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DURHAM, WEDNESDAY, AIJOUST
CROWN SIDE.--( Bdirre Mr. Ju4Uce BAY LEY .)
ATTEMPT TO MURDER BY POISON.

PARTS, AUG. 18,—His Excellency Count Vil-
idle transacted business with his Majesty. The
King went out afterwards to St. Cloud.
CADIZ, Jur;v• 27.--On the gist of this month
Vice-Admiral Duperre arrived in the Trident off.
this port, with four frigates. Ile anchored at
Rota. The following day Baron des Itotours, on
board the Santi Petri, came with his division, and
put himself under the orders of Duperre. Yes-
terday morning the squadron of evolution set sail.
I t consists of, two line-of-battle ships, the Trident
iu! Swill Petri, of seven
.frigates, the Ampltytrite,
Amazon, Vestal, Venus, Armide,, Nymph, and
lermione, of the, Zebra brig, and of two
schooners, the Faattette and Dauphinoise. Rear-
' Admiral Itoussiti.has his,flag cu. board the Am-
phstrite.
- [Front the Constitutinnnel of Teciniskh]
.PARIS, 'Auq. regime of the Censor:
stiiios.estahlished, as the blank places in yester!
T day's'Constitutionnel. prove; but these blanks
,must not, be continued. As we cannot say all that
:We wish, we must say all that. we are allowed to
Our readers will make Up for the insuffi-
. ciency of our language. . .
• IFNI); Galignuni's Messenger of Wednesday.]
- The Austrian Observer' contains a letter of the
15th ult. from Constantinople, which gives de.
...tails relative to the capture "of Ipsara, but con-
tains nothing new concerning that lamentable CII•
Anstropite. it makes the following olservations
yelative'to the inaction of the Turkish Pachas :
" It is now known for a certainty that the delays in the mill.

Joseph lVilliios iieclison,;ged 26, late of Sunderland. in the
county of Durham, surgeon, stood charged u on the,oitths. of
Charlotte Hodgson, wite of the said Joseph W iam Hodgson ;
Elizabeth Allison, of Houghton-le-Sp ig in, le said county,
widow ; Reel-lad Brown,. wife' of Tho as I%rbwn, of Bishop
Wearmouth in tlizsaid county, mast nairdlkr ; Jos. lipwri
of the same place; Doctor of Medicine, andlithers, with having
on the 10th of June last, wilfully, maliciously, and unlawfully
administered a deadlyoisorhorotherimiious or
.dcstructive
substance, to the said Charlotte Hodgson, with intent to murder
her. The prisoner was committed by G. Robinson, Esq on
the 9th June. .
A little after nine o'clock the Learned Judge took his sexton
the Bench, attended by the High Sheriff; (5n the Bench we
observed .4ady Barrington, the lion.llliss Liddell, and several
other ladles of distinction. The. Court was crowded beyondall
precedent. Several persons fainted and were carried out of
Court; indeed so'great was the crowd that it put a total stop
to the businesg for nearly half an hour, anti it was not until the
Judge ordered part of the gallery and other parts of the body
of the Court to be cleared, that the trial could proceed. Neither
Counsel nor Reporters for the Public Preis had a chance of
obtaining a seat. The trial lasted upwards of twelve hours.....
'hen silence was obtained, and the Court a little cleared,
The Clerk of the Arraigns said—Let Joseph Wm. Hodgson
be brought to the bar.
The prisoner was then informed that if be; wished to chal.
lenge any of the Jury, now was his time. No objection was
made ; when after a pause of a few seconds,
Mr. A Lrmitsoli stated the nature of the case on the part of
the Crown, and
Mr. Ilitottortast said, the prisoner at the bar was a surgeon
and apothecary, residing in Sunderland. •In the year 1023, he
married Charlotte Allison (now Mrs. Hodgson); her fortune
at that time was 2,0001, a portion of which was settled upon her
by marriage settlement, before her marriage, the conditions of
which were, that in the 'event of there being no issue, then the
prisoner was to cone into possession of the whole property,
The Learned .Counsel then stated to the Jury the circum-
stances of the case, which will be found on the examination of
the witnesses.
Mr. AL!) Ena 0 st then proceeded to call
Charlotte Hodgson, the prosecutrix, who was very elegantly
dressed, and was brought into Court in a chair, supported by
two men and two female servants, and placed on .the table be--
fore the Jury. .il er appearance excited great curiosity. It was
with difficulty her words could be accurately taken down, she
, spoke in so low a tone of voice. Her examination was to this
n 101 b 1 ihe is the wife the prisoner at the bar; was mar.
. ~int in January 1023; has one child, a boy about eight
numbs old. There was a settlement made previously toiler
~marriage with the prisoner.'
The J tmck:—That will be proved by the subscribing
witness.

tary operations In Eastern Greece arise solely from the equivo,
" -cal, not so say treacherous, conduct of Omer Pacha. Two
• months ago he received orders to march upon Athens with at
least 10,000 men, which he could in a moment set on foot
But he thoUght proper to remain in Albania, where he passed
from one place to another, and forcibly sent away the cover-
' 'noes of the fortresses of Prevesa and Arta,• recently.appointed
by the Porte, and who probably were charged to watch him.
The Pacha of Scutari would not run the hazard of putting
-.himself in movement so long as Omer Pacha should not have
quitted Albania. It • will soon be seen whether the Porte will
continue a quiet spectator of this conduct., or Whether Omei
Pacha, when he learns what has passed upon another point of
the theatre of warovill not obey the orders he has received."
Extract of a letter of the 23d ult. from Odessa :—" It is said
that the Papitan Pacha, after having quitted the Dardanelles,
received orders front► the Sultan to capture Ipt+ara,• cost what it
might. Having required a respite, apparently to prepare tree-
son, the Grand Seignor replied—` Iptiara, or thy heal'
Sortie Mitylenians were traitors to .the (reek cause as well
as the Albanese. The lsparlots were so assured that .their
island was impregnable, that they sent part of their fleet into
• the waters of Candia. The Illitylenians served as pilots to
. the Ottoman vessels, whilst the Albanese delivered up the
batteries."

