At last the trial came on, and Sir Robert Whitecraft, the great champion of Protestantism—a creed1 which he did not believe—was conducted into the court-house and placed in the dock. He was dressed in his best apparel, in order to distinguish himself from common culprits, and to give this poor external evidence of his rank, with a hope that it might tell, to a certain extent at least, upon the feeling of the jury. When placed in the dock, a general buzz and bustle3 agitated4 the whole court His friends became alert, and whispered to each other with much earnestness, and a vast number of them bowed to him, and shook hands with him, and advised him to be cool, and keep up his spirits. His appearance, however, was any thing but firm; his face was deadly pale, his eyes dull and cowardly, his knees trembled so much that he was obliged to support himself on the front of the dock.
At length the trial commenced, and the case having been opened by a young lawyer, a tall, intellectual-looking man, about the middle age, of pale but handsome features, and an eye of singular penetration5 and brilliancy, rose; and after pulling up his gown at the shoulders, and otherwise adjusting it, proceeded to lay a statement of this extraordinary case before the jury.
He dwelt upon “the pain which he felt in contemplating6 a gentleman of rank and vast wealth occupying the degraded position of a felon7, but not, he was sorry to say, of a common felon. The circumstances, my lord, and gentlemen of the jury, which have brought the prisoner before you this day, involve a long catalogue of crimes that as far transcend8, in the hideousness10 of their guilt11, the offences of a common felon as his rank and position in life do that of the humblest villain12 who ever stood before a court of justice.
“The position, gentlemen, of this country has for a long series of years been peculiar13, anomalous14, and unhappy. Divided as it is, and has been, by the bitter conflict between two opposing creeds15 and parties, it is not to be wondered at that it should be a melancholy16 scene of misery17, destitution18, famine, and crime; and, unhappily, it presents to us the frightful19 aspect of all these. The nature, however, of the conflicts between those creeds and parties, inasmuch as it bears upon the case of the prisoner, gentlemen, who now stands for trial and a verdict at your hands, is such as forces me, on that account, to dwell briefly20 upon it. In doing so, I will have much, for the sake of our common humanity, to regret and to deplore21. It is a fundamental principle, gentlemen, in our great and glorious Constitution, that the paramount22 end and object of our laws is to protect the person, the liberty, and the property of the subject. But there is something, gentlemen, still dearer to us than either liberty, person, or property; something which claims a protection from those laws that stamps them with a nobler and a loftier character, when it is afforded, and weaves them into the hearts and feelings of men of all creeds, when this divine mission of the law is fulfilled. I allude23, gentlemen, to the inalienable right of every man to worship God freely, and according to his own conscience—without restraint—without terror—without oppression, and, gentlemen of the jury, without persecution25. A man, or a whole people, worship God, we will assume, sincerely, according to their notions of what is right, and, I say, gentlemen, that the individual who persecutes26 that man, or those people, for piously28 worshipping their Creator, commits blasphemy29 against the Almighty—and stains, as it were, the mercy-seat with blood.
“Gentlemen of the jury, let me ask you what has been the state and condition of this unhappy and distracted country? I have mentioned two opposing creeds, and consequently two opposing parties, and I have also mentioned persecution; but let me also ask you again on which side has the persecution existed? Look at your Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and ask yourselves to what terrible outburst of political and religious vengeance30 have they not been subjected? But it is said they are not faithful and loyal subjects, and that they detest31 the laws. Well, let us consider this—let us take a cursory32 view of all that the spirit and operation of the laws have left them to be thankful for—have brought to bear upon them for the purpose, we must suppose, of securing their attachment33 and their loyalty34. Let us, gentlemen, calmly and solemnly, and in a Christian35 temper, take a brief glance at the adventures which the free and glorious spirit of the British Constitution has held out to them, in order to secure their allegiance. In the first place, their nobles and their gentry36 have been deprived of their property, and the right of tenure37 has been denied even to the people. Ah, my lord, and gentlemen of the jury, what ungrateful and disloyal miscreant38 could avoid loving a Constitution, and hugging to his grateful heart laws which showered down such blessings39 upon him, and upon all those who belong to a creed so favored? But it would seem to have been felt that these laws had still a stronger claim upon their affections. They would protect their religion as they did their property; and in order to attach them still more strongly, they shut up their places of worship—they proscribed40 and banished41 and hung their clergy42—they hung or shot the unfortunate people who tied to worship God in the desert—in mountain fastnesses and in caves, and threw their dead bodies to find a tomb in the entrails of the birds of the air, or the dogs which even persecution had made mad with hunger. But again—for this pleasing panorama43 is not yet closed, the happy Catholics, who must have danced with delight, under the privileges of such a Constitution, were deprived of the right to occupy and possess all civil offices—their enterprise was crushed—their industry made subservient44 to the rapacity45 of their enemies, and not to their own prosperity. But this is far from being all. The sources of knowledge—of knowledge which only can enlighten and civilize46 the mind, prevent crime, and promote the progress of human society—these sources of knowledge, I say, were sealed against them; they were consequently left to ignorance, and its inseparable associate—vice47. All those noble principles which result from education, and which lead youth into those moral footsteps in which they should tread, were made criminal in the Catholic to pursue, and impossible to attain48; and having thus been reduced by ignorance to the perpetration of those crimes which it uniformly produces—the people were punished for that which oppressive laws had generated, and the ignorance which was forced upon them was turned into a penalty and a persecution. They were first made ignorant by one Act of Parliament, and then punished by another for those crimes which ignorance produces.
