The National Register.
London, England, 1816-12-23 00:00:00

PLAINTIFF'S CASE.

It appeared that the plaintiff was an attorney residing in
IRlessington-street, in this city. The defendant was aph r.
sician, and principal medical superintendent of a lunatic
asylum at Hanover-park, in the connay of Carlow.
Oa the part of the plaintiff, it appeared that he and his
wife were married is the year 1810. They had three ail.
Arent and up to the period of Mrs. Hind's insanity, the plain-
tiff conducted himself to her as a kind and an affectionate

husband.
It was thought expedient by. the friends of Mrs. Hinds to
send her to Carlow, to the Hanover Asylum, which appeared
tabs conducted by a sort bf medical company, consisting of
three physicians, viz. Dr. Middleton, Dr. Delahoyde, and
Pr. Clay.
In the month of Jammu y, 1810, Mrs. Hinds complained to
Dr. Delahoyde of basing been abused by Dr. Middleton—
+• she said 'she was then pregnant—that the defendant had taken
advantage of her nngortunate situation, and had got her with
child. At this time Dr. Delahoyde conceived her mind was
wandering from truth, and he did not believe her. In some
short time alter, she renewed her charges against the de-
fendant, and Dr. Delahoyde thought it necessary to bring
De. Middleton and Mrs. Hinds together, lie accordingly
found an opportunity of doing so, and at that meeting Mrs.
Hinds upbraided the Ddetor with the crime of having had
an illicit connexion with her. She then told the defendant,
in the presence of Dr. Delaboyde, " that be was the father
of the child she was bearine, and implored him to remove
her to a place of secrecy and safety, where she might not he
exposed."
When the parties were thins confronted, the defendant did
nee deny the charge, but ordered Mrs. Hinds to be removed
from Isis presence. She retired weeping, complaining of,
and lamenting her misfortune.
Dr. Delahoyde urged the necessity of her immediate re-
=oval to save the lastitntiou from disgrace, and advised that
'a female attendant should accompany her to the place of her
retreat.
It also appeared that Mrs. Hinds had charged Dr. Middle-
ton of the ill-treatment she alleged to have received from him,
and complained of it to a -Mrs. Conolly, one of the house-
he.-pers.
Shortly after the meeting above-mentioned, Dr. Middleton,
accompanied by Mrs. Hinds, left the Asylum in a carriage,
antler the pretence, as the doctor reported, of going to Dub-
lin to leave the laity with her friends; but, instead of doing so,
the Dr. eoaveyed Mrs. Hinds to the house of a Dr. Rodgers,
who resided in the county of Wicklow, and imposed on that
respeetable physician, by telling hint that the unfortunate
lady was a Mrs. Hamilton, and the wife of a gentleman of a
nsost violent and outrageous temper, and that it was there
fore thought expedient by her friends to place her in a safe ,
retirement during her pregnancy. Linder these deceptive
circumstances. Dr. Rogers introduced her to his family, with
whom she combined to reside. It appeared that Dr. 11l iddle-
ton, while iu the county Wicklow, had written to the institu-
tion to Dr. Delaboyde, as if' from Dublin, saying very little
respecting Mrs. Hinds, but a good deal respecting the cre-
ditors of Dr. Delaboyde, with whom Dr. Middleton said he
hail been in treaty for the composition and arrangement of
his (Dr. Delahoyde's) affairs. The latter had on it the Dub-
lin post-office mark.
The next witness called to prove the adultery was Dela-
hoyde, the defendant's partner. He spoke to the examina-
tion above-mentioned of the lady, her confessing her preg-
nancy to hint, and alsoaccusin Dr. Middleton with being the
caase of it to his face.
Ou his cross-exantinatlon he admitted, that he was a mar-
riad man. :led had left his wife and two children in gland :
but that he bad intrigued with one of the servants of the in-
stitution,
who bad a child by hint: he admitted also that lie
had treated Mrs. Hinds with punch once or twice to make
her spealcout against Dr. Middleton—that he had once kept
an improper female for twelve days at the institution, and
gave her 12s. when she went away : lie also owned to sleep-
ine with Mary Rhviand, the cook of the institution, who used
to came to his boil. (rein.; asked if he had ever two females
at once in bed with him, he declined answering until he had
the opinion of the Judge, lout the latter declined interfering.
Ruew Mrs. Conelly, the matron of the institution, very well;
she was a nice woman, but she escaped him unhurt and
untouched. Has heard of her intimacy with a lunatic patient,
culled Alonzo. He was a prisoner for debt iu Dublin when
he first communicated what he knew to Mr. Hinds.
The nest witness was this Mrs. Conolly : she admitted that
improper females were frequently caught in Delalioyile's
apartments : she knew Mrs. Hinds to be pregnant, but could
Lot tell 'iv whom. 'l' his witness confessed to several love.
letters which had passed between her and the path nts of the
Institution, and which were produced.
The next wittiest was the persou with whom Dr. Middleton
placed Mrs. Hinds during her accouchement. lie believed
her to be Mrs. Hamilton, until her husband, Mr. Hinds, tame
to inquire for her. The servant of the person deposed to
seeing Mr. Middleton kiss His. Hind when Ise visited her
during her accouchement, which was attended with great
danger.
These were in substance the facts of the plaintiff's ease.
80.1. t of the scenes of ini.liiitolisilepravity which were elieiltal
rt 4,111 the Cross seraminatiws of 1)r. Delalloyde, in which he
was the principal actor, and which were said to haul- been
performed at the Hanover institution, we are, front motives of
morel feeling, obliged to suppress. lly the cross-examination
...it was sought to implicate oat only Dr. Delahoyde, but all
the dorm's as "portieires criminis" in the assault uu the per-
eon of die unfortunate Mrs. Ilinds.