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London, England, 1849-10-17 00:00:00

WEDNES DAY EV EN I NG, OCTOBER 17, 1819

English who sought to slay the prisoners; whereby they
gained nothing.
" Then was the good knight conducted to the camp of
the King of England, and into the tent of the gentleman
by whom he had been captured, who entertained him
very well for three or four days. On the fifth, the good
knight said to him, My worthy Sir, I should be right
glad if you would have me conveyed in safety to the
king, my master's camp; for I am already weary of
being here.' How say you?' asked the other ; we
have not yet treated of your ransom.' My ransom?'
said the good knight; ' your own, you mean, for you aro
my prisoner. And if, after you gave me your word, I
surrendered to you, it was to save my life, and for no
other reason.' Great was the asuaz,anent of the gentle-
man, especially when the good knight added: Sir, if
you do not keep your word, I am confident that I shall
make my escape by some means or other; but be assured
that I shall insist upon doing battle with you afterward.'
The gentleman knew not what reply to make, for he had
heard a great deal about Captain Bayard, and by no
means relished the idea of fighting with him. However,
being a very courteous knight, ho at length said:
Lord of Bayard, I am desirous of dealing fairly with
you; I will refer the matter to the captains.' "
" The brave but disconcerted captor scrupulously kept
his word; and as the arrival of Bayard in the hostile
clamp soon got bruited abroad, Maximilian caused him
to be summoned to his tent, and, as he entered, ex-
claimed gaily; Captain Bayard, I am delighted to ten
you. Would to God that 1 Lad many men like yourself;
for, if I had, I should not be long ere I rcquit( d the
king your master for the good cffices which he did me
in times past. I believe that we formerly fought to-
gether, and I think it was then said that Bayard never
fled."

" If I had done so upon this occr.iion, S!re;" was the
proud reply; "1 should not now have been here.',
"At this moment Henry VIII. entered the tent, to
whom the Emperor presented the good knight, who
received their courtesies with respect and modesty; after
which the peculiarity of his position was discussed; and
it was decided that he should be restored to liberty un-
ransomed, on condition that he should not bear arms for
six weeks, during which time he should remain on
parole, but free to reside in such Flemish cities as he
should desire to visit. Bayard bent the knee in acknow-
ledgment of this concession; and a few days subse-
quently took leave of the allied sovereigns, and pro-
ceeded to Flanders, where he amused himself by giving
fazes, and endearing himself to :he people by the chivalry
and courtesy of his deportment. In such pursuits the
period of his probation rapidly wore away; and he once
more girt on his armour, and joined his standard."
The different portraits which adorn these volumes
(and which are very beautifully engraved) are at
once an index of the various nature of their contents.
Thus, in one place we meet with Titian's Charles V.,
a life-like portrait, admirably engraved, and contrast-
ing with this representation of the great Emperor,
another page exhibits the fair and frail Diana of
Poictiers. The frontispiece of the first volume reveals
King Francis himself, in the quaint costume of the
period, his hair cut close as was his custom ever after an
accident which had rendered necessary the loss of the
fine chevelure, of which he was very proud. The
frank countenance of Bayard appears in contrast to
the gloomy scowl of the Constable Bourbon; and the
portrait of the meek Queen Eleanor is accompanied
on one side by that of the infamous Duchess D'Etampes,
and on the other by the equally infamous
Catherine de Aledeci. Before taking leave of these
volumes we must extract, for the benefit of our fair
readers, a description of how the famous Diana pre-
served for an almost unparalleled time her remarkable
beauty. The directions are strangely at variance
with the precautions of modern belles :