“And now, my lord, and gentlemen of the jury, it remains50 for me to take another view of the state and condition of this wretched country. Perhaps there is not in the world so hideously51 a penal49 code of laws as that which appertains to the civil and religious rights of our unfortunate Roman Catholic countrymen. It is not that this code is fierce, inhuman52, unchristian, barbarous, and Draconic53, and conceived in a spirit of blood—because it might be all this, and yet, through the liberality and benevolence54 of those into whose hands it ought to be entrusted55 for administration, much of its dreadful spirit might be mitigated56. And I am bound to say that a large and important class of the Protestant community look upon such a code nearly with as much horror as the Catholics themselves. Unfortunately, however, in every state of society and of law analogous57 to ours, a certain class of men, say rather of monsters, is sure to spring up, as it were, from hell, their throats still parched58 and heated with that insatiable thirst which the guilty glutton59 felt before them, and which they now are determined60 to slake61 with blood. For some of these men the apology of selfishness, an anxiety to raise themselves out of the struggles of genteel poverty, and a wolfish wish to earn the wages of oppression, might be pleaded; although, heaven knows, it is at best but a desperate and cowardly apology. On the other hand, there are men not merely independent, but wealthy, who, imbued63 with a fierce and unreasoning bigotry64, and stained by a black and unscrupulous ambition, start up into the front ranks of persecution, and carry fire and death and murder as they go along, and all this for the sake of adding to their reprobate65 names a title—a title earned by the shedding of innocent blood—a title earned by the oppression and persecution of their unresisting fellow-subjects—a title, perhaps that of baronet; if I am mistaken in this, the individual who stands before you in that dock could, for he might, set me right.
“In fact, who are those who have lent themselves with such delight to the execution of bad laws? of laws that, for the sake of religion and Christianity, never ought to have been effected? Are they men of moral and Christian lives? men whose walk has been edifying66 in the sight of their fellows? are they men to whom society could look up as examples of private virtue67 and the decorous influence of religion? are they men who, on the Sabbath of God, repair with their wives and families to his holy worship? Alas68! no. These heroic persecutors, who hunt and punish a set of disarmed70 men, are, in point of fact, not only a disgrace to that religion in whose name they are persecutors, and on whose merciful precepts71 they trample72, but to all religion, in whatever light true religion is contemplated74. Vicious, ignorant, profligate75, licentious76, but cunning, cruel, bigoted77, and selfish, they make the spirit of oppressive laws, and the miserable78 state of the country, the harvest of their gain. Look more closely at the picture, gentlemen of the jury, and make, as I am sure you will, the dismal79 and terrible circumstances which I will lay before you your own. Imagine for a moment that those who are now, or at least have been, the objects of hot and blood-scenting persecution, had, by some political revolution, got the power of the State and of the laws into their own hands; suppose, for it is easily supposed, that they had stripped you of your property, deprived you of your civil rights, disarmed you of the means of self-defence, persecuted80 yourselves and proscribed your religion, or, vice versa, proscribed yourselves and persecuted your religion, or, to come at once to the truth, proscribed and persecuted both; suppose your churches shut up, your pious27 clergy banished, and that, when on the bed of sickness or of death, some of your family, hearing your cries for the consolations81 of religion, ventured out, under the clouds of the night, pale with sorrow, and trembling with apprehension82, to