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John Tunikiiis then appeared for the Prisoner. He knew
him for twelve or thirteen years. He Vlll a iirtimumr.49,,,flie
local militia for this county. Witness was serjeant.major
—he aluays considered the Prisoner a roan of weak intel-
lects. Ile frequently made complaints to witness that his
fellow drumming teazid him • abinit his wife. Witness
often tudered them to desist lest he should do theta an
injury.
la answer to a question from Mr. Hams Gamow, witness
said be never coesaideeed thht the Prigusseit was incapable of
telltale right (room young. He did his duty and kept out of
difficulties.
Mr. M•rnosnother barrister, now addressed his Lord-
ship, and t apteired a hope that he had not finally resolved
to reject the evidence which Mr. Hiskewell had teatime&
The P111411111.1' having nu (.11.1110. I, lie trusted Mt Lordship
would pat duo bun for presuming iu smestion ibe opiiii-iii
which he had already delivered. Nevertheless, he could not
help again urging, that, consistently with decided eases, it
was but meet, in a cast of so melancholy a nattier as the
present, that the opinion of Mr. 11. founded upon the evi-
dence which he Lad Lewd, should be submitted to the Jiny.
It dill not follow that the Jury would adopt ohm opinion,
and at would still lie open fur thesis to diawtheir own in-
ferences from the same farts.

Sir Willitunt Owen and other gentlemen at the bar having
'mounded this wish,
Mr. Hawn GARROW determined to receive the evitirnce,
preferring rather to err, if it was an error, in fAvour of the
Pri.oner, than to shut not testimooy, the absence of which
nought produce tVI.VI queues It n a* not difficult i.. atitifilinte.
Hill Lortlihip then sent to Mr. Juwiee Pa.k, to apprise him
of his IlliellitUll.

Mr. Itlakewrll was then re-called, sad deposed is fol.
lowa:—'' I have attended very particularly to the seitlence
is thee care, mid ass impreasion boa been wrought upon my
'Mud, that ihe drowning of the boy was a complete act of
Mussily, particularly from the evidence of Mrs. Lee.—
She mats s the wildness of else Prisoarer looks; that lw was
wiehout food from Moodily morning till after the act was
commie tad uu Tuesday, sod that upon this want of food he
lass! &auk a Mile ale. Nothing, iherefure, could be more
likely lo bring me a Iwo! physical di . iiis first throw.
lag the boy lulu the water, 11111 le taking him out orals, ex.
pa roiling a desire lo have the child third, •Ileessarda carrying
loins, sod !hen drowniug 111111, were all sery strung proofs of
disordered fading, or Mind, as it is generally expressed,
insanity beusg always an intermietent diseasse. The Prisoner
b,.,,,g sties wards able to rise a retuned ercount or what he
Lad dune, and his lacing aisle lo reason upon it, could be no
proof to the csmerary. I may pass over lie ev;,lcuce of all
his other aces Sill I rome to the last hue 1111 e, ill Windt I
Mists there VAC a stru•g proof of is new imroxytni of the
disease. Ile did nut rt collect the puck—eafterwards he dad
recullece it, anti I said Lo fore, insanity dues nut deseroy
She vessels-sieve power, but occesionsdly serspeods it. I don't
think Mal I raw add any muse, sere that upon a slew ssf all
tlw beartngs of She ease my firm conviction is, that the
dross mug of ihr boy was mo lit of isissisity."
Thomas Frost was sustrslhd. lie was serjeant.inajor
its the Iv gement with the Privoner, whom ha knew about
thirteen years; he was a drum-hos in the regiment, and was
exercuse y weak is moil. Ile was :shunt to be disc's...zed,
but Cape XIII himpsou kept hens rather out of charity than
otherwise.

