as the idol of their worship. They have elevated the Goddess of Lust on the pedestal of shame, an object of all others the most congenial to their taste, the most deserving of their homage, the most worthy of their adoration. After exhibiting her claims to their favour in two distant quarters of the globe, after compassing sea and land with her guilty paramour to gratify to the full her impure desires, and even polluting the Holy Sepulchre itself with her presence, to which she was carried in mock majesty astride upon an ass, she returned to this hallowed soil so hardened in sin, so bronzed with infamy, so callous to every feeling of decency or of shame, as to go on Sunday last"

Here, gentlemen, the reverend preacher alluded, not to the public procession to St. Paul's to return thanks, or to other processions which might, partly at least be considered as political, but to her late Majesty's humble, unaffected, pious devotion in the church of Hammersmith.

-"to go on Sunday last, clothed in the mantle of adultery, to kneel down at the altar of that God who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity,' when she ought rather to have stood barefoot in the aisle, covered with a sheet as white as 'unsunned snow,' doing penance for her sins. Till this had been done, I would never have defiled my hands by placing the sacred symbols in hers and this she would have been compelled to do in those good old days when church discipline was in its pristine vigour and activity."

Gentlemen, the author of this libel is a minister of the Gospel. The libel is a sermon, the act of publication was preaching the place was his church; the day was the sabbath ;-the audience was his congregation. Far be it from me to treat lightly that office of which he wears the outward vestments, and which he by his conduct profanes. A pious, humble, inoffensive charitable minister of the Gospel of peace is duly entitled to the tribute of affection and respect which is ever cheerfully bestowed. But I know no title to our affection or veneration which is possessed by a meddling, intriguing, turbulent priest, even when he chooses to separate his sacred office from his profane acts; but far less when he mixes up both togetherwhen he refrains not from entering the sanctuary with calumny-when he not only invades the sacred circle of domestic life with the torch of slander, but enters the hallowed threshold of the temple, and casts it flaming on the altar-when he pollutes with rank calumnies the air which he especially is bound to preserve holy and pure-when he makes the worship of God the means of injuring his neighbour, and polluting the flock committed to his care. Of the defendant's motives I say nothing. I care not what they were; for innocent they could not be. I care not whether he wished to pay court to some patron to look up to the bounty of power, or whether it was mere mischief and wickedness, or whether it was a union of interest with spite. But be his motives of a darker or lighter shade,

innocent they cannot have been; and unless the passage I have read proceeded from innocency, it would be a libel on you to doubt that you will find it a libel. Of the illustrious and unfortunate individual who was the object of this attack, I forbear to speak. She is now removed from such low strife, and there is an end, with respect to her, of I cannot say checquered, for her life was one continued course of injustice, oppression, and animosity from all who either held or looked up to-all who either possessed or courted emolument and aggrandizement ;-but the grave has closed over her unrelenting persecutions. Unrelenting I may well call them, for they have not spared her ashes. The evil passions which beset her steps in life have not ceased to pursue her memory, and with a resentment more implacable than death. But it is yours to vindicate the insulted laws of your country. If your verdict will have no effect on the defendant, if he still go on unrepenting and unabashed, it will at least teach others or deter them from violating the decency of the law. [It is impossible to convey an idea of the powerful solemnity of this address, or the irresistible impression it made on all who heard it.]

Mr. Thomas Burgland Johnson.-I am a printer at Liverpool. Mr. Blacow applied to me for That was the sermon now printing of his sermon. handed to me. During the time the printing was going on I saw him repeatedly.. I delivered to him the proof sheets. I have one in my custody.

It contains a few marks made by him. The word "crisis" is altered to "juncture." It was delivered back with that alteration to me by Mr. Blacow. The sermon was afterwards printed by me. Mr. Blacow paid me for the printing.

By Mr. Blacow.-I do not know the instigators of this prosecution. I don't know at whose expense it is carried on. I know Mr. Brougham. He offered himself a candidate for Liverpool some years ago.

Mr. Justice Holroyd.-What has that to do with your defence?

Mr. Blacow. I wish to show that Mr. Brougham is connected with those in Liverpool who instigated the prosecution.

Mr. Justice Holroyd.-That is immaterial.

Mr. Blacow bowed with great submission, and said he would do nothing which his lordship thought irregular.

Cross-examination continued.-Mr. Brougham is a member of the Concentric Society. I know Egerton Smith, the editor of the Liverpool Mercury, perfectly well. I have known him nine or ten years. His character and principles are perfectly well known to me.

Mr. Justice Holroyd.-That can have nothing to do with your defence.

Mr. Blacow.-My Lord, I wish to show the spirit of the party in Liverpool with whom Mr. Brougham is connected.

Mr. Justice Holroyd.-If I allowed you to go

into such inquiries, I should be guilty of perverting all justice.

Mr. Blacow. My lord, I shall ask nothing which your lordship shall think irregular or improper.

Cross-examination continued.-When I was engaged in printing the sermon, you undoubtedly had frequent conversations with me respecting its principles and tendeucy. The substance of your motives, as you stated them, was to expose the views of the Whigs and Radicals. You never showed bitterness or hostility towards the Queen on these occasions. You often expressed your regret that she had connected herself with a desperate faction in the state. You often lamented the danger to which the country was exposed from the intrigues of that faction, and the dread of its consequences. There was a procession in Liverpool a few days before your sermon was preached, in honour of what was called the Queen's triumphant acquittal. I was not near the procession, I cannot testify whether there was confusion and uproar in consequence.

Thomas Coglan.-I was present at the preaching of the sermon on the 26th of November, 1820, in St. Mark's. It was a Sunday evening's discourse. There was a numerous audience. I believe it is the church in which Mr. Blacow usually preaches. I never heard him but then. I took notes. I have not a note beginning with the term, "cowardly." I recollect the term being used. I have a note