The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-09 00:00:00

TIIE CASE OF LORD KINGSTON.
(THU DAY.)

Thi. morning the proceeding,' under a writ
F.natwo input:ado, boned on the petitioa of the Holt.
Gilt,; sod rolooel E. R. King, in reference to the
d need .4 the Right Hon. Itichanl Henry Earl of
hts.st•st, w,•re vetted by Mr. Comniksioner W.irren,
th flement's.inn. The petitioners were repro.
„t,d to Mr. Mosdkst rhambent, and Mr. Hodgson.
,n.l the earl by Mr. Digby Seymour, and Mr. p.
l b.... 104.

Ur M. Chamber,. in opening the ease of the petitioners,
...: I 1,, haul the honour to appear for the Hon. James King,
i!.. ,•..in,;er hr -tber of the earl, andeoliesel Edward Itichanl
i, ...cowl iussn of the alleged lunatic. The petition
t not originate with the petitioner., but arose entirely
-A .4 the conduct of the alleged lunatic in
coon. IUrS Which induced independent Is.mmit
t any way related to him to interfere for his protection.
It •is this conduct which compelled the petitioners to
oolie.. these disagreeable proceedings. In order to
is .).:e the commissioner to form a correct judgment he must
c I. i 'quinte cireunistances connected with the just history
. f I. ad Kingston. On succeeding to the title some years
tile noble earl bromic possessed of &considerable income.
A tone his circtinotances bemuse no emharr.oseil that
r the iulluence, and with the &seism:see of Mr. Saslleir,
•1- ""le was so notorious, lie raised money. coil the
:'t was that ho beCerne still more embarrassed. At the
it morficut his estate was very much involved ;
but them were twoceediege going on in the
Curt of IL leincery in Ireland, which might or
might not have the effect of practically relieving the
. 4r. agate Irani its burdened position. The earl wee now,
3, indeed be was when the aria occurred which led to this
inquiry, comparatively speaking a pauper, hardly able to
support himself. He nicationcil this not for the purpose of
Vag any injury to the alleged lunatic ; but as accounting for
iendi the strangeneo of lips coniliiet anterior to the curious
at, which lid to this inquiry. Inc many years put the
eccentricities awl extravaeaocies had been well
teown, mono especially in the metropolis. lie went about
fn., plea- to place, incurring deists to cabmen in a peculiar
of asiaseuient. I iistamil of paying the cab fare in the
weal war he wrote on a little piece of paper what pur-
i-ete.l to be a theme, not drawn oo any lank
wit any peruse, and heeded it to the unfortunate
otiose, who, not boles; satisfied with such treatment,
lough' the matter before a police magistrate. It had
strut him, in Leaking through the evidence already ad•
duos in the prorredine, before the Linde Just ices, and the
Pottle-lion. he had received, that it was not desirable to
later, eveept by way of explanation, into any part of the
coudiact previous to the bth Septonlier last.
Ile thoight he should lar able to trace from that time up to
the present conduct on the part of the earl which led to
Ike inference that during that period he
was in such a state of mind as to le utterly incapable of
pisetaing awl cealuctiog himself awl hi. affair.. lie
weed Dow refer to the incidents which led to his being
ih.ml under proper guardianship. On the evening of
the gth dot fimiteraber last he mule his appear.
wow at the terminus of the London and North
western Railway, with the view amarently of leaving by
the night mail train for Holyhead. He asked for and
eloiitied a ticket from • young man in the ticio.office. lie
del sot pay any matey, bat walked off with the ticket for
the peeves ref gettiog off by the train. An elder clerk followed
Inn, fee the purpose of getting back the ticket, and &eked him
be it. The earl answered him very imoberently and very
s.eleatly. Ile enikavoureil to get tun the corner of a
anima, when the clerk interposed and was struck by the
said. The pollee then interfered and siscoseded in getting
him et the platform. The clerk stated that the
may teams why he did not give the earl
Me elderly wan that his conduct led him awl others
I. the eanchmitm that he was nut in a sane state of mind.
More ping to the tennious the earl had been at the
Ewinti Hotel He there ordered dinner in the coffee-
e-en, being acenenpenied by some other person. The
wow, who brought the dinner, sad who had known hint
Wore, and knew his extrevatemeim and eccestricities, was
.tent by the strangeness of he manlier. He was also very
mock seamed when he approached him by a disegeemalla
sal diegustiag smell, originating in when he imegimed he be
se effect which hal heels produced upon hi gleam While
he was swag his diuner, inetend of man his knife and
kirk, he doh op his food with hie lagers, The waiter
temoostrited with lurn, no doubt, as dvio7 as posiblis,
se this behaviour, mid told him that be was
stlactieg attention ; hut the only moult was, that
be gat a Very sharp awl eery &rem,. la short, the th,o•
act of the earl was such that mere than sae parson in the
ealewireem said that if he were allowed to Tema they
