From ihe Benks Chronicle

RESUSCITATION OF A CONVICT

 INAL AFTER BEING HUN
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RESUsCITATION OF A CONVICTED GRIM

 INAL AFTER BEING HUNG.

 ME. EDIroR-The strange rumor that got abroad after the execution of Dr.. Dodd, that he had been restored to life, after hanging that period which the law contemplates to be sufficient to put an end to mortal existence, & had lived long & had terminated his life happily in the south of France, gave rise to numerous marvellous stories having no foundation but inthe invep~ tive brains of the writers, of similar inst;

 ces of vital restoration. Numbers of the may be found iu the "Wonderful Musum," " and other corresponding publications of equal authority. Authenticated state- ments, however, of this description are very rare, and one of these am about to communicate to your readers.

 At the Old Baily session, in October, 174O, Wm. Duell was capitally convicted atAction, and received sentence of death. George Curtis noted character, died in Newgate on the morning of the day on which he was to have been brought up for trial. In the November following, Duell, with four others was executed at Tyburn, and as was then the custom--a custom which might with advantage be fol- lowed now-his body was given to the sur- geons for dissection, and was accordingly brought to their hall. Being remarkably powerful man, it was determined to anato- mise the body, and preparatory for dis section it was laid on the board. The surgeons attendants proceeded to wash him immediately before the introduction of the knife, when one of the operative personages suddenly called out that he brea- thed.-The vital spark was obviously not extinct, although it was remarked that he had been suspended above fifty minutes and his breath coming quicker and quick CT, and with palpable pulsation. a sur geon took several ounces of blood from the wretched man, and in two hours he was so much recovered as to sit upright in chair. As this was quite {" new case'' in the school of anatomy, the practisioners were surprised; but at last they determill- ed upon restoring him once more to goal; and to Newgate he was carried. Discus sion after discussion was had upon this ex- traordinary case, and the result was-wha, is rather common with surgeons" an O. pinon," that the halter being misplaced, the vcrtebre ot the neck had not been dislocated !@

 On the 27th of Nov. the case was laid