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A NEW COMPANY.

A new Company, to be called the " Canadian Company,"
is now being established, to possess a capital of 1,000,0001-
•in 10,000 shares of 1001. each. The Committee state that
I a charter will be granted, and that Government will
unction an application to Parliament for an Act of In-
' corporation.
We understand also, from an authentic source, that several
of the leading men in the money market have been eon-
! salted by Ministers on the subject, and that they have
ven a favourable representation of the prospect of raising
the desired amount in shares. The following are the
ob-
jects of the Company, as stated in the prospectus:-
1. To purchase portions of the Crown and Clergy reserves.
2. To give immediate employment to emigrants on their arrival
In Canada.
3. To prepare, by clearing the lands and by building houses, Sit.
for the settlement of parsons and families to whom the lands may
be sold or let, as may be agreed on.

4. To make advanea of capital, in wall sums (under survin.
stridence, at the legal rate of interest in the colony, which is as per
ant.), to such settlers on the lands of the Company as may re.
quire it, withholding the titles till the advances are repaid, as well
as the price of the lands. •
6To give in this country, to persons intending to emigrate, in.
formation regarding the lands of the Company, and to facilitate the
transminion of their funds, but not to interfere with the convey.
once of emigrants.
6. To promote the general improvement of the colony, whether it
be in making inland communication, connected with the lands and
interests of the Company, or in extending the cultivation of articles
of export, such u flax, hemp, tobacco, &c.

STEAM.TROOF CAIIIIE:A citizen of Maryland has In-
vented a steam-proof cabin for steam-boats, which will
effectually secure the passengers in the cabin from injury,
should an explosion or forcing of the heads of the boilers
take place.—Amerkun Paper.
A PLRFUIIED BASKET.—PIaCe a layer of perfumed
cotton, extremely thin and even, on a piece of taffety
str:tched in a fume; strew thereon some curious violet
powder, and then some cypress powder; cover the whole
with another piece of taffetv : nothing more remains to
complete the work but to quilt it, and cut it of the size
of the basket, and trim the edges with ribband.
ARTIFICIAL BEES' Wax.--The Asiatic Journal con-
tains a notice of a discovery in India, of a method of
manufacturing a substance, to which has been given the
name of artificial bees'-wax. It is intended as a substi-
tute for the natural wax in the manufacture of candles.
It is formed by a curious and ingenious process from vege-
table oil. Candles made of it are little, if at all, inferior
to those made of common wax, while they ma) be afforded
at a much clasper rate thaweven the coarsest of the ordi-
nary kind.
CURE FOR THE TOOTH-ACHE:TO a table-spoonful of
any kind of spirits add the same quantity of sharp vinegar,
anal a tea-spoonful of common salt; mix them well toge-
ther; hold the liquid in the mouth, so that it can enter
the cavity of the tooth. It will give them histamines=
relief.—Ecomoraist.

Le Leixoes Pt. e NTl.—Potatoes kept in a cellar In a grow-
ing state sometimes become so luminous that we can read
print by their light. The diclamnus albus—white dittany
—spreads around it in dry summer evenings an atmosphere
which, when a taper is brought to it, burns with a bright
blue flame. Some plants give out a sparkling light, pro-
bably of the nature of electricity ; such is the case with the
lowers of calendula (unarygold), tropeeolum (Indian cress),
I Mit= bulbilerum, and chaleedonicum (lilies), tagetes
(French marygold), helianthus (sunflower), and polyan-
thus. Others give out a calm, steady light, of a bluish,
greenish, or yellowish-white colour, such as dematium via-
laceum, Pers. schistostega osmundacea, W. and M., pbilo.
I lace decandra, rhizomorpha pinnate, !lamb. The lumi-
nous appearances in the galleries and shafts of mines are
often: to be traced to rhizotnorphous plants. The milky
juice of some plants is very luminous, and, when in a state
of incipient decomposition, branches, trunks, and roots of
trees become luminous.—Edisburgh Philosophical Journal.
A REMEDY FOR COINS ON rue FEZT.—Roast a clove
of garlic on a live coal, or in hot ashes; apply it to the corn
anal fasten it on with a piece of cloth, the moment before
going to bed. It softens the corn to such a degree, that it
loosens and wholly removes the core in two or three days,
however inveterate; afterwards wash the foot with warm
water ; in a little time the indurated skin, that forms the
. horny tunic of the corn, will disappear, and leave the part
I as clean and smooth as if it had never been attacked with
any disorder. It is right to renew this application two or
three times ;n twenty-four hours.
Poos BVANE.—This poor man it at present in Dublin,
whither he has come with an intt.ution of settling. We
have lately seen him—and have had a curious detail of his
!adventures, including all that occurred between him and
Mr. Treasurer Parkins. The account he gives of the mini-
firtmee of Mr. Cobhett's bounty to him (for really a phrase
of less force would be insufficient) is moat creditable to that
gentleman. The " sailors, soldiers, and ploughboys," for
whose edification Mr. Cobbctt compiles dissertations on
grammar, would, from the familiarity of his style and man-
ner, be often led to believe, that he is a person in habits,
and almost in condition, like themselves ; we are how-
ever told, that he is the owner of a splendid mansion, and
the head of an enlightened and even polished family, at
Kensington. He himself is a milk anal water drinker at
breakfast, dinner, and supper, but he employs no little
trouble and ingenuity in the manufacture of the domes-
! tie liquors of old England—and his table in all instances,
but as far as regards himself, is the board of a man of opu-
lence, who knows and enjoys the " good things of the world."
His house is almost proverbially th,, "refuge for the poor
and the 'trans. r" of his neighbourhood. Byrne and his fami-
ly participated almost daily in the bounty it dispenses—and,
in short, every pleasing recollection which "poor Bytne"
has of England, is connected in some measure with the
family of Mr. Cobbett.—DsMia Evening Herald.