Examination proceeded—She has been unwell ever since the
6th:of June, last. Has -been attended by Dr. Brown ; he had
b.An her physician, She had been taking► pills several nights
before, wider h 6 directions. Her husband had two young men
iiving•with him, of the names of Finley and Mason.
The jUDLIE—Prove this, Mr. Alderson, by the other
witnesses.

(Prom Me .11foniteur of Weiines4ay, Aug. 18.)

•
'of his Majesty, referring to an 4.4.4 m.
ranee of 23d September, 'lBl4, relative to Um petrstomi
which may be granted to 'the widows' anti orphans of 'Magi.
strates,Tontnins various new4egnlations, the objectof u 41ch is,
.as stated in the preamble; to give to the articles of -Age
dennance ieferred to as great an extension as is compatible
• with the present state of the fund reserved for 'the purpose, and
thus to give to the Magistracy a fresh proof of his Majesty's
good will and solicitude.
Another Ordonnance continues in force the regulations fixing
tb &aims on foreign wool, no Merino sheep, and those of mixed
breed, and on the indisit sttas called aninies, Coming front
the entrepots for senegal, and those prohibiting the importa-
tion of white lead into France, except in powder.
A project of law to this effect was presented to the Clistobers ;
but there was no dine to discuss it.
•
• (From the Quothlieroi44

" Louts, &C.
" With reference to our Ordinance dated yesterday, putting
* aimrin force the laws of the 31st of March, 1820, and the 20th
of July, 1821 relative to the journals and Periodical Writ-
ings, on the Report of our Minister Secretary of State to the
Department of .the Interior, wo have ordained, anti do ordain
as follOwi:
" Art. I. There shall be immediately formed at Paris, con-
nected with the Ministry of the Interior, and presided over by'
Abe Director-General of the Police, a commission charged with
previous examination of all the Journals and periodical
writings. It shall be composed, exclusively of. the President,
of six Members named by the Secretary of State for the-In.
. trrior.
" 2. Every article in a Journal, or periodical:writing, must,
.before publication, have been 'sanctioned by aviaa, showing
.the previous examination'and approbation required bribe lifth
article of the law of March 31, 1820, which visa shall -be given
by M. Deliege, whom we appoint fur that purpose Secretary of
the Commiscon. ,
" 3. In the amartments the Prefects shall n'iminate as may
,be necessary one or more Censors, charged with the previous
examination of the Journals and periodical writings to be there
,published.
" 4. The Secretary of State for the Interior is charged.with
the execution of the present Ordinance.
" Given at our Chateau of the Tuileries, on the 10th of
August, in the year of grew,' 824, and of ourreign the
thirtieth.

" By the King, " 1A)1.715.
" 'rho Minister Secretary of tState far The:lnterior
" C0111111;4101"

't'Propt the Etone,,dated Thursday, ilug.'l9.)
' Pauts, Alio. 18.—We do not know where the
Quotidienna and the Constitutionnel have 'found
the history of the mysterious personage who
landed from an Englishcorvette,tind was arrested.
We are not now hi the age of the Iron Maidc.--::
No body can now remain unknown any where,
Still .less when he is on board an English corvette
on the coast of Barcelon.
We can assure the Quotidienne that there has
been no:mysterious personage at Barcelona, and
that the a; rest of which it speaks is without foun-
dation.
• It is with equal truth that the Courier Fran.
gal; tells us to-clay that Mahon has been taken
by the English. :Neither do the letters of our
correspondents make any mention of the
,pretentl-
ed Malady which, according to the jouriud du
Commerce,, pre vai la, in Est remad e ra.
We refer the same Journal to the news which
we give from Cadiz. It will there find the mean-
ing of the departure of our ships from Cadiz. As
for the Spanish skeletons of regiments which, it
says; a French, schooner is to convey to the Ha-
Vantiali, we believe we may assure it, that our
4lkips of war do not serve in any manner for such
a purpose.
A. for the Proclamations of the King of !Por-
tmgal, it. justly calls them absurd. All the Pro-
clarnatjons of this kind which have been circu-
lated to SPitiu ore absolutely apocryphal.
As,for what theTiluie says of the recal of Gen.
'eon, Hod the reasons i
LlSsigns, we do not be-
lieve that (here iS,any foundation for these asser-
tions, „,:

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r AS: NCR r utindtrAllni*A ittl. 111.:—Tive por Cents. opened
at -HMI: 00. ; clased it 100. 70. ; , Neapolitan Rentes, 870 ;
spani4h, 111;16;19 ; BPanislt Ulan, ti4l—.llxchange on London,'
ime month, g 5,, iIL ; . Ott.. montn4, 25.-4 Court Ataikentique,.)

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'Mr. A r.mnsoi.; proceeded-,She does not remembq the
bolus being brought by Finley, but the prisoner did bring it
between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock that night; he told
her she was ti) take it. • •
The .1 unG E—Does she remember . the words the prisoner
made use of?
Witness—Yes.
.1 E--Did you ask what it contained ?
Witness—Yes; he told her half a grain more flyless of opium
than before ; she blot desireil an alteration to be made by her
husband. •bhc made an objection when he brought it to her
the' first time; he brought the bolus twice to her; she desired
him to go down stairs and put a grain more opium in it. She
. does net recollect what he said the second time. It was at the
second time that she. desired the, alteration to be made. ' He
made it into 3 pills; she took them one after the other. After
she had taken the first pill she found a heat in the stomach.
.f u cm —As soon as she had taken it she found the heat t she
did not find this when she took the bolus the two preceding
nights ; she said she felt a heat in her throat and stomach ; don't
exactly recollect what he said, but that she would soon be better.
tier husband afterwards gave her the two other pills, and she
took them ; they produced the same effects as the first ; she felt
sick soon afterwards ; don't recollect that he said any thing about
her sickness ; he brought her a draught immediately afterwards,
when she becanie more sick. Her mother had been that even-
ing, but had gone home. She expressed a wish to.send• for her
•in the presence of her husband; He sold it was a pity to dis-
turb her, us she would be better soon. INly muther, Dr. Brown,
and 111 r. tlregory, came afterwards. She was married a little
aftcr'elnistrn

