The Sun. — London, England, 1825-08-05 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia—The interest you have always taken in every thing which regards the Army and Navy, induces me to request that you will insert in your valuable Paper the accompanying copy of a letter from .1. MAct.Eaw, Esq. Chairman of the British Merchants at Lima, to Lieut. GLASSES, of the Royal Marines, in approbation of his conduct tiitrilst in command of a detachment of 50 melt left in that city for the protection of British sub ts and their property. Indeed, so judicious drere the measni tss adopted for this purpose, (al though previously no Englishman could appear 'in the st(eets after sun-set without being robbed and stript rn the skin), not a single British sub ject was. p;uwiered of a single rial whilst the detachment remained. During that time rob beries anti murders were daily committed in the streets, and bands of from 50 to 300 mounted robbers were frequently entering the city, and carrying off from the inhabitants whatever they thought proper. I am, Sir, Your very obedient Servant, LIMA, DEC. 13, 1824. DEAR eta—it is with satisfaction that I express to you the high sense which the British merchants, resident here, enter tain of tne :prudent, vigilant, and energetic conduct so inva riably displayed by you whilst commanding the detachment of Royal .Marines, furnished for the protection of their persons and property during the two. months which this capital was exposed to all the horrors of anarchy and confusion, without ..any-constituted authority, civil or military, and that I state to you their firm conviction, that to the very great activity mani fested by you, under such peculiarly trying circumstances, they are indebted for that security which they enjoyed during a period of such unprecedented exposure and alarm. The British Merchants avail themselves of this occasion to rnanifest to you the sentiments of respect and esteem they en tertain for you as a Gentlechan and an Officer ; and they fondly hope that your advancement in your profession, and welfare generally, will correspond with your merit and their good wishes. I am, dear Sir, yours very truly, JOHN MACLEAN, Chairman. • Lieut. C. Glaimn, Royal Marines, H.M.S. Cambridge, Callao. EQUITY REPORTS. COURT OF CHANCERY, AUG.' 3. PUBLIC CHARITIES. ' THE ELEPHANT AND CASTLE CHARITY. This judgment was deferred in consequence of the expecta •tation that his Lordship's time would be wholly occupied with the writ of Habeas Corpus. A short discussion ensued between 111 r. Sugden and his Lordship as to the time when the objec tion to the point of jurisdiction had been first insisted on, the Learned Counsel stating that the objection had been made the instant a petition had been , presented, without the caveat, of the Attorney-General, the object of -which was to remove the trustees. The Loan CHANCELLOR remarked that there , wese two or three ways of considering the case. The question of juristic - tion was certainly important; but another view was, whether, upon the original petition, he should not order all the money to be paid into Court, with liberty to apply to the Attorney- General to file an information. HART said lie had no objection to that course further than that he deprecated delay, while the olijcets of the ChA!ity were without bread. The Loan CHANCET.LOR repeated his objections to a cha rity of this kind being under the management of trustees annu ally elected ; and thus much having passed, the determination .of his Lordship's judgment stood over till Friday. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Aua. 3. IN RE SUTTON-COLDFIELD CHARITY EX-PARTE THE WARDEN AND CORPORATION OF SUTTON-COLDFIELD. Mr. RolrrEt, opened the case on a petition from the Corpora tion. The history of the case, as stated by the Learned Gentle man, appeared to be this:—King Kent' , the Eighth granted a tract of land in Staffordshire, called Sutton Park, consisting of about 2`,000 acres, for the support of the magistracy and police of the royal town of Sutton-Coldfield, and for the general main tenance of charitable institutions in the lordship and manor of Sutton. The Corporation, having since its foundation fulfilled the purposes of the grant by means of the ordinary revenues, (liscovered some time ago that the timber on their estate had in creased, in the lapse of 290 years, to an excessive quantity, and obtained from the Court an order to fell and dispose of it, and to pay the proceeds into Court. The timber was accordingly felled and sold, and the sum produced by it (about 35,090/0 was delivered into the hands of the Accountant-General. The Court further directed the Master to draw up a scheme for ap plying this surplus VIM to general purposes of charity, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the