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SCRAPS FOR RADICALS . No . XIII . BT L . T . CLASCV . " Will some one write a song for the Star ?" F . _O'Consoe .
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SOXG OF THE IRISH ABSENTEES On ( he passivg of Peel ' s Income Tax Bill . To be sung in parts , by the folloiaing illustrious JIP . 's , at etery Political Dinner for the ensuing three months . Tune— " The night before Billy ' s birth-day . " DUKE OF LEISSTEK . Oh ! where can we fly from yon , Peel ? You have shook the whole earth to its centre , And we poor Whig devils will feel The shock of your earthquake ere winter . The game we have long played so well Is np now where shall we take shelter ? The old doom— "To Cennaught or hell , " Will send us adrift helter skelter . Oh ! "the curse of the crows ' " * on you , Peel ! MARQUIS OF _IJOWNSniKE . And must we go back to the sod ? And bend to the yoke that we scorn ? And kiss e ' en the point of the rod 'Ihat flogs us to where we were bom ? And how shall we grind down the poor , Or leave all the blame on the agent , When Poverty lurks at our door , With Pity and Right in her pageant ? Oh ! "forty bad lucks" to yon , Peel ! LORD _lORTOJi . Oh' how can we witness the sight Of the lying-in wife , and her bedding Dragged from her at dead of the night _. To serve at some tithe-proctor ' s wedding ? We never can stand it , I'm sure ; But still we must march , there ' s no halting , To live in one land with our poor , Tho thought is already revolting . Oar gorge rises np in disgust ! B- L . S 1 IIEL . -Ah ! Bob , you ' re a new Castlereagh _, And yonr bubbles political feelers , Blown up just to point out the way To seduce ns poor _Whigliog "Repeaters . " You think , you vile nibbler of " Rents , " That onr _patriot fame we will barter'That to scrape up your loasy " per cents , " We'll sell our dear isle for a " Garter . " ¦ " And damn'd glad to have it to sell ! " _f DANIEL O ' COKNELL . Ah ! how vain 'tis to frown or to fret That Feargus did not get the baiter ; Sure the sun of cur glory was sat The eve ere it rese upon ' ¦ Walter . " The Chartists , the torch-flaming crew ! Save some of the oldest Convention ; " Three good men , both loyal and true , " Who yet may create some dissension , And Bet their whole camp in a blaze ! W . SMYTH O ' _nSIEX . Sure , now , we will carry " Repeal , " By means altogether romantic ' ; All hope must be centred in " Steel . " And the brave beys beyond the Atlantic . Tip , up , then , in marshal array ! " shonts Ireland' s head " Pacificator" ! The Tor ies will yet rue the day Tfa 6 y did not l £ 7 _xghl _§ our great "liberator , " If he cancel bis registered vow ! MAURICE O ' COHNELL How we rushed to the House to " divide , " Left our " hells , " oar horse-racing , and " boating . " But . alas ! we were quite flunkified , The Tories outdone us in voting . Though the Bill is now passed into law , And our "beautiful young Queen" has signed it , Yet , by Samson 3 great jackass ' s jaw , She'll remember the day " never mind it , " So sure as her name ' s " . Little Vic " Finale , by o ' conkell . So , come now , my brave boys , let us toast , Fill up every heart that is willing ; " _Onld Ireland , " " my first love , " " my boast , " Let each be prepared with his " shilling , " The nest is our glorious "Bepail , " My forty years' bright" agitation" ; Four millions of " shillings" can't fail To have it from this " cursed nation , " And plant it in onld College Green !
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SONG FOR THE MILLIONS . Beware ! ye white slaves of old England , beware ! Your dastard oppressors are fiendish and base ; Their spies are abroad , to betray and ensnare—To brim ? you to rain , to death , and disgrace . They are thirsting for blood , and impatient to spoil The prospects of freedom which all now enjoy ; They have soldiers to crash yon wbo live by yonr toil , Then beware of the infamous traitor and spy ! Be firm and unite , but be cautions in words , On your prudence depends the success of your cause Remember , policemen have bludgeons and swords , And unjust protection from despotic laws . The press is corrupt , and knaves they can find Who will perjure their souls , aud swear truth is a lie ; Then , producers of wealth , be not wilfully blind , But beware of the infamous traitor and spy ; 'Tis true that your sufferings are grievous and great , And death , from starvation , you constantly fear ; While a proud , pampered _priestheod would teach you to wait Fur that comfort in heaven they rob you of here _, lis true ye are goaded by insult and wrong , But justice will come ; be united and wise : The weak shall not ever be slaves to the strong ; Then beware of the tyrants , their traitors , and spies Celestial freedom ! the birthright of all , Inert in our bosoms , inhaled by our breath ; Thy spirit abhors both oppression and thrall _. We still live in hope for thee even to death . Ob ! iet thy bright presence enliven our land ; The free-born will despots and dungeons despise ; They will purge the fair earth from slavery ' s brand , And exterminate tyrants , and traitors , and spies . ' Benjamin _Sioti . Manchester .
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* " The curse of the crows" was formerly considered by some of the Irish people as heavy a malediction as COnld fall upon them . None knows better than " Ireland's only Duke" the calamitous effects of such a visi tation . The author was , in the year 1839 . on the estate of the Noble Duke , at Cartown , County Bjldare when the heavens appeared te be clouded with the black-winged race , and was informed by a tenant of the Noble Duke ' s , that bad as the tithe-proctor was , he was merciful compared with the "knights of the raven wing , " as the former only took one-tenth if their pro duce , but the bitter , if unmolested , wonld consume one third of their potatoes ! In vain did they complain to the Noble _Dok « , and requested him to allow a man a few shillings per week for powder and shot , to prevent their ravages : he was inexorable . Was it because they were otherwise provided from his plenteous and bountiful _ooard ? Alas ! f The expression of an Irish patriot at the time of the Union to the exclamation— " Sure , you would not sell your country !" § " l beg to ask the Right Hon . Gentleman opposite it it be his intention to aavise her Majesty to confer the _honour of knighthood on the Lord Mayor of Dublin , as is customary on such occasions ?"—W . S . O'Brien in _fht House ef Commons . Peel replied , and the Hon . and Right Hon . Gents , no doubt felt their ears pretty warm
The People's Rights T And How To Get The...
THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS t AND HOW TO GET THEM . By the Rev . Thomas Spescer MA ,, Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charter house , near Bath , and late Fellow of St . John ' _College , Cambridge . London : John Green 121 , Newgate-Street j and Samuel Gibb 3 _, 5 Union-Strctt _, Bath . _"Wa _regard this pamphlet as the evidence of well-intentioned mind , led away by its own con ceits . There is a theoretic _speciousness about its reasonings highly calculated to amuse and deceive the superficial mind . Acknowledging just general principles , its " details" are snch as , if brought into operation , would surely fail , and produc much mischief . The Reverend Author defines the people ' s rights to be—1 st . —The right to earn ImuK with thefewest possible impediments . 2 nd . — The right to keep property when acquired with the fewest possible demands upon it . 3 . —The right every man to worship God according to his con _EtaeEce . 4 . —The right to good government . 5 . — lfac right to _self-government by full , fair , and free representation . After enlarging upon and proving _eu & cientl y all these rights , he comes 1 o the con sideration 0 f the important qaestion "How to get "rem - And his first recommendation is the very _^^^ and essential one of an improved state _™ mdual , _and hence of social and political , morality -words _^ . meanSof obtainment we 8 J * _kbis own - Jl ~ i BT MAKI 5 G triaI' of them . —He that has served an apprenticeshi p _weU may set up in business tor himself- When an inventor would obtain patronage for a new machine he exhibits a model , and allows the public to inspect its movements . And if instead great haste to force upon an unwilling legislature ru tried institutions , an organization were contrived which would exhibit to the spectator the manner of their oper ation , then wonld thousands of men throw away their doubts and place confidence in the proposed plans . Let then , the working men cease to petition Parliament let them lay _sside all anxiety to get the name of Charter _c-iacUid by the legislature before its principles
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: ! - , are adopted by public opinion ; and let them betake themselves to those practical measures that are within their own power ; and if by the success of these experiments they obtain a verdict of the country in favour of these principles , the formal enactment of them into law will be matter of course . In order to this , let them bring into full operation all the people's rig hts as far as can be done -without an Act of Parliament Let them divide the kingdom into 300 electoral districts ; appoint a Committee of Management in each district ; select polling places for each locality , in-which every man , twenty-one years of age , may register himself , and be able to record his vote without going far from bis own home ; and provide each polling place with a ballot-box . When the apparatus is ready , let the inhabitants of each electoral district be invited to recommend persons whom they think fit to represent them in a provisional assembly , to be called " the Trial Parliament ; " and when opportunities have been given to the inhabitants of each neighbourhood to hear the sentiments of the various candidates , and to ask them questions , then let a day be fixed on which the voting shall take place ; and if the polling places are sufficiently numerous _, the polling , commencing at the same hour all over the kingdom , will take so short time as effectually to prevent any dishonest person from giving his vote in two or more places . When the result was ascertained by a Central Council there would be 300 men representing the average sentiments of the districts from which they come . After seeing the kind of men the people wr . uld choose , the next thing for the country to know is what they will do . Let these 300 representatives , supported by _sueh salaries as the districts would furnish , consider what laws they would destroy if they had the power to destroy , and what laws they would enact if they had the power to enact And in order that the public might know by what kind of reasoning they arrive at their respective conclusions , let the reporters of the press be present ; and if the proposed code of laws were such as would bear the examination of moral philosophers and upright statesmen ; if their conduct were more orderly and dignified than that of the House of Commons , then wonld there be gained for the new system a degree of _public confidence which years of agitation and thousands of petitions eould never obtain . * * * " It will be no disadvantage that this Trial Parliament will be destitute of power and patronage , and that its decisions will possess no legal authority . There will be greater calmness in its deliberations , and greater fairness in its conclusions than if it were at once exposed to those contaminating influences which are now in operation in every department of the state . After revising the laws and institutions of the country , left the Trial Parliament be dissolved , and let the new constitution , which they recommend , remain before the public a sufficient length of time to enable every man to form an opinion ; and let the Houses of Parliament have an oppertunity , if so disposed , to pass an act g iving to these recommendations the force of law . But until such measures have been adopted : until public opinion has been enlisted on the side of the Suffrage movement , and until legislators themselves have bad the means of testing the system of Complete Suffrage by its practical operation , it is too much to expect them to become converts to it Had it been gained by intimidation , before the intelligent portion of the middle and wealthy classes were convinced of its propriety , it wonld have been followed by no real good to the people , but , in all probability , would have thrown back for many years the cause of civil and religious liberty . To this conclusion came : the powerful mind of the late Robert Hall , the most eloquent and one of the most enlightened men of bis day . He says , * ' All attempts to urge forward in the right path beyond the measure of their light , are impracticable if they were lawful , and unlawful if they were practicable . Augment their light , conciliate their affections , and they will follow ef their own accord . " It is believed that after this fair trial , the greater part of the present constituency , and all the truly liberal and honourable members of the House of Commons , will become willing to concede the people's rights ; which they may then obtain , — " 3 . Br taking Possession of them . —When the public mind has been prepared for a change , there is no need of civil war , or of the beheading of monarebs , as in the time of Charles I . of England , and of Louis XVI . of France . When the leaders of the people are certain that they have the approval of the vast majority of then * fellow-citizens , they have only to demand admission , and the doors of power will open to them ot their own accord . " Now this plan of the Rev . Gentlemen for" trying " by practical experiment , in a mock parliament , the efficiency of Chartist principles to renovate society is open in the out-set to the great objection of placing self-government , which the author has already admitted for himself , and amply proved to others , to be a right , upon the low ground of expediency , a ground on which no real patriot or truly honest man would wittingly or advisedly advocate it ; and besides this , it is quite clear that his experiment could never have fair play . This experiment i 3 to convert the " middle" and " upper " classes—to induce them to acknowledge right principles ; he wohM set down , therefore , three hundred working men unpractised in any of the forms of legislation , to consider and tear up , with duo discrimination , the accumulated trash of many ages . This is neither a likely nor a reasonable expectation . And if it even were , the admission of the factious press wonld be sufficient to secure its failure ; as the deliberations of the people's Parliament , instead of being honestly reported , would be sneered at and ridiculed and falsified . And as that pi-ess would be the only medium _through which those whom the writer _cills " the intellectual portion of the