to prosecute, about two years ago, one of their most
notorious leaders, by name Connor O'Donovan, of Lisnamona; who was, at
the period of writing that memorial, a convict during life in New South
Wales, for a capital White-boy offence.

That said Connor O'Donovan, having seduced the affections of a young
woman named Una O'Brien, daughter of a man called Michael O'Brien,
otherwise Bodagh Buie, or the Yellow Churl, demanded her in marriage
from her father and family, who unanimously rejected his pretensions.
Upon which, instigated by the example and practice of the dark
combination of which he was so distinguished a leader, he persuaded
memorialist, partly by entreaties, but principally by awful and
mysterious threats, to join him in the commission of this most atrocious
crime. That, from the moment he had been forced into the participation
of such an act, his conscience could not permit him to rest night or
day; and he consequently came forward boldly and fearlessly, and did
what he considered his duty to God and his country.

That, in consequence of this conscientious act, O'Donovan, the Ribbon
ringleader, was capitally convicted; but through the interest of some
leading gentlemen of the parish, who were ignorant of his habits and
connections, the sentence was, by the mercy of government, commuted to
transportation for life.

That, upon his banishment from the country, the girl whose affections
he had seduced, became deranged for some time; but, after her recovery,
expressed, on many occasions, the most bitter determinations to revenge
upon petitioner the banishment of her lover; and that the principal
evidence upon which petitioner was convicted, was hers * and that of a
girl named Bridget Kulty, formerly a servant in his father's house, and
known to have been his paramour.

* This was a falsehood, inasmuch as Una, having been
concealed in another room, could give, and did give, no
evidence that any way affected his life.

That this girl, Bridget Nulty, was taken into O'Brien's family at the
suggestion of his daughter Una; and that, from motives of personal
hatred, she and Bridget Nulty, aided by another female servant of
O'Brien's named Kitty Lowry, formed the conspiracy of which petitioner
is unhappily the victim.

It then proceeded to detail how the conspiracy of Una O'Brien and the
two females she had taken in as accomplices, was carried into
effect; all of which was done with singular tact a