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Representative British Orations Volume 4 (of 4)

Note 5 — DANIEL O’CONNELL. IN DEFENCE OF JOHN MAGEE: COURT OF KING’S BENCH, DUBLIN, JULY 27, 1813.

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Note 5, p. 65.—Here the speaker is at some pains to press first the charge of inconsistency against the Attorney-General: he then goes on to consider the cases of Walter Cox, a Protestant and publisher of the Irish Magazine, and of the author of a book called “The Statement of the Penal Laws,” both imprisoned for libel.

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