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“were well calculated to maintain order and regula- | fromthe charge of conspitacy under suchcircum- | believe that? You may not have as favorable THE NEW YORK HERALD. ee Wels Xp Hes 70-Whale Ho. 2840: NEW YORK, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1844. Fran we Conus hi h i . = a O'CONNELL’S SPEECH | serena? Wat" 18 Sete of amare [he ld sary feng, “Therein orhng at repeal curious that got a single accident—not even a ca- | intermppt’@ man in such a peaceiul career 1 Is it | that no assistance could be accepted by nt ¢ ngs—tirst, | sual accident—occurred ut any t them. Yet } right terrupt aman who has ever laid | us which should in the slightest degree in- AT THE We ie eater caaaemetet, Cel, ul fee ee no en fig sieiaable ee: ies Wwhiel BE citcott spell | there are persons who t« mae that Lhave. infuriated down ia princip'e asthe basis of his public con. | terfere with our Gr) a Shee oabest St the evidence brought by the crown to es- | imagination. They ae Se abiteer dito aes Us this people, that [haveexeited them till they are | duet? Ia ¢tright to come out and call thatthe con- | Gentlemen, you will reco al hat we what IRISH STATE TRIALS. tablish In the first place, it is admitted by.the | or place, or position, but first, the accounts of Crown itself that there is no secrecy in the matter | meetings held, and next, the evidence of that fac N *EBRUARY 5. —that the conspiracy does not consist of any pri- | from volumes of newspapers. We shall cnnaider MONDAY, FEBRUAR ee ie a secret accent ney do not soc af pe by dmbaaieouscouatcaran allege any private information—no, not even a sin- | inake this ion? Long before the doors of the Queen’s Bench | gle privaie conversation. Every thing was open, | and as vepkuce ale fo are motinn seers were opened this morning they were surrounded by wicpncealed, public, as clear to the eyes of the }| would tempt me, an old lawyer, to make a public crowds of persong anxious to obtain admission. whole world us the noon-day sun. | Its evidence | conspiracy, and ‘induce the Irish people to enter bepeus - ‘ was to be found in the columns of the Evening | into it? I boasted that I kept th le fr We never saw curiosity excited to such a pitch, | Mail quite as much asin the Evening Post. It was | meshes of the law—that was one of mated Uh and we do not exaggerate when we state that seve- | raked up out of that secret ate of most secret in- | You heard it read twenty times from’ Tan eovecans ral thousands went away who were disappointed in formation—the newspaper. The conspiracy was | and does one of you believe, under these circum- * ; i concocted in the face of the world, and the bellman | st . i i obtaining places in the galleries and body of the | sent about to invite all who wished tocome in and be If there on os pack ea pea ql H Court. The arrangements made by the Sheriff | witneases—so it is not easy forone todetend oneself | old. lawyer saw it, and is there one of you can of @ conspirator, and to ‘treat him aman |had offers of support from the Republican os had resorted to forcible means% gentle. | party in France, headed by Ledru Rollin. Tt is men, belong to a Christian persuasion, the grand | a considerable and every: powerful party. It is pringiple of which is that no quantity of advantage | that party which hates the uglish most, with an ir- & antity of benefit or advantage tethe church, | rational and ferocious hatred, arising most probably ‘oF to lie state itselt - no not even to Heaven iwelt, | from the blow struck at their vanity at Waterloo— can Portined be eerned at #@ of any | that is the party headed by Ledru Rollin. Gentle- s whatever ; that no moral of can, potonly | men, you ha ready to rebel. They whose conduct has been characterised by the absence of misehief to person or property, whose inutual courtesy has been so re- markuble that not even an accident occurred at their most crowded gatherings! ‘The grown matrons were there with their daughters; the young mo- thers with their infants, re Blau as she passed in safety through the multitude, felt that her own weaknes, and the helplessnees o° her own infant, were her best protection. Oh, it was de. lighttul to see how the crowd gave way |. and formed a rampart of protection for thee mothers aad the children. Yes! for the bro- thers and fathers of those women were there, and so help me Heaven!—no, I withdraw the solemn- ity of asseveration, but no more emphatic proof could have been exhibited of determination to ob- serve pence, quietness, and perfect tranquility ,:han in the electneal feeling which sent the mother and hy in the full assurance of safety—that elec- i his letter, and you have my answer oy, any | Did [see his support, or that of his party? Did L mit at £0 obtained ; {61 have gate even from the decisiveness of my answer; advai a i i Reed not that | did T appear wowilling to repeat and readily avow gepetever in that ber, | noes egret ‘doo- | it? No, gentlemen—! took a firm tone of loyalty— trine himself. But why should J, a@ a Christian man, T rejected their support—I refused their offer—I proclaim one thing and practise another? But, gen. | cautioned then ngainst coming over here] refosed tlemen of the Jary, you cannot believe it. No, the everything thatwas inconsisient with my allegiance entire tenor of my life shows the sinceriy with and is that the way that my hypoeriey is proved! which I made the announcement, Ihave announced | you! But not alone with that party 1o France dia it over and over again—I have announced it so | the Irish lots thing off ull connexion, but eves often that 1 say no circumstance of my life can | a8 regarded the present Monarch of France, we re- leave you to doubt the sincerity of myavowal. My | fused all, even the slightest sympathy. 1t has gone lord, it has appeared sufficientlyin the newspapers; my forth to the world—it has n proved to you that lord, no man ever possessed so much public conti- TL hurled detianee, so far asan bumble individual dence as I have. 1 say 1 possess it, and no mon | like mysel! could, against the Monarch who at ever possessed it so long, so unreservedly. Ihave | present governs the French nation The learned obtained the confidence of the Roman Catholic | Attorney General, who with a good deal of inge- laity of every class: yes, not only of those who ure | nuity, introduced to your notice the report of the in poverty or distress, and look to a change, or to | Secret Commuttee of the House of Commons, an amelioration of their condition, but | have ob- | in 1797, and he told you that we were acting tained also the confidence of the higher classes— } "pon that plan. In 1797 they were looking, for of the Catholic clergy, and of the episcopacy. 