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    • Proceeds, dub to the Executive from the sale of Messrs. Crow and Tyrreli's breakfast powder, for the week ending the 13th of August:— ¦¦ •;
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      Lavender . William , Bury-street , Salford . li » Tatt , H . chard , tobacconist , Market-street . iets , George , print -works . Strangvwsya . Lees , 5 Crown and Thistle , Half-street Xrong . James , saciciler , 55 arket-Strett . Moon , James , cotton-dealer . Milne , -, liqujur merchant , Apple-market . Msa § her , Edward , tailor , Trumpeter . Oilier , — , ( sou of D . ' . Oilier ) . Oliver , Alexander , ( son of the publican onShude-hiil ) . 3 » - > Uard , Jonathan , Jan .. cotton-spinner , Aocoats . P . xton , William , jaa ., butcher , Stretforl .

      P'ckering , Thomas , late coachman to ilr . Kay . Pa } ant , William , \ rine merchant , Fonn&in-street . Pitt , J . M ., dascing master . 12 , Bridge-street Rogers , Benjamin , coinmissisn agect , Oxford-street . R ^ -t , J ;> hn &' « obe , Gartaide-street KalngiU , Porter , butcher , Stretford . Savage , , Stretfoid , quack-doctor . Shaweos 3 , James , near Fiixton . Shein . r «\ Hne , Tnomas , { for John Collyer , dyer , Springfield-lane , Salford ! , Sharp , K ., iron-dealer , Market-street . Smith , Joan . Sha-w ' s-bTO-w . Salxord , < son of the landlord of the York Minster , D 3 anseate ) . Stott , TVi'iiani , 9 , Parsonage , stable-keeper . Simpson , Richird , cotton-spinner , Miller ' s-lana . Street , Samuel , rarveyor , Bridat-strefet . of

      Sykcs , ( s- ^ n the landlord , Tib-Btreet ) . « Sbawcroas , Wiiiiam , labourer , Sheffield . Tebbat , Edward , manufacturer , Peei-atrect Trjlet , John 69 , Bridge-street . Tflorpe . R .-btrt , surgeon , Taylor , Robert , sadler , Stretford isubstitute for Peter Huint ;) . Turner , William , for Smaith . and Ingle , paper-makers . TFi : biE £ ton , Robert , Torner'a V" ^ Pendleton ,. warehouse , £ ick-s . q [ uare . Wilde , James , surgfeon , Eedes . " Wi' . £ s > B , K . chard , Albion Hots ] , { son of the landlord ; . Whitlaw , Meadowcroft , Richard , attorney . "Wsrd , William , pinuber and glsz ' er . Dsansgate . Wfcttrortb , James , Back Bridge-street , ( for CbeBhyre , Xxi . ova . ty . )

      The accompanying Engraving repiesent 3 the horrible scene , just when the "heroes" were hard at irork . Let the " heroes" look upon it , and refresh their memories respecting their courageous " deeds ia axnss " 1 It is a redeced copy of a large Engraving Issued soon afi ^ r the dreadful massacre ; and an enlarged copy of a Yignette on the title-page of -Hvish's iife of Hixry Hcst . Mr . Hurrr , as will be seen from the Afcrcury's account , was arrested . Indeed , his arrest was made the pretext for the bntchery and massacreing indulged : n by the "heroe ? . " After he had surrendered himself to Mr . Xxdis . tee citll officer

      and as be passed alons in the custody of the policecmccrs , he was assailed by the Eabresof the cavalry and the trnncheons of the specials . He ¦ was wounded in the hand . Indeed a plot had been formed amongst the constables to huve him murrJered . Tbev were to press in upon him . and the effietrs who had him in charge ; detach him from ihin ; Naeis wss lo haTe cried " an escape" ! and then lie Tecmanry were to baTe used their newly , sharpen .-d swords 11 He defeated this hellish Echrmc by mere presecce of mind . He was a strong powerful man . He seized hold of Nadin , and , as it were , kept him in custody , as an hostage for hi 3 own safety .

      He was remanded , at first , on a charge of High Treason . This , however , was socn given up , and he ¦ was indicted for conspiracy , sedition , and riot . On this indictment he was tried , at York , along with eight others , an the 22 nd of March , 1820 . . Mr . Hot defended himself ; and a glories "defence it was . The trial lasted ten dais ; and the Jury returned a verdict that the defendants were " guilty of assembling , and attending , an unlawful meeting . " As he afterwards iumourously declared , they TFonld hare found him " guilty of shetp-Jtealing , "

      on the same evidence , had his persecutors put the charge a ^ aiiist him in that shape . He wa& an cfilndtr ol' clais prrjadice 3 . Class prejudices , therefore , had 10 2 ay him ty the heels , lz did so . . It leiorsed a Terdict of ' guilty ; and in pursuance of thzi v . rdict he vns sentenced to two-and-a-half years imprisonment in Uchester Gaol , and to ficd security for his good behaviour for fivejeais , himself in £ , '• ¦ > 0 «> 3 , aud two sureties in £ 500 "each . That imprisonmem he served—every day of it ! The savage inhuman sentence was exacted to" the letter !

      And who were the ateliers and shieldess of the perpetrators of these deeds of blood ? Tfee-K £ GE . vr z \ A ths Ministers ! The Regent , through Sidhoctfi , expressed his "GREAT SATISFACTION "' " ! !! at the mtaiures of the Magistrates on . the tloc-dy cay ; and he tendered his "HIGH APPROBATION" ' . Ml to the Yeomanry for their cuttings andslashings ; sabringsandtrampliDgsdown of * ' his people" when peacefully assembled 1 HetiiauJced them for KILLING FIFTEEN PERSONS 1 and for wounding four hundred and twentyfour others ! FIFTEEN WERE KILLED ! Here sre their EsmesJ When ars we to hare a Monument erected to their memory ; and in execration of the men who killed them ] . ¦ ¦

      1 Thomas Ashwortb , Bull's Head , Manchester . Special constable . 2 J ; in Ascton , Co-irxiill , near Oldtam . 3 Thomas Bulfcbv , Baretrees , Cbadderton . 4 James Crampton , Barton-upcn-Sowell . 5 William Diwson , Saddlc-wcrtli . 6 JcLa Lee , Oldhain . . 7 Anhar 0 Itetil , Pid ^ eon-street , Manchester . S Jthn Raodes , Pitts , Hopwood . 3 Josepa WMtwcrta , Hyde . 10 Vi Lliam Bradshaw , Lilly Hiil , near Bury .

      WOMEN . 1 Mary Heys , Rawlinson ' s Buildings , Oxford Boaa , Alszcb ester . 2 Sarah Jor . es , SHk-Etreet , Manchfcsttr . 3 Martha . Pirticgton , Eccles . -4 ilaivsret Downts , concealed by her friends . ¦

      rsrAST . Ffldes , Kennedy-street , Manchester Fudes , Kennedy-street , Manchester .

