The LORD JUSTICE-CLERK--What! After the Court have delivered their opinions, it is not decent in you to propose to say anything, and I apprehend the prisoners are in no danger of suffering anything by your not being allowed to supply the defects of the Dean of Faculty. Mr. JOHN CLERK--My Lord, the Dean of Faculty has no authority to plead for my client. The DEAN OF FACULTY then moved the Court to allow the general objection to be entered upon record, and proposed to repeat it and refer to it as often as any of the particular articles came to be produced in evidence, which was accordingly agreed to, and the following interlocutor was pronounced repelling the objection:-- The Lord Justice-Clerk and Lords Commissioners of Justiciary having considered the foregoing debate, they repel the objection stated to producing and founding on the articles specified in the objection and mentioned in the indictment, and allow them to be adduced in the course of the trial. ROBT. M‘QUEEN, I.P.D. The prosecutor, for proof of the indictment, then proceeded to adduce the following witnesses, who were all lawfully sworn, purged of malice and partial counsel, and emitted their depositions _viva voce_ in presence of the Court and jury, without being reduced in writing, in terms of the late statute. Evidence for Prosecution. [Sidenote: William Scott] 1. WILLIAM SCOTT, Procurator-Fiscal of the county of Edinburgh, called in and sworn. Examined by Mr. MURRAY--Mr. Scott, you know the prisoners at the bar? Were you present when they emitted certain declarations before the Sheriff-depute of Edinburgh and his substitute? WITNESS--I was. Mr. MURRAY--Look at these declarations, and tell the Court and the gentlemen of the jury if they were emitted in your presence by the pannel, George Smith, freely and voluntarily. WITNESS--They were; and the prisoner appeared to me at the time cool and recollected. Mr. MURRAY--Look at this declaration. Was it emitted in your presence by the other pannel, William Brodie, freely and voluntarily, and he was cool and recollected? WITNESS--It was emitted in my presence freely and voluntarily, and he was cool and recollected. Mr. MURRAY--Do you know anything concerning a warrant that was applied for against William Brodie in the month of March last? If you do, tell the Court and the gentlemen of the jury what happened in consequence of it? WITNESS--Upon the afternoon of Monday, the 10th of March last, I, as Procurator-Fiscal, gave in a petition in my own name to the Sheriff of Edinburgh, charging Mr. Brodie with breaking into the Excise Office, and praying for a warrant to apprehend him. A warrant was accordingly granted, and search diligently made for him that night, but he was not found, and I afterwards learned that he had gone off for London on the day preceding.