The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-06 00:00:00

N OVEMBER 6, 1848.

IRELAND.

Shortly afterwards the High Sheriff was sent into the
jury room to inquire if there was any probability of the
jury agreeing, and on his return he stated that they
.vould be in court in five minutes.
At five minutes past five o'clock the jury again came
into the box, and the Foreman then ha.ided down the
issue paper.
The names of the jury having been called over,
The Clerk of the Crown read upon the issue paper,
Not guilty of the intents to depose the Queen or to
levy war."
Judge TORRENS —Hand back the issue paper to the
jury. If your verdict is " Not guilty," gentlemen, you
must strike all the other words, save those, out of the
finding.
The jury retired again. After a lapse of five minutes
they returned to their box.
Clerk of the Crown—Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed to your verdict ? Foreman—We have.
Clerk of the Crown—You say " Not Guilty."—( Ap-
p!ause in the gallery, which was immediately checked.)
SENTENCE UPON MR. KEVIN IZOD

DEATH OF THE LORD BISHOP OF DOWN.

-
DUBLIN, SAT U llDAY.—lntelligence reached town this
afternoon of the death of the Right Rev. Dr_ Mint,
Bishop of Dawn, Connor, and Dromore, which occurred
on Tuesday, at his residence near Belfast. This is one
of the bishoprics reserved
.by the Church Temporalities
Act, and the Government will of course have the ap-
pointment of the new bishop.
ACQUITTAL OF MR. WILLIAMS.
The trial of Mr. Williams terminated yesterday in the
acquittal of the accusel The jury, on three different
occasions, brought in a special verdict, that is to 85y
they found him guilty of publishing, but not guilty of
intent to depose the Qieen, and on three different occa-
:ions Mr. Justice Torrens refused to receive the verdict.

Ultimately, however, the jury brought in a general ver-
lict of " Not Guilty," and Mr. Williams escapd un-
scathed.

THE STATE PROSECUTIONS.
Yesterday tha Hon. Judges TORRENB and CRAMPTON
took their seats on the banch at ten o'clock precisely.
CRIAL OF MR. RICIIARD D'ALTON WILLIAMS.
At the sitting of the Court the above case was re-
sumed, and,
Sergeant O'BRIEN having replied on the part of the
Crown,

Judge TORRENS then proceeded to charge the jury, and
said that the evidence and the addresses of Counsel having
been closed, it now became his duty to call their atten-
tion to the several facts which had been established in
that case by evidence, and to draw their attention also to

the law as bearing upon those facts. The present was an
indictment brought under a statute which had been

passed, in consequence of the state of public affairs, for
the better security of the realm; and it contained two
charges, in reference to both of which evidence was

supplied by the articles in question. The only effect of
the statute upon the law as it previously stood with
respect to charges of the description now made, was to
mitigate the punishment affixed to them. He would call
their attention to what one,of
.the moat Learned Judges