1 | French sympathy and aesistance—they had emi have obtained that’ confidence by the assertion | Ties in France representing them there, and th of this principle, and by the sincerity with which | had probaly persons representing the French her have ob tt to it; they know with what sincer- | they were ooking for foreign force and foreign ity I profess it. How long could I possess this con- | assistance, and hetells you that our, objects were Bea ET did not chow by years pf public activi | those of the United Irishmen of 1797! Oh, gentle- ty and energy, and the continuousness of my pub- | men they were diametrically the reverse. It may lie conduct, ‘that I deserved it? Gentlemen, I | be that we look to the restoration of the elder stand before you, having earned that confidence | branch of the House of Bourbon, known as Henry which no man who ever wished to perpetrate a | the Sth, but { should be sorry to wait fora repeal of crime could retain. No man could continue to | the umion till then. (Much laughter.) Not that 1 preserve it under such circumstances. For near- | should disparage his title, for] tor one believe that | forty years I have held to the principle Enrope will never be perfectly safe until that avowed, and my sincerity has been un- | Branch of the family of the Bourbons is restored mitigated, complete, and entire. No, the voice of | restored upon the principles upon which the monar- calumny cannot malign me. Oh! gentlemen, you | chy of 1683 was restored. But { would not So ae differ from me in religion. But tell not those whowe | rage the claim that 1 for a moment laughed at, but faith I profess that they have been deceived—tell | | suid this is a quarter from whence we refuse the them not that they would countenance hypocrisy | slightest assistance, and I hurled the indignation of and treachery. You cannot believe it-; the mymund against the man who would offer to the chil- sublic without will uot. believe it; an English | dren ot France to be educated by infidel protestors, sory will not believe it. Europe would be made to | and refused them that religious educution their pa- startle at the proposition. I, aRoman Catholic, | tents wished themto receive. I will not, gentlemen, am placed here before a Protestant Jury, in the | enter further into this point, but you will see from presence of the monarchs of the earth. [ask you | those papers my antagonism to the French govern- whether you will calmly pause in a matter which | ment. But, gentlemen, there is another point in my includes the interests of very many Protestants of | conduct—iny antagonisin to the Chartists. You may the highest respectability, or whether you will tar- | remember that when the Association was in full nish your case by any verdict which shall throw a force, the Chartists were in a state of insurrection doubt apon the sincerity of my whole life, and up- | in England—they were coming in their hundreds on the sincerity of my advocacy of principles | and thousands and tens of thousands into the man- wh it has been the pride and boast of my | Ulacturing towns of England, and you will recollect existence to avow—my comfort in my declining | further, that there was something facinating in the years, and is, and will be my consolation before u | doctrines of Chart for the poorer clasees, be- higher tribanal? But no!—I do you injustice in | cause it proposed in trnth and in substance, a viola- supposing such a case, No, youure incapable of | tion of all the laws of property. If I had meant taking such a view as that, Imay now observe up- ing wicked or criminal would I not have on the almost only remaining matter. 1 doubt,how- led and supported the Chartistet On ever, whether my sincerity has been impugned—it | the opens did, I not denounce them—did | has never been publicly impugned—I am quite sure | not keep the Irish in England from joining it ought not to be. Yes, gentlemen, 1 do say, it is them, and was there not an owrage actuall impossible for yon to believe that I would desert committed in Manchester on account of the In those principles of which boast, or that I should holding aloof from them? Yes, gentlemen, I assist- forsake that doctrine which has been the very life. | ¢d, the constituted authorities in England, by my blood of my political existence, and that 1 mond Hala ad bape ie wap ute ME eay ee i all a er into a conspi Pads. itnot given in evidence, that r ; lee ACUI A NG ed member of our Association joined the Chartist in- stitution. in England his money was returned to him, and his name was struck out of our booke. Now, gentlemen, if my object was popular insur- rection—if ] was anxious for a popular outbreak— good Heaven, let any man of you place himself in my situation, und ask what he couls do, for the nt isa charge of a popular insurrection. If I wished for au insurrection would I not wish to have streng h—would | not wish to have the system of Chartism supported. Did not I, on the other hand, meet i! in Dublin—did I not hunt it out of Dublin, and, if my oath were taken, | firmly declare m: conscien lous conviction that, had J not intertered, Chartism would have spread trom one end of the lend to another. But 1 have opposed that, as I have opposed every thing that is iuconristent with the mtegrity of my political principles. Thenk hea- ven, f successfully opposed and resisted it, and while I have a right to inake you judge of my actions and motives, by referring to thore leading teavures of my political life, I shall ever rejoice that] kc pt society and property from thatinvarion. Gentiemen, there is another part worthy ot your consideration, uame- lv, my consistent sworn ollegiance to ovr Sovereign. You find itin ell these newepapers. Her name is never mentioned but wiih rerpect, and always with enthusia#m and deli Day, When a speech was mage by her Majesty’s mipistere, derogatory to our otjeets and motives,don’t you find me with most te- dious pertinacity making a distinction between her Majeery ard ber ministers. You have heard it filty times repeated, and atevery meeting—I omitted it at noae, and | made in elt these cases a constitu- tonal distinction between hersell and her ministerr, and the Attorney General has no ngbtito ray that there one particle of disloyalty to warda her in my observations upon the ‘péech. . ° ' : .. Teubmit there should be an agreement | an opit f rity. At ten o’clock preeisely their Lordships took | *t#nce®. cr ; a . nion of me as those who know ime bet- their sents on the bench, and as soon as the names | tnent'ea is made in that way before, the worldernot | the merle eee ime, and my principles through cod aie haw a lamny—but there is not f of the traversersand jury were called over, an agreement which is made tor instance in the | you wh think me eu idi oath, Mr. O’Coxyxu1 rose, and, having bowed to the | presence of the law officers of the Crown, gi the eee rune: ima behets bench, proceeded to speak as foilows:—Gentlemen, | learned Attorney-General, or Solicitor-Gigwé@tal, or | ambition—the ce 1 beg your patient attention whilst I endeavor to | of her Majesty’sSergeant-at-law. You see the ab- | the bench—the cause et which { Steet bay fo on show you in as few sentences as possible, and in | surdity, gentlemen, of calling such an agreement a | the bench—the cause for which | refused the afliee my own plain and prosaic style, my right to de- | conspiracy. Is it, indeed, common sense?