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other grants to which any reasonable objdr.cn
be made, or which would be likely* in conirti-telice,
to give rise to any lengthened discussion.
The, Orders of the Day were then disnos(;4l of
when the Honse adjourned at Eleven o'clock till
Monday.

IAII REPORT.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Afittt. S.

IN TOR NATTIR"6F LORD AGIIRIM, A LUNATIC, AND
ALSO ZA.-itTA 'FOS LAAL OF ATNLONK,

Sir SAMUIa ROMILLY was heard in reply
.to the
arguments of Mr. Richards and Mr. Weatherall,
who supported the claim of Lady Aghrim to be the
Committee of tbe person:and estate of, her husband,
'Lord Aglirim. Sir S. RoMILLY contended With
great ability in support of the claim of the Earl of
Athlone to be the CoMmittee bf the unfortunate
'Nobleman,' wrio is the sou of the Noble Earl; and
Avent over all the statements contained in the affida-
vits on both sides; from the whole tenor of which
he maintained, that whatever affeaion Lady Aghrini
might have for her Lord, and he admitted it to-be
most pure; yet she bad erred in judgment as
.to the
mode of treating this unfortunate Nobleman, in thg
state 'of mind in which he is, and therefore ought
not to have the care 'of his persottand estate, to the
exclusion of his father, mother, brothers, sisters,
and,all his. relatives ; but that he ought now to be
'removed from the place where he resides, being a
sea=port in the County of Durham, to some place
near London, w here he may be mote immediately
under the superintendance of his family, and within
the reach of the protection of the Court of Chan-
cery.

The LORD CiThi.ICELLOR:-...." It is impossible for I
me to describe the pain and anxiety with which I
address myself to the discharge of my ditty in this
case, of the value of which no man living can form
an estimate, unless placed in a situation wherein he
is called upon to dischargelt, for it is one of those
concerns in which a man mast harden his heart
before he can duly exercise his judgment, and I am
perfeCkly sure that if those who have addressed me
on either side of the subject sat in this place, they
Would not have expressed their judicial as they have
expressed
,their personal feelings, The Great Seal
is entrusted, by Special Commission, with the duty
of taking the best care it can, and to guard With
the utmost prudence with which it can surround,
persons in that unhappy state which is deemed
• lunacy ; but it were idle to disguise from mankind
the utter impossibility of discharging that duty well,
without that which in this case is afforded on
neither side (perhaps because it could' not be ob-
tained); from neither side have we had the benefit
of medical advice in every stage of the history
of this case ; and if I feel that event in a great
degree distressing to me, it. is ' because I know
that in cases of this kind, where my regret is deeper
and more excessive than I know how to express,
and my concern is incapable of being stated, when I
reflect that my judgment might be erroneous from
beginning to end, if I were to act on such feelings i
as might actuate me iii the absence of that medical
information which is absolutely necessary on such
occasions as these ; and I cannot help deploring
that we so often find a diginclination in medical
men. to give to this Court that assistance it so much
needs in the due discharge of this branch of its
judicial duty. I think DoCtor -Gregory deserves
The highest commendation this Court Can bestow
on him, for the advice and opinion he gave in this
melancholy case; and I hope.that in the proscen-
tion of this inquiry, that assistance will be liberally
given, without which it is impossible not to see that
'this Court is in danger of forming an cironeous
judgment. Now, let us look at this most unfortu-
nate and unhappY•case. The Gentleman who is af-
flicted with this great calamity is the son of a very-
considerable and amiable family, naturally calling
for the pretedion and the anxiety of that family,
who would be wanting in that duty, the importance
of which they ought to feel, and on the exigency
of which they ought to ad, if they did not feel for
him the deepest atfeaiun 'and concern. On the other
band, he appears to be married to a Lady who seems
the object of his warmest affeCtion ; it was a match
•in which, perhaps, neither party had much of
worldly prOspea, but was founded on mutual at-
tachment. She is a Lady of high rank, though
nut of a Noble family, and it is clear, from all the
evidence laid before me, and uncontradiCted, by
aikrtion, that after this marriage, the parties lived,
together in the greatest harmony and mutual affec-
tiou, until it pleased Providence to visit this Gentle-
man with that bodily disease which ended in mental
derangement. I think that disease took place some-
Where about April or May, t 805, when he was in
the course of performing his professional duty, and
stationed in Ireland ; and until August 1805, every
thing was uninterrupted; up to that time there,
appears to have been the most perfe& and uninter-
rupted taffeetioni not only between Lord and Lady.
Agbritn, but also between them' and the fatally of'
the Earl of Athlone; but it is impossible to deny
that during the residence of these parties in Ireland,
something happened to interrupt their good under-
standing, and it is greatly to be regretted, that whets
any little interruption takes place in the atfeCtion of
families, each party is apt to bring forward circum-
stances to justify that part which it takes in -a
quarrel, and many of which circumstances are, in
.all human probability, in no degree fairly colluded
. with the original concern; so that many things, I
have no doubt, passed in Ireland, and afterwards
hero, which- had no stri& relation to the true
question, now between the parties; and many of
the circumstances thus stated in the affidavits, I
:..read with regret and pain. On arriving in this
,'country, this Gentleman still remained in some
• degree in a state' of derangement,. but capable of,
receiving comfort, and of a participation of a great
deal of family happiness.—He arrived on the I Ith
of August, 1805, and ,my Lord and Lady Aebritt
became part of the faMily
.of my LOrd Athlone, in
Sloane-street. Front the month of Atigust up to
I November, it appears to have been the firth opinion
and confident expeetation oat the whole of that
family (accompanied, if I recolle& rightly, by the
expression of Lady Agbrim against calling in Dr,
Willis, and Lady Athlone against that of Dr, Sim-
mans), that this unfortunate Nobleman ‘vcoilil
recover. They express also that it would nut Lis
iirecessary to cull in medical wisistance, a bout' i•'o
Jong cherished, because the remedy war, tat-r,tiii.. :JO
_rag ch:layettdelayed for a laudable reasl4ll, at far