"I have the honour to be, Sir,

"Your most obedient and most humble servant,

"J. SELLIS."

"B. C. Stephenson, Esq."

In this letter, enough is set forth to make us receive the evidence of Neale with caution, if not to render him unworthy of belief altogether. Why the Duke of Cumberland retained Neale in his service after his peculating tricks had been discovered, and after the THREAT he held out against his royal master, we must leave our readers to discover.

"The jury proceeded to examine the bed-room of the royal duke, which they found in a most distressing and horrible state. It

[[166]]could not be discovered what his royal highness' nightcap was made of, it being completely soaked in blood; the first blow given his royal highness was providentially prevented from proving fatal, from the duke wearing a padded ribbon bandage round his cap, and a tassel, which came in contact with the sword; the bed-clothes generally were blooded; the paper of the room, the prints and paintings, the door at the head of the bed (through which his royal highness endeavoured to make his escape) was cut with the sword at the time the villain was cutting at the duke, and the dark assassin must have followed his royal highness to the door of an anti-room, which was also spotted with blood."

Supposing Sellis to be the villain here meant, the wretched means he took to accomplish the end in view were so inadequate, that it were quite impossible for him to have done all the bloody work so minutely related, from the position in which the parties were placed. The duke was in a modern high bed, his head well protected with "a padded ribbon bandage," the only vital part of him that was above the bed-clothes, and the curtains drawn around him. Sellis was not taller than the level of the bed-clothes, and yet he chose a SWORD to attack his recumbent master!!! In a contest so unequal, the duke might have annihilated Sellis in a minute.

"The jury then proceeded to the room where the corpse of the deceased villain remained. They found it with the whole of the body (except the head and feet) covered with blood; the razor which did the deed in a bloody state. The deceased's neckcloth was cut through in several places. The drawers, wash-hand basin-stand, and the basin, were also bloody."

To some people, such a state of the room may appear any thing but convincing of the guilt of Sellis; yet, to such sensible men as were on the