Select Speeches - 2 Author:Daniel O'Connell Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Original Publisher: J. Duffy Subjects: Ireland History / Europe / Ireland 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... more » 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: CRIMINAL INFORMATION. The King ai- the Prosecution of Michael O'connor, Clerk, v. Joseph Timothy Hayden And William Glynn, Proprietor of tin Public Newspaper called " The Dublin Evening Mail." Ik The King's Bench, June Hth, 1823. Mr. O'CoNNELL (upon the same side as Mr. Goold) submitted to the court, that the subject before them necessarily resolved itself into three branches. " First, whether the publication was libellous. " Secondly, whether the persons libelled be such as are 'entitled to make thcii uumplaint as a public body j and, "Thirdly, whether the conduct of the professional persona concerned fm them, in directing the prosecution, has been irregular, and must be visited ; ijioii the aggrieved persons prosecuting.1' The court in deciding the first position, were called upon to determine whether the encouraging of midnight assassination and atrocities of the most appalling nature, and in the worst shapes, were crimes, as it was for the encouragement of such offences that the Catholic clergy were accused in the libel, not under the guise of impartial discussion, but by a direct ueuusa- tion ; not weighing the probability of the charge, but convicting at once, and calling upon the public vengeance ; for if any mail believed the charge, must he not feel exasperated, and would he not be bound to exert himself by all legal means, and procure the punishment of wretches base enough to disgrace their religion and their calling, by the conduct here imputed to them. Did not such a c...« less