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fe admitted that he told the Defendant► that he
I.eard the ►choolmaster say there •war no God, no
!lessen, nr no hell ; hut that, in telling the De-
fend Ant this. he told him a he, having never heard

the Plaintiff say so.
John Murphy, the father of Miry llurphy, was
i'ext examined, and lie deposed to the language in
Vie second count of the declaration bring used by
the Defend►nt. Ills daughter was sixteen years
riltl but November. lie had • comersatitn► •ith
Defendant about three weeks bock, in which De-
fendant said, he hod persons to prove the rape to
have beets committed on his dangling.. He said,
m► 1514 cross-rite iii ll anon, that he dill not hear
until Prier the first communiconmi with Defendant,
soy persons speak of Plaintiff's taking improper
liberties with the girls in Ins school, but did after-

ward..
The Rev. Mr. O'Flen, Roman Catholic clergy-
men. WAS next examined. He mid he knew the school,
• hick he termed a great and good establishment,
since it was instituted ; and that, as far as he had
an opportnitity of observing, it was well and pro-
p ily conducted, and he knew the scholar, to he
vesy much improves!. Them was untlinig more
importaiit to the schoolmaster than his *moral 014.
racier, and hr 'wiser knew any thing of the Plaintiff
to induce him to believe that he was deficient in
mos ality. Ile then stated, that an inquiry into the
report that hail been circulated lied taken place,
smd that the Defeisdant produced two witnesses at
its one of whom was the- illegitimate son of his
Mother.
beioz crews-examined, he said, that R heti
111 P report+ had gone abroad, he sent for some of
the childress whore 'lames had been mentioned.
and lie took down what they could say in the mat-
ter. en that they may altrwards tell only the truth.
To a question from the JUDGE. this gentleman
'pale!, that the children of several of his parishioners
still writ to school (which the Plaintiff conducts)
v. ish his koowledge and isoprobal .
The Rev. Mr. Heists 11, Chaplain to Lord Tito-
mond, Ile-posed also to the inquiry that had been
instituted, and said, that lifter the gentlemen who
presided at it examissed slot only the witnesses WO.
stored by the Deleodasit, but also the boys and
gills implicated by young Fitzgerald, they de-
claresl that there was no foundation fur the report.,
and y ming Filzgeralil aas item dismissed the
school. The result of the illVealigalital wee com-
municated to Defeastlant by the witutso. The wit.
twos knew that the Phsisitiff attended church, soul
received the 'aerator:it with his family. Ile said,
mi liar *roar-exeinissation, that the geotleinen con-
fined the inquiry at first to the transaction in which
Mary 31 to ph) 'a mime •us concerned, but after-
Cards 111,y u.keti us Its the truth of other report.,
whirls were all negatived.
The Plaintiff's case having here closed, Mr.
N ft FAT nt.n. in en able and atiiinated @reel),
WI Irrssrsi the Jost' on the part of the Defelitlatir.
—lle rein liked iliac the Plaintuff 'a case certainly
wore a dilfcretit aspect at the preset,' moment,
thin it slid before the examination of the two last
witnesses; and those Gentlemen, lie said, were
produceil, with a stew sof inducing the Jury to
that the Kilobit' came forward with a
merittitioti• character, whilst those who could
give a real account of the Plaintiff'. conduct to
his schisl sr., were carefully kept back. Nut a
single person within his walls had been examined—
nor aus the lher of Mary Murphy, our the
gal although both were in town. He,
thereto's., charged them at the other side, with
tlesigisedly keeping beck those perilous who could
speak to the Plaintiff's condos'', and who hail an
oppiiiisinity of observing it. The Plaintiff came
forward, stating cm! 11w record that he was a
person of good name, Naze, and reputatioil--and
he, Mr. I'. would ask, lied the Plaiutiff taken the
most satisfactory meal's in his power to esta-
blish that character which lie would have the Jury
believe he 'toast-oats, ? He would ask the two
last respectable witnesses that had been tea.
mined, whether the conduct they pursued on the
investigation they had been speaking of, could sa-
tisfy a Jury on their oath*, or the auditory who
then heard lion, that the Plaintiff did not lake
gross mid improper liberties with his female sell°.
lin ? The Plaintiff assumed a delicate and im-
portant trust—to instruct female children in the
principles of morality ; and lie (Mr. P.) would
than say, that he failed in producing a stogie wit-
ness who knew any thing of his couduct towards
boa kre114,141.4, suit those he slid eau could not
by 'possibility, know any thing of those acts anti-
bitted to him. Those acts would be proved be-
yowl 011 doubt ; and nothing but the imperious
duty which the Delvoilasit felt he lied to discharge
to I self and to the public. wools) compel him
to bring forward a tionviser of witnesses to phew
a hat the co.,duct of the Plaintiff had been, and to
prove that the reports that had been spired abroad
of hint had originated with the Defendant, and did
nut arise from soy this% said by him. Ile felt it
doe to the NoLIF Lord, who had so great an inte-
rest to the sUCCCIs of the school, of which the Plain-
tilt was the master, to expose the gross indecencies
coin ttttt test by the Ma. tier' the unhappy females
alio had In em placed under his care, Nov; to lay
before his Lordship the information which he had
obtained. Ile, Mr. In verily believed from his in-
structiosis, that the character of the Plaintiff was
contaminated, and that instead of teaching the chit.
siren morality, lie strove to destroy their minds and
violate their persona. The word* which gave rise
to this action, the Jury were already apprised, grew
out of an angry squabble between the parties, and
whatever the Urlendaut had said, was spoken after
the PI • 'tilted used much worse language to Win.
What the Defendant said, however, on that occa.
aims, iu the warmth of passion, lie soon found was
justified by the Plaintiff's conduct. If then the
blow fell where it ought, the Plaintiff could only
blame himself. Several of the &mak children of
the school would be produced, and if before two of
them were examined, the indignation of the Jury
was oust roused against the Plaiutiff's conduct, he
(.11r. I'.) would give up the case; and if these wit-
items stood •lnpeached. the Jury must do their
duty, and pronounce a verdict which would skew
the Plaintiff lie came forward on the prevent ee .a-
WWI la seal his own disgrace.
Mast' Perry, a girl about 16 years old, stetted
that she had been at the Plaintiff's school, and that
in the Planstiff'd potato garden. about two years
ago, where slit accompanied him to bring home
souse potatoes, he threw her down and kissed her,