      1 15 Killed . Into the transactions of that day , no enquiry has e ~ er yet been had 1 Punishment of no sort , nor even censure , has ever been iDflicted npoa any of the parties who ordered , or those vtho execate"d , tni 3 hoTrible assault I Parliamentary msjorities stifled inquiry there ! The Grand Jury at Lancaster stifled inquiry there !

      And has no punishment of avy son been inflicted rcpon the authors and abettors of those dreadful deeds ! 0 ! yes ! "We were -wrong in saying , ' punishment of no sort" had fallen npon these parties . Punishment the most signal ! - judgments the most marked ! have fallen upon them j and especially upon those who interposed parliamentary majorities to stay the coarse of human justice " . '

      God has -rh ' nei them ! The ENDS of some of them ¦ srtre remarkable indeed ! particularly the horrid end of Castlereagh ! In the month of August three years afterwards , and within four days of the anniversary of the '" Massacre , " he err hjs ow . n thsoat ! Appropriate judgment ! Signal end J How jusc are the dealings and dispensations ci God i ' .

      This man had been the chief a ^ ent all the messores agains : the Reformers . He Lad brought in the GaGGLNG and DUNGEONING bills of 1817 ; he had passed through * ' the House" the measures by -virtue of "Which scores of petitioner * for Kadical Reform , were , under the bayonet , marched into the yard of the Manchester New Bailey prison

      marched there as malefactoss ; a > -d kept theke tmder tlie rain , FOB A WHOLE DAT A > D NIGHT i : IHE DEPTH OF WI . VXEB ] ] He it was , CASTIiEAGB wiio had passtd measures to enable himself and col leagues to do this ; and he it was who defended an jcstitied the perpetrators of the bloody deeds o Feierloo . Ah ! snd he it was -whocnthis am throat ! But we must have the whole tale ou lespeciing this throat-cuwbg . The young men o this cay oeght to know of it , as well ss know of thi finffcriags and pereecntions inflicted on the Re formers of % former geDeration , by those ffhosi ENDS were so remarkably striking . They ought u know of these toings ; aud it shall be no fault e oars if they do not le&rn them The following , tisa , is a fail iceount of this throat , cnttin ; a € ai . - . a u &Om tba pen of a master hano —Cobb-tt : —

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      INQUEST HELB AT UORTH CRAY , TUESDAY , 13 th AUGUST , 1 S 22 . This dsy , at a few minutes before three o ' clock , a Jnry of the most respectable inhabitants in the vicinity of the estate of the late Marquis of Londonderry / waa empannelled , to inquire into the cause of the death of the above Noble Lord . The Coroner was Mr . Joseph Carttar , of Deptford . The inquest was held at the hous 8 of the deceased Lord , and to the credit of the individuals who were appointed to superintend the arrangements attendant npon this melancholy occasion , not the slightest attempt was made to keep the proceedings secret . Directions trere given to the domestics to admit every person who desired to be present at the Inquest The Jury having been sworn ,

      The Coroner addressed them in nearly the following terms : —Upon no formtr occasion in the performance of his duty had his feelings been to excited as by the pre-Bjnt unfortunate event He was indeed so much affected that they must perceive he could hardly express himself as he -wished Upon this account he trusted they would excuse any trifling ttrora -which he might commit in the fcSrrcise of his duty . The gentlemen ol the Jury were summoned and sworn to inquire into the causes of the death of a nobleman , \ rho stood perhaps as high is the pnblie estimation as any man is the country . That his Lordship had met his death under particular circumstances , they doubtless must have learned . But it was his duty to inform them that they must remove from their minda all inipmsioiis -which

      should cox be borne out by the evidence . The gentlemen wbom ha addressed , being neighbours of the deceased , -were better able to form a just estimate of hla character than he was . A 3 a public man , it was impos-Eftle for him to weigh his character in any scales that he coaid hold . In private life' he believed the world wou ! d Ldnrit that a more amiable man could not be found . Whether tte important duties of tne great office which he beSd preBsed npon his mind , and conduced to the melancholy event which they Lad assembled to investigate , was a circumstance which in all probability ueyer could be discovered . He understood that his Lordship bad fer some time past been bo unwell as to rcqnire the assutanee of a medical attendant This geutleman would be examined on the inquest , and

      would doubtless be competent to describe the disease and ESiction under ¦ which his Lordfihip laboured . That the dreadful blow -which deprived the Noble Lord of life was kfiicted by bis own hand , be believed the Jury , -when they came to hear the evidence , could not doabt He understood it would be provtd that no person in the house , except his Lordship , could have committed the act "When the Jury should examine the situation ef the body , and hear the evidence that would be submitted to them , he was convinced that they -would be perfectly unanimeus in that part of their verdict which went to declare the manner in which the deceased met his death- He fait that it waa a matter of delicacy to allude to the other part of the verdict , and he would not presume to anticipate -what

      it might be ; but he truited the result would be that ¦ which all gaod men desired . If the facts which he bad heard were proved in evidence , he thought no man could doubt that at the time he committed the ra » h act his Lordship was labouring under a mental delusion . If , however , it anould unfortunately appear that there was not sufficient evidence to prove -what -were generally considered the indications of a disordered mind , he trusted that the Jury -would pay some attention to his tthe Corentr " B ) huBifele opinion , which was , that no man couid be in his proper senses at the moment he committed so rash an act as self-murder . His opinion Ti in consonance with every moral sentiment , and the information -which the -wisest of men had given to the -world . The Bible declared that a man clung to

      nothing bo strongly as tds own life . He therefore viewed it as an axiom , and an abstract principle , that a man must necessarily be out of his mind at the moment of destroying himself . The Jury , of course , -would not adopt bis opinion upon this point , unless it were in unison with their own . He -would not longer occupy the time and attention of the Jury than to express his pleasure at seeing so respectable a body of gentlemen , and to add a hope that they would acquit themselVes of their important duty to the satisfaction of the public , as -well as of their own consciences . He must apologise pfor saying a few words more . The body was lying up stairs , and in the room adjoining te that in which it lay , the Marchioness at present -was , and from thence it had been found impossible to remove her . To picture to the imagination anything like the Btate of that neble lady ' s mind was altogether impossible . The partition which divided the room in which the body lay from

      that -which the Marchioness at present occupied -waa so thin , that the least noise being made in the former could net fail to be heard in the latter . The forms of la-w , however , required that the Jury fihoald view the body , and Judge from the external marks which it might exhibit , or the causes which had produced death : he , therefore , bad only to request that the gentlemen would be as Bilent as possible . He was almost afraid that the creaking of their shoes might be the means of exciting ideas -which -would -wound the feelings of the unbappy ilarehioness . He-was sure , under these circumstanceB , the Jury would do every thing in their pswei to prevent the least noise ; and he mighS observe , that it would be desirable to abstain from talking in the room where the body lay , because any conversation must certainly be heard through the almost , he might say , paper partition . After the Jury bad satisfied them-Bfclves by viewing the body , tbey would return to execute the remaining part of their dnty .

