mous qualities, place him in the very first rank of Princes, who have adorned and dignified their exalted stations; and who, ever since the sceptre of power was lodged in his hands, has swayed it with so much honour to himself, such glory to his country, and such inestimable advantage to those who have the happiness to live under his mild and auspicious rule and government."

"(Note to Mock-Majesty astride upon an ass')

"Enter Jerusalem on an ass,
Then on the stage act Columbine ;
Attend with Bergami at mass,
Then to St Paul's-oh! Caroline ! ! !"

Mr Cross got through the printed sermon in about an hour's time.

Mr Blacow next read a speech in manuscript, which occupied about two hours and a half. The Jury having heard the whole of that discourse, he would now proceed to state his motives, and then he would conclude with some reflections. He entered on this subject with great reluctance, owing to an event so awful and sudden as the Queen's death. That event ought to have hushed all angry feelings. But Mr Brougham was the first to disturb her ashes. Alas, alas! On that party death made no impression. The malignant feelings which were brooding in their hearts vegetated in their breasts, even beneath the cypress. The hydra of faction had reared its terrific head on the day of her funeral. That disclosed the unparalleled malignity and atrocity of the designs they had enter tained. Her Counsel were determined to carry their vindictive feelings be yond the tomb. Her mantle was on their heads, and they were endeavouring to raise trophies on her tomb. This was a posthumous effort of their malice; nothing but the lowest and most malignant feelings of revenge could have drawn him into this Court. Blasphemy and sedition had raised themselves beneath her banner; treason itself had been distilled from her

pen. Previously to her trial, he had always felt the warmest interest in her favour, and supposed that it was only levities and indiscretions that were brought to the country with velocipede celerity on the wings of the wind. Favoured as she had been by the late King, and widowed as she had been from the first years she was in this country, he had felt great interest in her. He felt for her perhaps with greater sincerity than her vaunted professional champions. But when the foul, filthy, and abominable charges against her were established

Mr Brougham.-I should not wish unnecessarily to interfere, and I have stayed long before I offered any interruption; but surely this is not to be endured.

Mr Justice Holroyd.-No evidence would be admitted of what you assert, if you could produce it; and we must not, therefore, hear assertions resorted to.

Mr Blacow. When the foul and filthy

Mr Brougham-He is just repeating the very terms.

Mr Justice Holroyd.—No, sir, you must not use such language. I am sorry to interrupt you on your de fence, but I cannot in law hear such assertions.

Mr Blacow. Surely I may shew what my motives were.

Mr Justice Holroyd.-You cannot make assertions of guilt, when proof would not be admitted. You may state your own opinion and belief.

Mr Blacow. This is my opinion. Mr Justice Holroyd.-But you may not prove your opinion from newspapers, or other sources. The law will not allow it.

Mr Blacow. The highest court of law tried the question, and gave a ver◄ dict.

Mr Justice Holroyd. We don't legally know what was done there.

Mr Blacow. It appeared the high est verdict that could be given.

Mr Brougham.-There was no verdict.,

Mr Blacow. No ingenuity could pervert the evidence of her own witnesses; and then he felt indignation and disgust, in place of pity and respect. Then there was a mock procession in the place he lived in. The howling tempest desolated the land. Then, and not till then, it was that he took up his pen. Every man who had a spark of loyalty, a grain of religion, a particle of affection for his country, was bound to arrest the progress of the desolating storm. He was satisfied that it was his duty to bring all the energies of the pulpit to bear upon it. Party politics were far beneath their notice, but there were Christian politics which had a strict claim on their attention. (Here the defendant quoted the several passages of Scripture that are usually applied to politics.) With all the systems of dissenters, disloyalty and disaffection were interwoven ; and if they were not checked, they would soon revive in an Oliverian dynasty.Having made these remarks, he would go on next to shew, that the symptoms which had preceded the French Revolution had begun to appear in this country when he preached his sermon. "When bad men conspire, good men must combine." In their ranks he took his stand against the raging waves, and the blood-hounds, and 6000 other figurative horrors. It was a cool and deliberate act he did. He had yet to learn the head and front of his offending. He had supported the sacred shield of protection, the banner of the Sovereign, against the standard of anarchy, tumult, and rebellion. If the moral desolation had not been turned by the pen, where would the diadem, where the stars of nobility, where the mitres have been? The democratic mob, under the many-headed monster,

