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No. 30, STRAND,
TWELFTH NIGHT, OR FALSE AND
TRUE.
A sociable party last twelfth Night thought fit
Its talent to try at extempore wit ;
To tell, one a story unfounded Truth's laws on,
In manner exceeding even Eardn Mutschausen ;
Another immutable Truth to disguise,- . •
style that the party should please and ,surprise.

THE, MERRY DUNN OF ,LOVER.
•
The Vessel the Merry Dunn christen'd of Dover,
In length many leagues of the Ocean would cover!
At Sunderland cargoes of coals would receive
At her bow-port! and, what you will scarcely believe,
Would at the same time, from her stern-port discharge,
Below London Bridge, into lighter and barge !
A boy sent aloft the ship's pendant to clear,
in ascent and descent for many a year,
So long was about it, as all might presage,
That when he came down be was grey with old age!
This ship from the Downs while her way working out,
In length was so great, thatin tsaohin; about,
Lit...vote doatiog mountain, the dread of the people,
Her flying-gib-hoots then knock'd down Calais steeple!
same time that her ensign's long tail by a,sweeir
From Dover heights struck off a large flock ot•sheep
The story thus ended, a lady began—
. What is that heats even the great Merry Dunn ?
Whose standard of fame., many years now unfurrd,
Extends o'erthe whole of the civilized world !
Thi Merry Dunn merely to Ocean confined.
But this all the haunts still pervades of uninkind ;
You• vessel unwieldy; but this a grace,
And stamps the criterion of Taste on your race,'
'Tis.Werren's.Jet Blacking! each voice now replies,
And Truth thus achier'd of due honours the prize.

This Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING, prepared by
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A Shilling Pot of Paste is equal to Four Is. Bottles of Liquid.

NoTicEs JULY.—The uninterrupted drought
during July, and the wind almost invariably at E., or N.E., or
S.E., have so thoroughly parched the earth as to destroy almost
all vegetation. The pasturage in most place's is burnt up and re-
duced to stubble; many of the ponds are dried up, and the springs
Which were accustomed to give their copious streams have also
withdrawn their usual supply ; and the market gardens have
been stripped of their usual growth. Water la now on sale in
many of the neighbouring villages at a high price. Fahrenheit
ihewed 60. in the shade at the beginning of the month, but rose
to 76. at seven in the forenoon on the 15th, and so continued till
the 22d, when it fell ten degrees, and the wind was then getting
to S.E. and N.E. The heat at noon has been as high as 116 in
the sun ; and the month closed while the moon was at full, on.
the 29th, at 10 o'clock at night, with a cold evening air at S.E.
—lt is not surprising that some diseases incidental to crowded
cities should, in such a heated temperature, become general;
the returns have stated the four weeks of fever at 40, measles
at 47, and small-pox at 115, besides 12 deaths at the Hospital.
The cases of casual sniall-pox havebeen in general very severe ;
but those who had fortunately been vaccinated heretofore
have done well, and have found that their eases have been
greatly mitigated and relieved froth danger of life. The be-
nefit of vaccination is very apparent at this time, when there
would otherwise have been a severe epidemic of small-pox.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.--On Wed-
nesday night, before 11 o'clock, ay g• our man named Moun-
tain, a musician, belonging to the band of the Royal Artillery
Company, came to the Ship public-house, in the Horseferry-
road, Westminster, accompanied by his wife, to whom he
had been married but a short time. Since their marriage they
had frequent quarrels, and it was agreed by both parties
to separate, for the purpose of settling which they went to the
Ship, the landlord of which is the father of the wife. They had
not been long in the house when Mountain began quarrelling
with his wife and the har-maid, which, after some time, Mr.