of ancient times had laid down in explaining what
was the nature of compassing the death of the Sove-
reign, or his deposition from Sovereign power, and of
compassing the levying of war against that power. Sir
Michael Foster had laid down that " every insurrection
which, in the judgment of the law, is intended against
the person of the King, either to dethrone him, or oblige
him to alter his measures of government, these risings
all amount to the levying of war within the statute,
whether they are attended with the pomp and circum-
stance of war or not. All risings, in order to effect in-
novations of a public character, or of general concern, by
armed force, are in the construction of the law high
treason, within the clau4e of levying war; for although
they are not levelled against the person of the King, they
are against his royal majesty, and have besides a direct
tendency to dissolve the bonds of society, to destroy all
property, and to imperil society itself. Insurrections,
likewise, for redressing national grievances, or for the
reform of real or imaginary evils of a public nature, in
which the insurgents have no special interest—all risings
to effect those ends by force and numbers are, by con-
, struction of law, cases of levying war, for they are levelled
against the King's crown and royal dignity." The ex-
pressions in the Act, of " style, honour, and royal name,
did not refer to a design to deprive the Queen of any one
particular title, but were pointed at intentions which
would affect her crown and dignity as Sovereign of
the realm," of which should she be deprived her royal
style and dignity would of course fall to the ground. ,
The Learned Judge then commented at considerable I
length on the articles which were the subject of the
indictment, after which he adverted to the case sought
to be made to exempt the prisoner from responsibility
for the sentiments contained in the publications. It
had been contended that he was ignorant of the publica-
tions from the Ist to the Bth of July. He was respon-
sible for them if his case were not comprehended under
the exemptions specified in those words of Lord Tenter-
den: " I tell you to-day, as I thought myself bound to
tell you yesterday, that the proprietor of a newspaper
is criminally answerable for what appears in it. Ido
not mean to say that some possible cases may not occur
in which the proprietor may be exempted from liability;
but generally speaking he is liable." Ile concluded by
consigning the case to the jury, and stating, in the words
of an eminent judge who had been frequently named,
that if on the whole of the evidence they should be sa-
tisfied in their consciences that the prisoner had enter-
tained the designs of deposing her Majesty, and of levy-
ing war against her, they should discharge the painful
duty of pronouncing a verdict of guilty; but that if
their minds should not be satisfied that he entertained
those criminal purposes, they should discharge the more
pleasant duty of acquitting the prisoner.
The jury then retired to their room, at a quarter past
two o'clock.
THE CASE OF MR. CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY.
Mr. BUTT, Q.C., said that perhaps the Court would
•xcuee him for applying to know what course was in-
tended to be taken with regard to Mr. Duffy. Mr.
Duffy had been in gaol since) the month of July last.
A bill of indictment was found against him at the last
Commission, on which occasion ha prayed that he might
be tried, but the Attorney-General postponed his trial ;
and he was now in the city gaol, without any bill of in-
dictment having been found against him in the city. He
(Mr. Batt) apprehended that, were it not that an indict-
ment had been found against Mr. Duffy in the county
during the present Commission, ho (Mr. Butt) would be
entitled to ask the Court to discharge him. He (Mr.
Butt) did not disguise the fact that the circumstances of
the case might render another course necessary, but he
would submit to the Court that under their jurisdiction
as commissioners of gaol delivery some order ought to
be made with regard to the prisoners.
Judge TORRENS—There must be some order made.
Mr. BUTT—What I ask for, in point of form, is, that
looking at the case of Mr. Duffy with respect to what is
against him in the city, he be entitled to be discharged
at the close of the Commission.

Judge TORRENS—What do you propose to do,
,Mr.
Attorney-General ?
ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Matt respectfully submit is
this :—A bill was found against Mr. Duffy at the last
Commission, and another bill has been since found against
him at the present Commission, which is not exactly the
same as the last, some new matter being contained in it.
I submit that there are quite sufficient grounds now for
leaving Mr. Duffy in the custody which he is in at pre-
sent, and he is now in lawful custody. He was arrested
under a warrant issued upon informations which were
returned, in point of fact, to the city jurisdiction. Your
Lordships will recollect that under the statute we shall
have an opportunity, as scon as an adjournment of the
Commission shall have taken placo, and when we shall
have ascertained who the judges of the ensuing Commis-
sion will be, of applying to them to change the custody
of Mr. Duffy; and we will then taka care to make the
application in sufficient time to have the ten days' notice
given which is required under the statute.
, Judge CRAMPTON— I cannot see any objection to
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changing the custody now.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL-It appears by affidavit, my
Lord, that an attempt to rescue Mr. Duffy was contem-
plated recently; and, therefore, some little caution would
be required, as far us he is concerned, in changing the
custody.
Sir COLMAN O'LoGULEN-It is usual for the Judges
of assize to admit parties to bail, who have been in gaol
during two successive assizes waiting for their trial.
Judge CRAMPTON—I can see no objection to that
being done in a proper case.
Judge TORRENS —lt is all a matter of discretion.
There is no imperative rule binding the Court to any
particular course of proceeding under circumstances such
as those of the present case. It would be very bad for
the public if there was. I leave the prisoner to be dealt
with by the Attorney-General.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL-I will leave him just where he
is for the present.—(A laugh.)
THE QUEEN v. R. D. WILLIAMS.
Mr. FERGUSON handed in an objection to the charge
which had been delivered by Judge Toirens in this case,
founded on the manner in which his Lordship had di-
rected the jury with regard to the weight which they
were to attach to the statuteable proof of publication.
Some discussion took place on the subject between the
Court, Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Butt as anticus

