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to do than to draw up an account of all the evidence
we have heard, and lay it before his lordship. Jack,
you may go home.

Jack. Pray, sir, let somebody go with me, for I am
afraid of Riot, who has just been threatening me at
the door.

Presid. Master Bold will please to go along with
the boy.

The minutes of the court were then drawn up, and
the President took them to the Judge’s chamber.
After the Judge had perused them, he ordered an
indictment to be drawn up against Peter Riot, “for
that he meanly, clandestinely, and with malice afore-
thought, had broken three panes in the window of
Widow Careful, with a certain instrument called a top,
whereby he had committed an atrocious injury on an
innocent person, and had brought a disgrace upon the
society to which he belonged.” At the same time he
sent an officer to inform Master Riot that his trial
would come on the next morning.

hiot, who was with some of his gay companions,
attected to treat the matter with great indifference, and
even to make a jest of it. However, m the morning
he thought it best to endeavour to make it up; and
accordingly, when the Court were assembled, he sent
one of his friends with a shilling, saying that he would
not trouble them with any further mquiries, but would
pay the sum that had been issued out of the publie
stock. On the receipt of this message, the Judge rose,
with much severity in his countenance, and observed,
that by such a contemptuous behaviour towards the
Court the criminal had greatly added to his offence ;
he ordered two oflicers with their staves immediately
to go and bring in Riot, and to use force if he should
resist them. ‘he culprit, thinking it best to submit,
was presently led in between the two officers; when,
being placed at the bar, the Judge thus addressed
him :—

“TJ am sorry, sir, that any member of this seciety