The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-31 00:00:00

LAAT.IS7E R. MI uer' ::s.

(EXTRACT OF ♦ LETTER.)

The Court has been almost exclusively occupied in
trying the flaak prosecittions. which :ire this iiiiimetit
vended-NI by the Judge (Mr. Justice Park) passing sen-
tence on the delinquents capitally cons icted. the names
of n horn see—Samilel Taylor, .14111C4 Ti,t.q.e. John
pson, William Smith, Thoottai Ilag-crtv. Nanny
Provo, Jane Rork, Elizabeth Todd, John Tmis!, Phi-
lip lingers and Peter 31`Connark.
T. the int eight. the Judge, in his address. held out
hopes of merry, but kohl the three last that they mast
'Apra op mitigation, and that the law, as to them,
would certainly take its course. The wives of Todd and
and Rivers supplicated most earneselv fur merry to he
eth-wirti to their husbands, lint the Judge said it was
impossible lie could listen to their application:.
The following are those sentencisi to I 1 years' trans-
portation:—Juttie% heartier, Richard Joint
*tigleVl Peter llrmr,al, John Street, Ralph Meadow-
croft, Wentworth Poliaril. John II alimilev,
titans, John German, 11 Mimi' Jones, Elizarieth Ihmean,
John Ilill, TI s l ailaril. Dasid Margaiet
R.i::ers, Peter Itonn, 'I itoutas Morris, 'ii Campbell.
Francis Hagan.
Dunn, wh 1 mentioned to yen in my fernier letter
as Ileitis; convicted of murder. Han csiectiteil yesterday
i•iorni vox at the Castle ; be was a man of siotorionsly had
character. lie having bren fresinentiv lietsire trie•i for
iiilferent offences ; and as the ease *for which he was
il.ionied to sntfer was of a most wanton 21:3 desperate
ilsture, his fate escrited no sympathy or couniii.seration.
Ile met death with great brimless, sod fortitude, al.
t.,eingli a tear was at one t nit 'Asserted to trickle
ilown his cheek. His body teas dissected in less than
tour hours after execution.

The political rases which are for trial here are fiomr
ludittinrnis against men for issonisfai taring pikes; and
the caw against knight, Dewliurst, anti
'me others, for a conspiracy and riot (t_lo question in.
yolviog the legality "tithe inertia& at Huntley, on the
15th of November), and several ititlictineuts against
Wroe, the proprietor of the JhusrhePter 0.4, yerre,*, fur
libels on the Magistrates, Yeomen, and littis-
t• rs, in commenting on dot conduct pursued at the )1 a'i•
atelier Meeting. There k also an infOr:llati MI 10 he
tried against one Taylor, for distributing the letter of
r.tritsliaw to the Oldham Jury. It is not expected that
;./iy of these cases will come ou before Satitrit.ty next.

DEIVNSHIRE LENI' ASSIZES.

EXETER, MARCH IS.
FARTHING r. PfINE.