HOW TO PRESERVE BEAUTY.
" That the extraordinary and almost fabulous dura-
tion of her beauty was in a great degree due to the pre-
cautions which she adopted, there can be little doubt, for
she spared no effort to secure it ; she was jealously
careful of her health, and in the most severe weather
bathed in cold water ; she suffered no cosmetic to ap-
proach her, denouncing every compound of the kind as
worthy only of those to whom nature had been so nig-
gardly as to compel them to complete her imperfect
work ; she rose every morning at six o'clock, tad had
no sooner left her chamber than she sprang into the
saddle, and after having galloped a league or two re•
turned to her bed, where she remained until midday en-
gaged in reading. The system appears a singular one,
but in her case it undoubtedly proved successful, as after
having enslaved the Duke d'Orleans in her thirty-first
year, she still reigned in absolute sovereignty over the
heart of the King of France when she had nearly
reached the age of sixty I It is certain, however, that
the magnificent Diana owed no small portion of this ex-
traordinary and unprecedented constancy to the charms
of her mind and the brilliancy of her intellect."

HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER.
(From the Ccurt Circular.)
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager passed a tolerable
night on Monday, but continues very ill. Sir David
Davies remains in attendance on her Majesty.

COURSE OF
Amsterdam ...... •... 12 31A
Ditto, at sight ...... 12 134
totterdam .... ••.. •• 12 31/2
ilunburgh —ll.ll. 13 13%
Paris, 3 days'sight .... 25 47%
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 67%
'4:trseilles • . 25 70
80un1eaux......... . 25 70
Frankfort on Maine.... 122 N
Petereburgh, Sil. ltble.. 36%:)

EXCHANGE.

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Legh0rn........ • • .. • . 31 21
Ctenoa • • • 26 21
~iil an •••• •• •• ••
Venice .... • • • .....
gaples ............ •• 4034
i•alermo, peroz 121 k,
Messina .............. 12114
Lisbon.. ... • .......... 633,14
.......... 532 y
Itio Janeiro • ...... • • • •
Buenos Ayres ........
New York,2ldays'slght --
Philadelphia
1.11C115 OF BULLION. PAZ oz.
eorelgn Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coln .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9%
Silver to bars ...... •• 0 4 11%

Vienna, effee. ti 0...... 10 .56
Trieste, ditto.... •• 10 .56
Vadild •••••••••• •• 49%
Cadiz .• .. ............
Barcelona .. •.........

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Rear-Admiral superintendent Prescott went
out with the officers from the pay-office, and paid the
Hercules, store ship, and the Superb, 80, Captain
Parcell, at Spithead, on Monday. The Hercules,
Fulton, sailed on Monday evening for the Mediter-
ranean, and the Superb, 80, sailed yesterday morning
at eight o'clock, for the chops of the channel and
Cork, touching at Plymouth, where some seamen are
in readiness to join her. We hear she is to further
complete her sea going complement at Cork.
One of the Superb's lieutenants was on Admiralty
leave when the ship received her orders to proceed to
Cork ; he was at Reading, and by electric telegraph
on Sunday night he received an order from the
Admiralty to join his ship immediately, which he did
on the following morning. The Superb had the
" blue peter" flying on Monday. Both she and the
Hercules were anxious to get off and take advantage
of the fair wind down channel.
APPOINTMENTS —Lieutenant C. D. B. Kennedy
(1846), to the Excellent, gunnery-ship, at Ports-
mouth ; Master John Garner (1441), to the coast-
guard service.

PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAT.—The Scourge steam-
sloop, Commander Lord F. H. Kerr, was docked
yesterday to have her copper scrubbed, &c.
The Serpent, 16, Commander Barker, will be at
Spithead in a day or two, ready for sailing orders.
The Leander, .50, Captain S. C. Dacres, is nearly
rigged, and has entered some good seamen lately, but
they still, as a body, hang back.
The Raleigh, 50, Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert,
K.C.8., is daily expected at Spithead from the River
Plate.

The Constance, 50, Captain Courtenay, is expected
at Spithead from the Pacific, in the early part of next
month, with freight on merchants' account to the
amount of upwards of 2,000,000 &liars.
The Octavia, 50, newly launched at Pembroke,
sailed thence on the 12th inst. for Plymouth, to be
advanced.

