 088 ; Roman Catholics , 43 , 029 ; Baptists , 12 , 968 ; twentythree other denominations , 22 , 806 ; no professed religion , 34 , 769 ; no returns for 67 , 558 ; total , 400 : 346 . Pk 8 lific Hexs . —Ten hens , belonging to Mr . Weeks , of Salisbury , produced to the owner , during the last year , the astonishing number of 1 , 158 eggs . The horn of the mail coach guard is now called the " penny trumpet . "
The Lancaster Guardian says , A daughter of the late Samuel Crompton , sole inventor of the ' mule , ' is compelled to apply for parochial relief ; while the family of Arkwright , who , in the first instance , merely copied an invention or machine , ranks among the wealthiest in the kingdom . " A singular subsidence of the earth has taken place between Lyma and Seaford , and Beveral cottages baverunk up to their roofe ; npwardsof £ 6 , 080 of damage has . been sustained . A commercial traveller from a great dyeing-house in Glasgow , writes from Germany to his employers"Elberfeldt is a most beautiful valley , and oaa evidently been intended by Providence for Turkeyred yarn dyeing establishments . "
New Intestios . —We understand that Mr . T . Dalziel , Holm of Drumlanrig , has invented a machine of digging potatoes , and forwarded a model of it to the Highland and Agricultural Society , Edinburgh , Should the anticipations of the inventor be realised , a complete revolution will shortly be effected in that department of agriculture . —Dumfries Ttmes . A jury in one of the Cinque Port 3 , being charged with an old woman , accused of stealing a pair of boots , moved probably by the infirmities and miserable appearance of the prisoner , returned the following verdict : — " We find her not guilty , and hopes she will never do so any more . "
An old schoolmaster , who usually heard his pupils once a week through Scripture history , and afterwards asked them promiscuously such questions as suggested "themselves to his mind , the other day desired a youn ^ urchin to tell him who Jessie was , when the boy briskly replied , i' the flower of Dumblane !' A New Militaey Commandkb . —The Courrier Francai * announces that the King of Naples h . % s appointed the Virgin of the Seven Griefs generahs-Eimo of his army . To complete the farce , he ordered all the regiments of the garrison to defile before the statute of Madonna .
It may not be generally known , that the moss gathered from the bark of the ash tree will immediately stop tho effusion of blood from a wound caused by cattle goading or fighting with each other . This is an excellent remedy , and the more valuable , as it may with safety be applied in the absence of a veterinary surgeon . A letter from Constantinople states a fact , which will evince the wonderful change in the habits of
the Turks . The young Soltan , yielding to the solicitations of his sister ftiebinnah , has granted her permission to proceed to England , to be present at the marriage of the Queen of England . The chief clause of the new la * for regulating the work of French children in manufactories is simply a prohibition to employ ^ any younger than sixteen , unless the number of hours and kind of labour oe first fixed . The project does not yet attempt to fix these rules .
It is estimated th © repab-B which the Great Western steam-vessel ia now undergoing will amount to £ 6 , 000 ; whilst the alterations and improvements about to be effecred in the Britith Queen mil not be less than £ 13 , 000 . In Spain there may be truly enough said to be " honour even among thieves , " the Spanish robbers generally giving their victim a certificate of his having been plnudered , which effectually protects him from any further molestation . An extensive gold mine has been discovered in Randolph county , Alabama , In a single day , gold to the amount of 4 , 000 dollars was obtained . Oue lump was found worth 320 dollars . The mine is believed to be the richest in North America .
WOODKT PaTJDCKNTS 15 THS METROPOLIS . —The Vivid , Hull" steam-ship , arrived on Wednesday at the St . Katherine ' s 'W harf , bringing 4 , 060 wooden blocks of yellow pine , for the pavement now laying down in Oxford-street , and various other metropolitan thoroughfares . The Hull Steam Packet Company have entered into a contract to bring ap 1 * , WO blocks per week for the paving commissionera . The blocks are sawu at the steam saw mills at Hull .
As Ahea Sseak . —Our transatlantic brethren are leud in their denunciations of a class of persons deeigrated as above , who sneak down areas to pilfer . On this iide the water , an "area sneak" means a person who sticks up bills on his counting-house door , intimating that certain articles are for ' Bale , instead of advertising them in the-newspapers as he honestly ought to do . We ' often see " Cask to sell " on a bill exhibited by a neighbouring wine merchant on his wine vaults door . —Neve Orleans
Piccayune . An immense number of rats have crossed the narrow sound from the southmost point of the Island of Lisrr . ore , Argylesbire , to the islet of Monsuale , on which tie ligct-houje 13 built , and are devouring all that comes in the -way . They have eaten up the potatoes of the K ^ nt-keepers , and attacked the poultry . One ctneke-a 'cas dragged by tho-neck to one of their boies , but bereg too large for the hole , they nibbled off the h / asd . and so left it .