town and manor of Sutton. — The Master, having considered the subject, made his report, recommending the expenditure of a certain suns, not exceeding 1,2001., for the erection of three school-houses and ten alms- houses;and other annual sums for various purposes, viz.,— . . „ Naccinaiion of the poor, medicine and medical attendance for poor women latsouring under pregnancy, a supply of childbed linen to the same, &c., &c. Mr. ROUPEL having concluded his statement, prayed for leave to the petitioners to enter into contracts with surveyors for the erection of the buildings recon:merided by the Master, and Applied for an order for receiving from the Accountant-General the monies necessary to the accomplishment of the objects men tioned in the report. • His Horton a declared that the Master ought to have ape .cified' the particular suns necessary for the erection of each school by itself. He should refer that back to the Master to be aspecified distinctly. He should grant the other prayers of the petition as a matter of course, consequent on the confirmation of the Report. Mr. RAY, for the Attorney-General, called his Honour's at tention to certain objects for which sums of money were sought by the Corporation. One was for the purchase of new maces ; sootier for an annual dinner to the membefs of the Corpora tion. He submitted to the Court whether it was proper to de duct a portion of the Charity revenues for such purposes. Mr. RouPEL contended that these were necessary expences. The original mace, usually borne before the Coporation, having been in use since the reign of Henry. the Eighth, was now quite worn, The internal police of the town and manor of Sutton was in the jurisdiction of the Corporation ; and the mace and ,cloaks for the Serjeants were, as emblems of . their official au thority, necessary to the public dignity of tint Gorporation._ As to the annual dinner, the object of it was,to, bring the bur- . gesses together, and ft was but a trifling compensation to them • for their gratuitous discharge of the trust duties of the Charity. The VICE-CHANCELLOR— fiag the Master recommended tire purchase of the mace and the annual dinner ? flit. itouPEL—He has. Sir. The. Vici.-CtrAticELLoa—What is the expence of the dinner ? Mr. ROX/PIEL—Rut twenty-flue pounds: a mere trifle to such a rich Charity ; besides it has been sanctioned by most ancient VICR-CrIANCELLOB—Let those items be granted. Mr. RAY said that he mentioned it merely because it was a practice very liable to abuse. His Morons further granted an order for the annual sum necessary for the general objects collectively ; and directed the sum (10,0001.) which may remain after such expenditure, to be vestal in the public funds, and the dividends, accumulating frotn•it, tO be added, according as they may arise, to the pa rent 911.3). • TA a Hereford Journal says—" We uriderstatid MEitzurrit, the prosecutor of Protcrt, as we stated in a late l'aper, has been completely ruined by the expences he incurred in bringing that person to justice, and he has been obliged to part with his mill in consequence of the detention of his mare till after Probert's conviction, and the attendance required from himself and family in London, to give evidence on the trial. His ease has been drawn up, and he is now making an appeal to the charity of the humane and benevolent." At York there is a watch-maker who exhibits a livingfica with a chain round its neck. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. FOURTH DAY.-THURSDAT, AUG. 4. TN THE MATTER OF THE HEV. EDIV \RD FRANK (A. SUPPOSED LUNATIC.) The further examination of witnesses in this case was pro ceeded in this morning at the usual hour. George Tetsall—l keep a hotel in the Adelphi ; Mr. Frank was there in February last. He was there Irons the 7th to the 14th, except two days on which he went to Cambridge. Mal colm was with him the whole time. Dr. Dickenson came. Mr. Frank bespoke a bed for him. He came on the 12th, but did not occupy the bed. I consider that Mr. Frank behaved in a very eccentric manner while he remained. Malcolm was absent from him for some few hours. He usually boarded with bins. Mr. Frank did not pay me his bill ; a part was paid by Dr. Dickenson, bv a check, signed by himself, on a banker at Newark. Mr. Frank sometimes ordered the dinner. I don't think Malcolm did. They quitted my house on the 14th, at five, or about five, in the morning. I was aware that they intended to leave early in the morning, but not so early. By the word " they" I mean Mr. Malcolm and Mr. Frank.— The coach was to call at the end of Adam-street, at between seven and eight o'clock. It was Mr. Frank who told me to send and take places in the ceach to Woodbridge. Mr. Frank wore, while in my house, a green shooting coat and trowsers, and a foraging cap. I never knew him before. I did not ask for my bill. It was about 12/. 