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my life. I washed his clothes. One John Leach as sisted in taking off the clothes. The right shoulder was quite black on the top. It warlike a dark pur ple—the breadth of your hand or more. The next part I remarked was the right hip. The skin was off in two places, as if it had been scabbed. One place was smaller than the other. I don't know what pro duced it. If I must tell the truth, and the whole truth, there was hardly a free place on his back: it was exactly as if he had been tied to a halbert and flogged. I have often seen dead bodies: I never saw one like this. I think his inside was putrified. I can't say whether or not all these marks were produced by violence. His breast and his belly were not disco loured more than any other person's. I took the poultice off his foot, but did not see any thing parti cular. The elbow looked very sore; it did not seem as if it had been mending. Juryman.—Did it bleed afresh when you saw it? Witness.—Yes ; as fresh as if it had been just done. He bled most when he was put into his COffill. CORONER say there were no marks on his breast? Witness.—Not that I saw; the marks that I saw were on the back and sides. CORONER.—Did the other places bleed? Witness.—No; they did not. Mr. HA AM ER.—How soon after the death did you attend ? Witness. Before the body was cold. Mr. HARMER.—You have assisted in laying out many persons after their death ?—Yes. Mr. HARMER.—Did they die of violence ?—No. Miglartmea.—And you did not observe such dis colourations as these? Witness.—No ; the discolourarions in this case were . all upon the back. Mr. Earnshasv was then called. The CORONER asked him, whether lie was a regu lar surgeon, and admitted at the College? He said he was a regular surgeon, but not admit ted at the College. The CORONER offered to swear him. He said, he thought it improper to take an oath. He was one of the Society of Friends. The CORON ER said, that in a criminal case he would not examine him without he took the oath. Mr. 11.11I:rze said this was a case of great public lustice, and one in which it behoved this Gentleman to take the oath. He had known many instances is! it had been taken to aid the purposes ofjustice. The CORONER said, that in such cases as the pre !•ent, many persons of the same persuasion had taken the oath. Mr. Earnshaw, after a pause, said—" I must de c:::,e being swum." The ConoN Lit —Tben you can't afterwards be exa mined. You are aware of that? :%;r. Est rnshaw.—Yes. Mr. William Basnett was then sworn.—l saw John f.es the day after his death. I never saw him whilst 1:•••ing. I was solicited by Mr. Harmer to open the l•otly. I discovered that he was in a state of putre faction. There was a cut on the right elbow, about two inches long and an inch and a half deep. This was livid, and the mark extended to the shoulder. The bone was separated ; when I bent the elbow, the bone protruded. The bone was cut partly in two. I did not perceive that the place bled: there was no running. Had I examined it while he was alive I have no doubt it would have opened in the same way. I can't say whether the wound was in a heal ing state, the appearances after death are so diffe rent. The ound was above the joint of the elbow. I have been in the room during the examination. There appeared to have been a cut or stab in the left shoulder. The part was black, and appeared to have been nearly healed up. The cut was about two inches long, as I judged by the scar. I t did n ot appear to me that this could have occasioned any serious in jury. His shoulder and back and Hits were much discoloured ; they appeared to have been bruised. There was no other mark or cut. Colioxrn.—lf ycu had not heard of any accident before his death, what should you think could have produced this discclouration ? Witness.—l should think it was produced by vio lence, inflicted by some blunt instrument. Comm sa.—Do you mean to be understood to swear that the mortification took place in consequence of the bruises and cuts? Witness.—l have no hesitation in saying that. Coeosen.—Could you tell as well by outward in spection, as if you had opened• the body, what was the cause of his death?_ Witness.—l could tell better if I opened it. CORONER.