3li NIT t R.—Aniongst the many improvements
now making in our ancient City, those in the vicinity
of its proudest ornament, the venerable Cathedral, will
bear a prominent place. The gardens adjoining the city
wafts on the north side of the inster, from their late dis-
ordeted and weedy appearance, are rapidly assuming b.au-
tiful and judicious indications of culture, whilst the ram-
parts of the city, in that part, form a striking contrast with
the gaping ruins which these relics of former strength and
grandeur exhibit through,ut the rest of their lengthened
range. In addition to this, the ground in front of these
garden: is now being levelled, in order to form the site of
an elegant and spacious Residentiary House, contvarts for
theicre.Qtion of which have been entered into for the dif-
ferent departments of the work, and it will be proceeded in
with all possible expedition. When the waste ground in
'this pan of the Cathedral-close shall have been properly
cleared, and the road round the " noble fans" rendered
'complete, this new building, together with the spacious.
library, and the antique remains of the Archbishop's pa-
lace, which present a fine specimen of Saxon architecture,
will form a range of objects equally as novel and interesting
to the citizen of feeling or taste, as to the traveller an
search of the picturesque.—Fork Currant.

LAW ncrn.LMENCR.
COURT OF OF CHANCERY, Fallit.T, JOLT IL

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tionnow a. otiabox.
This laws lidipgatigitimidal Care, ill whit+ the emotion
was relative is dbe a dia plaintiff', and which has been
ahead to folly wad bias lin PIMA "8.,, this day Win
t before the Gastir Its nodes Of AT. 11XIONT OM be-
et tie defaidang- " deems elllos ease ware shortly these :
the feener AMON the eindot lbws were placed Is the Bea-
ter • Alas pagain desk Wen, writings, and papers,
eilmendll& a! to forty The order, however, did am rem.
tats sIY alleMons as In she delivery of thews papers 4 and a psti-
NMI
Ih auk erteltanitag.beerips Um Med, the defendant now peeped that
J . niPlaanina, at . eight be placed in Ida r
ligot.. dewed so the motion, and submitted deo itbindst
was
only made for dtts wpm of delay. In fact, they bore no relation
tothe ollse : and were quite as well in the Master's office se any-
where else.

TAI Lone Cwawctu.oa add—Had the motion been to Noes
i
them m Unhands el the Clerk in Court, the one would have
tlillrerow. There meld, however, be no °kited= to the Meetee'e
Clerk proisciag Hem ; but further than dna the motion mug
be dimities&

COURT OF KING'S BENCH. WZSTWINSTIL
FRIDAY, JULY 23.

