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Lord Ellenborough strongly charged the jury. He declared that there was no question of law, and that the whole case resolved itself into a question of fact. The jury, after retiring for half an hour, brought in a verdict of guilty. In a few days after, Despard, with six of his accomplices, were executed in front of the new jail in the Borough.
"I have played with O'Connell, Pitt, Fox, Canning, Lord Brougham, Lord " "Say at once no end of lords," said Bixiou. "Lord Fitzwilliam, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Hertford, Lord " Bixiou was looking at Peyrade's shoes, and stooped down. "What are you looking for?" asked Blondet. "For the spring one must touch to stop this machine," said Florine. "Do you play for twenty francs a point?"
The demand to be examined on affirmation being preferred by a Quaker witness, whose dress was so much like the costume of an ordinary conformist that the officer of the court had begun to administer the usual oath, Lord Ellenborough inquired of the 'friend, "Do you really mean to impose upon the court by appearing here in the disguise of a reasonable being?"
I cannot sit down without addressing myself to those Directors of the East India Company who are present. I exhort them to consider the heavy responsibility which rests on them. They have the power to recall Lord Ellenborough; and I trust that they will not hesitate to exercise that power.
Now, Sir, the first charge which I bring against Lord Ellenborough is, that he has been guilty of an act of gross disobedience, that he has done that which was forbidden in the strongest terms by those from whom his power is derived. The Home Government says, Do not interfere in the concerns of heathen temples. Is it denied that Lord Ellenborough has interfered in the concerns of a heathen temple?
"My Lord," began a somewhat pompous barrister, "it is written the book of nature " "Be kind enough," interposed Lord Ellenborough, "to give me the page from which you quote." To the opening remark of an equally pompous barrister: "My Lord, the unfortunate client for whom I appear " "Proceed sir, proceed," hastily observed the judge, "so far the court is with you!"
It remained, however, to be seen whether any enterprise was to be permitted to him and to his brother commander lying in camp on the Jellalabad plain. Lord Ellenborough, the successor of Lord Auckland, had struck a firm if somewhat inexplicit note in his earliest manifesto, dated March 13th.
"Die! why should he die? what would he get by that?" interposed Lord Ellenborough, adding to the pile of jests by which men have endeavored to keep a grim, unpleasant subject out of sight a pile to which the latest mot was added the other day by Lord Palmerston, who during his last attack of gout exclaimed playfully. "Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I think of doing."
Another, and the most interesting of all the personages who attended my receptions, was Lady Ellenborough, known at Damascus as the Honourable Jane Digby El Mezrab. She was the most romantic and picturesque personality: one might say she was Lady Hester Stanhope's successor.
Not only did the House refuse to listen to the allegations against Lord Ellenborough; in the excess of its devotion to such law and such order as the Government of the day appointed, it even resolved that all the entries in its record of proceedings which referred to this subject should be expunged from the journals. Lord Cochrane made no resistance to this further insult thrown upon him.
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