"The passage here referred to is in Exodus, and has no more to do with Jesus than with the ass he rode upon to Jerusalem. I go to state the case.

"The book of Exodus, in instituting the Jewish passover, in which they were to eat a he-lamb or a he-goat, says, chap. xii. ver. 5, Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall take it from the sheep or from the goats.' "The book, after stating some ceremonies to be used in killing and dressing it (for it was to be roasted, not boiled) says ver. 43, And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, this is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no stranger eat thereof; but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. A foreigner shall not eat thereof. In one house shall it be eaten thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh thereof abroad out of the house; neither shalt thou break a bone thereof.'

"We here see that the case as it stands in Exodus is a ceremony and not a prophecy, and totally unconnected with Jesus's bones, or any part of him.

"John having thus filled up the measure of apostolic fable, concludes his book with something that beats all fable; for he says at the last verse, And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they should be written, every one, suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.'

"This is what in vulgar life is called a thumper; that is, not only a lie, but a lie beyond the line of possibility; besides which it is an absurdity, for if they should be written in the world, the world would contain them.-Here ends the examination of the passages called prophecies."

I have now, Gentlemen, addressed you upon all the necessary topics, and I trust that my defence has been an efficient one. I must intreat you, Gentlemen, to banish from your minds all previous impression, and compare well the Bishop) was worthy of such foundations. There were some stones, says he, of the whitest marble, forty-five cubits long, five cubits high, and six cubits broad. These are the dimensions this Bishop has given, which in measure of twelve inches to a foot, is 78 feet, 9 inches long, 10 feet 6 inches broad, and 8 feet 3 inches thick, and contains 7,234 cubic feet. I now go to demonstrate the imposition of this Bishop

A cubic foot of water weighs sixty-two pounds and a half.-The specific gravity of marble to water is as 2 is to one. The weight therefore of a cubic foot of marble is 156 pounds, which, multiplied by 7,234, the number of cubic feet in one of those stones, makes the weight of it to be 1,128,504 pounds, which is 503 tons. Allowing then a horse to draw about half a ton, it will require a thousand horses to draw one such stone on the ground; how then were they to be lifted into the building by human hands?

The Bishop may talk of faith removing mountains, but all the faith of all the bishops that ever lived could not remove one of those stones, and their bodily strength given in.

This Bishop also tells of great guns used by the Turks at the taking of Constantinople, one of which, he says, was drawn by seventy yoke of oxen, and by two thousand men.-Vol. 3, p. 117.

The weight of a cannon that carries a ball of 48 pounds, which is the largest cannon that are cast, weighs 8,000 pounds, about three tons and a half, and may be drawn by three yoke of oxen. Any body may now calculate what the weight of the Bishop's great gun must be, that required seventy yoke of oxen to draw it. This Bishop beats Gulliver.

When men give up the use of the divine gift of reason in writing on any subject, be it religious or any thing else, there are no bounds to their extravagance, no limit to their absurdities.

The three volumes which this Bishop has written on what he calls the prophecies, contain above 1,200 pages, and he says in vol. 3, p. 117, " I have studied brevity." This is as marvellous as the Bishop's great gun.

article selected for prosecution with my defence. Those terrible but unmeaning words which form the weapon of the bigot and the hypocrite should not be permitted to deface the beauty of justice, and I call upon you, Gentlemen, to discard them from your minds, and judge me upon the laws, the just laws of the country. Forget not the liberality of Ethelbert to St. Augustine and his followers. You, Gentlemen, are judges of the law as well as of the fact; and I trust, that if his Lordship should even state that I have committed an offence against the laws, you will not draw your conclusions from that assertion, for we have lately seen many improper and indecent leanings from the Bench to support prosecutions of this kind. You, Gentlemen, are my judges, and I am a forlorn female, with no other friend. or relative than an imprisoned brother, to whom I can look for support or protection; but I feel a consolation that I have not offended the known laws of my country; and if your minds are not acted upon by the base and disgusting clamours of the day about blasphemy, and if you sit in judgment upon me as honest jurors, I have a full reliance on your honour and integrity to set me free from the chains which are preparing for me.

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ON the 30th December, 1991, Mr. Murray, Secretary to the Con

stitutional Association, attended at Guildhall, and obtained a Warrant from the Sitting Magistrate, Alderman Birch, against a shopman of Mr. Carlile's, which was put into the hands of Martin, the officer, who in less than half an hour returned with his prisoner.

The Warrant that had been granted, was read. It was against a man whose person was well known, but whose name was unknown, ordering that he should be brought up to answer such matters as should be preferred against him by Robert Duke, of Glover's Hatch, for having sold to him, on the 29th of December last, a certain blasphemous and seditious Libel, entitled "An Address to the Reformers," stated to contain certain passages that were seditious and blasphemous libels, of and concerning the Government and the Religion of this country, and on which verdicts had been found.

Witness.-Robert Duke said he was a yeoman, residing at Glover's Hatch, New Cut; that he was of no profession; that he went on Saturday to Carlile's shop and asked for an "Address to the Reformers" of June 24. Prisoner told him, that he had not one at that time, but if he would call in the evening he should have one; he called and got one, for which he gave 6d., and the Character of a Priest, for which he gave 2d., and the book now before the Court is the book he then bought.

Alderman Birch, before he went further, desired to read the Address in question, of the contents of which he was utterly ignorant. Mr. Murray pointed out some objectionable passages, which were read by Alderman Birch.

Mr. Payne.-Prisoner, you are here described as a person well known, but whose name is unknown, what is your name, or do you wish to tell it?

Prisoner. I would rather, if you please, decline telling my name at present.

Mr. Payne. You are, by the practice of this Justice Room, entitled to bail, yourself in 401. and two sureties in 201. each; but that you may not be misled, I inform you, you must give your name, before bail can be taken for you.

Alderman Birch examined Duke strictly, as to the identity of the prisoner, who stood committed in default of bail.

OLD BAILEY, Jan. 12, 1822.

At 5 o'clock, four shopmen of Mr. Carlile were put to the bar to plead to the indictments found against them by the Grand Jury, Common Serjeant Knowles, Aldermen Wood and Waithman, on the Bench. The first name called by the Clerk of Arraigns was Wm. Vamplew, who came to the bar. The indictment was then read over to him in the following manner: -You, Wm. Vamplew, stand indicted, that you, on the 29th of December last, in the parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, did, unlawfully and wickedly publish, or cause to be published, a certain scandalous, impious, profane, blasphemous, wicked, and se ditious libel, of and concerning the Christian religion, and Holy Scriptures, and of and concerning our Sovereign Lord the King,