The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-16 00:00:00

T' i 1 WINDHAM LUNACY COMMISSION.

(Osdiesed from yeekrd..y's press.)
ai. Midis Hood, ph flora superintendent of
Heepital, mid he had bees censored formerly
ter t'sdary-lisliai Asylum. He had written • good
dmi apes ineereilp. Hi attrition had for many
pears bees reshilly directed to the treatment of the
mese. He Seem* bad a Iry privet., ►asylum. Kr. I
Wisiena sad epee him at Bethlehem Hospital
• hilly, the DM of December last. He had
ma movie= Imoselidp of him. Mr. Windham mid he
km, the trite) was shout to take place, sad he vitriol
maims% spites as le whether be was of mumat mid w
est. lie Meted him le eameteda the fact. He told Mr. Wieth
• be shoeldi wits deem theAlleabeal be rig to wok
mid the sesummoratelar. Mr. Midterm meta me
tem totted The anise he took were as team:
I Wed him, If be seal glee me some Bea of hie esely I
MK of hi steed deemed hie hem 116, her Ikea,
id bin at all Ile held me be hod hot his hike when
'ere d sem to whim be me sialllatlaehed, sad Bet he
bed hese ne oohed al Dem after livid private lesionMles
'bowline", ha he molseed the fear* boa, and left at Ma
age of la, twig pined the MA fens by .'-
Altar lINITIDS INS, his mother heir" tainted aple,he vas ^
stared rsolgeb near thieve ed tutees, that hi BM less
met a bad ens, that he disliked his tutors, that he had
bevelled air Rams time or for some mouths with Wesel
Itatioraill, Mil he beam al age in Anima Leh
Mat he Mel mime myriad, and tbs. 1s made
mime retirees, to his property. that his peernity
at Pepsis Ball was worth about 3,000/. per &enure, that
be wesldbe permed of other property amounting to
stoat 9.0001. •year is 1869. I then send him what wen
big Wks, mill what had been his pursuit& He told me
be was food of all kinds of 861.1 sports, of driving, of riding,
of Maim aid abscise ; and that he should like to live
always is the airily. I then asked him what he rea4
ff he me us the habit of reading. He told
me he read seers mach. and remarked, "I am cer-
lately net • snidest." He said be was engaged
all day, and that in the evening he was too tired to reed,
that daring the lest mamma be lived in Duke-street, arid I
was very estedeetable, the Llewellyns Laving been very
kind to him, bat they had since turned against
him and pAm se aid sit on utmost of this inquiry which I
he a pack ef hen that there was no occasion for, as
he bad always been very civil to them. I took down the
verde from his mouth, and sometimes his replies were
very Weeks. I asked him thm, " What du they charge
yea with His reply wee, , Kicking op • great row in the
bier, all sorb of accusatioes, which can be disproved, I
sever ate If sap. I liked imp for breakfast, but never ate
me may. I newer ran out of the bath room naked down
the p
od I may have opened the or often, arid
sorted to old liewellys. I dim chest, sad stag, and
whistle; portaits/as boisterous, bet what them ? I sever
gelid rapid(r ' Windham, but I was • lieutenant in
the Norfolk m and I may have bees called Cap-
tain. but will sot say I have beard it." I then
asked him, "Han you out been on familiar terms with
many poheemas His reply was " Oh. yes, that lie knew
• lot of them, but he had only chafed them, and the very
viers spinet him waa a man who he could prove was
karts to the free as being capable and willing to swear
spirt any ese. He is the mea (be mill who swears I
tried tie ewe ever them in Jeneventrest." I this said
him " if be thought that his marriage was a desist one,
sad likely to be ptomaine to his family!" He replied,
" Perham set, ey mother is the oely me of the family who
nisi about ma, Be 011211.2 Tashi in me go to the devil if
It was eel fee the property. Ido sot suppose it was a good
stet* bat I bad se iafatestion for her. I knew
she bad sot lei a moral and respectable life, but
I hoped that Wig married we might and should
behappy. However, it is done now, and it is no use talking
arse about it. I asked him whether he was still living
with her ar whether it was true that they bad already
noparatedf lie told me that it was quite trim they wen;
that it wan bee ewe fault ; that she had left him for other
ewes ; that she bad spent his money extravagantly to a
=aseert; sod was DO careless of him that the reel.
fist third, what with the expenses of the marriage
Ma the modest hie& obl4ed him to confess that ha hed
has aped field 'Massif. I said, "But what could
yea expose 11611WIDDIS, remembering her past history!" He
LeaSsthat be thought they might and would be
ahan
dnianied ; that he was now disappointed,
Mmet to me her main ; and be added,
ee I Ft eat of Wei trouble I shall try
ler • diverge." I replied that if be was fortunate
saeugh to eldeie a chevron I wan ahaid he would do the
memo thing agate, to which be replied. " I am not such •
tool as that—'imes bit. twigs shy.' If I could get rid of
all this bother I should be happy enough. I can soon get
ever ray &Me, they are about 19,000/. I owe Emmanuel
M,000i.; bat I reek cannot say for carter how much I
owe altogether. MIL Wiodham's bills are coming ie all
day. I had one this rafternouu for silks and other things
ewer 300/. I have advertised not to pay any more.'
Ms admitted it was • large sum to owe Em.
mimed ; but he said the greater part of it was
owing before his ~doge for preeents—that he
=omelet some very handsomee ones after marriage
be felt obliged. I asked him why. He mid lie
mooted to gin' her some present for the wars he bad dose
her. He sad. " I swear to you I did sot kernel bad the
venereal Brame whoa I married, as I had comeralted Dr.
