The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-11 00:00:00

l'IlE STATESMAN.

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had got a drink of porter, from her husband? and that
es soon as she got it she turned badly. About the
darkening witness wentsaird saw her in her bed, and
always callihg for writer. She did not bay to witness
then that she hall been poisoned. . .
Christian Turnbull was a little acquainted with
the deceased ; has sometimes heard her coropla.in of
had usage from her husband; hut witness did not
1 beiieve her: saw her on the Thursday before her
i death, she seemed in perfect health : heard of her
I death on Saturday night about It o'clock. Witness
went to the Panel's house, and asked him when his
wife was there ; he said in the• forenoon, and had
;topped a little; had asked for small beer; but Wil-
liamson, the brewer's; servant, having come to the
door, gave her a jug of porter, and drank a tumbler
1 himself. Witness told him he would never give her
another, as she was no more. Ha said he was very
sorry for it, hut could not. help it.
.Witness asked
him for some linen to wrap the body ; he said ;.e hell
' no women's -hifts. Witness asked him for sheets
and he sail he had none ready ; that she had not
lived with him for I'2 months, and he would hare no•
thing to do with her. Mr. Sl`Daug"l, who accompa-
nied the witness, 'aid, he had never divorced her, and
must hero her; to this he made nu arise cr; and •it.
ne•s's husband having come she went away. The
Panel seemed a little surprised when he heard of hi,
wife's death.
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Several other witnesses were examined nn the part
of the prosecution and also in esculpation. From
their evideose it appeared that .the deceased was
a woman strongly addicted to dri..king, and other
bad habits. • It was proved that she had acted with
great violence toward,' her hasternd, and repestedty
threatened to do him. an injury. Three witnesses
proved that she had frequently said she would have
him hanged, and that she would drown or poison
herself, in order t.) bring him to disgrace.
The Loan A ncocaTE charged the Jury on the part
of the Crowit, and in going over the evidence pointed
out such parts as, taken together, warranted the
Jury to return a verdict of Guilty lie, however,
with thecomments he had made, left the else ewirely
with the Jury. .
Mr. JARDINE, in a most animated and energetic
speech, defended the Panel, cnsnheied the arguments
of the Learned Lord. T e Learned Counsel went
over the evidence at considerable length, and con-
cluded by.rin appeal to the Jury, whether they would
give credit to the word of a woman of the abandoned,
*retched, and wicked habits the deceased had been
proved to be, or the statement of the Panel, ifter the
character he had received from a to:st of uiltresses.
Ile confident's hoped for a verdict of not Guilty.
The Loan jusTicaCLaria. suointeil up the avitlence
insa very !sir eye) impartial mariner at cansOlerable
length, Pointing oat with the nicest precision the
evidence as it tended fur Of against the Panel. His
Lordship gave 'peat weight to the eicellent character
of the Prisoner ; and the Jury having returned into
Clurt after five minute,' absence, returned a one.
nimou% verdict, finding- the iirdictmen! Nut proven.
The. Loan Just ice CLERK, after a few ..voriis ad.
dressed to the l'inel, assolized him siatpliater, and
dismissed him front the bar.
Before leaving the bar, the Panel put Hs hand
upon his breast, and said, " M y Lords and Gentle.
men of the Jury, I solemnly drtlare 1 am niA godly."

The declaration of the Panel was admitted.
Dr. James Monteath was called in the beginning of
March (Suneay the Ist) to visit the body of the de-
ceased ;he was employed by Baillie Alack.en to in.
