In the next place, some stress is laid on the di-
rections of three of the balls, as collected from
the holes made by them in the houses into which
they entered. Now these directions, as they
were taken by Mr. Andrews, (see his deposition,
No.93.) are just such as one would suppose they
should be from guns fired by men standing be-
fore the custom-house door; and the two
latter
of them are found to range breast-high, that is,
at much the same height as they would have
ranged if they had been fired from the ground-
floor of the custom-house itself, supposing
that
floor to be nearly upon the same level with the
street. They consequently could not be fired
from the windows up one pair of stairs, as they
are said to have been in the charge. Further,
the second ball is found to range breast-high
from the ground, and between two of the win-
dows of the custom-house; consequently it
could
not have been fired from either of them, but by
some person without the custom-house
standing
between those two windows. And for a like
reason the first ball could not be fired from a
window in the custom-house, because it
ranges
below the stool of the westermost lower chamber
window: for if it had been fired from that win-
dow, it must have ranged above the stool of it.
The last and strongest evidence that is brought
in support of this charge is that of Charlotte
Bourgate, Mr. Edward Manwaring's indented
servant. This indeed would be very material,
if he were a person that deserved any credit, and