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 mode therefore of committing the crime appears to be protected by the most penal clause.

A case ''Wm. Pizzy and Mary Codd were tried at Bury St. Edmonds'', Aug. 11, 1808, for feloniously administering a certain noxious and destructive substance to Ann Cheney, with intent to produce a miscarriage. The trial, taken in short hand by ''Wm. Notcutt, was published at Ipswich'' in 1808; but we have not been able to procure a copy; we must therefore content ourselves with observing, on the authority of the ''Med. Journ.'' that the Counsel for the prisoners objected to receiving that part of the evidence which related to Pizzy's manual operations upon Ann Cheney, as not relevant to the administration of the medicines which alone constituted the capital crime; the objection was over-ruled by the court, and the evidence was admitted for the purpose of proving the intention with which the medicines were administered. The examination of Ann Cheney before the magistrates was as follows:

"Saith that she is about the age of 27 years; that she has lived as servant with Mr. Simon Codd, of Haughley, about 12 years last past; that she is an unmarried woman, and was so in the month of February 1806. That in the said month of February 1806, she was delivered of a female bastard child; that she was alone when she was delivered, but that she called out for assistance, but no one came for some minutes; the child was born dead; she never saw it move, or heard it make a noise. That soon after she found herself with child, she acknowledged it to her mistress, Codd, and told her who was the father of the child. Her mistress said, if she would take that which she would get for her, she thought she could order it better than letting any body know it. Soon after that, she saw Mr. Pizzy of Middlesham, the farrier; she told him what was the matter with her; he then gave her some more medicines, and told her they were to make her miscarry. They had not that effect; that she continued to take medicines from him during her whole remaining time of pregnancy; she sometimes received them from her mistress, and sometimes from Pizzy; that her mistress knew what they were for, because she (her mistress) had told her what they were for; that the medicines did not answer the intended purpose; that about a week or ten days before she was delivered, Mr. Pizzy came, and upon her informing him that his medicines had not answered the purpose, he on this point is inserted in the Edinburgh Medical Journal for April, 1810; we entirely concur in the sentiment of the editors; "we cannot," they say, "avoid remarking the apparent inconsist-**