Sir C. O’Loghlen made a statement—­unintentionally I am sure it was on his part—­which may or may not affect me.  He said I sent a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant praying to be released from custody.  I wish to say I sent no such thing.  The facts of the matter are these:—­I was liberated in this court because in reality the crown could not make out a case against me at the time; and as I could, at the same time, be kept in prison until the next assizes, I, on consultation with my friends and with my fellow-captive, Captain M’Afferty, consented, as soon as I should receive a remittance from my friends in America, to return there.  On these conditions I was set at liberty, understanding, at the same time, that if found in the country by next assizes I would be brought up for trial.  I did not want to give annoyance, and I said I would go to America.  I honestly intended to do so then—­not, however, as giving up my principles, but because I saw there was no hope of an immediate rising in Ireland.  While agreeing to those conditions, I went to Dublin, and there met M’Afferty, and it was on that occasion I made the acquaintance of Corridon.  I met him purely accidentally.  He afterwards stated that he saw me in Liverpool, but he did not see me there.  I went over with an object, and while there I was arrested by anticipation, before the Habeas Corpus Act was really suspended.  I defy the government to prove I had any connexion with Fenianism from the time I was released from Cork jail until February, 1867.  I was afterwards removed to Mountjoy prison, and, while there, Mr. West came to me and said he understood I was an American citizen, and asked why I did not make that known.  I said I had a double reason—­first, because I expected the crown would see they had broken their pledge with me in having been so soon arrested; and also that I expected my government would make a general demand for all its citizens.  By Mr. West’s desire I put that statement in writing; and I do not think that there is a word in it that can be construed into a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant.  One of the directors of the prison came to me and asked me was I content to comply with the former conditions, and I said I was.  I was liberated upon those conditions, and complied with them; but there was no condition whatever named that I was never to return to Ireland nor to fight for Irish independence.  At that time I would sooner have remained in prison than enter into any such compact.  Now, with reference to Corridon’s information.  He states he met me in Liverpool after the rising, and I stated to him that somebody ’sold the pass’ upon us—­to use the Irish phrase.  Now, it is a strange thing, my lord, that he got some information that was true, and I really was in Liverpool, but not with the informer.  The fact is, the month previous to that I knew, and so did M’Afferty, that Corridon had sold us.  We left instructions at Liverpool to have him watched; but owing to circumstances, it is needless now to