their child: but the noble marquis approached her; the plume of glory nodded on his head. Not the goddess Minerva, but the goddess Venus had lighted upon his casque; "the fire that never tires-such as many a lady gay had been dazzled with before.' At the first advance she trembled at the second she struck to the redoubted son of Mars and pupil of Venus. The jury saw it was not his fault (it was an Irish jury): they felt compassion for the tenderness of the mother's heart, and for the warmth of the lover's passion. The jury saw, on the one side, a young, entertaining gallant; on the other, a beauteous creature, of charms irresistible. They recollected that Jupiter had been always successful in his amours, although Vulcan had not always escaped some awkward accidents. The jury was composed of fathers, brothers, husbands; but they had not the vulgar jealousy that views little things of that sort with rigor; and wishing to assimilate their country in every respect to England, now that they are united to it, they, like English gentlemen, returned to their box with a verdict of sixpence damages and sixpence costs." Let this be sent to England. I promise you your odious secret will not be better kept than that of the wretched Mrs. Massey. There is not a bawdy chronicle in London in which the epitaph, which you will have written on yourselves, will not be published; and our enemies will delight in the spectacle of our precocious depravity, in seeing that we can be rotten before we are ripe. But I do not suppose it: I do not, can not, will not believe it. I will not harrow up myself with the anticipated apprehension. There is another consideration, gentlemen, which I think most imperiously demands even a vindictive award of exemplary damages, and that is, the breach of hospitality. To us peculiarly does it belong to avenge the violation of its altar. The hospitality of other countries is a matter of necessity or convention; in savage nations, of the first; in polished, of the latter; but the hospitality of an Irishman is not the running account of posted and ledgered courtesies, as in other countries: it springs, like all his qualities, his faults, his virtues, directly from his heart. The heart of an Irishman is by nature bold, and he confides; it is tender, and he loves; it is generous, and he gives; it is social, and he is hospitable. This sacrilegious intruder has profaned the religion of that sacred altar, so elevated in our worship, so precious to our devotion; and it is our privilege to avenge the crime. You must either pull down the altar and abolish the worship, or you must preserve its sanctity undebased. There is no alternative between the universal exclusion of all mankind from your threshold, and the most rigorous punishment of him who is admitted and betrays. This defendant has been so trusted, he has so betrayed, and you ought to make him a most signal example. Gentlemen, I am the more disposed to feel the strongest indignation and abhorrence at this odious conduct of the defendant, when I consider the deplorable condition to which he has actually reduced the plaintiff, and perhaps the still more deplorable one that he has in prospect before him. What a progress has he to travel through before he can attain the peace and tranquillity which he has lost! How like the wounds of the body are those of the mind! How burning the fever! How painful the suppuration! How slow, how hesitating, how relapsing the process to convalescence! Through what a variety of suffering, through what new scenes and changes must my unhappy client pass ere he can reattain, should he ever reattain, that health of soul of which he has been despoiled by the cold and deliberate machinations of this practiced and gilded seducer! If, instead of drawing upon his incalculable wealth for a scanty retribution, you were to stop the progress of his despicable achievements by reducing him to actual poverty, you could not, even so, punish him beyond the scope of his offense, nor reprise the plaintiff beyond the measure of his suffering. Let me remind you, that in this action the law not only empowers you, but that its policy commands you to consider the public example, as well as the individual injury, when you adjust the amount of your verdict. I confess I am most anxious that you should acquit yourselves worthily upon this important occasion. I am addressing you as fathers, husbands, brothers. I am anxious that a feeling of those high relations should enter into, and give dignity to your verdict. But I confess it, I feel a tenfold solicitude when I remember that I am addressing you as my countrymen, as Irishmen, whose characters as jurors, as gentlemen, must find either honor or degradation in the result of your decision. Small as must be the distributive share of that national estimation that can belong to so unimportant an individual as myself, yet do I own I am tremblingly solicitous for its fate. Perhaps it appears of more value because it is embarked on the same bottom with yours; perhaps the community of peril, of common safety, or common wreck, gives a consequence to my share of the risk, which I could not be vain enough to give it if it were not raised to it by that mutuality. But why stoop to think at all of myself, when I know that you, gentlemen of the jury, when I know that our country itself, are my clients on this day, and must abide the alternative of honor or infamy, as you shall decide? But I will not despond-I will not dare to despond. I have every trust, and hope, and confidence in you. And to that hope I will add my most fervent prayer to the God of all truth and justice, so to raise, and enlighten, and fortify your minds, that you may so decide as to preserve to yourselves, while you live, the most delightful of all recollections, that of acting justly, and to transmit to your children the most precious of all inheritances, the memory of your virtue. to me, Damages-£10,000. INDEX. ALLEN-A barrister, sketch of, p. 375, 376-Disappointments in college, 375 AVONMORE-Barry Yelverton, chief baron, notice of, p. 63-Sketch of, by BURGH, HUSSEY-Description of, p. 43-By Barrington, 44, 45-His pa- BURKE, EDMUND-Notice of, by Grattan, p. 85-91. BURROWES, PETER-Sketch of, p. 356-358-His character of Grattan, 358- BUSHE, C. K.-His personal appearance, p. 345-Sketch of, 346–351— CLONMEL, LORD-Notice of, p. 39-Description of, by Hardy, 40-His dis- COCKAIGNE-Witness on Jackson's trial, p. 168-His visit to the author, CORRY, ISAAC-His contest with Mr. Grattan in the Irish Parliament, p. CURRAN-His birth, p. 13-Parents, ib.-Attachment to his mother, and 142-His dissatisfaction at the publication of his speeches, 149-Votes EMMETT-Family of. p. 257, 258-Account of Temple and T. A. Emmett, FINNERTY-Notice of, p. 172-Curran's speech in defense of, 175-184- FITZGIBBON-Sketch of, by Barrington, p. 132-Contest with Curran in |