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Cross-esantined.--ile lid that be did not go Into
thexoom to see by what the noise had been oeeesioned.
James Veale was called to shew that the prisoner
hod not gone to HeWord or Monackan on the day
after the death, as he had stated. The witness al-
most constantly went in the-ferry-boat himself, and
did not recollect seeing the prisoner on Tuesday, Sth
November.
Mr. Robert Jordan spoke to some vague conversa-
tion he had had with the prisoner on the subject of
the property the children of Mrs. Downing might
expect after her death. On his cross-examination be
sail, that he was present when Mr. S smut' Downing
put the anonymous letter into the hands of the pri- '
softer. The witness did not particulatly observe him;
Mt be saw nothing remarkable in the prisoner's con-
duct while reading the letter. The witnrss, by desire
of the prisoner, called iti Dr. Edwards, that a second
experiment might be made upon the contents of the
stomach; • but the whol;r had been exh
Miss M. A. James, who had lived with the de-
ceased some years. deposed merely to the illness of
the 19th of October, which MTS. Downing attributed
to driok.ng cream.
1)r Edwards, being *gain recalled by Mr. Justice
ABBOT, said, that the body of the deceased did not
.well betnie the interment, nor was there any running
At the nostrils, or other symptom of putrefaction : he
saw nothing to warrant a medical man in stating,
that a shell was immediately necessary, and that the
it ply roust be interred on the next day but ore after
the death. The witness was not competept to state,
whether putrel action commenced soon alter death by
the cholera maw. _ _ _

Peter Perty proVed, that on the 7th of November,
the prisonrr procured his own bill for £5O to be dig-
counted at the Falmouthilink.

Arthur Williams, constable at Falmouth, deposed
to the circumstances of the at rest of the prisoner on
the 14th of November. The witness called five or
six times, and was told that he was not at htene ; at
about twelve o'clock at night he was shewn up stairs,
and the prisoner delivered himself into his custody.
Mrs. Elizabeth Downing, who was at the house of
the prisoner on the 14th of November, said, thathe
was much agitated when he heard that he was about
to be taken ; he several times attempted to escape;
but at last he declared, that he would give himself tip.
The case for the prosecution being here closed, the
Le.itned JUDGII called upon the Prisoner for his de-
fence : eh° read a paper, shortly denying the charge,
and expressing his confident relierice on the impar-
tiality of the Court and Jury.
The following evidence was then aJduced by his
Counsel, M-. Serjeant PEI.L and Mr. GIFFOHD.
Mary Coombe swore, that she was servant to the
prisoner in NovenTher last ; she had 'previously lived
with his father and mother. Mrs. Donnell was un-
well, and took cocoa as well as Mrs. Downing :
the cocoa was generally kept in the kitchen, and on
the $d of Noveinber it was made by the witness :
there was about a pint and a half of it. The witness
took sway the tea-things after Mrs. Downing went ;
some cocoa was left in the pot, which was warmed
again for Mrs. Donnell's breakfast, next morning.--
Mrs. Downing also left half her cup full, which the
witness drank as soon as she had brought it into the
kitchen. and found no ill effects from it.
William 'H. Thomas, the servant boy who had
called the prisoner out if the room, on the Sd Nu.
member, to draw a tooth for a woman named Susan
Weeks, gave evidence of that fact, and be Was con-
firmed by Susan Weeks herself.
Dr. Neale, a physician at- Exeter, deposed that he
had frequently attended cases of chokra ararbus, which
was occasioned by a collection of putrid bile in the
intestines: 'the effect of it way vomiting and purging
pain io the stomach, and cramp in the legs; it might
be considered the most acute disease known in
Great Britain; it ran its course most rapidly, and
lie had-often knows it kill
.the patient in twenty-four
hours: and, if neglected, or improperly treated, in a
much shorter time. The medicine lie should pre-
scribe would be large dozes of opium and a quantity
of warm broth or water. The witness had heard the
description of the state 6f the body of the deceased.
given by Dr. Edwards, and he attributed the stel-
lated inflammation, and other app.:mailers, to no-
thing but the Ashes aseries, though they did not in-
dicate that disorder exclusively. The witness had
frequently made experiments in chemistry, and be
considered the tests that had satisfied Dr. Edwards
of the presence of arsenic in solution by no means in-
fallible: the same green precipitate aright be other-
wise produced than by the presenie of arsenic ; the
other test of the nitrate of silver was equally delusive
for the same yellow precipitate might be shewn if the
nitrate of silver, or lunar caustic, were immersed in
phosphate of soda. The only perfect and indubitable
test was the reproduction of the arsenic by sublima-
tion, by submitting the arsenic to the action of heat.
He had tried experiments with a decoction of onions
within the last film days, and applying it to the test
of Dr. Edwards, an opaline cloud was formed; the
additien of phosphate of soda completed the yellow
precipitate. The great precipitate Mentioned by''
Dr. Edwards, the witness bad also obtained from a
decoction of onions, by means of the sulphate of
copper and phosphate of soda.
Cross-esamined.--He had never opened the body
of a person who had died of &dere sorbet, but the
appearance would be such as had been described.—
Eating anions would produce the same effects as Were
seen in the decoction he had made. Phosphoric acid
existed in all the fluids of the human frame; but
whether more in the bile than in others he could not
stale; but this with the onions eaten by the deceased,
might produce the precipitate mentioned by Doctor
Ed wards.
Dr. Daniel, also a physician at Exeter, had at-
tended several persons attacked by cloglere modes :
the symptoms were precisely those felt by Mrs. Down-
ing, and the remedy was opium.
Cross-examined.—He admitted that those symp-
toms might be produced by arsenic ; he had never
known any case of cholera merles so suddenly fatal,
but he had known one nearly fatal in fourteen hours:
the attack was sometimes rather sudden.