Cross.eximiined by Mr. 'WILLIAMS—Her child is a boy ;
slut was not so well utter her confinement • her husband made
no objection to her sending for her mother; she was always
sly after her labour ; her husband had sent for a surgeon
Ain Swan) before Drs. Brown and Gregory came ; it was her
husband's own tieing; he attended until Dr. Brown came; her
husband was kind and attentive to her when she was unwell,
and he continued to be so ; he was remarkably .fond of the child,
untie kind and aßctionate husband to her.
By the .IvpoE—She desired Dr. Brown to be sent for; he_
made no objection. She Kent for her mother, and she came
within an hour afterwards. He heard her send for her, and
did not prevent it. They lived its man and wife.ought. It. was
after Dr. Brown came that she desired her mother to be sent
for. The prisoner had something particular about him ; for
six months previous she thought him derangedl he. shewed
symptoms of derangement from his Irregular conduct about the
home 1 he had fewer clothes on than he ought to have ; he did
so' in the day. time.'
JuDGE—Gentlemen of the Jury, do you wish .to put any
question to the witness ?
The Jury replied •in the negative.
.1-tm0z......1:et the prosecutrix be taken down carefully. She
was then removed from the table and taken out of Court. She
had her feet upon a pillow whilst in Courti her dress was a
straw hat, White veil, shawl, and coloured gown ; she appeared
very sickly ; her features were mild, but had nothing of beauty
Omit Ahem; her Illness had made apparently great devastation
on her constitution. •

Robert IVilson called—He is a subscribing witness to the
marriage scktlement.
Cross,examined by Mr. WILLTAXB—Iter marriage settle-
ment was first proposed to be 1,000/., it was afterwards 1,201$!.
The Clerk Of the Arraifots then cited in part the deed, which
was ,s,opon trust for her sole and separate use, not liable to the
controul of her husband, her debts, or future contingencies;
but upon further trust, in case of 3 child, to that child ; • but in.
ease of no issue • then for her husband's benefit." &c.
Matthew Finley exatnined by Mr. IlitouoMAM—fle is four.
teen years of age next March ; he was apprenticed to Mr.
Hodgson last yeqr ; there was another boy of the name of
Mason ; he is dead now ; -there was only himself there last 'June.
I I amilton used to sleep in the shop ; witness slept at home some-
times ; he mixed holusta in June last by his master's direction ;
one bolus contained six grains of calomel and four of opium;
another six grains of calomel and- three of opium. The one
prepared on the Sunday the oth of June contained ten grains of
calomel and half a grain of opium ; this was the last he made;
the two first were made on Friday and Saturday ; that prepared
on Sunday was made by his muster, and he mixed it himself.
He had been with him a little more than a year and a half. Ile
took the calomel out of the same bottle on the Friday and Sa-
turday as he did on the &friday ; he put nothing in but the ca-
lomel and opium and a little conserve of •roses ; it wus about
Futr o'clock on Sunday, and quite light, when he made it up ;
Ise made it upon a stone, and laid it on a shelf, having wrapped'
it up first in paper-; he did Something else until 9 o'clock ; he
took it up stairs ; he bad heen in thashop during part of the
• time it remidned on the shelf. It was Hamilton's turn out ;be
carried it up and put it on the press. After 1 came out 1
saw Airs. Allison; the kitchen is up stairs ; I saw Mrs.
Allison in Mrs. Hodgson's room ; I gave it to Mrs. Allison;
Inc is sure his:master went down to the shop ; can't say how
long he stayed, nor whether he 'said any thing to him. lie
afterwards went up stairs; I saw him again soon afterwards;
he said I had better go home that night ; this was about ten
o'clock.

Jv non—He Faid I was to go home that night, because
the two servants were so much. crowded -with the little boy.
There Was a bed in the shop., ~They had never slept there
before.
Mr. lin o VCIIIAM—He went homelhat night,
Cross-examined by Mr. F. PoLLocit—lle had slept there a
week or ten days before. The servants did not sleep in the shop
that night. does not know if' they went to-bed. llis mus-
ter had -a good steal to do with poor people, and with patients
of a better description. lie recollects that there were two bottles
on the shelf together, and one had powder of opium in it. There
are drawers in the middle, and shelves on each side. There are
bottle!' and about the same size as each other. rem-
•
pounded medicine two month after he was there. He has never
mixed opium and corrosive sublimate together, nor did he
ever use sugar of lead. Calomel partakes of sublimate of mer-
cury. Oximuriate partakes of corrosive sublimate. His master
was a remarkably humane man. lic;,was mild and kind to his
patients.
ti”nts • lie! came In with a horse on the Sunday; can't say
the time, He was often on,horseback. He went to see his pa.
tiolts'on horseback, • lie does not recollect that his master had
been init that tnornini to attend a lady in labour. lie a
patient of4h,e name of Walker. In labour, but is not sure she

'i th i~/~.. t.