—is it to | of Master of the Rolls, There is, | know, a ques- mand_a favorable verdict at your nands. I shall | be endured by rational men that we should be told | tion whether or not I renused the office of Chiet Baz ask that verdict without disrespect on the one | (hat such an agreement is a conspiracy? But when | ron, but there is none of my refusal to be Master hand, or flattery on the other. I shall not appeal | was the agreement made, or how, or where was | of the Rolls. I refused the dignity and leisure of either to your passions or your feelings, but I trust | jt made? Was it in the winter, season, or in sum- | the bench—with an accumulation of years upon my that Tshall be able respectfully to show that I have | mer, im spring, or in autumn? Was it on @ holiday, | head—I know the short time I have to labor in ty a right to ask it in the name of common sense and | or a week-day? What was the hour, or day. or | vocation. ‘That eternity, and the approach ol, that common justice, and those being the basis upon | week, or year, on which it was entered ito? Who | jndgment which will consign me toan eternity ol which I shall rest, I have too high aw opinion of | was it that proposed it,or who seconded itt Gentle- | weal or woe, cannot be long postponed ; and do your understandings to doubt fora moment I shall | men, 1 appeal to your common sense and reason—I | you, can you, imagine I would Be ae craslias to en- ask it in vain. Being thus convinced in my own | ask you toplace yourselves in my position, and to | ter into such a conspiracy—into such ab: mind that Iam entitled to your verdict of acquittal, | suppose that you address a Catholic Jury, as I ad- y ich a gross ab- and after the bniliant display of eloquence you | dress you, and would you not feel—I will not call Fe dha sanllemen h vet yogn bane se Maid have heard, I do not think that I would be war- | jt indignation—but would you not laugh to scorn | d if I wi i ; a in ferme om Lier spon 7 poe or the idea, that such a Jury should find you guilty of me the Saat peice mere reall yet pete ee Nebeya ore avRehted os a comme icy under such cue am ecstcen here is | may, and say, can een find me guilty of a foul con- ¥ rua Daren eee Ce eoce not the slightest evidence before you of any concoc- | spiracy? Your verdict may atrike me—it may shor- J HT » | tion which would be required in the crime of con- | ten the few days Ihave yet before me—but it can- ical spirit of mutual kindliness in whose pure at- mosphere all was gentleness and courtesy. I turn boldly and proclaim that there is not in the world another country where this could occur. ‘The peo- ple of Ireland are oppressed and impoverished.— hey have been subjected to much contumely.— The Times described them asa “filthy and {eio. nious multitude,” but proudly repeat that amongst no other people could such scenes occur. It may be said thatham mak an admission; but they have been educated to it for forty years, during the agitation for Catholic Emancipation, and susequent- ly during the agitation for the Repeal. They have been sublimed into pacific determination, which, than Heaven, has not been ruffled in the slightest degree by anything which hag occurred in this Court. ‘They abide your verdict, and though it may be one which will disappoint them, Micra will be no violation of the law, no, whatever ma be the fate ofthe man whose glory it isto have ed. ucated the peeple to peaceable, legal,constitutional, and continuous-exertion. I ask, now. has any one been intimidated by those meetings? It has been said that large meetings have a neceseary tendency to intimidate. Now, nothing could be easier than to prove this—they had all the magistracy of the neighborhood— those who still continued 1n the ma- gistracy—and much good may it do them—and whose continuance in the magistracy proves them hostile to Repeal—the Crown Conia ave called upon the gentry and upon the clergy of the Establish- ed Church. He had plenty of timid people in pan- taloons and petticoats, who might have been pro- duced to establish intimidation, if any such thing had occurred. It was his busines to have done so if in his power—the neglect to establish his case in so important a point would be a violation of his duty to the Crown. Yet not one such witness has been produced. Why? because not one could conscien- tiously swear that there has been anything apper- taining to intimidation. There was, i repeat, am- ple opportunity of proof, and the negation of such evidence speaks trumpet-tongued of the absence of any thing approaching to intimidation. There were inevery neighborhood plenty of people inimical to Emancipation, and who regretted its passing—there were people desirous to put down the Repeal As- sociation—there were persons who had the misfor- tune to be at enmity with their neighbore—there were the clergy of the Established Church, witnes- ses beyond impntation—why was not a single wit- ness of any of those classes produced to prove the occurrence or the feeling of intimidation? Be- cause it was thoroughly certain that no such allegation could be borne out; because no such intimidation had existense. Gentlemen of the Jury, how does the case stand ; Is it fairly put before you? The police were on the ta- ble, they deposed to the tranquility of the meetings; they felt bound to swear that ull was quiet, an that even the most timid had no ocgasion for fear. If those meetings were illegal, why was it that there wasnot one mandate of authority to put them down? There was no proclamation which we treated with neglect—there was no ministerial in- terference treated with the slightest neglect or dis- regard—no public oflicer or remonstrance treated with anything but the utmost respect. If the meet- ings were dangerous why were they not proclaim- ed? They were proclaimed at last—but if they were dangerous Wily were they not proclaimed before? Yet we are called congpirators—it we are, were we not so twelve imonths ago? Gentlemen, we are branded as conspirators because we have done our utinest to obey the law. Those meetings were tranquil—acknowledged so, and they had just come to a conclusion; there was to be an end of them, and all the violent language which had so offended some parties was finished. Isut the meetings were notillegal, th ey were peaceable unboundedly so,and the Atoniey Generel hud putitin proof. Itisgcarce- ly necessary for me to avow anything—it might be better for me to conceal—but [have nothing to conceal—I avow the whole 39 meetings against me. The government knew that these meetings were called, and | for one will not impute totheAt- torney General that he lay bye for the purpose of laying a trap. Lean say no such thing. To not belicve it possible, and { feel bound to do him the cominon justice of saying so. I feel further bound to tell you that that learned gentleman did not in- terfere, merely because he could not, and that be- cause he had no ground to stand upon = [am told well as instructe attempt to follow them, but I shall, Itrust, submitto | spiracy. I don’t know whether even I am accused | not destroy the consci t 8 a n sciou! w you plain unanswerable facts ’that a come | of reir been present at the formation of the con- | am entitled to your adi irene ot ome to your understanding, and & sense, | spiracy; but surely if 80, some time ought to have | men, the Attorney General wants you to believe and convince you that in anything I have done been pointed out that 1 might have the benefit of | that I am a conspirator, without knowing it, like have transgressed no law, and was actuated solely | an alibi, if I could make it out laughter.) But | a man that has stumbled into a pit in the dark by a desire to serve my country. Gentlemen of | here the charge is spread over so much time, and | Butit all occurred in the open day, and I could not the Jury, I am here not as my own, client alone— | in go indefinite a way, that I should only take it as | fall without knowing it. If you believe anythin my clients are the people of Ireland—I am here as | 9 toss-up whether or not I was present on the occa- | you must believe that 1am a conspirator, without counsel for the Irish nation—[ stand here asthe ad- | sion, Was the agreement in writing or was it a | my own knowledge, and there can be no guilt with- vecate of the righ's, liberties, and in a of | parole one? Really, gentlemen, if an ac- | ont a guilty intention. But Lecorn to rest ny de. that people ; and, ny only anxiety is, that they, or | tion at Visi Prous were to be supported by | fence upon a paltry point of law! The thin x too their rights, should be impeded by any tl I} such evidence, and that you were in the box to try | plain, too simple, to require it. It pesado the case if there were even no more than a £10 | tion on this aie of the water; some person here have done, or by my want of power to sustain be able to convince you, that they oughit not to suf. | that the contract existed? It might be said, as it has been dreaming of it ; this imaginary conspiracy cause here this day. I trust, however, that I shall | contract at stake, I ask you could you find a verdict is now resting on your minds without the slightest fer by any proceeding of which T lave been instra- was toa certain Judge, whose time has long sinc: 4 ali mental Iam the advocate of Ireland, and the passed away—‘‘My ford, it might not be rechene marticla ot reality, ecg gegen yea ea igh he: lobe pent monty opengl nyapner deer Lo Be, f would be evidence to sup ort a prosecution on a | public meetin H you, that wien commenced that line of conduct } criminal charge in your lordship’s court.” Gen- themeelyen nets on eeu acre which has brought me before you this day, the ob- | tlemen, it is not here a £10 contract which is at | never was a more formidable party than the West ject I had in view was the Repeal of that Union. | stake; but, as in the case of a contract, your honest | [ndian i i Tteu you that [ cannot bear it—it was forced upon | view of the case will be, that if a commiracy exists | the Pe a era abatingeoarey areata thet the Irish people by the most foul and unjustifiable | it must be proved; and, if not proved—that it does | proceedings have, with equal propriety, have prose means that ever a government had recourse to, and | not exist. The Attorney General, in good sooth, | cuted them for u conspiracy—they should (ee in- T have the highest authority for saying so. 1 have | Jeaves it to our imagination to discover where the | dicted Wilberforce, who bas written his name the authority of one who had a seat on that bench, | conspiracy exists. A conspiracy oughtto be a re-| upon the most prominent pages of _ histor; and who is now in his honored grave 1 promise | ality; but he leaves it eae to you toimagine | ag the strenuous advocate. of frecdet you, gentlemen, that 1 will be as brief as I possibly | it. “{ don’t speak in any poeregt ning of his ta- | —and who will never be furgotien, whilet a feelin a ee re} as Sneed mop fe ba ae _T admit sere a Hokage talent,and | in favor of humanity exists—he should have bere » to attempt to travel over the same ground as those Beers won He a sapied Aetom hotie--slaves | ine'eert s ceomuaay.. The tencrable Clarkes ‘ound occupied eleven hours—eleven | too, is yet al i who went before me. I shall deal in facts, and | mortal hours—in his statement, yet in what part of ; is yet alive, and upon the enme principle should those facts I will condense = bays as possible. 1 itdid he tell you where the conspiracy existed?— mull he eens eam, cocesrat or. joavinteay Gh am not here to deny anyt ae that T have done, | «Wait (said he) till [come to the close;” and when | (l-men, the ouly hope we have of giving ex; a ibe or. deny anything 1 have fewa he: she contsary he got to the close, “Go back (said he) to the be- | io our wieher, our wabie, or our grievaaces, and am here to assert what I have olten before. stated | ginning—go through the whole of it, and find out | drive fcom ws the right of free discussion, By the in other places, at the same time claiming the | the conspiracy the best way you can.” Itisnot | names of Wilberforce, and Clarkeon T corjui y right of not being made accountable for the clum- | with any affectation that] say it, but if any could | ¢o dismiss from your box every attenipt pre ate sy mistakes of newspaper reporters, and newspa- | have found out the proofs of a conspiracy existing | free discussion. la Sari see hel pet speeches squeezed into such a compass as might | it would be the Attorney General. Na, Db IDO 1) | davese, Eisietan ab ane then ease w alomer; min te ave suited the convenience of those who published | hours to throw those extracts into yourbox for you | ‘novements oad though, te gy Sanne a : i them. No doubt I muy in the excitement of a mo- | to find out thatthere wasa conspiracy {There are the | ira, { had the honor. ro laene . a t steeds ag § , meni have said harsh shings of individuals that, | Pilot, Nation, and Freemen, read them—it is good | which slavery was abelish Mc Lourataettnea: upon reflection, 1 would rather I had not said ; but | enough for you, make out the conspiracy if you can | ut the lava of My iudignation upon the surporten, the substance of all [have ever said I am now. not | out of the evidence they give. Irememberonce, on | of that vile s pres It this do eR . has aa be onlyready to vindicate,butto reiterate again. Thegy | theMunster C.rcuit,the celebrated Egan was defend- | jad suoner (Redo fomndiouy 1 neato qenenca lg us to all my actions, I_am ready not only to avow ing a case, which was stated by a Mr. Hoare, agen. | the preecat day ere the Sica tliine haneon i them, bat to justity them. All that Ihave done | tleman of a dark appearance, who made a very | carried ou towatde the negro popuiatica s but it wee was in the performance, of what I believed to be | strong speech. gun. in reply to this—and, by the | the Heavenedeacended inspiration of bold humm a sacred duty, having no other, object in view but | way, he was sure of his jury, which isan excuse 1} ty ihat hus established the reedom of man Whar the restoration of the Irish Parliament, and the | want—said, ‘1 am sure you will not be led away | weuld \becauan oh tise polocanen tanh oct Would good of the Irish eee 1 was looking tor an Irish by the durk oblivion of a brow.” (A laugh.)