But the finding of the moulds and other inftruments in his cuftody, was a particular not yet accounted for; as he only alledged in general terms, that he knew not how they came there; and it was doubted whether the impeachment of others had not been managed with a view to fave him who was equally guilty, there being no evidence of his fervant's treachery, but that of a woman who was dead, reported at fecond hand by the wife of Du Moulin, who was maniefly an interested party. He was not however charged by either of the convicts as an accomplice; a particular which was ftrongly urged by his friends in his behalf. But it happened, that while the public opinion was thus held in fufpence, a private drawer was difcovered in a cheft that belonged to his fervant, and in it a bunch of keys, and the impreffion of one in wax; the impreffion was compared with the keys, and that which it correfponded with, was found to open Du Moulin's fcritoir, in which the bad money and implements had been found. When this particular, fo ftrong and unexpected, was urged, and the key produced, he burst into tears, and confeffed all that had been alledged against him. He was then afked, how the tools came into his mafter's fcritoir and he answered, that when the officers of juftice came to feize his mafter, he was terrified for himself, knowing that he had in his cheft thefe inftruments, which the private drawer would not contain, and fearing that he might be included in the warrant, his confcioufnefs of guilt kept him in continual dread and fufpicion; that for this reason, before the officers went up ftairs, he opened the fcritoir with his falie key, and having fetched his tools from his box in the garret, he depofited them there, and had just locked it when he heard them at the door. In this cafe, even the pofitive evidence of Du Moulin, that the money he brought back to Harris was the fame he had received of him, was not true, though Du Moulin was not guilty of perjury, cither wilfully, or by neglect, inattention, or forgetfulness. And the cir cumftantial evidence against him, how ever ftrong, would only have heap one injury upon another, and have t ken away the life of an unhappy wretc from whom a perfidious fervant had t ken away every thing else. ftill longer ago, and, to the best of The other cafe, I think, happen remembrance, it is this. A Gentleman died poffefied of a ve confiderable fortune, which he l to his only child, a daughter, and a pointed his brother to be her guardia and executor of his will. The you lady was then about eighteen; and the happened to die unmarried, or, married, without children, her fortu was left to her guardian and to his hei As the intereft of the uncle was now i compatible with the life of the nie feveral other relations hinted, that would not be proper for them to live gether. Whether they were willing prevent any occafion of flander agai the uncle, in cafe of the young lad death; whether they had any app henfion of her being in danger; or wh ther they were only difcontented w the father's difpofition of his fortu and therefore propagated rumours to prejudice of thofe who poffeffed it, c not be known. The uncle, howey took his nicce to his houfe near ping foreft, and foon afterwards the appeared. Great inquiry was made after h and it appearing, that the day the miffing, the Went out with her uncle the foreft, and that he returned with her, he was taken into cuftody. A days afterwards he went through a examination; in which he acknow ged, that he went out with her, pretended that the found means to behind him as they were retur home; that he fought her in the as foon as he mified her; and tha knew not where he was, or what become of her. This account thought improbable; and his appa intereft in the death of his ward, perhaps the petulant zeal of other tions, concurred to raife and itreng fufpicions against him; and he was detained in cultody. Some new circum ftances were every day rising against him. It was found, that the young lady had been addreffed by a neighbouring gentleman, who had, a few days before the was miffing, fet out on a journey to the north, and that he had declared the would marry him when he returned; that her uncle had frequently expreffed his dilapprobation of the match in very ftrong terms; that the had often wept, and reproached him with unkindness, and an abuse of his power A woman was alfo produced, who fwore, that, on the day the young lady was miffing, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, fhe was coming through the foreft, and heard a woman's voice expoftulating with great eagerness, upon which the drew nearer the place, and, before the faw any perton, heard the fame voice fay, "Don't kill me, uncle, don't kill me;" upon which he was greatly terrified, and immediately hearing the report of a fire-arm very near, he made all the hafte fhe could from the fpot, but could not reft in her mind, till the had told what had happened. Such was the general impatience to punith a man, who had murdered his mece to inherit her fortune, that upon this evidence he was condemned and executed. heat, If I have fet my heart upon it, if I do not marry him it will be death; and don't kill me, uncle, don't kill me:" That juft as fhe had pronounced thefe words, fhe heard a fire-arm difcharged very near her, at which the ftarted, and immediately afterwards faw a man come forward from among the trees, with a wood pigeon in his hand, that he had juft fhot: That coming near the place appointed for their rendezvous, fhe formed a pretence to let her uncle go on before her; and her fuitor being waiting for her, with a horfe, fhe mounted, and immediately rode off: That intead of going into the north, they retired to a houfe, in which he had taken lodgings, near Windfor, where they were married the fame day; and, in about a week, went a journey of pleasure to France; from whence when they returned, they first heard of the misfortune which they had inadvertently brought upon their uncle. So uncertain is human teftimony, even when the witneffes are fincere, and fo neceffary is a cool and difpaffionate inquiry and determination, with refpect to crimes that are enormous in the higheft degree, and committed with every poffible aggravation. Mr URBAN, Gloucefier, Dec. 18. 