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his activity in the different manu- 
factories; other witnesses proved 
the seizure of arms in the prisoner’s 
store-houses. ‘The prisoner did not 
make any defence. Lord Norbury 
impressively recapitulated the evi- 
dence ; and the jury, without leay- 
ing the box, returned a verdict of 
guilty. The prisoner, before receiv- 
ing sentence, boldly avowed his 
treasonable actions, and expressed, 
in streng terms, his detestation of 
the existing government, but posi- 
tively disclaimed having any con- 
nexion with the French government, 
the degrading oppression of which 
he had witnessed in every country 
through which he had travelled. He 
was executed on the following day. 
This unfortunate young man was the 
youngest son of Dr. Robert Emmet, 
a licentiate of the college of physi- 
cians in Ireland, physician to the 
lord lieutenant’s household, and to 
the hospital for lunatics, founded 
by the celebrated dean Swift, at 
Bow-bridge, near Dublin. The 
doctor, having purchased the situa- 
tion he now holds from the late 
Dr. Robinson, upwards of 30 years 
ago, removed, with bis family, from 
Cork to Dublin, where he has con- 
tinued to practise, though not in 
the first line, yet with considerable 
celebrity. He is aman of venerable 
appearance, grave deportment, im- 
pressive manner, and easy, unaffect- 
ed politeness in conversation and 
address ; and, though he has been 
always remarkable for giving his 
opinion freely respecting men, mea- 
sures, and the conduct of political 
affairs in general, he has never been 
suspected of any tendency to assist 
at treasonable or seditious cabals. 
He bestowed uncommon pains oa 
the education of his three sons, 
Temple, Thomas-Addis, and Ro- 
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bert. The first was bred te the law, 
in which he soon distinguished him- 
self, and was for several years 
looked up to as one of the most in- 
genious, industrious, and eloquent 
young men at the Irish bar, when 
he was cut off, in the prime of life, 
by a fever, which he caught on a 
circuit. His second brother, Tho- 
mas-Addis, had just at that period 
returned from Edinburgh, where 
he had taken his degree as a doctor 
of medicine ; but, either conceiving 
that his talents were better adapted 
to the forum, or encouraged by the 
eminence his deceased brother at- 
tained, in a few years he relinquish- 
ed his original profession, entered 
himself at the temple, and, after 
the ordinary course of study and 
attendance, was called to the Irish 
bar; to which he bade fair to be- 
come ano less shining ornament than 
his brother had been;, until, dazzled 
by the seducing prospects which the 
separation of freland from the mo- 
ther country, premeditated by the 
Trish jacobins, opened to his enthu- 
siastic and sanguine imagination, he 
became an active and conspicuous 
leader in the councils of an associa- 
tion of revolutionary traitors, who 
called themselves United Irishmen. 
In this situation, he, in concert 
with Tone, the two Sheare’s, Mac 
Nevin, Bagnal Hervey, and several 
others, continued to issue manifes- 
toes, and digest a code of laws and 
regulations for the government of 
the country after it should be deli- 
vered (to use their own language) 
from the tyranny and oppressive 
slavery of Great-Britain, until he 
was arrested by an order of the 
privy council; and, after a full 
confession of all the plans of his 
party, before a committee of the 
frish house of commons, he was 
F f sentences! 
