188 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



tlic article so found, supposing duced a singular disease, causing 



her to have sufficient knowledge 

 of it, she having lived in an apo- 

 thecary's service before her mar- 

 riage. Ontlie following morning, 

 she complained of n pain in her 

 b«)\vels while dressing, and said 

 she would take the supposed salts ; 

 she then dissolved them in warm 

 water, and after some hesitation 

 between her husband and herseif 

 as to which of them should take 

 tiie mixture (they both occasion- 

 itUy being in need of purgative 

 medicine), she drank the fatal 

 dose. The singularity of the cir- 

 cumstances produced a strongsen- 

 sation of suspicion in the neigh- 

 bourhood as to the conduct of tlie 

 husband, but his evidence was 

 corroborated in all the material 

 jjarts, and particularly by two 

 young men residing in the Kent- 

 road, who came forward in con- 

 sequence of a hand-bill which 

 Fage had caused to be distributed, 

 by whose evidence it appeared, 

 that the one had, on Saturday 

 evening, jmrchased an article 

 (wrapped in tlie manner above 

 narrated), imder the name of acid 

 of sugar, at the shop of Mr. Irish, 

 druggist, in Blackman-street, for 

 tlie purpose of making a solution 

 to clean boot-tops, which he de- 

 livered to his companion, who 

 lost it out of his pocket in his 

 way home, they pursuing the 

 course which Fiigc and his wife 

 aftei wards took ; and in conse- 

 quence of losing the packet, after- 

 wards leturned, and purchased 

 another quantity of the same 

 article at the same shoj), and 

 which they both stated to have a 

 similar appearance to Epsom salts. 

 ■^1. A French paper states, that 

 the iisc of vitiated rye has pro- 



cruel ravages in the comnmne of 

 lieaiuepaire, department of the 

 Isere. The effects of this poison 

 are described as frightful. It acts 

 with great rapidity even on the 

 strongest men, producing gan- 

 grene in all the limbs, which it 

 detaches from the joints in a man- 

 ner so horrible, that unfortunate 

 creatures have been seen to live 

 for some weeks in the greatest 

 agonies with only the trunk re- 

 maining. In this disease emetics 

 have been prescribed, followed 

 by antispasmodics, and especially 

 strong doses of opium, the seda- 

 tive virtues of which have been 

 very useful. The parts threaten- 

 ed are sometimes lecovered by the 

 application of cloths dipped in a 

 decoction of Jesuit's bark. Ad- 

 ministered internally, this latter 

 remedy produced no sensible 

 eff"ect. 



'22. Maihkl. — The King has 

 granted to the Community of the 

 Dominican Monks of our Lady 

 of Atocha, the privilege of sell- 

 ing for their own profit four Cas- 

 tilian titles (of marquis or count), 

 two of which shall be free in per- 

 petuity from the taxes of lance 

 and demi annate ; the produce 

 of this sale is to be employed in 

 the restoration of the chapel of 

 the A'iigin. This pious conces- 

 sion is not new in Sj)ain, titles 

 having been granted the same 

 way on various occasions since 

 the reign of Philip V. The Ex- 

 chequer being exhausted of ready 

 money, the King permits the re- 

 ligioiis fraternity which he wishes 

 to aid, to sell a privilege the pro- 

 duce of which would have other- 

 wise found its way directly into 

 the Exchec^uer. 



SO*. Bcdfijrd 



