Items related to Union Pamphlets (Volume 5)
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1799. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... yoa have chosen !« just,) referring the; suits of the IrUfc people* to the tribunal of an Imperial Parliament* >.>n>usi irlj bn» Jjtoid: .'. ' ' ':" •'• 'i^.a Jsspni • Besides, the law contemplates, and corrects, those " preju r - M ' • ' ^ moil 1 u:J dice?, animosities, and friendships," which you notice, and to which you suppose it blind ---Where there is reason to suspect that a fair trial cannot be had in the vicinage, (though that vicinage embraces the whole of a county,) the courts^ jjp^ prevent injustice, will change the venue.--But prejudices, alas! will ipread themselves from counties to provinces, and may taint an entire kingdom at the last ! and if a suitor people should distrust the impartiality of the grand inquest,--how assure them, but in changing the venue, by an Union j But " local knowledge is the very essence of a jury's capacity " to administer its functions ?"*--Be it so ; will not Ireland return a pannel to the United Parliament ) Is a jury of the county of Louth less qualified to perform its functions, sitting in Dublin, than if it fat in the town of Drogheda ?---And may not the Imperial Parliament combine possession off lociY knowledge, with exemption from local prejudice i Or will you complain that, on this grand inquest of the empire, the repfe-i sentatives of its British, as well as of its Irish,o^rict, .,c)aim ,0 "c' :«-'- : - ' 'm cj -rtsqqt jrir,.- .= Bot the British Minister's object in pressing a Union fi taxation If the grant of eight millions which has been made this year, and which you notice, might alone be sufficient to refute your imputation. But suppose it were not; the^man who after having observed, even cursorily, our history for some years back,--taster having glanced his e...
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