e, and another person was accused as an
accessory, the principal evidence against whom was founded on this
story.

A woman, called Millward, pretended that she had seen the ghost of her
deceased husband, who told her that one John Cole had assisted him, the
ghost, in the murder of Dr Clenche. Cole was brought to trial
accordingly; but the charge was totally despised, both by judge and
jury, and produced no effect whatever in obtaining conviction.

Such being the general case with respect to apparitions, really alluded
to or quoted in formal evidence in courts of justice, an evidence of
that kind gravely given and received in the High Court of Justiciary in
Scotland, has some title to be considered as a curiosity.

The Editor's connexion with it is of an old standing, since, shortly
after he was called to the bar in 1792, it was pointed out to him by
Robert M'Intosh, Esq., one of the counsel in the case, then and long
after remarkable for the interest which he took, and the management
which he possessed, in the prolix and complicated affairs of the York
Building Company.

The cause of the trial, bloody and sad enough in its own nature, was
one of the acts of violence which were the natural consequences of the
Civil War in 1745.

It was about three years after the battle of Culloden that this poor
man, Sergeant Davis, was quartered, with a small military party, in an
uncommonly wild part of the Highlands, near the country of the
Farquharsons, as it is called, and adjacent to that which is now the
property of the Earl of Fife. A more waste tract of mountain and bog,
rocks and ravines, extending from Dubrach to Glenshee, without
habitations of any kind until you reach Glenclunie, is scarce to be met
with in Scotland. A more fit locality, therefore, for a deed of murder,
could hardly be pointed out, nor one which could tend more to agitate
superstitious feelings. The hill of Christie, on which the murder was
actually committed, is a local name, which is probably known in the
country, though the Editor has been unable to discover it more
specially, but it certainly forms part of the ridge to which the
general description applies. Davis was attached to the country where he
had his residence, by the great plenty of sport which it afforded, and,
when dispatched upon duty across these mountains, he usually went at
some distance from his men, and followed his game without regarding the
hints thrown out about danger from the