The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, 'LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY

kinds and had done many foolish and objectionable'
things, but whether the acts and events which had
been proved in evidence were the clear and indis-
putable result of insanity. He admitted that there
were defects in the character of Mr. Windham, but
those defects were attributable to the example of
his father and to the treatment he received in child-
hood. Mr. Windham seemed to have been allowed
to do what he liked in childhood: his education,
such as it was, ceased at too early an age, and he
never was wisely or prudently directed. The evi-
dence of the witnesses showed that when at school
he was not a boy of dirty habits, while the slaver-
ing was completely accounted for by the peculiar
formation of his mouth, which had nothing what-
ever to do with his mental capacity. At school he
was somewhat riotous and boisterous in his manner,
and that circumstance, coupled with his fondness
for rough out-door sports, satisfactorily explained
his sobriquet of " Mad Windham." The learned
counsel reflected with severity upon the conduct
of some of the tutors, and argued that, though apt
to resent and resist force when used by
those whom he disliked, Mr. Windham was always
amenable to authority properly andfairly exercised
—while his letters to his mother showed that he had
an affectionate disposition, He asked the jury whe-
ther it was likely, if Mr. Windham were the sort of
wild beast he was represented to be by the peti-
tioners, if he were a creature who spent his time in
howling and catcalling, a person who never by any
chance indulged in coherent and consequential con-
versation, he would have been kept so long at Eton,
or could have induced gentlemen of education,
ability, and position to live and travel with him ?
Mr. Burr, the tutor at Wokingham, had distinctly
stated that in point of intellect Mr. Windham was
not inferior to the other young men under his
charge, and that if he had continued his studies a
short time longer he would have passed the army
examination without the smallest difficulty. On the
other hand, the evidence of Mr. Cook and others
showed conclusively that Mr. Windham transacted
his business like any other gentleman, while the
conduct of Mr. Andrews, of Rimpton, when he ex-
pressed his willingness to allow his daughter under
certain conditions, to enter into an engagement with
Mr. Windham was clear and convincing proof that
in the opinion of a gentleman of great intelligence
and position there was not the slightest taint of in-
aanity about the alleged lunatic. The education of
Mr. Windham might be said to have closed When
he left Eton, for none of his subsequent tutors, or
rather companions, ever read with him, or ever
wished to read with him. Col. Bathurst had given
his evidence with more fairness than the other
tutors, but he ought to have stated before leaving
the witness-box that, after his connection with the
alleged imbecile had altogether ceased, he did not
scruple to visit him as a friend. The history of
his connection with the East Norfolk Militia at
Great Yarmouth, abundantly proved that Mr-
Windham, though quick to resent an injury,
was always ready to snow respect where re-
spect was due, and capable of discharging his duties
satisfactorily and properly when he chose to per-
form them. Mr. Scott, the metaphysician and
solicitor, of Aylsham, had formed and expressed an
opinion that Mr. Windham was insane, but the
same gentleman had on several occasions gone to
Felbrigg-hall and dined with the alleged lunatic,
and had taken his wife and daughter with him,
exposing them to the insults which a man who
could not talk rationally or coherently might be ex-
pected at any moment to heap upon them. The
way in which Mr. Windham was treated by the
gentlemen of his own neighbourhood—the visits
paid to him by Captain Ives, a deputy-lieutenant of
the county, and his terms of intimacy with Lord and
Lady Suffield, ought to have greater weight with
the jury than opinions formed upon such flimsy and
worthless grounds as those stated by Mr. Scott and
others. No person could doubt for a moment that
if Mr. Windham had been insane I.e would neither
have been permitted to remaifi in the East Norfolk
Militia, received as a guest by Lord Suffield, nor
visited as a friend by Captain Ives. In an evil hour
Mr. Windham went to lodge with the Llewellins,
in Duke-street. The affidavits of the Llewellins to
the Lords Justices were to the effect that Mr.
Windham was more like a wild beast than a human
being. That he was either unable or unwilling to
wash himself, unless compelled to do so. That he
was taken out of his room and put into a bath every
morning by Mr. Llewellin. That he habitually
threw away his money. That he was in the habit
of running about the house in a state of nakedness.
That he repeatedly exposed his person in a dis-
graceful manner to 'Nil's. Llewellin, and that his bed
was frequently found in a filthy condition. Could
anybody doubt that the Llewellins were mere
creatures of Gen. Windham ? Gen. Windham had
been called a distinguished man. All his informa-
tion of Gen. Windham had been derived from public
report, he cared nothing for what his conduct might
have been in the field. He judged him by his
actions alone, and he begged to tell General Wind-
ham that he was a mere carpet knight if he could
attack his nephew with affidavits in the retirement
of the Court of Chancery, and then decline to re-
peat his statements in open court. General Wind-
ham had blown his own trumpet rather loudly; he
had challenged his kinsman to the combat; he had
exposed his life to the public gaze with every cir-
cumstance of exaggeration and falsehood, but, with
a moral cowardice almost unexampled, when his
nephew entered the lists to meet him in fair fight,
he had left his hired and perjured witnesses to make
what stand they could, and had meanly skulked and
hid himself in the seat beside his counsel. Here
was a man who the day before Mr. Windham came
of age treated him as sane and competent, and who,
long after his marriage, attempted to sell him a
property worth £l,OOO. The last thing we heard
of General Windham was that when Elizabeth
Moore proved the perjury of Mrs. Llewellin in
connexion with one of the most disgusting features
of his case, he left his home in Belgravia on Christ-
mas morning and sought out the humble dwelling
of Mrs. Brown, the laundress, for the purpose of
seeing whether he could not bolster up the evidence
of a baffled and discredited witness. General Wind-
ham had not the courage to come forward in open
court and support the charge which he had dared
to make against his nephew. In the privacy of the
Court of Chancery he had ventured to defame and
blacken the character of his youthful relative, but
he had proved himself craven, recreant, and coward
enough to decline to sanction by his oath in the
face of the public a story which he had foisted
upon the Lords Justices, and which he had not
hesitated to support by the evidence of hireling
witnesses. It was a remarkable fact that, after
he had retained the Llewellins'as his principal wit-
nesses, General Windham, of whose distinction we
had heard so much, did not scruple to dine with a
retired valet and his wife to celebrate the birthday
of a brother soldier. The house in Duke-street was,
indeed, a mysterious establishment. Generals,
colonels, clergymen, and distinguished scholars were
there in the habit of dining with a common lodging-
house-keeper, who one day waited like a footman
and the next sat down at table, while his wife took
daily airings in a cab with a gentleman whom she
called and sometimes travelled with
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