15s. 4d. Dr. Dickenson gave me a check for this ; but there remained tbr the two other days they stayed a balance exceeding 71., which is still unpaid. Mr. Frank described Dr. Dickenson as his . agent. When Dickenson gave me the cheek for 12/. 15s. on the hankers at Newark, I sent to him and requested to have a check on some bankers in London, to which he replied that that was the way he paid Mr. Frank's hills. Mr. IlitoronAm—We will admit that Dr. Dickenson acted as Mr. Frank's steward. By the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.—The eccentricity of Mr. Frank's conduct consisted in ringing the bells violently, and when the waiters entered. either (lid not want any thing, or asked some frivolous questions. fie told me, that he had some actors to sup with him, that they drank freely ; that he made two or three speeches, without studying them, and that he liked the company of the actors very much. He said his name was not Frank, but De Frank; but that he had never taken that name. Mr. Malcolm did not appear to exercise any con troul over Mr. Frank—he was subservient to him. From Mr. Frank's conduct, manlier, and language, I do not think him of sound mind.—(This witness was not cross-examined.) Letitia Chatham—l was chambermaid at Tetsall's hotel when Mr. Frank and his friend were there. I answered the bed-room bell (Mr. Frank's bell.) It rang very often. He always wanted something. I was obliged to attend upon him and to dress him and undress him. I had not much conversa tion with him. lie frequently spoke of Miss Foote. Mr. F. was very blind. I was obliged to lead him up and down stairs. He said that Miss Foote was a very fine woman, and that he was very much attached to her. Mr. Frank did not appear to me of sound mind, very far from it. By the CHIEF COMMISSIONER—I was obliged to give Mr. F. his clothes. He did not seem conscious of his wearing dirty clothes. I took the liberty to dress him. Mr. Malcolm did not attend him in the bed-room. He only attended him at meals. lie (Frank) used to ring the bell at five in the morn ing to know what the hour was. I used to tell him that it was early, and not to disturb the house, and then he would remain a little longer. He did not speak of love. He said Miss Foote was very fine, and that he saw her every night when at the theatre. lie did not employ himself with any particular busi ness, only walking from one room to another. --(This witness was not cross-examined;) • Birr.—l am waiter at the George Inn, at Grantham. Mn Frank was there this year in January or February. He used to ring the bell very frequently without knowing what he wanted. lie once made a speech to me. He said he intended •to have a party of players to sup with him, and that he wished to speak to me-to have my opinion of it. He spoke of Miss Foote, and said she was a beautiful insinuating littl e crea t ure . He had a party of players with him, and did make a speech to them. He often spoke of Mr. Hayne's conduct to Miss Foote, and said,- that if he were Mayne he would marry her imme diately. He remained Witham two clays; was constantly talk ing of the-pretty girls. He once said he would go up to town -by the mail and-see Miss-Foote. -In my opinion he could not see five yards before him. While he remained, a boy came '-and said, that a gentleman at the Blue ;Lion wanted to see him. •He said he-would not go unless he knew the gentleman's name, - for that perhaps he might want to murder him—that such things .often happened. :The boy came again with the same ITlOagago, rid the answer was returnoct. Mr. Frank tie sired me to go down -and-see who it was. I found it was Dr. Dickenson, who-tame up With me to see Mr. Frank. <I showed Dr. Dickenson into the room. Mr. Frank told me to stop ,in the room, and not to leave-it. Dr.'Dickensun told me to go out. I went to the door, and Mr. Frank-railed me back again, and desired me not to leave the room, forle did not know the man. I went out, and was called in again, and Mr. Frank ordered coffee for two. Dr. Dickenson took Mr. Frank with him down to the Blue Lion.—(This witness was not cross-examined:) J. Tunhard.