@Peet the Panel's house, to see if any thing of a
poisonous nature was there ; inspected the house very
minutely ; every drawer or vessel was inspected, but
he found nothing. He saw• something ow the-door
which the servant said had been throwo.up by the de-
ceased. lie gave the substance collected to Dr. Thom-
son to be analyzed, and went to the boas,. in the Salt-
mai kso, where the deceased was, to inspect the body ;
it was a eoosi deal swelled, with purple spots, often
nccabioned by sudden death ; opeised the body, found
a hardness its the stomach ; ou opening the stomach
found the upper part of it much inflamed. His opi-
niets then was, that the deceased died an unuatural
death, in coneequence of some strong chymical subs
stance having heels taken. The deleterious matter
could not be discovered, • nevertheless persons
Inie„lit die of poison without chyteists detecting
the metallic poison, nein to the violent vomit-
ing§ which take piece. Witness anti another
rbymist tried to analyze a brown livid found
in the stomach, both with the tests of arsenic,
'corrosive sublimate, and mercurial preparation`, but
could make nothing of it ; but it is proper to men-
thes, that there is a substance in use which can de-
feat all attempts io discover those deleterious ingre-
dieote.viiitsout a strong galvanic operation. The up-
. .e
pieraece of the stomach and intestines ceul,l not
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It iiye: 1)? se from 3 nature! disease, 110 r from immode-
rate use of spirits. Witneis never saw any thing
equal to it, particularly the charred appearance.—
Noising was capebte of producing it but some vio-
lent chymicei agent. Witness conceited the poison
to hate been mineral; ind that merciirial ; and he
thlirkig;:ven,as a wider, titmouse it was confined to
eeitte. particular parts of the stomach, whereas, if
adMinistered as a fluid, it would have been morel,
diThised. jl
'Vr. Thrones Thomson, professor of chytnistry
its
the iinivetsity: of 'Oltvgow, received!' the sobitante
found in she stoma* end intestinei, end what was
thrown up, along with the striniech itself, to be On- I
• wilier, and analyzed, and detect a mineral poison,
because a vegetable poison cannot be gefeeted by any
in;;alis the witness is acquainted with; de-
fect no mineral poison whatever. 'the stomach ap.
pesred 'to be corincied ; . tin& he halt nn doabt the
stele of the stomach os:caelioted deith, but he could
not Jong, how, the corrnsioh tuck place. lie has
seen similar appearances from poison, but he is not
sure that natural 'di4vases might not produce a simi-
lei effect. There are mad y different effects pro.
deceit by poisons, et thcsiine 'titre one is liable to
be Misiokrti trues the statue of the poison and state
of the stomach. Witness' had a suspicion that Cur.
rsieise sublimate bad been taken by the deceased, be.
sea:use he had seen similar effects• produCedfrom it
before: Witness has seen an experiment made .UPois
a dog, and it was found that four grains of corrosive
suidimate would pniion a large jog, and after his
death no trace of the poison could be found; and if
the thoesan'ilth Part of ligroin had been in the matter
vospittd off the stomach, it would hive been disco.
+Hired. Witness does not pretend to account for this,
bust he thintts it must have been absorbed by the ate-
tern. Many pamphlets have been written on the sub-
ject. Witness has seen the stomach of a dog poison-
ed stills corrosive sublimate have similar appearanises
to the stomach of the deceased. Witness has sects
the stotnechs of petsons who had died Susi been very
mach addicted to drinking, but never saw them cor-
soiled in the sump part as in this stomach.
John Fairlie, shoemaker, Sattmarket of Glasgow.
..Knew the deceased for about twelve months before
her death ; she came to lodge in witness's house'on
the sth of January last, where she remained to her
death. She had been separated from her husband
some rime before. On the 2Sth of Febiusry the tie.
ceased said she was going to see her husband. Whet
she went out she was in perfect health. Upon her
return she seemed like one int olicated, saying, Jamie
hail dine for her mow. She said she had gone to her
husband's •hop, and asked him for a bottle of beer,
and he said he would not break a bottle of beer, but
would give her a bottle of porter ; that upon drink-
g the porter she found herself taken ill, and came
off. W;lttess endeavoured to conifinee her that her
husband hid not given her any poison. She com-
plained of a burning at her stomach, drank a great
deal et cold water, and died about eleven o'clock at
night. Some days before her death, witness's son
was reading Buehan's Domestic Medicine, and the
deceased asked five or sic times the exact name of
corrosive sublimate ; witness told her it was a drug
she had no business with, but upon her urging hint
lie told tier.
