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" I may be justified (said his Lordship) in believing Mr. J. Gordon to be correct, but the natural consequence is, that I must impute the most gross and horrid perjury to the other witnesses ; whereas I have not the least plausible pretest to do so. I have not the slightest evidence that Harry was aware, at the first agreement, that there was a private marriage. I must say more, and I da say it with regret, that if James knew it, and did not disclose it to his brother, that he was taking him in very improperly. I say More, that he ought to have . given the plaintiff time and due opportunity to inquire into the facts of the case, which I am sorry to state that he has not done. My decided judgment is therefore that the agreements can not stand ; but I shall be liable to correction from any of you in the case, if I am wrong. A number of letters have been read to shew me that this was the deliberate act of Harry Gordon. All I shall say is, that they prove quite the contrary to me of what they were intended. " Mr. Gordon, who is a Ilarrister, seemed much af fected, and laying his hand on his breast, declared before Goo that the evidence was false, for that he never knew of the private marriage. The LORD CIIANCELLOR—" I am very glad to hear you so solemnly protest your innocence, Mr. Gordon; but allow me to say 14 believe the affidavits I have 'read and heard read. I cannot get over what they have sworn, and I am sorry for it.". Mr. GorrooN- 4 My Lord, I do from the bottom of my soul assure your Lordship that I was totally Uninformed by Dr. Hogg that such a thing had takes place. My Lord, I cannot speak ; but my heart and conscience bear witness to the truth of what I am saying." The LORD CHANCELLOR—" I laMent exceedingly having been compelled to hear such a case as this; brit where I can be blamed I know not. I feel for your painful situation, but GOD knows I must do my duty. You have heard the witnesses deposi tions; and really, Mr. Gordon, I Must say, with all respect for you, that I must believe.them unless you can prove to me they are guilty of most infamous perjury. I am sorry fur you, but strict justice com pels me to do as I have done. You had better not say more, as it will lead me to the review of the consideration you paid for these agreements, which I don't wish to do if I can help it. Your Counsel or yourself are at full liberty to point out to me where I am wrong ; I will hear them or you either ; 'out I must say that I cannot resist the strong body of evi dent* which I now have against your claims. Con vince me, if you think I do wrong, and I will hear you ; but, my feeling, from an honest conscience, is such, that I cannot do otherwise than say that I grant the application of your brother. I regret you came here at alL"—The Court was crowded to excess. IN THE MATTER OF SiEftige, A LUNATIC. This was a case of considerable interest, which had been fully argued befiim the Court. .It was founded on the petition of the Roe. Riehaid Stevens, which Prayed that the petitioner might be examined in persffi as to the sanity of mind, and that the commission of lunacy issued against dim inight be superseded. For this purpose the petitiaksit forth that a coMmissiOn, in.the nature of a setsige tinatice intaiiiisefii, had issued in January last, under which t heokitiOnei was &told a loot . IC webs' oat lucid' in. tervals, so that he was not inifiCierft far ehv gtiverts• mutt of himself or his property, ind t hat he had been in s uc h state of mind from February, 1817 ; that the petitioner's brother, John Stevens, was ap pointed the commute:: of his person and - estate; that the petitioner was aggrieved,by the commission anti return of the inquisifinn ; that he was 34,years of age, and had been for many years Ortvious to his late marriage, a senior fellow of Brazennose College, Oxforct , ; . that on the Ith of March, 1817, hi s b r othe r had nlacedhith under the care of - Mr. Warburton, of Hackney, wiei whom he remained until diets:snow ing August, when he was released;ihat upon his tekase he proceeded to Oxford, and resumed his academiCallabonri; that about July, 1818, he went to France to spend the vacation, intending to return at the commenceinent of the next Term, and that • be resided in Ftattcf at the time of issuing the corn missiOn. It furthei. 'stated, that 'on the 7th of Ja unary last, he had Irltern'aarried with Anne Emily Sierra, one of the daughters of Mt. Sievrac, of Path, in the 'presence of the Rev. Wm. Bevan, who had married Mrt'Sievrac's eldest daughter that the Marriage had been solemnized by the Rev. Wm. Foster, Clerk, Chaplain to the Ititish Embassy, and that the ceremony had been afterwards repeated, in compliance with the laws of France, at the Munici pality of Paris, in the presence of the Mayor of the first Arrondivernent, or quarter of the city; that the comenjssion had issued under very peculiar and extraordinary circumstances, and that the inquisi tion had been taken under false and erroneous im pressions, and widlont any notice, so as to enable him to present himself to the Commissioners ; and that the petitioner had been before, at the time, and ever since the commission, of sound mind. From the statement made by the Counsel on behalf of the pe tition, it appeared that in February, 1817, Mr. Ste vens had been afflicted with a depression of spirits, and