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fr-*. iviw to the defendant!—Can
I bc : v>>U JntnMvitlroct fliamc and indig.
2t r,i m ? With what feelings can you regard
: = t.v k tlm he has so tarnished and a patent
that he has so worse than cancelled ? High
in the army...high in the Hate-.-the here
ciliary counsel ot the King ; of wealth in
c-.ii .ulablc ; and to this last I advert with
:m indignant and contemptuous fatisfaftion,
i cranfe -is the only inllrarwcnt of his guilt
fepd. ihatne-, i; will be the means of punilh
rrenf, and the source ot coinpenfaiicn for
Iv.s,guilt.---His learnc 1 ronnlel contend that
the.plaintiiF had been the atuhor of his own ,
f. linings, and ought to receive no compen
f.ti hi {or the ill' confcqutnets of his own
com lud«. In what ot the evidence do you
fun! any foundation for that aflertion ? He
indulged her, it feerm, in drtfs.-.generoiis
and attached to Her, he probably indulged
her, in thor poigt beyond his means ; and
the defendant now jmpudemy calls on you
fur an excufc for the adulterer in the fond
nefs and liberality of the hulband.
Ihu you have been told that the hliflband
connived. Odious and impudent aggrava
tions cl injury.:.to acid calumny to infulr,
and outrage so dishonor i hr urn whom but
a man hnrlc-iied in the paths cf Ibame & vice
—i ’Oo* whom but a man having no conipunc.
ti n in his own bread to reilrain him, could
vou exuu'i such brutal disregard tor ih.c feel.
°f others ? from whom hut the cold
feducer—from w hat but theexhaufl
»'d mind, the habitual community with lhame
—:com what but the habitual contempt of
virtue and man, could you have experted the
arrogance, the barbarity, ami foil' c.ffo foul,
Kc.iufc ot fa fate an imputation ? He (hould
have reflected, and hive blullud, before he
fuffeted so vile a topic ot defence to have
p-ided his lips. Bit ’ere you condemn, let
him have the benefit of the ex< use, if the ex.
nie le true. You mull Wave obfrved how
his council fluttered and vibrated—between
’-viiat they called connivance and injudicious
ro.'Tidence, and how in affecting to dill in.
gaifh, they have cunlonm.lrd them both to
sjrthtr, Jt the plaintiff had connived, 1
h’e' i v lay to you, do not reward he w retch,
wlio has prollitured his wife, and furrendcr.
cd his own honour—do not com, enfvte the
pander of his own lhame, and willing inllui.
rnent of his own infamy. Bit as there is
no sum so low, to which such a defence, if
tnu-, ought not to reduce your verdict, so
reiiher is any fohigh to which such a charge
r gbt not to inflame if, if ftuh a charge be
false. Where is the Tingle fadl in this case
on which tiic remold!: fulpiclon of connivance
can be hung ? Odioully has the defendant
erdravoured to make the fofteft and mult
i.nii dole feelings of the heart, the pretext tor
hvi ilaudcrous imputations : an ancient and
rrfpac table Prelate, the huiband of his wiic’s
‘ v chained down to the bed of fickncfs,
peraaps to the bed of death, in that dillreff.
.’ituatum my client fuuercd that wife to
the bcarCr of consolation to the bv fom of
hei liitcr—he had not the hcait to refufe her
—md the foftnefs of his nature is now char,
gctl mi him as a crime. He is now infolcnt.
iy told that he connived at his dithonour,
and that ho ought to have tbiefcen that the
manJion of fickncfs and of foiro.v would have
been made the scone of aflignation and of
£ -itr. On this charge of connivance 1 vv ill no
tender weary you, or cxhaulf nnfclf; 1 will
}■ id nothing more, than that it it as fallens
i; is impudent—that in the evidence it has
n.n i colour of support—and that with ycur
, verdict you mark it with reprobation—The
r.’h-ir fubjeft, namely, he was indifcrcet in
his confidence, does, 1 think, call for difeuf-
W you
rr.iy be Iyd away from the fuhjcd—l prefame
merely to federate the puns of this affofting
to lay ‘hem item by item, before
Vo;., with the eoldoefs of detail, and not
vy-tb any colouring or display of fiction or of
f'.iKy. Honorable to himfelf was his un
fofpccling confidence, but fatal mull we ad.
