The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD RACES:—WEDNESDAY, AUG. G.
The Cold Cup.—Four miles.
Mr. Ockeoden's St,-eplicn, by Rubens, 6 yrs . . 1
Mr. West's Fitz-Orville, aged . . . . . 2
M:. Sadler's ch. h. Steeltrap, 6 yrs . . 3
Fifty Pounds, the gift of the Duk of Marlborough.—Heats,
• once rcun 1. -• • . • • -
Mr.
ThOrnhill's ch. 1. Scarps., by Crispin, 3 pis old 1 5 1
fir. Beechey's b. c. by Hedley, 3 yrs . . . 4 1 2
Mr. WesCs b. f. Barbara, 3 yrs . . . 3 4 3
mr.• pundas's Pelican, 5 vrs . . . . 2 3 4
Mr. C. Day's b. g. Swindon, 5 yrs . . . 62 dr
Mr. Pryse's gr. 1. Undine, 3 yrs . . . . sdr -
Mr. Aleynell's b. f. Muslin, 3 yrs . . . 7 dr
THURSDAY.
The, Oxfordshire Stakes of 20gs each, h. ft. with 501. added:
Mr. Dundas's Chef d'ai]uvre, 5 yrs. . . . 1 1
Mr. Sadler's Steeltrap, 6 yrs. . . . • • 2 2
The City Members' Plati of 501. for horses not thorough-bred.
was won at two heats by r. Meynell's ch. c. by Waxy, 4 yrs.
beating two others.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—OH Thursday even-
ing an Inquisition was taken by Mr. STIRLING,
Coroner, at the Duke of York, John-street,
New-road, Marylebone, on the body of Mrs.
Alexander, aged. 40, late of_ Cumberland-street,
in the aforesaid place, who died of the injuries
she received by being dreadfully burnt in her
room, as stated in our Paper of Thursday last.
Verdict—" Accidental Death."

CHILD au RN 1:1). T DEATH.—On Thursday night
an Inquisition was taken at the White Horse
public-house, St. Martin's-lane, before Mr,
flinGs, Coroner, on the body of Edward Pock-
nel I, aged two years and ten months. The deceas-
ed was the son of Mr. Pocknell, who keeps
the shell fish warehouse, opposite Saint Mar 7
tin's Church. On last Tuesday evening, bet Ween
nine and ten, the nursery maid had undressed
him, and was taking him up stairs to bed ; when
she got to the lauding place near the second
floor, she heard the Doctor had entered
the kitchen on the first floor, where Mr. Pock-
nell's youngest child, who was unwell, was.
She then put down the light,and left the deceased
there, whilst she ran down stairs to the Doctor
to tell him about the other child. The Doctor
did not stay longer than two or three minutes.—
Soon afterwards the servants in the kitchen
heard the deceased scream ; the nursery-maid,
who had then the youngest' child in her arms,
exclaimed, " I should not wonder if Edward has
not set himself on fire." Upon this the other
servants ran up and found him in flames ; his
night clothes being on fire. The flames were
immediately extinguished, but the poor child was
so severely burned, that notwithstanding every
medical aid, he expired on Wednesday about
noon. The Coroner and Jury thought no blame
could attach to the nur'ery maid. Verdict—
,'" Accidental Death."

An Inquest was taken on Thursday, at the
Cock Inn, Sutton, Surrey, before M T. JEMMET,
Coroner, on the body of O'Leary, the boxer, who
fell in combat with Cooper, the Gipsy, on Tues.
day.—Verdict, " Manslaughter against Cooper."
The Assizes for the County of Devon com-
mence this day at Exeter. The' calandar con-
tains the names of 71 prisoners for trial.
At Dorchester Fair, on Monday last, about 8000
sheep aid lambs were penned ; the latter, in the
early part of the day, did not produce more than
6s. per head,' and sheep about 1/. each, but in
the afternoon rather better prices were obtained.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS

August 11.

