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~The first affidavit that was read, was that of 
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, 
which stated, that about half-past two o’¢lock 
on Tharsday marning he was awakened by 
two violent blows pe cuts on his head: the 
first i impression upon his mind was, that a bat 
had got into hs room, and was fb ed about: 
his head; he was soon convinced to thie 
contrary ue receiving a third blow; he 
jumped ogt of bed, when he received a 
number of urher blows, From the glimmer- 
ing light, and the motion of the instrument 
which inflicted the wounds, afforded from 
a dull Jamp in the fre-place, they appeared 
like flashes of lightning before his eyes. He 
made for a door, near the head of his. bed, 
ieading toa smal! room, to which the assascia 
followed him, and cut him across his thighs. 
His Royal Highness not being able to find his 
alarm bell, which there is no Roh it the villain 
had concealed, called, in a joud voice, for 
Neale, bis page in waiting, several times, 
Who came to his assistance ;_ and Neale, toze- 
ther with his Rayal: Highness, al Tikacea the 
house.—Cornelius Neale, page to the duke, 
said, that he was in waiting upon his Royal 
Highness on Wednesday night, aed slept ina 
bed in aroom adjoining the Duke's bed-room, 
A. little befare three o’clock, he heard the 
Duke calling out, ** Neale, ‘Neale, { am 
murdered; and the murderer is in my bed- 
yvaom!" He went immediately to his Royal 
Highness, and found him bleeding from his 
wounds, The Duke told him the door the 
. assassin hed gone out at; he armed himself 
with a poker, and asked a he should pursue 
him? The Duke replied ; No, but to remain 
with hia, After. on aa a few paces, he 
stepped upon a sword, and, altheugh in the. 
dark, he was convinced it was covered with 
blood ; it proved te be the Duke’s own regi- 
men al sword. The Duke and witness chen 
went toalarm the house, and got a light from 
the poter, ‘The Duke was afraid the mur- 
derer was still in his hed-roora ; the Duke 
was obliged to lean upon him from the loss 
gf blood, and his Royal Highness gave direc- 
tions that no person should be Tet out of the 
house. ‘They called up the witness’s wife, 
who is the house! <eeper, and told her to call 
Sellis. He then seturned with the Duice to his 
bed room, At that time the Duke was ve: y 
faint, from the great loss of biocd. Upon exa- 
mining the premises, they found, in a closet 
adjoining the small reom,. a pair of slippers 
with the name of Sellis on them, and a dark 
Janthorn. ‘Lhe key of rhe closet was in the 
inside of the lock, and to his iznowledge the 
key had not been iq thut state for ten years. 
He had season to believe the wounds vi the 
Duke had been given by a sword. Sellis 
took the Duke’ sreyimentals sume time since, 
and put them bacic. again, but jeft the Sand 
-upon a sofa for two or three days; it was the 
same sword he trod upon, and it was ina 
Hloody state,—The ioreman of the jury asked © 
the witness, if he thought the deceased had 
Incidents in and near Lendon. 
any reason to be dissatisfied with the Duke, 
He rplied, on the contrary, he thoughe 
Sellis had more reason to be satisfied than any 
other of his servants; his Royal Highness 
had stood godfather for one of his children, 
the Princess Augusta godmother. The Duke 
had shewn him very particular favour, by 
giving him apartments for his wife and family, 
with coals and candles.—-Anne Neale, wife of 
the preceding witness, and Benjamin Smithy 
porter to his Royal’ Highness, deposed, t that 
on being alarmed by Neate and the Duke, 
they had gone to Sellis’s room to call him 
up; but, on kaocking at the door, they ree 
ceived no answer 3 serjeant Creighton, of the 
Coldstream ade, and a party of soldiers, 
“had, by this time, arrived to assist | in tae 
ae after the supposed murderers, and 
burst open the door, when’ Sellis was: Found 
on his.bed with his threat cut from det ear. 
The jury now adjourned to view the “Duke’s 
bed-chamber, which had been catefully sealed 
up, so that every thing remained exactly j in 
the same state in which. his Royal Highness 
had left it. On a chair beside the bed, lay 
the night clothes the Duke had on ts ‘he 
was attacked. His shirt was liter ally steeped 
in blood. Two cotton night caps which he 
had on, and a thickly-wadded blue silk bane 
dage with which they were fastened, were 
att completely through with a Sm Ce of th 1¢ 
sabre. ‘The assassin seemed 'o have stood 
rather back towards the head or the bed, 
which was placed-in a small recess, in order to 
avoid discovery, and was therefore ob! lived to 
strike down at the Duke’s head in a slanting 
direction 5 in conseguence of which, the cur- 
tains which hung frora the top, impeded the 
action of the sword, and to this alone can his 
Royal Higiiness’s preservation be imputed ; 
several of He tassels of the curtain were cut 
of. ‘The sword was a large military sabre of 
the Duke’s, and had pede lately sharpened. 
. The whole edge appeared hacked and biunt- 
ed with the force of the blows. His Royal 
Highness’s shirt was cut through in several 
places anda great splinter was shivered from 
the door, through whiclt he made his escape. 
Adjoining the room itself, and communicating 
with it, is tle little closet where the mur- 
derer secreted himseli. There is, in this 
Closet, a small press, in which the bolsters 
were usually put, and in which he hid him- 
self, as the scavbard of the sabre was found in 
it. After having inspected this ruom, tlie 
jury proceeded to that of Sellis’s 5 and there 
a most frightful spectacie presented it- 
self: the body of the murdgrer lay on 3 
bed of matted hlood, in’ an’ half-erect pos- 
ture 5; a horrid gash extended frum? ear to 
ear. The razor with which the fatal deed 
was perpetrated, lay near him on a chest of 
‘drawers, the back uf his head reclined npon 
his watch, which was suspended trom the 
head of the bed 5 and a bason of blood and 
water was on the table beside hims his cravas, 
@luost cut to pieces, was fuund beside the 
ragor, 
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