The National Register. — London, England, 1812-06-28 00:00:00

JUNE 2S. Dr. Ainslie, a physician of great eminence, stated, that he had attended Mr. Bowler since his confinement in the New frisson ; that he had examined hint on rations subjects. and found his mind bout ill; under the greatest extravagance and delusion ; that he had no nocbt that the fit which Mr. Bowler had had, was epileptic, and t ha: it had been the cause of his insanity ; that the species of insanity whieh Mr. Bowler was afflicted with, was frequently the consequence of that kind of fit, arid often shewed itself in acts of violcce and anis chief, arising from the great irritaton of the mind, and that persons afflicted with this species of derangement were seldom or ever cured, and that it was the nature of this species of the complaint, for the uarty sullin.ing under it, to conceive and carry into execution the most erroneous tnpressicns, with the most rash impulse ; that from the very frequent paroxysms of this disorder, Mr. Bowler was unfit to be at large, from the time of the fit, and ought then to have bJen put under restraint ; that he had no doubt of his complete loss of reason, Leal insanity, and that the great depression of spirits which had im mediately succe.:ded the fit, was in itself a low species of derange ment. Mr Warburton. of Hackney, who is particularly eminent in the treatment of this dreadful disorder, stated, that he had seen *iir Bow_ lerevery day since the 9th of June instant ; that 1 - e had !pen narti ciAr abeivion to his disorder, and had examined him t articularly with reference to the delusions whit h had operated on his mind; that he lra.i no doubt that his insanity had been sonic time st tinting, and had arisen front tlt!ccit cts of the fit; he then stated a variety of cir cumstances which he had collected from conversations with licr.vler, and winch ce4nvittced him he was perfectly insane, and had been so tar many months, ;IA that he ought not to have been at /tree. Mr. Warburton descitheti the character of the disc der in the, same manner as Dr. Ainslie, and concurred with him in opinion. Mr. Thomas Webb, the surgeon of the prison, star t.l, that he had ::en Mr. Bowler three times a day since his crime iitment, and he mentioned various conveisatioxis which be hart edits him, front which he judged of the state of his mind, and lie concurred generally with Dr. A.i..slie and Mr. Warburton as to the disorder, and that the same had been of several months duration, and he I rid no doubt of Mr. Bowler's inanity. Mr. Joseph lVithers, a neighbour of Mr. Bowler 's, proved various acts of insanity, for several months before, and col rinuing up to the day when Mr.. Lln my...Ps was shot, and particularly proved, that there was no foundation liar any of the delusions which operated on his mind ; and he traced the commencement of the disorder tram the time to the lit, and its gradual increase to the 25th of May, when he siiw Mr. Bawler labouring under great depression of spirits, and his mind evi dently distracted and agitated by peculiar delusions on the subject of his pronely, and alLiirs and family, and on inanv other particulars which he mentioned; that lie had seen Mr. Bowler since he had been in custody, and his delusion and extravagance on all those subjects contiatted exactly the same; he also stated, that it was in contempla tion, by Mr. Bowler's family, nearly two months before the attack on Mr. Burrowes, to take out a Commission of Lunacy against Mr. Bowler, and that some of his family had met for the purpose of con sidering that object. Mr. joint Read, also a neighbour of Mr. Bowler's, stated a variety of circumstances r es p ect i ng hi d con d uct, which clearly proved the in ”lle state of his mind, and that it arose from the effects of the tit. He also prosted, that he had hi nisei f hal o conversation with Mr. I; urrows, come time before the Ilth of May, in which Mr. Burrows said, he considered Bowler to b,.i insane, and that it would be proper to have a commission against him. Mr. Daniel Eller Mitchell spoke to various incoherent acts of Mr. Bowler, since the fit, and that he had no doubt of his insanity, and he mentinned particularly his total loss of memory respecting the pay meat of some rates, and other matters of business. Elizabeth Haydon, the housekeeper of Mr. Bowler, proved the effect of the fit on his mind and constitution, and spoke to constant acts of derangement in his daily habits of life, and in his conversations, and the manner in which he spent his time, and, amongst other things, that he would dine at nine or ten o'clock in the morning, and insist upon having hi s meat quite raw, in which state he frequently at e it. She also st ate d t h at he had several times shewn a very strong inclina tbieoenn ve tosederstr.oy himself; and that she and her fellow- s e rvan t s h a d at months past so much convinced of his i nsan ity, an d tearful of hi s doing some radi act, that they had constantly wat c h e d I't's,, and • had som et i mes sat up all night tor that purpose, and removed things out of his way with which he might have injured or destroyed himself. Mr. WIttHERELL was proceeding to call other witnesses, and stated, that the family of Mr. Bowler had a great anxiety not only to satisfy the Jury on the subject, b ut M r . B urrows an d t h e Pub he; that their desire was to have the must free and complete investi gatin ion,and tor that purpose upwards of twenty other witnesses were attendante. who could confirm what had been already proved Th eJurYs howev..r, said, that the evidence they had heard was so essential, that