Sittings is Loodosofher Term, before the LOW CIIIII? Jus-
TICS cud a COMMON Jury.
LIBEL..—STAFFORD PEERAGE.
coowe V. HUGHIS.
CAHP.ILL opened the pleadings.
The C 0113103( SEILORANT stated the are. The plaintiff was
brother of • gildsmen in Seadindshire, who laid claim to the tide
of Baran Btaf.N end several estates in t'sr neighbourhood of Staf-
*A To this relationship he owed the invectives and scurrilities
peered upon bins in the threewod.sispenny pamphlet which he
laid in his head, entitled, The Safford Peerage, or the Impostor
mtateseed. The way tide-pep contained ammo= invectives. It
peered to est fortis the history of the Baron. end of his helica-
lable broths awl agent, "James Shake Shoat Cut" (fur James
Stamp Sutton Cookm. It professed to be by " John Campbell,
• Esq." This was • fictitious name, assumed to usher the
libel into wider wider the protection of so respectable a name. It
was addressed to Sir 000,101 Jerni*am whose tide was in some
measure recognised of late. But there ;mild be no right to post
invectives and falsehoods upon she bead of the plaintiff for the
sake of paying caul to Sir George Jerningliam. The publisher'
was the defendant. The Learned I ientleman read several passages,
denouncing J. S. S. Cut as " a gambler, swindler, and bigamist
" one of the biggest rogues In Lngland I" " a monster, powerless,
yet still armed, seeking whom he can devour." If any prejudice
should exist against the individual, the Jay would not therefore
leave him exposed to such unbridled obloquy. When the cue
should be proved to them, they would give the very ample do.
wages which it called for.
John Baldwin bought the pamphlet In his bead from Ale.
Hughes, bookseller, Ludgate-street.
Cress-emissined—l was employed by die ploinefir to perches°
thopempielet. He never told me that he got a fueling damages.
The passages charged ea tie seeped west mad by Hr.
AINOTT.

41. SCARLETT called for seven other to be reed.
This was opposed; and after argument and reference to trials for
y, in which aggravations of the libel were refused,
blagtislr.noansnir over-ruled the objection, and decided that the
defendant bad a right, if be chose, to have the whole Oda, publi-
cation reed.

Considerable extracts in addition to the alleged libels were read.l
In the course of the pamphlet there was an account of the trail of
James Stamp Sutton Cooke, foe bigamy, in 1812, the reading of
which was opposed.
The Loan CHIT/ JINITICE Said that this tieing an action, and
not an indictment, he thought ths anal ought so be read. He knew
of no ease where it had ban otherwise ruled; but he took a nava
the objection.
The trW was for bipmy, fight the plaintiff' with mar.
a lady of the name of Saandess, while his farmer wife,
vying
of Joke Browning, Esq. was still alive. Mr. Gurney
ducted the pecoecutiao. His first marriage was in 171111 t lon
second in 18118. The penances defence was nonage in 1755. Vasa
addressed to the prisons, by Miss S. were reed at the trial; they
incited Cooke to join In the hpanish war, and excised meek ninth.
The Judge was Mr, Connison-Sergeant Knowles, who wan spa.
anted to have summed up in a tone of bitter invectives adshaesal
to dr prima.
Mr. Carimaxx4. said it was "Hind upon the Recorder.
The .1 Lead the prisoner guilty, and Iva was sentencal to
far seven yeas. Interest was said to hue bass made
with * Prima Iftent by a lady " fat, fair, mid forty." A con.
Idltion4 jestalutif pardon was The Siret madage wae
unsaid in the Ea.Wiastical Court, and "Cut" was pardoned and
diiarattracts of " J. S. S. Cut, Eaq.'s pretended adventure., as
gambler swindler, hewer, shenernongev, insolvent debtor, &c an"
awed the Court for a considerable time.
e report of the trial of "Cooke v. Amphlets," for libel, in
Herby, last year, was read. Mr. Clarke's speeds fee the =
was charlatans:it by Mr. Swim as a ancedent to his
r Friends.

