“Believe me your Friend.” And that soon after this, a mob assembled before the house of the defendant, with marrow-bones and cleavers, an effigy of the said defendant, and a transparency; and, after having lighted a fire before his door, the flames of which ascended as high as the windows of the first floor, they burnt his effigy in that fire; they then broke the defendant’s windows, and acted otherwise riotously, by which the defendant was compelled to leave Hammersmith. In consideration of these facts, the affidavit went on to pray a lenient punishment from the Court. Mr. BARLOW (_to the defendant_)—Do you wish to say any thing for yourself in addition to this affidavit? The DEFENDANT.—No, Sir. Mr. MARRYATT now addressed their Lordships in the manner following:— My Lords,—The less I call jour attention to the nature of the offence imputed to the defendant, I think it will be the better. I shall merely direct your attention to the character and situation of the defendant; for when a man in his situation of assumed piety, makes it the mask for extraordinary delinquency, I submit to your Lordships that he becomes an object for extraordinary punishment. Your Lordships have found by the report, and also by the affidavit of the defendant himself, that reports of a similar description against his character had gone abroad. I do not know what those reports precisely were, and I do not mean anything further by alluding to them, than to state what Mr. Patrick said to him on this occasion, namely, that he should think himself at liberty to believe all that had been previously said against him. The defendant complains in his affidavit of the popular opprobrium excited against him, by various publications of his trial, and other matters relative to him. It is really almost impossible to check the public feeling in cases of this nature, and nothing is imputed in this affidavit either to the prosecutor or any person connected with the prosecution. They are not responsible for the marrow-bones and cleavers, for the effigy, or for any of the publications. I should observe, that although the prosecutor did not go before the Magistrate at the very period when this occurred, yet he did not make the least concealment of the story in any way; for it appears, by the testimony of Mr. Thomas, that it had reached his ears in two or three days after it had happened, and that he went and called on Church on the 9th of October. It appears that the matter became perfectly notorious; because, in a very few days afterwards, this letter was written to him by Mrs. Hunter, which notified to him that she would no longer be one of his hearers.