The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-05 00:00:00

LAID REPORT.

COURT OF. CHANCERY, Arßit 4.
TN THE MATTER olf WILLIAM LUDLAM, ESQ.

This was the Petition of Mr.--W. W. Ludlam, to have
the :traverse ..of.: the. Cominission of Lunacy issued
against him forthwith tried; and that the Committee.
appointed under that Commission provide the pecu-
niary means of doing it.
Sir SAMUEL Rommt.v-supported the Petition, an&
recited its contents. He said the Petitioner com-
plained of having been unjustly found.a lunatic; and
'though Lord Erskine, on a former application, 'had;
direeied ,a- traverse,. yet the 'Petitioner, .his property,
being at the disposal of the Committee, had no
means Of bringing, it to a trial. The present sanity
‘:
of the Petitioner, Sir S. ROMILLY said, 'was without
question ; and he had first the affidavit of the•per-
son placed over him by Dr,Monibe, who stated,
that he had been constantly in Mr. Ledlani'S pre-
sence• for near twelve Months-!--had obs.-rsed no one
symptom of insanityand believed him to be of
sound mind and understanding. That 'affidavit was
supported by those of Do6lors Reynolds, Babington,
Monroe,'and Blanc; also by Mr. Seeres, a Surgeon,
Major Dacesta, Wand divers others, the Petitioner's
friends, who all' agreed, that in the visits they had
paid to 'the "Petitioner, they had not perceived the
smallest derangement of his inteilects, or any 'thing
at all incoherent in his discourse,; on the.eontrary,
they believed him to be perfeally sane, and of sound
mind and under Standing.
Mr. COOKE, who appeared for Mr. James Ludlam,
the Committeeof the Lunatic, observed;that it would'
give his, Client ,great pleasure to find Mr. Ludlam.
•coinpletely- recovered of his mental derangement;
and if that was the fa&, the shorter way would' ise,
to supersede the Conainissien,at once. . He Was-atio..
happy to find, that the sort of lunacy Mr. Ludlam'
had laboured under, was not a continued' State.
'of insanity ; at the name time .iiOthing
..per.coold be suggested with reseeal to the Cominis-)
sion itself. Mr. Ludlam had,conducled hiinself with
great violence in having fired a pistol at one of the
proprietors cif the London Tavern, and therefore his
own personal. safety,- as well as the public-safety,
rendered it tit . that his , state of mind should be in-
' quired into. If there was an fault attached to his:
s,tv'aite family, it was their having d so long before they
took out'a Commission of.Lonacragainst Mr. Lud-
lam, They had not done it till there was in abso-
lute necessity for it, his opinien to traverse,
the Commission now would be extraneous, 'as the
Commission, if his Lordship imagined he could'a6
it with safety, ini;;lit be superseded, ,and the Peti-'
tioner released altogether.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY 'replied; that if Mr. Coots
did not mean to dispute the :Petitioner's-right to tra-
Nerse the hirplisition, he had better refrain frern any
statement of the circumstances,. as the Petitioner's
case ought to go betore a 'Jury unprejudiced.
The CHANCELLOR felt inclined to grant the first
part of the Petition, namely, that the Commission
should be traversed forthwith ; but some difficulties
having been stated with respeit to the Committee
finding the pecuniary means for doing it, hie Lord-
ship said; he should consult the Master (Srasnati)
before whom the matter had been argued, and speak
to that part of the case the succeedinonorning.
The Petition of the ',Earl of Athlone, 'respe&ing
hii son Lord Aughrim's Lunacy, was. postponed to
the following day, Mr. WET/SERBIA, being unavoid-
ably absent.

The Assizes for Corilwall, which closed at Latin-
, cesto-n on Thursday, was very fully attended. •The,
number of Counsellors present was perhaps unprec-
dented. Mr. Serjepalt MARSHALL sat at Mci Prius.
The number of cau,es entered for trial exceeded any
thing before:known at Launceston ; but two days
extraordinary having been allowed to the Judges, the.
Nisi Frius Court was not opened till twelve o'clock.
The KING v. I-LiWxtto, Esq. was an inforMation
qua wartanto calling upon the Defendant to show
by what authority he claimed to be an Alderman of
the borough of Saltash. It appeared, that the Court
being duly held to eled an Alderman of that bo-
rough, two 'candidates were proposed, viz. the De- '
fendant and a Mr. Spicer, in different interests.—
After two or three had polled for each, Mr. SpiCer
was asked if he had taken the sacrament withitf
a year preceding the election, to which he answer- '
ed, he had. To the like 4uestion the Defendanc'
answered, he had not. Notice was then giveii to
the eledors that all votes given for the Defendirit
would be thrown away, as he was clearly ineligible
to the office. They unaccountably persisted, and he
was sworn in. The chief question was, whether,
after some detiors had polled, the notice had the
effeet of destroying the votes given for the Defend-
ant • and the Judge thinking thesuestion of great
ditliculty, as well as importance, direeled a special
verditl.

Si NGU I. Ai ACCiDRbIII.—A person residing in the
neighbourhood of SWansea fell from his torsea.few
days and dislocated his,collar-bone ; :a servant
was dispatched. for surgical assistance, who like Wise
fell, and broke his arm ; arid another, . sent on the .
same errand, ',met with a similar accident, and -broke
his collar-bone.—(Cambrian.).
Many years have the corporation of London been
forminga plan ,for improving, Temple Bar and Snow
which is nearly accomplished : in Consideration
of the magnitUde of time undertaking, the Legislature
wisely,granted.a Lottery, ,to complete_ t b LiriC§ so'
nobly begun; the citizens have given 'their suppOrt,
and have pin chased a . large proportion ..of
and Sltares, being well aware that those. AVlio posess.
Ilse: prizes will have estates of great value,, ;and; that
they will produce considerably more" than t,b6'atiti.
'they. are estimated ; besides, they can by
ed into 4410 i immediately. The Lottary.wid
tided au one ti.iy,,, the*ith of the presenquonth,
kloaNsa,v atio Co. solicit tileir
ickets have rose, and are likely to
conifilii, a 2, cliaritigoc.rossi and St. Alargaret's-hilli
Borougn ; where -No. 19,570, a Prkze oh bouol..and
No. l o,Ja7i a Prize 01•5 out. were shared anU schd
on the keurtli Day. . .

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