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his arm about her waist. 'Did she notgive•you a slap on th-
face ? - It was a woman, remember; so there can be no dice
grace in the confession ?—Sbe did not—she was very civil. I
had been dancing.
Shepherd Dobson swore that Abbey had said of t 4 ills, 3t
the White Hart, " D—ri his eyes, I am not done with •hisu ;",
and that he called his wife ill language, as " D—n her for a
b--, for she let them take liberties with her." Witness•
heard Mr. Willis say he would go to pacify the
if he could.
Cross-examined.—He heard the bolt go when Mr. Wilks
went in. He heard a large noise, a scrchming out, and" 0
Mr. W'ilks, 0 Mr. Willis hey were female voices.
Mr. SCARLETT —What did Mr. Willis go in for ? I don't
know. Do you suppose it was to pacify them ? I don't know.
Come, Sir, don't parry so—you don t know; do you think that
-any one belietesyou ?

Mr. LIAINE.--YS—I do. • •
Mr. SCARLETT.—Did you see any blood ?—No : I saw Mr.:
Willis's clothes all torn off his back.—Poor Mr. Wilks! .Did.
you see him bleed ?—No.
. .
Hannah Collins, daughter to John Collins, the innkeeper;
saw Abbey drinking in their house the next day, with 3 or 4 •
_More; he seemed a; usual.
Cross-examined by Mr. ScAatEre.,—Mr. Wilts has a good
property. I had not the honour of dancing with him. I
danced with Mr. Inert. He introduced himself. Ido not
pay visits with Mr. Wilks. It may hare happened that I was
sometimes in a post-chaise with him on a wet afternoon.
Mr. ScABLETT.—I don't say it was any harm ; you cannot
sut:pose I mean it.
Witness.—l have been to Northallerton with him in the
coach. I stayed half an hour, and left him there. I made no
other journey with 'him. I don't go to see hint at his house.
He does come to see rue, as many more gentlemen do. We
keep an inn. I came home of a wet night front Leeds with
Lira in a .post-cliaise. I sometimes walked with him front
Leeds, not late—not at 10 at night. I saw Abbey lying on
the thew. -I thought lie was asleep. I followed after 'them
Ike another busybody. I did n, t think Mr. was ping
with Mrs. Abbey. 1 saw Mr. Willis. His clothes were torn
off bis hack ; his I;owsers were torn off his back. (Mr. SCAtI:
Lerr.—God bless me' Poor Mr. Willis!) I hope you have
mended them ?—No. Abbey's wife never-cried at all. I never
heard Mr. Willis say any thing about this. I never spoke of
it while (till)" saW Mr. Willis anti Mr. Upton (the attorney)
At our house, Mr.-Willis is a bachelor.

Mr. SCARLETT again addressed the Jury. He
did not agree that the case was over-highly co-
loured. Even the witnesses on the 'other side
admitted that the plaintiff lay weltering in his
blood, and that there were cries of alarm and
anguish. The assault was unprovoked, brutal,
violent. No; language could colour it more than
the bare relation. Any compensation the de-
fendants might be happy to pay rather than that
they should be tried in the other Court. Had
the plaintiff died, they would not have been
bailed, and they would have had to answer to
their consciences as well as to their -Country for
the life of a fellow-creature.

Mr. Justice.ll,tyLEY, in the course of summing
up, said that.Mr.Wilks might have lost the even
bias of- his temper when he saw his friend struck
by one in a lower situation in life. Whether
the plaintiff, when he lay on the floor, was sham-
ming or not, they could not tell. If he had been
very materially injured, he could not have been
at the public-house next day. Drinking in the
public-house might have thrown the plaintiff's
temper off its guard. It might have done .so,
too, to the defendants. They •wattld, making
the case their own, give fair and temperate da-
mages.--Damages 30/.

CROWN COURT.—HIGH TREASON.
For the four prisoners in the last indictment,
John Lindley, Nathan Buckley, 7;'ios. Blackburn,
and John. Peacock, Messrs. Williams and Starkie
have agreed to act as Counsel, and Mr. Carr as
Attorney.

Mr. Justice PARK desired it to be intimated
to all the prisoners that they would be arraigned
on Sattrday the, 9th of September, and that their
trials would begin on the following Monday.
The other prisoners have got further, till Wed-
nesday, to choose their Counsel and Attorney.
FoaGnuy.--John ILalson, a;ged 48, was con-
victed of forginff a check for the sum of ill. 7s.
on a Richmoneßank. The prisoner had con-
fessed it before the Mayor of Richmond, and
said he had been in liquor when he did. ' The
prisonbr is a printer. He made no defence.
Some burglaries of a very common character
were afterwards tried.