Gentlemen, the Attorney-General is bound by this admission; it is part of his case, and he is the prosecutor here; it is a part of the evidence before you, for he is the prosecutor. Then, gentlemen, it is your duty to act upon that evidence, and to allow the Press to afford some protection to the people. Is there amongst you any one friend to freedom? Is there amongst you one man who esteems equal and impartial justice, who values the people’s rights as the foundation of private happiness, and who considers life as no boon without liberty? Is there amongst you one friend to the constitution--one man who hates oppression? If there be, Mr. Magee appeals to his kindred mind, and confidently expects an acquittal. There are amongst you men of great religious zeal--of much public piety. Are you sincere? Do you believe what you profess? With all this zeal--with all this piety, _is_ there any conscience amongst you? _Is_ there any terror of violating your oaths? Be ye hypocrites, or does genuine religion inspire ye? If you be sincere--if you have conscience--if your oaths can control your interests, then Mr. Magee confidently expects an acquittal. If amongst you there be cherished one ray of pure religion--if amongst you there glow a single spark of liberty--if I have alarmed religion, or roused the spirit of freedom in one breast amongst you, Mr. Magee is safe, and his country is served; but if there be none--if you be slaves and hypocrites, he will await your verdict, and despise it.[8] LORD PALMERSTON. The life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), covers so great a space of time elapsed and embraces so many high activities that few are the careers in English political history comparable to it. If one instinctively refers to the case of Mr. Gladstone, the nearest nineteenth century parallel, it is chiefly to observe the partly antithetical relation of the men: the one, a commoner always, the other, aristocrat by birth; each, in his time, Premier; and each preserving undimmed, past the great age of eighty years, distinguished powers of body and mind.