fidence into the instrument of your ruin! If this be once permitted as a ground of justification, we may bid farewell at once to all the delight, ful intercourse of social life. Spurning as I do at this odious system of organized distrust, suppose the admission made, that my client was careless, indiscreet, culpable, if they will, in his domestic regulations, is it therefore to be endured, that every abandoned burglar, should seduce his wife, or violate his daughter? Is it to be endured, that Mr. Blake, of all men, should rely on such an infamous and convenient extenuation? He his friend—his guest-his confident—he who introduced a spotless sister to this attainted intimacy-shall he say-I associated with you hourly-I affected your familiarity for many years—I accompanied my domesticated minister of religion to your family-I almost naturalized the nearest female relative I had on earth, unsullied and unmarried as she was within your household; but-you fool-it was only to turn it into a brothel! Merciful God, will you endure him when he tells you thus, that he is on the watch to prowl upon the weakness of humanity, and that he audaciously solicits your charter for ; such libertinism ?

I have heard it asserted also, that they mean to arraign the husband as a conspirator, because, in the hour of confidence and misfortune, he accepted a proffered pecuniary assistance from the man he thought his friend. It is true he did so: but so, I will say, criminally careful was he of his interests, that he gave him his bond-made him enter up judgment on that bond, and made him issue an execution on that judg. ment ready to be levied in a day, that in the wreck of all, the friend of his bosom should be at least indemnified. It was my impression, indeed, that under a lease of this nature, amongst honourable men, so far from any unwarrantable privilege created, there was rather a peculiar delicacy incumbent on the donor. I should have thought so still but for a frightful expression of one of the Counsel on the motion, by which they endeavoured not to trust a Dublin Jury with this issue. What, exclaimed they, in all the pride of their exerable instructions, “a poor plaintiff and a rich defendant—is there nothing in that ?" No; if my client's shape does not belie his species, there is nothing in that. I brave the assertion as a calumny on human nature. 1 call on you, if such an allegation be repeated, to visit it with vindictive and overwhelming damages. I would appeal, not to this civilized assembly, but to an horde of savages, whether it is possible for the most inhuman monster thus to sacrifice to infamy, his character, his wife, his home, his children! In the name of possibility, I deny it; in the name of humanity, I denounce it; in the name of our common country, and our common nature, I implore of the learned Counsel not to promulgate

such a slander upon both; but I need not do so if the zeal of advocacy should induce them to the attempt, memory would array their happy homes before them; their little children would lisp its contradiction-their love their hearts—their instinctive feelings as fathers and as husbands, would rebel within them, and wither up the horrid blasphemy upon their lips.

They will find it difficult to palliate such turpitude—I am sure I find it difficult to aggravate. It is in itself an hyperbole of wickedness. "Honour, innocence, religion, friendship, all that is sanctified or lovely, or endearing in creation. Even that hallowed, social, shall I not say indigenous virtue; that blessed hospitality, which foreign envy could not deny, or foreign robbery despoil; which, when all else had perished, cast a bloom on our desolation, flinging its rich foliage over the national ruin, as if to hide the monument, while it gave a shelter to the mourner; even that withered away before this pestilence! But what do I say! was virtue merely the victim of this adulterer ? 'Worse, worse; it was his instrument; even on the broken tablet of the decalogue did he whet the dagger for this social assassination.What will you say, when I inform you, that a few months before, he went deliberately to the baptismal font with the waters of life to regenerate "the infant that, too well could he avouch it, had been born in sin and he promised to teach it Christianity! And he promised to guard it against "the flesh!" And lest infinite mercy should overlook the sins of its adulterous father, seeking to make his God his pander, he tried to damn it even with the Sacrament!