Barber, the landlord, put an end to by ordering Mountain to
be turned out of the house, an order which was immediately
carried into execution. Mountain, subsequently, it appeared,
climbed over the wall into the yard at the back of the house,
when with his pocket-knife he cut asunder the fleshy part of
his Igft arm, just above the elbow, completely severing several
of the blood-vessels. He next performed a similar operation
upon his right arm, when, not thinking his bloody work com
piete, he afterward made an attempt to cut the jugular vein ;
but owing to the loss of blood from his arms they being cut
in such a manner as to render them nearly useless, he only suc-
ceeded in making a scratch on one side of his neck. In this
dreadful state he remained until the opening of the house on
Thursday morning, when he was.discovered deluged in blood.
Surgical asistance was immediately procured, but it is not ex-
pected that he will survive.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.

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FIFTH DAY.-FRIDAY, AUG. 5.

IN TILE MATTER. OF TILE REV. EDWARD FRANK (A
SUPPOSED,' LUNATIC.)
The_Court was crowded to excess as soon as spectators were
admitted, and there was some difficulty before the Counsel and
Attorneys could force their way to the upper end of the room.
The names Of the Jury were called over, and the business be.
gan about half-past ten o'clock. To a question from the Corns
missioners, Mr. B no tro BAAL replied, that he -appeared as Coun-
sel for Mr. Frank alone.
DI r. Bit ouoiza sz then spoke to the followingeffeet : —lt is now
my duty to address you, Gentlemen of tire Jury, on behalf of
the Rev. Edward Frank, who is the unfoitimate subject of this
investigation. I could, I think, find a word more afll.cting
than that of unfortunate, which iniglinjustlnebe applied to him,
at any rate he is an.pbject that smustcominand• your pity. To
individuals labouring - under human calamities,, the greatest of
all, perhaps, is that of being deprived-of reason—but' neist to
that calamity there -cannot be a greater than the process' to
which the individual to whom 1 have alluded is now exposed
—when we consider the solemnity with which all the acts of
the life of an individual so situated are discussed—and when
we look at the' publicity • given- to that solemn discussion,
we can figure to ourselves what any indiiiduel so situated
must feel ; and the more such an individual is in pos§ession
of his sense and reason, the more painful to him . must be
such an investigation. It is on this account alone ,that I call
Mr. Frank• unfortunate. Look at the case of an individual
thus situated--fighre to yourselves a elan who may, -up to this
moment. never have been bereaved of his' natural understand-
ing—look at -him exposed to a public scrutiny—to have his
life and his history explored—every indiscretion or -levity of
that life reiterated, and not only• reiterated; but exaggerated
and perverted—then commented upon with much eloquence
and levity amidst numbers of persons, and this, too, at a
time when the very individual himself is but in the prime of life,
when his passions are strong, and of course most sensitive and
alive to injury and disgrace, for an individual to haveeall such
things detailed before a jury of his country, and there made the
subject of unsparing and unblushing tom in en t, and afterwards,
day after day, as they transpired, published to the whole world
—but then, hat wee still worse, the individual himself to have
to undergo.a bodily inspection, to give a bond as it were, in his
own person to submit to in his own life time, what many have
a rooted . antipathy, that their bodies should be submitted to
after death—to have his gestures and expressions rigidly watched'
and, in short, to be lookd upon; not as a man, but as a beast:
I look upon this as a calamity, so unspeakable, that I can find,
no name for it—hut to all this, the individual 'on whose behalf I
am addressing you, has been subjected, and he now appeals to
you, as a Jury of his Country, to replace him in that situation
of life which he ought never to have been removed from, in
which he had committed no crime for which he ought to have
been deprived of it. I speak before you now with confidence on
behalf of this unfortunate man, notwithstanding the prejudices
which may exist in your minds -against him, which pi jiulices
-
have been excited by the indecorous conduct which has been
ascribed to this individual, and which to a certain extent, ap-
pears to havebeen habitual in him, and which conduct has been
described before you in 'language so disgusting. I regret 'that
such disgusting conduct should, be received in so indecorous a
way in a public Court, because it not only injures the indivi-
dual who is the subject of he relation, but it tends to injure good
taste, and destroys the morals not only of those who hear it, but
it is prejudicial to public morality in general—not that we con-
sider them in .that light point of view, nor would 1 have it be-
lieved that either of you, gentlemen, or either of my Learned
Friends around me, have looked upon these disgusting descrip-
tions but with feelings of pain and of horror. ExpresSions have
of necessity been used,, against which every modest ear should
have been shut, and over which stern morality should have
exercised its Strong arm, I say all these things are matter of.