The Dolphin brigantine, Lieutenant the yon. It,
Boyle, Is expected from the coast of Alma on a
change of wind.
Wind—E., light breezes, and hazy.
WooLwicif, OCT. 16.—The Monkey steam-vessel,
Master Commander William Bryant, with Mr. Bel-
limy, master attendant, and a number of riggers
from Woolwich Dockyard, went up the river yester-
terday to Blackwall, and navigated the Magicienne
steam•vessel from the East India Docks to Messrs.
Penn's establishment at Greenwich to have the fit-
tings of her engines completed. Mr. Bellamy and
the riggers afterwards laid down moorings for the
Dreadnought where she was formerly stationed, and
that hospital ship was taken out of dock at Woolwich
to-day, and towed up the river by the Monkey, the
Jasper, and the Advice stearn•vessels to Greenwich.
The Vulcan steam-troop-ship had her masts put in
on Friday last, and the masts of the Styx steam-sloop
were put in yesterday, and these vessels are both now
in an advanced state.

Tett boiler-makers were discharged from the fac-
tory at this yard on Saturday night last, the work
executed in that department being now comparatively
little to what it used to be. The number of boiler-
makers reduced this year has been about sixty
altogether.

THE ROYAL YACHT PROMOTIONS.—The annual
promotion for service in her Majesty's:yachts have
been conferred upon Lieutenant Edward Vansittart,
1842, and Mates Hubert, Campion, Charles T. Jago,
and Neville G. W. Nicolai.
RECRUITING FOR TILE NAVY.—The Hon. Lieute-
nant De Blaquiere, of her Majesty's ship Ganges, ac-
companied by several other naval officers, arrived in
Queenstown yesterday, and opened a rendezvous for
the enrolment of ordinary and able seamen. The La
Hogue is ordered off to join the fleet destined for the
Dardanelles.—Cork Examiner.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE WHITEHAVEN RAILWAY.
—The inquest upon Jane Pennington, the little girl
killed by the bursting of a locomotive engine into her
father's house at the Whitehaven terminus of the White-
haven and Furness Railway, was held at the Public-
office, Whitehaven, on Monday morning last, before W.
Lumb,Esq., coroner. (The particulars appeared in our
paper of yesterday.) The inquest occupied nearly five
hours, during which no less than 15 witnesses were ex
atnined. The jury, after a lengthy discussion, returned
a verdict of "Accidental death, in consequence of an
error in judgment of the engine-driver; and they consi-
dered that there is a great want of protection to life and
property at the ftitehayezi and F 4111066 tetWilaus."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
JUDGE'' CHAMBERS, Oct. 16.
IN THE MATTER OF CHARLES THOMAS PEARCE, THE
lIONICEOPATIIIC Z.TUDENT, CHARGED WITH MAN-
SLAUGHTER.
Mr. ASHUEST, on behalf of Mr. Charles Thomas
Pearce, applied to Mr. Justice Talfourd for an order
to bring up Mr. Pearce, that he might be admitted to
bail, the coroner's clerk attending with the depoii-
tions.