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The number of foreign eggs imported into Great Britain for the year ending 5 th January , 1839 , was 83 , 745 , 723 ; and the £ ross amount of duty received for the same was £ 29 , 111 . The customs' duty is lOd per 180 . " ' A Long Nosb . —Within * tew miles of Wilsontown there lives % merry cobbler , whose nose is so long that when he takes Bnni ^ ho is obl iged to walk forward three paces to reach it ^ point .
Absekck of Mixd through Li > Te . —One evening last week a yonng farmer of AmbeaSey went to Parham House to see his chere amie , and in returning , the night being excessively dark , he unfortunately got out of his road into the pond , almost . out of his depth before he knew where ho was ; but speedily recollecting himself , he got out and made his way to a neighbouring house , where every attention was paid to him . He was sumciontly recovered in the morning to be able to walk home .
VoiutfTAST Church-rates . —On Thursday week the inhabitants of Melbourne , in Vestry assembled , agreed to a voluntary rate of 2 id . in the pound for the maintenance ana repairs of the church . Were it not for efforts like these , it is thought tho old fabric most soon fall . The prospects of obtaining a supply of teas from the British possessions in Upper Assam are daily becoming more flattering . It may not be many years before this country will be wholly independent of the Chinese nation for its supplies of tea . The East India Company have just received from India fifty chests of tea j * rown in AsBam , of very excellent quality , and further consignments are expected .
Voluntary Drowm . ng . — Great numbers of persons , of both sexep , annually drown themselves in the Ganges . An English gentleman saw , one morning , as he sat at his window , sixteen women drown themselves . They were accompanied by brahmins . Each woman hau a large empty earthern pan , suspended by a cord from each shoulder . When the devotee had got over the edge of tho boat , the brahmin held her up , until the weight of the pans , when filled with water , was sufficient for their purpose ; he then let go his hold , and the woman sank .
M . Arago , the French mathematician , expresses his wonder that the British nation did not make James Watt a Peer ! He was nobler as plain James Watt than as Eari of Any-thing or Any-where . The jiobles of government are -all- counterfeiter "It is as absurd for the Kings and Queens to attempt to manufacture nobles , as it is for them to undertake to manufacture wise men .
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Supposed Suicide in a Steamer . —The Gazelle team-ship left Hull on Friday morning with goods and paneneera ; amongst the latter was an elderl y man , aged fiity-five or sixty years , ruther stout , and marked with the small-pox . About ten o ' clock on Saturday morning , he was missed at breakfast , and on the strictest search he could not be found in the vessel . He had been seen to go npon the deck about four o ' clock in the morning . A hat wag afterward * found with the initials T . H ., also a name on ths lining , Thomai Hague ; maker ' s name , Richard ? ., 125 , Strand . No inquiry has been made for the missing individual , axd it is not supposed that he oo * ld hava fallen overboard , tie bulwarks being breast high . A cloak has rinca been found , belonging to the same individual .
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FROST , WILLIAMS , AND JONES . The statutes by which persons charged with the crime of high treason are entitled to certain privileges , which the legislature has considered necessary for their defence , are , or ought to be , statutes eminently conservative of the purity of justice . They were passed to protect the life of the subject from being oppressed by the arts and contrivances of vicious and tyrannical governments . The whole of our judicial history , connected with the trial and punishment of political offences , ahows the absolute necessity of guarding , by the especial care and vigilance of positive law , the liberty and life of the subject against the dark and subtle machinations of crafty and unprincipled politicians , and the ready tools of their sanguinary purposes—subservient crown-lawyers .
Any departure from the plain words of a statute , expressly framed to prevent the law from being made an engine of oppression for political purposes , is therefore to be viewed with alarm . Every such depirturo is a precedent calculated not only to introduce a dangerous looseness in the construction of penal statutes in general , but to favour practices with regard to persons charged with political offences , which may eventually defeat the beneficent intentions of the legislature , by virtually abolishing those statutcabie requisittoirs" with which it fenced the life of the subject against the power of the crown . The statute by which it is required that a delivery of the list of witnesses , &c , to a prisoner charged
with high treason , shall take place * t thjb save time with the delivery of-the indictment , makes it indispensable to the valid trial of sueh prisoner that the act of delivery of the list of witnesses , and that of tho iudictmentj shall be simultaneous * Tie words " at the same time * ' can have no other meaniojL unless , as wo hav e already stated , the " Bame time , can mean " another and a different time . " To put the latter interpretation upon the former words , as the Whig Attorney-General has done , ia about as absurd as to insist that " the same Sir John Campbell'' may be taken to mean " another and a different Sir John Campbell . "
It is beyond all doubt that ' the legislature meant the list of icitnesses in all cases of high treason to be an accompanying document or appendage to the copy of the indictment , whenever the latter should be delivered to the prisoner , which should bo at least ten days before the trial . But Sir John Campbell has contended that the words " at the same time" may mean not " at the same time ;'' may , for instance , mean that the legislature allowed an interval of five dsys between acts which plain jcrammar and plain common sense , if not tortured by the ingenious sophistry of " plain John , " would teach us ought to be contemporaneous .