      During this address of the Coroner , the domestics of the unfertunate Marquis , vrho were in the room , for the most part , she * tears ; indeed , the love which the Eerrants of his Lordship bore towards him Was , we Will n « t say surprising , tforklnd and honourable treatment from a gentleman te those persons -who are dependent upon him , must ever procure such a result , ) but highly creditable both to him and the individuals who composed his household . : Btfore the jury left the room , for the purpose of see-Ing the body , one of them suggested that bis colleagues , as well as himself , sbould take off thei * shoes , in order to prevent , aa far as possible , any noise that might be occasionea by them in walking . This hint was immediately acted upon , and the jury left the

      room-After what bad fallen from the coroner , a feeling of delicacy prevented us from accompanying the jury up stairs , although we were giyen to understand that no objection wonld hare been made to such a proceeding . In fact , as we hare before hinted , no attempt at concealment was manifested on the part of the household , but on the contrary , a desire was shown to afford the public an opportunity of ascertaining the particulars of an event respecting which much interest must neoes-BBiily be excited . The fallowing description of the situation of the body at the time the jury viewed it , we balieve to be correct : —

      The body was enveloped in a dressing-gown and the head was covered with ft handkerchief . The feet were towards the window . The blood which proceeded from the -wound -waa still upon tie ground .

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      After being absent about tea minutes , the jury returned , evidently much affected by the melancholy spectacle-which they had just beheld . The first witness called was Anne Robinson , who being sworn , deposed as follows : — " I wait tijpon the Marchioness of Londonderry : I knew the Marquis of Londonderry : bis body now lies up stairs . In my opinion he has been ill during the last fortnight , but particularly so since Monday week . On Mondaymorn- ! ing he rang the bell ; I answered it ; he inquired why my lady had not been to see him . Her Ladyship had been with him all night , and I told him ho . Her Ladyship at this time was not in the room . I then went away . The bell rang again . When I answered it , he asked if Dr . Bankhead has been to see him ? I told

      him that I > r . Bankheai kad been With him about two hours and a half in the evening . It was about four in the morning when he asked me this question . When I told him that Dr . Bankhead had been with him , he asked what he had said to the Doctor— -whether he bad talked any nonsense to him , or any thing particular , as he had no recollection on the subject . I replied , that I was not in the room during the time that he had talked with the Doctor . I then left the room . He rang again about seven o ' clock . I went to him . He then asked me what I wanted there . My Ladywas with him at the time . She bad been with him since four o ' clock , and she answered , ' that my Lard wanted his breakfast * My Lord and Lady were in bed at the time . I left the room , and brought the breakfast up . He sat

      up in the bed and tasted part of it . ' He found fault with it , and said , ' it was not a breakfast for him . ' He aaid there waa no butter there : the butter , however was on the tray , as usual , and I pointed it out to him . The manner in which be spoke struek me as being uncommon ; it-was in a sharp tone , -which was unusual -with him . I [ eft the room after this . The bell rang again in about bait an hour ; that was about . half-past seven . My Lady was in the room at this time , and I cannot tell who rang the bell . When I entered the room , be asked me , whether Dr . Bankbead had come from town . I told him that Dr . Bankhead had slept in the house . He then said that be wished to see him . My Lady then got up , and came to me at the door , and said something to me . I went to Dr . Bankbead , and I gave him my

      Lord's message . I went back to my Lord , and told him that Dr . Backhead would be with him in two minutes . When my Lord saw me apeaklng to my Lady , before I left the room to go to Dr . Bankhead , he said there was a conspiracy against him . My Lady at that time desired me to tell Dr . Bankhead that be was wanted as soon as he could come . When I returned , and told my Lady that Dr . Bankhead would come , my Lady got out of bed , and retired to her tlressing-room . At this moment my Lord also got out of bed , and turned to the right into his own dressing-room . [ Several questions were h « re put to the witness to ascertain the precise situation of tbese rooms . From the answers which she returned , it appeared that the common sleeping room opened into a passage , on either

      side of which was a dressing-room . Lady Londonderry's on the left , his Lordship ' s on the right . At the extremity of the passage was another door , behind which Dr . Bankhead was waiting ] I had just opened the door of my Lady's dressing-room , . into which she had entered , when my Lord rushed past me into his own room . I opened tha outside d » or , and told the circumstance to Dr . Bankhead , who immediately followed my Lord into his dressing-room . I cannot tell what passed there , but I beard my Lord open his window before the doctor entered his room . Immediately when the doctor entered the room he ( the dactor ) exclaimed , Oh , my Lord , ' or ' Ob , my God , ' I cannot recollect which . I heard no reply to this from my Lord . I instantly rushed into the room , and saw the doctor witb my Lord

      in his arms . I remained in the room till I saw the doctor lay him with hia face upon the ground . I saw the blood running from him while Dr . Bankhead held him . I saw a knife . I heard my Lord say nothing . I was certainly much alarmed . The knife was in his right hand . [ A penknife with an ivory handle , and upon which there was no appearance of blood , was here shown to the witness . ] I believe that to be the penknife which I saw in my Lord ' s hand * . After staying a few minutes in my Lord ' s dressing room , I followed Dr . Bankbead to my Lady . I bad previously raised an alarm , and it was now general throughout the bouse . To the best of ray belief , my Lord did not live four minuteB after I saw him . I did not percieve any wound nor any blood while he was in his bed-room . No person was with him in the interval between bis leaving his dressing-ioom and bis death but Dr . Bankbead . His state of miud appeared to be very incorrect for the last three or four days of his life . He appeared to be very

      wild in every thing he said or did . He wanted from me abexwhich he said Lord Clanwilliam had given tome . His Lordship , however , had never given me any . He also asked me for his keja , when be had them about him . Daring the last fortnight be was accustomed to say that everybody had conspired against him . He was very severe in his manner of speaking , wheb I never noticed before , be being in general mild and kind . When be saw two people speaking together , he always said , ' There 1 b a conspiracy laid against me . A great many circumstances induce me to believe that he was out of his mind a fortnight before bis death . He scolded my Lady on Sunday afternoon , because , as be said , she bad not been near him all day , she bad entirely forsaken him . Her Ladyship , howevvr , bad been sitting with him all the inorniDg . ' The witness , in conclusion , repeated her belief that his Lordship bad been in a state of mental delusion for some weeks previous to bis death .

      The second witness examined was Charles Bankbead , M . D ., of Lower Brook-street , Grosvenor-square . —On last Friday afternoon , at five o ' clock , I received a note from Lady Londonderry , desiring me to come as Boon as I could to see the Marquis of Londonderry , at his bouse in St . James's-square . Her note stated that she was very BDxious about his Lordship , as she thought be was very ill and very nervous ; that they were to leave town for North Cray at seven o ' clock in the evening , and that she hoped I would come before that hour . I arrived in St . James ' s-square at six o'clock , and found my Lord and my Lady alone in the drawing-TOoai . Upon feeling hia poise I co&eelwd him to be exceedingly ilL He complained of a severe headache , and of a confusion of recollection . He looked pale ,

      and was very much distressed in bis manner . I told him that I thought it was necessary that he should be cupped , and that I would stay and dine with his lady and himself whilst the cupper came . The cupper soon arrived , and took seven ounces of blood from the nupe of his Lordship ' s neck . After the operation was performed , he stated that be was very much relieved , and 1 advised him to lay himself quietly down on the sofa for half an hour ; and , aa he had scarely eaten the whole day , to take a cup of tea before he got into the carriage to return to North Cray . He followed my advice , and laid himself down on the couch , where be remained very tranquil . After this he drank two cups of tea . I waited until I saw my Lady aud himself get into the Carriage in order to return to North Cray .