See then the horrible atrocity of this case as it touches the defendant -but how can you count its miseries as attaching to the plaintiff! He has suffered a pang the most agonizing to human sensibility it has been inflicted by his friend, and inflicted beneath his roof it commences at a period which casts a doubt on the legitimacy of his children, and to crown all, "unto him a son is born,” even since the separation, upon wnd'n every shilling of his estates has been entailed by settlement ! What compensation can reprise so unparalleled a sufferer? What solitary consolation is there in reserve for him? Is it love? Alas, there was one whom he adored with all the heart's idolatry, and she deserted him. Is it friendship? There was one of all the world whom he trusted, and that one betrayed him. Is it society? The smile of others' happiness appears but the epitaph of his own. Is it solitude? Can he be alone while memory, striking on the sepulchre of his heart, calls into existence the spectres of the past. Shall he fly for refuge to his "sacred home!" Every object there is eloquent of his ruin! Shall he seek a mournful solace in his children? Ok,

he has no children-there is the little favourite that she has nursed, and there-there-even on its guileless features-there is the horrid smile of the adulterer!

O, Gentlemen, am I this day only the counsel of my client! no-no -I am the advocate of humanity—of yourselves—your homes—your wives-your families-your little children. I am glad that this case exhibits such atrocity. Unmarked as it is by any mitigatory feature, it may stop the frightful advance of this calamity; it will be met now and marked with vengeance; if it be not, farewell to the virtues of your country; farewell to all confidence between man and man; farewell to that unsuspicious and reciprocal tenderness, without which, marriage is but a consecrated curse. If oaths are to be violated; laws disregarded; friendship betrayed; humanity trampled on; national and individual honour stained; and a jury of fathers, and of husbands, will give such miscreancy a passport to their own homes, and wives and daughters-farewell to all that yet remains of Ireland! But I will not cast such a doubt upon the character of my country. Against the sneer of the foe, and the scepticism of the foreigner, I will still point to the domestic virtues, that no perfidy could barter, and no bribery can purchase; that with a Roman usage, at once embellish and consecrate households, giving to the society of the hearth all the purity of the altar; that lingering alike in the palace and the cottage, are still to be found scattered over this land, the relic of what she was; the source, perhaps, of what she may be; the lone, and stately, and magnificent memorials, that rearing their majesty amid surrounding ruins, serve at once as the landmarks of the departed glory, and the models by which the future may be erected.

Preserve those virtues with a yestal fidelity; mark this day by your verdict, your horror at their profanation; and believe me, when the hand which records that verdict shall be dust, and the tongue that asks it traceless in the grave, many a happy home will bless its consequences, and many a mother teach her little child to hate the impious treason of adultery!

The Jury, after a most laborious investigation of two days, found a verdict for the Defendant.

THE ADDRESS TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES; DRAWN BY MR. PHILLIPS

At the Request of the Roman Catholics of Ireland.

May it please Your Royal Highness,

We, the Roman Catholic people of Ireland, beg leave to offer our unfeigned congratulations on your providential escape from the con

spiracy which so lately endangered both your life and honour-a conspiracy, unmauly in its motives, unnatural in its object, and unworthy in its means a conspiracy, combining so monstrous an union of turpitude and treason, that it is difficult to say, whether royalty would have suffered more from its success, than human nature has from its conception. Our allegiance is not less shocked at the infernal spirit, which would sully the diadem, by breathing on its most precious ornament, the virtue of its wearer, than our best feelings are at the inhospitable baseness, which would betray the innocence of a female in a land of strangers!!

Deem it not disrespectful, illustrious Lady, that, from a people proverbially ardent in the cause of the defenceless, the shout of virtuous congratulation should receive a feeble echo. Our harp has long been unused to tones of gladness, and our hills but faintly answer the unusual accent. Your heart, however, can appreciate the silence inflicted by suffering; and ours, alas, feels but too acutely, that the commiseration is sincere which flows from sympathy.

Let us hope that, when congratulating virtue in your royal person, on her signal triumph over the perjured, the profligate, and the corrupt, we may also rejoice in the completion of its consequences. Let us hope that the society of your only child again solaces your dignified retirement; and that, to the misfortune of being a widowed wife, is not added the pang of being a childless mother!

But if, Madam, our hopes are not fulfilled; if, indeed, the cry of an indignant and unanimous people is disregarded; console yourself with the reflection, that, though your exiled daughter may not hear the precepts of virtue from your lips, she may at least study the practice of it in your example.

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