If five day 3 may intervene , why not five weekswhy not fi ? e months \ They who take the liberty of interpolating words in statutes may make them mean anything they please . It is an easy way of repealing a statutory provision withi-ut resorting to the more tedious . process of an act of Parliament . When crown lawyers can twist the statutes of treason after this fashion , it is time to affirm b y legislative enactment the axiom that the " aame thiug ^ ' is no / a different thing . " Nine Judges have , however , repudiated the not merely forced or strained , but absurd construction
which the Attorney-General has given to words , about the meaning of which there can bo no rational doubt or question . Those nine judges say in effect" The law has been violated—the essential requisition of a statute , under which Frost , WitRamt , and Jones , were tried and convicted at Monmouth , has not been complied with ; the whole of the evidence rec&ved in contravention of the plain words of a positive en ~ actment of the Legislature . " Thus have the prisoners been convicted against law , but they have received judgment to die . ' How then can that be a judgment to die accobDINO / to law !
Bat when we are told that three out of the nine i ' udges who hold the objection to be a good one , also tola that the prisoner forfeited the benefit ofit by not having taken it at an earlier stage of the proceedings , we ask , in the absence of any statutory limitation as to the time of taking the objection , where ia there any precedent , or even any analogy on which to ground that decision ? There are many analogies in our law tending the opposite way : we have mentioned some of them . The right to challenge a juror , we admit , is lost if the challenge is not made before be begins to take the oath . That practice is established , however , by clear immemorial usage which constitute law ; but is there any such usage , in this case ? None whatever . Besides , the objection was taken before the first witness was sworn , and this seems perfectly analogous to the time of challenging & juror . The
juror is challenged when called and about to be sworn , and the witness is objected to when called and about to be sworn . There is no more retoon for impeaching the legality of the evidence which the crown is about to produce before % witness is called , than for challenging a juror befor * he is called to the book and about to be sworn . Why is it not too late for a prisoner to take objections to an indictment after he Ins pleaded to it ; Why , notwithstanding his " patting himself on the country , ' as if the indictment were sufficient in law , is he still allowed to show that it is bad in law , even after trial and conviction , by arrest of judgment , or writ of error ? Why , but because there is no such waiver or forfeiture of essential lfequieites of law dependent upon the mere time of tfae objection , as crown lawyers at the present itf would lay down . 4
But independently of this , the circumstance that we have already pressed , of the majority of the Judges , at the special commission , having decided both the objection itself and the time of taking it in favour of the prisoners , plaoas the illegality of the conviction in a very strikmgf ^ oint of ' view . When the Judges reserved the points , if the reports of the trials which we have seen were correct , they stated that the prisoners s&euld not be placed in a worse situation by those points being determined after the trial than if they teere determined then . If the decision of the majority of the Judges had been pronounced then , as it is pronounced noic ^ the jury would have been directed to acquit the pasoners for want of evidence , no legal eviaeuco tor the crown being producible .
But if Government should pat thetfc to death they vrill certainl y be in a worse situation than if the majority cf the Judges had prouousced tbe decision at the triaL'whkh they hare since T » rjaaoun . ceiL
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« kItitJL £ f iW 5 ? Mlll * - ' ^ ftilii - « fc ^ rrtitt , « faal with ^ jeensB ^ gM ^ lugbest « 5 onrt of criminal jndi-4 *? t « w i ^ . to * o&eetion was good , aad that it TUtlSS ? V T ™«*« J « dgw ? are Mr , Justice WfllSSr . « vfer J " *^ Pattern , Mr . Justice Kn £ i 5 i-i Mr - Ja «» tiw Coleridge . Thus , if the Qneen s Ministers put Frost and his fellow convicts rfftW ' rt r ? ** ^ T Judgment which fourfi Mmi £ l U ^ l" <"" ( iaee ^ highest court of erwnma / jvdtcature have pronounced to be against # ?! had written the above observations the ¦ ibiivud
. on case . / a . ^ •_ . , - » wv * uu > ud raw f ? t * 2 ? L er 8 B ? seatence of death at Mon . mouth befi * we heard , on Friday evening , of that extension ^ mercy to tho convicte which was comnmnicaied m our columns the next morning . As oar argument , however , was on the law of the case , and as we still adhere to the opinion , that , in inconsequence of the decision of the judges on the objection , taken , at the trial , the conviction must be taken to-be illegal , the reluctant determination of the Government to spate the lives of the prisoners , does not render that argument less applicable than it was before . r
We holdjt to be far more important that a great principle of criminal law should be preserved inviolate , than that it Bhould be sacrificed for the purpose of punishing guilty men , however great and des Ting of P unisl » aent their crimes may have been . When great principles of law are once violated for the punishment of the guilty , they will soon be found to present no insuperable obstacles to the destruction of the innocent . Thy evening organ of the Government which followed us in the announcement of the extension of the royal clemency to the prisoners on Saturday , thus alluded to the exertions and statements of the Morning Herald : —
We perceive , with less surprise than regret , that a Tory journal , which has laboured hard to prove that the legal objection taken to the proceedings by the learned counsel for the prisoners , was sufficient in itself , from the divided opinions of the judges respecting its validity , to establish a claim on the mercy of the Crown , now attributes the success of the numerous petitions to the Government in their £ *?" , *<> the persevering importunity of Sir F . Pollock , one of their counsel at their trial . Wejsay that the whole article of the Herald , w . wjaej&jjra . hwa ,. aladed , is ungenerous and injurious ; we also add that it is untrue . The Ministers of the Crown have had a mostDainful