reprobation. I now enme more 'minutely to this cas-e, and I
will presume that a Cletervman of the Church of linglancl may,
carry on a very unseemly life, his whole feelings may be any ,
thing but those which a moral'man or a clergyman ought to be,
yet his reason may not for a 'moment be shaken. Although I aps
pear to oppose this commission-- yet I tell you frankly,if this gen-
tleman be ofunsound mind,it is for his interest that you should so
report him. and, as it Is his interest, so it is my duty to ask you to do
so whether you may consider him a lunatic or whether you may
consider him an idiot. illy client's interest an' my duty join
with that of my Learned Friend, and if my client is incapaci-
tated from cooclootioghia own affairs, the law should protect
him against that incapacity, that reason and justice should rec-
tify his own perverted understanding. You will recollect up to
the third or fourth witness 1 suggested questions that might be
put to there, in order that their answers, if satisfactory, might
put an end to the doubt of this gentleman's sanity or Insanity,
so that if the latter proved to be the case, an end might at once
be put to this melancholy inquiry. You will recollect that after.
it was discovered that my Learned Friend had 'not opened the
delusions of 1817, where a witness proved this gentleman la-
bouring under an impression that be committed a great crime,
accompanied by other dirgusting descriptions af his person, and
when I expected that this would be brought down and connected
with February last, or to the present time, 1 cross-examined the.
different witnesses for the purpose of assisting in that proof,
particularly Dr. -Wriglit, as regarding the deluilions ; and if
had found that in last iqarch, when Dr. Wright again saw him,
he was still labouring.under these delusions, then I should have-
put an end to-the inquiry, but I found quite the contrary to be
the fact, and I was then driven back to my former position, and
it therefore is now my duty to enter at large into the subject.—l
again say to you then, Gentlemen, that a man may be a habi-
tual violator of 'decency;' he may as a clergyman be guilty .of •
descriptions of crime that cannot but disgrace his holy calling;
his conduct may be the most gross, that can he possibly ima-
gined—yet his judgment may maintain its seat, and his mind
remain undisturbed. Yon will recollect instances of Priests who
have disgraced their holy -callings, but in all' the cases I have
slightly alluded to, it was never for a moment supposed that the
delinquents were mad. The various Priests have been excom-
municated-and disabled froth holding offices in the church, but
were never looked upon as insane ; and, therefore, why shohld
madness for the first time be attributed to this individual ? This
is a line of distinction which I beg you to draw both broad and
deep. I say this is a case which, if what is alleged is true, you
ought not to pity, but to condemn and punish. It is not be-
cause a man lets his shame and malpractices go forth in daylight
to the world that he is to be looked upon as mad. Does allowing
a multiplicity of 'acts of wickedness constitute madness ?. Un-
doubtedly not.- 'Such never was the law yet. We are but a
few hundred yards from the Old Bailey ; now suppose a man
there charged with a felony, would it be any defence for him
to say that he had committed theft so many times that he cer-
tainly must be mad ? Would it answer any purpose for a man
to say on- behalf' of a person so situated; "Illy Lord, this man
must be mad, for he stole a horse such a day, broke open a
house such a day, committed a robbery another tiny, and he
says if he gets off to-day hemill commit another robbery-to-
morrow ?" The Court would say, " Why, this is a most bare-
faced villain, he boasts of his villany," and they would direct
him either to be seat to Botany. Bay, or else brought out at the
debtors' door of Newgatee at eight in the morning. To set up
a plea of madness in such a case would be of no avail. Now as
to the question of soundness and unsoundness of mind as con-
nected with insanity, what was the law ? A man to constitute
insanity must (so said the law) be non (vivo:. it is not suffi-
cientarisingfromdisease.eccentric that he is of unsound mind, there must be an unsound-
iisnnmotasnunfilel., flightycientliat
ianinciainancis
tdeer:
indiscreet, profligate,' careless, indolent, approaching almost
to a habit, and addedlo all these, possessing onl7 a weak judg-
ment and defective understanding. It may be a great calamity
that a man should be so afflicted, or that he should be so af-
flicted with any of these misfortunes; it might lead to the ruin
of himself and his family—it might lead to the loss of his estate
—it might lead him to defraud his creditors—he might be en-
tirely incapable to manage his affairs—he might by any one of
these misfortunes be led away from his duty to his family ; but
yet men of ability were found who did all these things. But
has the doctrine ever been yet carried so far as to say, that a
man guilty of one or all of theme propensities was insane ?