mu if to have been, when wc lock to the
a ,‘ u! ’ c committed upon it ; but where was
the guilt of this indiferetion ? Hedid admit
this noble Lord to pais his threshold as his
gncil. Now the charge which this noble
iunrd builds on this indiferetion—Thou fool,
thou hadll confidence in niy honour, and that
Was a guilty indiferetion-—thou (impleron,
ihoughtefl that an admitted and a cherilhcd
godl would have rcfptftcd the laws of honor
ann hofpkality, and thy indiferetion was '
guilt—Thou thoughteft that he would have
ihrunk from the ineaunefs and barbarity of
leouitnng kindness with treachery, and ihy
i 1 .sferetion was guilt I—Gentlemen, what
ho rid alternative in the treatment of wives
v. ouldfmh rcafoning recommend ? Are they
M he immured by woife than Eastern baiba. '•
»»>. • A:e thi ir principles to be depraved—
ti.eir pifficns fuhiimated—everv finer motive
rs aftivn.Cxtirguiflred by the inevitable con.
f qt.ciiccs of thus treating them as Haves ?
:s a liberal and geiicious confidence in
them to be the. paflport of the adulterer and
the junification of his crimes ? Honorably,
but fatally his own repose, he was ncith.
tr j "aious, ftifpicious nor cruel. Me treated
the defendant with tire confidence of a friend,
and his wife with the tendernef* of a hus
band. He did leave the noble Marquis the
> n u:al poflibiiity ot committing againtl
t -a the greatefl crime which can be perpe.
traced again'} a being of an amiable heart
'And rtfigned education, ana tnc noble delctr.
dint hadtfee 'honor to avail himfclf of it. In
the middle of the day, at the moment of di
vine worship, when the mifcrable husband
wason his knees, directing the prayers ard
thanksgiving of his congregation r«> thek
God—that moment did the rcmorfelt fs adul
terer chufe to carry off the deluded victim
from her hufband—from her child—from
her ch.i/adkr—from her happiness—as if,
not content to leave his crime configncd to
its inseparable and mifcrable aggravations,
onlefs he also gave it a cart and colour of
fatlirious factiiege and impiety.
In the molt odious come np; of every per
sonal feeling, of public opinion, of common
humanity, did he parade this woman to the
fca-lhore whence he tranfp tried Ms precious
Cargo to a country where her example may be
Ids mifehievous than in her own ; where I
agree with my learned colleague, in heartily ,
wishing he may remain with her for ever.
Wear • too p :or, too (tuple, too cnadvanccd a
country, for the example of such atchicve.
ments. When the relaxation of morals is
.th natural growth and consequence of the j
great progress of;ms and wealth, it is ac
companied by a refinement that makes if less
gross than (hocking : but for such palliations
we are at lead a century too young. In e.
very point of view in which 1 can look at
the fu jed, I fee you are called upon to give
a verdift, ot bold and jull, and indignant,
and exemplary compenfution. The injury
o( the plaintiff demands it from yaur jutticc.
The delinquincy of the defendant provides it
by its enormity. The rank on which he
has relied for impunity calls upon you to tell
him, that crime does not afeend to the rank
oi the perpetrator, but the perpetrator finks
from his rank, and defeends to the level of
his delinquency, r l he sty 1c and mode of his
defence is a gross aggravation ot his con
dud, and a gr ;f» intuit upon you.
Your verdict will, Itrufl, put an end to
that encouragement ro.guilt that is built up
on impunity—the devil, it seems has Caved
the Noble Marquis harmless in the pail ; but
your verdict will tell him the tefm of thut
indemnity is expired, that his old friend and
banker lias no more effects in hi* hands, and
thut it he draws any more upon him, he mult
pav his own bills himfelf. You will do
much good by doing so ; you m<y not en
lighten his confciaice, nor touch his heart,
but his frugality will underrtand the hint.
