The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-20 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday evening, at seven o'clock, an inque,t
was held at the Grapes, Whitecross-"trees, Mole
T. SHELTON, Esq., on view of the body of Amelia
!meson, a fine little girl, aged five years, dauglacr
of Mr. Imeson, tobacconist, Aldermanbury, who.e
throat was cut by its own mother, while labouring
under aberration of mind. _ _ _

Eliza Gater, maid servant' in the family of Mr.
Imeson, deposed—On. Saturday last, about twelve
o'clock, the bell of Mrs. Imeson's bed-room was
I rung, in consequence of which I went up stairs to
the room. Mrs. !meson was the only person in the
room when I entered, and she ordered me to bring
up her daughter Amelia. I returned to the kitchen,
where the child then was, and carried it up stairs.
As soon as I delivered the child to her, she laid it
upon the bed, for the purpose, she said; of brushing
its hair, preparatory to taking it out to walk. The
only other observation I beard her make was,. that
when she laid it. 03 the bed she looked at it, and ex-
claimed it was very like the children in the wood.—
I then left the room, and came down into the kitchen.
I had not been down stairs more than five minutes,
when the bell was again rang, and I 'went up.
[Here the witness became dreatiftilly agitated, and
some time elapsed before she could proceed with her
evidence; at length she continued.] , Having en-
tered the room, the first thing I saw was Mrs. Ime-
son, sitting in the bed in her night clothes, and
covered with blood. I did not seethe child at this
time, but immediately ran down stairs and acquainted
Mr. Imeson of the circumstance. Mr. Imeson and
I went up, and we found Mrs. Imeson in the same
'torte as I left her. Mr. Imeson took up the child,
and I heard him exclaim " She has killed the child 1"
In about ten minutes afterwards I went into the
room, and saw the child laid on the foot of the bed.
It then appeared to be quite dead. I did not see
the wound in its throat, for I was not able to 'look
at it. lam satisfied my !mistress was of unsound
mind, from the incoherent manner she was. in the
habit of talking in.
Juror—Was your mistress down at breakfast that
morning ?
Witness--She was not ; but the day befere was
np, anti seemed nauch better.
[Several questions were put to this witness for the
purpose of showing the insanity of Mrs. !meson ;
but, from the violent agitation the recital of the
horrid catastrophe had upon her, the Coroner con-
sidered it better to leave the proof of this to the
medical gentlemen.]
Calvert Bower Baux, surgeon, 36, Pudding-
lane, deposed--I attended Mr. Imeson'a family
since his marriage, and rim a particular friend of the
family. He was married to Mrs. Imeson in 1822,
and during her first pregnancy she became melan-
choly, and lay much in bed. On one occasion she
s wallowed a necklace of coral beads, -and evinced
unequivocal symptoms of insanity. At my recom-
mendation Dr. Sutherland was applied to, who ad-
vised her being sent to a place of retirement. Ac-
cordingly she was sent to her father's, Charles,
square, Hoxton. After bring there some time, she
returned, apparently quite recovered, and went on
without displaying any renewal of her former ma-
lady, instil the 16th of June last, about four days
after her last accouchement, when I was sent for in
great hasts, rind found her mind evidentlysiffected.
After each aecouchement she was more excitable
than at any other period ; and, during her preg-
nancy, laboured under considerable apprehension of
dying in childhed. She at all times expressed the
greatest affection for her husband and children, the
only delusion she seemed to labour under being an
apprehension that she was not so good a wife as the
affection shown her by Mr. !meson merited. I re-
commended, as the weather in June was very hot,
that she be removed to her father's again, which
was done, arid I attended her regularly. She re-
mained there until August, when she returned home,
apparently recovered. I saw no more of her, until
I was.sent for on Saturday. I had many opportuni-
ties of seeing Mrs. Imeson with the deceased, an
which occasions she evinced the strongest affection
towards her, and seemed to consider it es her fa-
vourite. I advised that no dangerous weapon be
left with her. This I did sot do from any peculiar
trait in her state, but as a general precaution. Whea
at her father's, she has desired them not to leave
her a knife to eat her dinner with, as she could eat it
with a spoon. She was between twenty-seven and
twenty-eight years of age, and was very partial to
reading, especially the lighter poets. I have at- ,
tended her since the fatal accident, arid she is aware
of what she has done. She expresses herself ready
to expiate the deed with life, -and expresses the
most poignant regret and misery at whit she has
done. She seems at present sane, though at times
expresses herself very incoherently.
The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased
was destroyed by Mrs. Imeson, while in a state of
insanity.

We understand that the heir presumptive to
the title of G—df—d, went a'short.time since to Ireland,
to visit a young and beautiful, heiress to whom he was en-
gaged. It is said, the.t some slight difference induced the
swain to transfer his affections to a lovely nymph of seven-
teen, and one of serenten children, not, far from the
place, and succeeded' in eloping with her. The youthful
lovers had not proceeded far when a near relation of the
damsel overtook them, and, assured the young Lothario
that such manners were not admissible in that island, that
he must be married immediately. A very short discus-
sion ensued, and the youthful pair were tied by the indis-
soluble knot, and the lovely heiress left to bless some no-
bler spirit.—Hostts Advertiser.