There are cases, too, in which, in addition to a torture of the
mind, there is a torture of the judgment. I have known, for
instance, men who dread as much to look into their accounts as
they would the blowing up of a powder-mill when they saw a
light in it; but why do they so dread it? Why, because they
know time balance is against them. And I have knciaen' ethers
who dread nothing so much as a balance .sheet, altholsh• this
makes the balance greater against.thern. Every 'parish in Eng-
land produces men of the weakest minds—zhere a parish
in which might not be found men who could 'be prevailed upon
and artful men, under 'some specious
by iroguishpretensions,
tb execute conveyances of their property to their Own utter ruin ;

but the law does not afford any proterti?v: to such men—the law
does not deny a man the power of ruinirg himself if he chooses
voluntar:lv to do so. Our law says that it Will, not interfere
between a man and his personal liberty, unless he is mentally
incapacitated froM Managing either himself or his affairs. and
that incapacity proceed from morbid disease. If such exist in
the present case, I again say, find your verdict in favour of
this commission; but uneasiness, negligence, and carelessness,
unless proceeding from unsoundness of mind, is not sufficient
to ground such a commission ; and recollect you are not per-
mitted•to come in here unless the Doctor comes. lam quite
convinced that Mr. F. is not a man that can well manage his
own affairs. I know he does not manage them as I would, or
as I could wish any friend of mind to do; yet the-law does not
take away -from' him the right of managing them as he thinks
proper. I know the Ciyil Law holds it dinrent, but our law
does not approxjmate so much towards the Civil Law as,
perhaps, might be wished. We will suppose a man of ex-
traordinary obtuseness 'of feeling—a will,
of an exceeding
hard heart, delighting' hi scenes of misery, and professing an;
insane loVe of and a predilection for 'seeing cruelty, instead
of shuddering at, fond of attending executions, bull-baits, and
lion-fights—what would make us weep would' make him
grin, we might call him wretch, but we could not say he
was mad. We might figure a man, for instance, who would
quietly look on, and see all his family lay dead around him,
tread upon the grave of his parents • and think that sport,
for which we should feel and pity—such a man would not
be a mad man. &it I will suppose a third case ; a man,
for instande, who could quietly sit by, without pity, and hear
his father's conduct described as ignominious, profligate, and
monstrous, even charged with madness—hear him deScribed
as a man who had lost every worthy, attribute, degraded to
thelevel with the brute beast, without reason, described as a
brazen profligate without the slightest shame--should he hear
all this emblazoned forth, and sit down, when be could walk
out and in, silence wail over it. I might go farther; should
that son still sit by and hear his mother's chastity impeached—.
bear his father described as one sunk in madness and misfor.:
tune, and his mother sunk in vice and infamy, and sit and hear
all this, without retiring. to some private spot, where he might
pray to have obliterated from memory his father's misfortunes,
his mother's shame. Why such a man, we should say, is not
constiuted as we are—he may be a brute—he may be hard-
hearted, but I could not call upon you to'pronounce him mad.
I will now refer to the delicate case of a living husband anxi--
ously watching to protect a wife's character not only from stain
but from mere suspicion, he at length discovers her in that
greatest of all errors ; might not such a husband, . upon cool
reflection, sit down and say—" Why, after all, I think I have
myself treated this womanill—l consider my young family,"
'• and .then might he not turn. round and say to her-." I look
over what you have done—my love has overcome 'my resent-
ment—behave better in future ; I again will take you to me."
