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COMMISSION OF LUNACY. • THE MATTER OF THE REV. EDWARD FRANK. (A SUPPOSED LUNATIC.) SECOND DAY.—TUESDAY, AUG. 2. Th? Inquiry was resumed this morning at a little after ten o'clock. Elizabeth Wagstaff, examined by Mr. WAKEFIELD. —I Iliad in the service of the Rev. E. Frank, - in 1816 ; I entered • his service as housemaid and head-nurse on the ltlth of March, 1816 ; 1 became head nurse in June ; Mrs. Frank was resid ing at Campsall-hall ; Mr. Frank came from Norfolk in the winter of the year 1815..1 do not.reallect the. precise time ; person named Dickenson was there, but only for a..short , time at :first. • • • By Mr. WAIEFIELD.—In what way was he treated:? Blr. Mott OTTAk objected. The Learned Counsel must - first - show that Mr. Frank was present, and he should object - to all evidence - that did not parsonally•implicate Mr. Frank. The objection was held good. • ' Examination resnmed.—The 'first time' that witness saw . ..Frank And Dickenson at Canipsall together was in" the winter of 1816 ; the length of time they. were there together might be :a week or two ; Dickenson was treated at all times with the • -same respect as if he-was master; Mr:Frank treatea`Dicken , son with some respect arid-. freedom; 3lrs. Frank also treated _ him . with respect, the same when Mr.. Frank ..was there as when he was not - there ; Mrs. Frank walked out a great'deal; witness Ims seen Dickenson and Mrs. Frank-walk,out.arm 4.arin together. Mr. Ba no nowt again objected to these general , question s. Mr. - WAKEFIELD * said, that he would connect 'them , with • Mr. Frank. ,Mr. Commissioner WmIT-MARSH , said, the real question as, whether Mr. 'Frank was acquainted with the different terriews between his wife and 'Dickenson ; and he referred •to a point itV Lord 'Portsmouth's case, where Lady Ports mouth sent a present of game to an individual, but there it, was aneged that - that took place-with the knowledge•of 'Lord "t r'smouth. Ater a:desultory conversation, the witness • was ordered to wh•hiraw. and Mr. Wakefield then called Capt. Main Waring. This gentleman did not answer,' but he was sent for, and the I 'imirt was waiting, when it was proposed to go on with the examination of the last witness, subject to its being struck out of the Commissioners' notes. Examination of Mrs. Wagstaff resumed.—ln June, 1817, 1 -the state of Mr. Frank's health was much better than when w ,,, iess left him in 1819 ; did not recollect his taking a jour v *Om Campsall to Norfolk; recollected his being at North ' en•!. IThmmersmith ; he arrived there on Christmas-eve, 1817. 'Witness and Mr. Frank and the children were toge vier; they started from Campsall and went to Norfolk about that time and from thence to North-end, Hammersmith ; in the" nimmer of 1817 he was itery ill. • I left him in 1819. I gave him notice to leave him, Mr. Frank's conduct being very NA towards some women whom he had in keeping. Re ct,lterted about that time receiving some orders about a dinner. • Mr. Frank, in the morning, went out saying he should not • dine at home, but returned about three o'clock,- and wished to have dinner between four and five o'clock. Witness told him • he could Ind have it before six—what time he brought home • a Mrs. Bury, and another woman of very low bad character, and they dined together. Witness afterwards met Dickenson in oeford-street. Mrs. Bury told witness that she and Mrs. F:ank had met together in the presence of Mr. Frank, and had had a fight. Mr. Frank remarked that he believed that it might be true, for that he 'understood that Mrs. Frank had come to London with a 'Common sailor. This testimony not being considered strictly relevant, it was agreed that, this witness should, for the present, stand aside, ,-irtid in the mean time the examination of another witness taken. In the course of the discussion on this subject, Mr. Brougham denied that he was Cowls • either for Mrs. Frank or Dickenson. but for Mr. Frank alone. Robert Fox was then called.—l lived in the service of the Rev. Edward Frank in November, 1820 ; I was with Mr. Frank in London about May or June, 1822 ; we left London, I think, either on the sth or 6th of June: Mrs. Frank was in London at that time; I was Mr. Frank's personal servant. When we 'left London we went to Pelham-street, Newark ; the house there was quite a small house; there were two small rooms, and a kitch:n below stairs, and three bed-rooms and a closet above ; we found there Dr. Dickenson, Miss Frank (Mr. Fm-arik'a eldest daughter), and a servant; Mr. Frank only con tinued there two nights, and then went on to Harrowgate ; we re:an - net] to Newark in about one month, and we then slept at 'the Saracen's Head Inn ; Mrs. Frank slept at the house in Pelhani-street, and so did Dr. Dickenson ; I observed people in the street, on various occasions, looking up at the house of Mr. Frank in Pelhaunstreet ; a great coat was hung up at the hed-room window of Dr.'Dickensan, and the people were look ime to see what' they could see; this nceurred scyt-z-s1 tiams ; Mr. Frank afterwards returned to the house, and then there was a small bed put up in a small room; Mr. Frank was to sleep in the small bed ; Dr. Dickenson used to give directions -to the servants, add order dinner, &c.; Mr. Frank has been .below stairs when Mrs. Frank and Dr. Dickenscrivere in the bed-room above stairs. Mr. Bit ouGstast objected to this evidence, because, if such . evidence were admitted, every house in London might be ques •tioned ; for nothing was more common than for a man to be in .his study or clambers below, whilst his wife was with a gentle :. -man above stairs. Dlr. SOLICIT° r..GENEnAT,.—But this was a bed-room. Mr. Bitoo Cll am admitted that; but then there was no evi dence of knowledge on the part of the husband. Mr. Sonic.: nit-GENERAL—If a husband was to bring an action for ann. con. under such circumstances, he would not get more than sixpence. damages. • After considerable discussion, it was held that the evidence should be received, in order to show the general character of the parties. %Vitness resumed--Mrs. Frank .and Dr. Dickenson used to remain in the bed-room for several hours 'together ; he has .known Mrs. Frank and Dr. Dickenson in bed together, when Lir. Frank was in the house : Mr. Frank never slept in Mrs. ` - Frank's hell-room ; the room where Mr. Frank slept was closely adjacent to Dirs. Frank's room, and Mr. Frank was in that room when Dr. Dickenson and Mrs. Frank were in bed together in- the next room ; Dr. Dickenson always be laved very wel! towards Mrs. Frank when Mr. Frank was present ; Mr. Frank never gave any 'directions about the household affairs ; Dr. Dickenson was most master of the house, and Mr. Frank did not interfere. Speaking of the great coat and the window, the reason why the people looks' up at the window was because Mrs. Frank and' Dr. Dickenson were in the room together sometimes there-were two, and at other times three persons looking up; this occurred a number of times. Cross-examined by Mr. 