—If the mortification proceeded from the bruises, must he not have been in excruciating pain for some days previous to his death? Witness.—Undoubtedly. CORONER—And would not gangrene have ap peared round the other wounds? Witness---I saw none, except round the cut. The back and loins were more putrified than any other tart of the body. I did not examine the foot. CORONER---Could you have traced the same mor tification on the day he died as you did afterwards ? Witness--Perhaps not. In some cases, if it had been very rapid before he died, it might have ap peared, and particularly about the abdomen. Juryman---Do you believe he died in consequence of his wounds and bruises? Witness—l believe that the wounds and bruises caused the mortification. I only speak from general, appearances. CORONER—Might not those appearances have arisen from some other cause than external injuries? Witness—l do not think they could. Mr. lIARMER—A witness has said, that the wound bled after his death. Can you account for that? Witness—l have known it when the fluid was in a state of putrefaction. Mr. lIARMER—WouId the loss of the eye-sight, and of the limbs be a necessary consequence of an injury to the spine ?—They would. .11r. HA am ER—Are coldness, sickness, loss of ap petite, and dejection of spirits, also consequences of an injury to the spine ?—Ycs. Mr. HARMER—If the wounds were inflicted three weeks before the death, must they have been very considerable?—Yes, they must. Mr. HARMER—Did the general appearances which the body exhibited lead you to form an opinion of the cause of his death ?—Yes. Mr. HARbIER—Did you believe that they were caused by injuries?—Yes. Mr. HlutAtu—You thought, then ; that the ap- 1 11 •-, rearances were quite sufficient to enable you to judge of the cause of his death, without opening his od' Ye y• 2 3. CORONER—Then, what did you think was the cause of his death ?—Cutting and maiming. CORONER—If his spine had been injured on the I 16th, could he have walked about? Witness—Yes, he might a little, for a few days after. But if a very great injury had been done to the spine, he could not have walked. CoaoNEß—Did you ever know a person become convalescent after an injury of the spine? Witness—A paralysis of the limbs often follows. CORONER—If the spine was injured on the 16th, would he have had more pain at first than a fort night afterwards ?—I should think not. CORONER (to Mr. Harmer)—ls there any other medical man you wish to examine? Mr. HARMER—NO. Mr. John Cox was then called—l did not attend upon the deceased before his death. I viewed the body on Thursday afternoon by order of the Con stables. May I refer to notes? CORONER—Yes, If you took them at the time. Witness—l took them very shortly, and wrote them out afterwards.—COßONER —Very well. Witness continued—There was a transverse cut across the arm. I took my box-measure to measure it accurately: it was an inch and a half long, and was open about an inch at the widest part : it was about an inch deep ; I can't say exactly. It had taken the extreme point of the bone away. It was a little oblique, as if it were done by a sword, while a man's arm was raised over his head. I took out a small piece of bone that was partially loose. It was not 'larger than a sixpence. The wound had not been closed : there was some grit or bone protruding ,from the open parr. There were no marks of in flammation, to any degree, or mortification. CoaoNea-•Had you seen it while he was living,what should you suppose would have been the state of it ? Witness—lt had been washed clear oat from pus or blood. CORONER-••DO you think the man had been pro perly treated ? Witness---I do not know : there were tome pieces of bone left in. CORONER—What other marks of external violence did you discover ? Witness—On the left loin there was a bruise as large as my hand. This was over the short ribs, and from the feel of it, I thought the part had been in flamed, and that there had been some exudation from the cellular membrane. There was neither putrefac• tion nor mortification, but approaching to putrefac tion after his death. On the right side of the back there was a bruise, but not so violent. The disco louration was as large as my extended hand. It was something similar to the other, but not so violent.