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Lord Norbury and a
and wrong right t A. 1 never said any such thing.
Lord goasuitv.--If any person was to say such a thing, I
would feel it my duty to apply to his Majesty's Attorney-Gene-
ral to file a criminal information.
Mr. O'Connor.—l will prove it to your Lordship this day
upon oath.
The witness was then examined by Mr. O'Connor as to a
variety of dealings relative to the rent of the premises.
Lord NORBURT.—I have every wish to give every possible
and reasonable degree of latitude in the cross-examination; but
Mr. O'Connor, I request you to recollect there are a number of
poor wretches in the deck, waiting to take trial for their lives.
Mr. O'Connor.—l do not know how, or why lam so hemmed
in ; is there a man in the county but myself that would have
been sent to the Assizes to stand his trial for a common as-
satdt ; to be dragged into this Court ins teas of being sent to
the-Sessions, for the purpose of makingme more particular than
any other man, I, who hardly ever stir abroad, except when I
go to Dublin or England with my family, who am unacquainted
with the gentlemen of the country, who never was in one of
their houses for seven years ; whose only acquaintance, and
that but a slightione, in the country, is Mr. Winter. Why
shoold I be treated in a manner totally different from any other
man ?
Lord NORBURT.I only wish to assist you in your mode of
proceeding, and to save as much of the public time as we can.
Mr. O'Connor proceeded to examine the witness, who ad-
mitted he might have said he collared young O'Connor, but did
not recollect having said, that when he collared him, that the
other had not spirit to resist him. The witnesapositively swore,
that Mr. Roger O'Connor called to two persons to come and
assist him, but before they arrived he ran at the witness fu-
riously, and collared him ; admitted he might have torn Arlr.
O'Connor's coat in endeavouring to rescue himself, and says,
that after he had extracted himself he was assaulted by the
traverser Hayes.
Patrick Rorke examined by Mr.
Corroborated the testimony of the last witness, as to his hav-
ing been assaulted by Mr. O'Connor, senior, and the traverser
Hayes.

Cross-trona:led by Mr. O'Connor.
Q. You did not come to my house through curiosity ?—A.
Not in the lea-,t.
Q. You did not come there as an affidavit man ?—A. No ; I
went there of my master's message, which you know.
Thomas Rawson, Esq. said, the prosecutor came to him sup-
posing him to be -a magistrate, he appeared to be very severe:'
beaten, and the witness gave him some wine.

DEFENCE.

Nicholas Kerney, Owen Tracy, and Dorah Croshie, swore
positively that the prosecutor was the first aggressor. Those
witnesses were cross-exatnined, but persisted in the account
they gave.
Martin M'Keon examined by Mr. O'Connor.

Was one of the person, left as keeper on the prooetutor's
property, and had a convorsation with him,
Q. Had you any coversation with him relative to the Learned
and Noble Lord on the Bench ?

Lord NORBURY.-Sir, I caution you not to commit a studied
contempt of this Court : I have as much temper and forhear-
ance as an 7 man that has the honour of presiding in a similar
situation : as to myself, I am. totally indifferent to what was
said, but I never will suffer any man under colour of a defence
to be guilty of a studied contempt : because it cannot be rele-
vant to the issue, and as to the gossiping of a parcel of illiterate
fellows, it can be of no use to you, and I will not set a precedent
fOr insulting the coming judges of Assize.
Mr. O'Connor Lord, I do think it very revelant, and
if it should be a contempt Idoit in ignorance. Perhaps, I may
put the question this way ?—bid you hear any thing from the
prosecutor respecting the trial? it. This is the great man that
you thought so much about, and that the people thought so
much about: and that they thought to crown king of thi, place.
And, if he was governor or king of Tara, you would be worse
off than you are.—but, if it was left to a Jury of Trim and
Lord Norbury, little of it he would ever put into his poeket ;
you know. little abuat it, for they would make right wrung, and
wrong right.
Lord NOKBURY•--Q. Who was present ?—A. James Crosbic.
Q. He said the Jury of Trim would get Lord Norbury to as-
oust them in making wrong right, and right wrung?—A. Yes.
James Crosbie examined by Mr. O'Connor.
is the second keeper that was on the prosecutor's property.
The prosecutor said, is not this a terrible thing, that be should
be such a tyrant : hut I wall let him know I have a friend—my
Lord Norbury is a friend of mine, is an intimate friend of mine,
ant a sworn • enemy to Mr: O'Connor ; and if it is left to the
decision of my Lord Norbury, anti a Jury of Ttitn, by the ma-