steal for you, at the risk of life, that comfort which none but a minister of God can effectually bestow83 upon the parting spirit; suppose this, and suppose that your house is instantly surrounded by some cruel but plausible84 Sir Robert Whitecraft, or some drunken and ruffianly Captain Smellpriest, who, surrounded and supported by armed miscreants85, not only breaks open that house, but violates the awful sanctify of the deathbed itself, drags out the minister of Christ from his work of mercy, and leaves him a bloody86 corpse87 at our threshold. I say, change places, gentlemen of the jury, and suppose in your own imaginations that all those monstrous88 persecutions, all those murderous and flagitious outrages90, had been inflicted92 upon yourselves, with others of an equally nefarious93 character; suppose all this, and you may easily do so, for you have seen it all perpetrated in the name of God and the law, or, to say the truth, in the hideous9 union of mammon and murder; suppose all this, and you will feel what such men as he who stands in that dock deserves from humanity and natural justice; for, alas! I cannot say, from the laws of his country, under the protection of which, and in the name of which, he and those who resemble him have deluged94 that country with innocent blood, laid waste the cabin of the widow and the orphan95, and carried death and desolation wherever they went. But, gentlemen, I shall stop here, as I do not wish to inflict91 unnecessary pain upon you, even by this mitigated view of atrocities96 which have taken place before your own eyes; yet I cannot close this portion of my address without, referring to so large a number of our fellow-Protestants with pride, as I am sure their Roman Catholic friends do with gratitude97. Who were those who, among the Protestant party, threw the shield of their name and influence over their Catholic neighbors and friends? Who, need I ask? The pious, the humane98, the charitable, the liberal, the benevolent99, and the enlightened. Those were they who, overlooking the mere62 theological distinctions of particular doctrines100, united in the great and universal creed of charity, held by them as a common principle on which they might meet and understand and love each other. And indeed, gentlemen of the jury, there cannot be a greater proof of the oppressive spirit which animates101 this penal and inhuman code than the fact that so many of those, for whose benefit it was enacted102, resisted its influence, on behalf of their Catholic fellow-subjects, as far as they could, and left nothing undone103 to support the laws of humanity against those of injustice104 and oppression. When the persecuted Catholic could not invest his capital in the purchase of property, the generous Protestant came forward, purchased the property in his own name, became the bona fide proprietor105, and then transferred its use and advantages to his Catholic friend. And again, under what roof did the hunted Catholic priest first take refuge from those bloodhounds of persecution? In most cases under that of his charitable and Christian brother, the Protestant clergyman. Gentlemen, could there be a bitterer libel upon the penal laws than the notorious facts which I have the honor of stating to you?
“The facts which have placed the prisoner at the bar before you are these, and in detailing them I feel myself placed in circumstances of great difficulty, and also of peculiar delicacy106. The discharge, however, of a public duty, which devolves upon me as leading law officer of the Crown, forces me into a course which I cannot avoid, unless I should shrink from promoting and accomplishing the ends of public justice. In my position, and in the discharge of my solemn duties here to-day, I can recognize no man's rank, no man's wealth, nor the prestige of any man's name. So long as he stands at that bar, charged with great and heinous107 crimes, I feel it my duty to strip him of all the advantages of his birth and rank, and consider him simply a mere subject of the realm.
