and I believe Miss Blandy put it in by her coming into the wash-house on Monday and saying that she had been stirring her papa’s water gruel and eating the oatmeal out of it.”  Upon which he said, “I find I have something not right.  My head is not right as it used to be, nor has been for some time.”  This witness told him that she had found a powder in the pan, upon which he said to her, “Dost thee know anything of this powder?  Didst thee ever see any of it?” To which she answered, “No, none but what she saw in the water gruel.”  He then asked her, “Dost know where she had this powder, or canst guess?” To which she replied, “I cannot guess anywhere, except from Mr. Cranstoun.  My reason to suspect that is, Miss Blandy has lately had letters oftener than usual.”  Her master then said, “Now you mention it, I remember when he was at my house he talked of a particular poison they had in his country.  Oh! that villain, that ever he came into my house.”  She likewise told him that she had shown the powder to Mr. Norton, but he could not tell what it was, as it was wet, but whatever it was it ought not to be there.  Her master expressed some surprise, and said, “Mr. Norton not know!  That’s strange.  A person so much used to drugs.”  She told him Mr. Norton thought it would be proper for him (her father) to seize her pockets with her keys and papers.  To which he said, “I cannot do it; I cannot shock her so much.  But canst not thee take out a letter or two which she may think she has dropped by chance?” The witness told him, “No, sir, I have no right; she is your daughter.  You may do it, and nobody else.”  She tells you she cannot say how long before this it was that Ann Emmet had been sick with the tea; that Miss Blandy then sent her whey and broth, a quart or three pints at a time, once a day or every other day; that she herself once drank a dish of tea on a Sunday morning out of her master’s dish, which was not well relished, and she thought somebody had been taking salts in that cup; and this was about six weeks and three days before her master’s death; that she found no ill effect from it till after dinner that day; she had then a hardness at her stomach, which she apprehended was from eating plentifully of beans at dinner; that afterwards she seemed to have some indigestion, and had a remarkable trembling upon her; that she had no other symptoms for three days, but afterwards, for about three days more, she was troubled with a reaching every morning.  She says she tasted the water gruel twice, once on the Tuesday, when she was mixing it for her master, and again on the Wednesday, but found no remarkable disorder till about two o’clock on the Wednesday morning before her master’s death, when she was seized with convulsions.  She says that her throat continued troublesome for six or seven weeks after she had drank the tea, and continued ill for three weeks after her master’s death.  She remembered once that the prisoner had a large box of linen and some pebbles