impressive; but before such an unmerciful sentence as this, which it is now our duty to record, it was insulting to hu manity, and to the already harrassed feelings of Mr. Carlile. The wisdom of a Judge should have taught him better; but in this case the wigs and the blocks that filled them were made nearly of the same materials.

We cannot pass over the miserable speech of Mr. Denman, without remarking that in our opinion he did not do his duty by his client. It was necessary he should say something, as Counsel, for his retaining fee; but for fear his speech might cause any impression upon the Court, he concludes with the following very laconic sentence: "This is the argument which I am instructed to urge." We should like to know for what purpose it was that Mr. Denman was employed. We should think he was employed to counsel rather than be counselled. He was retained to advise, and yet he says he is instructed: we really believe few men want instruction more.

Mr. Carlile's sentence is now before the Public, and as far as in the power of that Public, his punishment should be alleviated. His fine is heavy: but we most ardently hope that a Subscription will be immediately entered into, to defray all his pecuniary charges. He has risked much, and laboured hard for the Public, and that Public should reward him according to his deserts. We are confident that on this occasion the native spirit of Englishmen will display itself; their unrivalled spirit of generosity will be displayed in its fullest lustre, and Mr. Carlile will bear with him to his prison the satisfaction of ranking pre-eminently high in the estimation of his countrymen; the gratification of knowing that his services are stamped in the minds of a British Public according to their value.

We have just heard that the shop of Mr. Carlile has been forcibly shut up, and his warehouses padlocked!!! Gracious heavens! Are there no laws or charters in the country, or must those tyrants lord it with barefaced impunity, over the liberties of Englishmen. Christianity ! Christianity! We spurn the word. Charles Phillips may preach and preach-let the winds listen-we'll have none of it. Away with the blasphemous ribaldry of a junto of profligate villains, who can afford out of their plunder to pay an itinerant orator, to preach forth a villainous system of Religious Tyranny in fine words. Where will these things end? We firmly believe, not until they are quenched in the blood of the sanctified wretches, who profit by the imposition. We know of no law to authorise such a proceeding, nor indeed of any precedent, unless our sapient

Judges may adduce the case of Wolfe and Co. who were convicted of swindling. These Gentry are never at a loss for a precedent, when the precedent will serve the turn of Ministry. There is in their favorite book, the Testament, one prayer which we think appropriate to them, and we therefore repeat it with heartfelt satisfaction. May they SOON rest in peace.—Amen."

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THE BONES OF THOMAS PAINE ON THEIR WAY TO ENGLAND.

CHEERLESS and dreary has been the path which we have hitherto trodden-cheerless and dreary is the prospect which is opening to our view: but however cheerless and however dreary that path may be, the adventurous spirit of independence will yet toil on, in hopes of at length accomplishing the object of its ambition-of reaching the haven of all its wishes-Civil and Religious Liberty. They who have never felt the galling chains of slavery, are strangers to all the sweets of freedom. The bitterest taunt to the heart of a patriot is to tell him that his country (that country for which he would drain his dearest veins) is in abject slavery. Yet to such taunts as these must Englishmen submit, however harrowing to their feelings as freemen, and as men whose deeds of valour in every quarter of the globe has been almost unrivalled..

An American Paper, in commenting on the fact that Mr. Cobbett is bringing the bones of the immortal Thomas Paine to be interred in the land which gave him birth, says something to the following purport: We hope it is not true: we hope Mr. Cobbett has not been guilty of such sacrilege, as to disturb the bones of the greatest advocate for freedom this world ever produced: we hope he will not remove them from where he himself willed they should be buried, for the purpose of shipping them from that country which owes to him her liberty. We hope he will not bear away the bones of a patriot from a land of freemen to a land of SLAVES."

Such are we designated by the Americans. It is right, however, that the bones of Paine should be interred in England, even though England should be blind to his merits as a patriot and a philosopher, Paine has done more towards restoring happiness to England, than all the writers which England could ever boast of than all the warriors that ever graced her annals; and yet, reviled and calumpiated by fanatic enthusiasts, he was compelled to leave his country, and reap those honours in foreign climates which

were denied to his transcendent abilities at home. The time is now come, however, when thousands are ready to acknowledge his worth, and will (we doubt not) hail the return of his relics to his native country with the most ardent enthusiasm. Yes, even though tyrants may proclaim, and fanatics may rail against the talents which they could not rival and would not own to be superior, still will the liberal and enlightened Englishman pride himself that his country gave birth to Thomas Paine. To Mr. Carlile, who so strenuously defended the writings of that celebrated individual, the thanks of his Countrymen are due; and although in his dungeon they may not reach him, still the day will yet come when he will be rewarded for all his sufferings, by that which should be dear to every man-the approbation of every civilized society. The spirit he has evinced during his persecution, leads us to imagine that he will outlive the persecution by Christianity, and the privations of turnkey tyranny, authorized by the votaries of the religion he condemned. But we are weary of combating absurdities, and will therefore turn from the subject of religious fanaticism, to one which requires the energy of every patriot in the nation to counteract its dangerous effects. Despotism, in every form and shape, is assailing us-Public Meetings are to be forcibly dispersed by the sword the Liberty of the Press, which has been attacked by the Attorney-General, must now have to combat with a phalanx of M. P.'s, within the walls of St. Stephen's,

