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to the house , for the purpose as was alledged , of protecting the person of Miss Jones from violence ; and on Sunday last another person came to the house , of the name of Footney , a Linen draper , who was an acquaintance of Mr . Sellers ; they dined with Miss Jones , and Footney staid all night in the hcrnse , under the pretence that the Park-gate w'as shut , and he could not get through . The next morning , about the usual hour of breakfast , the deceased had gone to lay down upon the bed , and Miss Jones missing him , and supposing he was gone out , went down , and-locked the doors , and declared , that no person should in the

come in ; but that those who were in might go out . Mrs . Yates , mean time , sent the Witness out , to purchase some articles , and there was a good deal of altercation about admitting her in again . Mr . Yates , the deceased , soon after came down ; Mrs . Yates went out in a hackney coach , leaving the deceased in the house . About half past four in the afternoon , Sellers , Miss Jones , and Footney , dined together , and the deceased after his dinner took a wa / k in his garden . The Witness was at this time in the back kitchen : she distinctly heard Miss

Jones and Foolney shut the doors that led from the passage to the yard , and from the yard to the garden . The deceased discovering their intention , endeavoured to prevent them -, but not being able , he went to the kitchen window , which he desired the Witness to lift up ; she did so , and he endeavoured to force himself between the bars , but without effect , being a very lusty man . . Sellers then came into the back kitchen , with a pistol in his right-hand , and told the deceased he must not come in . The deceased endeavoured to draw himself back . The Witness cried out to Sellers" for God's sakedon ' t shoot—for

, , " God ' s sake , don't kill him . " She saw him put his thumb upon his pistol to cock it ; the deceased stretched forth his hand , as far as he could , endeavouring to turn the pistol away , when Sellers immediately fired it off , and the ball struck the deceased in the breast ; he immediately exclaimed , " he was wounded , " put his hand to the place , ran towards the garden , and fell down . —The Witness then rushed to the front kitchen , notwithstanding the endeavours of Sellers to

prevent her , and got out of the window into the area . The report of the pistol , and her cries , soon brought a number of people about , who lifted her over the rails . Sellers , in the interim , opened the street door , when the Witness said , fl that was the man who shot her Master ; " and he was directly secured . The Witness further deposed , that when she returned to the house , she saw Miss Jones in the front parlour , and Footney in the passage : they did not seem much concerned , particularly Miss Jones , who walking up and down , and appeared rather pleased , as she often smiled . The Witness discovered the pistol ,

which she swore to being the same Sellers fired off , and that it was a new one , which must have been brought into the house by the parties . She likewise stated , that the servant of Miss Jones had mentioned to her , about half ; an hour before , that there were loaded pistols in the parlour , and that Mr . Yates ought to have some acquaintance in the house as well as her mistress ; to which the Witness did not pay much attention , but she meant to have related the circumstance to her Master , if an opportunity had occurred . Doctor Cruikshank was next examined as to the wound . Pie statedthat he

, attended the deceased about six o ' clock on the evening , the unfortunate affair happened , and from his appearance at that time , he formed hopes of his recovery . Pie only perceived the wound which the ball had made on entering his body . It had entered just below the chest bone , and did not imagine it hacl penetrated the belly , but conceived ( as was frequently the case ) it had gone round between the the skin and the muscles . At nine he again attended him , when a fresh orifice was discovered below his right hip , at which the ball had gone out . He still did not think him mortally woundedbut the next morning his countenance

ap-, peared wild , his pulse fluttering , and he had the black vomiting , accompanied ' with such other symptons as justified his prognosticating he had not many hoars to live . Pie accordingly expired about three hours after . "Upon opening the body , he found the lower part of the liver was torn away , and that both the orifices communicated with the cavity of the belly . ' He entertained no doubt of the deceased having come to his death by a pistol shot .