'Briout - maat—l did not make two affidavits ; I swore an affidavit in March.•lB22, before]: quitted .lr. Frank's service ; I swore then that I saw all things correct ' and rightin the family. The SOLICITOR-GEig - naAL interposed, and wished the affi davit to be shown to him. lsT 111. r. War - ErrEtp—aWhen I made that affidavit, I was only footman. Cross-examination resumed—During the first year; was there did not attend to the bell, that is, Mr. Frank's bell. but Shep herd did; before I made the affidavit I waited at table, but d►d not go out with the carriage. 'never then used to have any waiting on Mr. Frank. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL - apprehended that the affidavit ought to be shown to the witness first. Mr. Bitoodnaah—Good God, Sir, is he to see the affidavit he has sworn to, before I am done examining him ? It is con trary to all the rules of evidence. The Commissioners held that the objection was good. Mr. ilitousallitat said that if he was not to be. permitted to proceed according to the rules of evidence, he would take the opinion of the Great Seallipon it. Cross-examination rearmed.—l know one - Hannah Moore ; she never saw me in a bed-room out of which any thing was missed.: I was not charged with stealing any money ; a sove reign was found in a room by her, which she put in her pocket; she never charged me with taking it; that was a fortnight before ,I left; I was not turned away. Mr. "Not) a HAM—I never saw a servant plat was turned away. You gave notice, I suppose? Witness.—Mr. Frank said' that I might go away, because Dr. Dickenson was to wait on him ; I was not paid my wages; I got a note, and went to Hull about the sovereign ; I followed my business afterwards ; I am a joiner; Hannah Moore did -not go to Hull:about the sovereign ; I mean to swear•that - I was never turned away from any place for breaking open a desk in , which there was money ; I cannot read ; it was in Doncaster that I first told about Mrs. Frank and Mr: Dickenson: being in . bed together; I have sworn twice; 1 was sworn to am affidavit in April ; it was before I swore the last affidavit that 1 told Mr. Mason! saw them ir. bed together. [The affidavit was here read.] It stated that the deponent had never heard Mr. Frank ringing the bells violently, nor had ever seen at:y symptoms of lunacy, or any other conduct denoting him to be of unsound mind, hut was always competent to manage his.own affairs.— This was sworn 22d January, 1822. The Jurat said that the whole was read over to witness be fore he signed. Witness continued.-1 could not read myself; the affidavit was never read over to me when I signed it; Mr. Fisher read it tome. By the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.--Did you put your cross to • the affidavit without knowing its contents ?—Yes. I never saw any thing about Mr. Frank then but what was right. I said nothing to Mr. Fisher about Shepherd pr-his wife being discharged from the service of Mr. Frank. The contents dancing-master, that at one of their suppers, or drunken or of the affidavit were explained to me. I do not know if Mr. Gies, Dr. Dickenson was most intolerably drunk, and staggered Pigott • was there. Mr. Fisher asked me about Mr. Frank at out of the room called the breakfaetSroom into • the library. . the time. I swore it in the library in Campeau-hall. . There Mrs: Frank followed. Tnere was at that time a clergyman was nobody there but Mr. Fisher. with - them, who was tutor to the children, and it was a canstatit• CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Take care of ourself—you stand source of amusement with Dr. Dickenson to endeavour to make in a very awkward situation. this clergyman drunk, but the doctor always got drunk him- Mr. BROUGHAM.—I never saw one in a worse predicament. self first.—(A laugh.)--Alerey seeing Mrs. Frank following I can prove Mr. Pigott's signature to the affidavit. Dickenson, went atter there into the library, and there saw Witless.—There' was a gentleman there, I believe, but I Dickenson's brother with a chamber —in his hand, using it won't swear—l do not recollect. Yes, there was one, but lin Mrs. Frank's presence. Alorey added, thatDickenson was cannot say-who it was. I ID4de, a second affidavit on the 12th helped up stairs by M rs. Frank, that she assisted to put hint. to Marc)t, 1825, before M. Collinson. • bed, and absolutely held the while be used it. All this The affidavit was here read. It stated that the deponent I mentioned to Mr. Frank, and that Dickenson had been seen lived with Mr. Frank, up to June, 1823, and that he saw Dr. putting his hand down Mrs. Frank's neck—that Dickenson Dickenson and Mrs. Frank were carrying on an adulterous in- -on one occasion had gone to visit a patient at a village a short tercourse at Newark and elsewhere, and that their conduct had distance, and had got very wet, and that on his return Mrs. excited the notice-of thepeople -in those parts. He further Frank quitted her own bed in order that lie might have one that vetted that Dr. Dickenson had often used very violent - language was warm and comfortable: I don't remember any thing else to Mrs. Frank, and that Mr. Frank never slept in the house in that I told, or who communicated this last circumstance to me. Pelham-street. I told Mr. Frank every thing which the butler Roebuck told „Cross-examination continued.—,l saw them committing adul. me, and generally every every thing which I heard, and -which tery in the morning ; the door was then ajar. I could rely on as a fact, respecting Airs. Frank's conduct. -I Mr. Ilentuoirma.—For the purpose of your seeing them ? also mentioned what passed between me and Mrs. Frank in the 'I don't know ; this was after.l swore the affidavit ; it was be- conversation I had with her before she.