Captain Saurin, of the lawyers' corps, of orders to that corps, stating, in case of any tumult to repair to Smithfield, and be furnished with ball-cartridges, and, in a note, to 66 keep their orders secret." After Lord Edward read the paper, he said he thought that government intended to arrest him, and that he would go off to France, to hasten an invasion of this country, and to send frigates, as he had interest with one of the French ministers; said he did not approve of a general invasion at first, and remarked, that if any accident happened to overturn it, it would totally destroy the business both here and in France. He said he thought Wexford an unprotected place, and would answer for a rallying point against the country, and if it were committed to him, he would engage it would answer. After this, Lord Edward paced the room a while, and then said, "It is impossible, government cannot be informed, no, it is impossible -government can never be able to find out where the provincial meetings meet! This deponent replied “it was impossible!!!"

This deponent saw Lord Edward several times after the arrest of Bond; at one of the interviews, he gave this deponent a paper, an address to the United Irishmen of Kildare county; he said he had some money in his hands as treasurer of the Barony of Ophaly, which he would pay over to this deponent, as treasurer of the county. This deponent carried the address down to the county meeting, it was read, and then, at the request of a member, burnt-the substance of the paper was to fill up the vacancies made by the arrest of Bond, &c. as soon as possible, for very soon they should be called upon, they might rely upon his being in his place on a short day, and desired them not to think any thing of what had happened. Some time after, Lady Fitzgerald gave this deponent 137. to be laid out in defence of the prisoners to be tried at Naas. This deponent was told by a delegate from a baronial committee, that his practices were known, and also heard, that a delegate from Carberry committee said, that

Michael Reynolds had brought down a charge against him for the information which they said he had given about the meeting in Oliver Bond's house. He was afterwards summoned to meet at Bell's house in Kildare; he there gave the most solemn assurances that he had not given any information! This deponent was preparing to leave the country, but a party of the Cork militia came to his house, put him under arrest, staid seven or eight days, drank his wine, and broke things. This deponent afterwards set out for Dublin, but changing his mind on the way, he returned to his house, and was there arrested by the Slane cavalry, who brought him up to Dublin. On his arrival he was censured by both parties; by one, for being a United Irishman, and the other, for giving information: he therefore determined to lay his whole conduct before the court and his country at large. About four or five days before the meeting at Bond's, this deponent drew upon Mr. Cope for 300 guineas, and some time after, for 200: it was his determination to leave the kingdom; his losses amounted to about 635. After Bond's arrest, he went down to attend the county meeting, that he might not be suspected.

This deponent directed a servant to administer a dose of tartar emetic to his mother-in-law, and Captain Withringtón (her son) said he had poisoned her. She was a large corpse, and on the fourth day, there was a pitched sheet got to wrap her corpse in. This deponent was indebted to Mrs. Cahil, who was old and blind, in the sum of 751. he gave her his bond for 50%. and his note for 257. but, by mistake, the bond he gave her was not perfected; the money has been since paid, except 107. which he had tendered. This deponent took an oath when made a United Irishman, and when he was made a colonel; he also took the oath of allegiance, and had taken an oath in this court, which he consi

dered as absolving him from all oaths he had taken as a United Irishman.*

Bellingham Swan, a magistrate, deposed, that having been apprized of the meeting to be held at Bond's on the 12th of March last, he took with him fifteen serjeants of different regiments, dressed in coloured clothes, and by means of the pass word, "where is M'Cann, or Ivers, of Carlow," was admitted; he apprehended Bond in the warehouse; he then darted up into the room, where he found M'Cann, Byrne, and some others, all of whom he arrested, and seized all the papers he could find. Bond made not the least resistance, neither did he appear to be at all alarmed at his apprehension.

Mr. Cope confirmed the testimony of Reynolds as to the conversation and intercourse between them.