middle and wealthy classes" could view their proceedings , the inevitable consequence must be that those classes would never become " convinced of their propriety "' nor of the soundness of the principles in which they originate . The only " fair trial" of the principles of Chartism in legislation must be their adoption by a legislative assembly already formed , and the election under the influence of those princip _^ s of such a body of representatives as might naturally be expected to follow the enaction of the Charter by the House of Commons , —a mixed body , all deeply and strongly imbued with the principles of liberty and truth , but some of them having already had experience in the forms of legislation , and being therefore fitted to direct and aid their less experienced though probably not less able and soundthinking compeers . The pamphlet contains , as might be expected , a recommendation of the Sturge movement ; and is , from its catching title and specious style , well enough calculated to serve the purpose of the middle classes by leading shallow minds a wild-goose chase . We observe that the pseudo liberal movement party are pouring forth a large quantity of cheap pamphlets just now , many of them written most plausibly , and advocating various plans and schemes , while the tendency of the whole is to divert the people , aud prevent their united energies from being bended towards any one given and determined subject . This is the whole secret of the Sturge men ' s objection to the name ef the Charter , while they profess its principles . Their object is division ; our ' s must be union , or they will succeed , and we shah be laughed at . o " s
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- 1 _, - s , , a - e a of - - of . of , ; the The late Riots at Ennis . —The Government investigation into the disturbance at Ennis , closed on Wednesday , the loth , having occupied five days . In the course of his evidence , Mr . Brown , the County Inspector of Police , deposed that Mr . Smyth , the stipendiary magistrate , had made repeated efforts to disperse the crowd , and had actually led away " one batch , " but without being able to abate the excitement . He recollected Mr . Fitzsimon ' s _saying , about tight or ten minutes before the firiDg , " We must throw shot into the people , " or words to that effect . Mr . Brown declared that he heard no one give orders to fire . He did not think fit to ask Capt . De Ruvynes for instructions to act , because tho police came out under the immediate directions of Air . Smyth ; and he preferred to act with Mr . Smyth , for he knew he had much more influence with tho crowd . He appealed to Captain De Ruvynes several limes , as a magistrate , for directions ; and Captain Dc Ruvynes said he did not feci himself called upon to act in tho absence of Mr . Smyth . " He gave me that answer more than once . The only matter I was dissatisfied with Captain De Ruvynes on that night for , was his unwillingness to interfere and give proper instructions . " Mr . Brown admitted that he had neglected to ascertain the names of the policemen who fired ; aud he could not remember at what hour he visited tho Police Barrack . The polico diary was produced , which shewed that Mr . Brown did not visit the barrack 1 until seven o ' clock on the evening of Tuesday . Captain De Ruvynes gave his version of the narrative , which did not make out any very striking difference from tho previous accounts . He said that after the firing had ceased , a policeman used threatening language to him , j ( seemingly provoked at his want of decision . ) Another policeman exclaimed , " I think you are a fool . " Captain De Ruvynes accounted for his reluctance to interfere by stating that a difference , which had arisen on the Bench , existed between himself and Mr . Smith . Captain De Ruvynes gave it as his opinion that the Police were not in danger , nor had they any occasion to fire on the people in defence of their lives . Michael Dolan , one of tho crowd , gave evidence tending to convict Captain De Ruvynes and Mr . Brown of instigating and ordering the Police to fire ; but his testimony was damaged by this admission— " I was asking Mr . Hynes last night to get me off attending the inquest this day , as I had not time to attend : I also asked him at the rising of the Court last night . He told me I should attend the inquest : I then told him that I would give it against hi 3 client , Mr . Brown ; who both positively denied the truth of ! his statement . The Irish papers bestow great praise on Mr . Smith ' s conduct of tho investi g ation , as searching and impartial : of course his report would be made to the Government , and any conclusion to which he had come is not announced , Mr . Brown and Mr . Fitzsimon have bee n apprehended , and lodged in gaol . A subscripti on has been set on foot at Trim , in Heath , to reli _Sye the _dhtyese . Whole families in tho _neighbourhood arc known to _"'bskfe on wild rape .
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The _Marquis of Waterford . —Consequent on the Marquis ' s nuptials , he has intimated to his agent Mr . Mears , his intention to forego the whole of his agricultural tenantry one entire year ' s rent . Last Friday night ' s Gazette contains the proclamation announcing the issuo of the cooper coinage f half-farthings . The proclamation declares that they will not be a legal tender for any . sum above the value of sixpence . Resignation of the Braintree Board of Guardians . —A few days since , the Poor Law Commissioners issued an order to the Board of Guardians , to the effect , " that their clerks do transmit to the Assistant Commissioners of the district , after every ordinary meeting of tho Guardians , a copy of any special minute made , or notice of motion on the books ; " the Braintree Board of Guardiansforwarded a strong remonstrance to the Central Commissioners against such order . The Board met on Monday for the purpose of taking the reply of the Commissioners to the remonstrance into consideration . As the Commissioners vindicated the leality , and defended the expediency , of the obnoxious order , and expressed their determination to enforce it , the Chairman of the Board ( the Rev . J . P . Wood ) resigned his office ; and the Board , having first passed a resolution of thanks to the Rsv . Gentloman for his conduct as Chairman of the Board , and another declaring the order unnecessary and arbitrary , also resigned , leaving the business of the Union in the hands of the clerk and the Relieving Officers . Hamhuugh Gratitude . —The following notice has been published in Dublin by Mr . Wisdom , the Hamburgh Consul , and affords a splendid specimen of Hamburgh gratitude : — " Lest any workmen or labourers may be induced to quit Ireland for Hamburgh in search of work , the underwriter is directed to make known that there is not any want for such there ; and that any eaptain of a vessel taking over persons in search of work , will be compelled by the State authorities to tako them baok again . " Signed , Thomas H . Wisdom , Consul , Dublin . " This certainly is a worthy return of the Hamburghians for the generous manner in which tho English and Irish came forward , and opened their purses for their assistance , when they were houseless and destitute . Why prevent the Irish , whose National Bank contributed £ 100 to the Hamburgh fund , from endeavouring to obtain work ! Why hinder them entering the labour marketon the fair and honourable grounds of competition % If the Irish labourers failed in obtaining work , they then had their alternative of returning to their native land . The prohibition breathes a spirit of ingratitudo and base monopoly , calculated to make the people of Hamburgh , in future , upworthy of the least help at the hands of British generosity . If the thousands pf pounds sterling sent over to assist them in recovering their former position , had been distributed amongst our starving millions , it would gladden their pallid sunken cheeks , and throw comparative comfort around their present desolate domestic circles . A Registry Scene . —The Cashel sessions commenced yesterday ; there were 194 notices served by the Radicals for the county , and one borough , but , trange to say , out of the entire number not a single individual attended , with the exception of one Simon Mabassy , an