Judged by that history the treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, is sanctified as a duty, will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

With these sentiments, my lord I await the sentence of the court.

Having done what I felt to be my duty--having spoken what I felt to be the truth, as I have done on every other occasion of my short career, I now bid farewell to the country of my birth, my passion and my death--the country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies--whose factions I have sought to still--whose intellect I have prompted to a lofty aim--whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

I offer to that country, as a proof of the love I bear her, and the sincerity with which I thought, and spoke, and struggled for her freedom--the life of a young heart, and with that life, all the hopes, the honours, the endearments, of a happy and an honourable home.

Pronounce then, my lords, the sentence which the law directs, and I will be prepared to hear it.