—l keep the Blue Lion at Grantham. Dr. Dickenson was at my house in January last. Mr. Frank came there. Ile behaved rather strangely. He stopped at my house eleven days. Dr. Dickenson did not stop all the time. ,MalcOlni came and remained about a week. Frank had a party of players with him. He made three speeches to them in my hearing. lie had no money. He got one remittance of money by begging hard for it. I wrote that letter for him. Mr. Frank often rang the bell violently, without wanting any thing. There was a house of ill-fame near the church at Grantham ; Mr. Frank wanted me to take him there. He said Dr. Dickenson had taken hint there—that Dr. Dickenson was the devil for wo men, and that he was the same. I took Mr. Frank to show him the house of ill-fame. He remained there the whole night, and on the next day told me what had occurred. Dr. Dickenson called in a carriage once, as did Miss Frank. [A letter was here handed to witness.] This letter was received by me for Mr. Frank. I opened it, and read it for him, and gave him the two sovereigns it contained. It was dated the 29th of January, 1825, and addressed to " Rev. Mr. Frank, Commercial Inn, Grantham," and was to the following effect : Dear Sir—Enclosed are two sovereigns, which I hope you will receive in safety. Pettifar is very sorry that he has not got your clothes done, but having had orders for much mourning has prevented him • but he will certainly forward them to you to-morrow. I Ciave ordered with -Mr. Lee, so that you will not be want ed before Wednesday ; but for fear any other rascal have re coarse to coercive tneasures, you had better hold yourself in readiness. P. S. I intend going for Hull in the morning. You well know the purport of my errand—shall be back on Wednesday or Thursday morning. . I hope Miss Mariners will have a full house, and hope your influence will have u little effect with Miss Payne at the Con cert. I am, dear Sir, your's truly, JOHN DICKENSON. Newark, January 29, 1825. The Rev. E. Frank, Commercial Inn, Grantham. The two sovereigns, he said, were not enough for him. Th e y were not enough to pay the I often wrote for him. I sent letters to Lord Robert and Lord Charles Manners, enelos. in" tickets to them. 'Lord Robert and Lord Charles Manners called.—l did not think Mr. Frank of sound mind. _ . By the COMMISSIONER.—Pray what was the nature of the speeches I—One of them was a speech that he had made at the Whig Club at York.—(A loud laugh.)—Another speech was on the subject of the slave-trade.—(Continued laughter.)—The third I do not recollect the subject of. Mr. Commissioner Put Lt.i swim—Was Mr. Frank a Member of the York Whig Club ? Mr. WAKEFIELD.—I believe he was, Sir. Mr. BROUGRASI.—Yes, yes ; and he also wanted me to be proposed a Member of the Pitt Club.—( Laughter.) Mr. Mason.—l am a solicitor at Doncaster. I was present at a public-house there when several Of his tenants came to pay their rents to Mr. Frank. Dr. Dickenson and another person were in another room. _ _ Cross-examined by Mr. Brim Cona 51.—Mr. Bellamy has had the management of Mr. Frank's affairs ;n sonic things. The SorderrOn-GENEuat here said, that the Jury would exercise their discretion as to whether they should seeMr.Frank then, or till after the medical men were examined. The Jury said they would hear the medical men first. Sir George Tuthill—l saw Mr. Frank in March last, and saw him since with Mr. Warburton. By order of the Lord Chancellor I have seen him since. I saw hint in June and last week. I believe him to be in an unsound state of mind. I think he is so now. He was in different states each time.— When I saw him in March he would have all the conversation to himself. When I saw him in June he was in a low state.— He would not originate any Subject, but would listen to me.— When 1 saw him last he was in an intermediate state, between the two. When I first saw him he was much excited. When I saw hint last the excitement was much abated. I conversed with hint on the subjects mentioned in the affidavits before the Lord Chancellor, and I was convinced from his manner that he was of unsound mind. I spoke to hint of his separation from his wife, of his reconciliation, and afterwards of his confidential employment of Dr. Dickenson. He seemed to think that he was at first deceived as to the charges against his wife, and that the whole was a contrivance of Mr. Bellamy and his sisters._ He said he had taken Mrs. Frank back without instituting :my inquiry whatever into her conduct. Indeed he seemed inca pable of conducting any inquiry whatever. I could not make !him understand that there was any thing extroardinary in his taking Dr. Dickenson back after what had passed. He added, that his affairs had been badly conducted before, but that now they were capitally conducted by Dr. Dickenson, and that he was his best friend. He said that he had lately written to seve ral of his friends, but that he had got no answers from them, as they were all intercepted by Mr. Bellamy, though Mr. Bellamy had no .access to them. I pointed out the impossibility of Mr. Bellatily doing this, but he said he got the letters at the Post-office. I could not make him understand the impos sibility of Mr. Bellamy getting at the letters. He seemed inca • pable of comprehending it. He laid the blame of all his mis fortunes to Mr. Bellamy, who, he said, had robbed him of several sums of money. I also spoke to him of the transac tions imputed to him at Cambridge and Yarmouth, but he did not seem conscious of the impropriety of his conduct.