Mr. _Bartlet_ (a Naval Surgeon), sworn.—* * I never saw any bodies float, either of the men that were killed in our ship, or in the ships that have been near us; I have not seen a body on the surface of the water. -------------- We have merely made comparatively short extracts from this trial, as more copious quotations, both of the evidence, and pamphlets subsequently published, would have occupied too great a space. The whole will be found in _Howell’s State Trials_, and is well worthy of the attention of the Medical or Legal reader. ------- Extracts from the Evidence of Doctor Anthony Addington, on the trial of _Mary Blandy_ at Oxford 1752, for the Murder of her Father by Arsenic. Dr. Anthony Addington & Dr. William Lewis sworn. _Counsel._ Did you, Dr. Addington, attend Mr. Blandy in his last illness? _Dr. Addington._ Yes, Sir. _C._ When was you called to him the first time? _Dr. A._ On Saturday evening August the 10th. _C._ In what condition did you find him? _Dr. A._ He was in bed; and told me, that after drinking some gruel on Monday night, August the 5th, he had perceived an extraordinary grittiness in his mouth, attended with a very painful burning and pricking in his tongue, throat, stomach, and bowels, and with sickness and gripings; which symptoms had been relieved by fits of vomiting and purging. _C._ Were those fits owing to any physic he had taken or to the gruel? _Dr. A._ Not to any physic; they came on very soon after taking the gruel. _C._ Had he taken no physic that day? _Dr. A._ No. _C._ Did he make any further complaints? _Dr. A._ He said, that, after drinking more gruel on Tuesday night August the 6th, he had felt the grittiness in his Mouth again, and that the burning and pricking in his tongue, throat, stomach and bowels, had returned with double violence and had been aggravated by a prodigious swelling of the belly, and exquisite pains and prickings in every external as well as internal part of his body, which prickings he compared to an infinite number of needles darting into him all at once. _C._ How soon after drinking the gruel? _Dr. A._ Almost immediately. He told me likewise, that at the same time, he had had cold sweats, hiccup, extreme restlessness and anxiety; but that then, viz. on Saturday night August the 10th, having had a great many stools, and some bloody ones, he was pretty easy every where, except in his mouth, lips, nose, eyes, and fundament; and except some transient gripings in his bowels. I asked him, to what he imputed those uneasy sensations in his mouth, lips, nose, and eyes? he said to the fumes of something he had taken in his gruel on Monday night August the 5th, and Tuesday night August the 6th.