• [THE TIMES.]
There is no doubt that the Queen died of a
broken heart; her,past and present wrongs, her
future prospect uncheered with a single hope,
preyed acutely on her spirits ; and as she dis-
dained to vent her feelings in vulgar complaint,
the tortured mind gradually destroyed its frail
tenement. She felt her life so great a burden,
owing to the continued persecutions of her ma-
lignant enemies, that she courted Death the mo-
ment she saw him advancing to her relief. When
on the Friday previous to her dissolution, a deli-
cate intimation was given her on the propriety
of making her will, she seemed to hail with joy
a hint which is usually received with terror : with
her usual quickness she caught up the idea be-
fore it was half expressed, and said, " 17. under-
stand you perfectly ; I am quite ready---send
for my lawyers." She spent two or three hour's
in calmly and deliberately giving instructions
for the will, and after signing it with a firm and
s'nhesitating hand., exclaimed with a cheerful
" There, now lam ready to die." Her
_Majesty on the Sunday expressed a wish to
receive the sacrament, but the Clergyman of the
parish being restrained by ecclesiastical rules from
performing this solemn office without previously
consulting his principal, the sacred ceremony was
postponed till the next day : her Majesty was
labouring under the effects of medicine when the
Minister called on Monday, and he departed
with the intention of attending on Tuesday ; but
then,. on account of her Majesty's severe relapse,
it was thought inexpedient to disturb her.
,As a
proof of. that suppressed grief which.- we have
mentioned as the great cause of her Majesty's
illness, we can state on authority, that many
nights previous to the last attack, her Majesty
had no sleep. The female attendant vi ho slept
in the room noticed her restlessness, but her Ma-
jesty, with a disdain that was natural to her of
weak and useless complaining, never mentioned
the circumstance. A few hours, however, be-
fore her death, she observed to a faithful female
attendant, " The doctors do not understand my
". malady : it is here (laying her hand upon her
" heart) ; but I will be silent : my lips' shall
‘,‘ never make it known : injustice and cruelty
." have triumphed."

** We insert the above account to shew the temper of the
Paper from which it issued, without giving credit to any part
of it. , Her :MAJESTY died in consequence of a malady that
would have destroyed any person. Her mind was too firm to
yield to any thing but the pressure of actual disease.—We have
reason to hope that the medicines requisite for her disorder mi-
tigated her pain, and that she did not suffer much ; indeed we
have been assured that she had not herself any apprehensions of
approaching death.—lt is deeply to be regretted that no respect-
able witnesses come forward with an authentic account of her
MAJESTY'S last moments, to put a stop to anonymous falsehood
and malevolence.

[NEW TIMES.I
It will be seen, that expectation was wound
up to intensity among all classes of the popula-
tion to see a King of IRELAND in Ireland. The
apprehension of her Majesty's possible decease
oc:.•asioned much anxiety ; for it was felt, that if
that -event should be brought to the King's notice
before he left the coast of Britain, it would prof-
hably delay, for at least some days, his intended
visit to his Irish subjects. Whether it has
happened that the news actually reached his
Majesty on this side of the water or not, cannot
yet be ascertained.* The distance from London
to Holyhead, by the shortest route, is above
260 miles. The Messenger dispatched with the
ictelligence left London between one and two

o'clock on Wednesday morning. llis Majesty
lauded at Holyhead at two o'clock on Tuesday,
afternoon,and proceeded immediately to the Mar-
quis of Anglesey's, where he would of course
dine-and sleep ; but was expected to return to
ifolyhead and embark at four o'clock on Wed-
resday afternoon. If these arrangements were
followed, it must have been physically impossi-
ble that the Queen's death could be notified to
his Majesty before he had been twenty-four
hours in Ireland. Wherever he received the in-

telligence, we have no doubt but that he would
seclude himself for some days. Upon the whole,
it is certainly more desirable that this should
happen in Ireland than in the Isle of Anglesey.
The Irish people would at least have had the
happiness of giving a beloved Sovereign that
cordial reception for which they had made such
extensive preparations. Highly • wrought up
as their enthusiasm was'on this point, it would
have been much to be lamented had the
King's arrival amongst them been delayed. The
disappointment, and the fear that his Majesty's
visit might in consequence be entirely prevented,
would have occasioned much heartfelt vexation :
whereas when once they possess the King.in their
own country, they can the more easily endure
his remaining shut up in his Royal Castle at
Dublin, so•long as decorum may require.
* We yesterday stated, on authority, that his Majesty had
sailed from Holyhead before the news of her Majesty's death
bad reached that place.

