Forensic Eloquence Author:John Philpot Curran Subtitle: Sketches of Trials in Ireland for High Treason, Etc. Including the Speeches of Mr. Curran at Length: Accompanied by Certain Papers Illustrating the History and Present State of That Country General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1804 Original Publisher: G. Douglas Subjects: Trials Trials (Treason) Ire... more »land History / Europe / Ireland Law / Criminal Law / General Law / Legal History Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE . TRIAL PETER FINERTY FOR, A LIBEL. COMMISSION OF OVER AND TERMINER. AT a court of Oyer and Terminer, and general gaol delive ry, held for the county of the city of Dublin, before Mr. Justice Downes, on the 22d of December 1797, Peter Finer- ty was brought to the Bar and tried on an indictment (drawh in the usual form), charging him with being the printer and publisher of the following false, scandalous, and libellous letter, addressed to Earl Cambden. / THE PRESS, Thursday, 26th October 1797. To hit Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. My Lord, I address your Excellency on a subject as aweful and interesting, as any that hath engaged the feelings of this suffering country. The oppression of an individual leads to the oppression of every member in the state, as his death, however speciously palliated by forms, may lead to the death of the Constitution. Your Lordship already anticipates me ; and your conscience has told you, that I allude to the circumstance of Mr. Orr, whose case every man has now made his own, by discovering the principle on which Mr. Pitt sent you to execute his orders in Ireland. The death of Mr. Orr, the nation has pronounced one of the most sanguinary and savage acts that has disgraced the laws....« less