City and Liberty
of Westminster }
to wit

Informations of Witnesses
taken upon Oath this 17th. day of October 1791
at the Dwelling House of Mr. William Harris< no role >
the Sign of the Crown in Dukes Court in the
Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields in the
Liberty of Westminster Before Thomas
Prickard< no role > Gentleman His Majesty's Coroner
for the City and Liberty of Westminster , on
View of the Body of Charles Smith< no role > then
and then lying dead as follow, to wit

William Cruikshank< no role > of Leicester Square in the Parish of
St. Anne in the Liberty of Westminster , Surgeon , on his
Oath saith That he this Day opened the Body of Charles
Smith< no role > deceased, the Stomach was half full of yellow
Liquor which probably was Bile, its internal Coat
was in some places inflamed. but slightly, the Intest [..]
were free from Inflammation of any kind, nor was there
any Sympton by which Deponent could say the Deceased
was Poisoned Deponent says thatwhenMan or
Animal may beorPoisoned by Landanum, without any mar his of