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op/Aft:erg Masai Ihnipster, to Inhatitan: of ,be same niece ; lie
did not +blither he hid given tie Scotwean any previous o
fence, he:re
Irlaide
believed not ; but the fact was, that he had this
man, s r inhabitant, seat to prison for being a few mi-
nutes after aloe o'clock in the streetsed his native town. l'hiroas
a specimen of the nietbol of administering the Insureectiott Act.
Let them not, therefore, tell users? Tome of the method of adminis-
tering justice. Let them net taunt its with +melee; no eases ; there
were no less than dna at one Assizes, The speech of his floe.
Friend Mr. Dogherty, on that occasion, relented the highniteredit
upon his profession. He had told then: that the sturdy gnerdiats
or constitutional rights in this House, who, bed opposed, the
passing of the Insurrection Act, wou ha li e their prejudices cen-
, Armed and their arguments • s ned by ?limning from dot case
the manner in whichns it was ed. Is not ti a rimer Cr-
guent against this hilly Doest, like the lesuscSde* A °la
arm a Protestant Magistrate steam their Catholic fenew.eoun-
trytrisn, and put into the hands of an arrogant and oppressive ma-
histracy powers which they saw had been so fremeotley abased,
(Hear, hear), and put it in the power of the Sheriff of Deddin m
break into the house of any gentleman, of Mr. (I'Coanell
met. (Hear), whom the Attorney-General had in highly enlogehede
to break into even his house upon the bare seep:don of an illegal
asomilalege. (Hear, hear, hear.) He put it to the fair jteiotheise
If a Bill -eel with \ power, should rani!' He
from his krowledge of the
e attended whir the moat
6 Bill his meet *relents
justiee to the DIM Ge.
ass place in the alactftwe
magenterial i aet•ce, were
Le-r elleifiyhe eppoint-
dere.= a .if gocenbut. M
e compelled te notice is—
eeee inability to _.ray , _one into effect. It rested
with that House to enable er Camped them W oursee the course
most advantageous to the country; ard, In furtherance of that ob.
jest, he would move that this Bill be read a second time this alb!
1:1 months. (Hue) ' '
Mr. DOGHERTI' said, no awn tete tose lis Lisle 'noose mare
under the necessity of bespeaking. Indalhance, char he was epee
this occasion: Nothing but a desire to give some explanation mom
the charges of inconsistency brought against him by the Honour.
able Member for Limerick, could have enabled him to scemnuat
his diainclinatioa to intrude upon them again, after the indulgence
he bad already received upon this question in a farina night of the
debate. The charges brought against hies by the Hon. llember
went, as lie understood th,:ni, to reader him onward ro.. only of
being considered that Hon. Member's Friend (cries oft " No, no"),
but of being at all entitled to a seat in that House. (" No, no ht•
from each ..le of the Reuse.) The charges brought against me by
that Hon. Gentleman were, that I had not only contended dims
was no mal-administration of juttice in Ireland, but that I bbd
asserted that fact contrary wen, espatience as a lawyer, and that 1 '
knew it from some circumstances known tidy to him and one. The
impression of such insinuations was, that be (Mr. Dogherty) had '
made use of arguments to this House, vthicii, as a practitiorm In
the Courts of Justice in Ireland, he must have known to be sd-
verse to the. truth. Before he had the honour of a seat in that
House, he believed about two yeses ago. he had heard of a peti-
tion presented by the Hon. ;flambee for Winchelsea, impeaching
the administration of justice in Ireland, and asserting that there
was no justice for the Catholic front his Prettestani oppressor. That
petition the Hon. Member was obliged to withdraw, allowing at
the same time that it dealt more in language than in facts. li, nen
he heard that another was parented, hold mg neatly the same lan-
guage, he, upon the impulse of the moment, std conscious of its
truth, rose and stated to the House, that, as far as be had witnessed,
justice was administered with equal impartiality to the Catholic
and the Protestant—to the, rich man sad the poor man ; and that
during an experience of nearly 17 years I could meecientiedslf
attest it. purity (hear); and when he heard that repeated, (men
whatever quarter it came, lie must continue to give it his nnquali.
Bel denial. lie had said, too, that ell the other acts of the Asso-
ciation failed in.o inaignificance, compated with its means of in-
fluencing the administration of justice. Ile admitted that the Ca-
tholic Question was one of great dilliceity, And th.lt even if the;
could gain unanimous vote in this Howe, there would be a great
doubt as to its fate with the other branch of the Legislature. liet
there was a question which they mull set at rest, and he hoped to
be able to satisfy the House that it should be set at rest fee met—
he meant the wahadministration of justice in Ireland. (Heat.)