— | it have heen piven oe etan pa steetew ‘oul Parliament, because I found that the frish people | «Why, Egan,” said some one to him, “that is n or would we now be promised another reform bythe had been cheated of this sacred right. I found that | sense—why did you say so?” “To be sure it in,” | Queen's speech, vad'it notbeen lor these lovee rahe the Union was accomplished at a revolutionary pe- | was his reply, “but isn’t itgood enough fora jury?” | meetings! For Gathohe emancipation, before. it riod—the nation of Europe wus disturbed by the | (Laughter.) So eleven hours 1s good enough tor | was granted, we held ro ily Ia sea ting sie d infidel Ea oagpay of France, and overrun by her | you. Gentlemen, it is monstrous—it is criminal) there was an entinent | qua ly qe eet mpgs; std Great military force—the dynasty of nations was | monstrous—to say that that is a conspiracy which } joe the attorney Gener will ne sind thal T changed—princes were banished and monarchies | takes eleven hours to develope it. Hardy was tried tee him an diseas dy i nd ep hc ie overthrowu—it was at that period that Ireland was | for constructive. treason, und, to celebrate his ac- | jis superior whe ae pha egy pis aiken robbed of her legislative independence. I saw that | quittal, un anniversary was’ held. When the } thar measure—l mean Walliem semen He wake e the day of restoration and regeneration had come | health’ of one of the Jurors | was drunk, od ba and he'wie Gaeta ine a nny ier wre wag h- for every country butiny own, and I summoned | one of the Jurors, not much acquainted | secured: but he never thought of turning it inte a all my energies to arouse the people to obtain what | with public speaking, made a_epeech. He said, cremation tera eoamie ug ; ee f id a they lost, by moral, peaceable, and constitutional | “Mr. Chairman, I tell you_ J acquitted Hardy, | fine for Words thod mote Brey engi ba a means, which, I believe, were pleasing in the sight } because Lord Eldon—then Sergeant Scott—took | tyra conspiracy; we had ont parish mectines: ned of Heaven, and ought to be approved of by man.— | eleven hours to state the case, eight or nine days | our count, aoctine: propia acdy fjanear hse ‘That was the course that I pursued, and ought I, | giving evidence, and I know that no man could be | there waswhat | moy torn atinnaltanowa venta gentlemen of the jury, to be ashamed to come in | really guilty of ‘treason when so many words were { held in every paris 1a Ireland nt the same tromene ere this day to justity itt I know that I labor un- | used to tell itand such a long time to prove it (augh.) Uf privet bet ie tnbalebans foodie ied tau My a Would slavery have been abol- ished atthe present moment if its advocates had entered into a conspiracy? and yet they held their have been more successful, and | am more success- ful, by acting on the principles of justice, of chari- ty, of obedience to the laws,and a total abhorrence of’foree and violence. No; you cannot believe that I would desert every principle of my public lite und enter Into a conspiracy. it would be too grossly inconsistent with anything which ever yet occurred in public conduct. But itis not on tvis int alone—there are other incidents in my public fife whieh will enable you to form a better judge- ment of my conduct. There is not one of you in that box who does not remember the — frightful state of the combination of the working and trading classes. You know that before that combination was put down lives were 6a- ced in tie public streets, violence wus offered to individuals and to property from day to day, and, if death did notensue in recent cases, it was accidental, rather than owing to the strict for- bearance on the part of thecombinators. The pub- lic authorities were insufficient to cope with them ! ow, itis said that I am aman ready to sacrifice a ciple to igtometa I could easily have made p ‘ inyself popular among the combinators. [ opposed them, I stood alone in my opposition to them ; I did go at the peril of my life. Ata meeting at the Exchange, all these men were opposed to me, and [ owed the preservation of my life to a po- liceman. You remember, it all! What occurred ? 1 contended with those who were so furiously against me, and I opposed the combination. 1 did alt this at the expense of my popolarity, and at the risk of my lite. Is it likely that I should take this part in order to play the hypocrite? It was not in that ease alone, that] acted thus; for whatdo you find recorded of me in the newspapers? Why, my persevering and perpetual opposition to Ribbonism y condemnation of all seeret societies. Have der great disadvantages; let me not for a moment } | have made up my mind to convi and would not that have been evidence of a con- | that I have used an equivocal word in saying these | you not seen, and do you not remember my warm ntiemew, having taken ail these preeautione— f mvict a man of hig! 7 i 4 ) y oj YOU Ns Y be understood as saying that they are not such as + ¥ ¥ 80 | spirecy, it what you are now called upon to believe | meetings were quiet by design. My lords, I re- | denunciation of such societies, to the police—my B repeated these assertions over and over ying y treason when the case is proved, but I won’t be tor § is sufficient evidencet Upon that day every parish d Imost disgusting those who heard me even in, a to naasea, What then becomes of the Attorney Ge- ‘al that 1 spoke disrespectiully of her Majesty * lords, | thank heaven there 1s not a particle in this case to taint, in the slightest degree, our loyal ty or allegiance. Now, my lords, as regards my- self, lamcome that time of jife that she can do hing for me; bue there is not a man in expecta- 1 inthis court who has taken bali the pains | to inspire and win the allegiance of the peo- ind. There is one thing I think the At- neral aeted untairiy in. He read the 4 speech, and then Iny newspaper speech, » scolding ministers gave lor, andthen | said Judy would not let us go Tle said that Lre- resented the Queen asa fishwoman. Whatever comes of the case don’t believe that. 1 confess Lteel annoyed and hmmihated that such a charge should be made against me. 1 speak inno terns of disrespect to the Attorney General; bur I unerly repudiate and deny that I ever spoke in dicrespeetial terma of my Sovereign, and 1 say it is false to impute to me an intention of applying the offensive expre: referred to the speech of her Majesty. [ did not treat it as her speech, but aw that of her Ministers, who were constitutionally responsible for it. 1 disclaim, ab- hor, and hate the imputation of ofienng a word of any thing inthe least disrespecttul towards my au- gust monarch, Upon all occasions T inculeated principles of sincere loyalty to the throne, and | distinetly separated all reference in my remarks be- tween the person of the Queen and her Ministe I {earl have detained you longer than | had in- tended in referring to what has heretofore been my public conduct; but, in coming to a proper estimate of ray motives, it Was necessary to draw attention tomy acts, and though my expositions may be iee- ble though my talents may be small, though m vergies may be decreasing,and though my etrength moy b+ declining, and years increasing, still you will find then as now implanted in my breast « burping love for the prosperity of Ireland, and the liberues of my country. “Well, the public metings did take place; Ido not deny it. Their object was the repeal of the Union, Was that a bad obyect? 