At the lilacs% of the Prisoner. the Chaplain of Stafford
Rail was Ih. it roiliest. Ile raid, that tel tlw last seven
%woks, during: winch he 611 acre-41 as 1.11;lplaill at the pule
liar rousted of the Prisoner hush bees. must e•emplary.
Out' of the turokeya ilepon.4l, that she Poii•)ll.r had take
before !won put its the gaol by his safe ; he was abate troy
low-spirited at b. ing MU bcatrd.
The ease for 11w Prisoner haring hero tints closest,
Mr. Baton Gannoi; wort. Jed to toolittc.. the Jolly. Ile
cumn...red by hero a Ole, out it was ptabnblrlllry would
bale Ilu si 11,. silly its decedsug th..l the ituflor dectowel
hail died a s wleut death, sod that that &alb Is Id hreso occa-
sioned Its the say clots go in the nislictsneot, namely. by
his being llootwos tutu the stream; and having rustle to dint
ilecisiuu, the only remaining spo s t i tttt was, o ',ether the
Prisoner was the assustural perpetrator of that decd. If
they should arrive at this essoclusiroas, then there plosei:ted
itself this must MIX ttttt • U 14.1 8111.1 totiporiutit loyatry, Ow-
flier the piiauner was, at the tone Le committed sloe art, is. Ins
right erases? It as, nut a question, s. h. thrr hr a an pos_
ardwil of a greater or less degree of natural intellect,
bat or hallacr al Ike tiwie he was pussesowd of that sort
of venous Pinch enalaled hint to judge between that

•hich was right and that which was wrong.—which en-
atilea rim to know sithellice tSe act wait he was com-
mitting was conformable with We deity tower& God and
hi. neighbour, or was an act in •iolatins of the laws of
: Gintand matt? For' if be possiessed whelk • degree of intellect
at the time, a, to know right from wrong, they must pro.
bins guilty. If, on the contrary, y supposed that
' he was unianiarioiss of what be was &dog, then *lel MUIR
come to as opposite result. His I.ordithip then proreeslcd
! to read over every word .f the eviilcore, commenting upon
it :uhe proceeded. and pointing out those passage. which
I made for or against she Manner. On coming to the
eri-
deuce of Mr. Blehewctl, he assist he bad admitted it as the
! Ronan course; for if be bad rejected it improperly, and she
, consequences were to be sorb as midst cagily he conceived,
he should never afterwards know an boor's peace.
The Jury, after a few minutes eiinsolsration, returned a
verdict—" That the Prisoner was Not Guilty, because he had
committed the act imputed to him when in a state of iniswity."
Mr. Baron GAUROW said, he should not do justice to
them and to his own ridings, if lie slid not say he highly
approved of their verdict.
The Prisoner was then ordered to he detained tlll his
1 Majesty's pleasure respecting hini should be made known.
1 The verdict seemed to give general satufaction, and it woo
with difficulty tie auditors were rambled to repress their fr.'.
lug., and to avoid Wale indecorous e.pressions of appitival.

REDUCTION OF RENTS.

We are glad to find that the landlord.; have, in a great
many intlanceo, made liberal deductions to their tenants. in
culowievoice of the decline iu price of up with urai produce.
(Sailer Paper.)
Sir W. W. ►Senn is ad•twl to the Committee of the House
of Commons, now inquiring into the state of Agriculture. The
rreeut aieor:.saiyof the birthday of Sir Walkin's son, was
marked by the generous art of expunging (tout the exten-
sive rent-roll all the ar rrrrr of his-tenants!

John Wingfield, Esq. of Undo., Hall, near Shrewsbnen
returned 10 per cent. to each of hes stomas, at the rent-day
Isia weds.
The Earl of Ashburnham has reduced his rents in future
20 per o sit.
It. P. Heinle, Esq. of Cants H• 11, near Partisans Hants,
who possesses cuseisilerable landed estates in, and who is
also it.i‘Ce of the lithe* of, the parish of Titchfield, the
rents of boils which were nearly doubled by his prede-
cessors during the hizls prices of grain, has very liberally
and justly, en eteneespleore of the great depression of the
U tins, made a seduction sis his reties of 40 per creel. upon his
lased, sod 30 per cent. upon his tithes.