The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-15 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, Dec. 13.

The Sessions terminated this day, and the fol-
lowing prisoners received sentence of death :

Edward Hoo!ter, William Harding, George West, William
West, Henry Ellis, Sarah Franks, James Somers, John
Knight, John Wells, William Seymour, Thomas Chandler,
John Attell, and trotorge Bolton, for hurglaries: William
Hatchman, Charlotte Newman, and Mary Anne Janice, fur
for ; John Wyatt,.for horse-stealing; John Router, John
Dainty, Thomas Pearson, John Holmes, Frederick Carrick,
Casbmore Israel, John Wills, and Joseph Hempstead, for
stealing to the amount of Os. and upwards, in dwelling--
houses; William Gogerly, and SOH) Whitford, for stealing
privahly in shops to the value of ss. and upwards; James
Crookshanks, Edward Harmer, Thomas Reed, John Jones,
and Thomas Leonard, for highway robberies.
The following were sentenced to transportation for life :
John Brown, J. Thomas, T. Hurley, L. Lazarus, G. Henry,
J. Walters, J. Hornton, E. Lee,. C. Stanley, Harriott Phil-
lips, P. Flanagas;,- and J. Billington.
Fur 14 Years Storey, It. Davis, S. Clifton, .1. Wil-
son, J. Williams, J. Kempt, J. Woodrutfe, J. Blake, and
William Sherwin.

For 7 )ears:-50 convicts,—One was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment in /ha House of Correctioa ten to one
par : and a number of others to less perinds. Two to be
plibliclv, and four privately whipped.
The judgments of Buttery and WlCanizira, convicted of
forging the will of a seaman, were respitod son- a point o
law, to be referred to the decision of the Twelve Judges.—
Srxeral were distharged by p odamation.
The .Sessions adjourned to Wednesday, the 14th
of January.

THE Lai?: -PRINCESS tl-1-441L011 a

It is not without great reluctance that vet pro-
ton:: the aiscriss'ion of a most alfticting subject..—
.AS, however, the interest attached to that sub-
j,:ct Las by no means lessened in the Minds of our
countrymen ; but still excites a aegree of solici-
tude far above the impulse mere cariosity, tre
feel it to be our duty to insert anothe'r tette'r from
a amtleninn Who, intrePia sincerity atilt
manly ftankneS;, has given his name to the world.
hare received many articles on •lifs

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ci►oly topic, but, as they were Anonymous, we
did not think it proper to insert them, and we
shall now conclude the subject, unless something
very striking and important should occur. We
►egret the necessity of entering into technical
points and anatomical desctiptions ; but they are
intended for ProtieSsiOnal Readers, and if such are
satisfied With the reasoning and illustrations of

the Writer, thelr Opinions will, of course; be sa-
tisfactory to Iteifers in general.

. , LETTER THE ,SECOND. .
O? TI- lf NECESSITY OF A. PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO
THE CAUSE OF THE DEATH ;.OF HER ROYAL
HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE Atill HER
INFANT.

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It was expected that on the first day of the
month of Deceinher,the Monthly Journal or
.'Re-
pository would be prosyided with something as an
explanation of thr conofict of the Medical Gen-
. denten, namely, lirs.Balitte, Sims, and Sir
RICHARD CROFT, during their attendance on her
late Royal Highness the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE,
and that expectation has been realized. The
same Monthly Journal has announced, that these
three Gentlemen do not mean to give any ex-
planation themselves, (f they can felp it) there-
fore my observations must he addressed not to
them, but to the Editor of this Monthly Journal.
This Monthly Journal, as most of the Medical
Journals are, has been long known to be attach-
led to the interests of Sir EVERARD LioNIE, Dr.
BAILLIE, and the ',venire Rooms in Windmill-
street. %Viten I perused the Report which this
Journal has given, I must confess that I was as-
tonished to find, notwithstanding all the pains'
that were taken to make out a plausible case,
that even a plausible case was not better made
out. And further, to spew that the active in-
dustry of the le),:rty, who are now shunning the
event of a Public Enquiry, was ingeniously em-
ployed to spread their plea and extend it ai touch
as they could for the in,pection of the public eye,
they have for that purpose engaged The Times
Newspaper to assist them in this 'most critical
dilemma ;•—that very Times Newspaper which, by
a dottb/e. meanine, seemed to insinuate on the
14th of Novemher, the day after toy lett,:r
ttp-
Ite.sretl in " "'lie SUN" on the 13.11 in the even-
ing, Ora 1, or some one else for me, had applied
to the said Times Newspaper to re-publish any
Letter. This I deny, both for myself antrothers ;
it never was applied to.
But to come to the po'nt, the statement, as it,is
given in the Monthly Journal, t»ight have been
thought ample for the intOrmatioti a the medical
world at least, but the Party was fearful that the
popular torrent of my tinnier Letter had carried
it beyond the reach of influence or information of
that statement which was Confined tO Medical
Literature ;—the Patty feared that by compari-
son, the wings which bore (lie productions of
Medical Journal would flap, and become too much
jailed to undertake a competition with my hum-
ble, but, I trust, honest Letter. The Party has
been thus tempted, as consulting best •heir satety
and their interest, to call in and to invoke to
their aid the popularity of The Times Newspaper,
in order to expedite their missive after mine.