that it had been thought necessary to place him under the temporary care of Mr. Warburton, but in the following August he had completely recovered his heat*, and returned to his scholastic duties, , which he continued to perform for upwards of a year.' In August 1818, he accompanied Dr. Ashley, senior fellow and principal of King's Hall and Brazennose, on a tour to Paris, where he contracted an intimacy with the family of Mr. Sievrac, and that intimacy produced an affection towards one of his danglitcrs, an accomplished young Lady, whom he afterwards married. Intelligence having reached this country that he was about to contract matrimony, his brother proceeded to Pais with a view to dissuade him from his purpose. The brother, attended by a medical person, abruptly entered his apartment, reminded him of his former mental calamities; and throwing him into a state of agitation by certain questions he put to him, cliched answers, which induced the me dical Gentleman to sign a certificate, importing that his former malady had returned. The commission had issued on the affidavits of the brother and two medical Gentlemen, Dr. Powell and Dr. Ainslie, whose opinions were founded not on actual observa tion at the time, but on information. Iq opposition to the testimony upon which he had been declared insane, she affidavits of numerous-members of the University ; and, first, of Dr. Hodson, principal of the Kin's Hall and of Brazennose College, described him as in the perfect exercise of his mental faculties, mild in his manners, amiable in disposition, punctual in all his habits, attentive to all his duties, public and private, irreproachable in every part of his crnduct, and in every respect perfec;l; competent to the un controuled management of his own affairs ; and the Principal added, that he had been in the constant course of corresponding with him while he was in Paris, and that his letters were in themselves strong evidence of his being in the full exercise of a correct and unimpaired understanding. Dr. Dean, the Prin cipal of St. Mary's Hall, Dr. Ashley, Dr. Latham, and seven or eight other distinguished Graduates of the University, spoke of him to the same eileet ; de scribing him as having filled the office of burser, and managed the accounts and pecuniary concerns of the College with the utmost precision and accuracy. In addition to this testimony, there were the affidavits of his numerous friends and acquaintances in Paris, speaking in the highest terms of his classical acquire.; ments, the urbanity of his manners, and general ism• proachable conduct. They expressed their entire conviction of his perfect sanity. Dr. Foster, by whom he was married, stated his having had many personal interviews and conversations with him prior to per forming the ceremony of his nuptials, and that he never discovered the slightest symptom of even a mo mentary alienation of his mind. There were, besides these, the affidavits of M. and Mrs. Sievrac, his fa ther and mother-in-law, in which they deposed most unequivocally to the perfect state of his mind. In corroboration of these statements various passages of letters written by the petitioner were read, among' which was the following extract from a letter written, , to his sister, in which he answers the objections made' to his marriage, in consequence of the Lady's reli gion; she being a Roman Catholic and he a Clergy man of the Church of England. After having cub °. gised the virtues of his wife and having described her as possessing delicacy of mind and simplicity of manners foreign to the French character, but conge nial to the feelings of an Englishman, as well as a cultivated understanding, he continued—" I hear you exclaim, but she is a Catholic She is a Catho- 1 lic ; but she is a pious Catholic, and GOD forbid that either you or I should be such bigots, or so intolerant, as to believe that the way to HEAVEN is not open tb the sincere Christian of every persuasion." In support of the Commission it was urged, that it was admitted on all sides, that Mr. Stevens had at one time been properly subjected to restraint. Among the letters connected with the case was one written bj Dr. Hodson to Mr. John Stevens, and dated De cember, 1818, in which he stated, that he was satis fied from a letter he had received from Mr. Allen, a competent judge and faithful friend of the family, that his poor brother was not only haunted with the adniimi under Which he labohred in the spring of 1817, but with otheis also of a much More distress ing nature. The Consrnission had been taken opt in January, 1819, and yet it was to this same Dr. Mod. son alt appeal had been made, in order to sheiv'that the Commission had bee n ta ke n. an t b y 'the brother from improper motives. The Critannisslon had not beer; itsuid-updsi the gudgmetit.of jOhn Stevens alone, for he had called to his aid those Medical men who were best able to appreciate the existence of disor ders of the kind. Mr. John Stevens would not have acted with the fraternal attention" due to his !stuffier if he had not endeavoured 'to have prevented the marriage *hi& he was informed was in contempla tion. So far from having hastily and improperly made him the subject of a commission of lunacy, he resorted to it for the purpose of preventing the ruin which he saw would be the consequence of hi's mar riage: it was the only means by which he could pre vent this gentleman