It is now become the duty of every man to rally round the banner of his Country's independence, and swear that with it he will either stand or fall. Such conduct only can save Albion from impending ruin. Such conduct only can redeem her from the fangs of Castlereagh. Every man who forsakes his Country in her distress, for the purpose of emigrating to this Country or to that, should be considsred as forfeiting every claim to the name of an Englishman, and becoming an accessary to the guilt of the despots who enslave her, by defrauding that Country of his services in the hour of need, and likewise of the services of his family. This circumstance should be deeply impressed upon his mind. and if he pleads distress as the spur which goads him forward, point out to him the millions who are every where bordering upon starvation, and yet too brave to subject themselves to the reproach of coward or deserter of his country. It is the duty of a patriot to brave death in every shape, to render a service to his Country; and surely no Country in the world stands at this moment in so much need of the assistance of her children as does England, once

the proudest boast of Freedom. That her children will stand by her to the last, we entertain but little doubt, although the gibbet and the sabre may be held forth as the price of her independence. Away with the dastard heart that shrinks in fear within its covert, when called upon to contribute its share of moisture at the shrine of England's insulted liberties-away with the heart that is a niggard of its blood, when called upon to shed it freely: this is à theme we could for ever dwell upon, but that others of equal moment demand our attention.

Who can read the speech of Mr. Justice Bailey in passing sentence on Sir Manesseh M. Lopez, Bart, and not be ready to exclaim," What trifling with justice!" For the benefit of such of our readers as may not have seen this production of his Lordship's, we will here insert it as taken from "The Observer" of Sunday last :-

"Mr. Justice Bailey proceeded to pronounce the judg ment of the Court; and in doing so, he expatiated, in very strong language, upon the character of the offence for which the defendants had been convicted: he said, their crime was one of the greatest magnitude, and he confessed his poverty of language to express the abhorrence in which such a crime ought to be held by every man in the country. It was of the highest importance to the public, that the purity of election should be preserved. There should be no inroad into the House of Commons by corrupt means; for how could the country have any confidence in that House, if its doors were open to corruption? or could the public be induced to believe that persons who obtained seats by such means, would themselves be free from being corrupted in that place? The learned Judge concluded by pronouncing the sentence of the Court, which was, 'That for Sir Manasseh M. Lopez' first offence, of which he had been convicted in Cornwall, he should pay to the King a fine of Eight Thousand Pounds! and be imprisoned in Exeter GAOL for 21 months! For his second offence, in Devonshire, that he should pay to the King a fine of Two Thousand Pounds, and be further imprisoned in the same gaol for three months!!!""

And does Mr. Justice Bailey mean to assert that purity of Election can be presreved, or that there is any purity in elections to be preserved? Does the learned Judge mean to say that there are no corrupt inroads into the House of Commons, or that the country have at present even the smallest degree of confidence in that House, as it is now constituted? He surely cannot thus mean to insult the great body of the nation.

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APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND,

In Vindication of the Character of the Editor of "The Cap of Liberty," from the aspersions of Mr. Leigh Hunt, of "The Examiner,"

FEw are they, very few indeed, who can justly appreciate the feelings of an Editor when taking up his pen to repel an accusation of the most malignant nature, more particularly when that accusation comes from a person whose public character has been esteemed by a great portion of his Countrymen.-On commencing this publication, (still in its infancy) the Editor calculated on having to combat all the venom and all the slander of the Ministerial Papers; he calculated on having to repel charges from the AttorneyGeneral for what he might be pleased to term libel or sedition, but he never calculated on having to repel the infamous charge of being a Ser, coming from a contemporary writer in the cause of Reform. Mr. Hunt, however, has thought proper to wound the feelings and calumniate the character of a man of whom he knows nothing, except from this very publication. Could the Editor patiently sit down under such a charge as this, he would deserve all the opprobium which that charge would reflect upon the unimpeachable character, public or private, of a man whose heart vibrates to every principle of honor, of patriotism, or of humanity, as enthusiastically as that of Mr. Hunt or of any individual in the kingdom. The Editor cannot conjecture how any man who could boast of the feelings of philanthropy, could calmly plunge a dagger in the fair fame of a fellow-creature, by making a wanton charge, which, if it had but the slightest foundation, would hold the accused up to the scorn, contempt, and execration of society at large. The charge, however, has been made; and it becomes the duty of the Editor to the public which have patronized him beyond his expectations, to repel the calumnious insinuation. The sole acknowledged foundation for this charge, originates in the fact that the Cap of Liberty has taken a long lead of most of its cotemporary publications in the cause of Reform: it has hitherto, and always will, at every hazard, pursue the path from which the Examiner retired in terror and dismay. The prison of which Mr. Hunt was an inhabitant for two years, (and which would have been an honor to himself and to his Journal, had his original spirit come forth with his body,) has clipped his pinions, and he since has soared upon a less aspiring wing; but he cannot