the deed, by his conduct at the time and
afterwards. At the time the strongest prejudice ran against Mr. Angus,
and it must be said that the public were not satisfied with the verdict
of the jury; but at this distance of time, those who had an opportunity
of looking over the evidence, and remembering the case in all its
bearings, will at once say dispassionately that there was not a shadow of
evidence against Mr. Angus. Miss Burns, who had been unwell for some
time, was noticed previous to the 23rd of March, 1808, to be ailing, and
that her size had materially enlarged; and it was suspected, as adduced
by several witnesses, that she was _enceinte_. On the 23rd of March she
complained of being very unwell, and went to lie down on a sofa in the
breakfast-room where she remained the whole of the day, thirsting and
vomiting. Mr. Angus would not allow his servants to sit up with Miss
Burns, but remained in the room with her the whole of that night, the
next day, and the following night. On the 25th Miss Burns said she felt
better. A servant on that morning was sent to Henry-street for some
Madeira that Miss Burns fancied. On her return, not seeing the lady on
the sofa, where an hour previous she had left her, she looked round the
room and discovered her doubled up in a corner of the room with her face
towards the wainscot, while Mr. Angus was asleep sitting in a chair
covered by a counterpane. The evidence was most conflicting. Several
witnesses declared Miss Burns was not pregnant, others that they believed
she was. The medical evidence was also of a most bewildering and diverse
nature. Some of the most eminent surgeons in Liverpool were examined,
and none of them agreed on the case. This fact came out that no signs of
childbirth were visible as having taken place--no dead infant was
discovered. The room in which Miss Burns and Mr. Angus were, was at all
times accessible to the servants, and no cries of parturition were heard
during the lady's illness. The fact of the matter was, Miss Burns had
suffered from an internal complaint, and died from natural causes. This
was shown by Dr. Carson, then a young and rising physician at the time,
and who afterwards published a pamphlet in which he utterly demolished
the medical evidence given at the trial for the crown.

The jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict, finding
the prisoner "Not Guilty," on grounds as unimpeachable as the trial. In
some