was confined that morning. Don't know if Mr. Hodgson dined ' pantaloons, appeared th be taking notes ; and soon afterwards 1
At 110131 e that day. Witness went home to his father's. He very eagerly swallowed a glass of water. His Stature is petite,
went to 'see after the horse. He saw his master about one and he has a cast of the eye, and much marked by the small-pox ;
two, and then at five 'o'clock that ,day; and afterwards at ten during the wife's examination he appeared to cry once or twice.]
O'clock at night. . ' When she returned she was still vomiting.
By the,/ uncle:a-He was looking after a horse for his master. Cross-examined by Alr. POLLOCK—She don't know if what
Ile went out with Mr. Wiseman ; can't say hovi long he was Mrs. Hodgson brought up eves saved; she had taken several
out. He came back about five o'clock. ' ' draughts before ; she did not learn if there was any laudanum
By Mr. ALnxttsoN—They have both slept out. If alnere in it; she had the care of the child ; he behaved very well to
son knocked at the door it could be heard all over the house.— his wife and child as far as she could learn; they appeared to
.The door is next the surgery. • Don't know if the maid scAtants live happy together; he received the child as a father ought to
slePt there previous to the night in question. Powder of cid= do ; .she never craw any thing by him but that of a kind and
is dark brown, sugar of-lead white, corrosive sublimate of mer- .affectionate husband and a tender father; she had never vomited
cury pale white. The bottles are white glass. Corrosive, sub- before. - - I,
limate.of mercury is a chrystal, not a powder: His master ' Dr. Brown examined by Mr. ALDERSON—He is a physi-
used to neglect going sometimes to his patients, but not very clan at Bishopwearmouth. He had attended Mrs. Hodgson
often ; but he used to neglect them more of late titan formerly. before for a fortnight ; he saw her daily. -Her disorder was
sometimes hewas in liquor. Had been often so of late. , He acute rheumatism ; he found her mouth affected with calomel;
did pot seem to be in liquor when hecame home on the Sunday she complained of a pain in her stomach and side, for which he
night. . . . , . prescribed bleeding ; a blister was•also applied across her sto.
• Mrs. Elizabeth Allison examined by Mr. ALDERSON—She mach ; subsequently the symptoms were subdued, and rheu.
is the mother of Mrs. Hodgson; she had been attending her matics only remaining; he directed a bolas to betaken at night,
daughter previous to the 6th of June, a month or five weeks. containing six grains of calomel, and a black draught, with a
JUDGE—Speak out louder; the prisoner stands on his life, certain portion of opium. He cannoe say how long this was
and must hear what you say. - - • before the 6th of June. Mr. Iledgson told him in the morn-
Witness—She was thereon the Pith of June; she remembers ing, that he had made the bolus with six grains of calomel and •
the last witness bringing something Into the room about nine two of opium. On looking at her tongue hefound it brown,
o'clock ; it was a bolus ; she opened the paper and found it was and on inquiring, he learnt that three grains of opium had
not the same as had been brought up before, and she laid it been infused in the bolus the preceding evening instead of two.
'amen on the table ; can't say it her daughter was asleep ; the By the JUDGE—She generally took this nightly, and a laxa-
curtains were drawn about her bed, and she was in it. She re. tire in the morning. He told Hodgson that two were sufficient;
members'the prisoner's coming into the room not, long after ; an additional grain would not make much differente ; he gave
the bolus hed been laid down ; he took it up and went down his prescriptions sometimes in writing, and sometimes verbally
stairs for a short time; when he came back he said it was ready as a medical man.
for her to take, and that he had put half a grain of opium more . By Mr. A aDEasciar—He remembers the 6th of June; he
in it than'was in the one the night before; don't recollect if had ordered calomel and opium to be given before and up to
Finley had left the house : it was between nine and ten when the 6th of June. He never knew calomel and opium prOduce
he came up with the bolus ; about half-past nine ; she said she vomiting; _calomel will sometimes produce vomiting, if given
thought there wasenere in it titan the other • he took tt down separately, .bot not if joined together; he was sent for about
stairs; when he returned he said he had niade the bolus right, eleven' o'clock ;' M. Hodgson came for him ; he said his wife,
and it was ready for her to take ; he laid it down ; she did not who was better in the morning, was now worse ; he went, and
take it at that time; witness left the house about half-past ten found her very ills audeharsymptoms of inflammation were on
o'clock ; her daughter did not take-it whilst she was there.— her • her pulse was very frequent, sunk, and small ; there was a
Agnes Thomptom came forhtr. She _went and found her (laugh. cold pallicl sweat upon bear she complained of a burning in the
ter very ill ; she complained of having a pain in her eto- throat, extending along the gullet to thee Pit at' the stomach ;
mach ; she vomited vary much. The prisoner was sober for she vomited, at short intervals, and discharged a large quantity
any thing site knew; she knows Rachel Brown, but she was of mucus and other liquid ; he made inquiry of Mr. Hodgson
not there. - who had prepared it; he said the boy ha; lilesealiodgeeerreaid
Cross.examined by Mr. Poar,ocw-L-She . don't know how he had had the bolus twice out of the room to acid powdered
long the nurse had attended her; she had only been there occa- opium to it ; that the bolus he had given her the precedingnight
sionally; she was not there very often ;. there were two servants had not made her right ; he inquired into the composition of
besides the nurse; there was a child • she can't say if the two the draught, as he understood one had been given. Ile believes
servants anti the child slept in one bed ; the child was about the patient told hint herself. ' She said she began to vomit after
eight months old; her consent to the marriage was not asked. she had taken the draught. I said I thought an ounce dose of
By Me. A enEntioet—She was only on a visit. She went to tartar emetic would produce similar effects. I went down to see
Sudbury on account of her being poorly ; her.daughter sent for where it stood. Ile thought. uo mistake could arise, it was so
her to Sunderland ; shelled been there the best part of a week situated. The calomel was ins small jar towards the right hand
before this alihir happened. •It is about seven miles distant. corner of the door; ho saw where the corrosive sublimate stood,
By Mr. Poaaoax—iler daughter and the prisoner were and he thougheno person that knew any thing about medicine
married at Creme Green ; witness was away on the Saturday. could give corrosive sublimate for calomel. Corrosive sublimate
She took a bolus on the Saturday evening to cause her to rest ; was a chrystal, anti required to be done into a powder to make
