The National Register.
London, England, 1822-08-19 00:00:00

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tardiciaava..wkieb be was to t.‘ ' • • Saturday is order
teat I Wight kilos, the. eirsct tb lad rodeo ' on my arrival.
know that he took these pow• I
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• I arrived at
North Cray about arveu o'cloth a . . uiernoon. I un-
derstood that Ids lordship had In.. out of bed ell dry, and
I immediately proce.eded to his bedroom. On entering his bed-
room, I observed that his manner of looking at me expressed
siispieiou and elle. tn. Ile sod it was very odd that I should
creme into NIA bedroom fleet, before ring into the dining-room
below. I answered that I had dined in wail, and knowing that
the family were at diluter doWn stairs, I bud cone' to volt him.
limn this he made a reply which surprised the eeeeediugly. It
was to thin etre( t—that I seemed particularly grave io my
manner, and that somethiug neist have happened amiss. He
Vomareticed me abieptly whether I had any thing unpleasant to
toll him? I answered •No ; fled l was surprised at his quer-
tarp:mad the manner in svidebit was proposed.' He then said,
•4m frail, was, that he had reason to he suspicions in sonic
degree, hut that he hoped that I wield be the Met person who
%amid engage in any thing that would be injurious to him:—
Ills manner of sayiug this was so unusual and so disturbed as
to satieiy me thou lie was at the moment labouring under monied
delusion. I entreat:it bleu to be very tranquil, and prescribed
fur him some more (tooling and aperient medicines, confined
lion to barleywster. nod allowe,l him slops may. I remained
with him during Saturday nieht and till one o'clock on Solidity
Thoogh his fever was not very high during ass part ,!
of this Iliac, yet the Licoluerence of has speech sod die un-
comfoltahien. as of h.s manner centintied unaltered. During ,
Ssneae I visited him frequently, and 'minima-a with him is the
evening until half past 12 o'clock. I advised him to he astran-
toil as possible, and toad hiss that I would endeavour to per-
amide my lady to come to lied. I slept in a room very near that
m f Lordship. Out Monday tem-Mag. about seven o'clock,
ales. Holanion, my Lady Lonitenderry's maid, came to my
room door, mel asked if 4 was dressed, telling me, •• my Lord
wished to see me lity and by.' I answered, that I was ready to
came that moment ; hut lirs. Robinson laid, that she did not
toe to come teen, because her Ladyship bud not left the
Led-roam. In donut half an hour, she returned, and slid, that
La Lordship ovoid be glad to see me immediately, as tier lady-
buil.) was putting on her gown, io order to go into her owe room,
eaiserved that the dour of the latter was open end could psi-.
iaa we that his Lordship was not in it. lo an instant Mrs.
Robinson said to me,• His Lordship has gone into hja dressing
room? I stepped into his dressing-roorn, and I saw him iii his
dressing gown, standing with his front towards Our window,
which was uppusite the door at whi h I entered. His face was
directed towards the ceiling. Without turning his head, on
the instant lie beard my step be exclaimed, " Bulkhead, let me
tail upon your urn—'tit all over." As quickly es possible I
san to him, thinking lie was ranting and going to fall. I caught
him in nay tunas as he was falling, and I perceived that he had a
knife ia his right hand, very firmly clinched, and all over biooil.
I did not see him use it ; he must have use I it before 1 came
into the room. In falling he reclined upon one side, and the
blood burst from him like a torrent from a watering pot. I was
suable to support him, and be felt out of my anus. I think
wound must have been indicted as soon an I rat my foot on the
threshold of the door, as its nature was such that the extinction
of life most have followed it in the twinkling of an eye. I think
that no less than two quails of blood flowed from him in one
nthiute. Imu satisfied that a minute did not elapse from the
moment ditty ente. in the room until be died, and during that
time he saint not a word except that width I have already men-
hom). It was impossible that any human being could have
i .theted the wound but lumen*. Haring known him iinimetely
fur the last 3') year., I Iliac no hesitation in saying that be was
v.:tier-0y insane when Le committed this act. I had noticed a
great decline in the general habit of his health fur some weeks
prior to bin death ; but I was not aware of tire mental delusion
which tie was labouring till within three or tour days of bis
deueas..."
Alter Dr. Ilankhencl had finished his testimony, the Coroner
iquired whether there were any more witnesses who could
s,ieek to the nature of this transaction. He was iufortned that
there w ere several ; but r ilunbt being thrown out as to the
•ecessity of caliing them after the evidence which bad already
Lein adduced, he said he should consult the jury upon the point,
and is consequence ordered the room to be cleated of all
spectators.
After the Coroner and Jary had been left to themselves for
ball as hour, notice was given that strangers were again per-
to enter the room in which they were sitting. On reach-
ing it we found the Jury ranged round the Coroner's table, and
git mg their assent to a verdict which he read to them. The
verdict stated. .• That on Monday, Aug. 12, and for some time
previously, the Most Nuble Robert, Marquis of Londonderry,
snider a grievous disorder did labour amid languish, and became
in consequence delirious and of insane mind ; and that, whilst in
that state, with a knife of iron and steel, he did inflict on him-
'Al on the left side of his neck, and of the carotid artery, a
wound of one inch iu leneth, and half an inch in depth, of which
Le insuatitly died ; and that no other person except himself was
the cause of his death."
To this verdict all the Jurors signed their names.
Strangers were then murdered to withdraw, end the inquiry
was considered to be at an mood, but in a few minutes the Coro-
ner sent a polite message to the gentlemen connected with the
public press, iniimatiug that their presence then in the inquest
iiiori would be necessary to the completion ci•lheir labours.—
'Toe Jury were then standing round the table, and the Coroner
tdressing t •ein said Gentlemen of the Jury, I have de-
iin, d you e few mower:le longer than perhaps seemed neces-
sary after the decision you Lave come to, but I hope you will
think that me doing so is 19 no means a work of snpererogation,
when I lay before yon u document which I now held in my
La:A.—Your verdict upon the evidence which you have already
beard, nil! be, 1 have no doubt, as smisfactury to your country
as it is, I am sure, to your own consciences; but I am sure also
that you will have no ejection to listen to the further piece of
documentary testimony which I held in my broil. The noble i
Marquis, respecting whose death we are assembled to enquire,
was present before the King in Council uu Friday lest; and, as
it has been dated that Le had pre% iuus to that day eeliibited
symptoms of a derauged intent. t, it may be deemed doubtail ;
it may seem strange that, subsequent eo such aberrations of
miud as bat e hewn described, he should he found exercising the
functions of his high office. I understand, hoaever, that wit-
steesee are in the house al.° could trace the malady, under
übfortUll2lV noblemen appears to have tabooed, to a
c...isid-rnhle period antecedent to the act which is the subject
tir this enquiry. This I think you will deem unnecessary, hut.
in wtier to relieve 4.11 doubt upon the subject in the public
suind, 1 will read a letter to you, written bi- maim of the highest
s.IIII4eS iu the Linettout, the Dule of Vcolliogton, in whack
i. e%l rr i,;•••• in face teams his m piniou of the state of the nolile
in ii!
file e n mliy coroner then read the letter, of which the fellow
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