The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-09 00:00:00

DUBLIN COMMISSION.

(r2Oll TUC DUBLIN MOBBING POST Or TUESDAY.)
Yesterday, Jadges Moore and Burton took their seats on
the Bench precisely at tee o'clock.
A Jury having been sworn ;
William O'Beirne. James Kelly, John Walker. and
Jane M'Conkey, stood indicted for a burglary and robbery.
In the house of Mr. John Ryan, of Baggott•street.
[Witnesses having been examined]
Judge Burrow recapitulated the evidence,and charged the
Jury, who retired for nearly an hour, and returned, finding
William O'Beirne Guilty of the burglary and robbery, and
acquitting John Walker, James Kelly, and Jane ill'Conkey.

?RR CITY GRAND JURY.

After the foregoing trial, the Foreman of the City Grand
Airy. Sir George Whiteford. entered the box, and Mated to
the Court that the City Grand Jury had a commeniestion to
*kw tortbeir I.oldshlps. The Judges having expressed

(heir readiness to hear any thing they had to communicate,
it. City Grand Jury entered the Court, and having seve-
rally answered to their names, Sir George Whiteford read
from a paper the following declaration :
MY 1.011111..—We, the Commission Grand Jury of Oyer
and Terminer of the County of the City of Dublin, have
learned with deep regret, that the discharge of our official
duties, with respect to certain biiis of indictment, has been
made a subject of animadversion by his Majesty's Attorney-
General. and has been pronounced by this High Court to
have been a matter of surprise.

" We hope, that neither the Court, nor, with its
sanction, his Majesty's first Law Officer, intended to
convey an imputation that our jmiginent was intimated
by fear, favour, or affection ; a charge of each a nature,
without adverting to the enormity of the crime which•it
would impute. would be essentially unjust ; for our oath
of secrecy, which forbids the disclosure of the grounds
of our judgment, would render the vindication of that
judgment, and, of ity, the satisfactory refutation
of such a charge, impossible.
" It must be recollected, that to os exclusively is the
evidence known on which our judgment was founded;
and we therefore trust, that this High Court will receive
the declaration we now solemnly and unanimously make
—that our decision was the result of a laborious sera
tiny of the evidence, of a conscientious consideration of
its weight, and of a sincere anxiety to adhere to the
directions of the Learned Judge, who so fully and
clearly detailed to ua the nature of our duties, and the
principles by which we were bound to be regulated io
discharging them."
Mr. Justice Moore then addressed the City Grand
Jury to the following effect :
" GINTLEMIN—The less I say upon this communica-
tion, perhaps, the better; it is a dangerous thing fur
any public body to act upon the opinions and hearsays
of others. No man can arraign the conduct of a Grand
Jury for exercising their judgment, or question their
right to exercise it; bat the Attorney-General bad, cer-
tainly, a right to express surprise that the body of evi
deuce which was laid before them should not have struck
their minds in the same point of view as it did his own.—
Gentlemen, he did announce that he would send the
matter for trial, before another Jury, when the evidence
and circumstances should be hilly discussed. nu:News-
papers have strongly misrepresented some expressions
of mine. But, Gentlemeo, I ant surprised that such a
body of evidence did not wake au impression on your
lOin.ls, sufficient to induce you to send these cases for
trial ; it appears, by the evidence, that there is a full
conspiracy made out. It has been said that the Court is
bound to declare that those men are acquitted of that
conspiracy. Gentlemen, those men are not acquitted ;
they have not been tried. A conspiracy has beta mani-
fested against some persons or other, but no one can
presume to suppose twat you have not decided on just
grounds."