1 deny that it was. On the con trary it was a most useful object for Tre much «o that before [eit down, [ hope to demon- atrate to every one in Conrt—the neutrality of the bench of course excepted—the absolute necessity sure, and its effects on the property, commerce, and industry, of your native land. t hope that many of the Jary whom T address, will be induced from the streneth of the case { shall pat before them to join in calling for the Repeal—(« laugh.] It is my duty to put the facts before you, and | will be able to show to demonstration that the English Parliament has, from a remote period, governed Ireland with a narrow jealousy of Irish prosperity, and in a gradging epirit of its independ- ence. Then I will first refer you to the history of ovr woollen manufactures, and to what did bay pen in the reign of a rnonarch whose memory you probably hold im very great esteem. [ will now now call your attentions to the transactions of 1782, which was looked upon ae a final ad- jnetment of the relations between the two coun- tries, and when an Irish Parliament was declared to last for ever. 1 willnext direct my cbserva- tions to prove the great proeperity which followed as the result of legislative independence. 1 will then show yor that the measure of the Uuion wos forced upon the Trish people. I will demonstrate the mani- fold evils flowing from it, and the bad effects on our trade and commerce, and will reter you to the existence of vast distress and misery throughout the ond 1 will prove to you that the only remedy for ita care, and for avoiding separation fron England, i to be found in the restoration of our native Parliame Now, as to the ill-treatment of Treland by England, the fact isso contessedly true that it i¢ eearcely necessary for me_ to adduce any prool of it—it is scarcely necessary for me to detain you by any remark upon this part of the case, vet {Concluded on the Mh page.) the law and the eourt have sanctioned,und | ought } Jetting an Attorney General ran fad not on that account to complain of them. ‘This is | order to make Dat & cal rl Praga ba. dase beg Ve abe ipey would Fwd doll siege not the time to discuss how you have been brought | was one exactly in point. If a conspiracy existed | i}i-hed pS otc treereed, ee aot ot hem enna into that box, or if the Attorney General has done | the Attorney General wouldnot have taken anhour | ‘\irorney-Ceneral to diecover that’ thase weeent anything that the law did not sanction; but I am | or half un hour to do go---he would have stript it of | vere evidence of @ consmracy. Therein anaes here to uddress plain facts to your sense and under- | its verbage---he would, as a Barrister-~-for, though | {risus question page ea bag? is a very standing—I am here to peak to you with courtesy, | J ar notin my wig and gown, I'll stand up for the | England 5 that question. is for. the purpose of but without flattery; and I deceive myself much i! | Bar still---have stated a plain case to the Jury---he abtesnrae ich ean roi a fo th jor the Ce of that love of honesty and fair play, which constitute | would have laid his head on it--he would have pte peo te Bi oh “ poor. | lem i the noblest and best part of our common. nature, | shown you when, where, how, who were the men, though I am full thon ao deso: Sia hos - shall not be triumphant over all preconceived pre- | what was the time---the date-the circumstances-- | Ginrged with having ccllested money nave been jndices, and that I'shall, have a favorable verdict | but he leaves it all to yourselves to solve---itis good | Gori” |auw Leneus Ha neiey ynney: tie Anti at your hands. There iy a great discrepancy of | enough for you! (Loud laughter ) But nocon- | yore jan League 4 abe ue nah jociety opinion between you and me. You differ with me poe or secrecy was even imputed, and you have, | Corn Law Learns wel peer al 80; aa ithe Anti- oa ie question o Peehesls and if you did not you | therefore, nothing left but conjecture---nothing to | dint ian Nia otter iteel een charged wile np woul aoe be here to day to try a case like this.— | suppose aie in private--the entire is before | Chvrsing them. withs 4 eesti hi = ae rom You differ from me in point of religion; if you did | you, and, therefore, Istand on this---if you know it | Ver been attributed to tm. Iv this precedent to be Soh ABC ons at ou would be in that box to-day; if | all--there never was a case in which the Auorney | Seat over to England, and the agitation to obtarn Read teeing faith that I do you would | General was so little entitled to call a Jury to spell | Shea» bread fon ae eaerehietn ia ine “ue ba os pry? ao injadgmcas uponme Imay say | out something beyond the case----something which | Conspiracy? No qeolstue, thee Heeaibah tien ore that alll the differences which exist between us are | you are left to guess at. Gentlemen, you may | saie. There will not be & juror sworn’ in England bp ths ie Gap oeiectaue tec mr that | have | remember about the time the trials were about to | ty try the case. Twas mocking and jestinewih f car ascendiaeey “a Bet id Sparel ind ea Sone hail bts re ty lp the country you bi oaad Isaid Englahinen ire srr daente Shey >! ».Per~ | were full of rumors. It was said that somethin; ‘il be sted , 2 : wien chajions, and nol ie iCharpions, | dark and atrocious would come outthat they oo ph Penni eg a 4 ) TT H a clue to eve 4 » Is, Ul pr Ss, disadvantage, but it does not terrify me from the | that no a aes pea Pegenhoe vs vie jaove bar bw pale the English people sunouncement of thoee general rinciples of uni. | out as betraying me, Such a man, it is said, was | inerey in the evioyment of their ws who lea ehh ver : i ery to all in wi ate glory ; nor dos it | seen going into Mr. Kemmis’s office—another was ie eheutents od pete Subhe ooe, ies under pinnate rend gs lr shall | at the Castle—a third was seen going into the | celeitated French eathor suysecand ldo nat x A yn be fe o your ds. be glory in what 1 have | house of a certain barrister, near your residence in pgs e m8 h putt or eae ahs i eet ance Sone ney aoveal te yee eee ezouT hones: | Merrion.aquare, “Do not associate friends,” said | no man abhore more winoerely and more intensely » e u e to me, “with Mr. so-and-so, itor— re anc afore, -sleel perfect y sure that you will be guided | will betray you;” aed he ao he ene than I do their infidel republicanism—one of thetr 8 was—they have nothing to betray—much good a 7 Ful that Thave made these, observations; but I must | may do thein if they go Mothege places. If they ia- Leena n the comrrary, by eck ir acide oy say that I would prefer that it had been otherwise | vent they|will be paid well for it. Task you, gentle- | geruine Irish, apitit 48 ome of my ingredieaten pd Nee hae Ar tlataverdtt ioe: be. a eon men, did you not expect, when empannelled in | (Laughter). I pn lg Mo loos. 7 is ogg Ca ee ed a ee ee are nCt | that box, to hear something which you did not | cyinery of the evidence brow, FY fit sanins appl pe i je to Hep ese ge pete spre infirmity | know before—some plot discovered—some secret this Tatletinees There h + hontaes hn es F} juman party cons e mnpgoad to sat hy any in- | machination—some private conversation of some | eyidence—if Lam not W ave eel ng asses oO} ievcibe Tht cate. t RAYS, ROW, Agne with the sub- | of these Traversers which would ustonish you? If | Son coubmitted to yon by the Attorney Ceca {egts ant pes to the case itself, Riverbay titer you were so tortunate as not to expect all these perth aucae bh iy th orony yeneral Inever knew of a a cariots Cees {certainly | things, you have not been disappointed; but it you | mar eer meet bth by Lay id publications, 1 is the strangest case of which Thavehad any expe- | entertained the expectation, was ever disappoint- ie wen) Loner tee pk each separately. rience ; itis not case consisting of one fact, or of | ment so complete ' Go where you please; search aa be | dui i leny that those meetings took two facts, or of ten facts, but of the history | search, consider, sean over the evidence, an @ pace. fa they were multitudinous, va- of nine months. ee are called on to go | conspiracy is no where to be found. All say of the ie in fis ers Ye jem of thousands to through all the details of the events. which | Att. General—is that all, has he nothing more | hundreds of, thousands. Tt has been said have taken place in this country during the } to teil? We knew all that before, and yet this | somemnere that (te magnitude alone of a Jast nine months. An enormous mass of matter is | is the conspiracy. Yes, gentlemen,’ what became | that umestinns T da ny legal. 1 will not discuss placed before you—n mass of matter which I defy | of the dark designs, the stratagems, the conspiracy ation; Ido not attach so much weight to the most brilliant understanding #0 to investigate | which existed in the imagination of 80 many—van- | [ed re Li tac consider it worthy of discussion. and scan as to take in all its important points; those | ished, nothiag to disclose, nothing discovered? It | were most mamerna he ceed blace—that they points which are necessary for forming a ground | wonld have been the duty of the government, and | Jack wan parse steadied, and I boast of it. so Soak indgment pon the whole at v.e view. | they have plenty of resources to purchase true tes- | or even of any antral Lot eee an oF child, ere hy & quantity of materials are placed be- | timony—to prove a conspiracy, if it existed. We ings? You wit r mal, lost < y of those meet. fore it, she human memory fails, or, what is much } cannot conceal from ourselvas that this is a kind of | sek, was any m Sereda Y answer, no, not one. woree t an 4 inilure, it is apt to forget those facts | ministerial crime—that the questionia, whether we | ed'ovuccuulted 1 am sth gee on struck, detain- bin = cry a sobering abd mitigatory character, J shall have a conciliatory ministry in office, who | one. An Abn A bee a4 again answer, no, not and to bear relent ci ‘ose ones which form the } will enlarge the elective franchise, or the 'whigs | ony female, young orold< t fad th eee Fad mig vn) aot A pad charge. Therefore, do 1 ar- | again promoted, who promised to doa good deal, | nf «peech oreonduet? not ona W, bag indelicasy aus this proesenioa, But from any hostility to the } and did|ittle. That is the question. You perceive shilling's worth ‘of prdbette aevred cee fromers of it, but foeths uiter mpossibi ty in which | then, what interest in forwarding every part of the | any way ? Not one AGN lf ot a in at places the jury, to disengage trom that mass of | case—thetrong stake—the interest they Ravetodis- that-—a policeman who attended at Mullaghtocat te nd, on the othier, to flad out, ine woke nt wide j cover the teal tacts existing—-the anxietyto discover | colored clothes, swore that there was ferer loarern on LE be tied eet ina word, the real | and point out a conspiracy; tofollowthe conspirators slanght of people from Carlow ; aan somone the a Boable t ford youin th see what help I will | into therrcaves and recesses, and bring their diabo- ly that they committed r fe acti bome einete je able to aft e ohat are taeuter» and in the fitst y lical acts to the light of day. No man could h Pread.csturder “<Lawene arpa psn 1a Sa Baas let us see saituae «affirmative, and what | 2 stronger motive in conducting the prosecu ema aan tex ade wie es, exactly the po Na ne} aie ase se of this ‘cution—in | than the Attorney General. No man has so total- se an oh he ae ae violence committed at other words, what this proseontion is, and what it | ly fuiled. And why? Because he had nothing to | {row Tren! (enewad (arlene of # ginger innate apard conspiracy’ anew gager on the | discover. It is impowible to answer it otherwise | mir" bespenks ‘a foregone ‘canclison, fer Ht aty ‘ yf a con- | Every motive which can influence pow or act of 7; ¢ on, fOr wiry t sh get hn jonary for the mean. bronght. to play—all the influence an authority Ror eer or usltee Fad besa committed, it could sareotnent between several gos 1! & private | of wealth—situations in the excise and customs | guiiered ihe loony Fike + ih soy Ry parol ad enme > Now, that isthe ‘commnon series dedunnnns 4} —in the police office—the constabulary, above | ed. and tiie ovicle tascbat et baleaisenan complain- the word; but ithas been taken under the spenict all things the revenue police—every temptation, in mertings resolves itself into a. “fe! wes pla pa lui 9 protection of the gentlemen of the bar, af ee ne, and yet all in vain—for one reason, beeaube | these were the words of tl Wied Dot content with the common sénee menial tee a Was nothing to diacloee—nothing to betray. | gingerbread stand Caughtery Yew it, pachonbub + the word in a two-fold sense, in away of tin Gree! then, what is the evidencet If we have n- Butit is the prosecution thar ie so" mere aee be own; they have two hooks to their aed ‘ell tleeyoay, St g sonvoome ls tl Si wien? violence at those ineetings—no timult—no battery you that You most spell ont a oonepirucy by impli: # viet ue see if they attehed uny old’ slmaneck on Good twersin or 20k ef pose tommrene OS it, I fully adopt the expression—that design existed before it exists now, and, my lords, it wall , notwithstanding any result ef this trial. It is not from me, gentlemen, that the people have ga this knowledge—they have been taught by bitter experience; their education has been so com. plete in this, that they cannot expect any amelio- ration of their condition with combination. Now, gentlemen, what evidence of a conspiracy have you? TI say none; but I leave it to you, upon your consciences, to say is there any evi- dence? You, gentlemen, have the responsi- bility upon your own sh you must an- awer to your Maker for tl t you shall return. Now, gentlemen, [ submit to you that there is no evidence before you at all. You have had nothin; but newspaper evidence laid before you—Now submit to their lordships, that this is no evidence, unless a conspiracy has been proved. There has been no evidence laid before you but newspapers, and | submit that those newspapers are no evidence uatil the conspiracy is proved; which, apparently, cannot be done without them. Where, gentlemen