be found equally as faise, paltry, &|| became so apprehensive of lurs absurd, as the Old. turning Roman Catholic, that he “Now had the news of salvation || prevailed upon a worthy clergyman by Jesus Christ been inscribed on of the Church of England to write the face of the sun and moon. into him on the subject; and this charac ers that all rations wowa wohy man desired him not to have understood, the whole earth || mind any thing these people should had known it in 24 hours, and ali nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost 2 thousand years since as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, nol a twintieth part of the people of the earth Anow any thing of it; and among those who do, the wiser furt do not believe it.

"I have now reader gone thro' all the pussuges called prophecies of

Jesus Christ, and sheten there is no st:ch thing.

THOMAS PAINE" The case being closed on the part of the prosecution,

Lord Ellenboroug! called upon the defendant to proceed with his defence

say to him, but to study the Bible and to make it the guide of his conduct. He did so, but upon reading it with attention, he found it so full of comradictions and gross absurdities, that he be gẩn to.

Lord Chenborough interrupted the defendant observing, that he had already read sufficient to show he tendency of the paper he was

toch reading-it was only an ag

procorded to

gravatio of his offence, and his
Lordship w.und not suffer be
Coristian reg.0 to be levied at
a court of Jusuce.
The defende
read his defony e. He quoted se-
veral passages from the book of
Esdras.
15. aful for writings of the E-
vangeists, troeng the progress of
the Jews from their earliest ages
to the Babylon's a capuvity; from
w ich ac ad proceeded to argue
that the God of the Jews was Mais
or the God of war. a cruel and an-
dictive deity, who could not, there
fore, according to the prophets,
be the Father of Jesus Christ, nor
the same God worshipped by the
Christians, when~-

The defendant then addressing his Lordship and the jury, reading from a paper, stated, that provi dence had not gifted him with the powers of oratory, nor was he designed for the pulpit or the bar, but he had, nevertheless, got a good education. He had been six years at a bourding school,from thence he went to the colege of the Jesuits, at St. On ai's, where that great an Mi. Burke, receiv ed his education at the same time. At that period the Jesuits had been expeiled, but were succeeded by a sect, if possible more bigpot-sian religion reviled in such a ed and intolerent, and his father manner.

Lord Ellenborough again inter'upted him,&'old him he must not proceed in that manner. He could not sit there and hear the Cmis

The defendant said, be conceived that every part of this paper formed a part of his defence.

H's Lordship hea told him he should give him time to look it over, and desired ho would omit those passages which were oftensive.

laws of his country; this book had been in circulation all over to☎ Continent for several years, where the people were more bigotted, and attached to their religion than in this country, which boasted so much of its liberty. The book had also been in circulation in

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Afer a short pause, Lord Ellen-Ainetica for six or seven years borough observed, that, upon consideration, he thought the ends of public justice wou'd be best answered, by permitting him to read every line of it; but if he did, he must abide the consequences.

The defendant then proceeded to read the remainder of his defence which contained nothing but the most abominable blasphemies against the christian religion; he denied the Divinity or even the existence of Jesus Christ, and the infattibility of the Apostles or E In conclusion range lic writers he defended the doctrines of Paine, alleging, that his books were as fair in point of language and arg ument, as any bool s could be; and so far from being written against religion, be did not inedict any sect, but only sought the truth, that these writings were only eviied by the priests, who were afraid of loosing their good livings: and, if they must preach, he advised them to preach something that could be understood, and confile themselves to preaching upoč moral good, and the social duties, to abain from theoligical controversies, which only tended to encourage methodism. He was far from wishing to offend against the

before he sent for it; but if the e
was any thing bad in it, or if ary
lawyer or other gentleman' could
convince him that it was impro-
pe, he should not have published
it.. He contended for the right
of discussing religious topics, as
tending to narrow the spirit, of
bigotry and intolerence while, on
the other hand, any restraint put
upon it only tended to encourage
both. He next adverted to the
persecution against himself-he
book had been only two days pub-
lished, when a p osecution was
He
commenced against him.
had alreally suffered under vaci-
ous prosecutions; he had been
fifteen months in confinement at
one time; his property had been
destroyed by fire, and he had suf-
fered considerable losses in other
respects. He could not see that
any punishment was applicable to
his case-all such puni-himent
was against the interests of society
and against religion itself. Hay-
ing thus concluded, he attempted
to present the jury with twelvo
copies of the publication. Bu,
upon the suggestions of one of the
council for the prosecution, Lord
Ellenborough ordered his officer
to take them into his custody.

Ques. Wherein consisteth that him, disease to ment him, execu case of conscience.

which, among other things, was be.
queathed to me, I am persuaded the old
man had not half the good nature of
Toby Shandy. I find, in the old chest.
several bundles of papers folded up in
the neatest manner-some are super-
scribed-Miseries of human life, others
are-but, Sir, I feel myself under no
obligations to inform you upon what un
cle Job choose to write. But this I will
say-he was a man of many cogitations
for I have been reading constantly, for
three weeks, the papers left in his eld
chest, but have not laid my hands on
more than one third of them From the
nature of the subjects and the quantity
of matter, I conclude that uncle Job
must have begun to note down his cogi.
tations very early in life. He, no doubt,
meant to have burnt the greater part of
the papers before the old chest should
come into my hands: but death, in tak·
ing him off suddenly, has put into my
hands the whole of his writ en cogita-
tions. Should I not be taken off so sud.
denly and unexpected as he was, I may
inform you of the contents of the old
chest. The first which I read was on
the miseries of human life. I will ex-
tract a few of them.

Miseries of human life.

Thinking ourselves possessed of a superbundant share of merit, but the optics of the world, not keen enough to discover it.

Having the fruit above and water be low, but like Tantalus, not permitted to partake of it.

To hear one who is as ugly as sin, and superficial as Simon Shallow, sneeringly observe, that others are des titute of beauty and good information.

the whim whams and likes and dislikes
of a female child in her teens.

Being in a hurry, but obliged, thro'
politeness, to hear a man's story out-
when he's so particular in telling you-

of the mold warp and the art, And of a dragon and a finless fish, A clip-wing'd griffin, and a moulten

raven,

A couching lion, and a ramping rat,
Or any other skimble skamble stuff."

Being in debt, and not having Capt.
Cash attached to you.

Being without money, and then sa luted thus-Good morning, Sir-can money which

you pay me that

you owe

Ayamonte, May 25. The misery and famine at Seville are Wheat is at horrible in the extreme

To hear a person, puffed up with his 32 dollars the fenega (20s. per bushel.) In various streets carts are placed to own conseence, making sneqnering and contemptuous observations concerning carry off those who are constantly falothers, and then christen such conduct ling down through debility. It is alan said there is a contagious disorder,which with the name of cander. To be obliged to be silent and hear finishes the patient in four days.

Found all those threatning evils fast in. Its current stopp'd, it overilows is

To increase the commerce of the public If not redress'd they must for war pre

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This silenc'd all complaint, and taught

the state,

What was to be expected from the great
As some smooth rivulet of feeble force
Glides calm and placid in its wonted

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