Mr. A SIIURST said—l apply to your Lordship on
behalf of Charles Thomas Pearce, a medical student,
practising a system of medicine called homoeopathy,
and who has been pronounced by a coroner's jury
guilty of manslaughter, for an order to bring up the
prisoner that he may be admitted to bail, if your Lord-
ship shall think fit. Before I read the depositions,
your Lordship will perhaps permit me to state the
point. The prisoner is a medical student, practising
upon the honiceopathic system, and he has been pro-
nounced by a jury guilty of having caused his brothers
death by starvation, though it appears by the depositions
returned by the Coroner that the prisoner began his
attendance upon the deceased en the 9th of Septem-
ber, in the evening ; that on the 12th he saw his
brother, for the last time, and the deceased did not
die until the 18th of Stptember ; and that all it is
shown in the depositions he did, and that he avows
in his own affidavit, was to recommend that his brother
should not have food pending the continuance of the
disorder. He was not there after the 12th to enforce
his advice; and it appears, by the deposition of the
wife of the deceased, that his advice was not acted
upon, for, at the request of the deceased, she had given
him food notwithstanding. Your Lordship will see
by the depositions that the craving for food is stated
by a medical man to be incident to the disease ; the
question your Lordship will see is merely a question
of opinion, and I have affidavits here, if your Lord-
ship wishes to hear them, to show that the course
pursued by Mr. Pearce is the course pursued by men
of eminence and experience.
Mr. Justice TALFOURD—I must hear the depositions.
Mr. ASHURST—Yes, my Lord, I propose to read
them, and confine myself to them, unless your Lord-
ship should think it necessary that I should go further.
Mr. A SHURST then read the deposition of Eliza
Higgins :—" I was present at the death of Richard
David Pearce, which happened on Tuesday, the 18th
of September. He was taken ill the Bth of September
with a violent bowel complaint. On Sunday, the
9th, he had Dr. Harris to see him, and Mr. Charles
Thomas Pearce, the deceased man's brother, saw him
also, and took the deceased out of Dr. Harris's hands,
and attended deceased himself as a medical man. He
is a homeopathic doctor. Dr. Harris called on the
deceased three times afterwards in a friendly way,
but not medically, and told Mrs. Pearce (the wife of
the deceased) in my presence that he was in great
danger. Mr. Charles Thomas Pearce went on at-
tending his brother as a medical man up to Wednes-
day, the 12th of September; Mr. Charles Thomas
Pearce, the doctor, then became ill himself, and dis-
continued his visits, and directed that we should send
and let him know how the deceased was every day.
A friend of the deceased used to call on his brother to
state how he was going on, and the brother used to
send medicines, but did not see him. The deceased
was allowed very little to drink and not allowed any
nourishment except a little thin gruel. He had some
beef-tea and arrowroot, but this was after his brother
had ceased to see him. Ido not know who ordered
it. Mr. Davis, a medical man, saw the deceased
on Monday night, the 17th of September. Ile was
much worse. The deceased was continually wanting
and asking for food. I have heard the deceased com-
plain every hour in the day of his wanting food ; and
he said that he was being starved to death. He said
this the night before he died; and for some days
before he died he made no complaint except for want of
food. I heard Mr. Charles Thomas Pearce (the de-
ceased's brother) say to the deceased's man's wife that
her husband was to have no food."
James Davis saith—" I am a member of the Col-
lege of Surgeons. 1 was called to see the deceased,
RiehardDavid Pearce, on Monday, the 17th of Sep-
tember, at nine o'clock at night. I found him ex-
tremely emaciated, and suffering from sheer exhaus-
tion. I immediately ordered a glass of brandy and
water, and nourishment, and medicine. I saw him
again at eight o'clock on Tuesday morning. He was
then dying. On the previous evening he said he had
been starved by the homoeopathic system. I ordered
him to have brandy and water, beef tea, and milk.
I have made a post mortem examination, and
found the liver and kidneys congested with
blood, gall- bladder empty, lungs congested, right
side of the heart congested ; there was no fat. The
bladder was empty—there was a small quantity of
liquid in the stomach, about one ounce, a brown
liquid. I have, with the assistance of my son, ana-
lyzed a portion of the liquid, and found a small
quantity of arsenic, but not sufficient to cause death.
The cause of death was exhaustion, caused by the
want of sufficient food and nourishment, and con-
gestion ; the lungs were sufficiently congested to
cause death. There were no signs to lead me to
suppose the deceased had had cholera. The appear-
ances of the viscera were not such as you meet with