Mr. Tucker, a surgeon, deposed that the tains.
minion spoken of by Dr. Edwards might have been,
occasioned by bran, holm wrist. and unascer-
tainable causes. The prescription of Dr. Edwards
was precisely the reverse of what the witness would
ban recommended j it excited, instead of allaying.
irritation. The witness had never opened any bodx
after death bythskra merdim, but inflammation would,

undoubtedly, be visible he bad made experiments'
with tests; he contended that those of Dr. Edwards
were not infallible ; on the contrary, the witness had
tried thorn upon a decoction of onions, and found
both the results of the green and yellow precipitates.
Dr. Cookwortby, practising at Exeter, said, 'leo I.e
was borne out by men of science in all cowries in as-
serting, that the only infallible proof of the presence
of arsenic, in a fluid state, was the reproduc ion of
the metal. He had also tried the tests upon a decoc-
tion of onions (having learned that the d ceased had
eaten them for dinner on the day of hPr and
found that the precipitates were green and yellow, as
stated by the preceding witnesses.
Mr. Luscombe, surgeon to the F..acter hospital,
under whom the prisoner had studied, gave him an
excellent character for skill and humanity. A num-
ber of other persons of respectability, resident in Fal-
mouth, Foy, ar.d other places in that neighbourhood,
were also called for the same purpose.. They al.
consider:d him a young man of great industry in his
business, correctness in his morals, and gentleness in
liis disposition.
Mr. Justice ABBOT then proceeded to sum up the
whole case. After directing the attention of the Jury
to the points for their consideration, he recapitulated
the evidence on sides. The charge alone occo•
pied nearly three hours.
After consulting for about a quarter of Ma hour,
the Joey returned a verd ct of—Mt Galley: and it
was received with evident marks of sad .tazoon by the
greater part of the audio,' y.
The prisoner was a young man of a very mild and
delicate appearance, and of a gentlemanly deport-
ment : he was dressed in black, and during the whole

trial, which occupied from eight in the nwrotng until
the same hour At night, conducted himself with be-
coming firmness. His implisonnunt, since Novem-
ber last, had evidently ►►ffected ti's health.

KINGSTON. A 1,341. i.
CIIIMUSES or iiIILD hit ItDICIt.

