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 Rh  And, it was accordingl yaccordingly [sic] ruled, that evidence might be given of an overt act, committed in another county, after an overt act was proved to have been committed in the county where the indictment was laid and tried.

The Defendant was acquitted.

The Attorney General and Reed for the Commonwealth.

Wilon and Ros for the Defendant. 

HIS was an indictment for High Treaon, which was et forth in the following words: “The Jurors for the Commonwealth of Pennylvania, upon their oaths and affirmations, do preent, That Abraham Carlile, late of the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, carpenter; being an inhabitant of and belonging to and reiding within the State of Pennylvania, and under the protection of its laws, and owing allegiance to the ame State, as a fale traitor againt the ame, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and educed by the intigation of the Devil, the fidelity which to the ame State he owed wholly withdrawing, and with all his might intending the peace and tranquility of this Commonwealth of Pennylvania to diturb, and war and rebellion againt the ame to raie and move, and the government and independency thereof, as by law etablihed, to ubvert, and to raie again and retore the government and tyranny of the king of Great Britain within the ame Commonwealth: On the firt day of January, in the year of our Lord one thouand even hundred and eventy eight, and at divers days and times, as well before as after, at the city of Philadelphia, in the county aforeaid, with force and arms, did falely and traiterouly take a commiion or commiions from the king of Great Britain, and then and there, with force and arms, did falely and treacherouly alo take a commiion or commiions from general Sir William Howe, then and there acting under the aid king of Great Britain, and under the authority of the ame king, to wit, a commiion to watch over and guard the gates of the city of Philadelphia, by the aid Sir William Howe, erected and et up for the purpoe of keeping and maintaining the poeion of the aid city, and of hutting and excluding the faithful and liege inhabitants and ubjects of this State and of the United States from the aid city: And then and there alo maliciouly and traiterouly, with a great multitude of traitors and rebels, againt the aid Commonwealth, (whoe names are as yet unknown to the jurors) being armed and arrayed in a hotile manner, with force and arms did falely and traiterouly aemble and join himself againt this Commonwealth, and then and there, with force and arms, did falely and traiterouly, and in a warlike and hotile manner, array and “ dipoe