the majesty of the people, would have triumphed. "Thank God, who gave me courage to do my duty in affliction," &c. (quoting the fine peroration of Burke to the electors of Bristol), "this will be my consolation." If they would lend an ear to the faction which brought him there, to the advocate who had had the audacity to threaten the Peers

Mr Justice Holroyd.—That is quite irregular.

Mr Blacow. It was so reported in the newspapers.

Mr Brougham.-If it was, it was most falsely reported; but it never was so reported.

Mr Blacow. It was not contradicted; and it was on the lips of every radical. Mr Justice Holroyd.-You cannot assume it as a fact.

Mr Blacow next spoke of " such rep tiles as Wood and Waithman, who had talent only to weigh a drug or measure a yard of tape-regular traders in guile and deception."

Mr Justice Holroyd.-If you go on so, I must stop you.

Mr Blacow. Then I cannot go on. Mr Justice Holroyd.-No slanders are to be repeated here.

Mr Blacow. As public men? Mr Justice Holroyd.-Not on another transaction.

Mr Blacow then said, Mr Brougham had been guilty of a moral degradation, which he hoped would never again be seen at the bar. But the good and great old Chancellor nobly replied to him, "Fiat justitia ruat cœlum;" he

was like a venerable oak in his native soil. Mr Brougham had endeavoured to intimidate by his threats, when he could not cajole by his sophistry. That was the practice of his ferocious school. He borrowed the word from Mr Creevey, of Whig-radical notoriety-for Liverpool had the honour of giving that statesman birth. (The Reverend Defendant again plunged in

self, for he attacked even Mr Brougham, whose malignity now rankled in the gloomy recesses of his vengeful heart; but they would deliver him (Mr Blacow) from his merciless grasp, and let him and John Bull fight it out. John Bull, by interrogatories, put crossgrained questions. Of the purity of Mr Brougham's family he knew nothing; but the Duke of Wellington said to the mob, " May all your wives be like the Queen." If the cap fitted Mr Brougham, he might take it.

Mr Justice Holroyd.-It is quite ir regular.

Mr Blacow.But the letter he alluded to was in the Courier, which prided itself on decorous and gentlemanly language, and which admitted nothing low or scandalous. He had been happy to borrow from its well attempted page. He mentioned this to shew that there were some other reasons for fixing Mr Brougham's legal harpoon in him. He had probed the apple of his eye when he had praised the King's ministers. Hone was properly acquitted, because he had not had the intention for which he was prosecuted; so ought he (Mr Blacow) to be now acquitted.

Mr Brougham.-It is quite untrue that you alone are selected. Bills are found by the Grand Jury against others, and it is well known.

Mr Blacow. Before God, he solemnly swore he was not guilty of the charge. The Common Council of London was a viperous brood, a nest of pestilential radicals, and mountebank dealers in disloyalty. When they talk. ed of "her eminent virtues," the very stones of this house would start from their beds and speak. (Again he struggled to go into the evidence before the Lords, but after much petulant resist ance to the authority of the Court, he was restrained.) Who instigated this trial? Was it Alderman Wood-Billy Austin or that paragon of wit, and

wisdom, and fine writing, Lady Hood?

the Escort Committee?—or the Common Council? No, it was the Whig-Radicals, because he had "confounded their politics, and frustrated their knavish tricks." If a London Jury acquitted Hone, surely a Lancaster Jury would acquit him (Blacow.) The Queen left nothing in her will to Alderman Wood; and it was said that Mr Brougham had said of him, that except the identical animal who eats thistle, there was not a more stupid animal; from which he supposed he called him Absolute Wisdom.