— The worst, he said, had been made of it ; but he did not ad mit that his conduct was improper. I now speak of what took place in March. This was in Newman-street ; Mrs. Frank was then with him. When I saw him in June, he was in a dif ferent state. H e was then in a sponging-house in Chancery-lane, under arrest for debt. Mrs. Frank was there also. Mrs. Frank at either of those places did not appear to be living with Mr. Frank. Ile said in March that he was livng at Hampstead. When I saw him in June, lie attributed all that had happened to him to Mr. Bellamy. I mentioned to him in June, that I had heard a report from Mr. M‘Neil, that if this commission did not issue, his . property was to be put in trust. He said it was so ; but he could not give a reason why. I told him that Mr. 31 4 Neil had said to me that he was to be one of the trus tees, and asked him, did he know who this gentleman was. He said he did not know. He did not seem to know why his own law agent should not be employed to oppose this commis sion. My opinion is, that Mr. Frank is now of unsound mind. and incapable of managing himself or his affairs. I have heard the evidence. Mr. Frank does not appear to labour under any particular delusion; but he is of unsound mind. I asked Mr. Frank srolether he had heard of what the witnesses had sworn in the affidavits against him. He said he bad heard some thing of it. I told him of what was said of his conduct at Cambridge ; but he would not admit its impropriety. (This gentleman waa not cross-examined.) _ _ Dr. Munroe—l saw Mr. Frank on the 29th of last month. I have seen him three times--on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of last July. On the two first occasions I had ample opportunity of observing the state of his mind. Ile told me that he had once been under the impression of an improper connexion be tween Dr. Dickenson and Mrs. Frank, but that he had been deluded into it by Mr. Bellamy, and that Dr. Dickenson was a good man and his particular friend ; that he bad entrusted him with the management of his affairs, and the collection of his rent, and the payment of his accounts. He said, that Mr. Bellamy had behaved very badly to him ; that he had inter. cepted his letters, and that he had bribed the post-masters for that purpose. He went on to say, that he had lived with a Mrs. Bury while separate from his wife, and that he had given her 1,0001., and furnished a house for her, which was very ample. He appeared totally indifferent to his household af fairs, and to be in a state of perfect nonchalance as to affairs which might interest another man. He laboured under the de. lusion that Dr. Dickenson was his particular friend. Mr. 1311017611A3t objected to the, witness's assuming that this was delusion. His dress and appearance were very remarkable. He sighed continually, and appeared to pant for breath at every moment. In my opinion, he is of unsound mind. I should say simply of unsound mind, without specifying any particular class of delusion. He is incapable of managing his affairs. By Mr. Baocun w s f .—l think h e labours under a delusion in thinking Mr. Bellamy in a conspiracy against him. By a COMMISSIONER.—I conceive, from all I have heard of the evidence, as well as from my conversations with Mr. Frank, that he is labouring under delusion with respect to Dr. Dickenson's confidential qualities, and the conduct of Mr. Bel lamy. Mr. Warburton.—l visited Mr. Frank nine times. I have gone to see him with Sir George Tuthill. I entirely concur with him in opinion as to the state of Mr. Frank's mind. I had conversations with Mr. Frank as to the conduct of Mrs. Frank. He said he made no inquiry as to his wife's conduct— that the whole was a conspiracy of Mr. Bellamy and his sisters, and other persons--that Mrs. Frank was an excellent woman, a virtuous wife, and a good mother. I asked whether he be lieved that Dr. Dickenson was a man of property when lie was first introduced at Campsall. He said he did, as that he inhe rited some property. I asked him whether, after what he had heard, he thought Dr. Dickenson a man to be trusted with the management of his property, &c. ? lie said yes. He had entire confidence in him: he was his best friend. I spoke of the conduct imputed to him at Cambridge, and elsewhere ; but he seemed to make very light of it. I asked whether it was consistent with the dignity of his character as a clergyman, or a gentleman, to be running up and down after women of in. famous character ? He answered, " Oh, Mr. Warburton, what does that signify ?" From what I have seen, I believe him to be of unsound mind. I don't think be is a lunatic; but I think be labours under a great degree of delusion, which it is impossible to make him understand. Such I think Mr. .Frank's case, with respect to the conduct of Dickenson and Mr. Bellamy. lam convinced that he is of unsound mind, and not nble to manage his own affairs, and that he has been i n that state since Dr. Wright attended him in 1816. Mv opi nion- is, that he was so before that year; but from the evidence, •I can say it is my firm opinion that he was so in 1316. 