she took no active medicine to work it otE The prisoner went a bolus. kowdcred opium could not be mistaken for corrosive
clown twice for the bolus ; there was nothing passed between sublimate unless in the dark, but never with a candle; it could
the wife and hint ; he took it clown the second time to add some be known by the feel. On the marble slab it could be felt ; 'the
opium. . . corrosive sublimate would grit tinder the knife. Ile ordered 1
Rachel Brown examined by Mr. ALDERsotr—She had been some magnesia and 30 drops of the tincture of opium in some
in the liabli'of attending. Mrs. Hodgson before her marriage water to be taken; it was prepared beadle prisoner in his pre-
with the prisoner. Site was there on the night of the 6th of sence, and .carried up stairs, and taken by Mrs. Hodgson. It
June ; she remembers Mrs. .allieon going away. She can't was immediately thrown up. He ordered another draught of
recollect if became to the bedside; lie came In the room a she mageesia and two drama of water; when he gave the direction
did not see hint with the bolus. Ales. :Hodgson said she wished to the prisoner lie went out of the room; witness remained. He
it made into pills. I took the bolus to her ; she said it was not was absent a few minutes; can't say how long; he returned with
like the same she had had before. I spoke to Mr. Hodgson to a draught; it was Rot what he expected; there was more than
that effect ; he wild it was right, and elle was to take it. She should have been. He took the glass into his hands in conse.
agreed to have it made into small pills; the bolus was then quence of its appearance ; it was not so clear; he tasted it; it
made into three pith • he gave her one and she swallowed it. never.was administered; it had a metallic caustic taste about it;
She afterwards complained-of a burning heat in her throat and it had such a taste as corrosive sublimate of mercury would have;
breast ; she said her medicine was not right ; he said it was it has no smell when dissolved in water. Mr. Gregorgy was sent
quite right; She thinks he put the other two into her hands; for; be came, and asked me what had been prescribed in the
she swallowed them; she said she was worse in her stomach; presence of Ilodgeon. I wrote down the prescription, whiciel
she complained of her throat and stomach ; can't say if any sliewed to the prisoner; he declined to sign it, but acknowledged
where else. After the first two she complained of her throat it was the same us I usually gave hint orders to make up; It
and breast; she complained of sickness in her stomach. He was afterwards analysed, and corrosive sublimate was found in
gave her a mixture ; she made the complaint before he gave it ; there were upwards of thirteen grains. It is a difficult tines.
her the draught. Site turned sick after the mixture, and con- don to say how many would-destroy life ; thirteen would if not
tinued to vomit from 'eleven until three in the morning. Don't rejected by the tumult ; be questions if three grains would ; lie
recollect she said any thing in the presence' of' Agnes Brown ; prescribed white of eggs in water to decompose it; it would be
she said she wished to have her mother sent for.; site was ex- impossible to _discover. the corrosive sublimate after the vomiting
ceedingly ill ; he said there was no cause. Can't remember he had taken place ; it was done in his presence. He afteriyards
.said any thing about the pills. Dr. Brown came about a quarter went dawn to the surgery with Mr. Gregory and several others
before eleven ; her mother came before hint; he had attended .to examine the slab ; we saw the remains of the bolus; the taste
her before. Mr. Ilialgson went for hint. was similar to that of the draught; it was of corrosive subli-
JuDGE—Ile came back with hint. mate; all the individuals present tasted it; the prisoner tasted it,
By Mr. A T.DEUSON—AIre Hodgson sent for him ; Mr. Ore- and acknowleged a similarity to corrosive sublimate; he did not
gory mite soon afterwards. She did not leave until half-past recollect the precise language the prisoner made use of ;he
ten o clock; she never, sat up with her ; the prisoner, she be. offered an explanation of the corrosive sublimate in the draught,
heves, knew she was coming ; she cant's say he was intoxicated, which it contained ; he requested that it might be destroyed ;
she could not see it. he saw the prisoner a good deal that evening; he thinks he
Mr. Po 1.1.00 K erotte.exitmined—She had been with her, and was sober.
sat tip three or four preceding nights; she had seen her before Cross-examined by Mr. POLLOCK—He said he had pre.
site sat up with her; she was confingd to her room and bed. pared an injection for a sailor, which consisted of twenty grains
—She was not there when the bolus was first brought up ; of corosive sublimate and four ounces of water; he told the
she did not see it. Mrs. Allison did not stay long after site sailor to mix the same in a quart of water; sixty drops go to a
came. Mr. Ih
eigson divided three or four pills in her presence; dram ; no man could Mistake six drams for two; but the bottle
he was by the bedside ; lie asked me for the bolus, and I held would not have attracted his attention unless he had taken it
the light whilst he divided it ; Mrs. Hodgson saw him divide out of his hand. lie compounded medicine in his youth ; he
it ; after site had taken them she complained of her throat and must have used powdered opium on the slab ; powdered opium
stomach. is the dried juce of the poppy. Rheumatics might produce
By the JuDor,This was on the Saturday ; she did not sit accute pain, but not burning ; calomel would produce sick.
up with her; she can't say if Mrs. Allison slept there; she be. ness but not burning; had she taken the six drains she must
lievee she never sat up with her daughter.
bins. Allison reculled by the have vomited. He was with her until four o'clock in the morn.
JDDOE—S;te never slept at her in ; nothing was to be said if Mrs. Hodgson recovered.—
daughter's house, nor ever sat up but once with her, before die There were three pints brought off the stomach, it contained
ht of the6th night had not got u bed, or else she would. no mercury.
g ; they .
-Matthew Finley recalled by the JunGE—lle cannot say the Re-examined by Mr. ALDEnsox—Tle conceives that the
exact time the prisoner came 'in ; he came down once before white of an egg would counteract the effecte of poison.
he went away ;he came clown to go home ;it was a little By the JUDGE—He understood she lied had calomel when he
due' tee o'clock; he saw the prisoner du nothing in the surgery; was first called in ; can't say if six grains ; 'might be four or
thereuwerdievdasupnioumot
hr
nr
tbhoettleoh.upof; 'the powder; there was no live; she was in a weak state; calomel is a powerful medicine,
p
there was hard opium in the but may be used with safety; half a grain would produce con.
drawer. siderable effect; its effects are different on some persons. Dr.
Margaret Kemp, examined by Mr. A atiEnsole—LShe lived Sydenbam (the, father of physic) had given it in dose of twenty
