"And William Duell, for ravishing, robbing, and murdering Sarah Griffin at Acton. The body of this last was brought to Surgeons' Hall to be anatomised; but after it was stripped and laid on the board, and one of the servants was washing him in order to be cut, he perceived life in him, and found his breath to come quicker and quicker; on which a surgeon took some ounces of blood from him: in two hours he was able to sit up in his chair, and in the evening was again committed to Newgate." And at p. 621. of the same volume,-- "Dec. 9th. Wm. Duell (p. 570.) ordered to be transported for life." Other instances will be found in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. i. p. 172., and vol. xxxvii. p. 90; and in vol. lxx. pt. i. p. 107. is the very curious case of Anne Green of Oxford, quoted from Dr. Plot's _Natural History of Oxfordshire_, p. 197., which is well worth reading. Also, in vol. lvii. pt. i. p. 33., is a letter, containing the two following quotations from Cardan, in explanation of the phenomenon of surviving death by hanging: "Is qui diu suspensus Bononiæ jacuit, vivus inventus est, quod asperam arteriam non cartilagineam sed osseam habuit."--_Cardanus_, lib. ii. tr. 2. contr. 7. "Constat quendam bis suspensum servatum miraculi specie; inde cum tertio Judicis solertiâ periisset, {282} inventam osseam asperam arteriam."--_Cardanus_, lib. xiv., De rerum variet., cap. 76. In the _Newgate Calendar, or Malefactors' Bloody Register_, vol. ii. p. 233., is the account of Margaret Dickson, who was executed for child-murder at Edinburgh, June 19, 1728, with an engraving of her "rising from her coffin near Edinburgh, as she was carrying from the place of execution in order for interment." "By the Scottish law," says the author, "every person on whom the judgment of the court has been executed has no more to suffer, but must be for ever discharged; and the executed person is dead at law, so that the marriage is dissolved. This was exactly the case with Margaret Dickson, for the king's advocate could not pursue her any farther, but filed a bill in the High Court of Justiciary against the sheriff for not seeing the judgment executed. And her husband being a good-natured man, was publicly married to her within a few days after the affair happened." ZEUS. For the information of your correspondent I send an extract from the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for February, 1767: