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upon for his defence. He pro- 

 posed to leave it to his counsel, but 

 Nvas informed that they were not 

 allowed to address the court in his 

 defence. He then addressed the 

 jury in a speech of an hour's con- 

 tinuance, interspersed with the 

 reading of the documents which 

 were restored to him in the court, 

 and commenting upon them. He 

 thanked the Attorney-general for 

 liis resistance to the plea of insanity 

 set up by his counsel ; becausCj if 

 it ha(l .succeeded, it would not have 

 answered the purpose of justifica- 

 tion. He was obliged to his coun- 

 sel for their intentions, but said 

 that he had never incurred the 

 C'liarge 9f insanity, with the excep- 

 tion of a single instance in Hussia, 

 when the pressure of his sufferings 

 Imd exposed him to that imputa- 

 tion. As to the lamentable catas- 

 trophe for which he was brought 

 OB his trial, no one could feel deep? 

 er sorrow for it than he did; and 

 he solenxnly disclaimed any per- 

 sonal or premeditated malice to- 

 wards Mr. Perceval, on whom the 

 unfortunate lot had fallen, only as 

 a leading member of an adminis- 

 tration which had refused him re- 

 dress for his unparalleled wrongs. 

 He then entered into a detail of 

 the injuries he had experienced, 

 which it is uot necessary here to 

 relate, as having nothing to do 

 with the crime he had perpetrated, 

 further than to shew the deep im- 

 pression it had made on his mind ; 

 and he concluded with expressing 

 bis confidence that it was impossi- 

 ble by the laws of his country to 

 convict him of the crime of wilful 

 inurder, unless it could be proved 

 that he had mulice prepense against 

 the unfortunate gentleman, which 

 he utterly denied. 

 ■ '.Three witnesses were then called. 



thefirstand principal of whom,Mr8. 

 Phillips, said, that she had known 

 him from his childhood ; that his 

 father died insane, and that he 

 himself had all his life been in a 

 state of derangement, particularly 

 since he came from Russia, and 

 whenever he talked on this sub- 

 ject for the last three years. The 

 second stated her opinion of his in- 

 sanity for the last two years. The 

 maid of the house where he lodged, 

 in Millman-street, deposed that she 

 thought his manner confused and 

 deranged for some time past, but 

 admitted that he had always 

 been respected in the house as a 

 regular and orderly person. 



Sir James Mansfield charged the 

 jury nearly to the same effect as 

 the Attorney - general's speech. 

 They retired for a short time, and 

 then returned with a verdict of 

 guilty. Thejudgethen passed sen- 

 tence of death on the criminal, to 

 be executed on the Monday fol- 

 lowing. 



Prerogative Court, Doctors*- 

 Commons, June '6. — Garnham v. 

 Clarke and King. — This was a pro- 

 ceeding relative to the validity of the 

 will of Benjamin Garnham, a man of 

 rather singular character, who, by 

 selling gingerbread about the 

 streets, had contrived to amass con- 

 siderable property. Two testamen- 

 tary papers, each of them asserted 

 to be the will of the deceased, form- 

 ed the subject in question ; the one 

 dated the 6th of October, 1810, 

 principally in favour of his wife; 

 and the other, dated the 16th of 

 October following, principally in 

 favour of Messrs. Charles Lewan 

 Clarke, and Thomas King, two of 

 his acquaintances. 



In support of the first will, evi- 

 dence was adduced to prove the 



X 2 testator'* 