old grey-headed man , between whom and the Radical attorney the following extraordinary dialogue took place as soon as Simon got on the table , in the presence of the barrister : —Solicitor . — Simon , don ' t mind scratching your head ; it ' s nothing you'll scratch out of it . Where ' s your lea _^ e ? Simon . —What information do you want ? May be , my head is cleaner than yours , and that same woudn't be saying much for it ; I'll cock you up with ray _lea _^ e ; how bad you are without it ; I suppose I can't register a _blunderbush without having shown that I am a freeholder of the county . Solicitor . —Go down , Sir , out of that : you're either drunk or a most impudent fellow . Simon—No , nor the devil a stir ; though you're all tho way from Carrickbeg I ' m a decenter man than ever you were , drunk or sober ; and as to impudence , sure if you hadn't the Deuce ' s own stock of it , it ' s not here but there you'd be [ pointing to the doek ]—( Great laughter . ) Solicitor . —I call upon the Court for protection . Court . —Really you ought to treat your freeholders with more courtesy , and particularly an old man , and the only one in attendance out of such number . Simon . —Thank your Lordship , but you ' re under a mistake . I ' m no freeholder of the man ' s at all , nor do I wish to have anything to do wiih his father ' s son ; I came to register my firelock , to have ready for the lads of the kind , the next time thoy drag me out of my house to vote for as fine playboys as themselves .- I was obliged to fire three shots before I could escape away from them at the last election . ( Great laughter . ) Court . —You had better speak to tho clerk of tho peaco about your firearms . I can't interfere in the matter . Simon . —Thank your reverence ; but I'd rather settle with your Lordship's honour than any of them ; they charge so high , your reverance , for the smallest trifle ; if ' twas only a crown summons you wanted , they'd charge you 5 s ., as they say a crown and 53 . are both the same , and consequently , that a crown summons always costs a crown . Now , I ask your Honour is that fair 1 I tell you what , your Honour j I'll give you 2 ? . 6 d . for registering my firelock . The laughter here became so loud , that the Court was obliged to have Simon and his firelock removed from the table . The list was then called over the third time , when no oneappearing , the civil business was gone into , and the Radical agent ' s gaze on vacancy , when looking in vain at the door for a view of a freeholder , was really amusing , and it seemed to have puzzled all in court to account for the deserted ranks of his allies . It is to be hoped that these unfortunate dupes are becoming more alive to their own interest and the machinations of designing and heartless knaves . — Tipperary Constitution .
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INQUEST UPON THE BODY OF HOLBERRY THE CHARTIST . YORK CASTLE—TUESDAY , June 21 . On Tuesday evening last , an inquest was held before John Wood , Esq ., at York Castle , upon the bedy of Samuel Holberry , the Sheffield Chartist , who died between four and five o ' clock that morning , in the hospital of the Castle . Mr . Leeman , solicitor , of York _, attended on behalf of the friends of . the deceased . The following is the evidence which was given : — Mr . Baxter Barker , under gaoler of York Castle , was first sworn . He deposed—I knew the deceased . He was a prisoner confined in the Castle . He was twentyseven years of age . His home was at Sheffield , and he was a spirit-distiller by trade . He was committed to the Castle in the first instance on the 15 th of January , 1840 , and was tried at the assizes held on the 5 th March , 1840 , and was convicted of conspiracy , sedition , and riot . After that , on the 20 th of March , 1840 , he was removed to Northallerton House of Correction to undergo the sentence of tho court ; namely , four years ' imprisonment , and at the expiration of tbat period be was to enter into recognizances of two sureties of £ 10 each to keep the peace for three years . Then he came here again on the 21 st of September , 1841 , by order of the Secretary of State for the Home Department . ( The witness was then desired to state what he knew respecting Holberry's death . ) He said , about half-past three _o'clock this morning , I heard a knocking in tho felon's prison , and I likewise heard some one , as I supposed , calling to the watchman . I immediately got up and looked out of the window . As soon as I got the keys I went to see what was the matter . I saw the deceased in bed in the hospital . He was in a very weak state . I inquired of the prisoners . if they thought he was in a worse state . They said they thought he was I then said we will send for the doctor immediately . I did so . He could not speak . After a while I came down , and in a short time the knocking was repeated . At the same time there was a knocking at the outer gate , which was caused by Mr . Anderson , the surgeon . I proceeded to the hospital along with Mr . Anderson . The prisoners are told that when tbey are taken ill they are to knock . My sleeping room is not so well situated for hearing out of the felons' prisons as the governor ' s The deceased appeared to be dead when I got to the room . I cannot tell when he went to the _ho-pital , except from the surgeon ' s journal . When he came here from Northallerton in _September last , he was in a very ill and -weakly state of health . He seemed to recover for about four or five months , from the time he came into the Castle , when he appeared to me to have quite recovered . About two months since , as near as I can tell , he appeared to become ill again , and I think he has continued , as far as my observation has gone , to sink gradually under disease up to the period of his death . 1 think it is about two months since he went into the hospital by the surgeon ' s direction . Ever since that time he has continued a patient in the hospital . I think he has been able nearly every day to _eoxno down into the yard , until the last two or three days . During the four last days he has not been able to get down in consequence of weakness . I believe he first _objected to coming down in consequence of tho cold . During the time he h as been in the hospital he has been regularly attended to . He has had persons to wait upon him _. He has never been left alone neither night nor day . Tbe persons who were -with him were prisoners . They were put there for the pur pose of waiting upon him . George Greaves is the name ot the person who principally attended upon the deceased . There were other sick prisoners in the hospital at the time , but not in the same room with the deceased . Greaves slept in the same room with deceased . There were three beds in the room where the deceased slept , the deceased occupied ono , and George Greaves and Luke Marshall , who also waited upon the deceased , slept in the remaining two . They are both of them convicted prisoners , and were both convicted of felony . Every day during tho last two months that tho deceased has been an inmate of the hospital , he b as been visited by the doctor , and sometimes twice day . The orders of the surgeon with respect to the _, deceased have invariably been attended to , and so far I as I have observed , he has had every attention paid to I him , both medical and otherwise . Mr . Noble is un j avoidably absent attending the sessions at Wakefield He went yesterday morning about nine o ' clock . I have an . order in my _poBstssiun _fer the deceased's discharge . believe it was received by Mr . Haguo _, last Saturday