Whidloorse en the subject, w.io told me its solidus. I
swear to yea I sever toothed her before marriage, " put
gems midi= to him as to the immorality, mid thee he
told me that. I then referred to the timber at Felbrigg,
sad be mid, " I Moot make a bed contract about the tim-
kr at relheims. I left it to Maim Lowrance and Fry. They
are werrerporable men. and they bested me homouialiy."
Be told sae that Felbomm was worth over 3,000 I: per
emu, and that be liked farming. Whoa I asked him if
he woeldimF!.• bruin he aid
he would not, because it
mum Me ex especially model farming. I asked him
beer he tell hie ham He told me be had let the home
ham to his hail at a rest of M. per assent, because he
she led lot Wier have stmagers so near the hall, and that
was about Macre& Ile said his cottage property wee
principally easepisd by his own servants or retainers, and that
A was let at &boat 2001. to VAX. per annum. and that the
bailiff collested the rest.. I eked him if he had had
my offer mad, by the railway comparay for the prangs of
this railway trough his property. I think be told me he had
est. lam set quite more about this, but he told me he wee
milly maims that the railway should peas through, bemuse
the bee Magid beta projected merely skirted the outer
'set of I! ; Mee he would halm all the convenience of • rail-
way ; that it would mit him Zi miles drive every time he
mimed beam sad went to Norwich ; that he would get a
seed pries far that property, and that it would have the
imertemprowiag all re surrounding property. He seemed to
Methether it would be made, bemuse the Ouroeys and the
Maxtor were opposed to it, because it would interfere with
the quietude of Cromer. He then mid it was all she about
the hoot-treee. I inquired whether it was true that he had
Mara • peat many pairs of boot tress—in fact, two pain
hr each pair of boohe. He told ins it wee all • lie about the
best-trees ; that in the weary he roust have • good stock
ef beet-tress if there were visitors in the Iseem; that the
booker in the Colonnade knew that very well—that he
wanted • pair of trees to every kind of boar both in the
Issatry and is town, but not one pair for every
per ef boor. I asked him it be knew the value of
maw. I felt that it wan a difficult subject to touch npou.
I asked him if be eared much about the expense of what be
beeglit. He mid he Amid set go to a drr market if be
maid ge to a isheepeen I said, ' Supposeyou were going
to bay so artiste,' I iesteaceil the purchase of • box of
etre, and I mid, " Sapper yea were going down Cock-
wees* and, terming into Foetal's, you found the
rpre there were Bra per pound, while you had been in
the habit of boy* them at Benson's. in Oxford street,
at 40s. per prod, should you pay 43e., or would you
p to the edgiest shop," end be said, " I am
met seek • test as that ; I would not waste money
two the sake of swig a walk." He mid, " The fact
is that whim I tees a boy I was cemelooally very hard up I
for money, sad at other time I had as much as I liked to
se for." I Man talked to him about his life for the laid I
eighteen menthe, and he acknowledged that be had been
miller noisy, and, perhaps, very tem, and that be regretted
away of his Aiwa, more particularly his marriage—that
he would bare avoided much of it, if be had known that
his family Wen so animus of making him nut • lunatic—
that he would have avoided many of his ioderretions and
are if be had tenon this charge was likely to hang over
hen. He was getting rather tired, he had been with me
ma hoar and • half. He wan putting la nn his coat. and lie id,
" Will pm help to prove me sane , ' f said I did not con.
air bias bear as far as I had bad the opportunity of
tiliqand that I bad no objection to my that for him,
uittid tin, that he had, by his own admirion, cont.
mired many actin( extravagance. imprudence, and probably
ef ;put vice, and that I thought his conduct had been un-
dignified, and unbecoming hie nadirs in the county, his
property, and his birth ; that his future happitees or
misery rested with himself ; that if he thought proper
be might hiseeme • respectable man and respected
by his Meads but that if he preferred low company
ad idle pursuits and vice, that he would die certainly •
beggar, and is all probability without the regret of any ova.
Be told me ha was much obliged to me for the interview,
miffed he hoped I would do what I could for biro. That
wee the add the first interview. Then I bail an opporta-
May ef maw him mute, on the 31st December het, for
sheet • quieter of an hour. Tho reales I Ind foe wishing
le see his apse wee that I might ask lite two or three
toss, if I had bees deceived in any remarks
rrmlLMnda, or ff he had derived me at all,
had the evidence same of the idiotism
bed I bed boss in the court each day, and I wanted
an eppnernity mains his mouth. When lie paid me the
liest—irinit I had seekwd a peculiarity in his articulation,
Me I bed arse • reed frequently adopted with persona
wise ham • eery elevated Md. and I really thought be heal
a =lab pleb to it. That formation has nothing to de
wish hi mental eseditim. 1 examined his mouth, sed eter
the Nesse dhi pfseabar utterance. I asked Idea es the
emend armies M ill wee true that be bad bees
to the habit at tearing the Baps off his slot&
Adis. Be teld sae it wee out true at RA—
MA he had IS one onision tors one at the
limit beige* b was • very old shirt, and that be had
dime te hem= Meese was dirty, and he did not like hay-
• it le bin rem i that condition. I replied. " But Mr.
and Mtn i swuOpn both swear you were in the habit of
dais an Be mid, " Tee 'meat place touch reliance on
that, far nee semi I tare the frost of, and the other
seers I tam of the dap behind." I then asked him if it
wee bee that Mr. Roberts had had toy connexion with Mrs.
Whammoin thin manage, or whether he had made