The Sun.
London, England, 1801-08-17 00:00:00

L,1117 REPORT.

COURT OF KING's BENCH

.11£1,.);tE MR. JUSTICE LE 117,,1,C,. AND A SPY,
CIAL JURY, rmixsr

,'RERSLAKE SAGE AND OTHEV.S.
(C9ncluded from Sat,!alays Payr.)
Mrs. Robson - examined. " I was married to
Mr. Robson in September 1795., and continued to
reside at ink-:fitther's from the time of my marriage
until the 'Ajqii n ' Mr: Robso's at tecil-
ance at tr. /office occasioned hiS continuance in
town. -Fielv'liftd me at my father's while I retiid_
ed at Edgware—sometimes ,once a week, and
sometimes once in a fortnight—sornetiTes he came
On horseback, and !,.ometimes he walked. "11 e day
of the week on which he came was uncerfain—he
generally came in the morning, and rcurned in the
e v'zni ng—he dined, With .roe at my .fa r'S,.
sag this time he appeared to me to be in very good
He was hearty, and drank like other men
—not less than others, certainly. In:the month of.
April I came to reside in town with: him,Hmd had
an apartment Cliipel.str:fet, Bedford-tow, and
Mr. Robson was then continually. •with me, except
s'.c hen he went out in the inerning-;4le boarded and
lodged in, the same house with me-7-iVter I.caine to
town we had:parties, sometimes to dinner and some-
times to supper. Mr. Robson, an all these occa.
sions, appeared in gcod health, and are and drank_
like a man in good -health, and esiterijlrica his
friends'. `He visited his friends sometimes, and had
parties out, and it appeared, sometimes, that 'he
had taken rather more wine than was, convenient--
notwi:hstanding which, he continued. in :good health
—After that, Mr. Robson was taken suddenly :ill
with a complaint in his-bowels—Sothe tirne:iu May
Door attended him—Dr: Smith atten;led him
sane time in May also--Dr. Smith had been; Called
in while be was at home in My .company--.-Mr. Rob-
son after.,.7a:ds recovered, and went with me to Bet-.
wick-About the '3d .of September we: arrived at
Berwick in a po.it-chaise—We were abort a week
in going; Mr. Robson bore the journey without
much iaeariveni;nc&—While we were at Berwick
he was pretty well—He went out upon a,,,shooting,
party after he castle -to Berwick ; I think in tfigiat.
ten enkof Septeinbet—While he was out shooting
he was caught in a shower, and was very mach wet
-Rritie came dome in a very wet ,condition-r,lie was
obliged to take shelter, and continue there for half
an tour, and he had afterwards about two miles- to
come-home as he was, which was wet through—ln
consequence of this he was taken ill in about two
days afterwards—l apprehend that illness was oc_
casionedby thii wet which be got-on, the shooting
party —He was soon taken very ill, and he orily.lived
about two months. [By the Certificate it appeared,.
that he died in December.] - He- went out-a shoot-
ing often, and appeared to be well enough until he
had this wetting—lt Appeared to me that the illness
was occasioned by ihis"wetting,While we.:.were at
Bertvick he continued to eat heartily, until he was
taken very ill—As to his habits, he gerierallY drank
a bottle a day, and at night two turnbltS of spirits
and water.

Cross-examined, Mrs „Robson said, I cannot po-
sitivelysay, whether it was not in Odober that he went
out and got wet. Mr. Robson never mentioned to
me that he had been unwell, and attended by a Me-
dical Gentleman. 'He' was taken ill Lon the sth of Fe-
bruary. I never knew. that he was attended by any
medical Gentleman "after the 22d of Febru'oy, but
I was in the country at that time, I never knew;
that .he was taking physic up to the end of March.
Ile was ill in May again, and a Mr. Pennington was:
called .up to him in tl:e night, and that %vas for a,
bleeding at the lungs. Mr. Pennington .advised
,him to be Very-abstemious. •I have frequently ad-
monished him to be. very careful of .his health : I
thought he 'c'vas a man of very tender health doWn
:to the tinie of the accident,: Which -accelerated -his
• 4eath.. 1 Was. tinder considerable -alarm about:his-
. health." . •
-- Dr. Camehael Smith, one.of the- Physicians. to.
Ibis Ma.ks;v, sworn—".l knew Mr. Robson- I.
only attended; him 'when- tie sent for me .in the
inooth of Februa'ry' he". lodged- in _Marlborough.:
street ; I found him 'then.- rather a convalescent
f:om a heniort vige ib the lungs, on which he had
been attended by Mr. Dc Bruin. It appeared to me
• to he a, slight hemorrh:lge, "but I understood 'the .
hemorrhage bad been more eonsilerableat.fitst, and
before I attended. The spitting of,,blOod, which
was in May, wa3 inconsiderable., had, neither
fever ,nor difficulty cif breathirk, -nor hardly. any,
cough. He hid no appearance.'of alalie,,nor any
. symptom about .him to mark- any complaint in the
lungs, nor any hut- ti pulmonary hemorrbage, a.
light obstruCtion, frequently arising from extreme'
attention, anxiety, or exertion, Which are fre-
quently met with in persons who. havo. no disease
. upon them in the lungs. I only attended,him,three
or four-days:"
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Mr. ERSK. E In December he died of a POl-
monary "consuiription.---Now,
,Smith, I ask.
. you, whether, from your. experience, 'you" think in
March preceding this Gentleitan hard "a pulmonary
consumption, or had the commencement of any dis-
ease, or a disposition towards it
A. There are, haquorthages on the lungs like those
on the nose,. unconnected with pulmonary obstruc-
tions, and if so, that does not produce consumption
fbr many persons spit blood who' have never been
consumptive. An h.emorrhage over the.funs is.
generally accompanied.by symptoms by which it is
discovered: He had none of these symptams.' • The
only risk he ran was that of the htemorrhage being
suffocated ; for if-the blood gets into the Windpipe;
suffocation is the eaCt of it. The gencrality.of
- men have a predisposition of one.:kind or other on
them which attended this Gentleman in February.
If that
young. man had lived-temperately and mode-
ratelY,: and had- not been imprudent incommitting
irregularities, I did not see: any. thing about him to
shorten his life ; at, the same. time, a man
,Who has
had an hminorrhage on his lungs is.tnore liable to a
sudden old than one Who has had no hatinbrrhage.
If this Gentleman ,had ConduCied himself with care