THE VERDICT.
At half-past four o'clock the jury came into their box,
bringing the issue paper with them, which the foreman
handed to the Clerk of the Crown.
Clerk of the Crown (reading the issue paper)—You
say the prisoner is guilty of being the publisher of the
newspaper in question, but not guilty of the intent to
depose the Queen or to levy war ?
Foreman—That is our verdict.
Mr. FERGUSON—That is a verdict of not guilty.
Judge TOREENS—Gentleman, the issue sent to you
to try was as to the intentions of the prisoner, the facti of
publication by him of the articles in question having
been already established. If you are of opinion that
the prisoner did not entertain the intentions so fre-
quently put to yon as inferences from the articles, you
are to say " Not Guilty." If you think otherwise, you
are to say "Guilty." Your present verdict is incon-
sistent in its members. Perhaps you had better retire.
The issue paper was then handed up to the jury, who
retired to their room.
Shortly afterwards they came out again, and
The Foreman said—My Lord, the jury cannot agree
to any other verdict than that which they have already
brought in.
Mr. Feaausort —Then I pray your Lordships to re-
ceive that verdict.
Judge TORRENS—The Court will not receive that
verdict. If the Court has not thoroughly explained to
the jury anything which it is necessary that they should
understand, they will be kind enough to say so. The
charge against the prisoner is, that he published those
articles with the intentions ascribed to him in the indict-
ment. If you are of opinion that he published the news-
papers in quntion, without having those intentions, you
ought to say " Not guilty." If you are of opilsion that
he published them with those intentions, you ought to
say ",Guilty." It is late now, and we have had a very ex-
hausting day, so go to your rooms and return your ver-
dict one way or another.
Sir COLMAN O'LOGIILEN submitted that the Court
were bound to take the verdict in the way in which the
jury had brought it in. It was a clear principle of law
that ajury had a right to return a special verdict.

