The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-06 00:00:00

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no. innoernee :en riesndaltut meant, had phiaderogl
her of her property, end, as a last set al infamy, had stigges, )to her the act of self-destruction. Of the draughts or thy, -
poison paper he would say nothinwat- present, butshould-dbiCt
that the prisoner should be taken care of until some eommuni-
cation should be had from her friends.
The pri,oner here begged that in any communication with
her father the circumstances about the poison might be
omitted, as her father would, she was sure, at once proceed bj
action against Mr. Bartram and seriously injure him. The
prisoner, vho it should be stated had given up the name of
Bertram with great reluctance, was given up fur the present
to the care of one of the summoning officers.

THE FATAL DUEL A T GOSPORT.
INQUEST CONTINUED.
PORTSMOUTfI, THURSDAY.—The inquest on the body of Mr.
Seton was resumed yesterday after our report left.
Andrew Rogers Savage. Lieutenant and Acting-Adjutant of the
Royal Marine Artillery, deposed, that he is a subscriber to the
King's Rooms, of which Mr. Hollingsworth is the proprietor. Wit.
tie, acted as steward, and was presr nt at the rooms on Monday,
the I eth of May last. Knew the deceased Mr. Seton, who was
present on that occasion. Knew Lieut. Hawkey, who was also
paesent. Mrs. Hawkey was also present. Knew Mr. ItowlN, Mr.
Mauginn, and Lieut. P!m, who were also present. Ido net know
upon what Senn. Mr. Hawkey and Mr. Scion were on that evening.
I was not a witness to any quarrel between them. Ido not know
upon what terms Mr. Hawkey and Mr. Seton were on that evening.
I was not a witness to any quarrel between them. I did not know
that they retired from the bali.room. I took Mr. Hawkey out of
the ball-room in consequence of what Mr. Rowles said to me when
in the card-room. I told Mr. Hawkey that Mr. Rowles had in-
formed me that he (Mr. Hawkey) had called Mr. Seton a black.
guard and a scoundrel, and Mr. Rowles had wished me to sieve
him my advice upon the subject, and to know whether I would
advise him to refer it to his commanding officer, Colonel Jones, or
not. I told him I would not mix myself up with his affairs. I
was then asked, as I errs steward of the rooms, whether I would
speak to Mr. Hawkey upon the subject. I said I had no
objection, as steward of the room, to do so. Mr. Hawkey, in re-
ply, told me the business could not be arranged there ; that he had
received an injury, not an insult. This is the substance of the
conversation I had with Mr. Hawkey. After that conversation I
did not see Mr. Seton or Mr. Hawkey, and left the rooms before
the soiree terminated. I was alone with Mr. Hawkey when the
above conversation took place. Mr. Hawkey also stated to me
that Mr. Seton had refused to meet him, as " light cavalry never
meet infantry." I saw Mr. Hawkey the next morning about nine
o'clock ; he told me Mr. Rowles had been to him to arrange a
meeting between him and Mr. Seton, which I understood to be a
hostile meeting. He told me he was then going to look fisr
pistols, and then we parted. I did not see him again. I observed
Mr. Seton dance twice with Mrs. Hawkey. I did not make any
report to Colonel Jones of the fact that there was likely to be a
breach of the peace.
Mr. Jenkins, surgeon, of High-street, Gosport, deposed—On
the evening of Tuesday, the 20th of May last, a car-
riage stopped at my door, conveying a messenger, who
requested to see me. I inquired his business with me, when
lie stated that illy esta.
attendance was. required at Brehm..-.:v.,...-
down, where a--gentleman was bleeding to death. On
my road to Brown down I was stopped in the bay in comae.
quence of seeing some persons looking out for me, as I supposed,
near Dr. Burney's cottage, Stokes-bay. On walking a little dis-
tance, 1 observed a small boat pulling in shore, and signalling me
to walk in that direction. I went to the boat and was requested to
go on board a small yacht lying off When I got on board the
yacht I found Mr. Seton, the deceased, lying on his back on a hoard.
Some gentlemen were on board with deceased whom I did not
know, nor do I now. I found Mr. Seton In a state of excretal*
weakness, and faintness from loss of blood. The gentlemen were
endeavouring to keep him up by throwing water on his face. The
pulse was scarcely perceptible. They had put a strong ligature round
the thigh, binding both extremities of the wound, especially
the outer. The bleeding had quite stopped through faintness.