1754. About ten days after the execution, E Avery,' of this place, aged about the young lady came home. It appear ed, however, that what all the witneffes had worn was true, and the fact was found to be thus circumftanced. The young lady declared, that having previously agreed to go off with the gentleman that courted her, he had given out, that he was going a journey to the north; but that he waited concealed at a little houfe near the fkirts of the foreft, till the time appointed, which was the day the difappeared: That he had horfes ready for himself and her, and was attended by two fervants alfo on horfeback: That as fhe was walking with her uncle, he reproached her with perfifting in her refolution to marry a man of whom he difapproved; and afper much altercation, the faid, with fome eight years, was, a little before Ladyday 1749, feized with an inflammatory disorder in the fore part of her left leg, extending from a little below her knee almoft to her toes. It appeared more like the eryfipelatous than phlegmonoide kind: the parts affected were very tenfe, hot, and red; the fwelling not great; but the pain almost intolerable, and attended with a pretty high fever. For the fpace of three or four days attempts were made to difperfe it; but without effect: and the next intention of cure being to promote fuppuration, the common cataplafm of bread and milk was applied to the whole inflamed part; and in about eight days there appeared a pretty large collection of mat ter ter, with fluctuation, about the middle of the fhin. Without waiting, therefore, for farther figns of maturity, I immediately opened the tumour in its whole extent, by an incifion near four inches long, directly over and parallel with the anterior angle of the tibia; and a large quantity of thin matter was difcharged. Upon infpecting the infide of the abfcefs, the tibia appeared divefted of its periosteum; and by examining the parts above and below the opening with the probe, and alfo the lateral and hinder parts of the bone by bending the probe, I found it bare on each fide quite round, and above and below, almoft its whole length, but not much altered in its colour, or the fmoothnefs of its furface. When the patient first complained, fhe did not recollect that he had received any hurt; but now, fhe faid, fhe remembered to have received a kick from another girl as they were at play, two or three days before, which gave her fome pain for a little while, and went off. But whatever was the caufe of the disease, the rapidity of its progrefs, and the condition of the parts, were fufficient proofs that it began originally in, and was really an inflammation of the periosteum and bone itself. As nothing could now be expected but the lofs of fo much of the tibia at least, as was thus deprived of its vital fluids and fenfation by the lofs of its periofteum, there appeared but little profpect of faving the limb: for whenever the lofs of a tranfverfe portion of the tibia has become neceffary, it has been the common practice to amputate the leg without delay, rather than wear out the patient by deferring the operation. And the reafon is plain: for the fibula does not only appear too fmall to fuftain the whole weight of the body, but it has no articulation with the os femoris, being only laterally connected with the upward and outward part of the tibia; befides that the motions of flexure and extenfion arife from the tibia only, in which the united tendon of the mufcles that extend the leg, and all the flexors except one, terminate. Upon thefe principles, therefore, it appears right to take away the leg as ufelefs, when the tibia cannot be preferved: and it is certainly right to take away foon what cannot be faved at last. However, I was inclined to hope, that as my patient was very young, nature might fupply the defect of the tibia, by giving an extraordinary increase of growth and ftrength to the fibula; and that if the diforder could be prevented from spreading, and the upper extremity of the tibia preferved, the might have fo far the ufe of her leg, as to render it much preferable to a wooden one. To preferve the parts of the bones, therefore, which were yet found, and to thicken the difcharge, I applied lint dipt in antifeptic fpirituous liquors, to the bone and internal parts of the abfcefs, and covered it with a common pledgit; which method of dreffing was purfued through the whole cure, except that fometimes efcharotics were applied to keep down the fungus on the fides of the wound, and to prevent, as much as poffible, the aperture from diminishing. After it was opened, the pain foon ceafed; but the fever continuing, the took Tin&t. cort. Peruv. lightly acidulated with Elix. Vitrioli; and a diarrhea alfo, which came on as the fever began to decline, was ftayed by the ufe of Fuller's decoction of fracaftorius; and the tincture being continued a few day longer, at about three weeks end, the was quite free from her fever, her ap petite returned, fhe flept well, the dif charge became lefs in quantity, and of a good colour and confiftency, and there were no remains of preternatura colour, heat, or tenfion, in the limb affected, nor any pain, except wher fhe was moved. Encouraged by thefe favourable ap pearances, I continued the fame exter nal applications; I gave her internally the decoction of guaiacum and per fevering in this method about elever months, the bone began to be move able; in less than two months more it feemed quite loofe; and in order to fa cilitat State its removal, I made an attempt firm cicatrix; and from that time to divide it in two, by the trepan-faw: this, which is now upwards of four be the operation proving more tedious years, fhe has continued perfectly found. ad painful than I expected, through he inftability of the bone, and the attion of its jagged edges against the mide of the wound, and the diameter of the cylindrical faw being too fmall to divide it entirely, I defifted; and with a knife and director extended the aperture towards the