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London, England, 1862-01-03 00:00:00

were filthy and nasty ; but where was Mr. Patten,
and why was he not called to prove the state-
ment which had been made by his learned friend ?

He bad not been galled.

hen he referred to

Mr. Bolston, the tutor at Eton, in whose house Mr.

Windham was, and who was obliged to get rid of
him; but where was Mr. Bolston ? Why was he
not called by the petitioners, who could, if his state-
ment was true, have given them most important in-
formation ? The first witness called was Mr.

Cheeles, his tutor ;but it seemed that he was a gen-
tleman who had never had a pupil before. And
what did he tell them, he being Mr. Wiudham's
_ _

;utor ?

He told them that Mr. Windham had been

able, without the aid of a private tutor, to go
through his exercises in Greek, Latin, and spelling,

and while on the fourth form, without any other
assistance, was able to keep his place. The learned
counsel here referred to some filthy habits which
had been spoken of by several witnesses, and said
he should be able, by casts of Mr. Windham's
mouth, to satisfy the jury that that arose from a
natural malformation, and over which he had no
control. As to the riding rapidly, Mr. Cheeles said
he rode rather fast, but he never treated animals
with cruelty, hnd therefore he thought it was un-
fair on the part of his learned friend to state in his
opening address that he was guilty of systematic
cruelty to animals. Then there was the charge of
his having, while at a ball at Torquay, seized a gen-
tleman by his whiskers, and knocked his head
against the wall ; but although he said that a
quarrel had taken place between them he never
made any inquiry of what the quarrel was about,
and was unable to say whether or not there might
not have been a provocation for it. The learned
counsel then criticised some other minor points of
the evidence, and then alluded to the favouritism
by which it was alleged Mr. Windham took his re-
move to the fifth form ; but even Mr. Cheeles ad-