dutv to perform , and one which demanded a most anxious deliberation before they could be justified in arriving at a conclusion . If the question had rested on mere private considerations , who ia there with the form and feelings of humanity who would not at once with promptitude and pleasure have given his voice for mercy t u Among the sacrifices demanded from those entrusted with the execution of the laws , the least is not that the personal feelings are not allowed a voice in their consideration of what is demanded from them in the faithful performance of their public duties . They have been able , after much deliberation , to perform that duty to the throne and to the country in a way which , while gratifying to their feelings as men , will not compromise their duty as ministers . " Who could have supposed , on reading the article
m the Globe , of which the above are exeracts , that a peremptory order for the execution of Frost , Williams , end Jones , was actually forwarded by LordNormaDby to Monmouth , on the 28 th ; who could have believed that Government was guilty of the indecency of having the i gallows to haDg those men actually constructed , while their case was under decision before the judges ; who coald have believed that they would have been executed on Satardayy tf it had not been for the Governor of the Gaol , whd obtained the delay of a few days ro complete his preparations for the awful occasion , that short respite being accompanied with tho order of which we have spoken , signed " Norraanby , " and fixing the execution positively for next Thursday morning 1
Let the Globe now obtain credit for the clemency of Ministers on this occasion as wett as it can . For our own , we think the crime of the prisoners very great , but we think that a Government which has exercised a most reckless and profligate'policy in encouraging political agitation and popular excitement for years past , ia responsible for the consequences . Sir Frederick Pollock ' s indefatigable exertions to save the lives of the prisoners are deserving of all praise . His and Mr . Kelly '« labours are highly honourable to tho bar of England . —Morning Herald .
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~ r~— ? . GREAT MEETING OF THE SOCIALISTS OF / ' MANCHESTER .
A meeting of the body called Socialists , was convened in Carpenters' Hall . Manchester , on Thursday evening last , to petition Parliament to " Enter into a full , fair , and open investigation of the principles , practices , objects ( and the means proposed for the accomplishment of these objects ) of the ' Universal Commuaitr-fipdtty dfTtational Religionists , ' and also that Parliament will be pleased to examine the venerable ' philanthropist and philosopher , Rober t Owen , Ew ., formerly of New Lanark , and the au ^ thoroei Missionariea and Agents' of the Society themqteQ ; " -Tw ineetipg was densely crowded , the immense Hall being crammed almost to suffocation
both in the area below and iu the gallery . Mr . Abel Hey wood was unanimously called to the chair , when he read a placard explanatory of the object of the meeting . He theu , went on to say that he considered this meeting was of a very important nature , but more particularly to the body called Socialists . Persecution for opinion had raged if they read the history of this country , and the history of other countries where Christianity had been introduced—persecution bad raged from the commencement of that system called Christianity , sometimes violently , at other times seemingly at a stand still , but at all times its only influence has been to extend the very opinions which were persecuted . ( Cheers . ) They were nowj he sunoosed . ttmno h *<*
again to those days when it raged witn considerable violence throughout this country . In 1824 , or about that time , Mr . Carlile and his followers were persecuted for the publication and sal © of works which were in opposition to the legally recognised religion in the laud . He did not suppose that when Mr . Carlile had beaten the Government , had completely put the energy and Iforce of Government at defiance —he did » or suppose th&t in twenty years , or less than that , a Twjnilar attempt would be made to put down , by force ^ he body called " Socialists . " Mr Carlile , therefore , at that time achieved considerable good ; he established the right of free discussion , the right of printing and publishing papers and tracts which were obnoxious to the . acknowledged relirion
of the land . He had established those rights which had gone on without interruption from that time to this either from the Government or from individuals . ( Cheers . ) The attack of the Bishop of Exeter ia the House of Lords was one of the most extraordinary statements that over issued even from the mouth of a Bishop . ( Laughter . ) He should put it to that meeting , which he considered friendly to the principles of Socialism , whether they individually did not think themselves a match for a Bishop —( cheers ) —and he should put in this way ; all those who thought they were not a match for a Bishop hold up their hands . ( Not one was hold up . ) Now all thoEe on the other hand who did think themselves a match for one of those mitred gentlemen hold up thwr hauds
. ( Hero every hand in the assembly was held up , which was . followed by loud cheers . ) He was sure , then , that with such heads and such hearts they would beat all the Bishops in the world if it came to a fair trial . ( Cheers . ) There was no fear of the spirit of persecution —( hear)—they had no occasion to anticipate that they would be persecuted bo long as they were determined to stand by each other in defence of their particular opinions . The Bishops must not suppose that they could throw off their opinions at any time—that they could act the part of "Jim Crow , " and " wheel about and turn about , " just to suit their pleasure . ( Hear , hear . ) No ; they would find that their principles would become deeply rooted in their minds from the conviction that those principles which they advocated were founded in truth . ( Cheers . ) He was satisfied that
when a body—no matter how small that body might be—took up cer tain principles which they considered to be truths , all the persecutions that could be invented could never put that body down . ( Cheers . ) Attempts had been made in various countries to stifle and put down public opinion by persecution ; but in all cases of which any record remained , those efforts though they might sneceed for a time , had , in the end , most signall y failed . ( Hear , near . ) To show them that the Bishop ' s attempts would fail , that they must fail , and that they could not do otherwise than fail , he would read them a portion of a letter which he had received from Newcastle-upon-Tyne that day ;— M Newcastle , Jan . 28 .