llobert Stevenson knew the deceased. On the
Friday'before.her death site compleined to the wit-
ness of the wanner in which she had been used by
her husband. Witness is a rat-catcher; nod about a I DREADFUL EFFECTS OP Boxlx3.—On Wedness
month, or perhaps more, before his wife died, the clay night last, in consequonce of a quarrel, as we
- 'Panel told witness he was plagued %sith mice or rats; ourterstaiel, a father and son repaired into the siseet,
ardithe would gore him sohle stuff to kill them, he at the corner of White Hart-streei, to
esrae: give l!ire abottle a potter. Panel said, if fight. In one round the young men knocked down
tie litoi stone 'Prepared to give him a little clears poison, i his father, when he was heard to say he was bleeding
he would roll the candles in it, and if they ate them to death, and in a moment he was weltering in
it Vi Oeld 101 them. This conversction happened on blood ;in which state he w,atecarried to Alr. Cole's,
the pavement opposite the Patters door. Witness Surgeon, of Charles.streei, Cosint.prden, for as.
neves gave him any, nor ever saw him afterwards. sistance. A desperate wend was. found on•liis leg,
Maly Wood knew the deceestd. On the day she
which perforated some of the blood-Ossels. Mr.
died svit,less met her coming into the house, and saw Cole dressed the wound, ind the patiopt was then
niter takingiolf her mantle, saying, she was gone— conveyed in a hackney-coach to the Middlesex no,.
oas very bad, sick) and torlitiag, and said she pital, in a dangerous couditioo) where he now lies.

COURT OF SESSION. JUNE 33.
TAIT 0. DIM.
The Presbytery of Dundee, ny a judgment of the
11 of July, 1814, atfi►med by different sentences of
the Synod of Angus end .learns, deposed the De-
fender in this case, the Rev. Mr. Aleva•ulor
Minister of lochtore, from the ollite of the Holy
Ministry, on." charge made by his servant, Sarah
Tait, trial he was the father of a child of which she
had been delivered. Against that sentence the Rev.
Gentleman appealed
.to the General Assembly, which
met at Edinburgh, in May, 1815, sod upon the 25th
of that month, after hearing Counsel for the Appel-
lant against the sentence, and seeeral Members of the
Synod in support of it, the. Assembly, by a m.jority
of votes (78 to 51) teversed the same, and found
hat the libel agaipat Ibtr. Davie wee not gupported by
setisfectory evidence; end disnitssed the same as not
proven.
Not withstin,ling this judgment of the Supreme
Church Judicatory, the girl. Sarah Tait, persisted
io her action for aliment of the child before the Civil
Courts, and which, after a proof, and various steps
of procedure in the inferior and supreme Guilt,
which it is unnecessary to detail, came before Lord
Alloway as Ordinary, who found that there was a
se miplena pi °lndia, and allowed the Pursuer's oath
in supplement to betaken, mind which was Recording-
ly done, and sealed up. Against the Lord Ordinary's
interlocutor :sir. Davie appealed by Petition to the
Inner House, but which was refused on the 19th'
of February last, and the oath ordered to be opened
up. Upon the 27th of the same month the oath
was opened up, when it was found that the
Pursuer had sworn, in the most Unequivocal terms
to the connexion with the Defender; and, upon the
3d of March last, the Lord Ordinary pronounced
decreet against the Reverend Defender for aliment
of the illegitimate child, and in•l.ying charges,
iu
terms of the libel, with expences. On the 7th of
MMa►ch these expellees, in consequence of this long
protracted litigation, were modified to, in whole,
2931. ss. 10(1.; and Mr. Davie having petitioned,
out on the merits of the case, but as to the amount
of expeoces, considerable part of -ithich, he contend-
ed, he was not bound to pay, the Court this day re-
fused his petition, with additional expense. The
cause, therefore, is now final end conclusive against
Mr. Davie, unless he chooses to carry it to the Court
of last resort.

'WILLIAM INMATE AND THOMAS OLIYHR.
The battle betty/eel) these heroes took place on
Friday, never was there a pugilistic combat so
gallantly maintained, and comprehending so many
changes, as the present one. Olirer had fought him-
self up to pugilistic eminence, -although defeated -by
Curler. Neate, from the Bristol nursery, hail never
before fought a pitched battleTe but he was highly
spoken of, and in this instead. he realised all the es-
pectations of his hackers.' A Apacions ring was first
formed in Bulstrode Park, Rucks, an a beautiful
eminence, hut the ..Matisirates interfered ; and tie
cavalcade, which Jitieil:sis miles ot g.infutl; hurried
off to Mill Etirl,'over-a•ynirgli road or-many miles.—
Here,the battle was' fpught4, and betting was 11 to 8
upon Neale. Seconds—Cribb and Belcher- for their
countryman, end Jones and: Clark fur Oliver.