-quitted Campsall-house. -lOreJ told Mr. Mason. I told her what I had heard, and -that such and such scenes Mr. BnouGHAP4.—Was it the first or the,last affidavit had taken place. She did not deny, but begged that she might The last. not,be brought before a Court of Law; that she had been-there Was it in 1822-? once, and did not wish to be there again. Mr. Frank seemed SOLICITOR-GEwEnat_No, no; you arc now tatting ,to have no doubt of his wife's guilt in the subsequent-comma to puzzle him.---(Laughter.) nications i had with him. Mr. BROUGHAM.—I believe I ought to puzzle him, but,he .[Three letters were - here handed to witness, two of which he puzzles himself.—(Laughter.) proved to be the handwriting-of Mr. Frank, and one in that of The pereon I first told that I had seen my mistress in the Mrs. Frank, dated July, 1815, and addressed to her husband. bed-room was Mr. Bellamye•l afterwards went with my master One of the letters was from Mr. Frank - to the witness, -and to Hull, but never mentioned the circumstance to him ; never contained an authority to order Mrs. Frank to quit. Campsall mentioned it to him this summer; I airs addoncaster man, and house.] think it was since May-day. Mr. 13aotenneet objected to any of thoseletters being read, `lily the ComertssictetEn.—l have had a deal of opportunity: until lie had cross-examined the witness. -It was every day's of-seeing my master's conduct lately,; he went on in a , very practice, that no wriden document proved by a -witness could different - kind of way to what he did wen I first went to him ;.. be read, until the person on-whose testimony it rested hadbeen he talkeda deal of redieulous nonsense abont women.; he asked. cross-examined'. For aught that yet was known; he might be me "if 1 would get him a nice woman ?" he used to spend his able to shake the credit of this witness. money very foolishly in making presents to girls and others; I' Th e soLICITpReUEXEIIAL said, that the doctrine which do not know the ladies, to whom he gave them, but one was at had just been so dogmatically laid down was not borne out by, Hull, where he used to go and sleep with a woman ; he never every day's practice, which Mr. Brougham had come specially used to think of the value of money ;he purchased gowns twice, from YOrk to tell them. Ile wooldtcontend, that the letter ad one of which lie give to a woman named Mary Ann Smith; dressed to the witness, and containing the authority to him to she was a woman of the town ; he had been with her the night remove Airs. Frank from Campsall-house, might be read as before he gave her the gown. (Speaking of Mr. Frank being part of the witness's evidunce. in the house when Mrs. Frank an Dickenson were in bed to- Mr. BROUGHAM maintained that what he had asserted was gether) I cannot say that Mr. Frank was aware of it; from consistent with every day's practice, and he would rest-upon it the year 1822 I thought him incapable of managing his own for the opinion of the Commissioners. affairs. . The Commissioners decided, that the-letter containing the Eleanor Rawson.—l was in the family of Mr. Frank; when' authority for the .witness to remove Mrs. Frank from Campsell- I first went, the family was at Campsall-house ; it was in 1821; house might be read then, hut that the reading of the other let- I was hired by Airs. Frank; Mr, Frank was living there. 1 • tern should be postponed till after the'witness - had been cross know Dr. Dickenson ; he was not there when I was first hired, examined. The letter was then read. - It was dated the fith of he came afterwards; Mr. Frank lived there until they finally January, 1817, and addressed to Captain Mainwaring. It be left the house; I never knew . any think of the Doctor whilst it gen by requesting himdti take the earliest opportunity of telling Campsall; I left their service and was absent about three Mrs. Frank to leave Campsall-house, "as lie (Mr. Frank) was, months, I was then hired again, and we went to live at Castle- positively determined never to see her again. The house lie gate-house, Newark. Mrs. Frank re-hired me. The house placed under Captain Mainwaring's care, with directions not was a small genteel house. When I first went the Doctor or to than. Aire. Frank to touch any papers or other property.— Mr. Frank were not there, but afterwards the Doctor brought The children were to.remain in the house as the best place . for Mr. Frank in a chaise, from Doncaster. At the first the Doctor them until he Should arrive. , did not sleep there, but afterwards he did. The - Doctor never Witness continuedt—l acre() under this authority, and. tuirn slept there until after Mrs—Frank slept there. The house at ed Airs. Frank out. Air. Frank arrived in a few days after. Castlegate was got ready on a.Thursday or Friday. Previous He seemed, at first, like a men depressed in spirits; and erho to the house being ready, Mrs. Frank slept at the house in Pel- had something disagreeable on his mind. He seemed not to sham -street, and the Doctor slept there also. In the house at have.any doubt whatever of Mrs. Frank's guilt. In the course Castlegate-street the bed-rooms were thus divided—the Doctor of the-summer of that year (1817), I went to Shelton, in Nor slept over the kitchen, and I slept over his room. Mrs. Frank's folk, in consequence of letters from Mr. Bellamy and Miss bed-room went up a step or two another way. I . could not in ray, Frank. I there found Mr. Frank in a very low and depressed room hear any thing that passed in Mrs. Frank's bed-room, but I state of mind, refusing to eat or drink, and to see his children— could hear whatpassedinDickenson'sroom,which was undermine no, not refusing to see them, but neglecting them altogether. • I but I could not distinctly hear the words. 'heard sufficient, how- considered it impossible for him, in that state, to manage his ever, to convince me that after I had gone to bed the doctor affhirs. The opinion I then formed of h i m was, that- he had and 'Mrs. Frank were in the doctor's bed-room together; I have fallen into a,low, obstinate, and sulky fit, arid that when he did known them remain there until one and two o'clock in the so, nothing could stir him from it. I can't say that any man morning ; this occurred almost every night ; I have frequently was of a sound mind who could act as he did, but Ido not had occasion to call Airs. Frank out of the bed-roots of the doe- mean to say he was deranged ; but there was that excentri. tor for orders for dinner, &c.; Mr. Frank -always went to bed city and flightiness of manner about him which led me to first; he would go to bed at ten or eleven o'clock, and Mrs. conclude that be was incapable of conducting his own affhirs. Frank would remain up until one; the doctor used to assume a Air. PEPYS was about to eeatrnine the witness.— good deal of the master; Mrs. Frank never showed any atten- Gann' Co - mstissiox.En.—Are you about to examine in tion to her husband ; it was not my business to he much with chief, Pepys ? - theni, 1 was cook; the doctor always treated Mr. Frank very Mr. .FEPYS.—No, Sir; I ant gor. g to cross-examine the civilly for all that I know. Solicitor-Geaeral's witness. Cross-examined by Mr. It aot• ettam—Fox did not live in Witness.--E remained with Sir. Frank for two or three Pelham-street ; he was dismissed before I was there ; be did months in the beginning of 1817. I saw him afterwards in not go into the bed-room ;my room was over the room where Shelton, -in Juneen r duly of that year, but did not see him since Dr. Dickenson slept. , then. !!'hell him at Shelton, he was then in a low and Mr. BROUGHAM—Who gave you that pelisse ?—I have no sulky state; when .1 said that nothing could be done with him pelisse on—it is a gown.—(Laughter.) when in that -state, Ido not mean `to say he was ever in that me. peon atiwzn.—Oh; it i. a, gown you at, a dress-maker stree before. :1 never saw him so before. I saw Dr. Wright in now ?—I keep a.little shop. -The gawnsl have on is my own, ii3l7. 1 anew ale liairbeaatterintne• La n nafore that._ I and 1 have worked hard for it. wrote to Dr. Wright-thyself, when I found that Mr. Frank re- Mr. - Batonoire.m.—Oh, that we all do, you know.---(A fused to take any medicine or nourishment. He sent over a laugh.) couple of his men to .assist him 'to take the medicine, and lie Cross-examination continued.—l am sure it was Dr. Dick- took it from them. At the time of the coneersations 1 spoke enson and Mrs. Frank who were in the bed-room together ; of, Dr. Wright bad been attending on Air. Frank. I saw Sir they used to keep speaking till mornin e a—till two o'clock, night Frank sign a deed in 11117. He was then in a sound state ofl after night ; I never saw them in the bed together ; I do mind. This was after Dr. Wright had attended him. not know if they were committing adultery, -it was no affair of Cross-examined by Mr. 13notroiram.--It was before I mine.—(Laughter.)—l do not know to whom I told it first— quitted him. 1 was married to his sistet nearly three years every body knew it. Burgess was a female living in the house, before I saw Air. Frank. There had been some differences and and she-heard them speaking together in the bed-room. I told quarrelling, and coldness, among the family before it to Burgess-1 told it to Sir. Workman. There was some in consequence of Air. Bacon Frank iin- • Re-examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Burgess and peaching Mr. Frank's understanding. .).did not hear of any I talked of it together ; she laughed and passed it over. dispute in consequence of .31r. Frank, the younger, refusing By the CIIIEF COMMISSIONER—Dr. Dickenson paid some to join his father in cutting off the entail. There were some of the bills. Mr. Frank never discharged any of the bills, nor legal proceeding, .and I was made a party to a Chancery suit, did Sirs. Frank. I do not know whether Mr. Frank looked while I was out of tile country. 111 r. Itellainyavas aLso joined over the bills. I do not think he was fit to manage his pro- in it. Sir. Bellamy is married to a sister of Mr. Frank's. I had perty from the general line of his conduct. He did not notice no personal interest in the proceedings my only object was for any thing at all. I did not much notice if there was any cccen,- the benefit of the children. I hav e seen Air. Bellamy on this tricity in - his manner. Ile did not pay that attention to his subject, and of course we have talked it over, teat I have had affairs which a gentleman ought. ' no communication with any of the professional Gentlemen en- Captain Mainwaring—l am a Captain in the Navy. 1 was gaged. Mr. Bellamy was a solicitor, tut -he has given up made Captain soon after the battle of Trafalgar. lam mar. practice. I had no idea whatever of the unsoundness of Air. tied to Air. Frank's sister. I was married in 1811, but did-not Frank's-mind at the time •he signed the deed. I have seen Sirs. see Mr. Frank till, I think, the year: 1814. 1 went down to Frank. She is a daughter of the late General Sowerby ; Ido Shelton, in .Norfolk, in -the year 1816, in consequence of a corn- not know that she was an elegant accomplished woman. She munication I received from Miss Franks my wife's sister. I had been a very fine woman. met Mr. Frank there, and a conversation took place between Mr. BuotionA3l.—l have seen her somewhat later than him and me, respecting the conduct of his wife, and at its you have, Captain Mainwaring, and 1 would nut speak of her conclusion he told me to go into Yorkshire, and to learn all I as a lady- who merely had been a fine woman—l think she is so 'could on the subject. :In the conversation 1 had, I Veld Mr. still. Frank all that I had previously heard respecting the conduct of Witness—Well, she may be so : she certainly roes a fine 'his wife. I said, I understood that she had attached herself to wtruan. tI have not hada ship since I paid off the Royal George a quack doctor named Dickenson, and that improper conduct three-decker in 1814. I did snort get any information at the was reported about the county of York, touching the character hotel in Bridge -street. • Wheal said in my aff i davit referred to of his wife—that those stories, if true, were of so disgusting a Communications made to me by 111 r. Bellamy. nature, and so ruinous and destructive to his family, that as a Examined by one of the (.651MISSIONEItS.