sureties for his appearance, but it will be seen by the following affidavit of his Attorney that no sureties would be taken.

AFFIDAVIT OF HENRY WALKER, TRAVERSER'S ATTORNEY, SWORN THE OCTOBER, 1811.

Saith about 16th October inst. deponent, on part of Traverser, offered two House-keepers of the City of Dublin, each worth npwards of £100 as deponent was informed, and believes, as bail for the Traverser, but which bail the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor (who committed the Traverser to Kilmainham Gaol) refused to take, wherefore deponent was deprived of the assistance, in preparing for his defence, that he could obtain from the Traverser if he had his liberty, as deponent very believes.

Saith, that about the 22d of October inst. deponent caused the Traverser's case to be laid before Counsel, whose opinion he was not able to get until the 26th instant, and said Counsel having advised that it would be necessary to summon witnesses, one of whom, named Patrick Leonard, and whose testimony would be very material for the Traverser, as deponent believes, lives or resides 50 miles from Dublin, as deponent is informed and believes; deponent could not have had witness served in due time so as to procure his testimony in this Honourable Court, or to have briefs prepared for Counsel, from the shortness of the time between getting Counsel's opinion and the day appointed for the trial of the Traverser, more especially as deponent has been informed and believes, that the indictment found against the Traverser contains upwards of 300 office sheets.

Saith he has been informed, and believes, that some papers which would be material for the Traverser on his trial, were taken or kept from him by the Lord Mayor at the time of his committal, and which deponent was not able to procure, although he, by the advice of his Counsel, wrote to his Lordship, and caused application to be made to him for them. And said deponent will use his best endeavours to procure the attendance of the said Patrick Leonard at the next Commission, and saith this application is not made for the purpose of delay merely, but to have an opportunity of procuring the attendance of said witness.

The poor creature, seeing with what ease the monster carried every point of importance to his exculpation-seeing, that through the matchless dissimulation of the Right Reve

rend villain, he had lost the confidence even of his own Counsel, to secure fees for whom he was obliged to sell every article of furniture he possessed-seeing, that even on the part of the Judges, there was so thorough a conviction of his guilt, that the one who charged could not help anticipating the verdict of the Jury, and that the one who sentenced after a speech of the most unexampled acrimony, could not avoid expressing the most poignant regret, that the law did not warrant more rigour than two years incarceration, and three whippings, and sureties such as made it a miracle that the hapless sufferer ever got out of Gaol-seeing all this, it is not wonderful, that he became almost frantic with chagrin and vexation-and there was not a look or exclamation that indicated his consciousness of innocence, or conveyed his sense of the cruel wrong which was doing to him, that was not taken as a proof of mere obduracy-aud that had not the double effect of sealing his doom.

We have stated, that this unfortunate man consented to sign an acknowledgement of his guilt after the first flogging. We have learned, since our last, that he did not yield until after repeated menaces of utter destruction, and until his - wife and four children were brought to his dungeon, and had thrown themselves on their knees, and actually wept him into acquiescence. "This," said the poor creature, pointing to the miserable group that surrounded him, I cannot stand; give me the paper, Mr. Sheriff (Harty or James, we know not which), but mind, I am about to put my name to a falsehood!!

We find we stated less than the truth, when we said he had completed the full term of two years imprisonment. After incarceration for that time, and the flogging, and the forced acknowledgment of guilt, which it would appear grieved this intrepid and inflexible poor man more than all that happened, his persecution did not end. Then arose the question of securities. He tendered many names-and it is only wonderful that an unfortunate person in his condition could find one being upon earth having courage to be pledged for him, even to the 1-20th of the acquired amount -at length two sureties were accepted; but this did not happen until the wretched man passed eighty-seven solitary and miserable days in his dungeon, in addition to the two years!!!

Byrne is at present in Stephen's Hospital, labouring under a complication of disorders. His family is large and in the greatest possible wretchedness. He was last, and bas been for some years in the employment of Mr. Collins coach

owner, of Denzill Street, by whom, we believe, he has been always treated with great indulgence and kindness. His present complaints have been brought on by fatigue. and wet suffered during the King's visit, but they are not, we are glad to state, of an unmanageable or incurable kind. We have no personal knowledge of him, but we learn from friends who have seen him within these three or four days, that he is in intellect and deportment greatly above his station in life. He heard of the denouement in London with great emotion exclaiming, "God is just-I knew I would live to see this day!" We have heard that this poor creature is remarkable for a very ardent and unaffected love of country. The base dog, by whose perjuries he had been delivered up to destruction, and almost death, instructed his counsel to throw it before the Court, and into the Jury box, that he was a rebel in 1803.

THE MAN WHO WAS PROSECUTED BY THE

BISHOP.

[FROM THE DUBLIN MORNING POST, JULY 31.]

The following particulars are taken from a pamphlet, entitled "The Thing," published by Mr. Mullen, 21, Duke Street:-" About eleven years ago he lived as coachman in the service of the Honourable John Jocelyn, of Dundalk, and after quitting his service, was met in Dublin by his Honourable and Right Rev. Brother, who was then Bishop of Ferns, when the horrid circumstance which he disclosed came to his knowledge; but to prevent his proceeding in the necessary prosecution, he was thrown into prison, and although he offered respectable bail, it was rejected. He had two letters in his possession, written to him by a confidential servant of the Bishop's, named Leonard, and at the Bishop's desire, requesting him to conceal the fact from his brother; these letters were taken from him by stratagem, and he being thus deprived of the only documents, by which he could support his charge against the Bishop, was brought to trial for defamation and found Guilty.

