Was Susan Gunnell very ill after drinking that tea?—­She was, and continued so for a week.

KING’S COUNSEL—­Was it at the time Susan was ill from drinking of the tea that Miss Blandy asked you about her taking the gruel and said it would do for her?  And did she say anything else?—­Miss Blandy said she poured it out for my master, but he went to church and left it.

PRISONER’S COUNSEL—­Have you had any ill-will against her?—­I always told her I wished her very well.

Did you ever say, “Damn her for a black bitch; I should be glad to see her go up the ladder and be hanged"?—­No, sir, I never did in my life.

KING’S COUNSEL—­Did you and the rest of the family observe that Mr. Blandy’s looks were as well the last six months as before?—­Miss Blandy has said to me, “Don’t you think my father looks faint?” Sometimes I have said, “He is,” sometimes not.  I never observed any alteration at all.

[Here Dr. Addington is appealed to by the counsel for the prisoner.]

PRISONER’S COUNSEL—­Do you, Dr. Addington, remember Miss Blandy telling you on Monday night, the 12th August, that she had on a Sunday morning, about six weeks before, when her father was absent from the parlour, mixed a powder with his tea, and that Susan Gunnell had drank that tea?—­I remember her telling me that Monday night that she had on a Sunday morning, about six weeks before, when her father was absent from the parlour, mixed a powder with his tea, but do not remember her saying that Susan Gunnell had drank that tea.  I have several times heard Susan Gunnell say that she was sure she had been poisoned by drinking tea out of Mr. Blandy’s cup that Sunday morning.

Did not Miss Blandy declare to you that she had always thought the powder innocent?—­Yes.

Did she not always declare the same?—­Yes.

[The KING’S COUNSEL then interposed, and said that he had not intended to mention what had passed in discourse between the prisoner and Dr. Addington; but that now, as her own counsel had been pleased to call for part of it, he desired the whole might be laid before the Court.]

[Sidenote:  Dr. Addington]

Dr. ADDINGTON—­On Monday night, the 12th August, after Miss Blandy had been secured, and her papers, keys, &c., taken from her, she threw herself on the bed and groaned, then raised herself and wrung her hands, and said that it was impossible for any words to describe the horrors and agonies in her breast; that Mr. Cranstoun had ruined her; that she had ever, till now, believed him a man of the strictest honour; that she had mixed a powder with the gruel, which her father had drank on the foregoing Monday and Tuesday nights; that she was the cause of his death, and that she desired life for no end but to go through a painful penance for her sin.  She protested at the same time that she had never mixed the powder with anything else that he had swallowed, and that she did not know