from displacing litmsclf from the situation he held, in Brazen Nose College. It, Stevens had, at the age of 36, risen up to be the Second Senior of the . College, wills* the prospect Of" soon obtaining a valuable prefernititt. He was, from causes which-PaovinEalca did net permit to be known, reduced to such a state of mind, that he was obliged to leave the City of Oxford altogether. The grounds of delusion operating upon his mind were of a description that evidenced the aberration of reason, namely, thai he was the subject of ridicule. This gentleman, who had received the valuable testimony of the Principals and Fellows of many: of the Colleges, had laboured under the morbid delusion that he was the subject of ridicule and caricature—as strong a feature of loss of reason as could be stated. These were two of the topics on which it was insisted the I reason of this gentleman was lost, and that he had become a fit object for personal restraint. He had I l accordingly been placed under proper protection in February, 1817, but Dr. Hodsoa having visited him he was enlarged in August. But both Dr. Ainslie and Dr. Powell were yet of opinion his mind was not restored. It had been said, that on his return to Oxford he had performed the functioas of his sacred office, but he had merely taken his turn in reading the prayers of the College. It was not because he might have been capable of settling his accounts as burser with the cook and manciple, that it was to be admitted, that his mind was perfectly reinstated in its pristine vigour.— This, it was contended, was one of the fallacies of the case; a man might be an able classical scholar; he might be an acute mathematician, or competent to adjust pecuniary accounts, and yet labour under morbid incapacities, and have his mind haunted by delusions ; and accordingly this gentleman supposed himself the object of ridicule and reproach, though his talants and moral character placed him above the reach of either. It was not the character of insanity to produce a total paralysis of the mind, but to cause a partial paralysis, an enervation of the mental faculties referable to some particdlar object. The disease cf Mr. R. Stevens was one o f this description, and this disease was not yet removed, as the evidence of the Medical Gentlemen, Drs. Ainslie and Powell, proved. Connecting their testimony with the former state of Mr. Stevens s mind, the Commissioners ap pointed to investigate the matter could not avoid the decision to which they came. Mr. R. Stevens had been urged, at least, to defer his marriage till he ob tained the living which was tangible, and actually within his reach ; his reply was, that he would not take the best living Brasennose had to give —Whit I not take £lOOO u-year? Was there such haste— had he such a precocious feeling for marriage that he could not wait, perhaps, a few months for a for. tune of £l,OOO a-year ? It would not be inferred that a man was to be considered as deranged because he threw away a valuable preferment, but in a case like this, it was a circumstance of extreme import ance. For those reasons it was intisted, that there was no time from the Spring of 1817, that this gen tleman's mind was not morbid and deranged. Many other circumstances tended to confirm this statement. The quitting of his College, to become a voluntary exile in France, his marrying there a Lady of different religious persuasion, afforded strong grounds for the conclusion, that this Gentleman was in a state of mind which rendered the commission absolutely necessary. It could not be denied that his right to traverse the commission was ex debitojustitiee; and that by appealing to a Jury, if he could she that at the time of issuing the commission, he was in that state of mind which it was insisted he was not, he would be entitled to obtain a relaxation from that restraint which his friends believed had been justly imposed upon him. The LORD CHANCELLOR having conferred with the medical gentlemen on whose evidence the commission was granted, this morning called the attention of the Counsel engaged on both sides, to the case, 14 ob serving, that he had carefully read over all the pa pers relating to it, and that he had investigated all the circumstances attending it, from February, 1817, to the time of his giving his decision. He hadthciuglit that a proceeding in the nature of a writ, de minas incuirendo, iniOit be instituted ; but after a diligent search, he could find no instance of such proceed ing, except in cases where the finding of the Jury, was insufficient. The Jury was bound to find that a party was of sound or unsound mind. When it was merely stated that the party was not able to manage his own affairs, and so on, in such cases, the finding was insufficient. In cases in which the point of form of the commission was right, he could find no instance of such a proceeding. Hence the question, was the commission to be superseded on the evidence as it Stood ? He thought not ; and did not see how hh amid interfere father. It would be neces sary to institute an action to traverse the commission. A short conversation then took place between his Lordship and the'Counsel for the Petitioner, and it was agreed that the case should be mentioned to his Lordlip again, when the Petitioner had been seen by Doctors Willis, Ainslie, Powell, and Latham, aid also by Mr. Warburton. I t. :4 l i i k _ IF iii