"Byrne is a native of Maynooth, and a man, though he had been a servant, of some education and very decent parentage. He has, for some years back, supported a numerous family, by driving job coaches for Collins, in Denzill Street; but having lately met with an accident in that employment, he has been obliged to go into an hospital; and his unhappy wife and children, thus derived of his sup

port, aro now languishing in misery at South Cumberland Street."

REMARKS.

THE foregoing publication of the trial of Byrne is most justly reviewed, and ought to be read by every person that can read. It may be here seen what sort of morality that is which depends upon religion it may be seen that Percy Jocelyn, that Right Reverend Father in God, and Lord Bishop of Clogher, was not only prone to the vice of sodomy, but that he could, in a Court of Law, commit the most deliberate perjury, and torture, in a manner worse than a hundred deaths, an innocent individual for wishing to expose him!

The Honourable John Jocelyn, mentioned as the Bishop's brother, is, I see, lately returned as one of the sinecurists who sits in the House of Commons, and votes at the discretion of Castlereagh. It is evident, that he, with the then Lord Mayor of Dublin, must have been convinced of Byrne's innocence, and the Bishop's guilt. The whole of the three must have been perjured for the withdrawing and withholding the letters written to Byrne by Leonard, was evidently a planned job with the whole of the persons concerned for the prosecution. Read again, and again, Lawyer Bushe and Judge Fox's account of the Bishop's Piety and Religion! You will there see that the greatest of villains can be very religious, a scrupulously religious man. It is most likely the Soldier's reward was a blessing and confirmation from the Bishop.

Look! look at the scene in the Dublin Prison, where Byrne is surrounded with his starving family, and urged to sign his name to a falsehood! Where is the painter that shall do justice to such a scene? Or, who can describe the horrid vice, the horrid cruelty, the horrid perjury of this most pious, most heavenly Bishop?

If those who administer the government of this country, do not bring back the renegade Bishop, they will be justly considered to participate in his crime. There can be no excuse: they can get him back if they like. Mr. Secretary Peel must have known of his bail and his preparation for flight. A dozen police officers were set to watch me after the Mock Trial was over, until a warrant could be brought to them from the Chief Justice. One of them stopped me without any warrant, and said he could not allow me to go out of the city! His name was Brown a Marshalman, he acknowledged he had no warrant, but he said his orders and those of his brother officers were imperative, and he could not allow me to go over Blackfriar's Bridge, towards which I was walking, to proceed to Blackheath to my children, and where I had regularly lodged for a fortnight before. I was then under £1600 bail; "Look on this picture and on that."

R. CARLILE.

CLERICAL AND CHRISTIAN AMUSEMENTS.

EX UNO DISCE OMNES.

FROM One Bishop you may know all: That is to say, from the Right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Clogher, (Percy Jocelyn) Commissioner of the Board of National Education; Member of the Society for the Suppression of Vice; Member of the Constitutional Association; Member of the Bible Society, and of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: From the Sodom and Gomorrah love of the Father in God, Percy Jocelyn, by divine grace, you may know his brothers and sweethearts, and back-door neighbours. You need not be surprised at their frequent meetings, you may guess the object of such meetings; the Borough villains, the Priests, and the lousy part of the press, judged of the Reformers and of all the friends of Civil and Religious Freedom, as the motto implies, so that now there can be no exception taken to the establishment of the above rule. As the Sodomites laid down the rule, of course they cannot object to such portion of it as applies to themselves; at least every body sees that the Fathers in God are more vicious, n.ore depraved, more prone to horrible vices, than other men; with all their preaching, and prating, and palavering about religion, they pay no more attention to it than a parrot does; no doubt but the Soldier was a devout Christian, and read his Bible. I dare say the Bishop and the Soldier could find nothing against this vice in the Ten Commandments, the Bishop will no doubt tell us this Clerical amusement is a salve to the soul of a Christian. Indeed Mr. Carlile you need not be surprised at the lousy part of the press passing over this Clerical amusement, they are par nobile fratum, they are reptiles generated by the same loathsome filth; they are analogous to lice upon an exhausted and depraved carcase. One of the Popes at Rome was taken in labour, and put to bed on a great fast and humbug day! You will hear of this happening among a certain Bench of Humbugs. The sceptics will, at last, be convinced that the "age of miracles is not gone," but that Bigwigs will generate Bigwigs, and children born of men will be at last brought into the world with mitres upon their heads this will satisfy the infidels and blasphemers. Example is stronger than precept, and the example of the Right Reverend Father in God, Percy Jocelyn, Lord Bishop of Clogher, proves that God has revoked his decree against Sodom and Gomorrah, so that the Christian God on their own showing is not always consistent. Since the Soldier has been courted by the Bishop his comrades have noticed that his abdomen has daily augmented in size, the doctors, the simple doctors, were apprehensive that he was dropsical, never supposing that he was pregnant by the Bishop. Since this discovery the faculty have held several consultations, and much discussion has taken place respecting this preternatural conception. Doubts are entertained whe