as servant to Mr. Hodgson on the 6th of June; bad been there grains; there was not sufficient to make an experiment on the
about 12 weeks; ahe slept in the kitchen up stairs, the other marble slab. She vomited soon after the white of an egg was
servant slept with tier; the child slept along with as ; she left given her ; the prisoner knew and had a stuaslcTpeihcneloonntahbeoatt the
eight weeks ago; one 11pin-entice salept in the shop and the medicine that had been given her; he did not suspect the
experimentituPes".
other athome ; he called ber down to make the shop bed be- sonar to be guilty of any design on his wife's life or he wo-urlid.
' from The
prisonerSunderland. wes
tween dine and ten o'clock that night; Finley was in the sir.
(nbolyt ltinaovrensizahireiwdornwanis
gery ; he told him to go away.
By the JUDGE—It was then near ten o'clock; she saw it on produced white and gold in the anitlysation. Dr. Swan the stairs: it was half-past nine when she, had to make the sent for to bleed her. Witness never bled her but once,
_was
bed ; she had not been down long before Mr. Hodgson desired then no blood came. i
Dr. Swan declined to do t, and he (wit.
him to sleep at home; her master went up stairs and she left ness) opened a vein. The prisoner was anxious, and desired
the-shop ; she did not return again ; she did not see him do me to fetch him; she was out of danger on the Wednesday.
any Omit in the shop; • site saw , him standing near the marble Mr. Gregory examined by Mr. Bnouoiram, whose tea' ti. slab ; she saw him with a paper and a bolus mit ; she did not mony went principally to the analization of the medicine given
see any thing on the stone, nor any instruntent ; she saw the by the prisoner to his wife, and which he said Mr. Henry Og-
glass to mix in about the middle of the counter ; she was a dleliiietphae yetrainger, of
idle uaker persuasion, had performed.
were
Cross-examined made.t
short distance off; Finlay was gone at that time ; there was a
A ma-rams—The analization was
by Ir. W
leteenarddlesteurnwafistgtoti;lteletep linwtil)te; siltiowperllitti-ortmtihrtretsisrsthatitnl isepsolkleenhatito
her about it; her master desired her to make the bed ; he was made in all of their presence; he is not an experimental she.
not sober ; he was drunk, but not very drunk. mist ; never had sect,such experiments before ; his knowledge
roomh n
culled that
Cross-eamnined by Mr. Poer.oca—Slie had been desired by is mined front books; it was a plain even marble slab; cloth
would.
her mistress to sleep there on aeomint of the heat of the wea. wouldiliir not rub at' the sediment on the stone, butt water would.
rgy;
iihot;ee itnhaesrterhawdasbeen
clay titer;
it'l,7truawainasiellist—udlep—woNuul(.l not take the multitudinous sea,
foirt wetrokvhei tleiensrheopinwitten
her clown; site could see what he did. .
Barnard Ogden the Elder—He is of the (baker persuasion;
By the Junon—Finlay watt in the shop; he remained in objects be —Ord
sworn. —Ordered to stand down.
the shop whin her master went upstairs; lshop the has two AlontoexaminationiiT then tookd place of Dr. Brown by Mr.
rooms, one door opens into the otter; there were two candles, Por.r.ocnc,Mr. BROUGHAM, as to the
one in the shop and the other in the bedroom ; it stood on the experiments male ALDEitSoN,
e°
each
' ; and a great deal of scientific knowledge was
counter; it was a mould candle; there was no lanthorn. The displayed b of the Learned Gentlemen as to the prin.
other servant had the care of the child ;he was very fond of doles of • ( 'aa vanic test upon the corrosive sublimate of mercury,
it ;he lived on very good terms with Mrs II d . - o gson as far as which would turn gold white, Sec (I)
.—r. Brown's examination
site could learn ; he appeared a kind holler and an affectionate alone lasted three hours and 40 minutes.)
husband. Mr. Watford examined by Mr.
B uouemaulle is a con.
Mr. A angnsoir—There Is a partition; her master was in stable, and arrested the • H ~
prisoner. e was going front *wider•
the surgery.land; when he infoimed him he' had a warrant
to,a,piiirehend
By the JUTIGE—The surgery was in the back part ; when him. He came with him very readily,
she came out he was going up stairs; he was not in her sight must comply with the request, Isuppose."
n said,
Fell,
I the whole time; he Was nut in eight of the slab when he was in Matthew Smith exalt-tined by ll a
the'bed.anom. clerk to the Magistrate. Wh i' r. —LDERSO 14 N---e was
at the prisoner said was not taken '
Agnes Thompson examined by Mr. Hnottairaer—She was down in writing.
in Alr. Ilodgeon's service last June; had lived there three The Ju DGE—rt l a ways ought to be signed by every prisoner
quarters of a yeare she was in her mistress's bed-room at night ; who is committed. Redid Brown wits there • Mr. Hodgson came in after; be By the J
brought three boluees; had not-seen them before ;he said Mrs.-
rprisonerwas in a state of intoxication at the time.
Bcagana was to take the med' • ;she said it
mine
ROUGIIAM—'Phis is our case, my Lord.
same ; he said it was ; he made it into pills, and gave her one .
; The JUDGE—NOW is the time, prisoner,
to speak, ifyou
she complained of her throat and stomach ; he said site must I
have thing to say in your defence.
keep it down, or she would have the same to take over ' again ; Preton ' er—Aly Counsel are in possession of the filets ; I there.
he then gave her the other two, one after the other ; she cried ' fore decline saying any thing.
out after she had taken them, and complained of her throat and Several gentlemen (addle in the medical profession) gave
stomach ; she cried more than before he gave her the draught;
she did not hear him say what it was for -it was standing to ins patients. Several ladies also bore testimony to his gene.
the drawers; it was in a tumbler glass ; after which she •on cried ral kindness to his wife whenever they had occasion to see them
out for her mother to be brought; she vomited a few minutes together.
after the draught • it was not until after Dr. Brown lied
some
water
_.lbeen Lite JUDGE to Mr. Wilson, who held the deed of settle.
there; it remained in a basin among
brought off her stomach ; she heard no person
gizrdiwreTte i she ment—They were married in Scotland, and afterwards re-
married in England ; the money was left by her uncle.
empty It; he was not willing that her mother should directions
to
Mr. Justice BAILEY then commenced his address to the
for, as he said alto would be better in half an hour; she desirede Jury, which lasted from half-past 5 o'clock till 20 minutes to O.
me to go fur lice mother; I then went towards die door, he
said
Ile told them that the offence which they had to try was
I had heifer stop a little; and he afterwards wentand'an
back Mrs. Allison. ' brought offence of an aggravated description, and one that required on
their part, an attention proportionate to its magnitude, and
[Daring this examination the prisoner, who was very re enormity. He therefore requested them, if ,any reports of the
spectably dressed in a blue coat, white waistcoat, and Nankin- -
.transaction had reached their ears before they entered the '
wit.

