Report of the Select Committee on Outrages

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SELECT COMMITTEE ON OUTRAGES (IRELAND;. 
1 83 and was put on the record : it came up to Dublin, and it was Mr.Attormi-
argued before the Court of Queen's Bench by myself and GeneralJbr Mr. 
Whiteside. 
Of course we made no question about Irelanli* M-p-fees, for we assumed that the Crown would pay ns the 2g April ordinary and proper fees for doing our duty. 
The Judges 1852. 
differed in opinion, Mr. 
Justice Perrin differing from the rest of the court, and we considered that his law was right, and the House of Lords thought so. 
The Crown then refused to pay any fees, and for performing our duty we were not al¬ lowed one farthing of fees; and they were ultimately refused by the Crown. 
My position was this, that there being an im¬ portant point of law, involving the right to challenge, which would arise upon every trial in a case of transportable felon}-, having the opinion of one learned Judge with me, and being counsel for the man, and the fees being refused by the Crown, I thought it was an attempt to oppress him; and I certainly did say, that if the case went further, I would not seek for any compensation or remuneration for arguing the case. 
Accord¬ ingly the officers, both in Ireland and England, remitted their fees under the circumstances, on bringing the appeal; I came over here; I never got one farthing; I did not pay any money out of my own pocket, except travelling expenses, in coming over; but itsohappened that, at the same time I was coming over in the case of Mr. 
O'Connell, who had also a point before the House of Lords; and both the cases were argued in the same week. 
I armied the case before the House of Lords, but I was never paid one farthing in any way. 
I did my duty as coun¬ sel, having been assigned, and got nothing for it. 
The House of Lords decided that on the point of law the counsel for Gray were right, and awarded a venire de novo, which would have enabled the Crown, if they had thought proper, to proceed again; but they thought they had gone far enough, and dropped the pro¬ ceeding. 
As 1 have said so much, perhaps the Committee will allow me to add, that I had also been counsel for several distinguished Ribbonmen ; I was counsel for Houston ; I argued his case, and I got him off on a point of law; he paid me well, and like a gentleman. 
I argued Brady's case; and I argued Jones's case; and I may say (being myself neither an Orangeman nor a Ribbonman), that I do not know that there was any peculiar sympathy for me, except the professional confidence which they had in selecting me as counsel to argue their cases. 
I did my duty, and I conceive that I simply did my duty in point of honour, and to the best of my ability as counsel, as 1 would do for any man in the community ; and I neither advanced money nor compromised my character or my honour. 
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