Who called for it?

A. Mr. Hodge-I heard the screeches, and saw her coming with her mouth burnt.

Q. How long was it before she died?

A. It was about two or three months; she spit blood a long time.

By Mr. Tyson.

Q. What was Margaret doing in the kitchen?

A. Pounding minced meat.

Q. Was Joan there also ?

A. She was.

Q. What happened after?

A. I helped Margaret; just as dinner went in she

fell down and was carried into the sick-house.

Q. Did you see her in the white house?

A. I did not.

By the Court.

Q. Was Joan a good cook?

A. She was not.

Q. Was you doing what Margaret had to do?

A. I was.

MR. STEPHEN M'KEOUGH.

By Mr. Lisle.

Q. Was Margaret a woman with a scalded mouth?

A. She was.

MR. ROBERT GREEN.

By Mr. Attorney General.

Q. When you lived on Mr. Hodge's estate, how many negroes had he?

A. One hundred and thirty or one hundred and forty. Q. When did you quit him?

A. In 1803, after he returned from England.

MR. STEPHEN M'KEOUGH.

By Mr. Lisle.

Q. Did Mr. Hodge ever tell you to mark down negroes as runaway, whom he knew were dead?

A. He did.

Q. Did you keep a list of negroes?

A. I did I gave him a list-board every morning. Q. Was there a plantation book kept?

A. There was at one time-I kept one, but on Mr. Hodge finding things in it he did not wish, he destroyed it, and would not suffer any to be kept any longer.

Q. Did he ever sell any negroes?

A. Not more than one or two.

Q. Did he ever sell any to Mr. Forbes?

A. I don't recollect.

Q. Do you know of any runaways at St. Domingo?

A. There are 2 or 3 at St. Domingo.-I recollect Thomas being runaway.

Q. Have you frequently seen négroes on the estate, with puddings and crooks?

A. I have.

Q. Have you ever seen any with two puddings on each leg, and a crook?

A. One negro, I believe, named Fortune, Mr. Hodge said he could not bring him down.

Q. Was his mouth burnt?

A. It was.

Q. Do you believe Mr. Hodge to be a cruel man? A. I cannot say otherwise than that he was cruel, from his treatment to his negroes.

Evidence closed on both sides.

In

MR. TYSON,

a very eloquent Address to the Court and Jury, closed the defence.

(The reporter, in justice to the learned gentleman, and presuming he shall be enabled to publish this speech, verbatim, in the second edition, trusts he shall be pardoned for inserting here, the substance only.)

MR. TYSON adverted to the late hour at which he rose, and the exhausted state he found himself in ;

it could not be expected that he should speak at great length, but although he had already taken up much of their time, he must occupy a little more. He then reverted to the testimony of M'Keough and Perreen Georges, and commented upon it at length. He could not give up the testimony of Mrs. Rawbone, on account of her relationship to Mr. Hodge; a father may give testimony against a son-a brother against his sister; it could not be affected; he admitted regard on the part of relations generally; but they had had family quarrels ; she had charged Mr. Hodge with being the cause of her losing four negroes.Mrs. Rawbone, therefore, did not possess that tender regard for her brother, Mr. Tyson attributed her expression, as to hanging him, to the circumstance of those negroes.-Before her reconciliation with him, she had declared that her intention or meaning referred to those negroes; Mrs. Rawbone was contrasted with Mrs. Robertson; the proceeding of the latter lady had been violent in the extreme; she entertained impressions against Mr. Hodge, and they had operated on her mind to that degree, that she threw herself on her knees in an agony, and recommended him to his deserts-hemp! qualified after by saying, "if he deserved it"-she had fervently prayed for the destruction of Mr. Hodge; said afterwards, she was not prejudiced against him, and would

do any thing to serve him. She certainly was prejudiced; Mr. Rawbone gave a different account.

The declaration of Mrs. Rawbone was made in an agony of grief; she had been in that state two or three hours-it was then and only then, and under the excruciating feelings she was overpowered by, she said "if I knew any thing of my brother, I would perjure myself rather than injure him."

Mrs. Arrindell opposed Perreen's story about Margaret.

Mr. Tyson then recapitulated and contrasted the whole of the evidence, and commented upon it at great length.