.Dir. iergeant Vaughan's, for the defendant, came ant.
$4.4•llllZTT—That, headmen, is a precedent fee my
speech.
The err of the trial at Derby was subeeentially the -me as
the pats *ow the sesbjest of trial. Ie the Pottery Gazette be
wsa eleseribed se a whiter, a soldier, a black-leg, a hatter, a Tem-
plar, a swindler, &e.
It was carefully recorded that the Judge (Mr. Baron harrow)
joined heartily in the laugh excited by Sergeant Vaughan's por-
traiture of Mr. Cooke.
Mr. SCAM MUTT resumed his cross-exaothiatice..-1 have known
the plaintiff for nine maths. I don't know who John Campbell,
FAR, is, and never heard Mr. Cook my.
MT. &arm/err then addressed the Jury. If any proof were
wanting that his Learned blend (Mr. Campbell) was not the author
it was afforded by the term "bigamist" being applied to the Oahe-
tif after he was pardoned by the Crown. No lawyer could have
odd an. In the Darby Wel they had a precedent of all the mattes,
and also of the verdict of one farthing, which the Judge regretted
to be the lowest cola in this country. No justification could be
pleaded or proved of general reflections. and plaintiff had abstained
1 from putting may isms on the record. It mkht be useful to pub.
bah a list of swindlers, yet he was not premed to say that soy pee-
-1 son whose name was so published was net entitled to their verdict
for libeL He submitted the proceedings in Derby for their imita-
tion, and he hoped they would consider one farthing of as much
value in London as in Derby.
The Lonxi Curer JOITICE yes proceeding to sum up, when
The raceme said they wished to save his Lordship the trouble.
The Loan Cute/ Juswics—As you please, the plaintiff is
entitled tor verdict.
Verdict for the plaintiff—damages one farthing.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Out 1
FRIDAY, JULY M.

Before the CHILT JCIITICZ gad a Special Jon.

FLETCHER P. FLITCHER AND ANOTHER.

This was an action of trespass and false imprisonment. The
plaintiff stated in the declaration that he was a schoolmaster, and
that the defendants had wrongfully assaulted and imprisoned him
at firm in a watch-house, and then in a mad-house, by which be
loot his scholars • several of whom were named. The defendant,
Alexander Fletcher, pleaded that he was minister of a certain
chapel, called Albion Chapel, and that the plaintiff came to the
said chapel during the performance of divine service and disturbed
the congregation • that in consequence of that disturbance the de-
fendant, Alexander Fletcher, had called in the defendant, J. C.
Knight, who then gave a certificate of the plaintiff's lunacy; en
which the defendants had Imprisoned hint, as they lawfully might
do, for the mess aforesaid. The plaintiff had replied, and denied
the causes assigned for his imprimment,aad on that issue was joined.
Mr. Sergeant TADDY stated the plaintiff's cube, and observed,
that th Jury would perceive that the two principal parties in this
cause were of the same name, and, he was sorry to add, in the near
relations of brothers. limy were of different pursuits in life. The
tans
had come from hie nathe unintry, Scotland, about five
eias since, and was mike et car avadstny is London. The de.
t was minister of a chapel in connection with the &etch
Church, calkd the Albion Chapel, situated in Moorfields. He
was a favourite preacher, and he believed he deserved to be so.
His lordship in this part of the Learned Sergeant's opening in-
terfered, and asked if this case could not be settled out of Court
In consideration of the relatkinahip of the parties it would be most
desirable to have this cause taken out of Court.

The Learned Judge's suggestion WWI not 'coded to; and—
Mr. Sergeant Tinny proceeded. He felt myth obliged to his
Lordship for his kind and humane interference, because it must he
the wish of every one that this cause had newer tome into Court ;
and nothing more ought to be done in it than what the strict pur.
poses of justice required ; but as it had arrived at this point, his
client could not flinch from it. He was proceeding to state, that
the plaintiff and defendant had a common interest in the property
of an uncle. some time since deceased, a Mr. Gilitionan, who re-
sided in Scotland. This property had been a constant cause
of dispute between the parries. It had been proposed on the
part of the plaintiff to refer it, but the defendant had refused
the adoption of dist course, unless the plaintiff returned unto
the Lord. He aid not mean to cast a ridicule around the de-
fendant in consequence of that otnression, far from it; he only
meant to show by it that be considered his brother in a sane state
of mind at die time he used it. The plaintiff being unable to
procure anti/dotal arrangement with his brother, endeavoured to
obtain an interview with him, and he determined to attempt seeing
him at his Chapel en the 20th July, H 043. He endeavoured to
find his brother in the vestry; but in that he failed, and he abet.
wards came certainly into the bed of the chapel for the purpose
of seeing him. At might h• said that the conduct of Robert
Pletcher was violent; bat he begged of the Jury to consider what
had taken place to make it so. After the constables were called in
and desired to take the plaintiff to the watch-house, the other de.,
Pendant, a 3lr. Knight, • surgeon, insisted that he should be taken
to a madhouse, which proposal was ultimately carried into effect ;1
he was taken to the private madhouse of Mr. lox, at Hackney.
It was of the moat fatal consequence to his client to take him to
house of this description. If he were of sound mind, it was toot
distressing to him to be taken there; for suds were the effects of
these abodes of wretchedness (however well they might be conducted)
on the stoute•t minds, an to make them shrink with horror at en-
tering them, even for a short period, much more so as inmates.
11 this was the efect upon a fins: mind, how much more fatal must
it be as one that was debilitated, and *seine if the plaintiff, by