I did not at that time remove the ligature from and examine
the wound ; the yacht was so small, and as the bleeding was
stopped, I thought it impolitic to remove the ligature. I adminis-
tered a little brandy and water, and the yacht sailed on. The gen..
tlemen on board expressed the greatest desire that the patient should
be taken to Haslar. [Witness here stated that as the patient was
refused admittance to Haslar, not being a naval officer, they tarried
him to the Quebec Hotel, Portsmouth.] I had him immediately
undressed and placed in bed. Soon after Dr. Mortimer came. I
then took off the bandages and inspected the wound, which was
just above the bone of the great trochanter, and was, I have no
doubt, caused by a pistol ball. The wound commenced on the right
hip passing across the lower part of the belly, and through the walls
of the belly, the cavity of which it did not enter. The ball passed out
of the left groin. There was a very considerable degree of swelling,
extravasation of fluid in the right groin and scrotum. The ball
entered on the right side. There was no bleeding at that tittle.
By half-past 10 o'clock the circulation was sufficiently established
to satisfy me that the patient was doing well, and to enable me to
leave him with safety. There was no bleeding at the wound at
that time, nor up to the time of the nperation performed by Mr.
Liston. I visited him daily. The next day the temperature of
the skin was completely restored ; a reaction had taken phiess I
considered the deceased to be in a very dangerous state from
the beginning from the large quantity of blood he had loot
previous to my seeing him. It was arterial blood, which
led me to suspect that some artery of importance was
wounded. Deceased was going on pretty fairly up
to the Tuesday following, the 27th inst., when we
discovered a pulsation In a tumour which had formed in the groin,
and which hal not existed before that visit. We (Drs. Stewart,
Mortimer, and myself) consulted together respecting the treatment
to be adopted, and we arrived at the conclusion that an artery of
considerable magnitude had been injured, and determined that
since It was possible that such a degree of bleeding might corn*
on as might destroy the patient's life at once, it was necessary to
cut off the supply of blood from the limb, to tie a large artery above
the seat of the injury—the external iliac artery. I considered the
more time that elapsed the greater the propability of sudden
danger. We then communicated the state of the case to the
patient, and told him that an operation was necessary, and that
the operation was a serious one, when he (deceased) expreeeed
his willingness so submit to any operation deemed necessary in his
position. Mr. Liston arrived from town on Friday evening, the
30th ult., when we immediately consulted; the result of whiter
was, that the operation of tying the external iliac artery was re-
solved upon, but Mr. Liston was of opinion that there was no oc-
casion for any immediate hurry. He then lett the patient, and we
met again at eight o'clock the next morning, when the operation
was performed (in the presence of ourselves, and Mr. Sampson and
Mr. Potter, surgeons, from London) by Mr. Liston, with the ut-
most skill and judgment, but was attended with unusual difficulty
from the fatness of the patient. The deceased suffered a great deal
the night after the operation. I considered him in great danger
from the first time I visited him; but the performance of the ope-
ration rendered it necessary that two or three weeks should pass
away before we could give a decided opinion with regard to the
patient's recovery. He died the next day (Monday). I am not
prepared to say that the operation performed by Mr. Liston killed
deceased, as I have not examined the body since death.
By Mr. Field—Death would have been the inevitable cense.
quence had the operation not taken place.
James Allan, M.D., deputy medical inspector, and first surgeen
of Hasler Hospital, sworn—l made a post mortem examination of
the body of the late James Alexander Seton, in consequence of an
order I received from the Coroner. I made the examination yes-
terday at three o'clock. I found three wounds, one upon the upper
part of the right hip, another upon the opposite groin, and the
third in the position in which it is usual to perform the operation
of tying up the external iliac artery; the latter was an incised
wound about six inches in length. I traced the wound from
the right hip to the left groin, and found an effusion el
coagulated blood, which had caused a tumour en the right
side of the pubes, and which extended down into the scrotum.
I think the operation performed by Mr. Liston was absolutely ne-
cessary, under the circumstances of the aneurism and tumour ex-
isting. My decided opinion is that deceased died of peritoneal In-
flammation following the operation,
It being half past nine o'clock, the inquest was adjourned until
two o'clock on Thursday.
THURSDAY.—At two o'clock the jury assembled, and very soon
proceeded to the examination of the witnesses, the number of whom
appear to be daily increasing in such progression, that the inquiry
cannot possibly terminate for some days.
The Coroner issued his warrant for the burial of the body of
Mr. Seton last night, and the interment will take place at
Fordingbridge, Hants, in the family vault, on Tuesday next. The
remains were removed to the late residence of the deceased,
Queen's-terrace, Southsea, this morning.
Lieutenant Hawkey and the seconds have net been heard of up
to the present time.
Dr. John Mortimer, M.D., was the first witness examined to.
day. He gave his residence as Upper South-street, Gosport. He
said—l did not know the deceased until I saw him wounded. On
Tuesday evening, the 20th of May, I received a message from Mr.