First of all, I will dispatch the Report of The
Times Newspaper. The Editor says, that what
he has given is from the London Medical. Reposi-
tory ; he does not say that he has given extracts
from it ; but the fact is, that lie has left out -all
the essence of the case, Is hid) would tend
_to
prove the true cause of the death of her Royal
Highness the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE ; if he had
put nothing:into his Paper, hut that which he has
lett out, the true Cause of her Death would have
been clearly pointed out by it.
The labour that has been employed by this dili-
gent active party, a party of the first influence in
this City, has been so employed, as by every
means to make out the most plausible plea to
meet the public eye ; but not content with that,
the party has endeavoured by all means to suppress
what might be said on the other side of the ques-
tion. lam glad that they acknowledge and feel so
sore at the questions that l put in toy former Let-
ter, about, ‘vhetter Dr. Sims had ever been in the
Chamber of the much lamented Princess, not-
withstanding he signed his name to three well au-
thenticated Dispatches, vulgarly called Bulletins.
I, say that I am glad, because the truth seems to
have hurt them. they having received it as a re-
proof. What I then argued on'the impropiiety
of such an unprecedented practice, I had argued,
as they thought, by guesses; and I hope that it
will be always found in every question during
ibis Inquiry, that I shall offer to the Public, my
guesses will be so realized. It now stands con-
fessed, that Dr. Sims never was in the Chtonber
of the Princess, till he entered it a-quarter be-
fore 12, at ni;ht, together %vitt) Dr.. BAILIAE,
when her Royal Highness was in a elyh state
I shall now take leave of Dr.•SrMS; and put into
his hands, as a keep-sake, the following quotation
front Lucretens

" Quandoquidern cErpiut.l•Wieno ex ore ; petuntque Kr,
.‹x ;tuditis
" Not kona se l-knowedp they their.facts onfold;
But build opinion upon what 1.1,:y a, e
This experiment' will stand for ever as an .ex.
ample that it shall not be tried again.
.It is it settled point, only with the difference of
tbfet hoaxi, I saying, that ber Royal Higlow.s
was delicrted at the end of 47 hoots A,lth Sit
RICEIARD (: _stotrp, at 50 hours ; that the /Princess
was deliverd by her natutal efforts of o'still-burn