He will adopt the prudence of age, and be
deterred Iron pursuits in which, though he
may be iufenfible ot (hamc, he will not be
rcgardlefs of expense. You will do more;
you will not only punish him in his tender
point, bur you vvid weaken him in Imftron
ger one, his money. There is another con
lideration, Gentlemen, which I think mofl
tinperioullv demands even a vindicative a.
ward of exemplary dangers, and that is the
breach of hufpitality. To us peculiary
docs it belong to avenge the violation of its'
altar. The hofpitaiity of other countries
is a inttter ot necdi'ry or convention; in
savage nations of the firft, in poliflted of the
latter ; bat the hofpitaiity of an Irishman,
is not the running account of ported and led
ge, ed cooru-fics, as in other countries; it
firings, like all his qualities, his faults, his
virtues, directly from his heart. The heart
of an Inih nen is by nature bold, and he
court Ics ; is tender, and he loves ; is gen.
erous, and he gives ; social, and he is hos
pitable. Tois Cucrihg.nis intruder has pra
phuned the religion of that fucred altar, so
elevated in our wonhip, so precious to oar
devotion ; an 1 it is our priviledge to avenge
the crime. Y>u mud either pull down the
altar, an i aholiih the worlhip, or you mud
arcljcfvc.us faiu liry, auul-.Uaf »•<■!. There is
nr alternative between the umvcrfal exclu
fi an of ail mint-and fro m your threshold and
the m>d rig irons pi uth nenc of him who is
admitted and betrays, T tis defendant has
been to traded, he Ins so betrayed and you
ought to ut.cilv. ti i m»l ft goal example.
Gentle men, Ia n the n >’e difp ifei to feel
the ftropgcil indignation and abhorrence at
this odious conduct of the defendenr, when
I court ler tue depionble condition to which
he hus a d ually reduced the plaintiff, audper
hrps the (ltd more deplorable one that he h is
in the profpeft before him. Win a pro.
grefs he has to travel through before he can
attain the peace and tranquility which he has
Inif l Hjw like the wounds of the body arc
thofeof the mind 1 How burning the fe
ver I How painful the suppuration I How
fl iw, how helitating, how reiapiing the pro
ofs to convalcfcence ! Through w hat a va
riety ol furring, through wh.tr new feenes
and changes mad my unhappy client p-ifs,
cr; he cun .etain, ihould he ever re-attain '
th it health of foul of which- he has faevn def
poited by the cold and deliberate machin t.
tiousof this prattifed and gilded fedneer.
If, fnftead ol drawing upou his incalculable
wealth fora (canty retribution, jc« were
to (top the progress of his dTpicable aichitv.
meats by reducing him to adual poverty,
you coaid nor, even fa, pumlh him beyond
fcojte or his offence, nor reprise the plain- 1
lift beyond the tneafutc ot his fu.Tring. l jC t I
me re.nl ad you, th it in this ad oo°th • law
not only empowers you but that its policy
commands you roconfider the public exan.
pm, as well as the individual injure, when
you adjust the amount of your verdidt. I
canfefs I am moll anxiaus you (h »uid acquit
yourfclves worthy upon this important occa
fxon. lam addressing you as fathers, h.uf- .
bands, brothers. lam anxious that a fed.
ngff thrfc high relations fhculd crlcr into
and give dignijy to j our verdict. Bat I
tone-ts ir, I led a tenfold folicituAe when I
remember that I am addrelfing y»u as my
comtrymen, as Irishmen, whcfe charaders
as i'JiOis, -as gentlemen mud find either ho
noi or degradation ui the result of your de- •
cif on, S nail as mall be the deftributivc
lharcof that national efttmation that can lie
lorg to so unimportant an individual as my
felf, yet dol own that lam tremblingly so.
liatoas for its fate.
Bat why Hoop to think at all of myfelf,
when I know that you gentlemen of that ju
ry, when I kno-v that our country itfclf
arc my clients on this day and mull abide
the alternative of honor or of infamy, as
you SkaH decide ; I will not dare to def
end.—l have every trait and hope, and
, confidence in you ; and to that hope 1 will
add my mod servant prayer to the God of
all truth and juffice, so to raise, and en
lighten, and fortify your minds, that you
may fodecideas to preserve to yourselves,
while you live, the mod delightful of all rc
cbilcClions, that of ailing justly ; and to
transmit to yonr children, the moil preci
ous of all inheritances, the memory of your
virtues.
From the National Intelligencer.
Among the events of the times that moll
merit attention, may be reckoned the iflue
of the recent elcClisns in M tfluehufetts.