-[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Letters from Holyhead state that his Majesty
embarked for Dublin on Wednesday afternoon.
The dispatches announcing the death of her Ma-
jesty, which were sent off at two o'clock on
Wednesday morning, could not therefore reach
Holyhead till many hours after his embarkation.
The Bulletin issued by the Physicians at four
o'clock on Tuesday, announcing that her Ma-
jesty had become much worse (with the words
" much worse" in italics), must have prepared
Ministers for the event which followed so soon
afterwards, and they would, no doubt, feel it
their duty to transmit it, without loss of time, to
his Majesty ; but still the messenger could not by
possibility reach his Majesty before the time at
which he is stated to have set sail. His Majesty
has been so often told, by those who take upon
themselves to be the correct expositors of the state
of Irish feeling, that the very announcement of
his visit had already produced the most benefi-
cial results, that his presence in Ireland would
utterly extinguish the dissentious which have so
long raged in that unfortunate country, and that,
if, after such an event, they ever re-appeared,

they wonld never assume the fierce spirit of ani-
mosity for which they were formerly distin-
guished,—that his Majesty must no doubt feel
extremely desirous that nothing on his part
should be wanting to prevent these great benefits
from being realised in their utmost extent.—
Nothing ought to be so dear to a Sovereign's
heart as the good of his people; and certainly
the extinction of the party.fury,which has hitherto
retarded the prosperity of Ireland, is a good
which cannot be purchased at too high a price.—
Even those who may doubt the durability of so sud-
.a reconciliation, would yet be very well
pleased to give the experiment a fair trial. The
foundations of the peace of Ireland they may
think must be laid in a legislative extinction of
the diversity of situation in which the parties are
placed ; but as the inclinations of his Majesty
must have so much influence with the Legisla-
ture, they cannot fail to wish that his Majesty
may see with his own eyes the miserable conse-
quences which .have ensued from placing one
half of the people in subjection to the other half,
judging that the picture must inspire his Ma-
jesty with an eager desire to remove the odious
distinction. -....1111111110.m-

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Far be from us a desire to interrupt, even at
this solemn moment, a fair and honest inquiry
into the character of her late Majesty, although
we certainly do think that it might with more
propriety be deferred for a few days ; but at all
events, let such an inquiry be conducted with
some s4w of gentlemanly feelings, even though
it were only to operate in favour of the personal
characters of the inquisitors. The story. of Queen
Caroline's life and sufferings will form one of the
most interesting passages in the history of our
country ; it presents many of those striking and
impressive circumstances which are well calcu-
lated to seize upon the imagination, and we have
little doubt that when the lapse of time shall
have felieved her memory from the extravagance
either of panegyric or of censure, with which
the excess of party zeal has just now encumbered
it, she will appear to have been capriciously
marked out for persecution, and to have sustained
the shock of her enemies with a brave and un-
daunted spirit*, and although her character may
not appear to be altogether devoid of faults, she
will be considered as possessing in the main such
qualities of head and heart as will entitle her to
the respect and sympathy of all posterity.

* Vide the article froin THE TIMES ;amongst our Extracts
from the London Journals of this day.

MORNING POST.]
Brussels Papers to the Bth inst. reached us at a
late hour last night. They bring fresh confir-
mation of the certainty of war between Russia
and Turkey. Even commercial letters received
at Berlin from Saint Petersburgh, represented
war as inevitable ; and if it be true, as stat-
ed in those letters, that Baron Stroganoff
had " been sent to the Castle of the Seven
Towers, notwithstanding the energetic remon-
strances of the Ambassadors of ail the Euro-
pean Powers, the first open act of hostility has
been committed by the Porte, and has probably
ere this been revenged by the Russians. It is
also confidently asserted that all the Great
Powers of Europe are at length agreed on the
measures which humanity and policy render ne-
cessary in the present situation of Turkey, and
that a diplomatic document will soon be made
public on the subject. 'We have no doubt that
this is the case ; and the extensive reductions
taking place in our army, at the very moment
when Russia and Austria muster their forces to
march to Constantinople, prove that our con-
sent has been given to the measure, or at least
that we are determined to offer no opposition.

