Hastings' case is only a single one, and, even if he failed, it would not better your condition a whit.

Under the late Administration we could have saved you by getting a packed jury; but that's out of the question now.

All we can do, I think, is to get up a memorial strongly signed, supplicating the Lord Lieutenant to commute your sentence from hanging to transportation for life.

I must confess, however, there is little hope even there.

They will come down with their cursed reasoning and tell us that the rank and education of the offender only aggravate the offence; and that, if they allow a man so convicted to escape, in consequence of his high position in life, every humble man found guilty and executed for the same crime--is murdered.