New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-12-15
Carrie. GavaH Day..

The foIo~inx .mp1rtsnf letters from iais 5sun
g1ishei ps'ri . wi 1- Isai win .atefesf
To ROBERT SHAW. - $50 HisA 'HERiT 10 THr
IN .eem o. cecessl-y Oh s--ve notice lson you.
witch Il y - nj an unusual character. u believe
demsniei ani .lstIfet y he c-rcrmstsnres witch
also are unprecefertei
Al tue next approaching Commission .oT tae County
0f Dublin o. b. PAT upon my triA i1r certain a.
e-d violations Of the FOR The better security Of the
Crown and Govsrnmeu; Of these realms presumed o.
have beer Committed y P1-icstions IN ih- Nliior
nfVspsper
The Indictment sgsior ue hss been transferred T.
Your jursdcton by the prer0gltive n tie crowu OF
al the prisoners Indicted IN Ireland Encer ibis ACT
alone have been removed rom among the Jurors 70
whom my writings aud elsrscter'are familiar, 20 he
tied ~ strangers NJ Michel. who arrested tue
months before me- was tried BY CITY Jury. Mr Mar
tin who WIS arrested on ihe same day Win me, was
tired bv civ Jury M- Williams snt Mr. q Dou gh-
erfv who have been tried stree my Indictment was
transferred % the county have been tried By city Ju
res Bat tn oil found against in the city aas been
luashed snd new nue framed Tor the express pur
pose Of changing the venue. and giving ia charge 10
the Jurors Of The county
am. Furthermore % be- tiled under neV law which
was not In force In Ireland feV months back. sni b
material part al which NJ cease % be IN force after
seventeen months arc passed snd = law under which
the Jurors OF your bsTick have never before tried
any prisoner
taken place under this act m the City Of Dublin for.
Judges sitting n commission. against the sheriff or
Dublin for having prepared the respective panels in =
manner inronsstsri with the aw reiudcis D. the
prisoners and n grOss gio'sCn Of the due sdminsirs
Lton Of Justice TIE omission Of CzhOlc jurors from
these panels and the seced <lu mispisrings OF such
Catholic iurors admitted on them were uni
formly The grounds OF those repeated compIsnts
Now under Oh these circumstsnre-. deem u essen
ia % the ends Of Justice - give yOu notice that have
csased the Jurors book Of the county 70 be examined
bycompetent prsons-ths' they sfrm d contains ihe
names of f,6 Jurors. OF whom ~ least LOO profess
The Catholic reisian-thai ! also am Catholic. snd
thaf will consider II gross and grievoBs injustice 81
any panel be prepared FOR 10Y tris from which Catno
lies are excluded by uinishing the panel he pro
portion which they nesr % protestani on The jurors
ooO.sthst i - say the proportion of man for man.
! wish you 20 undrrsrand that intend 20 imply n
suspicion whatever O the justice impartisy % Fro
testant Jurors the contrary desire that they may
hold their full and just proportion on the panel and ~
the Jury box Ny public life has been an effort q ban
i-h religious luminosity from the performance Of Ell
zons' duties bgt it e well known TO you that many
Proieants are violent psrizsns against the opinions
which profess and for which am % be- tried and
that Jury composed almost exclusively OF PrOtestants
would most probably contain several such and II Il
therefore I demand that Catholics may not lin thu
erds Of Chief Justice Bu-ne) be left OF the panel
cdrrupty placed or postponed In such aud 10
such extent would deprive the prisoner Of Impair
iia Jurors throw him into the hands OF Jurors preu
diced against him
] therefore call upon you. by the oath you have
sworn that you will not DO wron- % any man for "A
vor for hatred 20 array yolr panel In just accor
dance with the jurors book from which it i % be
taken neither exceeding TIE side the other
And farther beg g. epp-ise you that ! viii be pre-
pared 10 prove the facts hch have here st forth
that require you q acqusnt yOurseli with themand
that viii ibis notice % necessary, 20 hN you with
their knowledge. CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY
November - l-i-.