“In order to show you, gentlemen of the jury, the animux under which the prisoner at the bar acted, in the case before us, I must go back a little—a period of some months. At that time a highly respectable gentleman of an ancient and honored family in this country was one evening on his way home from this town, attended, as usual, by his servant. At a lonely place on a remote and antiquated108 road, which they took as a shorter way, it so happened that, in consequence of a sudden mist peculiar to those wild moors109, they lost their path, and found themselves in circumstances of danger and distress110. The servant, however, whistled, and his whistle was answered; a party of men, of freebooters, of robbers, headed by a person called the Red Rapparee, who has been convicted at these assizes, and who has been the scourge111 of the country for years, came up to them, and as the Rapparee had borne this respectable gentleman a deadly and implacable enmity for some time past, he was about to murder both master and man, and actually had his musket112 levelled at him, as others of his gang had at his aged113 servant, when a person, a gentleman named Reilly—[there there was a loud cheer throughout the court, which, however, was soon repressed, and the Attorney-General proceeded]—this person started out from an old ruin, met the robber face to face, and, in short, not only saved the lives of the gentleman and his servant, but conducted them safely home. This act of courage and humanity, by a Roman Catholic to a Protestant, had such an effect upon the old gentleman's daughter, a lady whose name has gone far and wide for her many virtues114 and wonderful beauty, that an attachment was formed between the young gentleman and her. The prisoner at the bar, gentlemen, was a suitor for her hand; but as the young and amiable115 lady was acquainted with his character as a priest-hunter and persecutor69, she, though herself a Protestant, could look upon him only with abhorrence116. At all events, after the rescue of her father's life, and her acquaintance with Mr. Reilly, the prisoner at the bar was rejected with disdain117, as he would have been, it seems, if Reilly never had existed. Now, gentlemen I of the jury, observe that Reilly was a Catholic, which was bad enough in the eyes of the prisoner at the bar; but he was more; he was a rival, and were it not for the state of the law, would, it appears, for there is no doubt of it now, have been a successful one. From henceforth the prisoner at the bar marked Mr. Reilly for vengeance, for destruction, for death. At this time he was in the full exercise of irresponsible authority; he could burn, hang, shoot, without being called to account; and as it will appear before you, gentlemen, this consciousness of impunity119 stimulated120 him to the perpetration of such outrages as, in civil life, and in a country free from civil war, are unparalleled in the annals of crime and cruelty.
“But, gentlemen, what did this man do? this man, so anxious to preserve the peace of the country; this man, the terror of the surrounding districts; what did he do, I ask? Why, he took the most notorious robber of: his day, the fierce and guilty Rapparee—he took him into his councils, in order that he might enable him to trace the object of his vengeance, Reilly, in the first place, and to lead him to the hiding-places of such unfortunate Catholic priests as had taken refuge in the caves and fastnesses of the mountains. Instead of punishing this notorious malefactor121, he took him into his own house, made him, as he was proud to call them, one of his priest-hounds, and induced him to believe that he had procured123 him a pardon from Government. Reilly's name he had, by his foul124 misrepresentations, got into the Hue-and-Cry, and subsequently had him gazetted as an outlaw125; and all this upon his own irresponsible authority. I mention nothing, gentlemen, in connection with this trial which we are not in a capacity to prove.
“Having forced Reilly into a variety of disguises, and hunted him like a mad dog through the country; having searched every: lurking-place in which he thought he might I find him, he at length resolved on the only course of vengeance he could pursue. He surrounded his habitation, and, after searching for Reilly himself, he openly robbed him of all that was valuable of that gentleman's furniture, then set fire to the house, and in the clouds of the night reduced that and every out-office he had to ashes—a capital felony. It so happens, however, that the house and offices were, in point of fact, not the property of Reilly at all, but of a most respectable Protestant gentleman and magistrate126, Mr. Hastings, with whose admirable! character I have no doubt you are all acquainted; and all that remains for me to say is, that he is the prosecutor128 in this case.
“And now, gentlemen, we expect a calm, deliberate, and unbiassed verdict from you. Look upon the prisoner at the bar as an innocent man until you can, with a clear conscience, find him guilty of the charges which we are in a condition to prove against him; but if there be any doubt upon your minds, I hope you will give him the benefit of it.”
Sir Robert Whitecraft, in fact, had no defence, and could procure122 no witnesses to counteract129 the irresistible130 body of evidence that was produced against him. Notwithstanding all this, his friends calculated upon the prejudices of a Protestant jury. His leading counsel made as able a speech in his defence as could be made under the circumstances. It consisted, however, of vague generalities, and dwelt upon the state of the country and the necessity that existed for men of great spirit and Protestant feeling to come out boldly, and, by courage and energy, carry the laws that had passed for the suppression of Popery into active and wholesome132 operation. “Those laws were passed by the wisest and ablest assembly of legislators in the world, and to what purpose could legislative133 enactments134 for the preservation135 of Protestant interests be passed if men of true faith and loyalty could not be found to carry them into effect. There were the laws; the prisoner at the bar did not make those laws, and if he was invested with authority to carry them into operation, what did he do but discharge a wholesome and important duty? The country was admitted, on all sides, to be in a disturbed state; Popery was attempting for years most insidiously136 to undermine the Protestant Church, and to sap the foundation of all Protestant interests; and if, by a pardonable excess of zeal137, of zeal in the right direction, and unconscious lapse138 in the discharge of what he would call, those noble but fearful duties had occurred, was it for those who had a sense of true liberty, and a manly139 detestation of Romish intrigue140 at heart, to visit that upon the head of a true and loyal man as a crime. Forbid it, the spirit of the British Constitution—forbid it, heaven—forbid it, Protestantism. No, gentlemen of the jury,” etc., etc.
