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In May of this year the attention of the public 

 was occupied by the trial of Daniel Dawson, at the 

 Spring assizes for the County of Cambridge, for 

 poisoning the Eagle colt, the property of Sir F. 

 Standish, at Newmarket, in the spring of 1811. His 

 accomplice in crime, Cecil Bishop, having been ad- 

 mitted King's evidence, disclosed the cruel and 

 atrocious practices they had carried on from the 

 year 1808 to the period when they committed the 

 offence for which Dawson was then tried. 



It appeared from this fellow's evidence, that in 

 1809, Dawson had poisoned a brood mare and a 

 hack, by putting corrosive sublimate into a trough 

 at Doncaster, and that he (Dawson) had confessed 

 to him that he had physicked Lord Darlington's 

 Rubens, previous to the race for the Pavilion Stakes 

 in 1808, but the dose not being strong enough, 

 Rubens recovered and won the race. 



After mentioning other similar misdeeds, Bishop 

 proceeded to describe how, at the instigation of 

 Dawson, he had gone to Newmarket, and by 

 means of a crooked syringe, had contrived to in- 

 troduce a solution of arsenic into Mr. Prince's 

 troughs tt the Ditch, and watched them till he had 



