The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1817-08-13

men, gcntlcnen, (said his Lordship 10 the
Jufy,) know that this presumption Of the lsv
is often wrong, and that the husband is too
often coereed by the wife "a iargh )--so
however it Is that IL the two commit rob-
be'y togsther, the husband only is suswera-
BILE, although the wife may have instigstcd
him to the deed, as, whilst she is with hin,
he 10 slwsys considered to eoeree her. ! be-
lievs have made myself intelligi ible, though
perhaps my Information may not be very hal-
asabie---it is not our business to enquire Why
the raw is SO, but il is our duty TO ACT as il re-
quirss--and therefore, gentlemen, you mus,
acqvit the female prisoner" The Jvry ae-
cordingly acquitted tho wife, and found Will
liam hubert guilty..
A short time since, we published an sccount
OF Tho discovery OF snake, enclosed in solid
mass OF hard coal, at the depth Of one hun.
dred and fifty feet from tho surface Of the
sround, In coal pit 10 E0gland. The fol.
towing article contains parallel case of q
different animal. enclosed in different, but
not less extraordinary prison, ip this country.
From the New- York Daily Advertiser.
(. il 10 not yet satisfactorily atcertaincd upon
what principle certain species of the animal
creation; apparently requiring air for the pur-
poses ofrespiration, can fora long time ex.
ist when totally excluded from tho atmos-
phere. Among many instances of this Da-
lure, may be mentioned one Of which occur.
red some weeks since at NIiddletowp, III
Connecticut. AT Mr.. Stephen Miller's Mill
in that place, was saved an uncommonIy
large pine log, from which six boa, ds were
taken out of each side. The log contained
two hundred AID twenty rings, or grsiss, one
Of which is annually formed by the growth
Of the treo. In the middle Of the log was
found hollow place abou, two feet long, and
about the size of mso's hst-erown. When
the tree was fclled tho hole must probably,
have been nine or ten feet from the earth.
From this hollow place, when opened at one
end by the saw, hoped out q pretty large
toad rather biaekcr than usual, and displayed
as much activity as is common to ns family.
After few hopes it jumped down the saw
pit, plunged into the mill-pond, and dissp-
peared. As thero was no holo IN the sides,
or in say part Of tho log, except directly IN
the center, il is supposed by some that when
the tree wss young, the toad, then probably,
extremely small, had crept into some little
defective aperture, since closed rp by tho
growth Of the tree, and had re msined there
ever si1ce, gradually moro and moro enclos.
ed as the pine increased in size. As the tree
Grev, tho hole must have grown in proper
ton 80 that, in process OF time, the toad
must, Of course, have been greatly relieved
ftom his crampcd position, and tpally ac.
com modsted with snug drawiDg!rocu,, 10
which nothing was wanting but the company
OF his friertls.
II, according 10 the Py,hsgoresu dos,,ine
ofHausmigration, this recluse had opcs been
Non, and il the wand of an enchanter could
have restored him to his human form and
voice, II would have been pleasant to learn
from him some particulars of our coontry at
tho distance of two centuries past, and to lis.
ten to garruloos old age reeoun,ipg tho bis
,o'y Of days of yore. He was probably, when
released from prison, the oldest living crea-
ture IN the United States. Admitting the
humcnify OF the toad, oopjectures might have
been an Indian Saehem Of the Pequod or
Mohegan tribe, or one Of the old settlers OF
Plymouth, New.York, or Virginia. A cal
cuiation of probabilities, founded upon the
supposed period Of his Incarceration in the
tree, would naturally inclino minute Chrome
logis,s to the adoption of the former eonjec-
lures in preference TO the latter.
AEddletown, Conn. July, 1917.
Cases of this kind ore frequent. Toads
have been fousd, as is said, and Is undoubted.
~ true, in the centre of tho most solid and
imgery;ous bodies, even in rocts--snd in all
Of them that We recollect, they have shcwes
symptoms OF life upon being first discovered
In the instspee of the snake above -slladed
20, he moved out his bed, but expired upon
meettug the open air.--The toad, in this case
hoped out Of his hole, into the water, and
dissrpeared.-whe,hcr be dicd or lived was
not known.
Whether this, which, st the hrst impres.
sion, arpears to be . mystery, has ever been
explained, or not, we Go moi ksssss Isis GER
tainly astonishing, thar 90 animal Of the sixs
OF toad, could live the length Of time that
is here supposed, and which seems 10 be ra-
,ionslly supposed, with no more air than
could have been contained in its cell, snd sp-
paren,ly wi,hou, any food. Il would scarce
ly sppcar possible, that any creature who
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