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- _- . I morning . ( The order was produced and read . ) It was as follows : — "Whitehall , June 17 th , 1842 . * ' Sir , —I am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11 th inst ., with its inclosed medical certificate , respecting Samuel Holberry , a prisoner in York Castle ; and to acquaint you that , under the circumstances therein stated , Sir James Graham has felt warranted in advising her Majesty to grant the prisoner a pardon , on conditions of his entering into a recognisance , himself in £ 200 , with two sureties , to be approved by the Visiting Justices of York Castle , in _£ 100 each , for his good behaviour for five years from this date . I have , therefore , te request that such recognisance , when entered into , may be transmitted to me ; and upon receipt thereof , her Majesty ' s warrant will be forwarded for the prisoner ' s liberation . " It was signed by Mr . Phillipps , Under Secretary of State , and it was addressed to Barnard Hague , Esq ., Visiting Magistrate of the Castle , York . There has not been an order for his immediate discharge . Cross-examined by Mr . Leeman—I do not know of any order of the Marquis of No : manby ' s , In September last , relating to the deceased . I do not know the reason of his being sent here from Northallerton ; but I believe it was in consequence of his bad state of health . I do not know how it was , unless I read it in the newspaper , or from having heard the magistrates talk about it . I do not recollect seeing an order upon the subject . When he was here five or six months , he appeared quite well . It is Henry Pease ' s ( the schoolmaster ' s ) duty to read all the letters sent out by the prisoners . [ Several letters from Holberry were here handed to the witness . ] There is no doubt but this letter has been written either by the deceased or by bis orders . I believe it to be the deceased ' s writing . looking at this letter , I cannot say whether he was well or not when it was written . This letter must have passed either through the schoolmaster ' s or my hands . I believe this letter to be written by him . I have no doubt > that this letter is bis writing ( alluding to the third letter . ) , This is also in his hand-writing . I think I have some recollection of seeing the last letter when it was sent out , Mr . Leeman then requested that the letters might be read , which was done by the Coroner , and they are as follows : — York Castle , April , 1 , 1842 . Dear Burley , —I having received no answer to my last I am afraid you never received it . I feel anxious to know if you have heard from Mr . Duncombe . When he mentions my case in the House , cut the extract out of the newspapers and forward to me . I am rather better than I have been . I have been looking for some news from you all the week ; write on Sunday . Sir , I wish you would send me a stick of Spanish juice for my cough : it troubles me so at nights that I cannot sleep . I am sorry to inform yon that my dear wife is very poorly . Give my respects to all friends , accept the same yourself , from your well wisher , Samuel Holberry . Hospital , York Castle , April 39 th , 1842 . MY dear Friend , —I am sorry to inform you that I am no better ; I am reduced to a skeleton , and if no alteration takes place for the better , I shall soon not be able to crawl . My appetite is very bad , and the little food I take I cannot digest without the assistance of medicine , and then only with pain and difficulty . You perhapB will be surprised to hear that the Castle is a worse place for a man in sickness than the House of Correction at Northallerton . When I was ill there , I bad such food allowed as I could eat , but here the case ia different , and if a man ' s stomach cannot take the food allowed , he must go without . You will not wonder at me _being so much debilitated , when I tell you that I can take no portion of the food allowed for dinner , excepting a few potatoes ; and you perhaps are aware , tbat it is not every day we get them . A bit of bread and a sup of what in the Castle is called tea , is the only ( except a potato occasionally ) food I have taken for the last three weeks . My eyes are sunken in my head , and could you see me you would think I had the jaundice . My friend , I feel too weak to say more . I shall be glad to hear from you when convenient . Sir , I write nothing but facts , and you have no occasion to be afraid of making use of my words ; when they have said all they can of me , they can neither call me a liar or a felon . Give my respects to all friends , accept the same yourself , from yours truly , Samuel Holberrv . To E . Burley , 19 , Bilton-street , Layerthorpe , York . Hospital , Castle , May , 19 th , 1842 . Mr dear Friend , —I did not receive yours of the 10 th till the _lfith . I should have answered it sooner , hut the _surgeons hal been raising an eruption on my side , which was so painful and run such quantities of corruption , that I have been for three days and could not stoop ; but neither the eruption , the blisters , nor anything else that I have taken inwardly or applied outwardly , has done me any good . The fact is , I believe the lungs are affected . I am worse now than ever I was at Northallerton , and far more reduced . I am so badly troubled with dyspepsy that I cannot digest the little food I eat without the assistance of medicines ; but its no use me troubling you with complaints , or I could fill this letter with them . When you see Mr . Crowtber give my compliments to him , and tell him I am obliged to him for the stamps he sent me . You can tell him the reason I did not answer his note . Dear friend . I want to borrow a feather pillow ( if any of our friends has one to spare ) till I get better . I would have sent for one from home , but the carriage costs so much , but I hope the Convention has made some arrangement for the wives and families , and not left them destitute , as they havo been for months past . Sir , I am almost lost for the want of something , when the fever is on me so strong I drink such a quantity of water that I feel it does me barm . I wish you would be so kind as send me sixpennyworth of oranges . I will repay you as soon as I get some money . I cannot write more at present . Let me hear from you when convenient . Give my respects to all friends , accept the aarae yourself , from _Your's , truly , Samuel Holberry . To Mr . E . Burley . Hospital , Castle , May 28 tb , 1842 . My dear Burley , —I received your kind letter , and the one from my dear wife ; likewise the oranges and pillow . Tell the gentleman who lent it me , I am very much obliged to him . Accept my thanks for the oranges , and give my respects to Mrs . Barley , and tell her I am obliged to her for the acid drops , though I have not got leove to have them yet . York Castle is a queer place for a sick mau . I wish I was back in Northallerton hospital ( hospital mind ) till I get better . There I had everything that a reasonable man could require , cooked by females , and done as it ought it be . Dear Sir , you rather blame me for telling my wife to send you a trifle of money for to get me a few oranges . I might just add that I had wrote to two friends ( I had perhaps as well say places ) for a trifle for the same purpose , but to no use , and that is not the worst . But 1 am aware this is not a proper place for me to make comnlaints of that nature . What I have said above , I hope and _truBt you will not mention to any one . You should not have sent the shilling to me ; no . ope will buy me oranges or anything else with it ; it ' s contrary to the rules for any one belonging to the Castle to buy a prisoner anything , or I should not havo given you the trouble , but I will ask Mr . Pearse , the schoolmaster , to try and get the shilling , and return it to you for the purpose it was intended for , but you had better buy me nothing but oranges . I am as frugal as possible with them ; one of a night is all I use . You have just received such an answer as I expected from Sir James ; he sent the same answer to a poor unfortunate convict , tbat lavs beside me in the last stago of a consumption who was recommended by tbe magistrates , backed by the surgeon ' s certificate . Give my respects to all friends accept the same yourself frun Your well wisher , Samuel Holberry . p S- —Be careful how you word your letters ; they draw the pen acrosB different _worda that are strong . The cross-examination was then continued . Holberry taw Mr . Hague very frequently , and tho other visiting magistrates often ; Mr Hague more frequently than the others . I cannot speak as to the frequency that Holberry saw the visiting justices . Prom the early part of April up to tbe time of his decease , thoy frequently saw the deceased . Ever Bince he same to this prison ho has always had extra diet . Sometimes he has had tea , sometimes milk ; but I do not know that he ever had gruel , tho regular diet of tho prison . He has always had mutton since he came to the prieon , with tho exception of the last two