The wife tnight.say that all he had heard against her was a
conspiracy, The husband might, without inquiry, believe it, •
and thus matters might be settled. Such a man would cer-
tainly not be a man of strong mind, or one lit to guard a family
of 'daughters, but still he would not he a mad man. This
would be living in infamy, but no proof of madness. He would
now oppose Mrs. Frank, after the reconciliation with her hut.
ba'nd, saying to him, all that you have heard against me is the
result of a vile conspiracy--all the time that you have been.
away your sisters have been robbing you, and plotting my
dishonour. I will prove to you (the Jury would suppose
the wife speaking), that Mr. Bellamy opened your closets,
that he took one box . away' belonging to you, and . that
Mrs. Bellamy took away another. I will prove to you
that they were living upon your fortune, and were trying
to ruin me. I will prove to you (you will suppose the wife
still speaki:.g) that when Mr. Bellamy first heard of our being
,reconciled, and again came together, he walked about the room
like a madman—that he beat his head,- and 'wrung his hair, and
exclaimed.—" 0, by this reconciliation
,I shall lose .3,000/. a
year And suppose the wife should continue to say, Ido not
ask of you to take my word for all this—l will produce to you
the persons in whose presence this took place; I will produce
to you the man with broke open the closet for them, and the
respectable clergyman who witnessed Mr. Bellamy's conduct.
Then have I not proved to you that those whoM you thought to
be your friends, are not friends—you believed them without
proof, but I will bring proof of. all I say. 7 Therefore have I
not proved of them what they either could not, or did not.prove
against me." You may easily understand that lam going to
call witnesses; that I am going to call Hall, the Rev. Mr.
Norton, and others, to prove the state of Mr. Bellamy's mind,
on learning
.the.news that Mr. Frank and his wife had been
again reconciled. We'do this to show that we have not fallen
on sunken rocks, and foundered in our ease, as they may have
magined. Mr. Bellamy and his wife cannot be called by us,
in consequence of the rules of law; but-happily for us, and for
the cause of justice, Mr. Bellamy's evidence forms not an jute,
gral part of the case. One delusion ascribed to him was, that
he thought Bellamy his enemy, and wished to 'et rid-of him;
but there was no delusion' in that, for he considered Bellamy
his enemy. Suppose a man had learnt a horse had been stolen
from him, and went to the stable Where he understood him
to be kept, and the ostler refused him admittance, would .
there be any delusion in the man still thinking the horse to be
there,? Gentlemen, it gives me great satisfaction that in mak-
ing these, observations, I am spared the necessity of going
much into the ease now, because• I have incidentally npened
a very large ••branch of it already. 'You will perceive •_that
those gentlemen, Mr. Bellamy and others, for their own pur-
poses, have very cunningly promoted this business—it is quite
clear that they have an object in view—for there is a most ex-
traordinary degree of cookery in this case. Cookery, in taking
out pastry, and cookery, in putting in spices and other in-
gredients .to suit particular palates. I would remind' you of the'
first part, of. leaving out—by my Learned Friend saying no-
thing-of what took place at Shelton in 1816 and 1817. For if a
man could prove during 'a period of five years, could' he not a
longer periad—say. seven years—when done by the same wit- '
neases ? Yet my Friend, and those who instructed him, did not
do it, though they knew all—that he had made a deranged
speech at Shelton, and had two men, keepers of Dr. Wright's,
with him, when he was under a delusion, that he could contract
marriage with a second wife, and under. a delusion of being
made a Bishop, obtaining a degree at Cambridge, and last not
leait, havingcommitted some heinous.crime for which he would
never be forgiven ; and yet not one word did Mr. Bellamy bring
forward. Mr. Bellamy was a lawyer, not like Captain Main-'
waring, he knew all, and knew where to stop, he instructed
Mr. Hales what to do. In the examination and cross-exa.
mins.tion, not one word came out as to unioundness—not one
word of it was told ; and why ?—because it came too near, .
because it was bringing the lunacy to the door of 1817.