— There were two marks over the hips—the cuticle was cut, and the marks were in a state of ulceration.— There was a blackness and a purple colour; they ap peared to have been produced by violence. From the two bruises on the loins to the back of the neck, there were no bruises of any consequence: in fact, I think I may say none. I examined both his shoulders, and there was no breaking of the skin, or any wound that I could discover. The clothes, I was told, were cut; but if it was done by a sword, it might have been by the flit side, and did not penetrate the skin. The neck and the throat were discoloured; the lat ter was black. CORONER.—What do you suppose was the cause of this discolouration in the throat? WI tness.—l should suppose from external violence. CORONER.—Have you ever seen the same disco louration in the throat and neck sk heT e there had been no violence ?—Witness.—l don't recollect. CORONER.—Was the discolouration deeper than in cases of death where no violence was committed ? Witness.—Yes, it was. CORONER.—From what kind of violence—a blow —or what ? Witness.—Strangulation might have done that in front of the neck, but not at the back. If a blow, it must have been more than one. I can form no opi nion how it was done. The skin was not broken. CORONER.—WouId the appearance have been the same when alive ? Witness.—lt would have been tumified, perhaps. COROSER.—Any other marks ? Witness.—No : I did not examine the legs ; the stockings were on. I put my band very carefully all over the head, and saw no injury done to it.— There was no external injury on the breast. CoaoNEn.—Any inju: y on the spine ? -Witness—l could discover no appearance of any. I should think there was no injury done to it. None of the ribs were broken or displaced. No injury was done to the abdomen. CORONER.—YOU opened the body? (A Juryman asked the witness to speak out. Mr. HARMER said, he could not hear him distinctly.) Witness.—l will explain. The omentum is that part ever the intestines. It was in a high state of in flammation, lying over the part most bruised. The small bowels were inflamed the greater part of their length. On moving the body, much blood gushed from the mouth and nostrils. On opening the 'arum, or windpipe, it was full of blood ; the right lobe of the lungs was full of blood ; the right cavity of the thorax contained much blood. The snidiastine was inflamed ; the right membrane of the pericardium was inflamed. Conosaa.—Would these inflammations have arisen naturally after death ? Witness.—l cannot say that. The heart appeared sound and healthy. No organic effusion appeared, of a nature to be fatal, except in the right lobe of the lungs. —lt is my opinion, without the least doubt, that he could not have died of the wound on the elbow. I am also of opinion, that if he lived till the twenty second day after the injury, which he did, and if proper medical means had been use . sl, and particularly an abstraction of copious quantities of blood, the injury might have been checked. I mean no reflections, but there were no appearances of his having been pro• perly bled. If copious extracts of blood had been made, it is very probable he might have recovered. I think it proper to state this, in consequence of hav ing understood that he had walked out. There were no appearances of his having been bled in the arms or neck, which are the usual places for bleeding. Cottosna.—Do you think the appearances on the back were sufficient to cause death ? Mitzvah—l believe they were produced by the ia flammation of the ementtlm, and that Walla:dm Enr e c e weeded through the bowels, which mi g ht have checked by bleeding. I did zot discover that, 'till I opened the body. CORONER.—From the general appearances, exter nal and internal, what do.you consider the cause of his death ? Witness.