in cholera. Having heard the statements of the
witnesses, the progress and illness of the deceased,
and his medical treatment, and connecting the facts
related with the appearances of the body exter-
nally and internally, when I made the post mortem
examination, I am still of the same opinion as to the
cause of death, name ly, the want of sufficient food
and nourishment, and congestion."
Jane Pearce, the wife of the deceased man, saith—
" He was first taken ill on Saturday, the Bth of Sep-
tember; he was relaxed in his bowels. On Sunday
morning, the 9;,11 of September, I went for Mr.
llarris, who told me it was cholera. Mr. Harris saw
him three times. The deceased's brother was also
sent for, who came. Mr. Harris saw the deceased in
the evening. Mr. Charles Thomas Pearce (the de-
ceased's brother) then went to see Mr. Harris. Mr.
Harris did not attend the deceased after that day.
Mr. Charles Thomas Pearce told me he had taken his
brother to himself from Mr. Harris, and that he
should treat him himself. Mr. Charles Thomas
Pearce went on attending the deceased up to the 12th
of September, and did not see him after, and told me
not to give him anything to eat or to drink
except the medicine. The last time Mr.
Charles Thomas Pearce saw the deceased was
on the 12th of September, and he wished me
daily to let him know how he was (which I did), and
he sent medicines, but did not see the deceased. I
asked him if I might give him something to eat, and
he said No, you will kill him.' I gave him a
little gruel and a little beef tea, against the order of
Mr. Charles Thomas Pearce, because my husband
said he wanted food and he would have it. On Mon-
day, the 17th of September, I went for Mr. Davis.
Mr. Davis came and said he was sinking from want.
I gave him what Mr. Davis ordered. On Friday,
14th of September, he went out into the garden ;
he was very exhausted when he came in, and was
quite light-headed. I gave my husband some food
against the orders of Mr. Charles Thomas Pearce on
the Thursday previous to his death (the food was beef
tea) and he kept it on his stomach."
Sarah Payne saith.—" The deceased man was my son-
li in-law. I saw him last alive the day he died, the
18th of September. I was sent for on Sunday, the
9th of September, and found he was very lead; and
he said he had the cramps. I saw him once a day up
to his death. I saw the deceased man's brother, Mr.
Charles Thomas Pearce, there on Sunday, the 9th of
September. I heard Mr. Charles Thomas Pearce say
to the deceased man's wife (Mrs. Pearce), that he
was to have no food. This was on Tuesday, the
11th of September. The deceased man said be always
wanted food, but his brother Charles did not wish
him to take it. On the 12th of September I gave
him a cup of tea and a bit of toast, because he said
previously, For God's sake do, or I shall be
dead before the morning.' I gave him the tea
and toast, and he kept both on his stomach."
Richard Harris saith—" I reside at 43, Gower.street,
and am a Member of the College of Surgeons. I was
called to see Richard David Pearce, on Sunday the
9th day of September ; I found him suffering from
cholera, with cramps, purging, and vomiting. I saw
him four hours afterwards. I again saw him at 9
o'clock. The cramps and sickness were relieved in
consequence of the medicine I gave him. When I
left I asked some of the attendants if a physician
should be called in, and they said his brother, Mr.
Charles Thomas Pearce, was in the profession, and
would be there in the course of the evening. Mr.
Charles Thomas Pearce called on me on the same
evening (Sunday, the 9th of September), and
after some remarks said he should like the hornoaopa-
thin system adopted with his brother, and in conse-
quence of that I left the case to him. I was not
aware he was not a qualified man. He asked me to
call and see his brother as a friend, which I did ; but
not medically. I told the brother, Mr. Charles
Thomas Pearce, I could not attend professionally in
concert with him, inasmuch as I was totally ignorant
of the doctrines of homoeopathy. On the 10th I saw
Richard David Pearce, and as he was much relieved
I fancied it was from the medicine I gave him. I
gave up the patient at the request of Mr. Charles
Thomas Pearce. It was my opinion that the man
died from disease. I did not see him professionally
after the 9th."
Henry Kelsall saith—" I reside at 6, Surrey. place,
Old Kent-road ;lam a Fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons ; I profess homoeopathic principles. I
have been twice round the world, and have had much
experience in cases of cholera. I was formerly a
surgeon in the navy. My opinion is that no food
should be given to a person attacked with cholera
until he is convalescent. I have had patients under
my care without their taking food for a longer period
than ten days. Arrow-root was wrong to give to a
person labouring under cholera. I have had at the
lowest number 100 cases of cholera and have only
lost ten patiepts, Craving for food is a symptom of
cholera."