After hours of quibbling and legal fencing, a jury was selected, by the crown, to convict.

From the moment they went through the blasphemous process of swearing to give a true verdict, John Mitchel's fate was sealed.
I pass over the details, and come to the last act in the infamous drama, called his trial.
The following account of the closing scene is not mine.

Feeling inadequate to describe a scene of which even a distant recollection is exciting, I asked a friend who felt the deepest interest in the trial to describe it.

With what he has written I entirely agree, save one sentence.

He says that it was owing to the action of the council of the Confederation John Mitchel's personal friends were allowed to be assaulted, with impunity, by the police.