Produced by David Widger. *THE TRIAL OF HENRY HETHERINGTON* _By_ *Henry Hetherington* _On an Indictment for Blasphemy_ CONTENTS 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 ON AN INDICTMENT FOR BLASPHEMY, LORD DENMAN AND A SPECIAL JURY, ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1840; FOR SELLING HASLAM’S LETTERS TO THE CLERGY TO ALL DENOMINATIONS: THE WHOLE OF THE AUTHORITIES CITED IN THE DEFENCE, AT FULL LENGTH. LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HENRY HETHERINGTON, 1-26, STRAND; AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1840 Price Sixpence. To JAMES WATSON, BOOKSELLER, THE FRIEND OF TRUTH, THE INFIDEL TO ERROR, AND THE LOVER OF LIBERTY, THIS TRIAL IS DEDICATED, IN PROOF OF THE AFFECTIONATE ATTACHMENT THAT SUBSISTS BETWEEN TWO FRIENDS, WHO FULLY RECOGNISE AND ACT UPON THE PRINCIPLES AVOWED AND CONTENDED FOR IN THE FOLLOWING DEFENCE; AND AS A TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM, TO GOD’S NOBLEST WORK--AN HONEST MAN! BY HIS FAITHFUL FRIEND, HENRY HETHERINGTON. THE TRIAL COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH, December 8, 1840. Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, before Lord DENMAN and a Middlesex Special Jury. PROSECUTION FOR BLASPHEMY. THE QUEEN Versus HETHERINGTON. This was a prosecution instituted by Her Majesty’s Attorney-General, Sir John Campbell, against Henry Hetherington, bookseller, of 126, Strand, for the publication of a blasphemous libel. INDICTMENT Of Easter term, in the Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria. Middlesex:--