      Before bis departure his Lordship said , that aa I was sure he must be very ill , he expected I would come to North Cray and stay all Saturday night , and if possible , all Sunday . I sent with him some opening medicines , which he was to take early on Saturday ; in order that ! might know the effect they had produced on my arrival . I know that be took these powders en Saturday . I arrived at North Cray about Beven o ' clock on Saturday afternoon . I understood that bis Lordship bad not been out of bed all day , and I immediately proceeded to his bed-room . Oa entering his bed-room , I observed that hia manner of looking at me expressed suspicion and alarm . He said it was very odd that I should come into bis bed-room first , before going into the dining-room below . I answered that I

      bad dined in town , and knowing that the family were at dinner down stairs , I bad come to visit him . Upon this he made a reply which surprised me exceedingly . It was to this effect—that I seemed particularly grave in my manner , and that something must have happened amiss . He then asked me abruptly whether I bad anything unpleasant to tell him ? I answered , 'No 4 that I was surprised at bis question , and the manner in which it was proposed . ' He then said , 'the truth was , that he had reasons to be suspicious in some degree , but that he hoped that I would be the last person who would engage in anything that would be injurious to him . ' His manner of saying this was bo unusual and so disturbed , as to satisfy roe that ho was at the moment labouring under mental delusion . I

      entreated him to be very tranquil , and prescribed for him some more cooling and aperient medicines , confined him to barley water , and allowed him slopB only . I remained with him during Saturday night and until one o ' clock on Sunday morning . Though his fever was not very high during any part of this time , yet the incoherence of his speech and the uncomfortableness of his manner continued unaltered . Daring Sunday I visited him frequently , and continued with him in the evening till baif-past twelve o ' clock . I advised him to be as tranquil as possible , and told him that I would endeavour to persuade my Lady to come to bed . I slept in a room very near his Lordship . On Monday morning , about seven o ' clock , Mrs . Robinson , my Lady Londonderry ' s maid , came to my rooRwdoor , and asked

      if I -was dressed , telling me , My Lord . Wished to 8 B 6 me by-and-by . I answered that I was ready to come that moment ; but Mrs . Robinson said , that she did not wish me to come then , because her Ladyship had not left the bed-room . " In about half an hour , she returned again , and said , that his Lordship would be glad to see me immediately , as her Ladyship was putting on her gown , in ordex to go into her own dressing-room . On walking from my own room to Lord Londonderry's bed-room , I observed that the door of the latter Was open , and could perceive that his Lordship was not in it . Is aa instant Mrs . Robinson said to

      me , ' His Lordship has gone into his dreuing-room . ' I stepped into hlB dressing-room , and saw him in his draudng-gown , standing with his front towards the -window , which was opposite to the door at which I entered . His face waa directed towards the celling . Without turning hia head , on . the instant he heard my step , he exclaimed , ' Baokhe&d , let me fall upon year arm— 'tis all over . ' As quickly aa possible 1 ran to him , thinking he was fainting and going : to fall . I caught him in my arms as he was falling , and perceived that he bad knife in his right band , very firmly clinched and all over blood . I < Ud not see him use it : he most have used it before I came into the

      room . In falling he declined upon one side , i \ nd the blood burst from him . like a torrent from 4 watering pot . I was unaWe to support him , and be fell o at of my arms . I think the wound must bave been inflicted U soon as I put my foot oa ( be thjKBhald of thft dOOft

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      as its natnre was such that tbe extinction of life must have followed It in the twinkling of an eye . I think that no less tban two quarts of blood flowed from him in one minute , I am satisfied that a minute did not elapse from the moment of my entering the room until he tiled , and during that time he said not a word except that which I have already mentioned . It was impossible that any human being could have inflicted the wound but himself . Having known him intimately for the last thirty years , I have no hesitation in saying that he Was perfectly inaane when he committed this act . I had noticed a great decline in the general habit of his health for some weeks prior to his death ; but I waa not aware of the mental delusion under which he waa labouring till within threeI or four days of his decease . ¦"¦ . - .- : :: ' . ' : ' : ' ¦ . ¦ ' . '¦¦¦ ¦ ' ¦ •;¦' .. ; •' •; ¦ - ¦ . ;

      After Dr . Bankhead had finished his testimony , the Coroner inquired whether there were any more witnesses who could speak to the nature of this transaction . He was informed that there were several ; but a doubt being thrown cut as to necessity of calling ' them ; after the evidence -whieh bad already been adduced , he said that he should consult the Jury upon the point , and in consequence ordered the room to be cleared of all spectators . : - . . ¦ ¦¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ; .. ¦ . " . " . ¦' . . ¦' / ' ; ' - - .- ^ . -::. ' : - . ' . - "' .- "' . ' . ¦ . " . ' ¦ ' ¦ . ' '¦ ¦ After the Coroner and Jury bad been left to them * selves for half an hour , notice wasgiveiirthat strangers were again permitted to enter the room in which they

      were sitting . On reaching it we found the Jury ranged round the Coroner ' s table ^ and giving their assent to a verdict which he read to them . The yerdict stated " That on Monday . August 12 , and for some time previously , the : alost Noble Robert , Marquis of Londonderry , underagrievous disorder did labour and languish , and became in consequence deliriousVand of insane mind ; and that , whilst in that state , with a knife of iron and steel , he did inflict on himself oh the left side of his neck , and ef the carotid artery , a wound of one inch in length , and half an inch in depth , of which he instantly died ; and that no other person except himself was the cause of bis death . ''

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      amount to this , it Was nothing in exculpation . Here then we hawtbe proof ; proof sufficient to satisfy a Jury , that -we fcada ^ inad " leader" of the House of Commons ; and a mad Minister sitting in Council with iheKinff ! ' ¦' : ' ¦ ' ; ?• ... "I •; I . ' " '¦ • % . ¦ .:. ..: ' The Letter of the Duke of Wellington ia a very curious affair , especially if we take it into yievr along with other circninstances . The letter is written by tbe Duke to Castlereagb ' fl Doctor . A very extraotainary thing in itself . It is very extraordinary that one of the King ' s ministers should write a letter io & doctor ; Bhould put it down in Uack and white , that another of the KiDg ' s ministers laboured under " mental delirium . " And then it comes intea pretty a way , / ' I beg you will

      never mention to any one wb&tl have communicated to you respecting his Lordship / ' This is so very prettyao extremely likely , that-we cannot help believing this to be authentic 2 It is so perfect in character , as coming from a Privy Councillor ; and the thing winds hp so well by the newspapers telling us ,, that " immediately on their announcement of the Verdict , a despatch Was forwarded to the Duke of Wellington , and the mes-Benser was ordered to proceed with the utmost possible expedition '' f Well might he go with the utmost possible expedition to tell the Duke that tbe Doctor bad already told his secret , and that too without any necessity for it , seeing that the verdict was recorded before the letter was produced ) ' : ¦' ¦ '¦¦ . ¦ '' ¦ " ¦¦ ¦¦

