The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-25 00:00:00

STATE ALAN.

THE biSIi(JP ANP sot,DIER.

(/ROY TIM M. CHILOXICILII Or ?O•DAT.)

TO THE RIGHT HON. C. KENDAL BUSHIL

LORD Ciller JUSTICS Mu 111.11-JE;I:e; COURT Of lillYo'll

BENCH IN IRILAND.
MT LORD—A recent detection of a horrible crime
here impels me to obtrude upon your Lordship with a
migration. which your character for humanity and a
strict sense of justice gives me reason to hope you will
adopt. even though it route to you anonymously.
On your appointment to the office of his Majesty's
SolicitorMeeeral for Ireland. sixteen or seventeen years
ago, you were said to have determined to confine your
future practice to the Court of Chancery,* except in par•
titular eases.

Ins very few instances did you deport from that de-
tensioation sad else of them was when yen appeared
in the Recorder's Court of Dublio, shout ten years
since, as leading Counsel in the prosecution of
Byrne, for imputing to the Honourable and Right
Reversed Percy Jocelyn, the Lord Bishop of Perlis, en
attempt to commit a certain crime.
Your fee on that oecesion was, I believe, exactly one
hundred guineas, and I remember your warm eulogium
of the Right Rev. Lord for his comma in coming for-
ward to prosecute under such circumstances. I most re-
ligiously believe that you then considered his Lordship
an Innocent and an injured man.
Byrne was convicted. I will not say that conviction
waseatirely owls, to the ability and elcumenee of Mr.
Bush.; but I well recollect the effect produced spots
the Court, the Jury, and the auditory, by your powerful
appeal to their feelings. Most certainly it Insured to
unfortunate Byrne no mitigation of punishment; for,
having been sentenced to be publicly whipped through
the streets of Dublin (from Newgate to the Royal Ex-
change, aid back again), the Sheriff, In the zealous dis-
charge of his duty, superseded, for that day, the com-
mon executioner, and procured from the Barrack a
drummer, nearly six feet high, whose strength and dex-
terity were fully proved by the manner in which be la-
cerated the back of the unhappy culprit.
Byrne hors the punishment without a groan—oe his
being earned into the gaol from the ear, to which be
had been tied, be solemnly declared his innocence, and
burst isle tears. I forget whether his sentence did or
did not include transportation, if it did not, the sense
of degradation did that which the Judge decreed not.
Byrne left the country, and has not sine been heard lit.
Such are the circumstances of Byrne's ease, I find,
precisely—l know they are substantially correct. You
will, lam sore, recollect all this with pain—it will,
trete, operate as an example to future lawyers, to refrain
from esageratiag charges, or exciting prejudice against
prisoners, an ther•statensent of cases—and the fat* of
Byrne will, I trust, have the salutary effect of render-
ing Jurors still morescropulons in the discharge of their
duty, when deciding upon the life or character of their
follow-man.
I now come to the suggestion of which I spoke in the
commencement, and which my intimate knowledge of
the exceltence of your heart Wnoes use to think you
may have anticipated, after learnisg the detection here,
to which I alluded, namely, that you will cause strict
inquiry to be made after unfortunate Byrne, and (if he
still lives), cause such reparation to be made for the tot-
ters of Ins person and the destruction of his character,
as any be within your power; and le making such re-
paration, you will, no doubt, be ennoilleently assisted by
the noble and highly respectable family of hie prose-
cutor.
I trust it is unnecessary for me to apologise for this
appeal to yoar Lordship's justice.
1 have the honour to be, &c. &c.
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Gif Leasiod Fdray.

DISTRESS OF THE POOH IN IRELAND.

(PROM THU DIAILIE MORNING POST OF TUESDAY.)

We regret to find, by accounts from the country,
received yesterday, that, a period bee not yet been pet
to the melancholy state of destitution under which so
large a portion of oar fellow-countrymen in the south
and west of Ireland have so long suffered. It would
appear even that the distress approaches nearer to the
Capital.
By the Resolutions of the Managing Committee of
a Fund, established for the Relief of the Poor at
Moats, we regret very much to observe, that those who
should be the first to come forward on such an occa-
sion, have been applied to in vain ? This Is dreadful
heartlessness. Landowners of the Neighbourhood
have refused to contribute to the relief of the starv-
ing People!
(I.OY TBZ CBRONICIA OF lIATURDAT.)
We feel it to be our painful duty to report that die-
trees in our city is daily assuming a more aggravated
appearance, and that unless some immediate assistance
be afforded, many of our fellow-creatures must perish
from actual starvation. In making this statement we
do lot speak unadvisedly. The weekly expenditure
of the City Committee, to whose immediate protection
nearly 20,099 fellow-creatures look up tor their daily
food and support, is something short of 400/.; and
we speak from authority when we say, that scarcely
this suns, being but a siagle week's pro►ision, now re-
mains in the hands of the Treasurer. A bounty on
potatoes, and other incidentals not yet included in the
dishursemeut, must considerably reduce this sum.
Weduesday last, two cars, laden with flour, from
Roeisiaills to this city, were taken off by the pea.
I sentry near Derrygalvin, in the Liberties; inch acts
are not only disgraceful, but must impose a hea►y tax
on the parish where such plunder is committed.

Tcsisz,Juir 17.—Mrs. Casey, (the wife of James
Casey, who has been some days since committed to
our gaol, for the atrocious murder of his mothe•rio-
law, Mrs. Kelly,) has been apprehended, aid it is ex-
pected will be transmitted to gaul this day, antler the
warrant of John Raymond, Esq. as an accomplice in
that deed of horror, the murder of her own Mother ! I I
She is quite a young woman, woman, we understand,
not above the age of fifteen, and is very near her con-
finement. Her mother was also pregnant, and within
a few India of ber confinement, when b irbarously
murdered. The above named safortuoate woman (the
wife of Casey,) has just this moment, passed through
this town to the County tiaol. A man named Edmond
Carr, has also been this day committed by Mr. Ray
, mond. charged with being a prin. ipal in the assassi-
nation of Conway, the Tithe PrJcsor, who WAS cruelly
mardered some months since.

Mr. Alcoa, proprietor of the estate of Wilton, is
the county of Wezford, three years ago, forgave hi•
tenants to the amount of 16,000 f. of f rent;
and about a month ago be called his tenants together,
forget, them again about 13.0001., redeem' their rents
to half, and gave them new leases;' his lands formerly
set for from 13•. to 40s. are nuw set from 7s. to 231.
per sere.