“On Wednesday morning, the nurse came to me, and asked me to see him early. I went immediately to him, and found him labouring under a paroxysm of the stone. He declined to receive any medicine from me. The nurse then suggested that Mr. Webber should attend him—I was much surprised at this, as previously she had always abused Mr. Webber. I asked the man if he wished Mr. Webber to see him, and he replied that he did. About nine o’clock the same morning, I wrote to Mr. Webber, stating that the man refused to use my medicine, and that he wished to see him. Mr. Webber sent me a note, stating that the wife of Swann had just been, and requested that he would take charge of her husband’s case, which he had promised to do. The man after this remained five weeks in Norwich, during which I had nothing to do with him.” The coroner commenced ordering strangers and witnesses to withdraw, previous to his summing up, when Mr. Webber asked the coroner why he had been summoned, and insisted on his right to be heard, after the palpably incorrect statements which Dr. Bell had been allowed to make—the coroner replied that he did not consider it was necessary for Mr. Webber to give evidence at all. {46} The foreman of the jury, (Mr. Coleman) said “He thought it would be no more than right, that as Dr. Bell had made a statement, Mr. Webber should be allowed to make a statement also;” this opinion his brother jurors coincided in, and much against the inclination openly expressed, and the significence of great and frequent impatience of the coroner during the time occupied in the delivery of the evidence. Mr. Webber, after being sworn, deposed as follows: