Leffan for 
whether it was in the ftreet—I afk you 
what ftreet ? 
W. 1 don’t know the name of the 
fireet, but itturns down from— 
B. Now, fir, upon your oath—do you 
fay you don’t know the name of the ftreet? 
W. No, 1 don’t. 
B. Did you never hear it ? 
W. I may have heard it, but I can’t 
fay J remember it. 
&. Do you always forget what you 
have heard ? 
W. 1 don’t know that I ever “heard 
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it ; but I may have heard it, and forgot it. 
’B. Well, fir, perhaps we may fall up- 
on a way to make you remember jt 
_ _. V don’t know, fir, I would tell it, 
I knew it. 
5. O! tobe fure you would, you are 
remarkably communicative.— Well, you 
heard a noife, and I fuppofe you went to 
fee it too. 
i7, Yes; we went to the houfe where 
it came from— 
B. So! it came from a houfe, and 
pray what kind of a houfe? 
W7. The Cock and Bottle,.a public- 
houfe 
B. The Cock and Bottle! why I ne- 
ver heard of fuch a houfe. Pray what 
has a cock to do witha bottle ? 
W. I can’t tell; that is the fign. 
B. Well—and what paffed then ? 
W, We went-in to fee what-was the 
matter, and the prifoner there— 
B. Where ? 
7, Him at the bar, there; 
him very w ell 
BR, You ae him ! how came you to 
know him ? 
WV. We worked journey-work toge- 
ther once ; and I remember him well. 
B. So! your memory returns: you 
can’t tell the name of the ftreet, but you 
know the name of the public- Henke. and 
you know the prifoner at the bar.—You 
are a very pretty fellow ! And pray what 
was the prifoner doing ? 
4 When I faw him, he was— 
- When you faw him! did I afk 
" ¥ou whee he was doing, when you did 
poe ee him ? 
FY. } underftood he had been fighting. 
B. Give us none of your underftand- 
ing—tell what you faw. 
WW. He was drinking fome Hollands 
and water. 
B, Are you fure it was Hollands and 
Water > 
WY. Yes; he afked me to drink with 
him, and I jut. put ic to my lips. © 
I know 
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B. No doubt you did, and, I dare fay, 
did not take it foon from them. But 
now, fir, recolle€t you are upon oath—e | 
look at the jury, ‘fir—upon your oath, 
will you aver, that it was Hollands and 
water? 
W., Yes, it was. 
B. What! was ‘it not plain gin ne 
W. No; the landlord faid it was Hol- 
lands. 
B. O! now we fhallcome to the point 
—the Jandlord {faid! Do you believe 
every thing the landlord of the Cock and 
Bottle fays ? 
W. I don’t know him enough. 
B. Pray what religion are you of ? 
W. Tama proteftant. 
B, Do you believe in a future fiate ? 
W. Yes. 
B. Then, what paffed after you drank 
the Hollands and water ? 
W. 1 heard there had been a fight, 
and aman killed; and I faid, £O! Ro- 
bert, I hepe you have not done this :* 
and he fhook his head— 
B. Shook his head !. and what did you 
underftand by that ? 
WF. Sir} 
B. 1 fay, what did you wots 
by his fhaking his head ? 
W. J can’t tell. 
BR, Can’t tell !—can’t you tell conde a 
man means when he fhakes his head ? 
W. He faid nothing. 
- B. Said nothing ! I don’t afk you what 
Le fo id—what did yous fay ? 
“, What did | fay ? 
> Don’t repeat my words, fellow; 
but come to the point at once, 
—Did you 
fee the dead man ? 
W. Yes; he lay in the next room. 
_B. And how came he to be dead ? 
W. There had been a fight, as I faid — 
before— 
B. I don’t want you to repeat what 
you faid before. 
W. There had been a fight between 
him and the— 
B. Speak up—his lordfhip don't hear 
you—can’t you raife your voice ? 
W. ‘There had been a fight between 
him and the prifoner— 
B. Stop there—pray, when did this 
fight begin? 
°W. I can’t tell exactly ; it might be an 
hour before.. The man was quite dead. 
B. And fo he might, if the fight had 
been a month before—that was not what 
J afked you. Did youtee the fight ? | 
WV. No—it was over before we came in, 
B. We! what we? 
WA 
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