—When I first brother-inelaw I felt myself in duty bound tocommunicate them. spoke on the subject of Mrs. Frank's conduct, Mr. Frank did I then told him that Mr. Hall, who was his solicitor, had in- not seem to believe it. The next morning he said he could not formed me that he paid large s ums of money to Mrs. Frank, b-lieve that Mrs. Frank Would' act so. It seemed to work on which were said to make a. p u r e e f or Dickenson—that Dicken. his mind at first, but afterwards he received it with apparent in son had the management o f th e h ou s e a t Campsall, and that difference, as he did every thing else that - passed. The second the language and scenes which passed before tile eyes of his time I talked on- the subject, he mumped about it, and seemed children were actual corruption. One of those facts relating to convinced of its truth, but lie did not show the same quickness the corruptien of thechildreawaenhat Edward Frank, then aged Of feeling on it as might he expected from a gentleman of his about 11 0r...12, wanted his keys ; and going to his bed-roorn, l station. I always thought that he had not the same quickne'ss which passed through' his m o th e r's room, he found the door on any subject as other men. 11 - 11ileri-rentained at Campsall, I locked. After -repeated k noc kin g , h e was answered by Dr. thought he had that natural indolence which always required a D-ckenson, k and told to go away. A short time after, on his person to couneel him. He was in general of a very indolent mother comb& into the parlour, he said, " :Mother, why did habit. If any bills came in, he would say, " Pay them," notyoulet me rn ?" She answered. " I could not, I Was naked." without ever examining them. He was in the same kind of The boy replied .with naivete, "If you was naked, what busi- temper during my stay with him, except when be had the sulky ' ness had Dickenson there ?" At another conversation, I told fit. He was in many things eccentric and flighty, and had not him another story respecting the boy having seen Mrs. F ran k the same steadiness as otheamen.,blehadalways the command, sitting on ,:Diekenson's knee, in the shrubbery, with his arms of his own money,- but never, that I saw. looked over round her waist. - dale was- dressed in white , and •Dr. picket). was I wh o sent f or -D r . Wright, in,order to -send men to oblige son had a black coat on. -She remarked, " Look at that fellow him to take some medicine, for he was in that state from want] Dickenson, with his black aria round my mother's white waist." of it that I was afraid he.would,get a mortification in the bowels. I told Mr.. Frank thateleire. Frank had been giving little dances Two men came. Whey did not appearist a t tk om e e h a is sl m ee e e d p i e c r i s n . e, T a h n e d y . in the kitchen, , where- she and Dickenson were present ; and merely sa id to Si r . Frank, that he must that, on one occasion, _eke and Dickenson had retired, and re, he did take it. I saw no force used. If there were any, I must mained by themselves for several hours. The society that Mrs. have seen it. Frank received in. the-house was not eu bas should have. been Elizabeth Wagstaff' was now recalled and examined by Mr. there ; there are differenngrades in society ; and a dancing mas- lived an servant with Mr. and Mrs. Frank at ter was one of those who had been there ; I did not say dancing Campsall. Dr. Dickenson used to call. lie lived there off and master, but • Mr. Morey, whom Mr. Frank knew •to be a cci. ; I have known -him there for a month together. Ile was dancing: master. Thin:was- in 1816.; I particularly -told 11Ir., there-more frequently when Mr. Frank was not at home. I saw Frank, at the same time, that :I had been informed •that Dr.! no difference in his behaviour in Mr. Frank's absence, from Dickenson and Mrs. Frank had been living and sleeping toge- what it was when lie was present. Sirs. Frank treated the ther in an hotel in Bridge-street, on• thesolght hand going doctor with great familiarity. I saw no difference -in their con dawn ; this was in the latter-end of the year lhit6. duct when Air. Frank was absent. Mr. Frank conversed with By aCo mairsslOXEß.—Wliat did Mr. Frank say to this ? Dr. Dickenson as familiarly as with a near relation and his own —Mr. F ran k a t first did'not seem to believe what I told him: equal. The doctor was in general dressed in black. —He moped a little, and said he could not believe that Mrs. Cross-examined by Mr. Bitoueritata.—l lived with Mr. Frank could act so. We dropped the conversatio n for that Frank from March, 1816, to the early part of 1819. I then time. In the course of the followipg morning I resumed the quitted him by my desire. I gave warning in the latter end.of aubiect, and Mr. Frank said " Well, you had better go • o 181 8. I did so, because a Airs. Bury used t o co me to the house •Irt rk, and make further inquiries about the matter." I did -0 and sleep with him very , frequently. go straight to York. I went to London to the hotel. I wisht 1 - Mr. Ititottdatetet.—Then you left the service because you to see the chamber maid, but could not; 1 went to Campsall. were shocked at the conduct of this terrible-woman ? Did you hall, and saw Sirs. Frank for about three limits. I then went ev er hear of a woman of that kind before ?—I did; and I dare to Doncaster; I had a long conversation with her ; this was i say's° have you.—(A laugh.) about the 7th or Bth of January, 1817, when I turned her out . Witness went on, in answer to other questions, to say, that of the house by direcnion "of Mr. Frank ; I communicated the she had given warning; in consequence of this woman being result of my inquiries respecting Airs. Frank about ten days allowed to come to the house. She remained, hoivever, for two after she was turned out; Mr. Frank arrived at Campsall at or three months after she had given warning. The cause of the time, and I told him that Sirs. Frank attempted in no •, her Stv.heyond th time intended was, that she did not wish to way to. deny any thing charged against her , except tha t she go till the young children had been sent to a school. She added had not made a private purse for Dr. Dickenson ; Ito d him —I believe - I remained three or - four days after the children particularly what had, beep mentioned ,to., ate by Ake', thel went ; but no longer. I wrote. to Air,ll q llamy about this woman, because I once saw her strike one of the children. There was another woman used to come to the house, but I know nothing • ing over some old trinkets, found those gold buttons, 3- made them a present to him. He gave six of theta to Ebsoti!. a tailor, but never offered any for sale to Joseph Hall or al other person. He a lso strongly denied his having made a . 