Round 1. After some fAnts Id measure Bullet, Neate, in
hiring short, wit- returned 'upon slight!y, and he threw out his
right hand, which floored Oliver by a blow on the ,firoat.
Y. Both men hit shot t, and iu a confused meeting Neate went
down by an overbalance,.
Y. Neate produced lust blood from the hack of his neck;
Oliver placed a smart body how upon his ribs. and broke
ground, and Neste missed a tremendous right-handed lunge. A
rally follow ed, in which much spit it was shown, bat Oliver's
science gave him the best, although he was well hit. Neale was
knocked down - 6 to 4 on Oliver.
4. Oliver, primed upon his mettle, commenced a rally, but
the men overhO ihemselves and both weed nowt.
b. A ro.igul of seer') calumets took place, but it was occupied
in cautious onanceuvring. Oliver hitting w Benoit the force of
the hotly with it, seemingly not to have a repe.ition of the eight-
handed Lisle in the firs; 'men I. They e‘rhunged frequent hits
and separated, and in rally log Neate went down. •
6. Decidedly in favour of Oliver, who planted one or two
hits w ith much piety and floored his adversary, who had re-
treated io the ropes—?. and .3 to 1 on Oliver.
7. Oliver bled freel front the mouth, and a manly round was
fought, rather in fay..ter ..f Nettie, who cot Oliver severely upon'
the chin. After a ruffianly rally both went down.
8. Oliver steadied himself, And Neate made play at him, and
floored him by a heavy hit upon the forehead, which produced
a stream of claret —b to 4 on Neste.
9. Neale slipped in making play.
Id. A resew ditties:: monad in favour of Oliver, who closed
with his adversa,y, and gained the fall.
11. A bloody round in a strong trial of 'courne, and Neati
had none the Woi,4t Or it, alehoogh lie cot pinked about the nob,
and there were strong symptoms of the Chancery suit. Both hi
themselves tiredoatied both down.
12. Oliver -hawed weakness, and had the worst of thermic&
which brought belling even.
13. A severesallying round, and Neale was hit down-6 to
on Oliver. ;
14. Neate hail rather the best be rallying. but he was thrown.
Time will not pernsit us to enter into a tort her detail of the
rounds, as the sports were not over untd dusk. 23 miles from
London. Oliver brought the betting lit to I in 116 favour in the
nineteenth rewind ; but tee the seeleseqaelet round Neate gave Ist
adversary a nosh hit en the jaw , which dropped biro as if
pistol ball had hit him, and the light was sup; Ito be ended,
Oliver, however, like a true bull dog, sx,gzered up '
his adver ary in-the neat, :tali was floored again, theeding troi
thecars. Ile preitiany recovered, but its the ':9th and 311t1t emend.
he was hit senseless Ph his adversary's right halal, and coul.
not be hi ought tip again. 'I he :tattle lasted one tenor ilia, three
'Dinettes, and was a real game one. Loth were hideously it;
said Neate's jaw had an craumenta/ screw.
i'Vest Country Dick was beat in ten minutes, b..
Hudson.
S. Davis, Neate's cousin, beat Belarco, the Jew
with much gallantry, in fourteen minutes.
A novelty presented itself on the ground in
splendid he ronche and four, in .w Inch were two Ladies,
who viewed tho fight with much attention.

BO R D OF EXCISE, Jun- 10.

THE KING V. LEACH.
John Leach. a dealer in tea and coffee, in Union-street,
Spiral. fields church asis charged with having a qiianiiiy r
vegetable ingredients in his possession, called " Vegetabi
Pander," and with selling -war of the same.
Charles Henry Lord, an officer of Excise, stated. that he weal
to Defendant's SIMI, MI the kith of April, and purchased
onnee of coffee, for which he paid him three-halfm nee;
asked hioi if he had any vegrtahl- powder in his possession
he said that he had no such thing; he told arm that he sins a
officer of disci, and stained him his comini.sion; upon scare!