      The Duke would not be a little surprised at tbe news I dare say , but certainly his surprise would not be greater than that of the whole of this nation , at the various parts of this wondbrful proceeding . We must now take a little look at the extra-judicial assertions connected with this affair . The Courier ol Wednesday tells us , that the insanity under which the act was committed ia proved , by many circumstances not nqtifled at the time . ' Had it been possible or decorous to have demanded His Majesty ' s testimony , we are informed that his evidence could have been had ;" and then the Courier proceeds to say , that tbe King observed it on the Friday . : So that , if this varlet of a Courier were to be believed , which be is not , observe , the King went off to Scotland with a flrm belief in his mind , that be left the office of Foreign Affnirs in the hands of a madman ! The Courier farther tells us in the same paper , that therft had been •' .: ' ** menial alienation" in some of . the

      branches of Castlereagh ' s / amtYj ; . So that here we have it running in the blood ; and now , perhaps , we may account for those expressions at which I used to . laugb , about ;"• ' ''' sudden transitions frdttiwar to peace ; " about capital finding its way into neu > channels -about digging holes one dap and filling ihem . up the next ; about lifiving things to Nature ; about the general working of events ; In short , we may account for all those wild things that I used to say , as plainly as I dared , * were never before uttered by any Gentleman out of Bedlam . The Courier , in the same paper , / tells viaipositiVBly . that the King , before hia departnre , sent for Lord Liverpool to tell him that he ^ ^ thought Castlereagh ' s intellects teere impaired . And yet ' this very same paper of only one day before told us , that this very Castlereagh was preparing , the very day before he cut bis throat , to go to the continent , as tbe King ' s representative , at a Congress , mhire the affairs of Europe were to undergo discussion ' ' ¦¦ . ' - / - " ' : ¦ ¦ ' ¦ '¦ . ' ¦'" ¦ ¦ ¦ ' . ¦ - " ' : V ¦ •" . ¦¦

      If all this were true , which , observe , I by no means either assert or believe , what a pretty situation this nation would be in ! It would indeed be the envy of surrounding nations and admiration of the world . Men would no longer wonder at the miserable state in which they are ; no longer wonder that famine and over-pro * daction of food should at once oppress the land . Here weull be a solution of the whole of the wonder ; a mad Secretary of State , and a mad Leader of the Heuse of Commons . You will observe the pitiful pretences that have been hatched up as the cause of this insanity . In the letter of tho Duke of Wellington , the barraasing and fatigue and overworking during the last Session of Parliament are stated as the cause . The Courier comes with an

      atpUScation of this , and says , that people who " did not sufficiently calculate : the effect of . constant application , unrelieved 6 y any recreation or leisure—of nights , parsed in harrassing debates , and of days devoted to equally harrassing diptoinalic discussions ^ -they did not reflect bow few hours could be passed in bed and fewer still be passed in sleep . " What impudence as well-as nonsense ! What diplomatic discussions had he to worry him , when he bad two under Secretaries of State , two or three dozen of clerks and messengers ; somebody to make even his pens for him , and ten or a dozen bands to write aa many lines of writing ; and this too when for seven long years the King has bean

      ince-santly telltDg us , twice a year , that be continues to receive nothing but assurances of peace and friendship from all foreign powers ! What diplomatic discussions bad he , then ? And as to the " harrassing debates-, ' ! what harrassfng had he , when every motion that he made was sure to be carried , and nine times out of ten without an attempt at a division ! If talking nonsense , indeed , proved him to be insane , insane he has been ever since I knew any thing of him ; and certainly , the question that he put to ibe witness , Anne I 4 ob ' nson , ^^ whether he ^ had talked any nonsense to Dr . Baiikhead , proved any thing but bis insanity ; for H proved that he had formed a tolerably correct estimate of his colloquial endowments . \ ; ¦ .... ¦ ¦ .. ¦

      To talk of his mind having sunk nnder the load of his business is quite monstrous . The whole that he had to do , even if be had done it well , did not amount to a tenth of the labour that I have been constantly performinggfor these twenty years ; and if his mind sunk under his business , what is to become of the mind of a lawyer in extensive practice ; of a Lord Chancellor , or of a Judge ? The Chief ; JuBtice has more to do in a month than he had to do in seven years . Why , at this rate , no Lawyer , or Chancellor , or Judge ought to be suffered to move about without a keeper . Only think of a trial of considerable length , proceeding out of a complicated declaration and pleadin ? a of length enormous ; only think of sitting and hearing the statements of the lawyers on both sides !; of

      hearing the evidence of twenty or thirty witnesses , swearing to diiDFeren * points of the qaestion , Irregnlarly as possible in point of order ; only think of making notes of all this , and then , when all this mass of confusion is over , taking it and laying the merits of the case , the pro and the con , and nicely balancing one part against another ; drawing , at last , the conclusion on which the mind of the jury ought to rest ; only think of all this ; consider , that it is what every one of the Judges has to perform almost every day of his life ; and consider , tod , that the Judge is bound by law ; that every opinion he gives , every statement that

      he makes , every colouring that be communicates to any circumstances are narrowly watched by men as skilful and aa able as himself , who have a right to call him to account , who do call him to account , upon the spot , if he fall Into error ; and who can call for a revision of bis decisions and bring against him any word that he may utter , and that , too , before a tribunal where bis rivals sit in judment with hiraeelf . Only think of this ; and recollect , that thei Judges never go mad ; and ^ so thoroughly are they imbned with a sense of obedience to the laws , that , however the cutting « f throata may be in fashion , they take special good care never to cut theirs . "¦" .: '¦ ' : ¦ ' ¦ ' :- ¦' ''"' . ¦"''¦¦ ' ¦'¦' .:- '¦ '' ¦ . : ¦'

      It is beastly nonsense , therefore ; it is . nonsense such as scarcely Castlereagh himself ever uttered , to talk of hia bavlng been driven out of his senses by bis load of business . Deep thinking , some people say , will drive a man mad . This is a very foolish notion ; but , at any rate , how deeply Castlereagh thought ,: may be judged of by his speeches and the result of bis measures . It is not now that I say it for the first time or for the thousandth time , for I have always said , that it was one of the most empty-headed creatures that ever existed ; and that it was sheer impudence and the imbecility of ita opponents , that carried it through with a sort of eclat , such as a mountebank obtains amongst clowns .

