ampled duration, you have been convicted by the jury of the several perjuries charged in the counts of this in dictment, and which were truly described by your counsel as "crimes as black and foul as Justice ever raised her sword to strike." In the trial of your case the jury have exhibited a care, a patience, and an intelligence never surpassed-indeed, it was such as to extort expressions of admiration from your own counsel, and their verdict meets with the unanimous approval of the Court. Indeed, it is difficult to conceive how any person who has considered the intrinsic improbabilities of your story, and has intelligently considered the evidence which has been adduced in the course of this trial, could have come to any other conclusion. The testimony of individuals, however numerous or respectable they may be, to your personal identity with either Arthur Orton or Roger Tichborne is comparatively of little worth after so great a lapse of time, except in the instances in which there existed special interest to observe and remember you. Of course the evidence of Miss Loader, of the family of Roger Tichborne, and of Mr. Gosford is of great importance in this case, and when I mention the name of Mr. Gosford I pause for a moment-speaking for myself at all events-to say that he has placed public justice greatly in his debt. "Your entire ignorance of the native tongue of Roger Tichborne coupled with at least the partial acquisition. of another language, the tattoo marks which were proved to have existed on the arm of the undoubted Roger Tichborne, and his genuine letters, and the letters written by you, whether in the character of Roger Tichborne or Arthur Orton, the admissions expressly made or in plied in your conduct, and all that is known of the history of the life and character of Roger Tichborne and of yourself present an accumulation of proof such as can rarely be given in a court of justice, and which conclusively demonstrates the propriety of the verdict of the jury. No man can look with an unprejudiced mind and a clear observation at the letters of the undoubted Roger Tichborne without coming to the conclusion that they were never written by you, while between the un doubted letters of Arthur Orton and your own there is evidence of identity most complete and convincing Of what avail could the negative evidence of your identity with Arthur Orton be against the circumstances connected with your visit to Wapping, with your assumption of a false name, and your correspondence and dealings with the family of Arthur Orton, added to the fact that your counsel did not venture to put into the box Arthur Orton's sisters, who, from the very first, were in your interest, who had received money from you, and had made affidavits in your favor? The inference from your not calling them is irresistable-namely, that they were possessed of knowledge which must have tended strongly to prove your identity with Arthur Orton. That question, important as it is, is only material as affording one of the modes of proof that you are not and can not be Roger Tichborne. "Whether you originally conceived and planned the entire scheme which you ultimately carried out, I know not. The marvelous growth and development of your knowledge as to the circumstances connected with the history of Roger Tichborne and his military life, leave it uncertain whether your original design was not enlarged by reason of the ease with which you found people so ready to become your dupes, and, I fear, in some cases, your accomplices. However that may be, in the carrying out of your scheme you hesitated at no amount of perjury and fraud which you thought to be necessary to its success. Wicked and nefarious as it was |