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culate farmer he would never get his rent, for they would. make
wrong right, and right wrong.
Mr. M‘ „Milli/ to the Prosecutor.
Q: -1,--that true ?--A. it is as false as airy rhing ever said.
O. You have heard what he has said respecting the Noble
Lo-rd on the Bench : does he swear false ?—A. I say it is a most
infamous lie.
Roger O'Connor, Esq. and John M'Ctillaugh swore that the
prosecutor having given some ill language to Mr. Rodrick
O'Connor, the htter put his hand gent* on the prosecutor's
elbow, and desired him to quit tne place; upon which the pro-
secutor rushed on him, and took him by the neckcloth : the
witness, Roger O'Connor, was the person that disengaged the
•
prosecutor's hand.
Here the case closed. Lord Norbury summed up the evi-
dence.

The Jury retired for about an hoar, and then brought in the
following verdict—R. O'Connor, Esq. guilty—Rodrick O'Con-
nor, Esq. not guilty—Peter Hayes, guilty.
Mr. O'Connor begged leave to address the Court. He said
the verdict just given reminded hit of a verdict given against
him on a former occasion, in a civil action, tried in the same
Court-house, before his Lordship, in which the verdict way not
only against the evidence, but against the charge of the Noble
and Learned Lord. The verdict of this day was a proof of the
testimony which chargid Mr. Ogle with having said,that he
Could not have justice from a Trim Jury ; and be now felt that
justice was not to be had for him in the county of Meath.
Lord NORBLTRY said he would not listen to such a charge
against the Jury ; they had always shewn themselves the pr
tectors of the peace and liberty of the subject, and had executed
their duty this day with a conscientious adherence to the evi-
dence given, and with a merciful attention to the case of the
younger O'Connor, whom they had acquitted, and in doing
which they had done right ; as to any imputation on his Lord.-
ship himself, that was below his resentment. Though not of
the old nobility or the country, he was as proud as any Lord
that had a title, and he could not condescend to vindicate his
conduct from malignant and unfounded imputations.
Mr. Otonnor said, he alluded to his Lordship's conduct
litretofore in the House of Commons, when Attorney-General;
to that conduct he imputed t1h:• partial treatment he had re-
ceived ; it had poisoned the opinion of the people against him; .
•it had affected him in his character and in his dearest interests.
But, however, he th:enited the Noble Lord for the patience with
which be had attended to the trial; and permitted him to expend
so much time.
Lord NORBURY said, that what he had said did not relate to
Mr. O'Cohnor, but to his family, which bad been troublososnes
and disturbers of the peace.
Mr. O'Connor.—Your Lordhip alludes, I presume, to mil
brother, now absent in France, with whom Government eapi.-
tulated and permitted to go abroad.
Lord NORlibitY.-I will hold no further conversation with
you, Mr. O'Connor: let the gentlemen be taken into custody,
we will consider of the sentence:.
Mr: M'NALL informed the Court it was the intention of
the prosecutor to bring an action, and said, he gave this intiosr
tion for the purpose of mitigating the sentence ;. and that Mr.
O'Connor should have nothing to complain of, he would advise
his client to lay the ve'nue in a .lifferent county.
Mr. O'Connor was sentenced to be confined one mouth, aa4
Mr. Hayes one fortnight.—(Fr,:man's Journal.)

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