'Several letters which had been proved in evidence were now rutin and read. (Of this and the other letters read we can ,give only a mere outline, and that from memory alone. No notes were taken of them, in the confidence that (as is usual in such cases) the press would be allowed copies. This, how ever, the.parties interested in promoting the commission de clined. front (as -they alleged) " motives of delicacy to the family of Mr. Frank." We quarrel not with this cause of refusal, though -we are, unable to see why " motives of deli cacy" should operate to prevent parties from giving a correct account of matters which a sense, we presume, of justice have induced them to publish In open court, and which must go forth to the world in some Shape). 'The first letter f'rom Mrs. Frank to her husband, and was dated Campsall, May 14, 1815. It began (as did a ll M rs . F ran k' s l e tt ers ) Wi t h "M y dear Edward." After mentioning some matters of business, it went on to say, that dear little Rodolphus Itheir child) was genii* on extremely well, and that liis navel was nearly cured; that he was attended by a Dr. Dickenson, who was famous for the cure of all sorts of ruptures; that this doctor undertook to dispense with the use of a truss, and to cure a patient in a few days ; that Government had offered him 1,0001. for his secret, which he declined, unless the money was guaranteed to him. The letter then went on to describe the great attention paid to the child by Dr. Dickenson, and the prospect there was of his ultimate success in his under taking, on which the writer congratulates herself and her husband. It adds, that Dr. Dickenson was at that time in a delicate state of health, but he had a notion of settl ing at Doncaster that he was rather high in his charges, but still it was well to get so clever a man. This letter concludes by expressing a hope that her husband would write to her soon. The next letter was also from Mrs. Frank to her husband, and bore date May 20, 1815. It alluded to several family transactions of a pecuniary nature, which the writer hoped to have put in a train of settlement. It speaks in very sensi ble terms of the necessity of Mr. Frank looking a little more to his own affairs, and taking their management into his own hands, and obtaining a proper account front the parties who had hitherto managed them ; says that an attorney and an agent will never do, and advises him to appoint one Mr. Work man, on whom he could rely, as his steward. It then adverts to the long absence of Mr. Frank from home, and makes a coarse and indelicate allusion to a supposed improper connexion. be tween hint and a young woman, whom she names Mary ; but adds, " I hope you pay her well." She then goes on to say that she will not feel at all jealous on the occasion—that she will not sutler the 44 green-eyed monster" to influence her : all she expects that her husband will conic home " sound wind and limb." She is, she adds, as he always said of her, a cold constitution in that way ; but at the same time she should like to know whether he intended to return home (Mr. Frank was at this time living at the parsonage-house at Shelton in Nor folk) that year, or the next, or the year after. In this letter she also talks of the ;•reitt attention paid to the children by Dr. Dickenson, and of her having engaged his attendance on them at 40 guineas a year, he finding his own medicines. Another letter of Mrs. Frank's, dated July 10, 1815, and addreased as before, was also read. It spoke of family affairs, and again mentions the great kindness and attention of Dr. Dickenson. The next letter was from Mr. Frank to Captain Mainwar. ing, and dated London, January 6, 1817. In this (the sub stance of which we gave on a former day) Mr. Frank gives authority to Captain Mainwaring to remove Mrs. Frank from Campsall, and expresses his fixed resolution never to see her face again. The next letter was from Mrs. Frank to her husband. It was without date, but it appeared to have been written before the close of 1816. It purported to be forwarded by the hands of Dr. Dickenson, whom Mrs. Frank describes their good friend, and whom she recommends to her husband for his great kindness and attention to the family. She advises