Mr. CURRAN. My lords, and gentlemen of the jury, I am counsel for the prisoner at the bar-it is my duty to lay his case before you. It is a duty that at any time would be a painful one to me, but at present peculiarly so; having, in the course of this long trial, experienced great fatigue both of mind and body, a fatigue I have felt in common with the learned judges who preside on the bench, and with my brethren of the bar. I feel, as an advocate for my client, the awful duty of an obligation that has devolved upon me. I do not mean, gentlemen, to dilate on my own personal fatigues, for I am not in the habit of considering my personal ill state of health, or the anxiety of my mind, in discharging my duty to clients in such awful situations, as in the present momentous crisis; I have not been in the habit, "gentlemen of the jury, to expatiate to you on personal

* "An approver comes forward; the plan which he discloses may be true, or it may be of his own formation--but, if convicted, in the smallest instance, of wilful and corrupt perjury, I do not see how any man can say that it does not create a doubt of his testimony; and you have been truly told, 'that doubt in the present case is acquittal.'" Mr. Justice Chamberlaine, in Finney's trial.

ill health; in addressing myself to jurors on any common subject, I have not been in the habit of addressing myself to the interposition of the court, or to the good-natured consideration of the jury, on behalf of my client. I have mentioned, indeed, my own enfeebled, worn-out body, and my worn-out state of mind, not out of any paltry respect to myself, nor to draw your attention to myself, but to induce you to reflect upon this-that, in the weakness of the advocate, the case of my client, the prisoner at the bar, is not implicated; for, his case is so strong in support of his innocence, that it is not to be weakened by the imbecility or the fatigue of his advocate.

Gentlemen of the jury, I lament that this case has not been brought forward in a simple, and in the usual way, without any extraneous matter being introduced into it, as I think in justice, and as I think in humanity, it ought to have been. I lament that any little artifices should be employed upon so great and solemn a case as this, more especially in desperate times than upon more ordinary occasions; some allegations of criminality have been introduced, as to persons and things, that ought not, in my opinion, to have been adverted to in a case like this. What, for instance, has this case to do with the motion made by Lord Moira in the house of lords in Ireland, in February last, or the accidental conversation of Lord Edward Fitzgerald? If you have a feeling for virtue, I trust that Lord Moira will be revered as a character that adds a dignity to the peerage. What made that noble character forego his great fortune, to quit his extensive domains, and the tranquillity of a philosophic mind, but in the great and glorious endeavour to do service to his country? I must repeat, he is an honour to the Irish peerage. Let me ask, why was the name of Lord Moira (or Lord Wycombe, who happened to dine at Sir Duke Giffard's) introduced into this trial? What has the motion which Lord Moira introduced into the house of lords to do with the trial of Mr. Oliver Bond on a charge of high treason?

Gentlemen of the jury, you have been addressed as against a person by whom a fire has been supposed to have been kindled, and this, too, at the period of its being extinguished. [Some ignorant persons in the crowded gallery having created some noise in the court, prevented the learned advocate a few minutes from proceeding. The court said they would punish any person who dared to interrupt, the counsel for the prisoner, and said they hoped Mr. Curran would be able to proceed in stating the prisoner's case.]

Mr. Curran in continuation. I have very little hope to be able to discharge my duty, but I impute the interruption to mere accident; I cannot suppose it was levelled against me, but I am afraid it was excited by prejudice. Gentlemen of the jury, I was cautioning you against being prejudiced against my unfortunate client; I fear there is much reason why I should caution you against the influence of any prejudice against the prisoner at the bar. You are to decide, in your verdict, by the evidence given, and the evidence that, on the part of the prisoner, will be laid before you, and you will see the evidence does not support the prosecution. You will banish any prejudices, and let your verdict be the result of cool and deliberate investigation; and not given in the heat of the season, when men's minds may be heated by the circumstances of the times. I shall lay before you the case of my client, to controvert the evidence given on the part of the prosecution, and shall offer to your consideration some observations in point of law, under the judicial control of the court as to matter of law. I will strip my client's case from the extraneous matter that has been attempted to be fastened on it. I feel, gentlemen, the more warm, when I speak to you in favour of my client's innocence, and to bring his innocence home to your judgment. I know the honesty and rectitude of your characters, and know my client has nothing to fear from your understandings.