      Yet , that he was not in ' . that state of disgust an * l despair which might have impaired his faculties , such as they were , I do not pretend to say . He must bave been an idiot not to perceive that his career was drawing to a close . Ido not know that he did perceive it ; but he must have been little short of an idiot not to have perceived it ; aiid it is likely enoughj that he di 4 feel a great deal of alarm at events that he saw approaching . He well knew that he was most cordially detestied by the Reformers ataioy rate ; and impudent aa be was , he bad lived to see the day , when sheer impudence was hot likely to carry him through . He bad got through the last session of Parliament wllii some difficulty ; but he saw another approaching wttich he could not hope to get through , withoaV the syaVsm receiving a terrible shock of some sort or another . ;

      Under such circumstances he might be in a atate approaching insanity . What makes the bankers , moneyjobbers , and merchants ; cut their throata so gallantly ? The dread of humiliation . / False pride . Blaokstone calls it cowardice , which induces men to destroy themselves , to avoid those ills which they have not the fortitude to endure . Instead of going to America to avoid the blessings of Sidraouth ' s Bill , which Castlereagh brought into the House of Commons , 1 might have cut my throat ; but I did not like the idea of b ; ing buried in the highway with a stake driven through me . I preferred enduring the ills of a voyage to America , and living to have the chance of seeing my foes cut their own throats . This cutting of throats , therefore , has ita foundation in false pride ; in the dread of being

      humbled ; in the dread of being brought to sweep those streets through which the throat-cutters have rolled with such insolence in their carriages . They retain all their insolence still ; else they would see that they are about to come into their proper place ;; and to be in that > tate of life where Uiey ought always to have been . As to compassion ; as to sorrow , upon this occasion , bow base a hypocrite I must be to affact it I nay , bow base a-hypocrite to dieguise , or to attempt to disguise , my satisfaction ! Can I forget Ireland ? can . I forget Mr , Finnerty ? can I forget Napoleon ? Marshal Ney ? can I forget the Queen , who , though she suffered so much , though Bhe suffered to the breaking of her heart ,

      never thought of the dastardly act of putting an end to her existence ? The ruffians who continue to praise this man , tell us that the biatory of hia life is found io the measures of the Government for the last twentyseven years ; and that is true enough ; it is found in all the various acts that have been passed to shat the Irish np in tbeir houses from sunset to sunrise , and to transport them without trial by jury . It is found in the Power-of-imprisonment Bill of 1817 . It is found in those terrible Sfa : Acts , one of which prescribes that the printer of a newspaper shall enter into bail even before he begins te print ; which prescribes that this very pamphlet in which I am now ad-

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      dressing yon , shall , be so loaded with paper aj 4 with price , as to make it difficult to : effect its circq . lation . It is found in another of those Acts , which was - intended to transport men , and which dpet banish men for life , for a second time uttering thaj which has a tendency to bring into centempt those who pass such a law . His history is in the figure of eight and eight ciphers , which represent the amount of the National Debt . It is written in those measures which have reduced the most industrious and enterprising farmers in the world to a state of beggary , and have plunged no small number of them into despair , real insanity , and self-destruction . It is written in a mas 3 of paaperism , hitherto wholly ttBknown to England , and

      it is written in starvation to Ireland amidst over-production . As to his family and connexions , look at the immense Bums which they are now receiving out of the fruit of the people ' s labour . And as to any compasaioa that weare to feel for them , we will feel it when an e nd to the sufferings of the Reformers and their families will leave us a particle of compaesslon to betow on any body else . The mention of the anguish of lady CajBtlereagh only reminds me of the anguiBh of poor Mrs . Johnson , who , bton ; ht to a death-bed by long ^ and racking anxiety on acconnt of her husband , harrassed , persecuted , thrown into a dungeon at a hundred milea

      from her , merely for having been present' at a meeting never itefore deemed nnlawful ; when I heir Lady Oastlereagh ' a anguish mentioned I forgot , for the time , the enormous sinecure of her father , but I remember that exemplary and affectionate wifej Mrs . Johnson , who , brought to her death-bed by the means just mentioned , earnestly prayed that Bhemight see her husband before she closed ; her . eyes for ever ; and I remember , Uiat that prayer was r ^ eeted by Castiereagh and Mis colleagues , though the husband tendered bail . to any amount and offered to submit to any length of imprisonment as the price of permiB 3 lon to receive the laat sigh of hia dying wife I : % ¦/ ¦ _ ¦ . ,

      I have now petf ormed my duty ; a duty towards the public ; towards the Reformers more especially ; and , Joseph Swann , particularly towards you . I anxiously hope that yon may come alive , and in health , out of your dungeon . I admired your condnct at the time when the sentence was passed upon you . Tod did not talk of cutting your throat ; but , darting a look at those who passed the sentence , you exclaimed : " Is that all * I thought yon jbad a bit of rope in ypar pockets for me I" Your children are in misery now ; but be of good cheer ; they may live to see the day when the ; will not have to mourn over a father in a dungeon . . ¦'¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ - ¦ ¦¦¦ ' ¦ ¦" . ' ¦ ° iam , ¦ - ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ .. '¦ ¦ ¦ .. .-: ¦ : ' :- \ -: ' ' , ¦ ¦'¦¦ ¦ .. ¦ Your faithful friend , and ' " Most obedient servant , WM . COBBETT .

      Our space is now exhaused ; We hare occupied more than we intended , and almost more than we should have done , under the peculiar ciroumstances of the times . We have not , however , exhausted our materials . We have onl y seen the END of one of the Ministers who screened the Manchester butchers from justice , and tJianJced them for their bloody work . There were others of them , whps ENDS were truly remarkable ! The Premier suri into" a state of ' mental'incapacity *' -tf Canning wea . ofF , at least , in a marked way ; and the burial-day of the Regent himself ( at the time of his death a SOVMEIGN ) was a complete day of hoUxdaykeeping—a day of pleasure . These events we cannot detail at present . We shall , however , return to them . They shall not be lott sight of ; nor shall the call for JUSTICE on the perpetrators of the massacre yet be given up . -.

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      SUNDERLAND . —At the weekly meeting of the Coancil , held on Sunday morning , the surplus ^ proceeds of the late steam-boat trip were divided as follows , namely ^ -10 i to be devoted to the purchase of cards , and 53 . to be given to the Executive Comthittee of the National Charter Association . An im portant letter from Wednesbury , to a friend in Sunderland , relative to the strike of the colliers , was read to the meeting : and , after a discussion

      upon the subjeefci it was resolved to make its contents known to the pitmen's meet'ng , which will be held this day ( Saturday ); at Mr . Hines ' s , South Shields . The propriety of having another steamboat excursion , for the purpose of spreading : our prinqiples , and raising funds for the cause , was then taken into consideration , when it was unanimously determined to have an excursion to Stockton and Middlesborough , on Sunday , the 28 th instant , provided the friends at Scockton can make arrangements for a camp meeting on that day .