Mr. Frank to allow him a guinea a-day and his expences, for his trouble (in going to him on some family affairs), and recommends that he should for his great kindness make him a present of a hand some set of silver castors, or some such article of plate. The above letter is noticed in one addressed by Mr. Frank to Captain Mainwaring after he had separated from Mrs. Frank. He mentions that he has given the present of a set of silver castors, but from his (Dr. Dickenson 's) most ungrateful con duct, he determines to allow him (for services done in attend ing his family, &c.) not more than a guinea per day. The next letter was dated London, May 9, 1318. It was from Mr. Frank, and addressed to his sister in the country. In it he speaks of the " disgraceful conduct of that wretched woman whom he had the misfortune to call his wife ;" who, by her profligate conduct in cornink , to town with a low common fellow, had consigned herself . he feared, irretrievable ruin. There was another letter react, but it was of no importance. This closed the case in support of the commission. The Court adjourned at a little after one o'clock into another room. 31r. Frank was brought before them and underwent examination, which lasted during the space of an hour and a half. At half-past two o'clock the Commissioners resumed their seat, in open Court. Mr. WAKEFIELD proceeded to sum up the evidence for the case of lunacy. He declined going through the evidence by detail. He had only to advert to a few points, being firmly convinced that the Jury were fully competent to judge of the facts which they had heard. The object of this inquiry was, that the state of Mr. Frank's intellect should be clearly ascer tained, and the best method taken to secure his person and property from ill-treatment and imposition. No gentleman who had heard the case hitherto could doubt that Mr. Frank was of unsound mind. He called their attention to the state of his family circumstances when living with his wife and children at Campsall. One of the modes of judging of a man's mental soundness or unsoundness was to observe whe ther, in ordinary affairs, he suffered himself to be treated in a manner so unbecomming that it would be certain that so other man would put up with the same treatment. What Clergy man--what man would suffer his wife to write such a letter as that of June, 1815, in which playing upon the known weakness of his mind, she contrived to keep him engaged in his low passion for other women, that, he being from home, she might with the more security indulge her passion for her Para , mour. Dr. Dickenson was just about that time introduced to the family. They might have noticed the progress of his distemper, from high excitement to the lowest despondency. In the transition his mind might have acquired some portion of reasonable power, as much as would have enabled him to make a provision for his children, quite agreeing with the best feelings of affection and sound discretion. Since 1817, his mind never seemed to have emerged from fixed despondency. He had at one time, in 1818, a clear conviction of his wife's infamous behaviour with that " scandalous fellow Dicken son," as his own letter expressed it. Yet in 1821 he received her back so tainted, without any conditions—without any ap parent recognition of her guilt, of which-he had before the most perfect knowledge, and had continued with her ever since. He dated the utter extinction of Mr. Frank's intellect from November, 1821, since which he had never been in a state to judge of the conduct of his wife. Mr. Frank showed himself utterly blind to that infamy of which he expressed the most indignant apprehension in 1818. This was the main feature of the case—the positive extinction of all moral feeling in one of the most delicate points of every married man's fate.— Adverting to the loathsome conversation described by a low waiter at a country inn, he observed that Mrs. Frank re ceived the grossest information from that waiter, and listened to the more indecent professions of Mr. Frank with callous assurance, as the result of lunacy and imbecility. The insults proved to have been offered to him, the vigilance of Malcolm exercised over him, proved a general conviction of his insanity to have prevailed. Some stress would, no doubt, he laid on the failure of a former application for a commission in 1822. If the arguments for his soundness then were good, they would make nothing to prove his soundness at present. They would observe that certainly some persons must have objections to the guardianship of the Lord Chancellor being thrown around him. His wife, who was sharing in the expenditure of his fortune, must oppose it. He begged pardon, not sharing his fortune with Mr. F. that could not be said of a man who, with an