mitted he took his remove from his school examina•

tion, and if there was a slight favouritism as to
arithmetic, Mr. Bolston was the only one who
could speak as to that, and he had not been called.
The Rev. Mr. Hale, the mathematical master, had
said that he was noisy and boisterous, and he was
compelled to have Mr. Windham close to him to
keep him quiet, but he admitted that he could go
through the first four rules of arithmetic, and did
all his work very well, although he said he was the
densest pupil he ever had. He would now refer to
the evidence of Mr. Whiteside, a cornet in the 18th
Hussars, who was at Eton at the time Mr. Wind-
ham was there, and he said that he was called.
" Mad Windham." He also made a singular state-
ment that during the five years he was at Eton he
had never heard any other person during that time
called mad except Mr. Windham—a statement
which made those who knew what public schools
were, raise their hands in surprise, well knowing
that scarcely was there any school where there was
not some boy who was called the madman, from his
noisy and boisterous nature, but who was generally
one of the cleverest boys in the school. Having
alluded to the evidence of Col. Bathurst, he said he
would take it as a fair statement of the case of the
petitioners, and no doubt he was disappointed in
having taken charge of a young man to travel with
him on the Continent, who was not of those culti-
vated habits to enable him to introduce him into
good society ; and he had no doubt that Colonel
Bathurst did not much enjoy his continental trip
on that occasion. He had spoken of his beating a
horse, but he did not set that !down as an act of
cruelty. As to his eating, he said he thought he
took more than was good for him; and, after that,
he believed they might get rid of the mass of rub-
bish which had been brought before them in re-
spect:to his eating. He then reviewed some other
portions of Colonel Bathurst's evidence, and as to
his talking with railway guards and waiters on
the Continent, they might readily be accounted
for, as they were the only persons who usually
spoke the English language. As to the state-
ment of Mr. -Whiteside, in reference to the ob-
servations of Mr. Windham on the mules to ladies
while ascending the mountain, there might have
been a substructure of truth in it, but nothing
serious, or Colonel Bathurst would have been
applied to, and Mr. Windham would have been re-
quested to apologise in the same way he had done
for some impropriety committed at the hotel at
Lucerne. Colonel Bathurst, in reference to Mr.
Windham's knowledge of the value of money, said
he supplied him with £2OO a-year, which was for
clothes and pocket-money ; and during the whole
time he never knew him to make an injudicious
purchase, although ho had no orders to restrict him
as to the amount of money. After Colonel Bathurst
brought Mr. Windham home, his next tutor was
Mr. E. Horrocks, and was so from October 1859, to
June, 1860. Mr. Windham wanted to stop at home,
and Mr. Horrocks wanted to go abroad and thus
was established a casus belli between them. He
seemed desirous of teaching Mr. Windham French
and German, so that he might go abroad, whereas
it was the desire of Mr. Windham to remain at
Felbrigge ; and hence there was a constant dislike
between them. Mr. Horrocks said that Mr. Wind-
ham would go out into the fields in the morning,
and come into breakfast with dirty clothes and
hands and would eat like an animal; but Colonel
Bathurst, who was with him for nine months, did
not speak of anything particular in that respect;
and if Mr. Windham did eat like an animal, they
had a right to suppose that that animal was man.
Mr. Horrocks told Mr. Windham that if he did not
behave himself he would be put into a lunatic
asylum, and that General Windham would take his
property from him when he came home from India:
INTGw, although he (Sir H. Cairns) did not think
Mr. Horrocks was a very good tutor, ho believed he
was a very good prophet. He then went in
detail over some other portions of Mr. Her-
rocks's evidence, and said that the conduct of
Mr. Horrocks did not reflect to his credit, but
that it showed the utmost charity and forgiveness
on the part of Mr. Windham, and was a sufficient
justification for the observations he made, that his
friends wanted to take his property away from him.
Was it to be wondered at that, after the treatment
Mr. Windham had received from his tutor, he
should be desirous of giving him the slip, and joined
his regiment at Yarmouth, and did his duty for a
whole month as a lieutenant in the militia regi-
ment. He had during the whole of that time had
the use of firearms, he had been seen by his brother
officers, and yet no one had been called to prove that
he had not acted in a rational manner. Mr. Hor-
rocks himself did not say when ho had acted in an
irrational manner. lie had written letters to his
mother, all couched in a most natural manner. The
learned counsel then read the following letters from
Mr. Windham to his mother :
" St. Leonards, Sat., 25th, 59.
" Dear Mama,—l have had a hard battle, but I stood
my ground against going abroad, in spite of Ld. Alfred's
threats, which he sent to me through Horrccks, saying,
that if I did not go abroad I should not be allowed to go
to Felbrigg in the Autumn; but I was more determined
than ever not to go when I received these messages from
Horrocks. I told him simply, I might perhaps have
yielded and gone ; but now, since I have been threatened
and intimidated, I will not leave England in spite of any
threats. This morning, at Folkstono, ho went with a
Friend of his, who was going to London, to the '1 icket
Office, and asked me to come to the Station. 'Well, I
walked down, and I saw him go to take two tickets, so I
said, ' Where is the lugage, and where aro we going.'
Ho said, Its on board ; hero is your ticket for Boulogne.'
I said, simply, Then the Lugage may go without me, and
so may you. I shall not touch that ticket, or get my boot
on the boat.' He then commenced blackguarding me
before all the porters and people, called me a lunatic, and
said I was mad and insane, and never should come to the
property, &c., and said to his friends, ' Oh, he has had a
letter from his dear Mother,' with a sneer.—l must now
say adieu, and with love to Emily and Constance,
" believe me Yrs Affect.,
" NV. F. WINDIIAM.
"Direct Victoria Hotel, St. Leonards on sea."
"April 15th, Sunday.
"Dear Mama,—Horrocks watched me so close, and be-
sides having no money, I could not get away last Sunday.
He goes up to-morrow to London, to see my uncles Hook
and Alfred about what is to be done, so look out. I write in
haste, Send me my clothes down here; that is, my blue
uniform and my white coat, which I leit, and my white
waistcoats; also try and get me 2 weeks' holyday to spend
with you while they are settling. Come down and spend
them in the Isle of Wight, and then the V.C. will grant it,
more likely so than for me to come to Brompton now. Do ah
requested. Love to Johnstone, and blicvo me
"Ever yrs Affec. Son,
" W. F. WirranAm,"
" Sandgate, March 29th.
"Dear Mama,-1 got your letter and telegraph. I have
written to uncle Hook, and shall also write to Sir. W. Wood
and tell him I wish to join. I want my tailor to make me a
pair of trowser3 (military) for every day; he knows, if you
tell him what sort. Try and see uncle Hook, and get me
£2OO a-year. Now I must have a yearly allowance, and
directly, as I must join with money like the others; it ought
to be paid to Cox and Co., the regimental agents. See to
this at once. I think we shall go to the Isle of White, soon.
I shall write a letter to Sir W. Wood, whom go and see,
and tell him from me I wish to join; and also that my Col:
thinks I ought to look sharp. Go and do it, or better go
with uncle Hook, as he always sticks up for me and mine.
"Good bye; ev. yr. affect. Son,
" WILLIAM."
" Saturday Morning, Sandgate.
"Dear Maina,—l told you that we moved here, and
the reason in my last letter. 'Well, the adj. has written
to the Horse Guards to get me leave, at least so he wrote to
Horrocks, Now, I want that stopped, Yvu asked me is