o her senses to find her lover dead, and her brother standing
beside her, red with his blood. Yes; he had avenged her!--he had
punished the ruffian for his barbarity towards her, and saved his
sister from the ignominy to which Mr. Frederick Brown told you with
so much flippancy that she had been doomed.

"If this was the young man's conduct, was there anything in it that
you can even blame? Which of you would have done otherwise? Which of
you will tell me that in avenging the wrongs of a sister, or of a
daughter, he would pause to measure the weight of his stick, or the
number of his blows. Fancy each of you that you see the form of her
you love best in the rough grasp of a violent seducer! Endeavour to
bring home to yourselves the feelings to which such a sight would
give rise within you! and then, if you can, find that young man
guilty of murder, because his heart was warm to feel his sister's
wrongs and his hand was strong to avenge them.

"But you have been told that as the prisoner had met certain
persons for the purpose of entering into a conspiracy of murdering
Ussher--and that that fact would be proved to you--you are bound to
consider that his coming across Ussher was not accidental, and that
the manner in which he attacked that man whilst carrying off his
sister was a part of his preconcerted plan. I first of all deny that
any credible evidence, any evidence worthy of the slightest belief,
has been brought before you to induce you to suppose that the
prisoner had even joined any such conspiracy; instead of which you
have strong circumstantial evidence that he had never done so.

"You have most of you, no doubt, heard, on various occasions,
from different learned judges seated on that bench, that a crown
approver's evidence is to be taken with the greatest caution, and
only to be believed in detail, when corroborated by other evidence or
by circumstances. Now this man, Brady, on whose sole evidence you are
desired to convict the prisoner, has shown himself an approver of
the very worst description. You are aware that he was the prisoner's
servant; that he is now Mr. Keegan's; that there has been long enmity
between these men; that the former has been an oppressed debtor--the
latter a most oppressive creditor. Mr. Keegan's spirit towards the
prisoner's family you may learn from the scandalous and unwarrantable
language which has been proved to you to have been used by him
towards them. Mr. Keegan's acerbity h