" Who should we trust ?" said Mr. Hales, and said truly
'respecting the persons to become trustees to the property.
Several persons of respectability were mentioned to him,
but not one of them' was appointed at the deed of separa-
tion. Who was put in? Mr. Bellamy and Captain Main-
waring. The separation was in January, and the deed in April.
Dr. Wright was called in, and gave liberty to have the deed
made ready. Arid here I beg to say one thing about the hem-4c
of publishing the accounts of this case in the papeTs. A gen-
tleman in Cambridge, who had seen what' took place there,
wishes to come forward and give his evidence. Why. are
some witnesses kept back, - and others brought forward,
but to serve purposes ? First, of Iredall—he talks of the
conversation at Gainsborough about the. coach—he said, first
it was in 1823, and then two years before that he told it. Then
he would not swear but it might he three years, or three and a
half. The Learned Counsel then cot rriented on the evidence
of the various witnesses at considerable length. In alluding to
the testimony of the medical geritlemen, lie observed, though
they would shrink•from colouring r. fact as if it were perjury,
it is amazing to see how fond even such men are of colouring an
opinion. Those gentlemen haVe a great predisposition to find
a man a lunatic, not from interest certainly, but from a pecu-
liar professional and they may be pardoned for saying,'
" he is not fit to conduct himself, and be ought to come to our
house, or under our care." But other medical men differ frOrn
those. To name such a man as Dr.'Haslam is enough to pro.
vent the suspicion that he could be influenced by an improper
motive. No man stands higher in the estimation of mankind's.;
no man is more respectable, and no man has better illustrated t-
thesubject of insanity. Him among others I mean to call ber
fore you. Remember then that with respect to filr. Frank
you are hound to protect his estate, but you are bound to pro.
tect it only against unsoundness of mind, and not against rash.,
ness and indiscretion. It is peculiarly hard that Mrs. Frank;
who is not permitted to be represented here by Counsel, should '
be condemned without being heard ; and every one who hears me
will but do his duty in endeavouring to get rid of all prejudice
against, her—it is perfectly consistent with the law, and certain-
ly with Christian charity, so to do. She is a most unfortunate
woman, whatever she may have done. You must pay,particu-
lar attention to the circumstances connected with the years 1816
and 1817, when it is proved by the fact of Mr. Bellamy and

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PRICE SEVENPV.NCE

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Mr; hales permitting the preparation orthe deed, that heliva3
in a_sauestate of mind. That deed passed through the lurod
of Mr, Leigh, of Wakefield, than whom a more lionostrakle and
upright man does not exist: in the profession, and I never I.)
the whole course of my,experience knew a, case in which a' will.
or a deed, of any kind was suffered to be set aside on the eyi.-
.dence of hostlers, waiters, apothecaries, surgeons. or 4ven p4si-
clans of Bedlam, when it had such testimony to support it... Dr.
• Munro used the technical word " delusion ?" the word .applied
to his not taking Bellamy. But was this " delusion ?"---waa it
delusion to reject a man who had been described to him as his
enemy, who had picked his locks, and taken away his papers—
, for such was the information Mr. Frank received of the cent acct
of Mr. Bellamy ? It was stated as a circumstance of .'abuse
weight, that the Lord Chancellor had sent this case to a..itirf
for inquiry. I admit that it has some weight, but is there not
much greater weight in the fact of the Lord Chancellor's dis-
missing the application for this inquiry in 1822 ? Is it not A
circumstance of far greater weight, for in the present .ii struts
he only. has his dottiots, but in. the former he was decidedly .ot
,opinion, that there-were no grounds for the inquiry, or in. 1821
he would haveleut the above case before you ? The Learned
m :an, after pointing out' the differences between the pre-
sent case and the case of Lord Portsmouth, concluded his id-
,dress by calling on the Jury to protect Mr. Frank from that
thraldom and controul to which he would become liable', if the
charges had been supported, and to give him that freedom
'which they were called upon by justice and their oaths to give.