" Sir , —We will be much obliged if you will forward us a catalogue of all the books you have printed on Socialism , or that yon may have on hand , with tho prices , as wo have no doubt that there will be a much greater demand for them , owing to the late remarks reported in the newspapers to have been made by the Bishop , of Exeter in the House of Lords . " . He had received another letter from Edinburgh , similar in its request , and , for anything he knew , he might , the next day . expect one from " John
O'Groata , " so that the Bishop had actually become the best advertising medium which they could have in order to inform this and all other countries that such a system as that called Socialism did actually , exist . ( Cheers . ) They ought , therefore , to fe * l proud that the Bishop had honoured them with his especial notice ; and when Socialism became , the law of the land , and tho Bishops were oustedftpom their fat livings , they would , no doubt , rasember the good services of the Bishop of Exeter , ** d make him . a Bishop in the "New Moral Worlds ( Cheers
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and UORhter . ) He hoped they would then recollect mm , for be oaq done them more honour , and conferred npon them more real good , than all the rest of the Bishops and the clergy put together . ( Cheers . ) He would not detain them longer , but would at once introduce the speaker who was to move the first resolution . ( Cheers . ) Mr . James Smith was then called upon to move the first resolution . He said the resolution he was called upon to move ran thus : —
** That this meeting , being deeply impressed with the conviction that the princfple 3 f object , and practices of the Universal Community Society of Rational Religionists have been grossly misrepresented by the Bishop of Exeter in the House of Lords , last Friday evening , as a pretext for instituting persecution and coercion , to put down principles , which , if erroneous , should be met by fair argument and persuasion , instead of violence and intimidation , are of opinion that there can be no liberty of xonscienoe , no practical freedom of opioion , if this flagrant and partial attempt succeed , and wili oppose such proceedings by every legal and constitutional means in their power . " There was not the least doubt that the Bialumitf
fcxeterhad Wen imposed upon by some individual or individuals as to the nature and principles of Socialism . Those individuals , whoever they were , were doubtless very religions persons . They hati ' thl ? " ° J ? lK ° ? " * ;« W' » ye , morethan the fear of God , " for they had the slavery of the great mass of the people in their heartB . ( Hear hear . ) Having those objects in view , they had made use of the Bjshop of Exeter as a tool in the House of Lords to instigate the Ministers of the day to persecute a small body of men called Socialists Suppose that they proceeded with their persecution what would be the result of it ! When did persecution ever succeed in putting down the party persecuted » Never . At one time the Quakers were
persecuted , perhaps more than any other body of men in the world : and what had been the result ? The Government had persecuted them , fined them imprisoned them , and sold their property until they were actually ashamed of their own misconduct ; and what were the Quakers now ? A wealthy , intelligent , and numerous body , and almost indep endent of the Government . ( Cheers . ) As had been observed , they also persecuted Mr . Carlile , and the consequence of that persecution was , that thousands were made acquainted with Paine ' s u Age of Reason , " and other works , which they would never have known but for tho persecution . ( Cheers . ) Persecution , therefore , could not succeed . And why 1 Because it enlisted the sympathies of all
classes in favour of the parties persecuted , whether they were in the right or whether they were in the wrong . All Governments ought to have but one object in view , and that object was to-protect the rights and liberties of all classes of the community Then so long as they obeyed the law of the land , there was no necessity for any apprehension as to persecution ; but when they trespassed upon the laws persecution would come ; and in such case what would be the consequence ! Instead of having the sympathies of all classes they would have the sympathy of no class ; but , on the contrary , they would have the disapprobation of all , because they had , m that case , instigated to violence . Their course , therefore , was clearlmarked out to themand it
y , was to be peaceful but firm . Their objects were obieets of peace and charity to all men , nomatter what might be their religions creed . ( Cheers . ) What had been the object of the Bishop of Exeter and the high dominant Church partyin all ages I It had been persecution . Who was it that pereeeuted Galileo 1 It was the High Church partyin Spain . And who persecuted what were called heretic * in thiscountry ! Who was it that now wished to persecute the Socialists ! It was the High Church party , with the Bishop of Exeter and their Robys . and Stowells , and M'Neilcs , and such like men at their h « ad . ( Hear , hear . ) Those men were our enemies now , and what was the reason ? because the Socialists wished to see peace , moralitv . and