This was a case in a hich " doctors differed" in opinion,
to the right weeks excrutiating agony of their patient
tl.e plaintiff. It was an action brought hr Mr. Farthing.,
a working, and in part a master carpenter, living at Er-
mouth-dock, to recover a compensation in damages (non
tiie defendant, a sin-grim in considerable practice in that
place, for his inisimanagrment of a 'holm-mh, of the
fip-Dune and a dislocation of the afirle.bone, in rouse-
',toner of which the plaintiff had suffered the greatest
i:oJily anguish, atilt hail been rendered a cripple fur
iii It appeared that the plaintiff was on the scaffold
oft house a hid, was bui!ling, and fur want of the prayer
ties the front wall suddenly fell unto arils, and bark,:
tbe unfortunate than in the ruins. Ile aas taken tip iu
a most dreadful state. and carried liouie srarcelv alive.
The defendant, who had been in the habit of adending
tbe•family, was sent for, and he, finding that it was a
Case of a very complicated nature, called in Mr. Penke-
vi!, a brother surgeon. They both examined the patient;
nsing, as Mr. Penkevil Stated, the crrions teals to ohs-
cover whether any dislocation hail taken place, and,
dog satisfied that there was nut, treated the sive:neg..
in the first instance as a common ciiionsiotf.`ind not
finding the appliration successful, they treated them as
wising from sernfnla. The patient begered on in this
way for about eight weeks: at the expiration of which
p.riod the attending surgeons at last discoverer! that
dislocation had a it's:illy taken place, but they attributed
it to scrofula, and therefore is. Id it to be incurable. In
this hopeless state, the wife having from the first been
convinced that there had been dislocation (she haling•
been a sufferer in the Sallie ski:. as urn as her
Fent for Mr. Tripe, also a surgeon at Plymouth-duck.
Mr. Tripe,svith the usual feeling of professional iteiwacy,
Oeclined to interfere without first consulting the de-
-1 indent : he therefcre called upon him, and was told
tat there had never been any original dislocation, and
tt:at the dislocation which had been lately discovered
es the effect of scrofula. Mr. Tripe then priipuseil to
• xamine the patient with a certain Punisher of professional
.mends on each side. This offer was da lined, Mr. Pone
..ctilaring that he was au satisfied with the iairreetness of
i• is opinion that nothing was likely tochange it. Mr. Tripe
ti en, accompanied by Ile. Magrath and Mr. Isbell, ex-
amined the patient, and feeling satisfied that there hail
l.ecn an original dislocation, determined to attempt the
r rdurtion, being first convinced that the patient had not
the least symptom of scrofula( Perviously, however,
to the operation, Mr. Tripe thought proper to comma-
m.cate his intentions to Mr. Bone, who still persisted in
I.:a notions sal scrofula, adding, that he al lil feel it is
duty to warn the femily of the extreme danger to be ap-
prehended from the operation. lie did so, but was not
snatemful in slials:ng faith of the plaintiff, and the
operation was performed, the plaintiff having been kept
in a state of continued extension (literally the torture of
the rack) for about twenty minutes, when the bone
slipped into the soilet, the plaintiff exclaiming that lie
was now relieved from the dreadful anguish that lie had
suffered so long. The hip, in the usual course of time,
recovered; but the ancle-bone hail assumed such a state
of rigidity, that it was impossible for any thing to be
dare; the loss of that limb was tbetafoso areidrd.
On the part of the plaintiff, witnesses were called to
show, that, previous to the acriiient, the plaintiff was a
verfect.forrned man, but that now his foot was completely
deformed, and lie was not likely to do any work again.
The nurse who attentlcil. him a wore that the lrit hail
every appearance of dislocation, and said that the plain-
tiff's right leg bad so turned round that she was obliged
to put a pad upon the foot, to prevent the toe-nail Irons
ratting the other leg, and that this was wider the con-
staat view of the defendant, who expressed his wonder
at the reason why one leg was shorter than the other.
Mr. Tripe, Dr. Magratli, and Mr. Isbell, were also
called ; anal they all concurred in opinion that the dis-
locations were the result of violence, anal must, therefore,
have existed at the time the plaintiff was first placed
under the care of the defendant.
On the part of the defendant Mr. Penkevil was called,
who deposed to his waking use of all the usual tests,
and expressed his conviction that there hail bean no ori-
ginal dislocation, and that the course of treatment
adopted by the defendant was perfectly proper: He,
however, could not account for the subsequent disloca-
tion ; it was certainly one of those phenomena in nature
for which no cause could be assigni4l. It was certainly
not the result of scrofula. because, if it had, the reduc-
tion never could have taken place. This account was
confirspedbviLbe apprentice of the defendant, who was
a ne
also his , a very young man, with a very great
koosrlede of surgical teruis.
About llooeu of the most respectable medical gentle-
s's:o were thee Ingamioed, who all stated, that, sup.
posing **Mists mentioned by Mr. Penkevil had been
gcsotted to, there could not have been an original dials-