knee, high enough to fet the upper end of the loose bone at liberty: but finding it not yet entirely feparated at its other extremity, I kept the upper end of it raifed as high or higher than the level of the fkin, by forcing dreffings of lint under it; which prevented its pointed extremity from inng the neighbouring parts, and alfo atured it from being again inclosed by the healing of the upper part of the wound over it. She is quite upright, has no defect either of ftrength or motion in her leg, and fcarcely any deformity; if any thing, it is a fmall matter bigger than the other just above the ancle, occafioned by the exuberance of the callus by which the remains of the tibia are confolidated with the fibula; and in the middle of the leg, instead of the acute rifing of the fkin, there is a remarkable depreffion. The whole texture of the leg is much more denfe and compact than ufual. The cure took up from firft to laft near fixteen months. In about twenty days more, appreading it to be entirely difengaged, I w it with very little violence out of be finus which theathed its lower extreIt measured full five inches and quarter in length, and is the entire Ercumference of the tibia, except what the difeafe has deftroyed of its anterior angle and external fide. A pretty large hæmorrhage enfued, occafioned by the keen edges of the bone lacerating the veffels; which was immediately fuppreffed, by filling the xity from whence it iffued with lint ad tin myrrh. c. and applying a etty tight bandage. In a very little time after the extrac- Scultetus, in his chirurgical obfervations, N° 81. defcribes a cafe in many particulars refembling this, which I had never feen till after the cure was completed, otherwise I should have been lefs doubtful of the event. There are alfo two hiftories of this kind in the Medical Ejays, vol. 1. p. 238.; but in thofe the patients were not quite upright. We were informed likewife about three years fince, that M. Le Cat [xiii. 589.], had lately fucceeded in a like attempt, and had publicly read an account of it in the academy of which he is a member. Upon the whole, I am of opinion, J. READY. drunk, refting upon the goat ski which they anciently put wine. other of thefe ftatues are of young and three of nymphs, all of midd workmanship. Sept. 27 I went felf to take out a head in bronze, w proved to be that of Seneca, and fineft that has hitherto appeared, be I affure you, Sir, as excellent a perfo ance as can well be conceived. artist has chofen to represent him in thofe agonies which the poor man have fuffered when ready to expire; one perceives in it every paffion would naturally arife in the courtens of a perfon in that fituation. We going on with all poffible difpatch, examine the whole spot before det bed; though we have obferved, where might have expected bufts or ftatues, ancients had been digging before us, taken them away. The method whe by they regulated their fearches feem have been this: where the ground i pretty easy to work, they dug thro it; and where they met with the f lava, they defifted. But whether th were in want of money or of hands, th certainly did not perfect their intention as is plain from the ftatues which have found. Our greatest hopes are fro the palace itself, which is of a very lar extent. As yet we have only enter into one room, the floor of which formed of Mofaic work, not unelega It appears to have been a library, dorned with preffes, inlaid with differ forts of wood, di'pofed in rows, at top of which were cornishes, as in own times. I was buried in this more than twelve days, to carry of volumes found there; many of wh were fo perifhed, that it was impo to remove them Thofe which I della Terre del Grego, and the other fawn lying down, who appears to nearer to the neighbourhood of the royal palace at Portici, directly under the wood belonging to the church of the Auguftins. This latter place has afforded ma'ny things, and will, as we hope, furnish many more. Please only to reflect, in what manner the perfons employed are obliged to work through the fubterraneous paffages, and how hard they find the lava; and then you may judge why they advance fo flowly. The firit thing here difcovered was a garden, in which were found divers ftatues of marble of excellent Greek artists. This rout led towards a palace which lay near the garden; but before they arrived at the palace, they came to a long fquare, which formed a kind of forum, and was adorned throughout with columns of ftucco; in the middle of which was a bath; at the feveral angles of the fquare was a terminus of marble, and upon every one of these stood a bust of bronze of Greek workmanship, one of which had on it the name of the Greek artist, AñоAA ΝΙΟΣ ΑΡΧΙΟΥ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΣ. A fmall fountain was placed before each termi nus, which was conftructed in the following manner. Level with the pavement was a vafe to receive the water which fell from above In the middle of this vafe was a stand of balluftradework, to fupport another marble vafe. This fecond vafe was fquare on the out fide, and circular within, where it had the appearance of a fcollop fhell, in the center whereof was the pout, which threw up the water, that was fupplied with leaden pipes inclofed within the balluftrades. Among the columns, which adorned the bath, were alternately placed a ftatue of bronze, and a bust of the fame metal, at the equal distance of a certain number of palms. It is true, that more ftatues have been found among thefe columns, than bufts; but, however, we hope in our progrefs to find a like number of thefe latter. The ftatues taken out from April 15. to Sept. 30. are in number seven, near the height of fix Neapolitan palms; except one of them, which is much larger, and of an excellent expreffion. This reprefents a whi away amounted to the number of all of them at prefent incapable of be opened Thefe are all written in Gr characters. While I was bufy in work, I obferved a large bundle, wh from the fize, I imagined must cont more than a fingle volume I tried the utmost care to get it out: burd not, from the damp and weight of Howe |