vir tue spread over the landfand that being the case , there would be no necessity for either Bishops , priests , or religionists of any sect . Why bo 1 Because they would all be religionists of one class : and what would be their religion ! Its first principle would be love to God , and their proof of that love would be loving his creatures . ( Hear , hear . ) This was the only true worship of the Divine Being . Where was the use of pretending to love God , and at the same time tamely seeing his creatures steeped to the lips in vice , poverty , misory , and crime , and instead of relieving them when we had the means of doing so , praying to God to do that which was an incumbent duty imposed upoa ourselves . ( Hear , hear , and applause . ) And was it for attemntimr tA
accomplish these objects , for wiehing wollto their fellow-creatures , that they were thus to be persecuted ! ( Hear , hear . ) Bat the Bishop had said that the Socialists decried all marriage , ff it were true that they did this , why then he would say that they deserved to beperseouted . And , for that very reason , that , if those statements were true , instead of being promoters of peace , morality , and virtue , they would be the promoters of vice , misery , and crime . < Hear , hear . ) Now he would appeal to them whether they had been the advocates of vice and crime ! ( No , no . ) For what purpose did they stand there ! Why , it was to put down vice and crime . How did they original ! In poverty and a bad education —( hear , hear )—and vujouia teaucate
• uom were o me rising generation , and to surround them with those circumstances w hich would make them good and virtuous characters . ( Lend cheering . ) Then were they tho advocates of vice and crime 1 By no means . There were too many advocates of immorality , under better guises , in the different towns of our kingdom , and such in many instances was the direct influence of many of our established institutions . ( Hear , hear . ) What was the licensing of public-houses for the retailing of ardent spirits ! Look at the vice and crime that had grown out of this practice ! It was too enormous even to think of . There had "been more vice and crime committed through intemp erance and drunkenness , and bad education , than from all other sources put together . Whv . tW « -
lore , should the Socialists be charged with advocating vice and crime ? They were the enemies of vice , and they would oppose it , la whatever form it appeared , let the Bishop of Exeter say and do what he would . Then did he think they were to be put down , because a few men chose to malign and misrepresent them ! No ; they would stand by their principles ; and their enemies , and the enemies of mankind , might persecute till they were tired . ( Cheers . ) What could they do ! They might bring them to the bar of their country!—and if they did so . they would have to convict them upon the testimony of good and honest men . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , where could men be found to convict them ! They had never violated the
laws or the country—they had never advocated vice and crime , and they never would advocate them . Let the m then be united , let them be firm together , as men determined to maintain their rights , to stand by those rights , and to perish by those rights , should occasion require . ( Cheers . ) And what would posterity say of them ? They would say-These men were good and virtuous men ; they acted as they ought to act . Whatever this Government might say , there was no doubt that the next generation would do them justice . When Carlile was persecuted , there were thousands of good men rose up to defend him : and what was his object ? It was merely the diffusion of particular opinions throughout the land . And what was the obiecfc of the
socialists ? It was the diffusion of those means throughout the land which would secure to every individual those things which human nature required . They wished to bring about a different arrangement , through the means of which working men could educate their children , clothe and feed them , and see them surrounded by virtuous circumstances . And jrere they to be persecuted for this ! Was this to be denominated " vice and erime !" ( Cheers . ) If it was , let him die advocating such vice and crime as this ! He repeated that their objects were peace and harmony to the whole human race , combined with a good education , surrounded with good circumstances : and the result of that would be that a good and virtuous character would be given to the rising generation which never yet had been given in any country under Heaven . ( Hear , hear . ) Why , then , should it not be given to them now ! It would be given when they could
make the working classes sufficiently enlightened to see that these plans would realise what thxir advocates maintained they would accomplish . ( Cheers . ) Until they had proved that to the satisfaction of the working classes they would never have their united aid ; but when they saw that these plans would release them from vice , and crime , and poverty , they would have their co-operation , and when they had that , then farewell to the persecutions of the Bishop of Exeter , farewell to the persecutions of the high Tory party , farewell to the persecutions of any Ministry , farewell to the persecutions of any Magistrates , or of any Police Officers . And why ! Because they would have with them the whole united voice of the people arrayed in peace and order , aad in accordance with the laws of the land ; and so long as they did that , there was no power on earth could successfully persecute them . ( Load cheers . ) He begged to move the resolution .