      Pkoposed Gamp Meeting at or near Siockton . — The iriends at Sunderland respectfully desire to call the attention of the Stockton , Middioaboroogh Stokesley , Hartlepool , and Darlington friends to the great good that rnay be effected at the present time , by a Central Chartist Camp Meeting . The season , when such assemblies can be . held with advantage is now fast speading , and there never was a time when the necessity of bringing the scattered and divided forces of freedom together was so evidently important the

      as present . The good that may result front the proposed meeting , if supported by the friends in the places named ; is incalculable . The Sunderland friends , therefore ,: hope that the proposed meeting may be carried into effbes jn such a manner aa tostimulate the dormant energies , and cement together the Chartists of the northern and southern . divisionS of the county ; It is also hoped that ' the Stockton , Middlesborough , and Hartlepaol friends will endeavour to get up a similar trip , for a mueting to-beheld at Sunderland . ; : ' .. - ' : :. V ¦ ¦¦

      CRoyoEN . —On Monday evening the Chartists Of this town assembled at the Bald EacedStag . The room was completely full , and Mr . Segraye was called to the chair , when the following resolution was proposed bv Mr . T . Bennett , seconded by Mr . I > . Tilling , and carried unanimously , " That this meeting having taken into consideration the alarming ^ aud unparalleled distressed state of the ^ country , 00 firmly , believe that all the suffering is caused by that uniust system which allowscrindiner canitalistfl

      to reduce , at their will and pleasure ^ the wages of the wealth - producingmillions . We also as firmly believe that if the People ' s Charter was made the law of the land , the people would use the power thus giyen them to the putting an end to this disgfaoeful state of thingH . " Four fresh members wei o ehroi ] e ( j , A long debate followed , in which several of the members took part . A vote of thanks was given to the chairman , when the meeting separated at eleven o ' clock , highly delightad . r

      ; BBIGHTjK .--The Chartists of Brighton hare been honoured with the presence of that friend of democracy Mr . Clancy , and much praise is due to him for his labours during five days , in an endeavour to reconcile the different sections of Chartists in this town ' . On Wednesday ^ a ; sery crowded meeting of the Chartists and friends was held &t the Cap of Liberty , specially convened , when the' fotiofrtog declaration was agreed to :--- ; :. ;• ¦ ¦ ¦ . . ; . ' : S ¦'• • DfiCLAKATION OF THE ChaBTISIS OP BaiGHTON . 7-In order to shew to the world that we are sincere in

      pur professions of those hallowed principles that ^ we advooate , and to prevent , bo far ? as possible , the engendering of disunion in our riainkai we determine henceforward to fling to the winds allpersonal bickerings about names , believing that the motto of every true democrat ought to be measures , hot men ; wo pledge ourselves , therefore , neither to turn to the right or theleft ia our , coarse to the ; goal of free ^ dom , as pointed out by the veritable Executive of the people , in the glorious organization of the National Charter Association . Signed , an behalf of the meeting , John Page , chairman .

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      CASTLEREAGH'S HORRID END . TO JOSEPH SWANJT , Who icas sentenced ly the Magistrates of Cheshire to four years and a half imprisonment in Chester Gaol , for selling Pamphlets and being present at a Meeting for Parliamentary Reform ; who teas imprisoned many icceTts ^ for want of bail , before his Trial ] who has noiv tiro years of his imprir sonment tmexpired ; and tcho , tchen imprisoned , had a Wife and four helpless Children . Kensington , 15 th August , 1822 . Ms . Swash , —CASTLEREAGH HAS CUT HIS OWN THROAT , AND IS DEAD ! Let that sound reach you in the depth of your dungeon ; and let it carry consolation to your suffering sonl J Of all the victims , you have suffered most . We are told of the poignant grief of Lady Casttereash ; and , while he must be a brute indeed -who does not feel for her , what must be be -who does not feel tor your tcifc and your four helpless children , actually torn from you when you were first thrown into the dismal cells ?

      However , vre shall have time to say more of pour case hereafter . Let me , at present , address you on tbe subject of Castlereagh . I am about to insert the Report of the Inqvest on Eis body ; but , I will flnt Btate to you certain matters , which oagnt to be remembered , and -which will pass away , unless we , at once , put tbem on record . The mover of Sis-Acts cut hia throat last Monday morning about seven o ' clock . The Courier of that night gave an account of bis death ; but stated it to have arisen from gout in the stomach . Now , mind , the trriter musl haTe told tills lie wil / Wy , or he must purposely have & ?«» misinformed . A cieaiga , therefore , must , at one time , have existed somewhere to smother the trulh .

      A cut throat 1 b however , no such easy thing to smother , and especially , where there is a house foil of servants , all "with tongueB in their mouths . Therefore , the Courier ' s lie waa , the nextd ^ y , abandoned ; and the truth , as to the deed itself , came out Before , however , we quit this lie of the Courier , let us again remark that it must have been intenliohaL Nort ' a Cray , a little village in Kent , where tbe throat -was cut , ia only abeut two Twur ' s ride from London . A King ' s messenger was in the bouse at the time , as is , I believe , the case constantly , with the Ministers "who are Secretaries of State . At any rate there wera stables full of horsea ; and you muat know , that , at the office of Castlereagh at Whitehall , the Courier -would haTe some aecounl , true or false . If , therefore , he got the true account , the lie teas his own ; and yet , seeing what risi he ran ef almost instant detection , it appears rather strange that be Bhould have hatched the lie .

      I shall now , before I offir you further remark * upon tbe surj .-ct , insert the report of the proceedings at the inqutsl , requesting you and all the Reformers to read them with scrupulous attention . You will find { a thing quite new ) the Coroner ( if the report be true ) laying down the doctrine , that self-murder must of necessity imply insanity in him who commits it : yen will find many other things worthy of strict attention ; and , therefore , if , only for this once , JCU can but get light snmci&nt to read by , and obtain the favour of being ptriniUed to read , pray read this report attentively , and then have ths goodness to listen to the remarks that I shall rcxice .

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      ' If coincident dates were of any importance , I might observe , that Castlereagh cut his throat ; - ' on the Kings Birthday . A thing more necessary to be observed , is , that he is here called tke Marquis of Londonderry , which was his title ; but , I have always coDttuued to call hint 'Caatlereagh . 'that being the title which he bore during the time that ha bo largely participated in those numerous deeds , by which u-e have se long and so well known him . , His name was Robert Stewart ; but / by that of Castlereagh he was knouth to the nation , and by that name I shall always speak of him .

      The first thing that strikes our attention here Is the weeping of the gervantB i set forth in ao pompous and prominent a manner . Tbte ^ ia very likely to have been true and Castlereagh is likely enough to have been a gentle and liberal master ; But while we can discover no very great or rare merit in this on his part , seeing tho loads of public money , which , for so many years , be bad been receiving , w « see a good deal to dwell upon , if 1 had time for it , in the conduct of these servants , whose attachment and gratitude were so feelingly expressed upon thU Occasion . These persons , belt remembered ; belonged to those- ; 11 lower orders , " ol which he had always spoken with so much contempt and disdain ; and whom be insulted with the uame of basest populace , when they stood forward in defence of the persecuted Caroline . Those tears should have been hidden by his euolegist : for , in those tears of the servants , we read the Beveiest satire on the former conduct , of tbe master .

