The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-21 00:00:00

CRIM. CON'.

SUPREME COURT, AT RAI. r.ix, Timm- Tram.
.11:s.v Ytl, in-J.
WILLIAX MINIM MALL, r. MAJ••I GBORCII awaaow.
Per Criss. C.R. sritA the Piatistif wife.

This day haring been app f..r the trial of the
abate very isopurtatit actiuu, t...• 4 our! was uncom-
monly crowded at All early Loy-. Alter the jury were
swum Mr. Chiputati ope..ed tti.• else, and then pro-
cee.ted to call

Dr. Inglis, who proved the vgi4ter of the tiorriaco
piaiutof with Slim Yard► Alm 141wriatt ow Om
11th of March. 101 I.

Francis Aaror., a private in the 6Cth regiment,
stated, that he hall lived servant to the plaintiff
about ta•o years and a halt ; the plainiitl• and his wife
lived agreeably together that time : he was in t►at,
rapacity 'viol) Mr. Hall went to eats! : a:: defendant
used to come to the house before ,hat ev.•nt, h•it 'acme
frequently afterwards ; wmrtiwrs iu :he day-time, but
oftener in the evening ahout tint 7 &cinch, augl stopped
there occa►ionally till atter I I at night, the tglaisitiff
nail I. sines to attend in ttir harrack departmear. anti
usually went out after breakfast, and gild not retarti '
till dinner time ; he observed th it the delemlati:
always CAMe after the plaintil was gone oat. and went
away before he tettar:sed : he reeonecittl once taking I
into the parlour some but and cold water, aid that
e..ening the defendant remained there till about halt-'
past IU ; tin one otrasion he was megne:ltril by Mts.
to ;Meth! her to Mrs. ('le .try r, where r! a said
she wit; gone to tr.t ; hr went par! of the way with
her, when at.e tol.l him Ile nii,ht g., bark this was
in the winter season, about halt-p.,;: 6 o'g atttl it
was a dark night; instead humr, he went
to boy some s-gargi, and fliatiegm to see bar. Hall go
into the detenglatit's house : could not „y who
opened the dour to h..r ; the wore that evening a Wee
cloak and a for cap belotigin, to his master; be never
SAW her wear that dress before; Mrs. Hall came bumf
about half-past In, and brought aouse one with her,
hut who did udt come in; un another occasion he die-
covered that a ladder, which belonged to the stable,'
had been taken away and placed under Mrs. Hall's'
bed-room window ; there happened to be snow on the
ground, and the marks of footsteps were visible as it
they taupe through the garden and tip the back part
of the house ; he observed there was uo snow on the
sill of the bed-room window, although there was snow
on the ethers ; and it appeared as if some one had
made entrance there; he sheaved the tracks to the maid-
servant ; Mrs. Hall got up earlier that morning than
usual, and scolded him for being so curious as to look
at the stermarkr, and said to him, " Do yon think I
have let any one into my bed-room. It was only Major
1l Colla, who had bruit:Hit a note to inform me the egoi-
st:ties were ruining to break into the 'goitre." ra ano-
ther ocecasion lie was the hearer of a letter from the de•
fenglatit to :Mrs. and the defendant cattle to the loony
the Sallie Jay about two hours afterwards, but c mid not
sty huw long he remained; hr was also the bearer of
a n •te Iron, Mrs. Hall to the defendant, who told Ling
not to say any thing to the plaintiff about it, and to
g.eliver it to no one but Major Darrow ; the defendant
visited that day (on a Sunday); the plaintiff was then
over at Dartmouth ; and the defendant continued there
almost till the plaintiff returned ; he observed Mrs.
Hall looking from her window through a spy-glass to
see if the plaintiff was coming home ; the plaintiff rude
a grey horse, and was known at a distance on that ac-
count; the Major then went away.
On his cross-examination, he could not say whether
the plaintiff and his wife lived unhappily together
before Major Harrow became itrissiatt with the
family ; he knew only of their ►aving had wstedW
Lett once ; and also knew that Mrs. Hall left her ►i,-
band's house before the defendant used to pay his
visit,, ►at could nut state the reastiti. The evening
he attended Mts. I:all, when sh,- weal as au said to