Jenkins, requesting I would meet him at the Quebec Hotel, to visit
a gentleman who had been wounded at Brown-down. I proceeded
thither immediately, and on my arrival found that he had been
landed from a vessel a few minutes before. I had never seen him
before, but he was the deceased, James Alexander Seton. In con-
sequence of his having been placed on a bier for the more easy
transition from the vessel, and it being too wide to admit of his
being carried at once into the bedroom, I saw him at the top of the
stairs, and found, from the shock given to his whole frame, partly by
the influence ofthe wound he had received and the supposed bleeding
that had supervened, he was in a state of great bodily prostration.
Mr. Jenkins and myself assisted in carrying Mr. Seton and placing
him on the bed in which he died. There was no bleeding, but the
cellary texture was loaded with blood. The scrotum and organs
of generation were equally so, and deeply discoloured. We recom-
mended a little hot brandy triad water, and applied blankets to the
extremities, which were equally cold, and he soon revived. At
this stage I said to him, "Sir, you must have stood well up to
your man, or else you must have been shot dead." There was an
oblong tumour on the right of time symphasis pubis. The rest of
this witness's evidence related chiefly to the mode In which the
patient was treated till the operation was performed by Mr. Lieton,
which he also described. He concluded by saying the operation
was necessary to his life. Ultimately he would have died if the
operation had not been performed.
By Mr. Field—The cause of death was peritoneal inflammation.
The torn artery was not the immediate cause of death.
James Stewart, M.D., of St. Thomas-street, Portsmouth, sworn
—I knew the deceased, James Alexander Salon, I visited him on
the 21st of May last, at eight o'clock in the evening. He appeared
extremely exhausted from loss of blood. Deceased lived about
sixty hours after the performance of the operation. The primary
cause of death was the effect of a ball passing through the body of
deceased. The secondary cause of death was peritoneal inflamma-
tion, which set in after the operation. The deceased on the se_
mind day I saw him put this question to me, " Do you consider use
in a state of danger ?" I replied, " I do." He then made a
statement to me relative to the infliction of the wound. Dote
said, " lam aware of my danger, from your opinion, as well as that
of the other medical gentlemen, and were I to die to-morrow I
know not why I was shot ;" and this he repeated several days after.
I sat up with deceased on Sunday night, the Ist of Julie,
and on several occasions during that night I conversed with him on this unpleasant affair. He told me lie saw Lieutenant Hawkey
present the pistol, which did not go off the first time. He was then
standing in his proper
position as an opponent, somewhat
neari
Stoke's-bay. He distinctly saw Lieutenant Hawkey present the
pistol the second time, the ball from which pistol went through his
(deceased's) body. I asked him if he had any doubt. Decearied
said, " Certainly none." That was on the morning of the day on
which he died. He was then aware that he was much worse, and
this was his last statement. Deceased said he
fired at his
nent, and connected with that, deceased said, " Had westood4"at
the distance my opponent wished (namely, six paces) he would now
have been in my place and lin his." Deceased also seated that
he had fired twice.
By the Foreman—Deceased made no statement as to the fairness
or unfairness of the duel.

LAUNCH OF THE "QUEEN OF THE PRENCH4 MAIL
PACKET.—Yesterday afternoon, at high orate , a very splendid iron
steam ship, called the Queen of the French, was launched from the
building yard of Messrs. Ditchburn and Mire, at Blackwell. She
is the property of the South-Eastern Railway Company, intended
to ply as a mail.packet betwean Folkestone and Boulogne. Her
form is after that of the Queen of the Belgians. She has five
compartments, so as to ensure her safely in the event of any
accident. Height 145 feet, width 22 feet, draws six feet of.
eater, and will be fitted with engines of 126. horse power, op 11,,e
annular cylinder principle, by Mr. J. Maudsley, the patentee,
similar to those which so well succeeded in the Princess Alice
Government mail.packet.

QUICK PASSAGE.—The annexed extract fr:om the
journal of the steam-ship Helen McGregor may interest our mer-
cantile and commercial readers:-..-Steam-ship Helva 141`Gregori
of Hull, Charles Frost, Commander, sailed from 'Crowds& (St.
Petersburgh) on the 29th ult., at half past eight ovlock pad.. -ar-
rived at Copenhagen on the lit inst., at half-past two p.m., sr died
thence on the same day at half.past eight P.M., and arrived * Hull
on the 4th inst. at one P.M., performing the passage !from, Crow
stadt to Hull in 1361 hours, including six hours at Coreenrra4 ~,,.