Mr . James Buxton seconded the resolution , bat as there were speakers present from a distance , he-would not detain them by making any remarks . Mr * Axsx&NBKft Cxmtoeli , of Glasgow ,. on& of the Social Missionaries , appeared in support of the resolution . He said , that a few weeks ago . h * had had the pleasure of addressing a similar assembl y in their Corn Exchange , relative to the petsecatiocs then Bet on foot against them by some of their local "luminaries , " but he had then no anticipation that he should again have to appear for & similar , though a higher , porpoee in that hall . It gladdened his heart to see so many beings moved to a common centre by the threatened persecution " for conscience sake ; " and their appearance there was an indication that they- were determined not to allow tho Bishop of Exeter , or aay other power on earth , to
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pnt down the nghtdf private judgment on matters of religion , otasr other subject whatever ^ ( Cheers . ) It wasihe bfrthrigbt o # atf human beings , what *** their class , the ^ colour , or their country , to bat * liberty of conscience-and that individual , whether 5 * ft" *! \ * Btthop ' s aloalc and mitre ? or whether he might wear a crown , or any other emblem of rehgipn or power , ought aot to be permitted totrample upon the natural rights of humaVbeing ^ ( Cheers . ) Many attempts fwtf been made fa our own day , and . nrow . own cotfntry , to stifle free inquiry ; - but he did hope that anjer * &d commenced m 1840 which would be famous hr the snnalTlrf ' history , when all should have full B 6 e * ty to speak their conscientious opinions and feefitos , ( Hear
near , near . ) it aad oeen already said flat they were much indebted to the Bishop of Exeter , fof noticing , them in the manner he had done . He for one was truly delighted with the notice they had received It was the very thing for which they bad been labouring both night and day for years past . * % * + had at last compelled these old wives to take s © tic » of them , and to give to the world the knowledge' « f the progress which Socialism was making . Instead of regretting what had occurred , they should tfe more steadily unite for the purpose of maintaining ^ the position which they had now taken up for th ' 9 purpose of opposirg legally , constitutionally , and morally , that attempt which had been made by th » Bishop of Exeter and those who had sunoorted him .
from Putting them down . ( Hear , hear . ) He had often been told by their Chartist friends that , without Universal Suffrage , the Socialists would not be permitted to go on with their Bcheme ; and probably some of their Chartist friends would now say , Aye , we told you what was coming to pass ;** but he had no hesitation in saying that the Bishop of Exeter , and all those who backed him in the career of persecution , would find that they had raised a nest of hornets'about their ears , w hich would not easily be put down . They had no eecret oaths by which they could bring them up for trial as they did the Dorchester Labourers . They had no intention ; of violently overturning the institutions of the eountry . and therefore spies could have no influence
on their proceedings . They had , then , not only g ained a stronger hold of the public mind , but they had a stronger standing in society ; and more than that , they had the sanction and protection of the British laws , for allowing them to proceed in their onward progress , a * much as any sect or partyin this country . ( Cheers . ) Probably this is not known to them all ; but it should bo known that their constitution or their Jaws , which contained the principles , the objects , and the means by which those principles and objects might be carried into practice , had been sanctioned by the Government agent for that purpose , and they now stood , as it ware , upon the very threshold of the law of the land . ( Cheers . ) Why , then , should the Bishop of Exeteriu hi
, s ignorance of what their intentions were , and of what they designed to bring about for the welfare of the human family—why should the Right Reverend Prelate accuse them as an illegal Society ! But , as had alread y been observed , he had no d « , ubt that the Bish » p had been deceived by those parties who had a license to deceive the publie , and when he came to possess a knowledge of their real principles , he would be ashamed of the attack he had made , and at once relinquish the object he had at present i « view . ( Cheers . ) But he hoped the Bishop of Exeter would not relinquish his intention of obtaining a Committee of inquiry as to what their , princi p les realhr were . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) This , bo far from doing harm .
