1 68 THE SUTHERLAND CLEARANCES. 



Donald M'Beath and Margaret M'Kay were culpably killed 

 in manner above mentioned, or were cruelly turned out 

 of their habitations as aforesaid; and the said dwelling- 

 houses, barns, kilns, mills, and other buildings, lawfully 

 inhabited and occupied by the said persons, were mali- 

 ciously set on fire, burnt, pulled down, and demolished, 

 or were caused and procured to be set on fire, burnt, 

 pulled down, and demolished, and the inhabitants and 

 lawful occupiers thereof turned out as aforesaid ; and the 

 greater part of their different crops was lost or destroyed, 

 from want of the usual and necessary accommodation for 

 securing and manufacturing the same ; and the growing 

 corn, timber, furniture, money, and other effects, the pro- 

 perty, or in the lawful possession, of the said persons, were 

 wontonly set on fire, burnt, and otherwise destroyed, or 

 caused and procured to be set on fire, burnt, and otherwise 

 destroyed : And you, the said Patrick Sellar, are guilty of 

 the said crimes, or of one or more of them, actor, or art and 

 part. ALL WHICH, or part thereof, being found proven 

 by the verdict of an assize, before the Lord Justice-General, 

 the Lord Justice-Clerk, and Lords Commissioners of Justi- 

 ciary, in a Circuit Court of Justiciary to be holden by them, 

 or by any one or more of their number, within the burgh of 

 Inverness, in the month of April, in this present year, 1816, 

 you, the said Patrick Sellar, OUGHT to be punished with 

 the pains of law, to deter others from committing the like 

 crimes in all time coming. 



H. HOME DRUMMOND, A. D. 



MR. SELLAR having pleaded NOT GUILTY, the following 

 defences were read : " ist, The panel objects to the 

 relevancy of various parts of the libel. 2nd, In so far as 