—According to my opinion, the imme diate cause was the suffusion of blood into the lungs. I do not think that it was caused by the bruise on the thorax ; I could not account for it. There was no external violence on the lungs. It was not mortifi cation that caused death; I saw no mortificatibn. If the injuries were not so severe as to occasion death in less than twenty-two days, there was time for medical aid to check their effects. I cannot distinctly say, that death was occasioned by external violence. I cannot say, that the internal state was caused by ex ternal violence, although it might have increased it. If he had had a dispo,ition to inflammation in his breast, the inflammation occasioned by the bruises might have increased ir, so as to cause the rupture of a blood vessel, which might have occasioned the suf fusion of blood into the lungs. I could form no opi nion by what means or weapons the bruises on the back were produced. I could not. perceive by the lungs whether he had had any cough. I cannot account for the internal appearances; but I think the external marks would not have appeared from the internal inflammation. It is possible that the internal appearances might have existed without external violence, but that is only conjecture. The inflammation might have existed without it, but I think it was produced in the abdomen by external violence. I think the injury done to the thorax might have occasioned the paralysis. The tumour in the neck was inflamed. If I had attended the deceased during his illness, I could have explained many cir cumstances much more satisfactorily. I think the appearances in the breast most likely to have arisen from the bursting of a blood vessel. I think it more likely, if it was occasioned by external violence, that it was done on the 16th of August than earlier. I don't know what medicines he had taken. The smell of palm oil, which is useJ in marsh-mallows, was more predominant than that of putretaction. The pain about the shoulder and also in the legs, I think most probably, proceeded from the internal state of the body.—ln answer to a Juryman---I saw nothing the matter with him but what might have been re medied by bleeding. Do you consider his death to have been occasioned b 7 neglecting copious bleeding ?—I think if he had been copiously bled, he might have recovered. Was the disorder which caused his death occa sioned by external bruises ?—I think the bruises oc casioned an inflammation in the omentum, uhich ex ten,.!2d slightly to the bowels. The most skilful ana torniqs are often at a loss to find the real cause of death. I think the immediate cause was the suffu sion of blood on the lungs. I am confident it did not proceed from the wound on the arm. In answer to questions by Mr. HARMER..-4 saw the body on Thursday afternoon, :he day after the Jury had seen it. I learned that Mr. Earnshaw had attended the deceased. It may be usual courtesy to call the person who attended ; I did not send for Mr. Earnshaw. It may be, that if he had not the exter nal bruises, he might not have died. I say there were not sufficient external appearances to account for the state of the lungs and thorax. I cannot undertake to swear that that might not have been occasioned by external violence. I think I have seen a body in such a state internally, without external violence. I never saw a body in a state precisely similar. Ido not know why he died. In answer to the CORONER.—If the state of the lungs had been occasioned by bruises on the 16th, he could not have gone to Middleton. I understood that he was afraid, on account of the circumstances, of complaining to his father. People in the neigh bourhood knew more of it. I saw no appearance of any other complaint about him. If the lungs had been injured before the 16th, he would have had a difficulty of breathing, and perhaps a cough. James Clegg, a spinner, examined.--I have been acquainted wtth the deceased five years, and worked in the same factory with him. 1 saw him in the morning of the 16th at the factory, between eight and nine. I met him coming home from Manchester about five that evening. He said he was wounded, and I saw clotted blood on his arm. I saw the next morning, about half-past six, that he was wounded, 'when he came to the factory. He remained about an hour, but did nothing. I saw the cut on his arm. I asked him to let me look at it. He shewed me his right elbow. I saw the hem of his waistcoat, which he said was cut. It was on the left shoulder. The cut might be a quarter of an inch. He did not com plain of being cut any otherwise. I saw him again in the evening, going to the Doctor. In the course of a week, or three days, I saw him at the factory throwing up his food, and he told me that very little had passed but in that way since the 