lititides, or any other cause, wet at all in a we k State Of mind,
• this seep mast of necessity render him worse. •It was
before the admission of the patient, to have • Medics,
at the madhouse. (Here the certiticates were reed, whrer;;
sfterwards put in, the Learned Sergeant 4:keening, that the nest
MX being regular a second was written.) The Learned Sergeant)
proceeded; the poor man wished to see his wife, but Mr. Alex.
ander Fletcher prevented it, until Mr. Fox allowed it, and took
the responsibility upon himself. But the Jury would be surprised
to hear, the day after the plaintiff was sent to the madhouse, the
defendant went there and proposed to him to pout as a missionary
to Vim Diemen's Land. Gentlemen (said the Learned Sergeant),
can it be supposed. that at the time the defendant mode this proposal
be thought his brother a lunatic. He, a Minister of the Gospel, most
well know. and could duly appreciate the high privileges and great
duties incident upon that situation. II e was to pour forth the etseisola.
time of religion to the ignorant and unenlightened ; and the defend.
ant must well know that the firmness of a =dorsal mind could only
afraid that. (Here the beamed Sergeant read a letter, which was
afterwards put in, and will appear In its proper place • the letter
shaded to the happinessof his brother.l But, Gentlemen. I will
ask, was he to be made happy by being placed in an asylum for
lunatics If Me. Alexander nether thought his brother's mind
affected, ought he not anxiously to have kept him out of such a'
place? It would appear in evidence that Mr. Fox sent this unfor-
tunate man out of his house on Monday, the 28th July, on his own
lespensibility, and during the time he was in it, being a man of
brilliant talents, he taught Mr. Fox's children. One word more
as to the defendant Knight. There was a wholesome statute of the
late King, that then must be a medical man's certificate before a
lunatic could be admitted into a madhouse ; which evidently meant
that such medical man should examine the state of the patient.
But what did Knight do ? He granted a certificate immediately,
that was irregular; learning his mistake, I,e grants another on the
Monday, regular in form, but most irregular in substance; without
even Seam the patient's pulse. Onlinsrily speaking, medical men
would riot be made the subject of an action like the present ; bat if
a medical man steps out of his duty, then he was • proper object for
it. Another surgeon had said that Robert Fletcher's mind was
irritable, but not deranged; and in the state of irritation of his
mind, in consequence of this dispute with- his brother, It was
scarcely possible to calculate or know where the tinge of insanity
commenced. The highest talent was afflicted with this great actor.
miry of human nature, and the mind that possessed the finest talents
was equally liable to Otherwise fatal insanity; fee
Great wit to madness sure is near allied."
_

In tenth, w• a7t; ".fearfirilr and wonderfully made." But thine
were the very circumstances that made the plaintiff require coo.
striation, Instead of
the treatment he had experienced, and that
too from the hand of a brother. The learned Sergeant eoinelud.
ed by expensing a confident hope, that if he made out his case,
he should receive such damages as would in some degree campm-
ate the *WIC for the serious injury he had sustained.
John Markwell, sen. examined by Mr. Sergeant ADAMS—I am
one of the constables dAlooricate. I was on duty on Sunday even •
log, Nth July, 1829. 1 know Mr. Alexander Fieteher'a chapel ;
it is called Albion Chapel ; our watch-house is near the chapel.
The plaintiff. Robert }lecher, was brought to the watch-house
about eight e'clock on that.night ; he appeared very violent, and
seemed like a drunken man ; I did not then see Alexander Fletcher,
but I saw Mr. Knight in about half an hour After, plaintiff had his
coat of when I drat saw him, but he got quieter before Mr. Knight
came in, who said Mr. R. Fletcher had made a great noise in the
chapel; I said if a proper dirge was given I would act; Mr.
Knight went baekwirds and forwards to the chapel three or four
times, and at last said he considered R. Fletcher as a lunatic, and
that he would make out a certificate to send him to a madhouse; I
rid I thought our duty was to take the prisoner to the compter in
the morning; I did not notice Mr. Knight feel Mr. R. Fletcher's
pulse; going to the cornrow was seconded, sad Knight said be
would exorevate-all parties ; a coeds wee Gaged; ode or two got its
before R. Fletcher; I got aibor Mr. Knight did not go with us ;
the coach drove to Mr. Fox's. at Hackney; the plaintiff was not
violent in the coach, but exclaimed against his brother; when we
erne to Bboredkeh Church he said you are not taking me home; he
had been told before that be was going home ; in a few minutes he
said I ass bow it is ; after we got to Mr. Fox's he asked sotne one
to call sad tell his wife where he was ; be gave the dumber of the
I hoar and street ; he said it would be a sad thing for his school in
Ithe mottling ; he wrote • letter ; I dont know what became of It ;
be was as quiet as any other person in the room whilst I remained
in the house. _ _