ness-box, to dismiss them from their minds, as thev were
bound to give their verdict upon the evidence which had been
submitted to them that day, and upon that evidence only. The
case required the more attention on their part, because in ctse
owfou
would
b convictionefeii
tnhoeb odp
prisoner.
sec
no
eurl.d doubt
Th
eLearned
thea
m ed
Judge consequencesthen Wstlaitie,ah
the nature of the indictment, and proceeded to comment on the
evidence which had been given in support of it. They
have observed, that in the course of the trial, a great
testimony had been submitted to them with regard to the
liquid solution in which the corrosive sublimate of mercury
was said to be found. Now, the mixing.of the corrosive
sublimate into that draught was not the subject of the present
charge, and had only been introduced into it to assist them in
judging whether in the pills, which were mentioned in the in-
dictment,. similar poison might not have been introduced by
the prisoner at the bar; for if .he had introduced it into the
liquid solution, it would lead them to suppose that he had also
introduced it into the pills, and it was with that view only that
- the evidence had been submitted to their Consideration.-
There was one piece of evidence given by Dr. Brown which
deal of
he considered to be very material to the prisoner; and that
was, that the time when this liquid was produced, was after
mistake—if mistake it were to be called, had been dis-
covered in the composition of the pills, and before any stes;
*Joh had entered into the mind of Dr. Brown that it had
been wilfully committed by the prisoner. ' Dr. Brown hoi-
told them, that if that liquid had been taken, it must in, all
probability have produced vomitings. Now, those vomittPlis
might have been saved, and if they had been saved, And nett
afterwards been analysed, they would have afforded proof to de-
monstration, whether there had been, or had not been.nPaisln-
ous liquid administered to the wife. If, therefore, lie in•
troduced the poison then 'into the draught,' he did it with $
certain knowledge that he must be detected, and must there-
fore have been deserted on the instant by all his usual presence
of mind. There Were three points which it WAS requisite for O.m_
to consider with regard to these pills—first, did they eo_t!ts7.,
corrosive sublimate, or any other poisonous matter ?—:4e-l't,
if they did, was that introduced into them by the prisoner. Iv t
thirdly, if it was introduced into -them by the prisontr, $$
it done so by accident or by design ? 1% ith regard to ihl,
first point, he thought there could be no doubt, consideprita
the evidence' which had been • given- by the differentinr":;„
men who bad been called as witnesses. With rams '''
second point, he would leave them to consider whether the 1'.,,,
son had been put in by the prisoner, and would tell thernf
decide upon that point from the evidence which had been 5,,_.:
upon it, and which lie. 'shortly 'repeated to them.
point, however, was the most important of all, and one which
deserved their most serious - consideration. - If they tho i,_l.
" and a
that the prisoner bad put it intuthe bolus, and put it in c
dent, and not knowing what he was about, then they must tend a
verdict of acquittal ; but if they thought that he had Pnt It ef
knowingly and by design, then they must find a verdict,r
guilty. IsT
—ow. in considering this latter point, it would beco :t
them to recollect, that if the prisoner had put it in by (1'42%,
Was an net most contrary to all his previous habits as a };tuna
man and an affectionate husband. 'rho act iinputed.to the It',
:toner was most diabolical, and was perfectly irreconcirahle vill'an'''
those feelings which every husband oughtte.have, soil whit' s
affectionate • husband must have. Therefore, all the evidence
which had been given to them of the terms on which tharis
lived with his.wife and also of the settlement which he mistid
on her of 1,200/., after his marriage with her in Scotland ole.
The tinlerl:
vested all her property absolutely in his hands, was- wen-thr,it
their most serious consideration when the were making up t'o,`
minds upon this point, whether he had mixed poison in t:' r
pills with the intention of their carrying off his wife, or whe.he ~.
if they contained noxious matter, he had put it in at all, or
it in unknowingly. The Learned Judge then comment
great length upon the evidence, and on corning to the past oft see
wife's testimony in which she expresied her belief that lie hitd
been deranged for the last six months, he observed' that this
the only evidence:which they had upon the point or, "v.;
rangement. Now, it they should be of opinion that theiT
sorter introduced poison into the pills, but was derangednt.Oe
time he did so, then they must acquit him • but in• that esss
the ground of their acquittal muss be placed the record,4
The prisoner would undoubtedly be entitled to an acquittal, on
the_ ground of insanity, if they thought that his insanity was
suffielently proved ; hut then, after that acquittal, he must re-
main in 'custody until the further - pleasure of his Alsief.'Y
should be known regarding him. After several other remark'
the Learned Judge left the case to the Jury, with a fell comic'
don -that their verdict would most satisfactorily meet the Put.
poses of -justice.
The Jury retired at twenty minutes to eight o'clock, to con;
steitlwerhoefeetleiehierrvgeerdaitcety.
wereAt flinvterunisitnedutenesmbeefionretengrttl:eanld3ooll
the Jury wished for pen, ink, and candle, to write a note to 117
itriii: ,eel
,aistandaueirduyp
,tieu
iltiai
fF;but tutu
tllteei:athtt allt
kie question
ey to
i
Lordship. •
Mr. Justice Bavt.Ev—Tell the Jury they had better ore
Court,n
dtb uw
ldti
communicatedicshortlyh they
asfiaenrwt=drreitilugrneu-i•
imhisthairdthse);l-Pw'oiuwldisirleatthrr
write a note to hii Lordship. --
The pen, ink, and candle were then sent off to them.
The Bailiff shortly afterwards entered the Court with A n°rc
from the Jury.
Mr. Justice 'BAYLEY—Let the Jury come into Court. ,
The Bailiff—My Lord, they say that they are not disposcu
to do so.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY- Tell them that"they must come into
Court, as I cannot give them any other than a verbal answer' .
gs should ut
to
d.
pees come
betweenint into
This message was communicated to the jury, and in)tile
diately afterwards they came into Court.
Mr. Justice Bar LEY—" Gentlemen of the Jury, it Iwo Ilhit.,
Court
the'ttr t Judge because
andn o
dcq,tui lyetosytuiwocniot with whichcheiiavei tyhoyat
tot you 1
alaevr
eeints •tci ;am fcilege
prisoner
dieu
introduced
rsao
tiwn diutchlv regardi
pthoughtoispatotittritt::
I had made myself sutheiendy clear regarding it: ‘ The Itr,;
ibto,lkunti,(ma,nindsn, oitt
t 0
00 liquid.
btehepoison,
.bu.' Itfatatthdeiesatnimlentitnhiaet
hitheiengbolliu:::
take your verdict of acquittal, and shall
state of mind in which his wife described him to be, -1 of a
o
on the record. There is little evidence, except die wife's:, ter
prove the derangement; but if that evidence is satisfacWth st
your minds, it is quite sufficient. lagain to you' -1
repeat . ~eodei-
t is the bolus which is the sub-
ject of your inquiry- ..'
men, you may now again retire." to
The Jury then retired. After they had
been absent for so
short time, • ptrhieva
jteucoryn.inktot
Mr Justice sent
. BAYLEY desired that they might be again ti,,e
for. On their arrival in Court, he tohl them that his 01,° the
for sending for them was this ;—Theas: was no evidence ol.ab;
prisoner's being in a state of mental derangement on the rtal
t oltknnunli and knowing wektithifneiottretui
ilyrei
in question. The- evidence rather went the other venY,',.. ho
place the grounit. i .'t
proved, that in the conversations which lie held up
perfectlyotal—cae-
gyt wiwtioo:uulaa;get well
l:
hn:
eeot
yitw
vablx itt;ase tfrl
about,
liable
a gbinoelueaatwi:nnoayts
al
be
about.:eetyll
ilibni,reluur cntsaydti
rl
tt
ilsg
uoefn
dri they
blettyyhi.irami,sseg
0., ri.:r
turd
:o hroer
vinced that the prisoner had mixed the poison intentionally,ty;
by derangement, he did not know what he was ;bout ntt:-,hen
After At2tlitemirinnuatteeseepialsetdnbineeeno'eaclollcedk teh,e,e'rJ,utrvh,,erirettu.errnemedarSrosrea
that their verdict was 14 Not Guilt y.,'
that
ppcation the
ot
erpt
at layinrinitout *
Mr. Justice BAYLEY then turned .1) the Jury, and:1°1111P
them as follows :—" Gentlemen of 'the Jury--I 'cal: Clog'
saying that, on examining all the circumstances of t ' Audon
the conclusion which you have come to, is also the eoneuls
which I should have come to.—[A slight clapping °',,,,eer $$
was heard in the Court.-I
—Silence. Nothing is so ittil)--„' juti
to express either approbation or disapprobation when :ha are
i!itnadelewrithgclyli,b(l,lto,mwa
return their verdict. It never ought to influence those -Au to
engaged in the administration of justice, and it, never °t11"
be practised by others who witness the exercise of it." a ~,
The Court, which had been crowded during the wtlc :14*
After the verdict of acti liend; the prasectt•
_,,,,
said that as they had failed in estab'ellisrieic:g the capital cl'Xis
stlineinatwettitirwliaealrini)lecessserotefdibts mllntsrelcsPliem"cjit`,),,r;s.
against the prisoner, they should not proceed to put hiim„(e,l,iii§t
trial on the bill of indictment, which hid been fount' tetra'
hint for the misdemeanor. A verdict of Not Guilty was t
fore taken upon that bill also. .