would give them a greater power and status in society than they could have obtained under any other circumstances . They had been aiming for years past to accomplish the very thing which he hoped tho Bishop would be able to carry in the House of Lords . If he carried it , they would have a fair field and no favour ; and they would be in a position to prove to the world what good they -were calculated to bring about , without either the fear of a Biahdp or a devil , or the guns and bayonets and cannons by which they sought to support their rotten , tottering , and falling system . ( Cheere . ) It had been said by the Bishop that they were an illegal society , and the Act of Parliament to which the Learned Bishop referred in attempting to prove their illegality , was
one which might he considered obsolete , and which for many years had ceased to be put in practice . It wasauactof Parliament adopted many years ago , for the purpose of putting down secret correspondence polities ! societies , and under which those eminent men Muir , Palmer , and Gerald , who were an honour to the country which gave them birth , suffered the punishment of death . ( Hear , hear . ) But this society ( the Socialist ?) bad been careful in drawing up their rules and their constitutions , to avoid the rock on which their predecessors split . ( Hear , hear . > . They were aware of the existence of this Act of Parliament ; and to avoid giving offence even to this musty record , they had exercised the utmost vigilance ; for , although they had Branch Societies sixty in number , having regular
Committees to manago the branches in different parts of the country , having regular Secretaries at the Branch Societies corresponding with the general Secretary at the head Society ; yet they were onlyone Society , and constituted under the law authoristhera to institute different branches , and therefore thcywere not seperatr and distinct Societies communicating with each other , but one Society , to which the law could not possibly attach evil intentions . In this way , then , they had been enabled to avoid the rock on which the Bishop of Exeter had hoped they had foendered their vessel ( cheers . ) It was to be hoped that tnis first meeting in Manchester for the purpose of declaring emphatically—as expressed in the resolution—the right of private judgment .
would be followed up by other societies of different kinds , interposing in support of the prayer of their I petition ; for if a party , who wero said to be estabished by law , were to have the power , when they thought proper , of attacking any sector party on religious grounds , for conscientious convictions' sake , then there was no party secure ; for if the Socialists were put down to-day by the strong arm of the law , the New Connexion Methodists might be attacked to-morrow , the Old Connexion on tho third day , the Unitarians on the fourth , and there would be neither peace nor security for either person , property , or opinion . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) It was , therefore , not onl the interest , but the duty , not merely of the Socialist body , but it was the duty of every
man and woman who valued liberty of conscience , liberty of person , and everything that was dear to man , to rally round this standard of freedom which they were now determined to raise , and never to flinch from it until by the power and the influence of morality and philosophy they were enabled to put down those persecutors , under whatever name or mask they might appear , and shew to them how feeble and fruitless were their efforts to stifle free inquiry . ( Cheers . ) He had . heard it said that females had been induced , or rather seduced , in Liverpool , and probably in Manchester and other parts of the country , to sign petitions for the Eurpose of backing up the Bishop of Exeter in is present intentions ; and ho had no
hesitation in saying that the term " seduced" was properly applied to the very means which had been adopted to obtain their signatures to these petitions , for he was well aware that the parties , some of whose names had been given to them to-night , had so grossly misrepresented their principles and intentions , and tho natural consequences which they interpreted would follow from those principles and - intentions which they had so misrepresented , that the ladies of various parts of the kingdom had been , induced to subscribe their names to petitions to her Majesty praying the Government to put them down . Now he would suggest that those husbands who had wives , that those men who had sisters , or other female friends to whom they eould explain fully and
freely what those principles were , that there should ¦> be a petition from the females of Manchester and it » neighbourhood seconding the proposition which had been made to-night ; and thu * let the Bishop of Exeter , and the others that might support him , see that there were many females of honourable character , and of pure minds , who were determined to support their husbands , their fathers , and their brothers , in their . present holy cause . ( Cheers . ) As there were various other resolutions to come before them , and speakers to support them , it would be asking too much of them to hear him much longer upon the present resolution . All he would ask , in making a few remarks in eonolusion , was , that if signatures were to be attached to this petition , he
hoped they would be attached in time . If it was to go from that meeting merely with the name of the Chairman , as a petition emanating from that meeting , that they most cordiall y fsanetioned the proceedin g * by their united expression of feeling , give the lie to those calumnies which were so industriously circulated by the Bishop of Exeter in the House of Lords on Friday evening last . In conclusion , he would also observe , that this spirit of persecution whieh had exhibited itself in the present proceedings of their opponents , was another indication , if more were wanted , of the blind ignorance of those who . had the - charge of the souls of the people of this country . 4 Kear , hear . ) They might truly be called blind leaders of the blind , for no man who had any knowledge of his own nature no man who had any knowledge of external * nature , could by possibility seek to
put down , by violenoe or force of any kind , the honest expression of opinions emanating from his fellow men . Let him , therefore , inculcate upon them all , a » if it wero his last words , that they never should flinch , during the day of trial , from toe honest expression o £ their sentiments on all subjects , whether politioaV commercial , or religious ; for if they did so , thi ? would become hypocrites , as it were , merely for tfce > sako of pleasing Mr . This , Mr . That , or my Lord toe Other . If they did this , then farewell to md *» / peudence of expression ; farewell to \ hdependeaea of ' action , and for ever farewell to tha '; march of freedom which they all desired to , ceo encouraged . ( Cheers . ) He therefore roo ^ t Vjrdially supported , the resolution , which had beer ^ submitted to their consideration . ( Loud cheers . * . The resolution , was "~ then put by the chairman , and carried aoflKML applause . ^^^ fy ' stmm . ( Continued fc tur Eighth P ^^^] fe > L ^
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 8, 1840, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2670/page/7/
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