Category: History - British
A FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF HENRY HETHERINGTON THE TRIAL INDICTMENT Second Count: Third Count: Mr. Bult opened the proceedings DEFENCE OBSERVATIONS Extract from The Sun Newspaper "TO LORD DENMAN, ON THE LATE PROSECUTION FOR BLASPHEMY
A FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF HENRY HETHERINGTON THE TRIAL INDICTMENT Second Count: Third Count: Mr. Bult opened the proceedings DEFENCE OBSERVATIONS Extract from The Sun Newspa...
3. Part 3I can assure the Jury that if Haslam's Letters to the Clergy is an improper book, it cannot be put down by prosecution; it is far better to leave it to coldness and neglect. I c...
4. Part 4Mr. Haslam's work has many other passages of the same description; and the Attorney-General will see that the passage in the Eighth Letter--almost the only objectionable passage...
2. Part 2"_Dr. Whitby_, in his _Last Thoughts_, tells us, "that belief or disbelief can neither be a virtue or a crime, in any one who uses the best means in his power of being informed.
5. Part 5We brought evidence yesterday to show that the suppression of objections to the Scriptures by penal enactments is tyrannical, unjust, and absurd, and that the law is partially a...
6. Part 6"Our laws, Lord Denman, lay down a principle that every man is presumed to be acquainted with the business, profession, or study to which he belongs, or to which he has devoted...