is any proof bringing me in connexion with any of the newspapers I might, in law, appeal to their Tisha ds put I prefer to appeal to you open the facts. Now, gentlemen,you will remember the evi- dence you haye before you; keepin mind that the Repeal Association disunctly disavowed that any newspaper was the organ. That wasa fact, and you have it in proof before you. Undoubtedly we sent newspapers to various individuals; but what does that amount to? Merely to this—that certain parties subscribe a certain sum of money to the As- sociation, and for that sum he desires thata certain paper may be sent him, and we do He selects his «wn paper, and we do not in any way attempt to control his judgment; but no paper has ever been the recognised organ of the Association. The papers may have contained libels; but if they did, why did not the Attorney General prosecute them as sich ? The editors or proprieters were liable to the law of libel. Why did not the Attorney Gene- ral bringthem before ‘a Jury for the offence, if he thonght it was worth his while? Now, gentlemen, we are charged with iting to violence, and what is the proof offered? You have had some garbled specches of mine read to you; but do they prove any intention of mine to incite to violence? 1} ask Ha is there one that does not inculcate peace? It has always been my greatest eflort, and that has been laid before you Sy my prosecutors. Two winciples have actuated me thro h life, and they have been put before the world. ‘They have been inseribed ues your banners; and [ avow them now. ‘The first is that He who commits a crime gives strength to the enemy.” I avow it boldiy~ it is mine. And the second is, tiat “ Whatever advantage we obtain it must be obtained without the shedding of one drop of blood.” Gent'emen that has been the theory of my whole life. | would rather forego any advantage than that one drop of human blood should be shed. I have said it fifty times~I have boasted of it--1 have proclaimed it as Joudly as ever public man proclaimed it--I have stood alone sometimes in disclarming, in the most direct terms, ali intention to resort to physical force—I have disclaimed it in all times, and under all contingencies except in the extreme case of an attack of civil war, but in all other contingencies I have always said that not one single drop of haman blood should be shed. It has ever been my pride during my political lifetto avow thia sentiment, and Ll would have abandoned, and 1 would now aban- don, the sacred cause of Repes! if one drop of hn- man blood was shed ; I proclaimed this feeling on my part in the cause of Catholic emancipation Yea, [succeeded with emancipation by the mighty aid and power of that principle. Look, gentlemen of the jury, to the past history and progress of eman- tion, Look to the settlement of that question. Not one drop of blood was spilled in obtaining it. Look to the struggles which have hitherto been made, and will yet be made, in the cause of repeal. Not one drop of blood has been shed' And is it rightmia it wise to nblicly calling upon them to stop the progress of Ribbenten ? Oh,gentlemien, if 1 were a conspira- tor, would I not be glad to be joined by conspira- tors? 1 my means were applied to what I wished to carry out, would I not have roused the Ribbon- men in various parts of Ireland? I had influence enough to do go. 1 had only to countenance it, and nobody knows how far it would have extended haa Idone so. You have before you over and over again my discountenance of, and resistance to, se- cret societies. Gentlemen, take these things mto your consideration, and say, upon your conscience —say, if you can, that that man is a base hypocrite! Bt you cannot say seo—you would not vo tarnish your consciences. Bat this point in my po- itieal life most have struek you 1 am, and have been, opposed to the laws for making provision for the poor. [opposed oor laws of every kind. With the influence which Fpomessed, could T not have poverty against pro- perty, and have insisted upon all the poor being fed by the rich? L was tormented by iny friends. 1 was sneered at and jeered by all—by many who had joined me. I consulted my conscience. 1 saw the real nature of a provision which only makes more destitution than it relieves ; and the effect of which must be to inflict a great burden on the pro- perty of the country. I knew it was unfit for the people, but Iam bound to say that when it passed into a law I did rot give it the amallest opposition I allowed the experiment to be fairly tried, and many of those who had previously abused me avowed that I was right and they were wrong. 1am ready now to facilitate and assist its working in every way I can; but I go back to the time when it was unpopular, and when it was shouted out of so- ciety by those whom I estimated most, and whose good opinion | valued, and | appeal to that part of my life as an answer to this foul charge of con- spiracy. Gentlemen, you must also recollect, tor it is in evidence, the manner of my answer to M Thiers’ speech and address. You heard that in the evidence of Mr. Bond Hughes; ana now, as 1 have mentioned his name, let me say word of Mr. Bond Hughes. Gentlemen, f was one of thoge the most active against that gentleman, because I felt convinced at the time that he hac sworn that which was not trne. Now, Lam gla! his name has been referred to, becauee it aflords me the opportunity which I am proud to avail my- self of, to declare that I never saw a Witness on the table who gave his evidence more fairly than Mr. Hughes, and 1 am firmly convinced that it was a mistake, which any honest man might have fallen into, that occasioned the apparent contradic. tionin his evidence. I know this is not a part of the case, but I arm sure your lordships will think that J am not wrong in making this public avowal. It appears by his report, also, how firmly 1 rejeet- ed the only ground on which we could obtain sy pathy from them, and that we declined to tak support from them inthe slightest degree dispara- ging to our religion. But that is put still more strongly when you recollect my strong denuncia- tions of the Ameiican slave owners. You will recollect that at the time large sums of mio- ney were being collected in the slavehold- ing States of the Union, Remittances were in progress, and considerable progress had been made in getting up an association in Charleston, S. Carolina. Dia 1 shrunk from doing my duty upon the slave question? Did T not use the strongest language 1 Did I not denounce, asthe enemies of God and man, those culprits and criminals? Did [ not comp.re the associating our- selves with them as an association with thievee, and pickpockets, and felonst Did T not resort to language the strongest and most violent to express my denuaneintion of the horrible trafie in haman beings ; of the execrable nature of the slave trade —and of all the immorality and frightful conge- queaeces that resulted trom that infamous troftic, Tf Lwase hypocrite | might have given them a few sinooth words ; but J denounced them, and thereby showed that there wae nothing of hypocrisy in thote public principles I have always advocated, for such am