Year: 1859




We're you newly released on the occasion i'll
question:


They tell me SO.


&c Have you no remembrance of the occca-
sion ?"


None. My mind is blank from some
time-I can not say what time-when | EN-.
ployed myself, in my captivity, in making
shoes, to the time when found myself living
in London with my dear daughter here. She
had become familiar to me, when gracious
God restored my faculties; but am quite un-
able ever. to say how she had become familiar
= !: :hsxe q. no raa,nembranee Of the process"
Mr.. Attorney-General sat down, and the
father and daughter sat down together.
| A singular circumstance then arose in the
case. The object in hand being to show that
the prisoner went down, with some fellow-plot
ter untracked, in the Dover mail on Friday
night in November five years ago, and got out
of the mail in the night, as blind, at place
where he did not remain, but from which he
travelled back some dozen miles or more, to a
garrison and dock yard, and there collected in
formation witness was called to identify him
as having been at the precise time required, in
the cofee-room of hotel in that garrlson-and-
dock-yard town, waiting for another person.
The prisoner s counsel was cross examining this
witness with no result, except that he had never
seen the prisoner on any other occasion, when
the wigged gentleman, who had all this time
been looking at the ceiling of the court, wrote
a word or two on little piece of paper, screw
ed it up, and tossed it to him. Opening this
piece of paper in the next pause, the counsel
looked with great attention and curiosity at the
prisoner


" You say that you are quite sure that it
was the prisoner" }"


The witness was quite sure.


''Did you ever see any body very like the
prisoner? ="


Not so like (the witness said) as that he could
be mistaken.


{" Look well upon that gentleman, my learned
friend there" pointing to him who had tossed
the paper over, I" and then look well upon the
prisoner. How say you Are they very like
each other?"


Allowing for my learned friends appearance
being careless and slovenly, if not debauched,
they were sufficiently like each other to surprise
not only the witness. but every body present,
; when they were thus brought into comparison.
My Lord being prayed to bid my LEANED friend
lay aside his wig, and giving no very gracious
consent, the likeness becamc much porc re-
n,arks;,le. My Lord iaqjred Of Nh stryver
(the prisoners counsel) whether they were next
to try Mr.. Carton (name of my learned friend)
for treason? But Mr.. Stryver replied to my
Lord, no but he would ask the witness to tell
him whether what happened once might hap
pen twice whether he would have been so
confident if he had seen this illustration of his
rashness sooner; whether he would be SO conf
dent, having seen it and more, The upshot
of which was to smash this witness Ikea crock
ery vessel, and shver his part of the case to use
less lumber


Mr.. Cruncher had by this time taken quite q
lunch of rust off his fingers in his following of
the evidence. lie had now to attend while Mr..
Stryver fitted tt prisoners case on the jury,
like compact suit Of clothes; ; showing them
how the patriot, Barsad, was hired spy and
traitor, an unblushing traficker in blood, and
one of the greatest scoundrels upon earth since
accursed Judas-which he certainly did look
rather like. How the virtuous servant ely,
was his friend and partner, aud worthy TO be ;
how the watchful eyes of those forgers and false
swearers had rested on the paisoner as a victim
because some family affairs in France-he being
Of French extracton--did require his making
those passages across the Channel though
what those affairs were, a consideration for
others who were near and dear to him forbade
him, even for his life, to disclos-. How the ev-
idence that had been warped and wrested from
the young lady, whose anguish in givingit they
had witnessed came to nothing, involving the
mere little innocent galantries and politenesses
likely to pass between any young gentleman
and young lady so thrown together--with the
exception of that reference to George Washing
ton, which was altogether too extravagant and
impossible to be regarded in any other light
than as a monstrous joke How it would be a
weakness in the government to break down in
this attempt to practice for popularity on the
lowest national antipathies and fears and there
fore Mr. Attorney General had made the most
of it; how nevertheless, it rested upon moth
ing save that vile and infamous character Of
evidence too often disfguring such cases, and Of
which the State Trials Of this country were full
But there My Lord interposed with as grave
face as if it had not been true,) saying that he
could not sit upon that Bench and suffer those
illusions.


Mr.. Stryver then called his few witnesses, and
Mr.. Cruncher had next to attend while Mr.
Attorney General turned the whole suit o.
clothes MIR. Stryver had fitted on the jury in
side out showing how Barsad and ely weft
even hundred times better than he had thought
them, and the prisoner hundred times worse
Lastly, came My Lord himself, turning the suit
of clothes, now inside out, now outside IN, but
on the whole decidedly trimming and shaping
them into grave clothes for the prisoner.


And now the jury turned to consider, and the
great flies swarmed again.


Mr.. Carton, who had so long sat looking at
the ceiling of the court changed neither his
place nor his his attitude, even in this excite
ment. Whilc his learned friend, Mr.. Stryver,
massng his papers before him, whispered with
those who sat near. and from time to time
glanced anxiously at the jury while all the