We need not go further, because we have condensed in the few sentences given the gist127 of all he said.
When the case was closed, the jury retired141 to their room, and as Sir Robert Whitecraft's fate depends upon their verdict, we will be kind enough to avail ourselves of the open sesame of our poor imagination to introduce our readers invisibly into the jury-room.
“Now,” said the foreman, “what's to be done? Are we to sacrifice a Protestant champion to Popery?”
“To Popery! To the deuce,” replied another. “It's not Popery that is prosecuting142 him. Put down Popery by argument, by fair argument, but don't murder those that profess143 it, in cold blood. As the Attorney* General said, let us make it our own case, and if the Papishes treated us as we have treated them, what would we say? By jingo, I'll hang that fellow. He's a Protestant champion, they say; but I say he's a Protestant bloodhound, and a cowardly rascal144 to boot.”
“How is he a cowardly rascal, Bob? Hasn't' he proved himself a brave man against the Papishes? eh?”
“A brave man! deuce thank him for being a brave man against poor devils that are allowed nothing stouter145 than a horse-rod to defend themselves with—when he has a party of well-armed bloodhounds at his back. He's the worst landlord in Ireland, and, above all things, he's a tyrant146 to his Protestant tenants148, this champion of Protestantism. Ay, and fierce as he is against Popery, there's not a Papish tenant147 on his estate that he's not like a father to.”
“And how the deuce do you know that?”
“Because I was head bailiff to him for ten years.”
“But doesn't all the world know that he hates the Papists, and would have them massacred if he could?”
“And so he does—and so he would; but it's all his cowardice150, because he's afraid that if he was harsh to his Popish tenants some of them might shoot him from behind a hedge some fine night, and give him a leaden bullet for his supper.”
“I know he's a coward,” observed another, “because he allowed himself to be horsewhipped by Major Bingham, and didn't call him out for it.”
“Oh, as to that,” said another, “it was made up by their friends; but what's to be done? All the evidence is against him, and we are on our oaths to find a verdict according to the evidence.”
“Evidence be hanged,” said another; “I'll sit here till doom's-day before I find him guilty. Are we, that are all loyal Protestants, to bring out a varjuice to please the Papishes? Oh, no, faith; but here's the thing, gentlemen; mark me; here now, I take off my shoes, and I'll ait them before I find him guilty;” and as he spoke151 he deliberately152 slipped of his shoes, and placed them on the table, ready for his tough and loyal repast.
“By Gog,” said another, “I'll hang him, in spite of your teeth; and, afther aiten your brogues, you may go barefooted if you like. I have brogues to ait as well as you, and one of mine is as big as two of yours.”
This was followed by a chorus of laughter, after which they began to consider the case before them, like admirable and well-reasoning jurors, as they were. Two hours passed in wrangling153 and talking and recriminating, when, at last, one of them, striking the table, exclaimed with an oath:
“All Europe won't save the villain. Didn't he seduce154 my sister's daughter, and then throw her and her child back, with shame and disgrace, on the family, without support?”
“Look at that,” said the owner of the shoe, holding it up triumphantly156; “that's my supper to-night, and my argument in his defence. I say our—Protestant champion mustn't hang, at least until I starve first.”
The other, who sat opposite to him, put his hand across the table, and snatching the shoe, struck its owner between the two eyes with it and knocked him back on the floor. A scene of uproar157 took place, which lasted for some minutes, but at length, by the influence of the foreman, matters were brought to a somewhat amicable158 issue. In this way they spent the time for a few hours more, when one of the usual messengers came to know if they had agreed; but he was instantly dismissed to a very warm settlement, with the assurance that they had not.
“Come,” said one of them, pulling out a pack of cards, “let us amuse ourselves at any rate. Who's for a hand at the Spoil Five?”