This coloflus es federalifm, which has so
long and fa vigoroully refilled the tide of
popular opinion, has at lengih, with a de
cision that fuperfedcs all suspicion, asserted
her claim to republican character, .and ex
hibited a magnanimity worthy of the virtue
and wildom of freemen. It is not by the
‘•rifting votes of a few citizens, but by the
Suffrages of thousands, that she has proclaim
ed to the world the origin of a new political
erp in the East. This illullrious archicv.
ment of principle is replete with the mate
rials of inilrutlion ; and it would be losing
one of the bed occalions that can ever occur
for serious and profitable refletflion, to omit
extracting improvement from the interdling
circumstances conneiled with ir.
It proves the people of the United States
to be one people. However various in name,
in pursuits, or in habits, it demondrates
them in one refpett, in political 'principle,
to be the fame. The corned in Massachu
setts was emphatically that of principle. It
was not a druggie for the preponderance of
this or that faction but it was a druggie
of-the great intcrcils of the people agaiml
thefactious intcreils of a few men aspiring
to larger measures of power than their fel
low-freemen.
The meafurcs of the admtniftralion es the
general government were made the criterion,
meafaref! emphatically thole of peace, econ
omy and moderation.—fhefe were loudly
artd vehemently denounced. No nice dis
crimination ot judgment, or candor of tem
per, while they condemned forme of them
approved the remainder. On the contrary*
the whole fountain head was declared pollu
ted, and every dream that flowed from it e
q tally impute. Hence there was not a mea
lure of the government left unreprobated,
nor an individual concerned in its adminillra
tion undenounced. Argument and fophtttry,
declamation and ridicule, mifreprefentttion
calumny poured their united and ceaseless
dreams againlt the President, the heads of
departments, the republican members of Con
gress, and all their measures—The dorm
gr*w high. A perfecting spirit dalktd
through the land, and denounced with inqui.
•'fitbridi terrors Ircedom ot opinion. The re
publicans, the lleeping bampfons of New.
England, awoke from their flumhers, and
lighting pro arts e t focis t convinced their
ad verfattes of me irrcfiltible energies of free,
dom hi a cause wor thy of her efforts. They
fought .ll i triu nphei. P icgi-jani they have
taken is the fame that «uy previously affu.
med by their brethren in the southern and
the wdtern dates ; and the means, that led
to victory in the one case, have indued it in
the other.
Never was there, perhaps, a more confol.
id ucJ, opposition to any adminhlration ; and
never were there more powerful engines en
gaged to give it fucccfs. All these mighty
efforts have yielded to enquiry and AifcuiTu
°n. Mifrcprefenration (lands appalled, or
flies belore the radiance of truth. The peo
ple, yes the people, represented as tinquali,
fied ro govern themfclves, with reason for
their guide, and juffice for their object,
have seized the throne, and before their ma.
“ n jedy the pagvtus of a diltempe red hope have
v.miihed. The visions of monarchy, and
and the dreams of aridocracy are all dif
'pellfcd-Jby light of truth.
Memorial is the inffruiilion which this lef
foo teaches. It demonllrates the unity of
the American people on the cardinal points
of their political concerns, it proves, thu
however, from the influence of mfmentary
prejudice or ignorance, they may differ for
a day, they become, when weil informed,
one homogenous and foiid tmfa. Let os
not hereafter bs told that die feverai d ues
are compoleA of such difcortlant materials as
to !>e incapable of harmonious action. Let
u» not be told that the feelings, the princi
ples an I the views of on; fell ton are hoffii*
to til ofo of another. Tne ex i mole of M iff,.
cluPetts thews that, however they may dis.
fer in opinion on fuWdinate points, the*
are the fame on whatever involves the iffen.
ciai interests of the union.
This carl} triumph of principle is ornintr;
I y owing to two leading causes ; the
tempts recently made to difinember the e.n,
pire, and those mads to cnlifl the pafiion*
and prejudices of the EaU against these
the South.
