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city. To this, two answers were 

 given ; the first, that supposiog 

 that to be so, there was no material 

 variance ; the second, that taking 

 the whole evidence together, it 

 appeared that this meeting was in 

 compliance with Lord Fingal's re- 

 solutions of July 9th, by which 

 counties were to elect ten each, 

 and the parishes in Dublin (as con- 

 tra-distinguished from the coun- 

 ty), were to elect five each ; that 

 therefore the jury had strong 

 evidence to show that the elec- 

 tion in LifFey-street was held only 

 for so much as was in Dublin 

 city ; and that the allegation of 

 the indictment, " a district in the 

 city of Dublin, called the parish 

 of St. Mary, " was sustained. 

 The Court determined on leaving it 

 to the jury, whether the election 

 really was so or not ; and accord- 

 ing to their answer, afterwards to 

 decide on the law. Counsel then, 

 in a speech of three hours, stated 

 the case of the traverser, and 

 went fully into all the political 

 doctrines connected with the case. 

 This occupied the Wednesday. 



The proceedings of Thursday 

 opened with a speech from the 

 Solicitor-General, in which he dis- 

 played his usual command of wit, 

 eloquence, and argument. He par- 

 ticularly animadverted on the tra- 

 verser's counsel assuming the high 

 tone of an advocate of the people 

 and of a public cause ; and yet 

 condescending to question notori- 

 ous facts, and to insist on every 

 petty cavil that would be used in 

 the defence of a thief. He also 

 animadverted strongly, but in re- 

 spectful terms, on Lord Fingal, 

 who was present, for sitting by, 

 two several times, while a witness 



was tortured and branded for swear- 

 ing to resolutions which had for 

 months appeared in the public 

 prints with the sanction of his 

 lordship's name, and without con- 

 tradiction. At half-past one he 

 concluded, and the chief justice 

 proceeded to charge the jury, ex- 

 plaining to them the provisions of 

 the Convention Act at some length. 

 The jury then retired, and after 

 being out fifteen minutes, returned 

 with a verdict of guilty. 



On February 6th, Mr. Kirwan 

 was brought up for judgment, 

 when, after a speech from the Court 

 explaining the crime, and the pur- 

 pose of government in prosecut- 

 ing, he was fined one mark and 

 discharged. 



The Attorney -General entered 

 a noli prosequi upon the other de- 

 pending causes on the samecharge. 

 Court of Kings Bench, Dublin, 

 February 2l5/.— -This day the 

 long pending causes of the Police 

 Magistrates of the city of Dublin 

 versus Mr. John Magee, proprietor 

 of the Dublin Evening Post, came 

 on to be tried. Mr. Burrowes con- 

 ducted the prosecution, on a crimi- 

 nal information for a libel in the 

 before-named newspaper, intituled 

 " Inefficiency of the Police. " The 

 libel stated a number of outrages to 

 have been committed in Dublin, 

 through the want of proper atten- 

 tion on the part of the Police, — 

 that the magistrates received sa- 

 laries of near 10,000/. a-year of 

 the public money, to which might 

 be added, the sum of 40,000/. ac- 

 cruing from fines, — and that the 

 watchmen would do their duty 

 effectually, if the magistrates bet- 

 tered their condition, and attend- 

 ed to their own business. It 



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