or three days , when he could not cat it . He would have mutton on the 30 th cf April , and milk or tea . Ho had three pounds and a half of mutton every week when ha could eat it Captain Williams , inspector of _prieona , was here specially on the 9 th , JOtb , and 11 th inst . He saw Holberry twice , but I was not with him either time . I saw the deceased yesterday . I think he wa 3 delirious , and could not speak rationally . I think George Greaves has been with the deceased since ho went into the hospital . __ By the Coroner—Since he came , he was always dieted according to the Burgeon ' s direction , He has had puddings with eggs in them lately , made very good and nice Wm . Anderson , Esq ., deposed : —I am deputy surgeon to York Castle . I know the deceased , and have attended him along with Mr . Champney from the time of his coming here from Northallerton . When he came from Northallerton he was in a very weak state , and in consequence on the 21 st of September , the day he came to the Castle , he was ordered 3 jlbs . of mutton per week as extra diet . On the 24 th " he was ordered in addition to that tea twice a day instead of gruel , which is the ordinary diet . His general disease has been disorder of the stomach . He has continued that diet , I believe , uninterruptedly during the whole of the winter until he became seriously worse , which w » b on the 10 th of April last , when he went into the hospital . During the greater part of the winter he was comparatively well , and though he frequently complained of slight cold and indigestion , he has very frequently stated to me that he considered himself in a tolerable state of health , and very much improved sinco his coming to
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~ . _jHL = York Castle . For some weeks after he went into the hospital his diet continued the same , but his digestion became so very much disordered that we were obliged frequently to vary his diet according to circumstances . On more than one occasion , he has complained to me that his mutton chops or necks of mutton were too fat , and I have several times ordered other places of mutton , such as legs , to be got for him . Oa the 16 th of May , he was ordered to bave milk night and morning instead of tea by bis own particular desire . On the 6 th of June , he was ordered U > have light pudding every day , and there were particular directions given that it should contain eggs and milk along with the flour . On account of his digestion being so precarious , a frying pan and other implements were procured , in order tbat he might cook bits of meat , and alter things as he liked them ; a thing that has never been done sines I was connected with the prison , which has now been for 18 years . On various occasions he has had little things provided for him which were cot entered upon the journal , varying from milk to ten and tea to milk , according to circumstances . On several occasions I have requested him to name anything which he thought was likely to agree with him better than the things he has had . He requested on one occasion to have the mutton cut from a leg , which was done . He was always accommodated according to his wish . I believe that all the directions I gave were complied with by the gaoler , as he was always seen once or twice a day , either by myself or Mr . Charupney , since he was In the hospital . Our attention was particularly drawn to Holberry's case from the commencement , owing to a communication from the Secretary of State , requesting the medical attendant to send certificates from time t » time of his health , to the home office . These certificates were sent , During tho winter , when his health was so well , they were not so frequently sent as at the commencement , or since . On the 7 th of June , Mr . Champuey gave me a certflcate to give to Capt . Wliliams . who was expected in York in two days , and this is a copy . It states that "Samuel Holberry , the Chartist _prisoners suffering from severe pain in the left side , the effect of chronic _inflammation of the left lobe of the liver , extending to tho stomach , and perhaps tbe colon , which from his having bad former attacks , I believe to be organic disease . His digestion is very bad , and he is very weak . I consider him to be in great danger . I am of opinion that bis symptoms have increased , and his general health has been impaired of late by the length of confinement , and tbe great anxiety of mind he appears to have suffered since his long imprisonment " This was signed George Champney , surgeon to York Castle . I saw the deceased yesterday . Far the last two or three days he has been confined to his bed . Yesterday , when I saw him in the middle of the day , he had been suddenly seized with fainting , and was quite delirious , which was the first day I hud observed him being decidedly so . These symptoms continued in spite of the Kinedies that were applied , and he died this morning at half-past four o ' clock , of chronic inflammation of the left lobe of tbe liver , and implicating the other viscera . From the time of his entering the prison I have known that his liver was implicated . I was called upon about four o ' clock , and got here in half an hour afterwards . For several days past ho has given me answers which have bad to be repeated before I oould understand what he meant , and which ! attributed to extreme debility . By a Juror—I _constantly saw hia diet Cross-examined by Mr . Leeman—I have not a copy of any other certificate sent to tha Secretary of State bofore the one of the 7 th of June . Others were made , I am almost confident , at certain periods . I think during th 9 first two months of his being here three or four certificates were sent , but I cannot speak confidently as to the dates . When he got better I did not continue the report so regularly . I cannot exactly state when the one previous to the 7 th of June waB sent . I cannot state whether one was sent to tho Government during May or April . I cannot state of my own knowledge when one was sent previous to the 7 th of June . I believe they were sent , but I de not recollect the time . He was sent into th * hospital on the Kith of April , and I believe a report was then sent , but I cannot state positively of my own knowledge . The first time that I thought he was dangerously ill , or had this chronic affection , was in April We might have bad some suspicion previously ; but on his going into the hospital in April I more particularly examined his side , and then I became of opinion that he waB affected with inflammation of the left lobe of the liver . Mr . Leeman—On the SOth of April would this describe his cenditiou ( quoting from one of the deceased ' s letters)— " I am reduced to a skeleton . If no alteration takes place for the better I Bhall soon not bo able to crawl . My appetite is very bad , and the little diet I take I cannot digest without the assistance ef medicine , and then only with pain and difficulty ?"No doubt at this time he had become much weaker , and his symptoms of disease had increased . We should think at tbat time that it was a dubious point whether he would recover or not My impression most certainly was that he would . I could net say on the 16 th of April whether he had the chronic affection or not . do not recollect that I had any communication with the Secretary of State in , the months of March or A xil . There is no note of any in the book . Ever after he went into the hospital he was in a dubious state . I cannot swear positively that I recollect signing a memo rial to the Secretary of State in the month of April , having reference to the deceased , but I rather think I did . I recollect two or three men , but who they were I know not , calling at my house in Stonegate some time during the spring . I cannot really say whether the deceased was in the hospital at the time or not . If he was it would be at the very commencement of his going there . I recollect perfectly well stating to those men that until a very short period the deceased had improved in health , and they need not be at all afraid of hia being properly attended to in the Castle , for that a certificate was regularly sent up to the Secretary of State , stating exactly how his health went on . I do not recollect having any communication with the Secretary of State after these men