The cards were looked upon as a godsend, and in a few moments one half the jury were busily engaged at that interesting game. The other portion of them amused themselves, in the meantime, as well as they could.
“Tom,” said one of them, “were you ever on a special jury in a revenue case?”
“No,” replied Tom, “never. Is there much fun?”
“The devil's own fun; because if we find for the defendant159, he's sure to give us a splendid feed. But do you know how we manage when we find that we can't agree?”
“No. How is it?”
“Why, you see, when the case is too clear against him, and that to find for him would be too barefaced160, we get every man to mark down on a slip of paper the least amount of damages he is disposed to give against him; when they're all down, we tot them up, and divide by twelve—“*
*By no means an uncommon161 proceeding162 in revenue cases,
even at the present day.
“Silence,” said another, “till we hear John Dickson's song.”
The said John Dickson was at the time indulging them with a comic song, which was encored with roars of laughter.
“Hallo!” shouted one of those at the cards, “here's Jack163 Brereton has prigged the ace2 of hearts.”
“Oh, gentlemen,” said Jack, who was a greater knave164 at the cards than any in the pack, “upon, my honor, gentlemen, you wrong me.”
“There—he has dropped it,” said another; “look under the table.”
The search was made, and up was lugged165 the redoubtable166 ace of hearts from under one of Jack's feet, who had hoped, by covering it, to escape detection. Detected, however, he was, and, as they all knew him well, the laughter was loud accordingly, and none of them laughed louder than Jack himself.
“Jack,” said another of them, “let us have a touch of the legerdemain167.”
“Gentlemen, attention,” said Jack. “Will any of you lend me a halfpenny?”
This was immediately supplied to him, and the first thing he did was to stick it on his forehead—although there had been brass168 enough there before—to which it appeared to have been glued; after a space he took it off and placed it in the palm of his right hand, which he closed, and then, extending both his hands, shut, asked those about him in which hand it was. Of course they all said in the right; but, upon Jack's opening the said hand, there was no halfpenny there.
In this way they discussed a case of life or death, until another knock came, which “knock” received the same answer as before.
“Faith,” said a powerful-looking farmer from near the town of Boyle—the very picture of health, “if they don't soon let us out I'll get sick. It's I that always does the sickness for the jury when we're kept in too long.”
“Why, then, Billy Bradley,” asked one of them, “how could you, of all men living, sham155 sickness on a doctor?”
“Because,” said Billy, with a grin, “I'm beginning to feel a divarsion of blood to the head, for want of a beefsteak and a pot o' porther. My father and grandfather both died of a divarsion of blood to the head.”
“I rather think,” observed another, “that they died by taking their divarsion at the beefsteak and the pot of porter.”
“No matther,” said Billy, “they died at all events, and so will we all, plaise God.”
“Gome,” said one of them, “there is Jack Brereton and his cane169—let us come to business. What do you say, Jack, as to the prisoner?”
Jack at the time had the aforesaid cane between his legs, over which he was bent170 like a bow, with the head of it in his mouth.
“Are you all agreed?” asked Jack.
“All for a verdict of guilty, with the exception of this fellow and his shoes.”
Jack Brereton was a handsome old fellow, with a red face and a pair of watery171 eyes; he was a little lame172, and crippled as he walked, in consequence of a hip24 complaint, which he got by a fall from a jaunting-car; but he was now steady enough, except the grog.
“Jack, what do you say?” asked the foreman; “it's time to do something.”
“Why,” replied Jack, “the scoundrel engaged me to put down a pump for him, and I did it in such a manner as was a credit to his establishment. To be sure, he wanted the water to come whenever it was asked; but I told him that that wasn't my system; that I didn't want to make a good thing too cheap; but that the water would come in genteel time—that is to say, whenever they didn't want it; and faith the water bore me out.” And here Jack laughed heartily173. “But no matter,” proceeded Jack, “he's only a bujeen; sure it was his mother nursed me. Where's that fellow that's going to eat his shoes? Here, Ned Wilson, you flaming Protestant, I have neither been a grand juror nor a petty juror of the county of Sligo for nothing. Where are you? Take my cane, place it between your knees as you saw me do, put your mouth down to the head of it, suck up with all your strength, and you'll find that God will give you sense afterwards.”