At Paris the cold has 'been more intense than
in London. The French Papers mention, that on Thurs-
day night and Friday morning the thermometer of Cheva-
lier fell upwards of five degrees and a half beloW zero. As
the zero of this instrument is the freezing point, anel welt
degree is nearly two of Fahrenheit, the cold must have
been more than:ten degrees of Fahrenheit below freezing.
The sum of 10,000 fr. having been abstracted
from a mercantile house in the Rue Bergere, the servants
were suspected of being the authors of the robbery, and
police-officers were employed to endeavour to find them
out. Lacour and his agents were set about the affair,
and they discovered that the thief was a lady of very re-
spectable connexions, who frequented the house. After a
long search, the money was found at the bottom of a pot of
butter, the butter having been melted and poured over it
Paris Paper.

On Sunday morning several of the Churches
in the city were illuminated, as if for evening pra)ers, and
yesteiduy Divine Service. was performed in St. Paul's Ca-
thedral by gal.light. In the meantime, at Primrose-hill,
Kentish Town, &c. the sun was shining brilliantly, and
the fields luxuriating in all tbe.splendour of a fine winter's
day, " frosty, but kindly."
_ _

Leamington as well as Melton Mowbray may
be now termed a sporting metropolis; and the last few
days has witnessed a great accession to our list of sporting
gentlemen from the latter place. —Leamin g t on Spa
Courier.

The new palace which the Duke of Atholl is
now building at Dunkeld, is in a style of architecture
which may be more properly denominated the Abbey than
the Castellated Gothic. The internal arrangements of the
rooms are of princely dimensions, and the principal en-
trance is by a lofty porch. From this parch you enter a
vestibule, 50 feet in length, which leads into the great
baronial hall, 90 feet lung; thence to the grand staircase,
which is only separated from the hall by a screen of open
arches. From the ball and staircase you communicate
with state rooms ; and, by a spacious and handsome cor-
ridor attachea to the staircase, with the Duke's private
apartments. The library, dining, and drawing-rooms, are
each 50 feet by SO, and 22 feet in height, and the other
apartments are of corresponding proportions. His Grace,
although at the advanced age of 74, takes the greatest in •
terest in the work, which, from its size and splendour, is
calculated to transmit his name to posterity as the founder
of one of the finest structures in North Britain.—Gius-
gels Chronicle.
JURY ON BURKE?. AND ii.riACDOUGAI..—iII
an article copied front a contemporary, it was stated that
two of the Jury were inclined to bring in a verdict of Nut
Proven to:- Burke. The fact is, as was stated in our re-
port of the trial, the Jury were ouluimous in the convic-
tion of Burke, and- unanimous iu the opinion that the pro-
secutor had not made out the libel against Macdougal.—
SrotEman.

LAW INTELLIOE NeE

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 19.
TESSEY V. PIKE.

Mr. BROUGHAM (with whom was Mr. RUBY)
stated the plaintiff's case. The action was for a
libel publ;shed in the Derby Reporter on the 17th o
April last. The plaintiff was an attorney, and at
the time of the publication of the alleged libel re-
sided at Derby. The libel was contained in a para-
graph, purporting to be a report of a case which had
been tiled at the Derby Quarter Sessions in April
last,' and was as follows

"EXTRAOXIDIIeiRY CASE OF ASTILIARION. '
" Among the affiliation cases there was the fol-
lowing, which excited extraordinary interest :
" Martha Holt being called upon on the part of
the parish of Derby, endeavoured to affiliate her
bastard child on John' Thomas Albert, a young sur-
geon of this town. Mr. Clark, jun. on the part of
the parish, examined this young woman, who stated
that she had known Mr. Albert some years ago at
Uttexeter, and afterwards became the servant of
Mr. Vessey, and at the death of his wife had been em-
ployed to take care of his child. She became 'preg-
nant by Mr. Albert last May, and was delivered at
Beveridge on the 3d of February. She then under-
went a long cross-examination, which, together
with the evidence of witnesses, substantiated the
facts, and went to prone that she had all along been
acting under improper instigation; that she had been
in continual criminal intercourse wish Mr. Vessey,
according to her own acknowledgment ; and that
she had told a relation of Mr. Vessey that she had,
by his direction, taken oil-of. savin, for the purpose
of procuring abortion. A letter to her from Vessey,
under a false name, was read, which tended to esta-
blish his intercourse with her. The order was re-
fused, and we understand it is the intention of Mr.
Albert to prose Cute Vessey and Martha Holt on a
charge of conspiracy."
. The Learned Counsel'opened the case as one re-
quiring very serious damages, and then called the
plaintiff's brother, Wm. S. Vessey, a. publican, at
Darby, who prOved the purchase of the paper con-
tainitig the libel from the defendant, the' publisher
of the Derby Reporter.

Mr. BROUGHAM said ho had no. other witnesses to
call.
The COMMON SERGEANT was about to address the
jury, when
Lord TENrERDEN presumed that the verdict
might be taken for a shilling; and as the plaintiff
had declined calling witnesses in support of the al7
legations of his declaration, his Lordship would take
care that he should have nothing beyond the shilling.
A verdict was then entered for the plainti&—Da-
magts Is.; Lord Tenterden intimating that he
should certify, to deprive thg plaintiff of his costs.

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