by the
•
to,sr
itithnet , it tlrto,
entertainmentth e
AIICIMUY.—With the excetion of the Fete given gii 451
Right Honourable the Earl of Bradford, on Neerrji;iiish
yearw,mthe largest meeting of the Shropshire Rx;;; tto
419,
instant,
that has yet been held took place on r riliconat*
coo-
aU )1
tende i tomes Kenon where every arrangement thatd /el
and coPittratbfillert
numerous guests had been •The ca•-•' et.
admirably made: „ootinge,lo
began to assemble about eleven o'clock, and -41 Is 0' si;
"neretts'
mg until we had counted the arrival of uP,,ht- nio7
lcarria'
bea tges, comptisitvg together a very great portion 0; -4.00 n 11,'
y, and fashion of the count an places adjacent- betel'
ter eleven at two ,_.iii
even, the shootin'.-the ‘i
'onfantlsr.i.°nArocfherethe a",,,,oniai,
commenced; lades, „tss ly",,
contested for the lung'sg prize, which was won by -"' ping
fp he re
Newcome • rt
...owe
prize, .
~ and the gentlemen, ut two butts also,
which was won by Capt. Greville. Both these 11;1 coo'
*very handsome ones of the kind • that for the niond.that
of necklace, car-rings, armlets, and brooch: tat, 01
isting
fore the gentlemen of a gold chain. About three o'e"rook 01
a°l,l?PanY, amounting to upwards of 200 persons! P° the
th,e
dinner consisting of almost every thing that could P, 001
,ejase ovr gratify the palate ; and the day, which upon to.e.;, io'
ry fine, was spent in the fi nious, fes''' '
delighetrui
manner.
.

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