innocent.”  To which the witness replied, “Madam, I believe you must not say you are entirely innocent, for the powder left in the water gruel and the paper of powder taken out of the fire are now in such hands that they must be publicly produced.”  The witness then told her that she believed she had herself taken, about six weeks before, a dose in tea that was prepared for her master.  To which the prisoner answered, “I have put no powder in tea; I have put powder in water gruel.  If you have received any injury I am entirely innocent; it was given me with another intent.”  The deceased hearing this turned himself in his bed, and said, “Oh, such a villain!  Come to my house, eat of the best and drink of the best my house could afford, should take away my life and ruin my daughter.  Oh! my dear, thee must hate that man; thee must hate the ground he goes on; thee can’st not help it.”  That the prisoner replied, “Sir, your tenderness to me is like a sword to my heart.  Every word you say is like swords piercing my heart, much worse than if you were to be ever so angry.  I must down on my knees and beg you will not curse me.”  To which her father answered, “I curse thee, my dear!  How shouldst think I could curse thee?  No; I bless thee, and hope God will bless thee, and amend thy life.  Do, my dear, go out of the room; say no more lest thee shouldst say anything to thy own prejudice.  Go to thy Uncle Stevens; take him for thy friend.  Poor man, I am sorry for him.”  And that then the prisoner went directly out of the room.  This witness further tells you that on the Saturday before she was in the kitchen about twelve o’clock at noon, when the prisoner having wrote the direction of a letter to her uncle Stevens and going to the fire to dry it, she observed her put a paper or two into the fire, and saw her thrust them down with a stick; that Elizabeth Binfield, then putting some fresh coals on, she believes kept the paper from being consumed, soon after which the prisoner left the kitchen, and she herself acquainted Betty Binfield that the prisoner had been burning something; that Betty Binfield asked where, and the witness pointed to the corner of the grate, whereupon Betty Binfield moved a large coal and took out a paper and gave it to her; that it was a small piece of paper with writing upon it, viz., “The powder to clean the pebbles,” to the best of her remembrance.  She did not read it herself, but Betty Binfield did, and told her what it was; that about eleven or twelve o’clock that night she delivered this paper to Betty Binfield again, but it had never been out of her pocket till that time.  She tells you that before this, upon the same Saturday morning, she had been in her master’s room about seven o’clock to carry him something to drink, and when he had drank it she said to him, “Sir, I have something to communicate to you which nearly concerns your health and your family, I believe you have got something in your water gruel that I am afraid has hurt you,