HATSELL, BARON--Suppose they did an ill thing in taking up the body without some order, though I do not know any more ill in taking up that body than any other; but, however, is that any reason why we should not hear this evidence? COATSWORTH--Mr. Camblin, sir Wm. Cowper's surgeon, was there by. _Mr. Dimsdale, senior_, a surgeon, was sworn and deposed that he had been sent for on the 28th of April by Mrs. Stout, to view the body of her daughter. Finding her head so much mortified, down to her neck, we thought all the parts were seized, and had a consultation, whether we should open her or not; but Mrs. Stout was very enraged, because a great scandal had been raised, that her daughter was with child; and she said she would have her opened to clear her reputation. The body was examined, with the same result that the other witness had described, no water being found either in the stomach or the lungs. After this we had a consultation, to consider whether she was drowned or not drowned; and we were all of opinion that she was not drowned; only Mr. Camblin desired he might be excused from giving his opinion whether she was drowned or not; but all the rest of us did give our opinions that she was not drowned. The grounds for this opinion were the absence of water from the lungs and intestines; and this was a sign which would show whether she had been drowned or not weeks after her death. In answer to Cowper he admitted that he had never seen a body opened which had been drowned six weeks. If a body had been drowned a fortnight, the bowels would be so rotten that it would be impossible to come near it. _John Dimsdale, junior_, believed that the body had not been drowned, and signed a certificate to that effect after looking at the body; he believed it, because he found no water in the body. He had seen the child that was drowned the morning after it was drowned, and had found abundance of water in the body then. _Dr. Dimsdale_ saw the body after it was opened, and on finding no water in the thorax or abdomen, signed the certificate. Had the woman been drowned he would have expected to find water in the thorax. COWPER--Is it possible there should be water in the thorax according to your skill? DIMSDALE--Yes, we did think there would have been, if she had been drowned. He would have expected to find traces of it after six weeks. COWPER--Pray by what passage does the water go into the thorax? DIMSDALE--It will be very difficult for me to describe the manner here; but we should have found some in the stomach and intestines. COWPER--Pray, sir, how should it go into the thorax? DIMSDALE--By the lymphæduct, if carried by any means. No water would come into a body after it was dead, but he questioned whether or not it might come into the windpipe.