O'DOHERTY.
Mr. Kevin Izod O'Doherty was then placed at the bar.
Judge CRAMPTON, addressing the prisoner, said—
Kevin Izod O'Doherty, you were indicted for compass-
ing to depose her Majesty the Queen, and also for com-
passing to levy war against her in order by force and
constraint to compel her to change her measures. You
have been acquitted on all the counts charging the former
intent; and you have been found guilty of compassing to
levy war against her Majesty, to compel her by force and
constraint to change her measures. Your crime is one
which is founded on a statute passed so lately as the 22d
of April, 1848. Before that statute your crime in Eng-
land would have been high treason—in Ireland it would
have been, at least, a high misdemeanour; but in either
country, before the passing of that statute and after it
your crime was one of great enormity. It is a felony ac-
cording to the enactment to which I have just referred.
Now, of that felony you have been found guilty by a jury
of your country, and I must add, upon evidence suffi-
cgat not only to satisfy the requirement of the law, but
also to satisfy the mind of every impartial person who
heard the trial. You were connected, I think it ap-
pears in evidence, -with the medical profession, and you
seem to have abandoned that honourable walk of life for
the purpose of becoming a politician and a journalist.
You became the proprietor and publisher of a newspaper
called the Irish Tribune, and it is for the publication of
that journal that you now stand, I am sorry to say, a
convicted felon in that dock. ,Your offence is emphati-
cally an offence of intention. Now, what was that in-
tention? As found by 3 our jury, it was an intention to
raise an insurrection against the Government of the
kingdom, to embark the masses of the country in a civil
war, with all its attendant horrors; and your own view
was, no doubt, to bring about a revolution, and to es-
tablish a republic in Ireland. You might have known,
by exercising the powers of ordinary understanding—
and perhaps yours may be a superior one—the power of
" the enemy, as in your publication you denominated
the British Crown and Government. You might have
known that you were engaging—to use again your own
language—in a life and death struggle with the Crown
and Government of the United Kingdom; that your
object could have been attained only by the total
destruction and defeat of the British army, and that to
reach that point you must have waded through seas of
blood—in a word, that confiscation and spoliation of
public and private property, murder, and treason, must
have been the means used for the achievement of your
desperate designs. Oh ! had you reflected on the steps
of blood and crime which your purpose would have re-
quired you to tread—bad you considered how many
lives must have been sacrificed—how many widows
and orphans you must have made, and what a vast
amount of misery your undertaking must have involved,
surely your conscience, if not soared, or blinded, or
carried away by the contagion of that revolutionary
frenzy which seized on so many minds on the conti-
nent, would have revolted from such an awful responsi-
bility. Again, had you succeeded in your desperate
enterprise, the scenes lately enacted, and now enacting,
in the neighbouring countries might have taught you
how futile and disastrous, hew utterly disap-
pointing to all your hopes, must have been the
result. But you may be under the impression
—as I am afraid many others are—that the guilt of
such a disloyal and desperate enterprise is miti-
gated, if not removed, by the consideration that your
offence may be called a political offence. Let
no man be deceived on this subject. Be not misled
by specious, sounding words. Robbery, assas-
sination, and murder, are not the less robbery, assasina-
tion, and murder, because they are resorted to for
political purposes. The difference is only in the end to
be achieved, and whether that end be merely personal
and private, to gratify malice, or to satisfy the lust of
gain, or whether to involve the supposed rights and
interests of classes or of multitudes, the substantial
character of the crime remains the same. The assassin
who murderously takes away the life of an individual
because he considers him to be a tyrant or an enemy to
liberty, is still an assassin. The robber of the public
treasury is as much a robber as the man who robs from
the private chest. The difference is only between crime
on a small and crime on a grand scale—between spolia-
tion and murder. Such is the doctrine that the laws of
all civilised states teach us, which pronounce high trea-
son to be the greatest of crimes ; and such is the sen-
tence of every sound moralist, and such is only the
doctrine inculcated by the precepts of our Divine Re-
deemer and the apostles. You have no doubt counted
the cost of your disloyal undertaking. You had before
yoyethe example and the fate of unhappy John Mitchel;
and that misguided individual, in one of your publications,
you hold up ail a model fur the imitation, of the youth of
Ireland. And treading in his steps you deliberately defied
the law. You compassed the overthrow of the Crown
and constitution of the realm. In your desperate pur-
pose, happily for yourself and your country, you failed, •
and you have now to abide the penalty of the law. I
grieve—l do lament indeed—to see a person of your edu-
cation, character, and condition in life, placed in the
painful position in which you now stand. That position,
I must say again, is the result of your own voluntary and
deliberate acts. But, painful as the duty is, the Court
has a solemn and stern duty to discharge, and it must be
done. The intelligent and respectable jury who found
you guilty have recommended you to mercy, on the
ground of your youth, and on the ground of the excite-
ment which existed in tho public mind at the time when
your pernicious publications issued from the Tribune.
But, much as we desire to yield to the recommendation
of the jury—and we always pay the greatest attention to
such recommendations—yet in this instance we can
follow it but in a qualified manner. What was it,
let me ask, that caused the excitement truly stated
in the recommendation of the jury ? Was it
not the long-continued preparation and training,
and poisoning of the public mind, under the name
of constitutional agitation, which croated this ex-
citement? And was not the press—a portion of the