income of 8,0001. a-year, was left without any supply of money, wandering like a vagrant about the country : she was sharing his fortune with Dr. Dickenson, not with her husband. He appeared for parties who could have no interest in the issuing of the commission. He appeared for the brothers and sisters of the lunatic. Mr. Frank had a family of small children. If he should be found a lunatic, he could make no will, so that the motives of his clients were unquestionable. The most humane verdict for Mr. Frank would be that which would give him the protection of the Great Seal ; and with these observations he left the case with the Jury. Mr. PEPYS appeared for the heir at law, who was directed by the Lord Chancellor to appear to assist in that point of the inquiry which respected the execution of the deed. All he had to do with the evidence was to direct the attention of the Jury to it with a view to their fixing the date of the lunacy, and of that deed. In the absence of all direct evidence upon that point, and with such abundant evidence of the continual wasting of so large an income for years by Mrs. Frank and Dr. Dickenson, so as to leave Mr. Frank himself at this time a mere pauper, he called upon the Jury to fix that date at the earliest period admissible by the evidence. He gave a touching description of the situation of this young gentleman, who for bore all comment and reproach on any parties. All he requested was, that amidst so many transactions notoriously improper, that every thing might be effected to undo as many things which had been clone as possible. Many questions might hereafter arise upon deeds and bonds, and especially upon a will, if any should exist, on which the verdict might throw a very useful light, by fixing a period, and above all an early period, for the existence of his insanity. Adverting to the evidence for this pose, he contended that the insanity must have existed in 1815. fhe facts which proved it, chiefly, were his own delusion with respect to his wife's conduct, and the management of his pro perty having for all these years been totally withheld from him. How could a man with a glimmering of reason allow a quack. doctor to take possession of his house, and hear that his wife had been visiting the doctor's bed-chamber, anti find his wife hid behind the curtains, without feeling any adequate resent ment ?—(The Learned Counsel continued to comment in a similar way upon the chain of evidence.)—lle concluded by recommending the jury to find the insanity as early as 1816. being the period which, according to his apprehension, was the best supported by the whole of the evidence as that in which the mind of Mr. Frank had suffered a final and a total extinc tion of reason, so as, according to the words of the Commission, to have rendered him incapable of taking proper care of himself and his property. Mr. BROUGHAM said that he would not detain the Court in hearing him to-day, and he hoped not to have to detain them very long to-morrow morning. The substance of his observa tions would go to the law of the case, by which, with a few re marks upon some of tl.e facts, and a very little evidence, he hoped to be able to do away with the effect of much, if not of all, that had been advanced. lie bespoke for these purpose the .most impartial hearing of the Jury when he should address them to-morrow morning._Adjourned at four o'clock. SINGULAR DISCOVERY or A MURDER IN FaANcli.—A. trial of considerable importance is expected to come on in the Court of Assizes of Laon hi the course of this month, respecting an assassination which took place about nine years ago, at Tombes, in the Canton of Verniaud, on the persons of one Digagny, the proprietor of the farm of Tombes, and a beggar, who ,were both killed on the farm with knives, and afterwards thrown into a well. An inquiry was set on foot at the time, but no clue of the murderers was obtained. Upwards of eight years had passed over, and the circumstance was almost forgotten, when Providence, which never suffers guilt to escape with impunity, raised suspicions in the mind of the King's Procureur-General. The Procureur of St. Quentin immediately set an in quiry on foot, and nearly eighty witnesses were consequently exaicined. Five individuals were convicted as accomplices, viz. Perre Marly, aged 50, labourer ; Seraphin Manly, his son, aged 32, cotton-weaver ; Cesar Trochain, aged 28, la bourer ; Pierre Xavier Merck, aged 34, turner ik J. B. Jerome Merda, his father, aged wood 68, o(; I formerly a weaver—all of Leschelles. They had all left their dwellings ; some were at Paris, others at Charleville and else where. However, through the exertions of the police, they were discovered in less than 48 hours after. 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