Bucivollast then proceeded to call his witnesses.
The Rev. W. A. Norton, examined by Air. SPER.CE.—I am
• Mr. Frank's curate. I reside at Alderton, in Suffolk,' one„,of
Mr. 'Frank's livings. I know Mr.- Bellamy personally. 1 re-
member his being at my house in the course of the year 1821
to the best of my recollection it was at the termination of that
year. Mr. Bellamy, as the agent 'of 111 r. Frank, was holding
the annual audit.
Some objection was raised to receive the evidence oflllr.
Norton, on the ground that he had not stated his. converiatien
with Mr. Bellamy to Mr. Frank, but had merely Mentioned it
to the succeeding agent and 111 r. Frank's son. The next wit-
ness was therefore called.

Joseph Hall examined.—l live at Campsall ;lam a black-
smith ; I know 111 r. Frank ; I also know Mr. and Mrs. Bel-
lamy ; I remember . being sent for by Mrs. Bellamy:..to
Campsall-house in 1821 ; I went on the 29th November, 1821;
I found there Mr. Bellamy's man ; I was then .employed :to
pick three locks • .I did pick them ; Mrs.. Bellamy then lived
there ; Mr. Frank was not there ; the drawers were opened,
and they contained sundry papers • Mr..• Frank came home
that evening, and sent for me ; f went to hint ; I did not
see any thing done with the papers that were in the drawer ;
I never told Mr. Leigh that I saw any thing .done with
them ; Mr. Frank asked me who gave me orders to pick
the locks; I said the footman, by Mrs. Bellamy's orders
on the 6th December I looked into the drawers-I 'had pre-
viously opened ; the drawer was sealed up, and .Mr. Fisher
broke the seals ; the papers were then all gone, the drawers
being empty ; at the time I picked the locks there Were
several trunks and portmanteaus in the room ; •there were
also papers lying about the same room ; on the 16th .Decem-
ber the trunks and portmanteaus were not in the room, and
some of the papers were gone. On the night I picked the
locks. Mr. Franks sent for me, and I told him what I had done.
I know 'Roebuck. lie offered me buttons for sale.. Ile told
me they were gold. I knew 'that wine was thrown out. It Was
claret and champaign. Some part of it was sour, and I be-
lieve all of it was good for nothing. I haie seen. Roebuck girt)
drink to persons in the cellar at Campsall several time 3. He
gave five or six men beer and wine, and they were tipsy. Mr.
Frank was not in the house at the time the wine,was thrown
out. I saw Roebuck in the library; he had a watch in his
hand ; there were three others in the drawer.
Crofts-examined by the SOLICITOR-e.; ENE nAT..;-:•-it was Mr.
Frank's footman who called upon me to open, the drawers.
Mr. Frank sent for me himself in The evening, and asked
'me who gave me orders. I told him, end he was arit•iy
with me. I told-him I was tntet walls
it was right It was.that morning I saw the tri•c'.s and poet_
manteaus. There were papers written upon on the floor. It
was the room in which Mr. Bellamy had his
.office and did all
'Mr. Frank's business. Mr: Bellamy was not present when
I broke the seals that fastened the door. Mr. Fisher went
into the room, and I left him and Mrs. Frank there. Roe-
buck offered me buttons for sale. He gave ,mo none, and I re-
fused to buy them, as they were of no use to me. fle-diti: not
name any price. . .
Leonard. Towne, examined by Mr. BROUGHAM., I -am a
chymist. I was employed by Mr. Frank tiering the last Mut-
years in various ways such as reading to him, writing forlifin,
and conversing with him. I lived two iniTes from his' house,
and.when Ivisited him I generally dined with him. I reeeiv-
en no remuneration. I-was with Mr. Frank a fortnight sinre
at Winthoro. From all the observations I have 'snide I con-
sider Mr. Frank a person of sound mind. He conversed, and
dictated letters sensibly-and zorrectly. There was something
inhis manner that could lead me to suppose him a person..of
unsound mind. Mr. Frank told me more than once that wh'en
he and Mrs: F. became reconciled, that' Mr. BellaMy raved,
and declared that he had lost 3.0001. a year. I have heard Mr.
