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.—I must be permitted to observe that the arguments which have been advanced relative to the cause of death—arguments founded on indications unfavourable to the supposition of death by prussic acid, do not depend for their validity upon any statement of Emily Bailey's. The facts from which I have chiefly drawn the inferences referred to are of the same weight with or without that person's testimony; they are established by the evidence of other witnesses, and are therefore unaffected by her general want of veracity—which, since the pages referred to were written, has become sufficiently glaring.