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stairs immediately, to knock at 

 the door of the room deceased 

 slept in, and he found it on a 

 jar : he could see into the room. 

 Witness opened the door and 

 v/ent into the room, and fouad 

 the deceased, Sir Richard, lying 

 on the bed on his back ; he held a 

 pistol in each hand ; the muzzles 

 of both were at either side of his 

 head. They had been discharged. 

 He was quite dead ; thinks he 

 had been dead some time. Wit- 

 ness thinks he died the instant 

 he shot himself. He could have 

 no intention of destroying himself 

 when he went to bed, as he did 

 not close the door of the apart- 

 ment. Witness observed to the 

 deceased before he went to bed, 

 that he, witness, was in great 

 agitation. Sir Richard answered, 

 " What is your agitation com- 

 pared to mine?'' and witness 

 imagined at the time that he was 

 suppressing his emotions. The 

 deceased bled at the nose several 

 times during 'tis attendance. 

 Mrs. Thackeray was safely de- 

 livered. 



Mr. George HoUings, surgeon, 

 of Green-street, Grosvenor- 

 square, said, that he observed a 

 considerable alteration in the 

 deceased's state of mind and his 

 manners for some time past ; he 

 had frequently seen him so 

 melancholy, that it was quite dis- 

 tressing to witness it. He used 

 to sigh very much, and his mind 

 was so absorbed that he would 

 not give answers to questions 

 which were put to him : for the 

 last ten days the deceased had 

 been attending a patient who was 

 in a dangerous state ; and on 

 witness conversing with him res- 

 pecting her, deceased has thrown 



himself on the bed, and would 

 violently strike his forehead as if 

 his brain was very much agitated. 

 He noticed him particularly on 

 Tuesday night as he was attend- 

 ing a lady (a patient) ; he was so 

 agitated that Dr. Warren asked 

 him if he was ill ? He answered 

 in an incoherent manner, " No.'' 

 Witness is of opinion, that had a 

 person been present when he had 

 the pistols, he could have obtained 

 no control over him ; indeed he 

 should have thought it very dan- 

 gerous to have left such weapons 

 within his reach. A short time 

 ago, witness was in company with 

 the deceased, when he exclaimed 

 abruptly, " Good God, what will 

 become of me !'' Witness posi- 

 tively believes the deceased was 

 in a state of 'derangement at the 

 time he committed the act. 



[Here one of the jurymen 

 asked Mr. Hollings, whether, in 

 his opinion, the death of the 

 Princess had been the exciting 

 cause of his temporary derange- 

 ment of intellect ; or, whether he 

 had observed his mind to be dis- 

 eased previous to that melancholy 

 and generally deplored event ? — 

 Mr. Hollings replied, that he had 

 no doubt whatever of the insanity 

 of the deceased having been 

 caused by the unfortunate events 

 at Claremont ; that, previous to 

 that time he had never observed 

 his mind to be disturbed. In this 

 opinion the other medical gentle- 

 men fully concurred.] 



Dr. Latham said, he observed 

 a considerable agitation of late in 

 the deceased ; has known him 

 many years, and has been of late 

 frequently in his company. About 

 three weeks ago witness dined 

 with him, at his house in Old 

 Burlington- 