Wilson, who had taken such a fancy for eating his shoes, in order to show his loyalty, was what is called a hard-goer, and besides a great friend of Jack's. At all events, he followed his advice—put the head of the huge cane into his mouth, and drew up accordingly. The cane, in fact, was hollow all through, and contained about three half-pints of strong whiskey. There was some wrangling with the man for a little time after this; but at length he approached Jack, and handing him the empty cane, said:
“What's your opinion, Jack?”
“Why, we must hang him,” replied Jack. “He defrauded174 me in the pump; and I ask you did you ever put your nose to a better pump than that?” *
* We have been taken to task about this description of the
jury-room; but we believe, and have good reason to believe,
that every circumstance mentioned in it is a fact Do our
readers remember the history of Orr's trial, where three-
fourths of the jurors who convicted him were drunk—a fact
to which they themselves confirmed upon oath afterwards?
“Give me your hand, Jack, we're agreed—he swings!”
At this moment an officer came to ask the same question, when, in reply, the twelve jurymen came out, and, amidst the most profound silence, the foreman handed down the issue paper to the Clerk of the Crown.
“Gentlemen,” said that officer, after having cast his eye over it, “have you agreed in your verdict?”
“We have.”
“Is the prisoner at the bar guilty, or not guilty?”
“Guilty!”
Let us pause here a moment, and reflect upon the precarious175 tenure of life, as it is frequently affected176 by such scenes as the above, in the administration of justice. Here was a criminal of the deepest dye, shivering in the dock with the natural apprehension of his fate, but supported, notwithstanding, by the delay of the jury in coming to a verdict. He argued reasonably enough, that in consequence of that very delay he must necessarily have friends among them who would hold out to the last. The state of suspense177, however, in which he was held must have been, and was, dreadful. His lips and throat became parched by excitement, and he was obliged to drink three or four glasses of water. Being unable to stand, he was accommodated with a chair, on which, while he sat, the perspiration178 flowed from his pallid179 face. Yet, with the exception of his own clique180, there was scarcely an individual present who did not hope that this trial would put an end to his career of blood. After all, there was something of the retributive justice of Providence181 even in the conduct and feelings of the jury; for, in point of fact, it was more on account of his private crimes and private infamy182 that they, however wrongly, brought in their verdict. Here was he, encircled by their knowledge of his own iniquities183, apart from his public acts; and there, standing131 in that dock, from which he might have gone out free, so far as regarded his political exploits, he found, although he did not know it, the black weight of his private vices184 fall upon his head in the shape of the verdict just delivered. It would be impossible to describe his appearance on hearing it; his head fell down upon his breast listless, helpless, and with a character of despair that was painful to contemplate73.
When the verdict was handed down, the judge immediately put on the black-cap; but Whitecraft's head was resting on his breast, and he did not for some time see it. At length, stirred into something like life by the accents of the judge, he raised his head with an effort. The latter addressed him as thus: “Sir Robert Whitecraft, you have been convicted this day by as enlightened a jury as ever sat in a jury-box. You must be aware yourself, by the length of time, and consequently the deep and serious investigation185 which they bestowed—and, it is evident, painfully bestowed—upon your unhappy case, that your conviction is the deliberate result of their conscientious186 opinion. It is obvious, as I said, from the length of time occupied in the jury-room, that the evidence in your case was sifted187 closely, and canvassed188 with the ability and experience of able and honest men. In the verdict they have returned the Court perfectly189 concurs190; and it now only remains for me to pass upon you that awful sentence of the law which is due to your cruel life and flagitious crimes. Were you a man without education, nurtured191 in ignorance, and the slave of its debasing consequences, some shade of compassion192 might be felt for you on that account. But you cannot plead this; you cannot plead poverty, or that necessity which urges many a political adventurer to come out as a tyrant and oppressor upon his fellow-subjects, under the shield of the law, and in the corrupt193 expectation of reward or promotion194. You were not only independent in your own circumstances, but you possessed195 great wealth; and why you should shape yourself such an awful course of crime can only be attributed to a heart naturally fond of persecution and blood. I cannot, any more than the learned Attorney-General, suffer the privileges of rank, wealth, or position to sway me from the firm dictates196 of justice. You imagined that the law would connive197 at you—and it did so too long, but, believe me, the sooner or later it will abandon the individual that has been provoking it, and, like a tiger when goaded198 beyond patience, will turn and tear its victim to pieces. It remains for me now to pronounce the awful sentence of the law upon you; but before I do so, let me entreat199 you to turn your heart to that Being who will never refuse mercy to a repentant200 sinner; and I press this upon you the more because you need not entertain the slightest expectation of finding it in this world. In order, therefore, that you may collect and compose your mind for the great event that is before you, I will allow you four days, in order that you may make a Christian use of your time, and prepare your spirit for a greater tribunal than this. The sentence of the Court is that, on the fifth day after this, you be, etc., etc., etc.; and may God have mercy on your soul!”
