you will recollect the situations of life in which all these
men are; they have all up to this moment been the best possible
characters, two of them are persons of very high and distinguished
situations in life, members of a very noble family; and with respect to
one of them, he has reflected back on a long and noble line of
ancestors, more glory than he has received from them; and it would be
the most painful moment of my life, if I should to-night find that that
wreath of laurel which a life of danger and honour has planted round his
brows, should in a moment be blasted by your verdict.

MR. PARK.

May it please your Lordship;

Gentlemen of the Jury,

If my learned friend, at the close of his address to you, thought it
necessary to make an apology for the fatigue which he had endured in the
course of this day, and during his address to you; it becomes much more
necessary for me to make such an apology, when it is now sixteen hours
and a half since I left my own dwelling. Gentlemen, notwithstanding
that, I have a very serious and important duty to discharge to the
person who now sits by me, and I have no difficulty in calling upon you,
in the most serious manner, fatigued and exhausted as you may be, for
your attention; you must not permit, I take the liberty of saying, as
you regard the oath you have taken, you must not permit that fatigue to
disable you from attention to the statement and the evidence that are to
be laid before you.

Gentlemen, the case has become an extremely serious and a most important
one; for the gentlemen for whom my learned friend the Serjeant has
addressed you, I have nothing to say; they have been well and ably
defended; but I am to address you on behalf of a gentleman totally
unknown to me till this day, when I saw him in Court. He is represented
to me as a gentleman of very high descent, and though he has been
unfortunate in his pecuniary circumstances, he has been proved, before
you to-day, to be man of very considerable attainments, and of high and
literary character; it is therefore your duty, and I know it is a duty
you will honestly and faithfully discharge, not to allow what my learned
friend cautioned you well against, but immediately fell into the very
same course himself; not to allow any thing like prejudice to bias any
of your minds.

Gentlemen, I am no flatterer of persons who sit in your place; and I
have no difficulty in telling you twelve gentlemen, that, though I h