rious
offence, this is not the time and place to reproach you with other
misconduct; and yet I could almost regret that it is not possible to put
you once more in the dock, and try you for conspiracy and incitement to
riot; as in my own mind I have no doubt that you are in collusion with
the ruffianly revolutionists, who, judging from their accent, are
foreigners of a low type, and who, while this case has been proceeding,
have been stimulating their bloodstained souls to further horrors by the
most indecent verbal violence. And I must here take the opportunity of
remarking that such occurrences could not now be occurring, but for the
ill-judged leniency of even a Tory Government in permitting that pest of
society the unrespectable foreigner to congregate in this metropolis.

_A Voice_. What do they do with you, you blooming old idiot, when you
goes abroad and waddles through the Loover?

_J. N_. Another of them! another of those scarcely articulate
foreigners! This is a most dangerous plot! Officer, arrest everybody
present except the officials. I will make an example of everybody: I
will commit them all.

_Mr. H_. (_leaning over to_ JUDGE). I don't see how it can be done, my
lord. Let it alone: there's a Socialist prisoner coming next; you can
make him pay for all.

_J. N_. Oh! there is, is there? All right--all right. I'll go and get
a bit of lunch (_offering to rise_).

_Clerk_. Beg pardon, my lord, but you haven't sentenced the prisoner.

_J. N_. Oh, ah! Yes. Oh, eighteen months' hard labour.

_M. P_. Six months for each loaf that I didn't steal! Well, God help
the poor in a free country! Won't you save all further trouble by
hanging me, my lord? Or if you won't hang me, at least hang my children:
they'll live to be a nuisance to you else.

_J. N_. Remove the woman. Call the next case. (_Aside_: And look
sharp: I want to get away.)

[_Case of_ JOHN _or_ JACK FREEMAN _called_.]

_Mr. H_. I am for the prosecution, my lord.

_J. N_. Is the prisoner defended?

_Jack Freeman_. Not I.

_J. N_. Hold your tongue, sir! I did not ask you. Now, brother
Hungary.

_Mr. H_. Once more, my lord and gentlemen of the Jury, I rise to address
you; and, gentlemen, I must congratulate you on having the honour of
assisting on two State trials on one day; for again I am instructed by
the Secretary of State for the Home Department to prosecute the prisoner.
He is charged with sedition and inci