The Virginia Gazette

DUBLIN, June 27.

VERY extraordinary transaction, and most highly interesting to every individual in this kingdom, has lately passed in one of our Courts of Judicature. Lord Mansfield, the present Chief Justice of England, having advanced 30,000l. upon a mortgage in this Kingdom, under an English act of Parliament, employed an agent to be for the recovery, who made application to that steady assertor of Irish Liberty, Barry Yelverton, Esq; in order to retain him as a Counsel in behalf of his Lordship; the like application was also made to that ornament of his profession, and distinguished guardian of the constitutional rights and freedom of his country, the Right Honourable Walter Burgh, and Counsellor Thomas Kelley, whose tried integrity has deservedly acquired him the esteem and approbation of all good men, was likewise applied to. But these Gentlemen unanimously rejected the fee, declaring they never would appear as advocates in any cause to enforce the operation of a British act of Parliament. This laudable and spirited example will, no doubt, be followed by all the Gentlemen at the bar, and convince the Ministry that any attempt to bind his Majesty's subjects in this country by an English statute, are vain and futile; and that Irishmen will be amenable to no laws but those enacted by the King, Lords, and Commons of Ireland ONLY.