nt. It is of no moment
whether a person has a memory, if he cannot use it, and, in such a case,
the legal presumption is, that he is without a memory; for, otherwise,
nature, who is ever wise and beneficent, would be throwing away her
gifts.

"Gentlemonikins, I have already said you are the judges, in this case,
of both the law and the fact. The fate of the prisoner is in your hands.
God forbid that it should be, in any manner, influenced by me; but this
is an offence against the king's dignity, and the security of the realm;
the law is against the prisoner, the facts are all against the prisoner,
and I do not doubt that your verdict will be the spontaneous decision of
your own excellent judgments, and of such a nature as will prevent the
necessity of our ordering a new trial."

The jurors put their tails together, and in less than a minute, their
foremonikin rendered a verdict of guilty. Noah sighed, and took a fresh
supply of tobacco.

The case of the queen was immediately opened by her majesty's
attorney-general; the prisoner having been previously arraigned, and a
plea entered of "not guilty."

The queen's advocate made a bitter attack on the animus of the
unfortunate prisoner. He described her majesty as a paragon of
excellences; as the depositary of all the monikin virtues, and the
model of her sex. "If she, who was so justly celebrated for the gifts of
charity, meekness, religion, justice, and submission to feminine duties,
had no memory," he asked leave to demand, in the name of God, who had?
"Without a memory, in what manner was this illustrious personage
to recall her duties to her royal consort, her duties to her royal
offspring, her duties to her royal self? Memory was peculiarly a royal
attribute; and without its possession no one could properly be deemed
of high and ancient lineage. Memory referred to the past, and the
consideration due to royalty was scarcely ever a present consideration,
but a consideration connected with the past. We venerated the past. Time
was divided into the past, present, and future. The past was invariably
a monarchical interest--the present was claimed by republicans--the
future belonged to fate. If it were decided that the queen had no
memory, we should strike a blow at royalty. It was by memory, as
connected with the public archives, that the king derived his title to
his throne; it was by memory, which recalled the deeds of his ancestors,
that he became entitled to our mo