text:  In spite of this single miscarriage of the government the great object of these proceedings was completely answered; the end of all punishment was attained; the vengeance which the law then took had all the effect which the most condign punishment of these few men could have accomplished; the constitutional maxim of "_poena ad paucos metus ad omnes_ " has been amply illustrated by these proceedings; Chartism has been suppressed by the temperate application of the constitutional means which were then resorted to for the correction of its violence and the prevention of its seditious schemes