6 persons drunk in his master's cellars with master 4 wines. He was butler, and might have asked a friend to tei c i, a glass of wine or al e on some occasions but he never Ma o them drunk at his m as t er ' s ex p ence . His master had told 111 „ to throw out some 30 do ze n of c l are t as o ld an d not wor th drin k ing. He threw out some, but he thought the rest was ton IP" — to he thrown away, a nd hei sent some of it to Miss Franks. Re-examined—The gold buttons I spoke of were fillag' ee button, and not worth a shilling a-piece. By the COURT.—The wine my master ordered me to P o w out was old claret, and had been many years in the c ellay; d None of the family ever drank any o f it a ll th e t ime I , l ' h e there. My master ordered me, in p u tti ng th e library to r'gp to take the old books in the bott om p ar t, to k ee p them, oh' ", of them, as I liked best. Th e y w e r e old mou ldy b oo k s . o t them Greek and Latin, and other languages, which I did understand. Mr. Frank was pretty careful of his moneY' a He never had much of it, that I s a w. I h ear d hi m. s ay tlit t p l . , laid out some for silk stockinss and other thin . gs Bury. He said he gave 17s. a p a i r f or s ilk s t oc ki ngs en Lon is COMMISSIONER—From all you observed of your masse conduct, do you think he was of sound mind ?—No t alwaYt n o COMMISSIONER—Give an instance? Why, I thin' f o r man could be of sound mind who would give 17s. a Pa ir a cti silk stockings in London, when they could be got so cheaper.—(Loud laughter.) a ster' COMMISSIONER—From all you have seen of your 11 1., s ? do you think him a man capabl e of c ondu c ti ng hi s o wn ana l "Le Why, Sir, I think not: No man who could have acted as did to Mrs. Bury could be a gentleman. $ In answer to other questions, witness said that he S a lt3:l ; great difference in his master's c ond u ct some ti mes ffrom:: l ; c it was at others. It was diff e rent from what he saw it jog he first came. When he was in Norfolk, after 11Ire• F r a n k left him, he was sullen for a time, and would not eat or n dri ed for days together, exc, • t a little tea, with a sponge-cake ":',;i j r: in it. Ile used to sit in one spot from morning till T11 1 ; ei, and perform the common offices of nature in his Clot,i,t without moving from his seat. This occurred seven or ( ; ) 1 times. Witness asked him why he sho u ld a b s t a in from 1- t De and lie said that he had committ e d a grea t sm , a nd t o h a , 6 he would not eat or drink any more, but w ou ld di e . In used to run about the grounds .with three or four dogs aft er sits. and make a great noise, cracking his whip as he went. i e h frank was living with him at this ti me . Th e books be y witness was ordered to burn were about 100 in number. and bad about her except that she-associated with such a Woman as Mrs. Bury. In answer to a question from one of the Commissioners, wit ness said, she had spoken to Mr. Frank about some quarrel that had taken place between Mrs. Frank and this Mrs. Bury; to which he replied that be was not surprised that Mrs. Frank should fight, as she had come off to town with a common sailor. As soon as this witness had loft the room, The CHIEF COMMISSIONER, addr( himself to Mr. Brougham, said, that one of the Jury riad 'requested him to intimate the propriety of not pressing a cross-examination so hard as to hurt the feelings of a witness. Mr. BROUGH.I.M.-oh, Sir, it is impossible to give up the privilege of cross-examination to humour the feeling of any gentleman. If any gentleman of the Jury were on a trial for his life, the victim of a foul conspiracy, be would not object to a csoss-examination, however severe, of the witnesses against him. It would all be very well then, for hanging is a terrible thing. ido not see it is less called for in the present case, and therefore I must pursue my own course. James Roebuck, examined by the SOLiCITOR-GENERAL.— lam at present a waiter at the Vittoria Hotel in Hull. I was hired as servant by Airs. Frank, in 1815. I recollect a rup ture-doctor making a lodgment at Campsall-house in 1816. The Doncaster Herald newspaper was taken in at the house every week. It was read in the parlour as well as in the other parts of-the house. Dr. Dickenson went by the title of Doctor at that time as well as since. I remember the dress he wore on his arrival. It was a brown top-coat ; had once been lined 'With silk of the same colour—was then very shabby ' • grey pan taloons, striped down the aides with scarlett, and red slippers, [The rapid and showmanlike manner in which the witness pronounced this description of the Doctor's equipments pro duced considerable laughter in Court. As Doncaster newspaper was here handed to witness, which contained (as we understood) an advertiseMenrsetting flirt!' the Doctor's medical qualifica tionS and abilities; but Mr. Brougham objected to any thing from the paper being given as evidence. The advertisement was not read.] Witness went on.--Soon after the Doctor's arrival an Camp. sail, he wore Mr. Frank's shirts and silk stockings. Mr. Frank could not know it at the time, fee he -was absent in Norfhlk ; but as, soon as he came to Campsall, I informed him of it, as I had charge of his clothes. It was in 1817 that the Doctor began to wear. my Master's clothes. The Doctor's brother was also fitted up with the same materials. I remember the Doctoes wife coming to Campsall. She had on a green silk gown, but brought with her no change of dress—not even a night-gown or night-cap. She got some soon after. - 1 cannot say 'I saw her wear my mistress's clothes, hut I saw her with gowns on of the same pattern as those my mistress used to wear. 1 could not swear that they were given to her by my mistress. The second time she came she got several changes. The doctor was ill for a great part of the time he was there. I attended him the first two nights and my mistress along with me. This I told Mr. Frank on his re turn. I told him that there had been a great deal of unplea santness going on-in his absence, and that it was right he should be acquainted with it—that the doctor had made himself peni s cularly free in his absence. I can't now recollect what my master said when I mentioned . this. Here Mr. BROUGHAM suggested that the witness should be confined to a detail of those circumstances only which he had afterwards told to his master. The Coarsersstore it decided, that that only