EGYPT.—III the journey to Dongolah, in com-
pany with the expedition under the direction of
ISMAEL BEY, M. FREDERICK CAILLAUD halted
some time at Thebes, where he made an in-
teresting discovery. On the 17th of August
last, he found in one of the subterraneans of
Thebes, a mummy coeval with the time of the
Greeks. On the head of the embalmed perso-
nage is a gilt crown, in the form of a lotus. The
body is wrapped up in bandelets, after the
Egyptian manner. On the case or sarcophagus,
which envelopes the mummy, inscriptions are
visible, some in Greek and others in hierogly-
phics. On the right side there appears, tied
with fillets, a manuscript on papyrus, in the
Greek language. The linen that covers the
mummy is overspread with Egyptian subjects and
hieroglyphic signs. In the interior of the case, the
signs of the Zojliac are represented.
At'a late Meeting of the Academy of Sciences
in Paris, M. CuvrEtt presented to the Society the
head of DES CARTES, which M. BERZELIUS had
forwarded from Sweden. He read the history of
the head, and also the details which proved
its authenticity. M. CUYIER also produced a
picture of I)Es CAtrres, and remarked that the
bony _parts seemed of the same,character as those
in the head sent by M. BERZELIUS, which gave
strength to the idea that it was the genuine head
of that great philosopher. The Academy de-
ferred its decision on the means of preserving it
as a precious relic.
At the close of the training of the Ist or East
Devon Militia, for this year, eleven men who had
not joined the regiment during the assembly,
were considered as deserters ; four of them have
since been apprehended ; but not paying the fine
of 201. awarded by law, have been committed to
the county gaol for six months. Such is the vi-
gilance of the staff of this regiment, that one has
been since apprehended at Kingston, in Surrey,
and three others at Bristol. Steps are pursuing
to take the others, information having been re-
ceived where they are to be found.
LIBERAL LANDLORDS—Sir GEORGE CAYLEY,
in consequence of the depressed state of the mar-
kets, has returned to his tenants at Scampton
201. per cent. on their rents. Sir Jotim CHET..
WODE, of Oakley, Salop, at a late rent-day, re-
turned 151. per cent. to his tenants. We under-
stand RICHARD ARKWRIGHT, Esq. of Hampton
Court, in Herefordshire, desired his agent, Mr.
WAKEFIELD, o.n
.Monday the 30th nit. to return
20/. per cent. to his tenants on their last half-.
yearly rent,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, AUG. 10.

FELLOWES V. FELLOWES, FELLOWES V. GARDNER,

AND FELLOWES V. BELL.

These cases were brought before the Court
this day by Mr. SHADWELL, on a motion praying
the Court to make an order for a reference to the
Master for further inquiry, and for further direc-
tions. The motion was made on behalf of certain
persons, who were described as having a contin-
gent interest under the Will of the grandfather
of the children of Lord and Lady FeHowes, in
the event of their surviving her Ladyship, and
the children not attaining the age of 21 ; and
arose from a mistake under which all the parties
had laboured, the Trustees having considered the
property under the before-mentioned Will, and
that under the settlement between Lord and
Lady Fellowes, to be one and the same, instead
of treating it as separate, and making a provision
for the contingent interest out of the funds in-
vested under the Will. In consequence, the
parties now came before the Court for farther di-
rections, to remedy the mistake.
Mr. BELL, Mr. SIIADWELL, Mr. AGAR, and
Mr. KNIGHT, appeared for the re.pective parties.
Mr. BELL, in allusion to the payment of costs,
suggested that the fund should be made liable
to them.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR submitted that he
could not do this, as it was clear all the parties
had acted from mistake; and where Trustees
were .not shewn to have acted wilfully wrong,
the Court would not, even though some error
had been committed, order them to pay the costs.
Here they had done nothing to induce the-Court
to say they were not entitled to have their costs
paid ; and he was of opinion that Sir James Fel-
lowes must pay them.

Mr. SHADWELL submitted, that some special
order should be made relative to his clients'
claim, though the time at which they could claim
might never arise.
The VICE-CITANCELLOR observed, that some
special declarations must certainly be made, and
the Court were bound to take care that the funds
under the will, and the property under the set-
tlement, were separated, as the claimants under
the will could not make their election and take
the other property. Neither could the* children
make their election, for they must take under
both the will and the settlement. With respect
to disturbing the funds, he was of opinion the
best course would be to order the whole into
Court, until the contingent claimants were in esse.
There were certain City bonds to which allusion
had been made, and these he thought he should
order to be sold and accounted for by Sir James
Fellowes. lie should also direct that an account
of the contingent claims of the parties, after Lady
Fellowes and her children under the will had
been satisfied, should be taken ; and if, after
turning the matter over in his mind, his present
opinion underwent no alteration, he should draw
up an order to the effect before stated and hand
it down ; but if any change should take place, he
would inform the Counsel of it on Monday.

