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who would be before Won personally.
Bat VIC will also produce before you living
witnesses who Will speak Of what they know
BY Mr. Hamilton we Will show that the Rey-
mock of whom Wilson spoke as being present
with Ne Leod between the 4th and 10Th Of JAM
usry was absent in Europe, and could not pos
slbly have been present al the place described by
Wilson. Wth respect to Qulmby, we Will
show you that short time ago letter was re
celved by the post master here from gentle
man of responsibility in Warren CO. Pa, who
hearing OF Qulmby's intention to come here as a
witness, and knowing his character, wrote a
warning as to his worthlessness and acting on
the information, wrote to two worthy citizens
there, who have come here to speak to Qumbys
character. This QuImby you rcccollect is the
fellow who sold his load oil hay and went to get
payment before daylight of the commissary
We will then show you, gentleman, that Nc
Leod was at Chippewa, at Daviss tavern, on the
day OF the destruction OF the Caioline-that he
went to bed early, as he was iatigued, having
been one of the party who rowed round Navy
Island. lie remained in bed till sun down, when
he rose. We will then show you that he wenl
in company with Mr.. William Press then living
at Niagara, and now keeping the "Hamilton
House, in Hamilton, Canada and in his compa-
ny Mcleod left Davs's tavern and rode to SIAM
ford, abont five miles distance in very bad state
OF the road, where he got out of his Wagon, con
GLIDING he would tarry over hight with Captain
John Morrison, a retired British officer in Cana
da.
lie left Chippewa in company with Mr. Press
after dark on that day. We'll, he got out and
went into Captain Morrison's and we will show
by that gentleman's evidence that Mcleod came
to his house-that they sat and conversed till
about mdnight-that then they retired TO bed
That he Captain Morrison) rose early in the
morning as was his custom-that Mrs. Morris
on arose-and their son a little boy of ID years
of age-that the lad went down to the gate IN
front Of the house-that he saw there two rem
tlemen who stopped as they passed, and asked
the lad to call his iather-that Captain Norris
on went down, aud there found some one whom
don't now remember, with Colonel Cameron
who lives at Toronto, and is an elderly gentle
man, and is not able to be here-that these gen.
tlemen asked Morrison ii he had heard the news
and on receiving his reply in the negetive, they
told him OF the burning of the Caroline, and
gave hun as trophy fragment of the boat
which they had found in an eddy be iow the falls
Capt Morrison returned to the house and found
Mr. Mcleod at his toilet, and to him he told the
intelligence he had just received. Mcleod
wished to 80 Immediately but was prevailed on
by Mrs Morrison to remain for breakfast-Nlrs
Morrison will show this and also that Mr. Nc
Leod's boots, which had been wet, were placed
at the kitchen fire, where they remained all
night, and in the morning were put on dry by
hun. Miss Morrison also, step daughter | be
lleve OF Mrs MORRISON, is also here. She is
an intelligent lady, and she will corroborate the
testimony Of her relatives.
TO recur to the testimony of Press to show
that he cannot be mistaken in the day, he saws
he was at Chippewa but once that winter. lie
lived at Niagara where he kept public house,
and he says that he took two passengers from
| his house that day-that their names are on his
books, and the compensation he received from
| them entered upon his cash book, under date
of 10Th December. But farther he will tell YOU
| that he heard OF the destruction OF the Caroline
| on the next day about I'D o'clock--thus fixing
beyond all controversy the day on which Nc
l.eod was in his company.
We thus take Mcleod from Chippewa early
in the evening to Capt. Morrison's where he
passed the night Then in the morning he rode
10 the Pavilion at the Falls, and during that time
we have no evidence that any one saw him--bL
| at the Pavilion he fell IN company with a per-
son who is here--an officer of the provincial
Government, and from the Pavilion he rode with
Mcleod to Chippewa, conyerslng about the
destruction OF the caroline, and they reached
| Chippewa about OF 10 o'clock, and then rode
up the n lagara ri, err to where Capt. Usher lived
| the gentleman who Was murdered at his own
door, and 'rhl!e on their journey they were fired
on from Navy Island one ball falling directly
al the edge oi the river, which was handed ,o
Mcleod when he was returning. Shortly az
ter leaving the Pavilion they met gentleman
"ho also is here-.|Ir. Mclean, OF New York
who had spent the previous night at Chippewa
and in company with another person was ding
down The Niagara river toward the Falls, when
they met .Nr. Mcleod. whom .Nr. Mclean well
knew and had seen in Buffalo few days be ore
when r.. Mcleod was assaulted there.
Now gentlemen OF the jury, this evidence viii
be laid before you, and question if it will be at
all necessary for you to embarrass your minds
with the examination OF the previous question
as to whether murder was committed BY any
one, but that on the contrary, You will be re-
lolce d to find that you can return verdict that
he prisoner was not guilty because he had n
participation in the matter. know it will re-
joce yeur hearts, as it will those Of all true
American citizens that Mcleod IS innocent OF
the offence.
And here gentlemen, let me ask you if this
evidence which have described, be true, what
will you think of the testimony you have heard
Will it no, be found irreconceable from begin
ing to end Must it not then be admitted that
these men must either have invented these
stories, or been misled by heated imaginatons
Our witnesses are not surrounded by darkness
their observation not limited to sinlge mo.
mentary view at the dawn of day, or in the
gloom OF midnight. They have been in company
with the prisoner, and could not be Mistaken
Their evidence, then, must be all perjured, OF
all true. And II all true, then you will moi
have the slightest difficulty in pronouncing the
verdict that justice demands--oue vince is due
to the prisoner to the nation whose subject he
is, and to the American people.
The learned gentleman then concluded, after
occupying three-quarerS OF an hourln his open,
ing and as it was now nine o'clock, the Cour
adjourned till next morning, at the usual hour