which was told to Sir. Frank should be considered as evidence. Witness continued. —I was sent to attend on Dr. Dickenson when lit came the first time without his wife. He complained of cold in his legs and feet, and desired me to rub them. I did so. Mrs. Frank was present. After I had been rubbing them for some time, Mrs. Fran's - . said she would take on rue and rub them herself. She rubbed his legs in ray presence. All at once the doctor cried out, "that the rubbing had removed the pain to the small of his back" (a laugh) ; and he turned on his side,_ and my mistress rubbed his back. I was told late at night to make some strong tea, and send it up to the doctor. (We could not. collect whether the witness spoke of the same night as that of the rubbing, or a subsequent.) The nursery maid told me to make it. I was just getting into bed at the time. I told her to prepare the water, and I would be down in a short time and make the tea. I made, it, and when it was made, I was about to take it up when the servant maid said that she was to take it in, and that if I took it up my mistress would be angry. I told her to go to the nursery to the chil dren, and that I would take it to the doctor as the more proper person to enter a man's room when he was in bed. I then went up stairs, and knocked at the doctor's door, and without waiting for any answer opened the door, and went towards the bed. When I came near it, I saw my mistress come from the inside of the curtains. She said.; " Oh, Roebuck, is it you ? But, no matter—lay the things on that table." I ,diel so, and left the room. My mistress was in her chemise and night-cap, with a short night-gown that came to her waist. All this I afterwards told to my master. He said, " -you seem to have had strange doing:4+lcm," but took no further notice of it. In some time after this, when my -master was at Shelton, my mistress and the doctor went in -the carriage to see him, I rode on the dickey. We were three days on the road. The first night we stopped at Grantham, the next at Cambridge, and-the third at Norwich. On the fourth day we came to Shelton. I saw my master. Mrs. Frank said, as the carriage stopped, on seeing Mr. Frank, " My dear Edward, how do you do ? ' My master spoke to Me first, and said," Whom have you brought ? I said, " Sly mistress and the doctor." Ile replied, " You need not open the carriage-door, but may go back again, ,for.l do not wish to see them." Mrs. Frank then passed the doctor in the carriage, and came round to the side next which Mr. Frank was, and again said, " My dear Edward, how do you do ?" He said, "My dear Mary, I (lid not wish to see you here, lam now living a bachelor. You did not come three months ago, when I sent for you." I then opened the cars riage-door, and Mrs. Frank got out, as did the doctor. Mr. ' Frank said, " I am making a great alteration in the church ; lam making a new singing-loft, come in and' ee it." Mrs. F., then took his arm, and they walked to the church.'" The doctor followed, but .did not say any thing. They returned to- the house, where the doctor and Mrs. Frank continued to reside f'o'r some time. In answer to some other questions, thewitness-gave a descrip tion of the situation of the sleeping-rooms at Shelton-house, which corresponded with that already given by the female ser vant. He added, that Mr. Frank used to retire to bed generally about 10 o'clock at nigl;t, and Mrs. Frank about the same time, or soon after. , Mrs. F. and the Doctor used to drive out in the gig, generally every day. If they did not return at the dinner hour, which was at two o'clock, the dinner was sent up, and Mr. Frank dined by himself. Mrs. Frank and the Doctor af terwards dined together. Mr. Frank rode out with them on horseback on three or four occasions. I remember when Mrs. ,Prank and the Doctor and a female servant came to London ; , I accompanied them. They stopped at the York Hotel, in Bridge-street. Mrs. Frank asked for two beds. When the servant had strewn Mrs. Frank to her room, -she came to light the Doctor to the same room. He said that separate beds had been ordered. The girl answered, that there were two beds ordered, but it was understood that the one was for the lady and gentleman, and the other for the servant-maid and me. The Doctor came to my room, and said, "James, here is a mistake about the beds. There are only two to be bad, one for your mistress and me, .and the other for Lucy and you." I said " Very well, Sir, it can't be helped ; if you have no objections I have not, and we.shall want the fewer beds."—(A laugh.)— This plan was not. carried into effect, and other beds were pro cured. On the next day there was more rooms disengaged, and my mistress engaged-two for the doctor and herself. I think they were numbers o and 9, one of which opened into the other. This was on the Saturday. On the Sunday morning the chamber-maid came down, and said to me, By o—, that man has been sleeping with your mistress:.'l said, " on% you say such a thing.; as if. they hear it they may be the ruin of you." She said again, "By was a fact.;" but if the gentleman had only told her, she would have put him to take his own pillow with him, for the powder from his hair was all on my mistress's pillow. I-went up stairs and saw it was so, and that the doctor's bed had not been slept in. The doctor's bed was not made after that for the fourteen days that we re niained. It was only turned in at the sides, but the clothes weroneyer taken off. .Cross-examined by Mr,. PEPYS—It was in 1816 we came from. Campsall to Shelton. .Cross-examined by Mr. Bitouo HAM—I am a waiter at the Vittoria Hotel, in Hull. I have lived there about 13 .weeks. :I was a twelvemonth before that without any employ .ment. I quitted my master because he had a bad woman coming to the house to him, and I would not wait on her. The ,botel lam now in is a third-rate hotel. lam the only waiter in it. I would not wait on any bad woman, nor stay in a house where such persons came. I don't know if my present master would have any such scruples. It was near Christ. mat, 1818, that I gave Mr. Frank warning to quit his service. Mrs. Wagstaff was then in service in the house. I remained for about two months after I gave warning. The woman 13sry) Was there only once all that time. She came' on a Saturday, and remained till Tuesday. We were then, ,at North-end, Hammersmith. lam certain that