Cam-examined by Mr. Sergeant VAI' °Tux, for Mr. A. Fletcher.
The people were coming out of the chapel when I got to the watch.
lipase; at first he was very violent, but he excited no Warm in
&Mutloin ; he struck no one ; he soon became cool and collected ;
I &WI know whether his neckcloth was of or not ; some water was
lessegbt se him ; I never heed him say the water was poisoned by his
beo.ser be did not drink immediately ; I did not see Mr. Knight put
bie heed Yfeel R. Fletcher's pulse, but he might have done so ; 1
Maud be sesevereeden between lilt. Hawker and the plaintiff; I
Mew fifr. AUL/Wm Fletcher, and consider him to be very much
I=4:Lbiltera teething of he plaintiff before.
by Mr. Sergeant PILL, for Mr. Knight—l have
boom Net Knight some months ;
_the_plaintiff had Wen at the
wobbliest's nearly half an hour before knight came ; I doet know
lobe got fee him; Mr. Knight said very little in the watch-house; I
kart he was a medical man ; he was absent but a little time when
Muss out of the watch.houtie. . . . .

By the Corey—Plaintiff in the watch-house was violont, ex-
' alaimiag against his brother, saying he had taken his property ; his
'AMMO appeared to me to be the edict of liquor.
Jaw Matkwell, jun. the son of the last witness, a constable of
Mosegate, confirmed the testimony of his fwher.
lie. flatisuel Fox.—l am a surgeon ; I have two asylums for
lunatics rider my care, one at Hackney, the other at Edmonton ;
on the 28th July, 1823, I was at Edmonton. About ten o'clock
on that art I retuned to Hackney ; Immediately on my arrival I
was said Robert Fletcher was there, but understanding the
patient was comfortable, I did not see him that night. I saw him
the next morning, and considered him incoherent. He was with
me from Sunday, the 20th July, 1823, to Monday, July 28th. I
had an opportunity of observing the state of his mind, and can say
be was not lunatic. I considered him labouring under debility of
mind. He gave me a hurried tale of his brother's ill-usage, and
the detaining of his property. I did not put • straight waistcoat on
him. I was not present when he was brought ; I require a cer-
tificate of a relation of the lunatic, independent of the regular me.
dical certificate, before I take him in. I saw Mr. Alexander
Fletcher, I think on the second or third day. I had ordered that
31r. Robert Fletcher should ace his wife ; she had spent many
hours with him. I had allowed my daughters to see Mr. R. Fletcher,
and they had conver.sd with him respecting reading the classi-
cal authors. On the 2511 July Mr. A. Fletcher put sonic papers hi
my hand, one of which I considered impmtant ; I sbewed them
to 31r. R. Fletcher; what has become of them I cannot say ; I
have made diligent search after them. Mr. A. Fletcher read the
papers to me, and said he considered his brother labouring under
repeated paroxysms of insanity. At those periods he flew to drink,
and the liquor rendered hint &complete madman, and he considered
him unsafe to the management of his own person. but probably if
he were out of the country he might be weaned from the effects of
liquor. I think he st-ted he wished him to go to Van Diemen's
Land. He thought his brother's wife seeing her husband was in-
jurious to him, and forbid me to let her see him. The defendant
said It would be better for his brother to go abroad. In the course
lathe week I communicated, by letter, I believe, to Mr. Alexan.
der Fletcher, that I did not consider his brother a lunatic. I re-
ceived a letter in reply, which was certainly not in the hand-writ.
lag of defendant, but it was signed Fletcher, and was in a lady's
hand. I discharged Mr. R. Fletcher on the Mouthy week, on my
own responsibility. On Monday the 21st 1 considered him incohe-
rent • I thought him then a lunatic. He was labouring under the
effec;s of some excitement, but whether from liquor or not I can't
say. Liquor of the day before might hare produced incoherency
on the following morning it might produce it on a mind other.
wise sound, mid I believe that to have been the ease with Robert
Fletcher. I don't think Alexander Fletcher came after I had deli-
vered the paper to Robert Fletcher.
Cross-examined —I thought there was some incoherency in the
plaintiff on the first Monday. Some minds are easily excited, and
little excitement will sometimes cause insanity. Mr. A. Fletcher
stated to me that he had acted most indecorously at the Chapel.
He behaved obstreperously there ; using blasphemous and obscene
language towards liim. Mr. A. Fletcher appeared greatly die.
teemed at the conduct of his brother. Ile said, when he was per-
forming his duty at the Albion Chapel. the plaintiff fought his way
in, pulled off his cost and ;trek-cloth, aid invited his brother to
fight. The whole detail of the defendant was so disgusting, that
if it did take place I ntust consider hint insane. He said his
brother was a man of brilliant talents, that he had at one time done
honour to the Minion, and that he was a more gifted man than
himself. He thought his brother labdased under a delusion abut
wine irroperty. He said he had assisted him with money, and
would (10 ISO ;gain if he could reclaim him.
By .11r. Servant Psi.r.—On the IVednesday I gave the plain-
tiff leave to go, but he refused, and said he did not want to go.
He said, I could slay with you for a week or twelve months if that
were all. It is a distinctive mark of insanity for the mind to run
upon one subject. The plaintiff was certainly always talking
about his brother having robbed him. It was in consequence of
my desire that Mr. Knight's certificate of admission was corrected.
Here the certificates were put in and read. They were as follows •
•