The Honourable Member for Limerick, while he peaised the
bVier coons of judicature., had censured the lower, for every
fremourable Member nsust perceive that exaggerated commis.
dation of a fee tended to cast a shade upon the others; but int
trusted he should be able to setts:), the Mouse to-night that al;
were alike pure and impartial; if he succeeded, he could. he re-
peated, set that quindua at rest. lie trusted that the oppotieeto
of this Bill would give up that unworthy ,slander—tbst :impart
' censure upon the purity ii, Irish justice. (clear, hear.) S:r Jell
Davis had observed, centarks ago, " 'Plat there was no nation eis
the earth loved equal and iniharial justice tai much as the risth...,
1,
Dane that would rest better mitiened, even when thetas was those
so that they may feel they huchmlehrhenetit of the ~...
littjahn Delis said then, so he would my now. Such they
were—a peasantry satisfied with the measure of justice dealt out •
to thau—huntent with the decrees of law a hen exercised agaicst
them, provided they were satisliel it was the law.' Yves they are
now : but if their feelings were worked upon—if the Catholic As,
sociatiun, or any other body, could perste; le them that there was
no law, that was, no even-handed justice—he weuld say, that, above
all others, was the thing which would drive them to treason and
rebelliun. (Hear, hear.) In what he had advanced respecting the
purity of justice, on a former evening, he had not relied upon hie
own evidence alotie ; he had the authority of Mr. Blackburn,. cl'
Mr. Bennet, of a nian shave all others, Irons his high reputation,
deserving of credit—Mr. Justice Dry, in support of his feeble wee
tienony. But the Honourable Meunier for limerick had to-niel:
hiught to invalidate that testiinohy, fano its inconsistency with
what he had expressed rises here, in his capacity of an Advocate.
Ile could tell the liou. Gealleinan, that whet. be entered that Email:
he cast off the gown of the Advocate, and that lie would monde,
himself unworthy of being ranked among the friends of diejion,
Gentleman, and he hoped nothinet would occur to alter that feeling,
unworthy of his mat in that House, if lie gave a vote from aey
other motive than conscientious conrietiou. The Hem. Meta&
for Winchelsea (Mr. Broughatn), could have given the How Gent.
a lecture upon that subject ;he could hare told-him that it wade
duty of an advocate to say all that suggested itself fur the good of
his them, uninfluenced by any other feeling than a sine= deem
to serve his cause. (Hear, Isar.) He would say that each had
been his course, hurtiLle as it may have been, and he would cut
back with scorn, any imputatiou that he ever allowed hie feelings
as a lawyer to influence his integrity u a senator. (Hear brat.)
Ile had seen, ten years ago, a poor man get justice from a tieh cot;
without the Catholic Associtaton. He had seen them at all times,
He wished to God thee hail been Still left without their tote/detente.
(Ilear, hear.) II: aid not go su tar as to say, Re the Mu. aid
Learned Gentleman opposite, that it was as open as the Londen
Tavern, a jest which unfortunately lie bed heard before, cad
which seemed to wake up in poiut what it waited in justice. Pet
he hail asserted that it was as easily attainable in Ireland as
in England, tales lion. Geoilenten wished it to be bettered they
they took no fete here, a matter which lie begged lenre tetticubt.'
(A laugh, and heur, hear.) In the case mentioned by my
Honourable Friend M Waterford, a' .luty, he mild not see
whether Cat ulieor Protestant, or hull out or half the °then
had given an ample measure of damegce to a hoer ora•t.
against his rich oppressors, not quite so good, perhaps, as a ea• -
guine Counsel hail aidicieated, but certainly better than he thee
hear) in England, where lie would just take leave to oboente they
host cases of oppresaiuti, as well as in Ireland. la the other ceen,
where a hlaeiatrate had been deprived of his commis sicn by the
Chancellor, it had been urged against him, that he had used cerrein
language upon the trial, at ‘ariance with his:mammas in that
House. He might have used such language, but be thought at
was rather unfair to pass judgmeut upon the sperzh of an 41,Avocate,
contained in a new report. The 311:;istrate Ad leis cue,
however, was not an Irishman ; be was a Scotsman, mot two years
settled in Ireland. lie had urged that there was atairaceity. Ile
believed, by-the-by, there was not (a biles) ; but the case was
simply this :—The Alagisttate s.a.ing ads man—^ rich marl—
in the streets of Nenagh, after the hour prescribed by law,
and haring heard it asserted that theA was one law far
the rich sad another fur the poor, thotipit %thy probably
that this was a fair opportuuity of pmusing Ina iraparalery. He
therefore ordered him to Le seemed and confined ; add. Mold
tell his Honourable and beamed Frier d—his honourable
he -e-
-he begged pardon for calling bins Learned (Laughtet ee ),
that the defendant would hare had a tenliet, but that it Immo or.
emery to prove upon the trial, that the place where the platattlf was
taken lay iii a part of the country placed under the llenartectien
Act. Now this could be oily done by the Deane Carerree and ter
want alone of the Deiblin Ga tette did the plaintiff get his terdlet. In
the other case, he believed of Fitikner, the•defeadant war i )ohog
men just returned from the wale—the plaintiff a person who cc
to demand the debt. The military near., tot accestowed to de-
mands cf this kiwi, end at the monteut enjoying himself cve. a
pleasant cup with his friends, had perhaps behaved intempernely.
The poor man was very glad of it ; be gut a very hat deems repa-
ration, and it was but justice to the defendant to my, that he ex-
praised his regret for the conduct he bad been betrayed fate. He
thought Jae had now pretty well established the feet. teen jeseee
was to be had in Ireland as well for the rich as the pier
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tained in the Report how before the liouae. There had; that:-
fore, been no confidence between them—nothing to efeclose Or
retain, said he would still assert, that to private feeling could
prevent him from uiekingooyelisclosutes co:muted with public duty,
lie concluded by observing, that the praise vu lavieblytesmeed
upon some diath.goished tedividuals remwdeel Wei of the stagy of
the Spartan who wanted to pronourice a defence of limeoles.
0 Defence of Herculee,'' said a by-mender, " Who mat thosgOt