called . I cannot recollect having signed any certificate to the Secretary of State after that until the 7 th of June . Probably Mr , Champney did . After the 30 th ho gradually got worse , On the 9 th of June Captain Williams visited York Castle . Mr . Leeman—I want to know how long before Captain Williams visited York Castle did you consider Holberry in danger ? I had no positive idea that he would not recover even up to the time of the certificate being written ; nor had Mr . Champney . We thought that if he remained in the Castle it would go very hard with him , as that certificate states . It was only very shortly previous to the certificate being written that we first formed the opinion that if h e were to continue in the Castle , under the same degree cf excitement , it would go hard with him . I should think that , even supposing the restraint had been removed in April , he would not have got better . Supposing I had been asked , in April , without being acquainted with the results which have since happened , what would have been the best _meauB to be adopted 111 order to preserve this man ' s life , I should have said it was not necessary to discharge him from the Castle . On the 30 th of April his life was not in such a dubious state as to render it necessary to give a certificate for his discharge from the Castle . At that time doubtless hia life waa in a dubious state . Mr . Leeman—Then I want to know whether any return was made with respect to the dubious state the man was in lrom the 30 th of April until thy 7 : h June ? That I do not know . I do not Know that it is ascertainable ; I should think so . The reason why a special report was made on the 7 th of June was because vre thought him much worse . We then knew that Captain Williams was coming down . We got to know only a day or two before , He was not coming down , as far as my knowledge goes , about anything connected with this man . He came down for another special purpose , and the management of the deceased had nothing to do with it . I remember being asked to sign a medical certificate with reference to the deceased ' s state of health by those persons who called upon me . I cannot give the date of this , but 1 think it was just before he was sent to the hospital . The persons who called , represented that it was on account of Holberry ' s ill health that the memorial was about to be sent to the Secretary of State . 1 do not recollect having any communication with Mr . Hague respecting the prisoner up to the time of his going into the hospital . I have not the slightest recollection ef mentioning the circumstance to any of the visiting justices . I am not certain whether I visited the deceased in company with Captain Williams or Mr . Hague on tho Thursday or Saturday . 1 saw him on these days . I cannot state of any representation being made to tbe government with regard to the state of this man ' s health , from the time of hia going into the hospital until Captain Williams had been and inspected the prisons . I cannot speak of any inquiry being made from the Home Secretary to me between the 16 th of April and the 7 th of June . I did not know from Holberry that Parliament was petitioned in March on account of his health , and _asking the government to consent to his discharge . I recollect seeing something respecting it iu the _newspapers . Mr . John Noble , the governor of York Castle , who had returned from Wakefield during the examination of the previous witnesses , was next examined . _Ko deposed ; t knew the deceased , who was a prisoner under sentence in the Castle , and came in from Northallerton on the 2 _lst September , 1841 . When he came in he looked very poorly , but got considerable better . He has been regularly attended by the medical officers . Tho direction givtn by the _medical officers have been regularly attended to , and my wife has _occasionly sent him pudding , and he has had oranges . Cross-examined by Mr . Leemau . —There was an order came down from the Secretary of State's office , soon after the deceased came here from Northallerton , _directing tho medical officer to send reports frem time to time of the stats of tho deceased ' s health , and several were , I know , sent in consequence . I do not positively know whether any certificate was sent between the 16 th of April , the time of his going into tho hospital , and that of the 7 th of June . I think ono was sent as I talked with Mr . Champney about it , but I eannot be certain . , By a Juror—When the deceased first came into the Castle he appeared a strong _heidthy mau . He looked rather pale in the face , but did not complain . I saw no alteration iu him up to the time he was removed to Northallerton . This being the whole of the evidence that was offered , the Coroner inquired of Mr . Leeuum whether he wished to call any witnesses . u be ev t to r v as in
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. . _« _SSSKSS _^ _SSfflgsS Mr . Leeman said , that- he was there at the instance of the friends of the deceased , more with a view to watch the evidence , and to see that all the facts and circumstances attending the case of this unfortunate nun were properly investigated , than to offer any direct evidance pon the subject , beGanse , as must be palpable , the authorities of the _prison were the only parties whocould give any legal evMence respecting his condition further than as that condition bad been shown by hia letters . After the evidence whieh had ' been adduced , would very britfly stato the reasons why he submitted to the Coroner the propriety of some _further idence being gi 7 en as to the representations made by he mpdical officers ot _ths _prissn to the Government , from tirae to time , _rejecting the state-of health of the deceased . In the month of September last , it appeared that a representation was made to the Secretary of State ai Holberry ' s health , in consequence of which Sir James _Gkahoru was induced to issue directions for the emoval of Holb « rry from Northallerton House of Correction to York Castle , the discipline of which was supposed to bo much milder than that of tho former prison . And it further appeared , that express directions were then given to the medical officers of York Castle , to send up from time to time , representations with respect to tbis man's state of health . At the following Christinas a memorial , he understood , was presented to the Secretary ' of State , by the deceased ' s friends , representing hia health to be cf the same precarious _choractt-r tbat it was beforo , and praying that on that ground he might be released ; be was further instructed that , in tbe month of March last , a petition , numerously signed , was forwarded to Mr . Thomas Duncombe , and by him presented to the House of Commons , setting forth that Holberry ' s life was still iu a ery precarious state , and praying that he might bo discharged ; that again in April , and after be was so ill to be removed into the hospital , another memorial was sent to the Secretary of State ; and that the answer given by Sir James Graham to these memorials and petitions was . that he did not feel himself justified interfering at all in the case of this man Now it appeared that the 16 th of April wa 3 the day on which he whs last sent into tbe hospital , and according to Mr . Anderson's evidence he , on the SOth of that month , considered the deceased to be in a dubious state . The 30 th of April it would be remarked was tbe date of one of the letters in which the deceased stated himself to be so very bad ; and Mr . Barker had said tbat the deceased appeared gradually to sink after he went into the hospital , Now he ( Mr . Leeman ) did think tbat , for the satisfaction of tbo friends of the deceased and of the public—in justice to the Secretary of State himself—and not less for the justification of tho medical officers of the prison—it ought if possible to be ascertained whether any communication was forwa- ded to the Secretary of Siate between the 30 th of April , when it was perfectly clear that he was in a very dubious and dangerous state , and the 7 th of June , when Capt . Williams came down for the purpose of inspecting the prison , and when , in consequence of tho communication made to him , as well probably as of his personal observation , a letter was forwarded by the Secretary of State directing