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)14,11,e MO that t Velti
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Weefuesnia at .nine.;ss'elasels.
It ,svas concei:sed.'(,,l are odd) l.hat the
rnigbt be dead on, IVOnesttay a
,t nocol, rth,t it
Might be born in a state. of suspended anima; fun
so that hom o'clock /0. o'clock, t berc
the liberty„ at least., for the verification.of the
,prognost:!csatstl , supposition ; an. amule,titD
jodging,sin such a state, of what was best to he
dour.
, .
At half-past nine,that i 5, half an bons- after the
IsirOt of the still,-boric Infant,, a discharvsof
morrhage is said to have appeared ;--Sir
Sir R/IAA:11
rAtoFT.theo poisoned )r. Sims, who %vas.
another chamber, together with Dr, Ilsieers,
piously employed to resuscitate the Infant, who
lust before had been suspected to be dead, for nor
Jess han itine hours. (this is their psytt Report,
how long before it, might be uncertain), whether
or not, he should go about delivering the after-
birth;
,this from their, own Report also was at
lialfspast nine, that is half,an hour after the spon-
taneous delivery of the. dead Infant. It was agreed
between them, that the after-birth should he re-
mov,ed immediately; and accordingly Sii Rion ARD
CROFT went aboat the result of which, by
the words from the Morahly Journal, which I have
before, me,
.was " that this delivery of 'be after-
birthwas effected with ,little difficulty, and waa
followed,hy a very trifling discharge, either of fluid
or coagulated blood."
But notwithstanding
.these favourable appear-
ances yishich the Monthly Journal has reported,
such as that " great discharge followed the
birth, or after-birth (mark this),
,it was soon dis-
covered,
,that the Uterus was acting irregularly,
and taking on the hour-glass contraction, an unfa-
vourable separation of the Placenta wets antici-
pated."—According to this Report, this same anti-
cipation was a thing rather dreaded than actually
happened ; for the Reporter says, " that the
Princess was now as well, and composed, as La-
dies (women) usually are immediately after deli-
very." So far the. Editor; for I beg to be under-
stood, that it is front the authenticated documents
of this Gentleman, that I take up my argument
upon the question; 'and which, he says, lie has
ft ow authority.
If the Reader will but parse at this moment,
and which is about ten o'clock at night on the
Wednesday, for it was at half-past nine Dr Caore
bewail to take away the after-birth, or in other
words, about five hours before our beloved Prin-
cess expired, lie will see nothieg but fair weather,
the fairest hopes, the fairest proshects, the bright-
est halcyon moments ; the room was left, and,
every body went to sleep.
Now I question this, exactly in the same man-
ner that I questioned Dr. Stms's ever having been.
in the distill-it?t of the Princess. The esedical
Gentlemen, ins it remembered, have not yet sign-
ed any authentic dispatch, since that which an-
nonncvil the birth of the still-born Infant ; there-
fore we know nothing from them directly, of what
passed ou the manual delivery of the after-firth';
(the ()sly manual operqt ion performed by the
Doctor) ; awl it is corioos to remark, that as the
manual delivery of the at'er-bistii commenced
only half all hour after the•clelivery of the lof.tot,
that the well-anthetoicated Do,p,itcl) with their.
mimes annexed to it, and which alas their 111S1,
was not kept back until such toms as the import-
ant event of the deliver, of the after-birth had
taken place ; and more especially, sis every 01.1'14
had gone oil so w,ll. The questions I have to
ask are,. First, NVl.erhier, during the manoal ex-
traction of tire after-Becht, the Princess ;lid nut
express more pain tha:l she had ever expressed,
upon any &miner occasion, d.,ring the tort y-sevea
or t.ty boors of her delivery ?—Second, ‘Vhet her,
.as the event has proved since by dissection, that
the uterus had assumed the hour-glass Contras:-
lion, it was not provoked to it by the ni:lntell de-
livery of the after-birth at that time ? These are
my two questions.—l should not put these tr..s-
tions it I had not it (Otinilaliith for it, no !note than
I should
in my former Letter have pit that to Dr.
SIMS. In the fewest words t tir<ill just exploit) a
little.—The long protracted labour had exhausted
the muscular action of the uterus, so that it had
not a command over its oath muscular contraction,
and of course only allowing half an hour after the
delivery, the museular contraction could not but
be feebly proceeding, if it did proceed at ail, and
of course, it the after-birth he then taken away,
the surface from which the hetnorrhagejlowed must
have been larger, and the orifices of the hhisd
vessels must also have been moie open, than it the
uterus had had time to become more contracted.
It is a question there ore, if the ir•egolar action
of the uterus 'night not have been brought ou by
the process of nature being interrupted by the
process of art. That oscine which had effecter'-
the partto:tion of a dead child being thus hrokcie
iii upon, SO soon after delivery, but not at the dc-
livery, so that it was nset one pain, but two pains,
one after the other. I will explAitt mysdl: by
exemplification—it I carry a weight in one Iciest
for a Seri.?.s of time, that hand `will become so ex-
cessively tired, as not to be able to heir the weight
any longer ; if I give the sante hand tinge for re-
, covering its strength, it iv It bear the weig:Lt