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The lib,l also described Lord Itedesdale as a stout•

built Chancery Pleader, influence I by the most cor-
rupt motives, displacing piisons from office, to '
make way fur iii,known annuitants of his own, and
drawing an invidiotis comparison betw •en his con-
duet and that of Lord Kenyon. had the latter been
placed in the same situaiion. Charging Mr. Justice
Osborne with wicked and corrupt motives of bribery,
in reference to his charge to the Grand Juries
of Antrim and Down, of pouring a broadside upon
the truth, in asserting that the rehellion in that
cliinty was put down by the energy and well-rimed
interpadtioa of the Government, ny which jii,tice
was perverted wild confounded. Further, acsusiig
Mr. Marsden as the vile instrument of thei- rapacity,
turough whom these enormities were praCtised ; and
a ;setting that the people of Ireland might look with
indi Terence on rebellion and invasion. if the ermined
rode of Mai.-sty could he extended to cover such a
man from citsrace, or if it coal(' be believed that
Ow stetted- bawds- ssf a patsy cheek had bean wagtail

in the very tountain of justice. The indietinent
then set fOrth sreeral counts. cow:lining a number
of the most pointed passages in the libel. The
Learned Coo •.sel concluded, by stating the plea
against t e jarisdietion ut the Court, ll:inurrer, and
plea of Nee Guirey.
The Arvontate-Gestexat. then rote, and ad-
dressed the Court and Jnry nearly as f news :
t. My Lords and Gentlemen of the Jory—l feel
real pain and most serious concern in rising to
address yau on :his very extraordinary an 4 import-
ant cause; and, as one of the Lan Officers of the
King, I consider i: a misfortune that, in my official
duty, I am compelled to bring before you one of
His Majesty's learned Judges of the land, charged
with so mean and atrocious en offence, as purslisbing
an anonymous Istel against His Majest7 s Govern-
ment inl reiand; an offence from which every feeling
athie life, every se t:iment oillitisrality, every priti-
ciple o his duty, b nth as a Judge and a gentleman,
ought to hatie restr tined him. Such is the pet son I
am compelled to b log before yo i; and when I have
pointed out to ye i :he n t re of this libel, and
when, in your opioion and u tyment, I shall have
establi lied the fads, beyond all controversy, you
will think ale justified in calling it a most mischie-
vous, scurrilous, scandalous, and unfounded libel ;
moat wickedly and seditiously directed against pet-
sons qt. the most distinguished honour and excited
rank ; ,against the administration of law an.: justice
in that part of the kingdom, where, as a Judge, he
should have been the 3rst to vindicate those essen-
ial qualities in a state, and the last to vilify them ;
hit: his objed was to revile and degrade the whole
system of Government lin reland, at that time ; to
excite the King's subjeEls to die rust and hatred of
His Majesty's (!overiiment ; and to make the people
of Ireland believe, they wet.: ppressed and agrieved
e—His personal abuse eves eireeted against per-
vats raised by their merits and virtues, to the most
arduous and elevated posts of honour, and to places
of the greatest trust and power in that part of the
empire And, now let me ask, who are the persons
thus vilified and ,'darned ? The first on the fist is,
my Lord Hardwicke, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
and the King's Representative; a Nobleman, who,
notwalistanding the division of sentiment which pre-
vailed among the people of that kingdom, had, by
his virtuous and meritorious conduCt, the happiness
and good fortune of uniting all descriptions of per-
sons in one common respe.tt for his Pet arm and Go-
veriiment. The next in rotation is Lord Redesdale,
now Chance!lor ut h eland, whose merit and virtues I
should not here enlarge upon, from our very close
and intimate connettion ; hut, wheti his honour and
charaChir air vilified and impeached, nothing shall
prevent me from contradißing such base and vile
calumny. Ile is well known to my friends ar,,und
mc,.is well as myself, for virtuous integrity and alai-
none are smuttiest, mid his honour and incerrup-
tibqua ouch above my power to praise, as, I
thank God, they are Aimee the malice of the slanderer
to !Owls .'s next person who falls under the lash
ref ihis Gen: • T.tn's pen, is Mr. Justice Oshorne, a
then, ens.an :;-. ittli, e, and in the es:stem of every
ktio4l I int ; a !smeller Judge; and one es
the lest pet veneer his envy or malice shuu'd
have been • • led against. to those three ate

;tildes), Mr. Marsden,. a r-...ntletnan holding a parti-
cular and important statioc limier Government, one
of the Undo. Secresui ies of State, to whose particu-
lar department belongs the direaien of the Police,
one 4 the most essential and important branches
under the Government ; to thes-, I might also add
many other persons held up to the ridicule and con-
papt of the people. as the most gross peculators,
aod most gr.ssly corrupt. Whatever may have
been the gratification of Has libeller, in such a pro-
duaion, his ohjeß was no, that of private malice ;
but his purpose WAS to vilify and degrade the Go-
vernmont of the Country, and nothing could do it
mere effeThially than the method he adopted. To
represent the seat of justice polluted, a Judge of the
land corrupted and tampered with by the Crown. when
about to discharge his duty ir. the trial of persons
chat ged with the most criminal offences against the
state ; such was his objea, and such were the means
by which he sodght to attain his purpose. And at
what time was this given to the public ? a very little
while after the zebefli 'in had disgraced that Colltrrv;
at is time that the blood of a virtuous and amiable

Nobleman (I,mA Kilwarden) was shed, in the
midst of tumult and insurrection. Such was the
time of this publication ; when, instead of a pallia-
tive to heal the wounds of a divided people, he en-
deavoured to kindle again the flame of anarchy and
contusion among them." After commentiag, at
great lengi h, upon all the various prominent and
parts of the libel, the Learned Counsel con-

tinned—" It is scarcely possible even to suppose
a min in such a situation could he guilty of such
4 crime; but supposiog it possible Tor Judge of
the land to du so, it must be proved on the most
unclitivoc i 1 testimony. This I shall do. We shall
profiler the original hanii-writing of himself, to
wl•ich two Solicitors of the Revenue, and either re-

speztable professional gentlemen, who had daily and
familiar ineans of knowledge. will swear. A
Judv, holding so high a situation of trust and
honour, who h id hen so many years a confiden-
tial ad•iser of the Crown. as one of the Counsel