" This is to certify, I corisidcr 3lr. Robert Fletcher a tit object
to be placed under your care. (Signed)
"20th July, 1823. "J. C. Kxiour."
" In consequence of sufficient personal examination of Mr.
Robert Fletcher, I hereby certify that he is of insane mind, and I
consider it necessary for the health of the lunatic that he should
be placed under your care, aid that confinement in a respectable
asylum, lawfully established, would have the best effect upon him.
(Signed.) "J. C. KNIGHT.
" Finsbury-plage South, Ju 21, 1323."
To this last certificate was added the following note
" Sir—Receive into your house the above-named lunatic; and
I undertake to be answerable for all expenses attendant upon your
I care of him whilst in your house.
(Sighed) "A. Fervent:a."
Mr. John Hopke.—l am a surgeon in Ratcliffe Highway. In
July, 1822, 1 was applied to by a Mr. Crow to see the plaintiff;
for the purpose of signing a certificate that he might be confined.
I in consequence UM R. Fletcher, and afterwards 31r. A. Fletcher
came to my house by appointment. lie asked me in what state I
found his heather. I said he was quite rational ; that Robert
Fletcher had said there was a difference between the brothers as to
property. I told him that I had staid with Robert Fletcher a long
time, and could not sign a eertilicate against him. I asked Alex.
Fetcher if there had been disputes between him and his brother ?
He admitted that there had, and I said that was a stronger reuses
for not signing a certificate.
Mr. Fox recalled—l have heard Alexander Fletcher way, that
there were disputes between him and his brother; but he said that
it was not true that he had any property of bit brother's.
Samuel Blackburn, a schoolmaster, and a common friend of the
parties, stated, that he had seen the pliintiff respecting the property
H
In dispute between them some time since. e made complaint,

opium Ais brother klesander, which the witness communicated
to biwi, and he desired to know what questions the plaintiff Ist
'to put, cad be, the defendant, would answer them. The
winos,
not considering the answm of Alexander met in every ran,
doe questions of Robert, witness himself proposed an arhitrat',..
which the plaintiff consented to, but the defendant said he 447;
not consent to an arbitration, unless his brother returned to
Lad. In 1812, R. Fletcher was a very consistent, able, and toad
esteemed Minister of the Gospel. Witness had seen notion.,
the plaintiff from 1812 to 1819. He had perceived no synott'4,7,
of Mouthy in R. Fletcher, excepting when his breath sine&C,
liquor.—(The questions and answers from the plaintiff to the
de
fendant were then put in and read, relative to their sacles prn,
Ferty4
Cross-examined—Witness had been under the necessity of fat
bidding the defendant his house.
E. Hedges._[ am assistant to the last *insets. The phut{
had attended me to teach me the Classics for six or seven mono,
up to within a day or two of his going to Mr. Fox's. I had
reason to believe that he was lunatic. I heard four days ate
that he was at Fox's Establishment, and I went to see hives
found him perfectly collected.
By the COURT—I know Mrs. Fletcher, his wife.
Mr. Blackburn immediately stepped forward and said, that 36,
Fletcher had been an inmate at his house, and he considered b.,
conduct so correct that he wished her to be a companion el ks
own wife.

