text:  [31] The allusion is to Mr O'Connell's _past_ experience as a defendant on political offences here the Court of Queen's Bench in Dublin; an experience which most people have forgotten; and which we also at this moment should be glad to forget as the ominous precedent for the present crisis were it not that Conservative honesty and Conservative energy were now at the helm instead of the Whig spirit of intrigue with all public enemies