      We see , that ; if the Report Speaks truth , discount Sidmoutk was in attendance . What could that be for ? Probably to give that evidence of which the Coroner spoke as being at hand , but which he regarded as unnecessary , seeing , that he had the Letter oj othe ¦ Duke ' of Wellington , of which letter I shall speak by and by . We next come ' -to the Speech o ( the Coroner , which , aa far aa my observation has gone , was something wholly new . He be «? an , it appears from the Report , by pronouncing a lofty eulogium upon the person whe had cut his throat , aa well in his private as his public capacity . I shall dispute Uieaasertirins of tbe Coroner as to the latter of these ; but , I shall first proceed with that part of the speech which related to tbe busintsa before the Jury .

      The Coroner here spoke after the manner of a lawyer opening his case . / He told the Jury that he . should produce such and such evidence ; and that that evidence would , if produced , lead to such and such conelusions . He told them that , if what he bad heard ¦ were proVen , there could be no doubt that the person who had cut bis throat was , at the time , labouring under vienkd delttsion . , But , and now mark , he is reported to have said , ' If it sbould unfortunately appear there was not sufficient evidence to prove the insanity , he , trusted the . Jury would pay some , attention to bis humble opinion , which was , that no man could be in his proper senses at the moment he committed so raab an act as self-murder " 1 .

      Thifl was no very humble opinion . It waa a very bold one ; and a very daring one ; seeing that it was indirect opposition to the law ofthe land , wiiicb , so far from saying that self-murder must proceed from insanity , provides a degradation to be inflicted on the bodies of self-murderers , and also the confiscation of their property to the King . Mr . Coroner told his Jury , that , his opinion waa in consonance with every moral sentiment , and with the information which the wisest of men had gWeu to tbe world . I . do not know that he said this , to be sure ; but such is the Report that has been published in the Courier and other papers . He quoted the Bible to Bhpw how strongly man was attached to life ; but be forgot to say bow the Bible reprobates self-destruction . He repeated bis opinion in these words—'' He therefore Viewed it as an axiom , . that a man 7 > iust necessarily be out , of his mind at the moment of destroying himself . " .

      Now , if this Coroner did say this ; for which we have ho more than newspaper authority , mind , I say that he delivered a doctrine completely at variance with the law of the -land , and that he was guilty of a breach of his duty . The law adopts no such axiom . Blackstone , in his Foartb Book , and 14 th Chapter , after calling suicide pretended heroism , - . but real cowardice ,, proceeds to say , that the law of England has ranked this amongst the highest crimes , making it a peculiar species of felony . Then he goes on thus : "The party must be in his senses , else it ia no crime . But this excuse

      ought not to be . strained to that length to which our Coroners' Juries are apt to carry it ; namely , that the very act of suicide is an evidence of insanity ; as if every man who acts contrary to reason had no reason at all : for the same argument would prove every other criminal insane as well as the self-murderer . The law very rationally judges that every melancholy fit does not deprive a man of the capacity of discerning right from wrong 1 ; andj therefore , if a real lunatic ii \\ himself ia a lucid interval , he is a self-murderer as much aa another man . " ;•¦ . ;

      Let the public judge , then , of the manoer in which this Coroner performed his duty upon the occasion . You Bee , even if a notorious lunatic , a man who has been a lunatic for years , kill himself in a lucid interval , the law sends bis body to be burled in the highway with a stake driven through it , and makes his goodB and chattels forfeit to the king ; " hoping , " says Blackstone , " that his care for either his own reputation , or the welfare of his famtly , would be some motlvo to restrain him from ,: so desperate and wicked an act . " But what is there to restrain any man , if Juries act uponjthe opinion of this Coroner , who sets the law totally aside , and conjures up in its stead what he calls moral sentimeni and the information of the wisest

      of mciu What bad he to do with mcral sentiment ? what bad be to do with information of the wisest of men ? What bad he to do , in sbbrt , with anything but the law ; and , had be not that law in Blackstone , in Hawkins , and in all the authpritiea to which they refer ? Besides , if thifl Coronor be right , what enormous wrong has been committed on self-murderers and their families ? How many bodies of poor men have been buried in the highway ! Was not Smith at aiaur Chester , who hanged hiaiself on being discarded by hia sweetheart ? Was not SeUis ? Was not the unfortunate Spanish General , the Marquis de Castro i Were not these buried in tibe highway ? And , if this Coroner was right , again I say , what wrong has beendone !

      Blackstone is very particular in observing , that , a merejil of ¦ melaticho ' y' ia ^ holt io form & legal excuse Look well at the evidence , and see if you can discover proof of anything like settledinsanity .. But this is not all ; for if even areal lunatic ' kill himself in a lucid interval , heis a self-murderer , ' Now , if you look at tae evidence of Dr . Bankbead , you willfind -thati when the Doctor went into the dressing-robm , he found Caatlereagh in it ; and the Doctor says , " hia face was in an elevated position , directed towards the ceiling . Without turning bis head , on theiustant be heard my slep , he 6 xclaimedi" Bankhead , let me fall upon your a ,, ) i 'tty all over . He never spoke again . "' Was there ever any thing in the world more rational than this ? Must not the mind have bsen per ?

      fectly sane , that oould have distinguished the Doctor ' s step without seehig the Doctor ; that could have , not only anticipated the fallj but have provided against it ; and that could have stated , in words so appropriate , the effect which the knife bad ensured ? Here then was the lucid interval ; at any rate ; and Blackstone says , that if even a real lunatic kill himself in a lucid interval be is a self-murderer aa much as another man . It is easy to conceive how anxious the family of Castlereagh must have been to prevent the consequences of a yerdict of felo-de-te . Besides the bniying in the highway , there was property to the amount of perhaps two or three or four hundred thousand pounds . On what ground the Jury did decide in favour of existing insanity it is not for we to say ; but if their decision was founded on the axiom laid down

      by the Coroner , their deciaion was clearly contrary to law . However , as I find the evidence given in the newspapers , bo I give it to you : take it , and all the eircumstances belonging to it into view , and come to tost decision which reason and justice dictate . Now let us take another view of the matter . Accord-Ing to one of these witnesses , be he bad been insane for & fortnight . According to the other , he had been insane for a shorter space of time . Bat , it unfortunately happened that he was present , and formed one fn Council with the King , on the Friday previouB to the Monday on which be cut hia throat f According to the lady ' s maid ' s account , he was insane some days while he teas appearing and speaking in Parliament . These witnesses do , indeed , call it illness , and mental delusion , and nervousness , and headach , and ¦ mental delirium ; but , it will be evident jto every one , that its proper name was insanity , or madness ; tot , if it did not

      Proceeds, Dub To The Executive From The Sale Of Messrs. Crow And Tyrreli's Breakfast Powder, For The Week Ending The 13th Of August:— ¦¦ •;

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 20, 1842, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct767/page/2/