Federal fun exclaimed, let ns, embodyir->
our (trength by holding a (hong arm ovtr
the minority of our citizens, convince Vir,
ginia that vve will no longer endure the rule
ot her principles—What though these prin.
ciplcs are founded in eternal truth, whrt I
though they are the germs of liberty, full
Virginia maintains than, the chief nwgif.
trate, a citizen of Virginia, adopts them as
his, and (hall New. England submit to the
degradation of crouching to this arrogant
dictator ? Hid reason been con'fulted, fhc
would have told these high toned fedcralilt*
that the despotism of which they complain,
ed was not that of Virginia, but that of
truth and jullice ; the would have told them
that in the maintainance of these Vir
ginia, however distinguished, flood not a
lone; that, on the contrary thev were up- I
held with equal zeal by New-York, Ver
mont, Rhode Island, New.Jerfcy, Pcnnfyl
vania, Maryland, North and South Caro
lina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tcnneflee, and
Ohio, by thirteen out of seventeen llaics ;
and by five sixths of the people ; she would
have told them that great political princi
ples, despising the trammels cf Iccality, or li
mited association, acknowledge no other
boundaries than those of the world ; and
that a Pennsylvanian or a Kentuckian does
not embrace them because they prevail in
Virginia, but|becaiife they are the elements
of human happiness.
In violation of ail these convitSions of fr».
ber judgment, the cry of diifulution was
raised in the East. It has met its reward
in the downfall of those who raised it. Be
fore its avowal, the enemies ot the admini
fi ration had flickered themselves from the
heavy charges prefered againll them, under
the declaration, that they were the bell
friends ol the union, and those on whom it*
ultimate security would devolve. Thou,
sands believed the profeffion. But the mo
tion of Mr, Ely, and the alarming crifisof
Which it presented the profpetf, dispelled the
illusion, roused the supine, and eleftrificd
with new energy, the pat riot ism of revolu
tionary times. Mark, fellow-citizens, of
the North and the South, of the Eafl:
and of the Well, young as well as old, mark
the buril of indignation with which this
proposition has been received. Inflill int»
your hearts the lesson it teaches, and con
tinue hereafter to cnilh with equal vigor e
very attempt made to deltroy the unity of
the empire. Toleration is a great, perhaps
the greatest virtue ; but.it has its limits:
and no opinions ought to be countenanced,
or men supported, that aim this fatal blow
at your happiness and glory.
Next in influence towards the production
of this great event was the attempt so indu
striously made to inlill the paflions and pre
judices of the Eall agaii ft these of the South,
To effeft this end, whole communities have
been pourtrayed in the hideous colouts of
vice, Thev have been represented as com
posed of individuals ddlirute of moral prin
ciple, and as actuated by an ambition only
to be fatisfied by the proflration »f tha
rights and liberties of the other states. Vir.
ginia, in particular, the great flare culprit,
has been dragged before the bar of public
opinion. Her conduit has been fully inve
stigated ; and ihc has come out of the cruci
ble with new luflre. Hereafter, we may
indulge the hope, that policy, (bould prin
ciple be too feeble, will lave cur national
character from similar disgraces. Faftioa
has found that there is in the America*
heart too much magnanimity to allow it to
become the vidlim of illiberal inventive.
Such is the afpedl of this event upon cur
interior concerns. Great as are its effects
in this view, they will be still greater in
relation to the European world—There, the
predictions of the politician and the philo
sopher have represented our dillindl confede
racies as ddlincd to become at an early day,
the theatres of division and hloodthed.
They have pronounced republican inllifu
tiom incapable of keeping together so large
an empire, and have predidted on their
downfall the rife of monarchy, with its
concomitants, an eflablilhed nobility and
prledhood, together with an efficient Hand
ing military force. Struck with the com
manding logic of this event, their prejudi
ces will be (baker ; their minds will be
led to dispassionate enquiry ; ami reason will
he heard. With truth for her advocate,
Ihc will sow the feeds of a mighty harvell
'l he eye of the European will pass the Atlan
tic, and less prejudicial than heretofore,
will contemplate, under the influence of an
underdanding open to convdftion, the great
and dillinTive hlefltags of republican insti
tutions. With such feotiments, it will be
impofiiblc to behold without approving the-
Wife and hone ft policy of our rulers. And
should the contemplation of our happintls,
ot Our rtfotirces growing with a rapidity
even greater than our numbers, of our har
mony, and cf the firm support given by the
people of their, government, not product
imitation, it will m ofl aHu redly inspire re
aped, Ami 4lxis fentjmeftt will teach