16th. It was{ l about twelve o'clock ;he said he was poorly. The factory might be 100 yards from where he lived. I never walked with him any way. Ido not recollect seeing him walk out after that. I saw him on Thurs day before he died : he was very poorly. I stopped up with him on Sunday night. He could not answer any thins that was said to him. I suppose I saw him four or bye times in the factory after the 16th, but 1 cannot say exactly. I never did hear him complain of any other part. He was a hearty man before the 16th, for any thing that I knew. I never heard him complain of his breast. I was not very intimate with him. I did not go about with him. In answer to Mr. HARMER—He never attempted to work after the 16th. He was a regular worker before. I never asked him about any other hurt. I was present when Mr. Cox opened the body, and heard him say the bruises, and not the cut, had oc casioned his death. Betty Ireland and George Chad dick were present. In answer to the CORONER--Mr. Cox said, bleeding might have prevented inflammation. I saw no blood taken from him but by some leeches. To questions from Mr. Cox—He did say that the appearances in the lungs accounted for his death. I thought he gave satisfaction enough. (Mr. Cox here stated, that he had said that the deceased had not died of the cut in his arm, but of the injuries on his body.) Thomas Whittaker examined.--I am a cotton spinner, and live with Robert Lees, to whom my mo ther is married. I slept and supped with John Lees since ChristMas A ISO, I saw the dcccased on the evening of' the Mb, between rifle and ter, bn the Bank-green. I saw him pale ir , tL e Nance, and discovered he was wounded. I undr;'. him, and pulled his shirt off. H e went „p i himself. He looked very 11. His shirt , tr ic k body. I discovered a severe cut on his told me that was not the worst, and desired she t ; look at his shoes, how they w ere cut off by the!, nr . : lOw his shirt was cut and bloody. He sh i .„, cj ;: no other marks of violence. I observed his the left foot cut off. The leather was t(lrn. with him that night, and afterwards .aw night, and early in the morning, as I was -4 4 1 through the day. On Sunday he walked up qt as Oldham, to widow Wright's, but v - e step ?! very little time: it is a public-house, but ue nothing there. He drank one glass of braudes water at the King's Arms, before four o'clock 1 6 4 day. lie would drink no more. We got five ; he sat up about an hour. I went with hiraa s ,„ then time to Middleton ; it might be or, C ze next Sunday.—Adjourned. CLERICAL lATELLIC;ENCE. OXFORD, SEPT',.NIBPII Sunday, at an Ordination, held by tbu of Derbartiot Auckland Castle, the following Gerakm.: were PRIESTS Christopher Robinson, B.A. I.h:cifin College, o%fi n t Henry Baker Tristram. Student of Christ Church, O x f,4 George Ward, B.A. Trinity t'ollege, Cambridge. Thomas Knight, St. Iktet'a ('olLge, Cambridge. Edward Robert Earle, B.A. Christ College, Cambri,l, f , Edward Coulthurst, St. Peter's College, Cambri4e. Ilumphry Brown, James llumphry t.row•n, ton Gibson, James Green, Adam Harry, John Walker. DEASONS. Frederick Charles Plumtre, Fellow of University Cale, Oxford. Richard Dutton Kennicott, B.A. University Co:le7e,ts.,:-, r e, Henry Richard Somers Smith, B.A. Trinity Cod., C a l. William Allan, John Armstrong. ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. The Rev. C. Mossop, 31. A. Vicar of lielpstont, XAm ? . tonshire, to be I)omestic Chaplain to the Duke of Smile The Rev. John Templer, M.A. is appoiLted to the V..-..trai r of Collumpton, Devon. The Rev. L. IL Luxton, NI.A. Prebendary of liolcottb , .., founded In the Cathedral Church of Wells, to dr '. canoe Holconibe Burnell, Devon. Rev. E. I . eacock, M.A. late Fellow of Trinity Cap, Cam bridge, to the Vic..rage of Fifehead Magdalen, Dorset. The Rev. John Thomas. 11. 4. of Gnively, Candaddscakire, to be Domestic Chaplain to the' Duke of Sussex. The Rev. W. Salmon, 31./1. of St. Jolt's Co:lege, Caeridge, and Vicar of Sproxnm-cum-Saltby, Luicesur, to the neetrry of nedmile, near I.3elvoir Ca.tle. The lies , . James Tomkinson, LLB. h:ls been instittned by the Bishop of Chester, to th.• Rectory of L.)