Alm. Janet Adams—l mode a proposal about two years tg,
from the defendant to the plalmitf. It was contained In a late,
written to me ; I cannot tell what was in it. I have seas It to.
day. [The witness was extremely agitated, and retard.)
Oideon Smith—Previous to July, In last year, I bad two seas at
R. Fletcher's academy. On the list July I took them awls,
because there was no attendance.

Other witnesses were also called to prove the special darnar,
A pine& per quarter was the price charged generally for no
schobm
Charles Nicholson, one of the had boys at R. Fletcher's adac,
proved that in the beginning of July, 1813, be had between far,
and fifty scholars ; when it was given up at the end of Jaly
bad only twelve.
(Here the letter from defendant to platotif was put In arid rest)
" July 28, IBM
" My Dun Brolber—Jf you could am it your Interest as I do,
and as all who wish you well do, I am sore you would read',
to leave this town, Atm you can never be_ happy or prosperoot
If you could provoll ow yourself to leave Lot4on, I will age..
Tour by everymeaws hr my power to settle something on you as,
weekly allowance to make you comfortable. My aster will et.
deavour to answer any questions that you sly put to her.
(Signed) 4A. FLurcart."
Mrs. Janet Adams produced the letter she had received lees
defendant. That letter carne out of my pocket. I had it thin
when I was last in the box. I never was In a place of this lia
before.

(Hare the letter was put in and read.)
" December 23, lift
" Dear Madam.—You will confer a great favour on me if yob
win, at your convenienee, wait on my brusher, and tell hint, do
as there is now no prospect of his annealing in this cowntry, bt
shield prepare himself ta go abroad, where, with the gime of Ge.
he might rise to grant eminence, usefulness, and respectability. If
he determines on this plan, I will do every thing in my power ts
Iforward his views.

(Signed) " A. FL ETCHZII."
Mr. Alexander Fleteba never told me where he wished bit
brother to go.
Mr. Ebenezer Tempie.—l live in the house of Mr. Alezmda
Fletcher. I remember Robert Fletcher's wife coming the haat
in July. as He w told of his sista.in.law them but
Alexander Fletcher would not see her. She expressed a with to
' see him several times, but he would not see her. She was in the
garden. I can's say whether the door was shut against he.
Onos-examined.—On the 12th of July he came to Morena,
about six o'clock in the evening. I was reading in the drawitr.
room, and heard a violent knock at the door. There was only or.
'elf and the servant at home. She opened the door, and he ram
Toured to rush in. She shut the door in his face. He then mar
round into the garden, and said be would not move from the spot
until be had stabbed the d—d hypocrite. He took of his cost,
began to take off his ',teethes, but I went out and preventei
He staid there three boon. lie went into the hay-held, and rota
in the hay. He foamed at the mouth, and told me he would pd
the hair off my scull. I considered him insane, and not safe for
him to he at large. Sometimes he would speak kindly of is
brother, and then vonlentl.y. I have sem him in the chapel dm
he has been at Mr. Fox a. He has put or his hat in the capti
He bad said in the chapel. in Latin, when calling his brother_
't Is the name of God I call thee my brother."
His boas :awe said—Brother Toddy, an you go on to
further t_ _ _

._...._ .
Mr. Sergoint TeDDY said he would consult his client.
In a few minutes the Learned Counsel said he would maul to
his Lordship's suggation, and consent to withdraw a juror.
Mr. Sergeant Vattnnau then said be owed it to his client to ay,
that if be partook of his feelings, nothing but commiseration wood
come from him in the comae of this mule ; for this poor man, ta
defendant, had never been wanting in the feelings of a brother. 13o:
he must say, that he trembled for the consequences of this come.
aeration when this trial was over, in consequence of the tit:glow a
the plaintiff.
Mr. Sergeant PELL said, that it was due to a most reaper*
medical gentleman, Mr. Knight, to say, that he had been d
into this action in the course of his duty, and that he bad no =
but that of pity fur the unfoetunate man.
The Cutler Juliana observed that be tbougkt both the de.
fendants had tiered in a most exemplary manner. If this cause tad
gone math faiths', the poor man wouM p:obably have been saddled
with coats.
A Juror was then withdrawn.