Mary E.. au was indicted for the murder of her
bastard child, by drowohig.
The prisoner, in this case; lived AS servant at Mort-
lake, in this parish ; and her appearance creating a
suspicion of pregnancy, her mistress taxed her with
the fact, which, however, she denied, and conducted
herself so impertinently that she was dismilsed from
her service. She then went to lodge at a cottage in
the neighbourhood, when her pr.-i,.,nalley was Os)
visible. It was apparent, that J.L bad been delivered
at the latter end of November last ; atvd o.re woman.
who lcdg,ed in the house with the prisoner at the bar,
said that she tlionght he beard a child cry in her
room one night ; bat there was lAA prod f her ac-
tual delivery. A day or two afterwards a child was
found wrapped in a coloured apron in a pond in a
Meadow at Mortlake. Suspicion immediately at-
tached to the prisoner, and site was apprehended.—
Upon an examination of her by an experienced ma-
tron, she had every appearance of having recently
been delivered of a child.

The medical man who examined the body of the
child, said it had a contusion on the bsck of the
head ; and tram the inflammation about the alvioncl,
he was of opinion that the child had been born Ace,
but it might have got the would in delivery, and he
did riot make further experiments.
The Learned Judge explained to the Jury the pre-
sent law oh this subject, which was relaxed from the

ancient severity, b 7 which concealment of the birth

was made evidence of the murder of a bastard child;
but, as the law now stood, if a Jury were ni.t satisfied
that the evidence proved the murder .4 the clOiJ,
they ,might find the concealment of the birth, which
subjected the offender to a minor punishment.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of concealing
the birth of the child, and she was sentenced to
two years imprisonment.

Sarah MiteAell, charged with a similar ()Rentz., was
also found Guilty of concealing the birth of the child,
and was sentenced to lY months imprisonment.
Anglia, a Negro wom.in, was charged on the Co.
roner's inquest with the murder of her bastard child
at Newington, on the 10th of December last.
Mrs. A. Umpleby said, that the prisoner was her
servant, and was born in her family. title brought
her from the Ms' Indies in July last. Shortly atter
their arrival in this country she thought the prisoner
was with child, and asked her the question ; the pri-
soner said she was not. In December Wit the priso-
ner was again taken -very ill, and the witness sent her
into her own room, when, going shortly afterwards,
she found that she had been 'delivered of a child ;
she reproached her with deceiving her as to her state,
as she had no occasion for so doing. The prisoner re-
plied she did not know it Was a child.
On cross-examination, she said the initialer was
born on their estate in the West ladies ; that she
had lived with. her as a house servant all her life ;
that she was married, and had a husb:tud at home,
and by her own request accompanied the witness to
England ; that she had one child, and was a most
affectionate mother ; that she h,ad no reason what-
ever to conceal her pregnancy, its the witness would
have taken care of her and- tho child ; it would have
been both her inclination and interest to have done so.
She addtd, that there was lately a young Lady in
their family who bad unjustly been suspected of preg-
nancy, who died of an internal complaint which gave
' her that appearance, which so much affected the poor
Negro girl at the bar, that sht was always exclaim-.
ing that she bad Miss James's dis4ae, and she should
die like her, and the witness beliived that the priso-
ner thought so.
The Learned Judge observed, that in this case the
Jury must acquit the prisoner, as it appeared the pri-
soner had a husband, whom she had not left long
enough to presume the child a bastard ; but even
without this, he presumed the Jury would not think
this a case for conviction. Verdict—Not Guilty.
MANSLAUGHTER.
Loan long was tried, on the Coroner's Inquest,
for k►lling and slaying John Pack, in the Borough of
Southwark.
The widow'of the deceased stated, that the priso-
ner and themselves lodged in the same house. On
the 26th of February they had all been out together,
and on their return host*, as she and her husband
were up stairs, the prisoner overheard her husband
say a something which displeased him ; upon which
he called out at the foot of the stairs If you have
any thing to say against me, Pack, why don't you
speak out like a man P' This protluced an alterca.
nee, whets the prisonmeatne up stairs and struck her
husband, which igsocked him (lowa oa the bed