er accomplished the kWh of the unhappy girl at
his father's lodgings. This was in the month of
November. She went to her new place, and
about the month of January she proved with
child. She communicated this circumstance to
the prisoner, who, in his letters to her down to
the month of February, addressed her in the
warmest terms of affection and tenderness, always
concluding his epistle by subscribing himself
" her affectionate and faithful husband." Short-
ly after the prisoner had discovered that the un-
happy girl was pregnant, he sent her a quantity
of 'pennyroyal, accompanied by the following
letter :
" My dearest Hannah,—Herewith you will receive a small
portion of a most excellent remedy for the tooth-ache, pre-
scribed by the famous Dr. Solomon, in his Gaide to Health.'
To satisfy you that it is his prescription, and not mine, I will
quote his words. He says—' It is (the toothe-ache) soon re-
moved, by dipping a bit of cotton into the Cordial Balm of Gi-
lead, and applying it to the afflicted tooth.' This liquid is the
Cordial Balm of' Gilead, some of which I happened to be in
possession of; I hope you will apply it immediately, and find a
speedy relief from that tremendous pain. As the time for the
other matter is fast approaching, I advise you by all means to
be prepared with the tea of the pennyroyal, it being a most
effectual remedy to hinder the course of things. The tooth-
ache is a sure symptom of a woman's being in that way. This
'is the opinion of all the profession. However, if you apply your
remedy in time,. there is no danger to fear. Do you think
you shall be able to spend an hour with me next Sunday
evening ? I shall remain at 'Witham throughout the day,
according to the arrangements I have made. 1 have two or
three tnings which I wish to talk over with you, as well as to
shew you. .They are not of an alarming nature, therefore don't
be fearful of any thing of that sort. It is quite, I think, what
you will like to see. I shall most likely have the opportunity
of seeing you again before Sunday, and then you can inform
me whether you think your old fudge will permit you to come
out on Sunday, or otherwise, and it you have any thing impor-
tant to-express, you can write to me, aid leave it at Mrs. Cot-
ton's, or send it 6y the post, which.way you may deenr. most
convenient and proper.
" I am, my dearest Hannah, your's very sincerely,
faithfully, and affectionately,
" R. COLLINS."
" P.S.—The Cordial is not of an unpleasant, but rather of a
pleasant taste."
" Addressed to Hannah Stammers, 'Witham, Essex."
Upon the receipt of this letter, with its accompaniment, she
took the pennyroyal, as prescribed, hut it had not the effect
desired. When she saw the prisoner afterwards, he told her
that he would bring her something that would lo her good.
He then brought her a box of steel pills, which he desired her
to take every morning fasting. The box contained 12 pills,
which she took, but they produced no other effect than to heat
her system violently. lie had seen her frequently at this time,
and desired her to keep on taking the -pills. He afterwards
brought her a gallipot, containing some electuary, but what it
was she did not know, desiring her to take. a piece about the
size of a walnut three times every, day.
.That pot was to last
her one day.—This not. having the desired effect, he brought
her three twigs of some sort of tree, the name of which she did
not know, with directions to boil half of them in two quarts of
water, until it was reduced to one quart, and take a tea cup full
three times every day. ThiS she did for about two days. Upon
this failing, he told her to get some steel filings, and make them
into pills, and take them three times a day. This she did ; but
in the same evening, he told her not to take the filings in the
slit* of pills, but in some liquid, and if the particles hung
about her mouth, to rince them down with tea or water. He
mentioned, that a lady whom he knew, had been three months
gone with 'child; and steel filings had done 'away the situa-
tion she was in.. Having taken the steel filings for a day,
without effect, he then brought her a phial of medicine, of a
pale red colour, of which' he desired her to take two tea
spoons full, in a cup of warm water, three tiinesa day. She
took this medicine once, but it would not stay on her
stomach.. He then advised her to take it in cold water,
which she did, but it had the same effect. She was now so
ill that she was obliged to leave her place, and go home to
her mother's house, at Boreham, where she was desired by
the prisoner to remain quiet, and perhaps the medicine
' would remain on her stomach. She took the medicine
again, when she got home, and her mother, a decent woman,
who gets her living by attending Ladies in childbirth, detected
her in the fact, and upon discovering that she had been seduced,
and the object of taking such remedies, she immediately
snatched the bottle from her, and in her fright threw it into the
fire, where its contents burnt like spirits. The mother took the
earliest opportunity that her avocations would permit of calling
on the prisoner, at his lodgings in Witham, and in an interview
with him she said, " Good. God ! how came you to give Hannah
that stuff which she. brought home in a bottle ?" He said,
" Mrs. Stamers, I will state the truth. When I first stated to
Hartnett that I could not make her my wife,she hung about me;
she said she would rather die than live; she was sure that she
dare not come to Boreham • her friends would take no notice of
her. " Good God !" said ale mother, " what would youthink
in giving her that stuff? I verily believe, had she taken the re-
maining part that was in that bottle, she .would have been a
corpse.' The prisoner answered, " I know that." The mother
then said--" But she has not taken it." The prisoner replied,
"I am glad of it." The unhappy parent then said, " What
answer must I take to Boreham ?" The prisoner replied—" At
this moment I cannot give you an answer that you will be satis-
fied with," and bid her good afternoon. For four months the
prosecutrix remained in anxious expectation that the pri-
soner would fulfil his engagement to marry her. Her preg-
nancy was rill advancing, and although her constitution had
overcome the attempts made to destroy it, her health was
in a precarious state. Repeated applications were made to
the prisoner to marry her, but lie as often declined, upoo
the plea of inability, and that he was afraid of losing his
situation without a cha;acter. At length the unhappy girl
came to lielinsford, and placed the prisoner's letters in the
hands of Mr. Archer, Clerk to the Magistrates of the District,
and asked his advice how she ought to proceed. Nlr. Archer
immediately wrote a very sensible letter to the prisoner, advis-
ing him to make her the only compensation he could, name-
ly, by making- her his wife, and at the same time warning
him that the helpless and distressed Hannah was not without
friends who would see her righted if he persisted in his injus-
tice. This letter was answered in a manner which gave offence
to Mr. Archer, and a further correspondence ensued, which
ended in laying the case before Sir John Tyrell, Bait. and the
rest of the Bench of Magistrates, who imine.diattly recommend-
ed that the prisoner should be prosecuted, and bound over the
poor girl to appear at the Assizes for that purpose. She now
appeared to give evidence reluctantly against her faithless se-
ducer, and told her story in an artless and prepossessing man-
ner. Her evidence was corroborated by her mother, and by a
fellow-servant named Moss, who had purchased the steel filings
for her, in consequence of ie suggestion of the prisoner.
The prisoner seemed little affected by his situation. To the
very last an opportunity was afforded him Of making his peace,
by marrying the girl, but he refused, alleging that matters were
gone too far. He had been admitted to bail. Repeated over-
tures had been made to him to marry the girl since his com-
mitment ; but he declined for the reason stated.