press—the chief instrument in the creation of that
agitation ? and I fear lonust add, that I have never read
any publication more dangerously wicked and clearly
designed to excite rebellion and revolution than those
publications which have emanated from you, and which
you have been ,ascertained by the verdict of your jury
to be the guilty publisher. Under these circumstances
the Court is called upon to pronounce on you the sen-
tence of transportation for ten years.
Mr. O'Doherty said, may I be permitted to say a few
words, my Lord.
Judge CRAMPTON—Certainly.
Mr. O'Doherty—l can say, with perfect truth, that I
had but ono object in view. I did feel deeply for the
sufferings of my fellow-countrymen, and I desired, I
confess, by all means consistent with a manly and
honourable resistance, to put an end to that suffering. It
is very true, and I will confess it, that I desired an open
)sistance of the people to the Government, which, in my
judgment, entailed those sufferings on them. I used the
MILDRED VERNON.—This novel continues to excite
ticles brought forward against me,
terms "honourable resistance" in order that I might re-
fer in terms of the strongest disapproval to one of the ur-
ic which the writer of great attention. The following pertinent remarks are
it made a suggestion of throwing burning hoops on the from the New Monthly
:—" As a picture of P
Mildred Vernon' possesses unbounded intearreissitafnor life,
soldiery. I never saw that article, nor did I know
anything about it until I read it in the newspaper ; and those who have resided in the French capital, and who
I did not bring the only person who could prove that
are thereby enabled fully to appreciate the very' remark-
fact on the table, because he was the writer of the ar- able observative and descriptive powers of the writer.
y
tide, and I knew that in doing so I would only be at The various characters arc hit off
with
ness, and those (by far the greater ponirtitstne)
rl
which
clever-
your Court-house doors handing him over to the law.
With respect to myself,
Be I trust I shall be able to bear taken from living models, are daguerreotyped with the
the sentence of the jury with all the forbearance due to minutest accuracy. the originals French or English,
what I believe to be the punishment of twelve conscien- there is no mistaking them. Rarely have the drawing-
tious enemies to me, and to endure the wrath of the Go- room mysteries of la vie Porisienne been so graphically
vernment, whose mouth-piece they were, with all due anatomized as in this clever work—its lively and spark-
patience. But I will never cease to deplore the unhappy ling pages transport us from the salons of the Faubourg
destiny which gave me birth in this wretched country, St. Germain to those of the Chaussei d'Antin, from the
anel oompelled me, an Irishman, to take my stand in the impenetrable strongholds of legitimacy, to the gayland
dock,disand receive at your hands a felon's doom, for gaudy show-rooms of the parvenue. Viewed merely in
charging what I conceived, and still conceive, to be the light of an amusing and interestingnovel,; Mildred
my duty to my country. Here Mr. O'Doherty was Vernon' has every claim;to great and lasting popularity,
about to retire from the bar when he stopped and added while, as a faithful record of the state of Parisian so-
-There were inquiries made by my friends with respect ciety under Louis Philippe it is invaluable."—New
to thelmatter of fact to which I before alluded ; and in Monthly.
consequence I had felt it my duty to do justice to myself SINGULAR AND AMUSING ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.
as well as to my Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen. —On Saturday week, a man named Freeman, being at
The names of the jurors who were struck off are men- Lydbrook, paid a visit to Monmouth with a friend, and it
tioned in this papsr, and instead of three I find that there was late at night before they separated, when each took
are ----, a different route home. Freeman never having visited
Judge CRAMPTON—That is a matter unconnected with Monmouth before, took the wrong turning in the road;
the proceedings. when he reached the turnpike, on the Dixton-read, be-
The prisoner then withdrew from the dock. ing surcharged and fond of "heavy wet," he walked into
THE CASE OF MR. DUFFY. the river, which, flowing rapidly, from the late extensive
Mr. BUTT said, that as he presumed the business of rains, proved 'either too powerful for the weak and totter-
the Commission was now drawing to a close, he thought ing condition of Freeman's frame. The most extraordi-
that the proper time to ask what course the Attorney- nary and singular part of the affair is his escape. There
General intended to take with regard to Mr. Charles were some poachers carrying on their nocturnal &pre-
Gavan Duffy. He was now in the city gaol without any dations in the river, and hearing a splash, and rejoicing
indictment being found against him there. He would at the sound, thinking it was some fine salmon wagging
respectfully submit, that under their Lordships general his tail, they immediately spread and threw out their net,
jurisdiction, some order should be made with respect to when after considerable exertion in hauling and sundry
Mr. Duffy, Rnd he submitted that he should be discharged givings away in the net, they beheld to their great sur-
by proclamation. , prisa that they were the fishers of a man, possessing
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL submitted that there was warmth and vitality. He was speedily removed by them
quite enough at present to demand that Mr. Duffy to Monmouth, and soon recovered. This circumstance
should be kept in custody where he was. As soon as a must prove a lesson to Freeman, and it is hoped prevent
day was fixed for the next Commission, and that they his beirg again caught in such a net, by a Bacchanalian
knew who were the judges named fur it, they could make draught.— Bristol Times.
an application to them to change the custody, or to a The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne have
judge of the Queen's Bench. entertained a distinguished circle of visitors during the
The COURT then inquired if there were any other past week at Bowood. Lord and Lady Lilford, and the
prisoners in custody who had not been sentenced? t Right Hon. R. Vernon and Mrs. Smith, left there on
Mr. Bourne (Deputy-Governor) replied that there were Taursday.
only Mr. Williams and Mr. Charles Gann Duffy.

• Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, attended by
Baroness Bose ani Mr. Edmond ➢lildmay, took their
departure from the Castle yesterday morning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accom-
panied by her Serene Highness the Princess Amelie
of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst; arrived from her resi-
dence Frogmore House, previous to their- Royal
.Highness's departure, and, took leave of the Royal
Duke and Duchess.
The Princess Atnelie of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst
arrived at; Progmare House on Friday evening, on a
visit,to [he Duchess of Kent.

The Earl of Auckland left the Castle yesterday
morning.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert walked
in the royal pleasure grounds, morning and after-
noon. The Royal Children took their usual airings
yesterday.
The Rev. Dr. Philpott arrived yesterday at the
Castle, on a visit to her Majesty.
The Queen's Private Band performed the following
pieces on Friday evening :
Overture, " Jean de Paris" (Ist time) Boildieu.
Quartetto Solo (Op. 61) in B minor;
Violin, M. Sainton ; Violin, Viola,
and Violoncello, Messrs. Cusins,
and H. Chipp
Finale, Ist Act " Zauberflote" Mozart.

Yesterday evening the royal dinner party at the
Castle included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Princess of
Hohenlohe Langenburg, and the Princess Eliza, her
Serene Highness the Princess Amelie of Hohenlohe
Schillingsfurst, Baroness de Speth, Sir James Clark,
Rev. Dr. Philpott, and Captain Francis Seymour. •
Her Majesty's private band attended in the Castle
yesterday evening and performed the following
pieces :
Sinfonia
Movement from Harpsichord Lessons Handel.
Seelenspiegel Walzer . .

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at-
tended by Mr. Edmond Mildmay, arrived in town on
Saturday from 'Windsor Castle.

Their-Royal, Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary, attended by the Baroness
Bose, returned to Kew on Saturday.
The Earl of Auckland arrived in town on Saturday.
Dispatches were received on Saturday, at the Colo-
nial Office, from the Governor of Gibraltar.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, Nov. 5.
DEATH OF MISS TRICHITT.—The report of a young
woman, having been found dead on the beach, about two
miles to the westward of Cowes, on Friday morning,
caused considerable sensation. The person was un-
known, and the cause of death uncertain ; she appeared
to have only been dead a few hours, and that at no time
of the tide there could have been above two feet water
where the body was found. She had no money in her
pockets nor any papers. Oa the coroner for the island
receiving this information he directed a jury to be sum-
moned to inquire into the cause of the death, and this
not as in common cases of bodies found drowned, when
the jurors are summoned from the persons residing on
the spot (from the farms and cottages); in this it stance
the vi hole were summoned from the town, though at a
distance. The body was placed in a house at Rue-street,
and the inquest was held there on Saturday mowing.
The first witness was the father of the unfortunate de-
ceased, Mr. Mathew Trickett, formerly a large farmer in
the island, who stated that her name was Harriet Wil-
kinson Trickett, and that she was in her eighteenth year.
He had not seen her since the Wednesday previous. A
labourer deposed to having found the body on the
beach just below high water mark. He got assistance,
and had it removed ; then sent to the preventa-
tive station. The dress was covered with mud and clay.
her hands tightly grasped the shingle and sand. Her
face was in the full bloom of health, only redder than
when alive. Two witnesses proved having seen the de-
ceased pass, one by Duke's, the other by Rue Farm, to-
wards the shore, on Thursday, about one o'clock ; she
was alone, walking slowly. They remarked nothing
particular in her appearance. The road was the direct
one from her own to her uncle's house. An officer of
high rank and standing in the navy, her brother, and
one of her sisters, were also examined, by which it ap-
peared they lived at New Village, near Newport. The
sister stated that she had heard high words between her
sisters, Eleanor and Harriet, that soon after the deceased
came into her room; she was greatly agitated, asked for
some water, and said her mamma had tainted. She left
with the water for her parent, and she had not seen her
since. This was about eleven o'clock on Wednesday
morning. The poor young creature seemed to have left
the house immediately, and proceeded towards her uncle's
residence, where she had been staying with her mother
about six months some time back, and had left with much
regret. She must have reached the neighbourhood soon
after one o'clock, but instead of turning to the right and
crossing Gurnet Marsh to her uncle's house, she turned
to the left along the shore. Perhaps being only in her
morning dress, she did not like to be seen, and strayed
till evening unnoticed under the cliffs; but before she
turned to her uncle's, might have sunk in:the,clay, might
have fainted, fallen in a fit or from fatigue, and the rising.
tide robbed her of life; or she might have thrown herself.
into it in despair. There appeared no footsteps but her
own on the beach, nor any marks of violence on the body.
The jury returned a verdiet of " Found drowned,', there
being no evidence to prove either that she had destroyed
herself, or that her death had been the result of accident.
The flushed face would favour the latter conclusion.
Why she was forced into such a perilous situation is
another matter, and one which we hope those concerned
can explain to their consciences. f.3he is described to us
as a fine, high-minded, amiable girl, and had she for-
-1 tunately sought the shelter of her uncle's roof, we are
certain that the old sailor would have given her a hearty
welcome.