MR. GURNEY, on the part of the Defendant, most eloquently addressed the Jury, endeavouring, by observations, to throw some doubt on the testimony of the prosecutor, because he had searched the house after the attack: this, the learned Counsel urged, evinced an uncertainty in the boy’s mind, as to the person who had been in his room. That his conduct was unaccountable, in not going into Church’s room and questioning him, when he had West to assist him. The learned Counsel also commented on the delay which had taken place before any complaint had been made to a magistrate, and contended, that this circumstance threw discredit on the prosecutor’s case, and concluded by observing, that if his client was guilty, his crime was greatly aggravated, because he, as a Minister of the Gospel, was bound to set an example of morality, and intreated the Jury, that as the offence was of so shocking and heinous a nature as to render it improbable that a man in Mr. Church’s station could have committed it, that, before they consigned him to eternal infamy, they would be fully satisfied that the testimony against him was unquestionable and conclusive. _The first witness called for the Defendant was_ Mr. JOHN THOMAS _sworn_. _Examined by the Common Serjeant_.—His name is John Thomas; lives in Prospect-place, West’s Square, St. George’s Fields; is an appraiser and undertaker; has known Mr. Church a long time; is one of his hearers; is acquainted with Mr. Patrick, but not till the report was made respecting Mr. Church; cannot say he knew him as one of the congregation attending, Mr. Church; was with Mr. Patrick when he went to Mr. Church’s house, the 9th of October, a few days after the report; did not go into the house with him, staid outside; had learnt from Mr. Patrick that he was going to Mr. Church’s upon the subject of this business; he called upon witness, at his house, to go with him, and told witness he was going to Mr. Church’s upon the business of this inquiry; indeed, it was witness’s request that he should; Mrs. Thomas went to speak to his wife, and it was at Mrs. Thomas’s request and Mrs. Patrick’s that he went; he seemed to be a long while in Church’s house, not much less than an hour; it was near an hour; when he came out witness put some questions to him, respecting what had passed between him and Mr. Church; witness asked him what Mr. Church had said; he said that Mr. Church did not say anything; that he seemed very much confounded on account of the cause, he supposed, but he said nothing about it, that it would be injurious to the cause of God; he did not say the _cause of God_, witness only supposed he meant the cause of God; did not use the words “cause of God;” he said Mr. Church seemed very much confounded or confused. The rest is all imagination of witness’s; both imagined alike; don’t know that these were exactly the words; cannot call to his (witness) mind what he (Patrick) did say, but