In his defence he insisted that the girl had seduced him, and
that at her earnest request he had procured and administered to
her the drugs in question, in consequence of her having become
pregnant.
Several respectable inhabitants of Witham, and amongst
others Mr. Pattison, his master, gave hitn an extremely good
character for morality and general correctness of deportment:
Mr. Mackay, jun. a young man about the prisoner's age, now
a suAgeon at Bury St. Edmond's, and then an assistant to a sur-
geon at Witham,
.gave it as his opinion, that pennyroyal or
steel filings administered in any quantity could not- produce a
miscarriage. A large dose of steel filings might produce death,
but not miscarriage.
Cross-examined.—The prisoner was intimate with him. He
had never purdiased any medicines of him, but he had given
the prisoner what he wanted. The prisoner asked him what
medicine would be-good for the purpose? for that he had had
an intercourse with a young servant girl, who was in a fa-
mily way ; and witness recommended pennyroyal. Witness
never gave the prisoner any thing that could produce mis-
carriage.. _

Dr.—Prichard, a physician of Chelmsford, was also of opinion
that neither pennyroyal nor steel filings could produce miscar-
riage, if taken in any quantity. Death might be produced by
steel filings, if a sufficient quantity could be taken into the sto-
mach, :nit before that quantity could be taken into the stomach,
it would nauseate and reject it.

Mr. Baron WOOD told the Jury, in point, of law, that if they
were satisfied the prisoner had administered the drugs with in-
tent to procure. miscarriage, though they were incapable of pro-
ducing that, effect, and though the young woman had willingly
consented to take them, the case was within the statute, and they
were bound to find the prisoner guilty.
.

The Jury immediltelY found the prisoner Guilty.

The Learned Judge expressed himself perfectly satisfied with
the verdict, and animadverted in strong terms upon the enor-
mity and cruelty of the prisoner's crime. Public example re-
quired the severest visitation of punishment that the raw autho-
rised, in order to warn others against committing a similar
crime, which unhappily was but too prevalent. The sentence
of the Court therefore was, that the prisoner should be trans.
ported for the term of 14 years.