..vrnliam, v:.tazt by the death of the Rev. James Tomkinson, .1.13. Friday sennight, the Rev. J. F. Beowell, w•asinnirittd, by the Bishop of London, to the 14 ctury of Layer i re•o 1, SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. BOXING. At Cromwell Feast, on Tuesday last, Jahn Sancti-sm, of Smie, Lincolnshire, and a gipsey named WsIA, who had bet:; dnnkh great part of the prec‘ding night, sotto in good it several smart rounds the gipsey gave Sanderson a blow c.:l tie left temple, which killed him in a few minutes. DONNELLY AND CARTER. The battle between the above boxers has been at length trth, and the combatants are to meet within 30 miles of Dublin oath 2Ltb of November next, for Loan) sterling aside—the whaled the stakes to be made good on the 234 of November, or the posit - posit money, £5O, to be forfeited.—To '3e a fair stand-up 5,e; half minute time, in a twenty-four feet ring. TURNER AND MARTIN. The remainder of the stakes (AIM) are to be made good inorrow.—There is mach betting on this match : Maria rte the favourite. WALKING. Crisp arrived at the Griffin Inn, Church street, 13ornzh,:a good spirits, at half-past nine o'clock on Saturday evc , ;rg, .4rti proceeded in his arduous undertaking at half-past one yoz-x:I4 morning.—Bets are at present against hint. EATING. A few days since a man named Fisher, in the neighbo-!hoed of Frimley, undertook for a trifling wager, to eat a dozen h! wasps, with their stings in them, and demolish two pallid; of raw salmon, in the short space of ten minutes. This he achieved, notwithstanding he was sorely perplexed over his firs rem! He afterwards offered to eat wasps by wholesale, at the rte d sixpence per dozen—this be continued doing till be had cca sumed nearly two dozen, when his mouth and throat became dreadfully swollen and inflamed, that he was obliged to desi.!,3 a state almost bordering on mainess and suffocation. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, SEPTEMBER !T. Our supply of Wheat was large to-day from Esser and Kent, but the late rains affording a prospect of the water-mills being soon able to resume working, the sales of Fine Wheat were tolerably brisk in :he early part of the morning, and picked samples of White sold 2s. per qr. higher than on this day week; and all other descriptions fully support last Mondays prices. Fine Barley is ls. per qr. dearer, but there is no amendment in the inferior qualities. New Beans are 2s. per qr. higher; and White Peas were brisker in sale, at an advance of full 2s. per quarter. In Oats and other articles, there is no alteration. SMITHFIELD MARKET, SEPTEMBER 9f. ('s7o sink the offal ; per stone of Sibs.) Beef .......4s Od to Ss 04 Veal Ss od to 6 s OA Mutton ....4s 6d to Ss 4d I Pork _ _ Lamb 5s bd to 6s Od. Beasts 2560—Calves 310—Sheep and Lambs 19,400 —Pip: HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD Hay ses Os to 45 154 Straw ... €1 tes to Al 4. Ckreet••••••S Os to 7 10s `Bowen Xs) Os to AV ft BIRTHS The 13th instant, the Lady of the Rev. William Blov, d York, of a son. Friday, the Lady of the Rev. G. L. Cooke, Professor of \a• tun! Philosophy, and Keeper of the Archives, Oxford, of a so: The 16th instant, at Dosthill House, Warwickshire, the Lag of Lieutenant -Colonel Dickenson, of a son._____. MARRIED. The Rev. I. F. Alen, Vicar of Overton, to Miss Dancer, or York. The 17th instant, at Cork, Sir Edward Stanly Smith, Bart. re Elizabeth, daughter of Dennis Duggan, Esq. of I{ i nsalr. DIED. Rev. Henry Brindley, Vicar of Holcoatbe Rumen, De'(' At the Vicarage, Rochdale, aged 77, the Rev. T. Drake, D.I At Hardingstone, near Northampton, aged 51, the R J Iles. . Bousquet. Rev. J. Foster, Perpetual Curate of Sutton, Yorkshire. The 18th instant, at Dibdin, near Southampton, Captain John Brook Samson, lap of the Hon. East-India Company! Ser vice ' At Rosslane-Fhrt, Wexford, suddenly, on the 18 th instant, while shaving himself, Robert Wallace, Esq. many years a ) 12- ' gistrate of that county. Saturday se'nnight, at Waterford, Mrs. Chambers, widow at, the late Mr. John Chambers, of Lady - lane, and mother - in- OY°I Kean, the actor. At Ballingate, county Wicklow, Major Edward Tandy, the Hon. East-India Company's Service. At Stradone House, the Hon. Mrs. Gore, wife o f the HI and Rev. George Gore, Dean of KiLab, county Mayo , B ed° of Ballyhaise, county _ LONDOtt; Milted And published by firsi ligiss, Pic Tentrle. Du,