Wig. he found one 110 Is ad All! a half of vegetable powder, a lei..
was not collet... Lady, another Excise officer, had purchased
an ounce of tii ee halfenny coee rior to his "Itlic: int ll'
Defendant's shop. Hep purchaseffd an ounce of coffee as wso II
'Lady.
ikendant.— I deny that Lord purchased an mince of coffee.
CommissllONEtt.—bid you, Lord, purchase au ounce of cur•
fee, or not
Lord.— Yes, your 11..n00r ; I am •toisli, d I purchased col
fee, nod gave a sample of it to Mr. }tube-t.
Mr. Hebert, dealer in tea add coffee, Iligh-street, iforom
being stn n, said, that he received a idicitl pare I from Lin
and upon examining it. he found it contained a mixture of i
getsble powder and e. free.
The Defendant persisted, in a very determined manner, II
Lord, the officer, had mo purchased any coffee of ham ; he :
ini:ted that Eady, the officer, had purchased an ounce. a dt,
time before Lord came in.
Spencer, an officer of C,xeise, said, that ha. was 44 Kiting 01
side of the door d•trisg the time land went into the shop ;
waited until he saw him go nu the inside the count 'r, and
he went into the shop. Ile did out see Lord inirchase any
fee; lie believed that Lord told him that be had, but he did
see the coffee In- purchased.
The Court dismissed the information.
TILE KING V.
The Defendant was charged upon seven different Infarma.
lions with receiving into his possession large quantities
liquor used for making vinegar. unbent gicutg notice to
EXriSle, and no one information with obarutaing the ollicyr s,
taking stock of the liquor be had on it. premises. The utheer
s
and niint-sses examined, proved that the Defendant seas a sitte-
r:lt-maker, in Tooley•street, Borinigh, aid upon the evidence,
Defendant was cons bled on the first information •ii the ;tin of
141., in she second and third 51. each. in the fowl
h (for ohs nh.ct-
ing the officer :old preventing him from taking an account of
his stock) '.101., in the fifth 51., the sixth information sans
missed, and the seventh withdrawn.
Tar: taxa in Taollas ovcr.o.
This Defendant, an ex ienbrve dealer in tea and coffee. iu
Sun-street, Itishopsgate, and White Cross-street, Cripplepte,.
appeared to an information, charging him a ith having in his
possession. and a ith disposing of is quantity of alike deleterious
ingredient inised lip with coffee.
I ord, the officer, deposed. that on the Stith of Yehrisary last
he found at the first named shop of the Defendatt.t,liftbs. a elght
of a composition consisting of peas and beaus; griand and pee'
pared E 0 as to imitate coffee. Ile also discovered npis ands at
neigh! of a mixture of coffee and a vegetahle ponder. On
the same day he proceeded so the shop o;* the Defendant in-
White Cross-street, and he there found Sits . more of
:MOO it till'
staipis•s of the mixed and unmixed composliion were pro-
duced in Court.
Mr. I.llVe.s, for the Defendant. addressed the Commissioners.
He did not deity the offence, but merely spoke is
His Client was a very young man, and had been most unfortu-
nate in business. ladepeadent of this, the practice of re'liing
coffee and tea as described had raaaiime so general, that he sins
not auare until Intel% of the existence of any law which made
the •ale a punishable offence.
One of the Coustisstomarts remarked that they had a double
duty to perform, namely, to prutect the If.cs nine from fraud,
and to have the Public protected from injury alit wisposation by
having poisonous ingredients dealt out to tkem iasteaci of that
wholesome beverage they intended to purchase. Th fraud upon
she Revenue. lie added. was, iu the estimation of the Court, the
least part of the otience
Under all the ciscionstances. however, the Court was in.
clioed tip be lenient innards the Defendant, attd he was cola.
aided 'lathe penalty of oIS fur each offence.
his I .

DILL).
t)n the Dill instant, lobo Sprat, Esq. of Clapham-common,
arts
On tho 7 It instant, at Teignmouth, Decorothire. Mary, relict
of the late John Smith, E. 41 of Summer Castle, Lancashire. •
On the ',lt isrount. at her house tit , Betio, Lady
Lindsay. %solos, of General sir I..Lisid Lindsay, Part.
On the fin two at her hoole in Portland-street. Kinvtlown,
iu the 74th year of hang( , \lts. J t d ita 13az,u, formerly
of ibc Island of Jerry.