mat depart. It was after this that the earl went to the
Leedom and North Wahine Railway termites, and be-
head in a manner which ultimately led to hie re•
moral from the platform. The next day he again
aids his appearance, and attempted to eater a
earrlage, without having paid the fare. A pollee sorgasat
laterfered and prevented biro tram doing so. Thin was
skeet live o'closk. At aim o'clock he went to the ticket.
elle and tried to obtain a ticket. nutting that ha could
ant get it because he had no mosey to pay for it, he threw
tato the ticket Mike a paper, which was a kind of false
cheque for U. He tlwa went no the platform and
gut isto a carriage, the result beitil that he was again
rearmed. His language wale so incoherent and bin
Manors so stmage, that every pence who observed him ap-
peared to be of opinion that he was labouring under M-
oody. Had the ca.., indeed, been otherwise, he would
Loa been Dikes to a policipatatioa. That night be
went to Motley'. Hotel, when his behaviour
was also vary strange. He left that hotel is a cab, and was
at out coavated to a poliee-station. Oa the following
evening he appeared before Mr. Payable, at Marlbo-
resigh.streed. Mr. Muter, the earl's Mammy, attended the
pima: out to mat him. The result was that he was fined
an I ihecharged ; soi, through the isseramostallty of Mr.
loiter, he wee enabled that night to take his depar-
t:lv by the North Western Railway, for Dublin.
*sere, it appestat he wished to see his lent ail.
wr on matter, connected with • suit which was
11 ea realise is the Irish Court of Chancery.
Ile did not go to Holyhead, hut alighted at beater, and olt
the aftmsnon of the Sunday one of the officers who lived
in • cottage near the hoe sow the earl walking on the
At that time a luggage train was momenta' ily expected,
scat the earl was walking toward.. the tunnel through
which the train was coming. Au idttoer of the railway,
•fii endeivealled to prevent him was •nowerld, " I am
to dine with Lord Westminster &evil General Searlett."
11.• was with difficulty got off the line, and was forced
hi leave the railway, and then he went into the
town and dined at a cookabop, where he ,Deducted him-
self in a steams manner. Thee he went itito the °Madrid,
where he leaseted on keeping his hat on, and was obliged to
lw ketell oat of the haildnie. He afterwards want to an
beet where he ism followed by a policeman, who watched
kin, awl whom he cloponl with uomitural practices (which
u•peared to benne of hisilelusiomasiominst people generally),
Ti,. result of this estraonlinary conditet was that, untlerthe
set which authorised interference with dangerngs kinetic.
elm were at large, medical men at theater were called in,
amt upon their certificate the earl was sent to the
Leshire County Lunatic Asylum. There he remained
'soil the 11th of September, his roniluct doting
it iy showiest that be was dangerous to himself, and when
'Lysol:v.l dierrous also to other*. The learned oislissel then
11°.rnbes1 the intervention of legal agents, issuing in the dis-
charge of the earl from the asylum. After his release, hi.
cosidect was souls so strange, that he was reaveyed to
ws4iwr Comsay Lunatic Asylum, that of Denbighshire,
eta Itr. Jose., the superintendent of that maybes,
a .0.1 be Galled in support of the case. At that
as at the Euston Hotel, his habits Were
6 .y. Previously they were the reverse. He was, is
particularly clam, and very careful with his
Fere a ; awl a change in that respect was one
to this earliest mad strongest indieatioes of immoity.
It was while be was at this asylum that the facts
.1 the ease berame knows for the first time to
to brother. .4 it was in rensequenos of his
ille bees thus dealt with be permits
with the family, that the brother
see indoed to interpose awl to communicate with
the a itheritia, with a view of having the earl placed
mm'etst the firit-cless patient*. This Ives dose. and
r—ieuried in tia• myl am as a first-elms patios( natil the
1"1.4 this ee,,,th, when he was brought up to Loudon.
""nvg the ton,. that he was at the Denbigh Asylum the
.4 the earl were Naturally anxious to know through
feVonos Usso the supennteodent precisely what Irks
Isere lotesua.4 mai, of mind .4 their relative. A c:cordingly
two onitient molls:sal men of Dublin visited bun
14-I Pew/14W with him on two conseciitive days,
•fic of these gentlemen being the newly-appointed
Pli”eian to her Majesty in Ireland, Dr. Stokes. Three
cost:en:ea womb! tell the. learned comniisaioner in what
mplittia they bowel the uofortimate earl. They
bond that he wis partially paralyeed in body in
Ite toter extremitie, ; and from their testimony it would
noes f
kin th.lt lie was not likelLto.rerver (nen the prostration
mental (+cultic.. The counsel then entered into
„do some .4 them imoseeivably filthy, is support of
pert .4 the cies. There were indications of weak.
rho .4 nowt in his onaversation, which was rapid, Iwan.
mid irrational, especially as regnoted distinguished
Imam be was always imegtedag he had invited to dinner,