At first there was a dead silence in the Court, and a portion of the audience was taken completely by surprise on hearing both the verdict' and the sentence. At length a deep, condensed murmur201, which arose by degrees into a yell of execration202, burst forth118 from his friends, whilst, on the other hand, a peal203 of cheers and acclamations rang so loudly through the court that they completely drowned the indignant vociferations of the others. In the meantime silence was restored, and it was found that the convict had been removed during the confusion to one of the condemned204 cells. What now were his friends to do? Was it possible to take any steps by which he might yet be saved from such a disgraceful death? Pressed as they were for time, they came to the conclusion that the only chance existing in his favor was for a deputation of as many of the leading Protestants of the county, as could be prevailed upon to join in the measure, to proceed to Dublin without delay. Immediately, therefore, after the trial, a meeting of the baronet's friends was held in the head inn of Sligo, where the matter was earnestly discussed. Whitecraft had been a man of private and solitary205 enjoyments—in social and domestic life, as cold, selfish, inhospitable, and repulsive206 as he was cruel and unscrupulous in his public career.
The consequence was that he had few personal friends of either rank or influence, and if the matter had rested upon his own personal character and merits alone, he would have been left, without an effort, to the fate which had that day been pronounced upon him. The consideration of the matter, however, was not confined to himself as an individual, but to the Protestant party at large, and his conviction was looked upon as a Popish triumph. On this account many persons of rank and influence, who would not otherwise have taken any interest in his fate, came forward for the purpose, if possible, of defeating the Popish party—who, by the way, had nothing whatsoever207 to do in promoting his conviction—and of preventing the stigma208 and deep disgrace which his execution would attach to their own. A very respectable deputation was consequently formed, and in the course of the next day proceeded to Dublin, to urge their claims in his favor with the Lord Lieutenant209. This nobleman, though apparently210 favorable to the Catholic people, was nevertheless personally and secretly a bitter enemy to them. The state policy which he was instructed and called upon to exercise in their favor differed toto coelo from his own impressions. He spoke to them, however, sweetly and softly, praised them for their forbearance, and made large promises in their favor, whilst, at the same time, he entertained no intention of complying with their request. The deputation, on arriving at the castle, ascertained211, to their mortification212, that the viceroy would not be at home until the following day, having spent the last week with a nobleman in the neighborhood; they were consequently obliged to await his arrival. After his return they were admitted to an audience, in which they stated their object in waiting upon him, and urged with great earnestness the necessity of arresting the fate of such a distinguished213 Protestant as Sir Robert Whitecraft; after which they entered into a long statement of the necessity that existed for such active and energetic men in the then peculiar and dangerous state of the country.
To all this, however, he replied with great suavity214, assuring them that no man felt more anxious to promote Protestant interests than he did, and added that the relaxation215 of the laws against the Catholics was not so much the result of his own personal policy or feeling as the consequence of the instructions he had received from the English Cabinet. He would be very glad to comply with the wishes of the deputation if he could, but at present it was impossible. This man's conduct was indefensible; for, not content in carrying out the laws against the Catholics with unnecessary rigor216, he committed a monstrous outrage89 against a French subject of distinction, in consequence of which the French Court, through their Ambassador in London, insisted upon his punishment.
“Very well, my lord,” replied the spokesman of the deputation, “I beg to assure you, that if a hair of this man's head is injured there will be a massacre149 of the Popish population before two months; and I beg also to let you know, for the satisfaction of the English Cabinet, that they may embroil217 themselves with France, or get into whatever political embarrassment218 they please, but an Irish Protestant will never hoist219 a musket, or draw a sword, in their defence. Gentlemen, let us bid his Excellency a good-morning.”
This was startling language, as the effect proved, for it startled the viceroy into a compliance220 with their wishes, and they went home post-haste, in order that the pardon might arrive in time.
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clergy
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subservient
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attain
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penal
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analogous
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glutton
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