Mr Brougham. There is not a syl. lable of truth in that.

Mr Blacow was very glad to hear

it. The Whigs in office were always tyrants; out of office always traitors. They were as ready to cast off the Queen when she should have answered their purposes, as that old crazy-headed goat Lord Erskine, to cast off his concubine.

Mr Brougham.-O! O! There's a minister of the gospel!

Mr Blacow then eulogised the Constitutional Association, the joyous acclamations of the Irish, and poured forth a fervent prayer for every earthly and eternal blessing to George IV.

Mr Justice Holroyd, in the most guarded and temperate language, gave his opinion that it was a libel. The epithets were most abusive and derogatory. Could he be ignorant that he was traducing and vilifying the Queen? By a particular statute they were to judge whether the defendant was guilty. As a clergyman of the church of Eng. land, holding himself out as very loyal and very desirous of the preservation of the state, he gave his opinion of the Queen's guilt, left not the people to their own reflections, and thus he dis turbed the peace. But it was for them to judge whether it was a libel or not. They were to lay out of their minds all other considerations, and to form

their own opinion respecting the question of the Queen's guilt or innocence. The only question was, whether the publication tended to degrade the Queen, to traduce her, and was published with intent to vilify her, and to break the peace. In his opinion it was a libel.

The Jury retired for a quarter of an hour, and found a verdict of Guilty.

Court of King's Bench, Nov. 26.

Mr Blacow was brought up to reverse judgment. He declined reading an affidavit, or saying any thing in mi tigation of punishment.

Mr Brougham.-I really feel it unnecessary to address many words to your Lordships. You have heard the libel read, of which the defendant has been convicted; but your Lordships have not heard the defence which he made for himself upon his trial; and I will venture to say, that there never was in this country exhibited a scene so indecorous, so degrading to the character of a man, and more especially to the character of a clergyman-a scene distinguished by the utterance of such base and foul calumnies.

Mr Justice Best.-This is not repeated on the notes which have been read to the Court.

Mr Brougham. For that very reason I wish to inform your Lordships of what did actually occur, and I appeal to the learned Judge by whom the case was tried, with great effect, whether he ever witnessed a more disgraceful exhibition in a court of justice. As to the libel itself, it is sufficient for me, in praying the judgment of the Court, to request your Lordships' attention to the slanders-the vile, gross, and indecent slanders, of which that libel is composed, and which were delivered by a clergyman of the church of England from the pulpit, in his vocation of Minister of the Gospel-as well as to the fact, that it is not the

first time of this man having been convicted of a similar offence.

Mr Justice Best.-Have you any af. fidavit to this?

Mr Brougham.-I have, my lord. The sentence of the Court will be found upon its files, and I have an affidavit to prove that the defendant is the person who was convicted, and received that sentence. If the Court shall think fit I will put it in. (An affidavit was handed in.)

Mr Justice Best.-This affidavit should have been read before, in order to afford the defendant an opportunity of reply.

Mr Brougham.-I have not the smallest objection that the defendant should be permitted to reply.

The Chief-Justice.-In point of regularity, this affidavit ought to have been read before the defendant was called upon. The affidavits on both sides should be read in the first instance. Perhaps it is hardly worth while reading this affidavit.

(The affidavit was withdrawn.)

Mr Brougham then made a short speech in aggravation of punishment.

Mr Justice Bayley proceeded to pass sentence on the defendant in the following words:" It is my painful duty to be called upon to pass on you, the Reverend Richard Blacow, a clergyman of the church of England, the sentence of this Court for a libel, first uttered by you in your capacity of a clergyman, in a place set apart for very different purposes, and afterwards printed and published as part of a sermon preached in the church of St Mark. It is in itself a very great evil, that a place so sacred should be perverted to such purposes. It ought to have been with very different feelings that the minds of those who attended should have been impressed, nor should you, upon so solemn an occasion, have mingled with Christian instruction, any observations upon living characters.