Mr.O'Connell's infallibility in law engaged the anxious solicitude, the pride, the passions of Ireland.

Yet throughout that long trial the question which would test it was not mooted.

The indictment was a subtle net-work, which excluded such argument.

The objections to the indictment also were objections of form merely, and the final issue upon which the judgment was reversed was not even remotely connected with the main enquiry, whether or not the charge of conspiracy was sustainable in point of constitutional law.

During the progress of the trial, a fraud, a swindle, a petty theft, was perpetrated by the officers of government, which more than one man, high in office, had a hand in suborning.