steps whieh might have ended in the release of this poor fellow , had not death first released him from all further suffering . The Coroner thought it was necessary to have the evidence of Mr . Champney , who had been in tho habit of seeing the deceased fr « quently . Mr . Anderson said that Mr . Champney was in Paris , whither he had gone for the benefit of his health , previous to the arrival of Captain Williams in York , or he ( Mr . Champney ) would not have written the certificate until after he had arrived in York . In answer to a _question from Mr . Leeman , air . Anderson stated that the report of the 7 th of June would have been sent up to the the Secretary of State supposing Capt . Williams had not visited York Castle . The Coroner then addressed the Jury at considerable length . After _alludilg to the circumstances under which the deceased came into the Castle—the improvement which took place in his health for a time , trad his subsequent relapse , he said the question for their consideration would be Srst—what was tho causa of hia death , and upon this head—the deceased being a prisoner—it would he necessary for them to be satisfied that he had been properly attended to by those whose duty it was to take care of him—namely , the officers 0 * the prison . Now , from the evidence it appeared that his diet had _bem considerably improved ; that he had had mutton , milk , and tea , in addition to the ordinary diet of tho prison , and therefore there could be no question but that , as far as his personal comforts were concerned , he had meat undoubtedly been attended to . Of course they wore aware than whenever a person committed a 1 . reach of tha laws of his country , he must submit co the punishment which those laws inflict for such offence , and in this case it appeared imprisonment had been the punishment inflicted for Holberry ' s offence . And although he might have been a person of weak constitution and delicate health , ytt he was bound to suffer the punishment inflicted for his _transgression of tbe laws . Therefore he could not be set at liberty;—he could not be allowed to take a walk out of the Oastle into the country for th _* benefit of his health , because the officer of the prison where he was confined had no power to set him at liberty . Imprisonment he wos bound to bear , unless the prerogative of the Crown had been exercised in his behalf . He could only be set at liberty by an act of the Queen's grace and clemency . When he became indisposed as thoy had beard , he was placed in the hospital , which they all probably knew was a _placs of more comfort than the ordinary cells of the prison , and other prisoners were placed along with him all the time , for the purpose of _attending to him as well as they could . They could not have the evidence of thosa prisoners who attended him , inasmuch as they being persons who had been convicted of felony , their evidence w & s net admissible . But according to the evidence of Mr . Barker , the _under-gaoler , every depoiiption of attention was paid to the deceased that waa _necessary under the circumstances . He had had every medical attendance since he went into the hospitalfrom the 16 th of April to the day of his death , he had had all the assistance that medical skill could render He had had both medicine and diet suitable and proper for his case , and it would appear that greater favour had been shown to him than was ever done to any other prisoner . It _appeavtd that the nature of his disorder was such as to have destroyed or greatly impaired his digestive _organs : and considerable care had been taken to supply him with that description of food which was likeiy to be most serviceable and beneficial to hint . Even his own wishes had been consulted in this respect—it did appear to him ( the coroner ) that , so far as regards tho officers of tho prison , both medical and otherwise , every possible attention had been paid to the deceased's case . They would have no difficulty in coming to a conclusion with regard to the cause of the deceased ' s death , for Mr . Anders « n had shown in a most satisfactory manner , that he had died from ii . fl . immation of the left lobe of the livtr—in fact , by the visitation of Gtod . He also thought they would havo no difficulty in stating that every sort of attention had been paid by the officers of the priBon , during his illness . Another circumstance had been introduced into this inquiry , certainly of considerable importance . It appeared that application bad been made to the Secretary of State , for a remission of the deceased ' s suittnce , in consequence uf tbe bad state of _hiB health . No doubt his removal from _Northallerton House of Correction to York Castle took place in consequence of that representation . An order also c : _' . niH down from the Secretary of State to the medical effiuers of the Castle , requesting these persons to furnish , from time to time , aa they thought necessary , certificates of the state of the deceased ' s health . What was the _olject of that order he of _cuurse could not say , but he apprehended it was in order that ' the Secretary of State might be informed of the progress of the disease , in order that ho might communicate with the Government upon the subject . This order was attended to , and several certificates appeared to have bee . sent up—more frequently during the early period of the deceased ' s imprisonment . The reason given by tbe medical ( flicer why they were not continued so frequently afterwards was , that the deceased had so far recovered as to render them unnecessary . They had heard that a ctrtiheate waa written on the 7 ih of Juue , when ho became worse , which was given to Captain Williams , the inspector of prisons , wbo bad comu down for some other olject . Tliat certificate certainly represented the deceased as being in a very bad state of health . Considerable inquiry had beeu made as to whether any other certificate h : sd been Eent to tbe Secretary of State between the timo the deceased went into tho _hospital and the 7 th of June . Now , they had no _evidence to show whether any cortificate was sent to tha home vflice between these periods . Whether such a certificate was sent or not , Mr . Anderson did not know . Mr . Champney was the only party who could speak to this , and as they were aware they could _nol have his evidence . Mr . Noble had stated tbat he believed one was sent out , but they had no positive evidence upoa the subject . Another imp » rts . ut _inquiry was made of Mr . Anderson , uameiy , with respect to bis opinion of the state of the deceased ' s health up to a very recent period , and as to the _certificate ho would have given had he himself been called upon to furnish one , and he had staled tbat he did not consider on the SOth of April tliub the deceased ' s life was so dubious as to _rtn-I'ler it necessary for him to be discharged from prison . Therefore had he at that time sent up a certificate to the home office , it was clear he would not bave represented the deceased ' s health as being in so precarious a , statu as to itnder his removal from priaen n _« cts « ary , The Coroner then proceeded to recapitulate the _mobt important portions of the evidence , commenting upon it aa he went on . He then said : —So that according to the evidence of Mr . Anderson , it appeared tbat even in April last had tho deceased been removed it would not have saved his life . With that however tho jury had nothing to do . Ho could r . ot see how that could affect their verdict . If there had been neglect on the part of the officers of the prison in not sending the proper certificates to the Secretary of State , it would he looked to in another quaiter . But from the evidence ho must say there had been no such neglect . LooUing at all the circumstances of the case , he thought they would have no difficulty in finding that the deceased had died from natural causes , The jury in a few minutos returned the following v rdict : — " That tho deceased had died by tha visitation of God , and thoy were of opinion that he had had every attention paid to him by _0 )« officers of the prisou whieh Lib case required . _^
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 2, 1842, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/nss_02071842/page/3/
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