they did not think it ne c e ssar y to h ear more ; h ut t h ey !I f h"ght oper for the public satisfaction in such a case, that they !I rsonafly see and ex am i ne M r. B ow l er hi:le:elf; and accord- 11 h I Y the y all went to the Prison, and upon coming ba c k. ret u rned a '1 v erdict that M. Bowler was a unatic, and that he had been so from i ilarch last. --vrrr r 117: 4 0 ! '1';): Inquisition was then du4 si, - r.ed by the Jury s• sinners. Without the least wiAi to intrude on the public attf!tlti , ln a the fontly and friend!; of Mr. 80w1.r...ft trust that the ah , :ve statment willlye the effect a removihg rt . e . jutitce which may have been formed re:pecting the :::11)11-,:e• attack on the rerson of Mr. BUT:IOW'S, and the important fact, that it is ascribable to insa3ity THE NATIONAL 11FGISTETI. _ 71(•I% ACCIDENTS AND OFFLNCES% A Private of the N.l_ ry Reg - melt .4 . M ii ia, wa: in , trli‘re.l 7 n a puh'ic-house at Cork, las.. by a Private (Write linitr wn:k's corps. " It is much t) be ro;r:ttot Nays 4 C P.tier) that the influence and era th..:ir ()Meer. ha v..: ii'° in le on trout over alt.-se twit, who .e. to anxioni to possess ail loose reroLiuus principles which rite - t appearance leputes." Tftursday night I :st a notorious R at N sir Bank was taken,. in full under the owhority et a inat,istiatc'S warrant, to Pall. ; upwards of :30 rrols were detected, and the proprietors taken to B. w.stree: : .4t oralse is tane to the Police at this cons_ mencem utof of erai ions, but too long negl,?cied, and by which many. have been ruined, an .1 others brou.:iit to an untimely end. On Friday the parties underwont an examination, at the .00dusion of whi c h the pr'neipids wcre I:eld to had for their f;:tuie good behaviour, and not to be, found w gaming.house for the iicxt twelve months. A muter was perpetrkted last Sunday, at Studg...wood-gree,•,, in the Isle of XVic,ht, by the apprentice of a shi.emaker, on the body of his mistress. The 1 , -1 takiog advantage of his master's absence at church, knPcked wn the N110111!n with a hatchet, alai cut h r •He then walked to Yarmouth, where 11. s sister livcd, to wI O he , communicated the horrid act ; and on her re:nonstratine Whil 111111 :IS to his motive, he replied, he did not know, but he was or.!erei to (la it. The Corone:r's Inquest found a verdict ot—WiiveL MIJK Dtft He was cm:al - nit. ed to Winchester gaol, to take his trial. The Ad?niral ;N. Session commenced. on t'ilday at ti.e Old 3ailev, before Sir \V. S rorT, Sec. for the trial of E-J vatd Gtllsun, eitar l ;rai with the murde. , of William Fit zger on board the Q.le..it trans port, on the ltigl t seas, near Malta ; but no person a pr. - 11 ttiK to ureter an indictment ag Unst him, he was discharged by pruLlaniation. • t tics Ma , yids of SaIG s appeared, and piriaetito an Indic:uncut again,t hint, for a mistier? teanour, and travel sed until the next Session. l'here being no other bu: iiness bet Ore the cow t, it raijotualea. DIED. On the 19th rili .at Truxill in hi"; :33(1 year, of a fever. suppr)srd to have been occa tioned by excessive tat Luc »r rho siege: 1 . Badajez, tiquir ), of the Corps of 'loyal Engineers, rides: son of Dr. Squire, of ] y-place, Loudon. At Brentor, n ear Tavi-teck, 111, F. : Within the last four years sl ,e had cut all Nrw Tr 11l ! lat Percy-stret t, Mr. 1 - Larison, the celebrated Oratorio aad Concert Let.Pv, in the r aTish of Kum:Lando, cetnity of Elgin, a very ec centtie character; hest known in Vir narrow cede or tier acquaint ance by the nick' tame of lied Ivan, but whose real name wait Jetatt Roy. The only p eminent feature of this character was, that h.. vino in early life conc. heti au implacable aversion to her sex, coesidtring it not only as the .t:st but e( en as dn.' 1. alt of the Ca eat..r's ttnrl.s, site resolved to aband on it mid become a man ! And, au a previous step towards her tuns( aline (llegalise, commenced the operati'm of shay • nig ; het where * .sTiattire has dune malting, the application of art must succeed very ; However, equippinv, !tinsel( with a tut tan phitibug, shalt coat, and blue b.,miet, she exhibi ed the appeal ance of a flashy young Mall. a - Id following the occupation of a thay-laf - aier,:r, et:old 'serf rita her with man-lake celerity : and the ne)st effectual tee.n.s her employer ; .ould adopt, for securing a continuation of licr was to paten 1 jealousy of her and his wife : jukes of this kind she always consi jered as the highest compliment. This extraordinary character w , ,s the subject of much derision and metrituent to ay.. Yooll a of both sues, by whom Abe teas often rudely treated ; their treatto nt, liuwel,er, she keenly resented, taking care never to lit slip an "pportunity of retaliating on her aggro surs, by inflictive , corporal t aoishment, she being nu Mean laa olicu ut in the !writs:. art of pugili' ,sr. What ,:ontributes to render this piece of biography still more x .teresting is, that (if her strange de.yre of being thought a man e excepted) site seemed to possess the free esa of all pct 4sl faculties, could reason accuratt ly, joke sarcastically, and pos sess( t d no inconsiderable vt,lubilny of latieeige. A little befitro her' des h (about the age of 70), being seriously asked what her motives wet a for observing a conduct of so strange singular.ty, she replied, in * serious tole, " that it was the effect. of a bad education !" It wt 1 known, that a had education has always born productive of .y potations consequence., both to indt vidwils and to society; but a' . effect sttnilar to the prec.diug i. rarely to he met with, ~~~ t!