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up afterwards alone; W. Hiker canoe also. Gregg
was 'lot there any part of the time. There was no
ligh ' gor rein lately. The servants bad on their
coats, but not their hats. S:rw•a boat 10;1 four gm"'
denten, a cushion, knives and forks, and a jar. Lord
Ranehigh asked them what brought them there;
une o► them, with his hand. miens breeches pockets,
said they had come to refresh ttierinwlves. Hi* Lord-
, ship asked, what was he? lie replied he was 14 gen.
tleman. His Lordship said. to trespass in that wily
was not the ■ct of a gentleman; the spot was near
the house; his Lordship explained to him Imw lie
hand been robbed by other people, and being ob--
liged to shot up his snmu►er-house. The other
observed, they were not such people, 110111 that
they were not aware of being 011 private ground ;
his Lordship said, how could tl►at be. when the
house was so near, but that they might go bock the
same way they CAllles then bowed, and went away.
He desired witness to stay awl see them on board.
They gathered themselves at the head of the boat,
and talked some time, after which one of them
came up, and ot&r•d him seven shilling•—they •p.
peered perketly well satisfied—the same gentle.
man said he would be glad Lord lianehigh would
inquire into his abstracter when he should go to
town. Xis demand of money was made by Lord
Itanelagh, or any of the servants ; the otter was
entirely voluntary.
Cross-examined. —Ls a Dutchman; had • club
ia hi. hand; another of the servants had a club;
the had a pitchfork.
E,lward Jimea is coachman to Lord Rinielagh ;
remembers the 44th July; the weather was 'fine ;
lie war washing his carriage in the open air when
he heard of the boat, and left it to go down to the
water. This witness described what passed precise-
ly as the last, mid parttculaily that it was Metquet
who got the mwaey.

William Baker, the groom, examined.
Was dre.sing his horse. outside the stable before
he went down to the water; does not do so under
rain.

In his cross:examination, he said that the stable
was only about twenty or thirty yards from where
the bort lat.. Byrne, Jotter, and himself, went
into Norfolk with Lord Raiselaglt some time after
the traiwaction-; it wis after the 17th August; a
word was never said to him about llow.street.

Anne Hewitt, tturterymaid in Lord Rapelaglea
family, remembers the time when hi% Lorthltip
was speaking to the gentlemen ; it watt line ; she
had the children out walking at the time, and for
h.tlf en hour before; cannot say it sva, fine
they first came to shore.

This being the whole of the evidence for the
&fence—

Mr. ADOLPHUS addressed the Jury in reply.
The terms of a vain, ignorant, plesumptuons hhel-
ler, and the Lord knows what, that had heti* ap-
plied by the Counsel on the other side to Mr. Hall,
lie (Mr. Adolphus) threw back with indignation
and contempt, fall where they bight—[Mr. Alley
here standing up]—He (Mr. Adolphus) should not
he prevented fr going on with his reinarka to the
Jury. If any thing said by him was conceived to
require personal explanation, every 511511 knew where
he lived. Whatever eydections had been made to
the indictment, it wan. drawu by a skilful lawyer
and an able reporter-.-he meant Mr. Campbell.—
He did nut mean any personal offence to Mr. Alley,
but if what had fallen from him had unintentionally
produced such an effect, that wits not the place to
answer for it. The defence set up was, that a
young gentleman had perjured himself--
Mr. ALLEY here observed, that lie had neither
said nor insinuated that Mr. Hall had been guilty
of perjury, but only that a falsehood respecting
Gregg bud been sworn before theGratid Jury.
Mr. ADOLPHUS repeated, that the whole principle
nod tenor of the defence was, that thisyoung gentle-
man had sent for his respectable parent to the coun-
try to see hiaust II and kir two friends commit wilful
perjury in opro Court. Ile animadverted on the
fact of the servant* being sent to Norfolk out of
the way, and argued that both the assault, false
untwist, iiiii ent, and extortion, iu the legal sense of
the words, had been proved.

The CHAIRMAN, in his charge, said that any
exaction was an extortion in the rye of the law.
He was of opinion also thrt an shrub, in the legal
sense of the words, and an tinjustifiAle impri-
sonment, bad been fully established by the evi-
dent* for the prosecution. It was the province
of the Jury to determine whether they should give
credit to it, or the witnesses fur the defence—both
they could not believe. He thought it right to Ob.
serve,• that any imputation did not in justice lie
against en uOricate for expressions that might; in
the Ingot of argument, escape him, particularly when
lie followed the suggesticcis of his itestrietions ; aul
in this case it was likely that every thing which
came from the Counsel for the defence had been
taken from his instructions. He felt it due alto
to that gentleman to odd. tharneither he, nor the
Gentlemen about him, understood him to say that
the father of Mr. Hall had been brought to town fur
the purpose of perjuring himself.

Mr. ADOLPHUS disclaimed having imputed any
such latigusge—and *mil lie knew Mr. Alley to lte
too touch the gestation's' to suppose I • capable
of it.

The Jury then considi red their vertlirtoin4l in
two or three tninutes brought in both Defendants
Guilty.
Eleosora Elliott, yesterday convicted of cru-
elty to her child.. in strapping it naked to a lie4l, iu
a solitary room, and withholding from it is sufficient
quantity of fund, was oentenced, after n suitable ad-
tires', to one year's imprisonment iu the house of
correction.

Charles Elliott, her husliand, was sentenced to
one tuonth's nowise ttttt ent in the same place, there
lleing, es the Chairman gated, some extestoating
circumstances to his (VW, and he having other chil-
dren to support.
The Court then sentenced Lord itanelisigh to
pay' a line of 50i. to tlw King ; and the other D
fentlant, Byrne, a tine of

There is tint one J141.140i0 the Court of Kin es
Bench Who sat tl►rrr Neu years Han ;
Court of COlll4lOll Pleas; and but two in tlt EA-
chequer.