ho had officiated at my
christening, was yet alive, and related, with singular clearness of
recollection, every circumstance of that sorrowful night when the
tidings of my father's violent death reached the village beside Castle
Carew. Of those present on this occasion, among whom were Polly Fagan
and MacNaghten, he could not yet point to where one could be found.

There now only remained to sum up the evidence, and impart that
consistency and coherence to the story which should carry conviction to
the minds of the jury; and this task he performed with a most consummate
ability, concluding all with an account of my own visit to the home of
my fathers, and the reception which there had met me. The passionate
vehemence of his indignation seemed fired by the theme; and, warming
as he proceeded, he denounced the infamy of that morning as not only a
stain upon the nation, but the age, and called upon the jury, whatever
their decision might be in the cause itself,--whether to restore the
heir to his own, or send him a beggared wanderer through the world,--to
mark by some expression of their own the horror and disgust this act of
barbaric cruelty had filled them with.

A burst of applause and indignation commingled saluted the orator as
he sat down; nor was it till after repeated efforts of the criers that
silence was again restored, and the business of the trial proceeded
with.

Mr. M'Clelland, to whom the chief duty of the defence was intrusted,
requested permission of the court to defer the reply to the following
day, and, the leave being granted, the court arose.

I dined that day with Mr. Fozley. I would fain have been alone. The
intense excitement of the scene had made me feverish, and I would gladly
have felt myself at ease, and free to give way, in solitude, to the
emotions which were almost suffocating me; but he insisted on my
presence, and I went. The company included many very distinguished
names,--members of both Houses of Parliament, and men of high
consideration; and by all of them was I received with more than
kindness, and some went so far as to congratulate me on a victory which,
if not yet gazetted, was just as certainly achieved.

I dare not trust myself to dwell on this subject; the tremors of hope
and fear I then went through threaten even yet to come back in memory.
A few more words, and I have done. Would that I could spare myself the
pain of these! But it cannot be so; my task must be completed.