Frank notice his son's conduct at Cambridge, and object to his
extravagance.
Cross-examined by the Scrs.r cr Ton -GE r.r E RA dict con-
sider Mr. Frank's conduct to be rational. I think as far as
understanding goes he is capable of Managing his own affairs.
His sight is defective, and he is not well skilled in accounts.
SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Do you think if his sight were per-
fect he could manage his own affairs ?
Witness,—l do not know what you mean.. Gentlemen such
as he seldom manage their affairs.
SoniorTon-GrxEnan'.—ls he capable of managing busi-
ness between landlord and tenant?

Witness--I think mentally he is ; I say Mentally, because his
sight is bad.
An affidavit was then handed to the witness, which he.affirm-
ed to he his.

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ATTORNEY-GENERAL—In that affidavit, you say that• Mr.
Frank declared his belief that Mr. Bellamy had bribed the post-
master not to forward certain letters. Do you believe tt,
be rational in so declaring
Witness--I did swear so, and I adhere to.that declaration.
' The witness repeated what he hid sworn in his affidavitolist
he had never heard Mr. Frank make use of any indecent ex -
preasions, and chat he had once.known him • chide his younger
son for using improperly nage. Also,, that heyas informed,
that before the separation from his wife, Mr. Frank was.modest,
eisereetand retired, even to a fault.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Who told you that?
Witness--,3lrs. Frank.
The Sconrcrroa:GirEitAn—Who did he settle Ilia ..cc-
counts with in your presence ? •
`Nitres--Dr. Dickenson, and also with a nursery .Ithourer.
The' SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Did you ever see Mr. Prank
settle an account with any other steward than Dr. Dicknsiin
Witness—With no other.- I have heard Mr: Frank say',that
be would' not pass any accounts for which vouchers.were.xot
produced; and he was particular not to pass any accountAiiqt_
out vouchers. I have seen Dr. Dickenson produce Iton,:4,ers.
Mr. Frank did not examine them. It would be useless his. 4le-
iag so, as he could not see. I cannot swear .that I- ever .tro.,-
Mr. Frank settle an account with Dickenson. I was act ftw:
introduced, to the family of Mr. Frank by Dr. Dickenson:-
had 'no formal introduction- whatever but Mr. Frank sortie-
times came to my .shop, and I thus beCame acquainted with
him. Mt asked nie to come and read papers. to him. -1 pre-
pare medicines for horses as well as men.

Commissioner Puna.imoilt —What books were you in the
habit of reading ?
WitnesS—Dr. Aiken's Letters to his Son I have= read ; 'ser-
mons, periodical works, &c.
Mr. BROJIGHADI handed to the witness a sermon, and =sited
him if he knew it to be Mr. Franks's hand-writing ?
Witness.—l cannot say, he writes now -so differently to what
he did formerly.

,CoMmissioner Pau.LIMORt —How long were youAtt., the
'habit of being with Mr. Frank ? , •
`Wimps—Four years, bothat Newark and Winthorp..Win-
'akin') is about two miles from Newark. '
CP.l4l4Wlp.Nra—,Did you ever receive any remuneration
lttr.:Vrank ?
IAT, etness,--Never.
' 'UO'S,6IIiiIONER—Had you ever any Recount with withlVir.
Frank ?,
WittiesS—Only one, andthat was for paint. He never:l24l
out ten poundcwith , . . ,
Commies! oNER—Who resided with Mr. Fratrlt at Newark ?
Witness—His wife and daughter. I neviebad any conver-
sation
with Mr. Frank respetting females of bad *character.
Never knew him deal in ribaldry. :I.generally_wrote.for-MT•ri•
Frank exactly what he dictated,, but he sometimes desired me
to write to such a person tosuch*effece.: Ifieard Mr. Frank