Mrs. Bury , was not there all the time I remained, that is, January, Fe bruary, and March; and that no woman came to see her during that time. It was in February that Mrs. Bury came. ‘ I then gave notice. After I left North-end, I went to Camp ' trail, and remained there three months. My mastentold me to go down, and put the library to rights, and he would give me six months' wages. I did it in one month. [The witness then. underwent a long crosssexamination respecting an alleged sale. of some gold buttons of his master, and also respecting some watches, but he positively denied having ever offered the one for sale, or any knowledge of the : other,] His master, in.look.; were examined by a schoolmaster who was a clergylna m ;e:c he said they were good for nothing. Several of then, ole burnt. There was some small quantity of white Wine In o;d cellar at the time his master desired him to spill claret, and he ordered it up to London. , The Foreman of the Jury (Sir E. Birnie) here intimat e " c ot it was the opinion of the Jury, that since 5 o ' c l oc k, a ne w , o l4 had sprung up, and that it would be better to postpone t , The ComM farther into it, to an earlier hour of the day. ISSIONERS assented to this, and at a quar ter P ast 5 o'clock the case IV ag postponed till to-morro w (this &V' The room was crowded throughout the day. nu t the A 9. ) ESCAPE FROM PnrsoN.—(Orleans, July ` 294 ,l Yesterday evening, A eight o'clock, Madame Rounivg e 0 1 her niece came to the prison, accompanied by a person w e t 'i i r.e nearly like an ecclesiastic. After they had been some Iciii with the prisoner, another individual, dressed like the ec c , at astic, and whom the keepers took for him, appeared 0 1° , 13 ,4 the wicket holding a handkerchief to his eyes, andsee'the much distressed ; he desired the doors to be opene d 0 4 gaolers, deceived, obeyed; the individual went out--,Dpo, Roumage. About a quarter of an hour later, ' i i ! ew Roumage, her niece, and the pretended eccleolastic Nrs o l' tered with the ladies, came down from the chamber 0 ' d jos; mage, and desired to be let out. The same porter who h a t sit before let out Roumage in disguise, was still on duty s iv , se gate. Whether the appearance of two persor s pe ,f ' c !littl e sembling each other did not strike him, whether he wa s " lity j ' intoxicated or had been.bribed, is not known ; he let ti) , e 0; e i c persons go out, and the family of Notunage escaped w 2d 1 0(11 ,, prisoner. Soon after, going to shut the inner doors a' 4 r e;,' after the prisoners, the escape of Roumage was disc ° ,o ol the authorities were informed, and all the usual m k t 0, taken. It was soon found that Roumage had set ou„t Pol, the road to Paris, and that on reaching Chevilly, ", %Il e { and his friend, disguised as an ecclesiastic, supposed, ' l° o o o o to be a Protestant like himself, separated : the latter re' 1. a horse anti set oft ' full gallop, doubtless to order l'°„tio v " the road. The postillion, who gave the latter illf° ll.- 10!: - declares that ' Roumage travelled above four leagues a r ' et so' • People are in pursuit of the fugitive; . and the (?tar t ' co : l pected of having favoured his escape is put in so. finement. --....wegm..—....... - n orl j t DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.'-011 MondaY,-1, ing last, the family of Mr.BA.ONARD i " I°l' l if ' 1 111° 1 to the British Gallery, Pall Mall, was „ce ° into the most poignant grief, in consequ e l the dreadful death of the daughter of th a n r i . tleman, a beautiful girl, about twenty Yr ° o P ot age. A son of Mr. Barnard, about fifte e V old, has been ill for some time past, a nd the. " tors prescribed for him a change of air ; t i old. 0 • ; consequence, Mr. B. took a small cottag i A . Dartford, in Kent, and about three we e IP , M" • I the family removed there from town. 00- .e ol i morning the gardener loaded a fowling Pie` ' r ti! pebbles to shoot the sparrows, but af te t l' trec ' 0 , , ing to discharge it several times without e , 1 1 placed it on some wood in an out.houSyo.ll; there left it. Shortly after Master Bar ll2l l,e g `i :, into the shed with his sister, and seeinvr, t' e p re he picked it up, mid the trigger by s°' 9 re lo t h , dent caught his coat, 'and, melancholy, 1° it' ..1 1 0 the piece went off, and shot• Miss Barnar d ( l e t il ' II ; nape of her neck. The unfortunate g ir l ,d 1 1 ;, stantly, and the cries of the youth al 0 , 11 ';05 11 , , family,' who ran to the s pot , and fount' ,r" I 11 ll it stretched on the floor a lifeless corpse • a d event has caused the greatest sensation, body now lies for the Coroner's Inquest' fdi l DROWNING IN ST. JAMES'S PA R ic i,eld: evening, at eight o'clock, an Inquest ''',ap es(; ; the Crown, Duke's -court, St. Martins -P: 1 / 0 fore Mr. GELL, the Coroner, on the blotilii;it very fine youth, who was drowned bthiler „ d t ili in the Canal on Sunday last. It aPP es , - • l e ' ft9 the deceased and some other boys wen‘„ t ) Canal on Sunday evening last to bathel,.eo;:' after they bad been in the water the u' u o ir i cried one" Help," and sutik to , rise n a v gc l op Several persons instantly plunged ifs, b iirs tP ;ll not find the body : the drags being Pr °c. " et the Green Park Lodge, they immediate requisition without any Is:cieditt it was not until a Gentleman, attr-viari the spot by the crowd, had offered a r e il O , O , to any person who could find the Wi l l i : 4 1 i i man named Jenkins undressed, went Of vole' few minutes dived and brought up ° li e d i ii , fl: the unfortunate youth, who had been t h e re: ° o: water nearly an hour. Every means w e it ;oll' s fr ed to, to produce re-animation but vi. 0 4° 1 1 ' to the O hs' l o f effect. The body was then rem ovedl house, and although several persofiqrooitilei lost children latterly they suppose bY ' o ot,:li t , have been to examine ' the bod y, it h 4- Ov t ( lidentified. From the ap pearance of t3e 0 135 0 11 1 it might be inferred that the ' ilece as : a ' 4 . le ' l respectable family. A verdict of " '' cci - Drowned" was returned. were Poih la ten,o, A bear of considerable size W as i;lorthi and brought into Christiansati.(l, , dt l four boys, the eldest of whe,ok W as ° - 6 10 - I .Lt appeared that th e y vrerq ,ief lit o t and courageous in ,the wanner of 11P 7 ) fr ° o l, The animal had card/A o ff a flock, which led i t 4 deteni,tt a," ° ' • ing ..