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and no such watch had been left. Bertram also toek away two
rings, one of them of considerable value, and the last sovereign
she had, and left her without anything except the few articles
of clothing she had brought with her.
Mr. NORTON remarked that much allowance should be made
for the prisoner under the unfortunate circumstances in which
she was placed, and if her statement was true, and he had no
reason to doubt it, there could be but one opinion of the infa-
mous conduct of her seducer, who, not content with destroying
nor innocence mo t scandalous means, had plundered
her of her property, and, as a last act of infamy, had suggested
to her the act of self-destruction. Of the draughts or the
poison paper he would say nothing at present, but should direet
that the prisoner should be taken care of until some communi-
cation should be had from her friends.

The prisoner 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 by
action against Mr. Bertram and seriously injure him. The
prisoner, who it should be stated had given up the name of
Bertram with great reluctance, was given up for the present
to the care of one of the summoning officers.

THE FATAL DUEL A T GOSPORT.

INQUEST CONTINUED.

PORTSMOUTPI, THURSDAY.—The inquest on the body of Mr.
Seton was resumed yesterday after our report Ht.
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-
ness acted as steward, and was present at the rooms on Monday,
the 19th of May last. Knew the deceased Mr. Seton. who was
present on that occasion. Knew Lieut. Hawkey, who ava., also
paesent. Mrs. Hawkey was also present. Knew Mr, 'Oates, Mr.
Mauginn, and Lieut. Pt m, who were also present. Ido net know
upon what terms Mr. Hawkey and Mr. Seton 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 berween them. I did not know
that they retired from the ball-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 bad in-
formed me that he (Mr. Hawkey) had called Mr. Soren a black-
guard and a scoundrel, and Mr. Bowles bad wished me to give
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 timid not mix myself up with his affairs. I
was then asked, as I was steward of the rooms, whether I would
speak to Mr. Hawkey upon the subject. I said I had no
objection, as steward of t' ei room, to do so. Mr. Hawkey, in re-
ply, told me the business could net 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 sea 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. Seen had refused to meet him, as " light cavalry never
meet Infantry." I saw Mr. Hawkey the next morning about nine
o'clock ; he sold mis Mr. Rowlett had Peso to Mat to arrange
meeting between him and Mr. Seton, which I understood to be a
hostile meeting. He told me he was then going to look by
pistols, and then we parted, I did not see him 114 in, I °Nestle
Mr. Seton dance twice with Mrs. Hawkey. I did not maki to,
report to Colonel Jones pf the fact that there was 114ely to be a
breach of the peace.
Mr. Jenkins, surgeon, of High-street, Gosport, deposed—Oza
the evening of Tuesday, the 20th of May last, a car-
riage stopped at sly doer, conveying a messenger, who
requested to see me. I inquired his fineness with me, when
he stated that my attendance was required at Brown-
down, where a gentleman was bleeding to death. On
my road to Brown-down I was stopped in the bay in anise.
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 board.
Some gentlemen were on board with deceased whom I did not
know, nor do I now. I found Mr. Seton in a state of extreme
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_
ilemen 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 carried
him to the Quebec Hotel, Portsmouth.] I had him immediately
undressed and placed in bed. Soon after Dr. Mortimer came. I
then took of 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 time.
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 operation performed by Mr.
Liston. I visited him daily. The next day the temperature of
the skin was completely restored ; a reaction had taken place. I
considered the deceased to be in a ♦ery dangerous state from
the beginning from the large quantity of blood he bad lost
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 had 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 come
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) expressed
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 which
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 left 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 conse
quence had the operation not taken place.

James Allan, M.D., deputy medical inspector, and first surgeon
of Haslar 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 weunds, 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 efitsion of
coagulated blood, which had caused a tumour on 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
.wo 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 nest. The
remains were removed to the late residence of the deceased,
Queen's-terrace, Southsea, this morning.
Lieutenant Hawkey and the seconds have not 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 and water, and applied blankets to the
extremities, which were equally cold, and he soon revived. At
this stags 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 the 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. Liston,
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 inflamanatioa.
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 Seton. I ♦isited 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 &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_
and day I saw him put this question to me, " Do you consider me
in a state of danger ?" I replied, " I do." He then made a
statement to me relative to the indiction of the wound. Deceased
said, " I am 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 ht of and on several occasions during that night I conversed with him on
this unpleasant affair. He told me he saw Lieutenant Hawkey
present the pistol, which did not go off the first thee. He was then
standing in his proper position as an opponent, somewhat near 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. DeeeeeNl
said, " Certainly none." That was on the morning of the any 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 oppo-
nent, and connected with that, deceased said, " Had we stood at
the distance my opponent wished (namely, six paces) he would now
have been in my place and lin his." Deceased also stated 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 FRENCH" MAIL
EtcKET.—Thursday afternoon, at high water, a very splendid iron
steam ship, called the queen of the French, was launched from the
building-IVO or Messrs. Ditchburn and Mate, at Blackwall. She
ill 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
water, and will be fitted with engines of 126. horse power, on the
annular cylinder principle, by Mr. J. Maudsley, the patentee,
similar to those which so well succeeded In the Princess Alice
Govexnmeixt pAttillacket,
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