The Sun. — 1826-08-05 (London, England)

ITER.  Robert Renton, a person of most respectable appearance, was placed at the bar for the purpose of being arraigned on the coroner's charging him, with feloniously killing and slayingßobert 'Beaton, the younger, his son, a child of . tender years, by striking him on the bead with a leather strap, armed with a buckle, at Bromley, in July last. A bill of indictment had been preferred against him for the same homicide, but it was ignored by the Grand Jury. Before he was put to plead to the inquisition, a conference took place between Mr. Adolphus, for the Crown, and the Learned Judge, as to the sta. ciency of the record. It seemed that the inquisition omitted to state any venue, either in the margin or in the body of the record, and consequently the Learned Judge being of, opinion that this was a fatal objection, directed the inquisition to be quashed. There was another objection to the inquisition, which would also have been fatal— namely, as to the mode by which the death of the child was stated to have been occasioned. Before the prisoner was removed from the bar, Mr. Adolphus, with the permission of the Learned  Judge, said a few words to the jury upon the subject of the lase which had thus so satisfactorily terminated. Some nterest was no • doubt excited in their minds by the naLure of the offence, from which the unhappy gentleman at [he bar had been discharged—an offence at which human nature recoiled. As Counsel for tilt prosecution, it would  have been his painful duty to state the circumstancts of the case, had not the Learned Judge, with that pAspicuity for which his mind was so much distinguished, discerned in the outset, a fatal objection to the frame of the record, which had happily spared the jury the misery of at, most melancholy inquiry, and the prisoner the heart-rending recital of a calamity with which, at this moment, . his soul was absorbed in unutterable grief. In the determination, of the Learned Judge, upon the objection alluded to, he Most respectfully and heartily .concurred ; and he was happy to state, that a heart-broken parent wiui not doomed to the torture of. baying it made the subject of deliberate inquiry, whether he had pr had not caused the death of his own child. No man could answer for the efTects of an accident, which had brought upon him so great a calamity as the loss of a child, upon whomhe dilated with parental tenderness. It was due to the gentleman at the bar to say publicly, that by accident icilimp he bad been bereft of the solace—the stay of his defl J s. tad gone abroad ,11112" g Years ; that he had lost a promising and beautiful 4PnYt' ni)-Idr eirettmstancoi of the greatest affliction. Redeath, It had been. 4 ' of the most unjust and cruel desriPti"i tui tiny respeeted the inner of the child's beaten his son with 4.l*e . dithat the father bud barbarously his ~,k,lll. He otr. .4t-, V of a chair, and bed fractured . , " I us from a careful eonsmeratiorlht ) w" Coroner, authorised to say, Imid upon subsequeoli:ill that appeared before the not the most remote shadow of piquiry, that there was The fact wag, that the child, .having nth in such a statement. t. of disobediunce, tiw filth ac • tr• 1.44 he lawful y welt? hod