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dercorn) had Ittess to I.‘tr. Ludlam, • ought to loOlc
to him for responsibility :for the produetion of Mr.
Ludlam.
Mr. "CoOKE followed on the same 'side with
.Mr. PEILCIVAL. He contended • that Mr. James
Ludlam, .the Committee, was anxious to discharge
-his duty to his brother and" to the publiC, and had
clearll"imahilested such. desire at - the .meeting that
had taken plice- at his. Lordship's house, when the
first ordqrfor the-cOnfinethent of the-Lunatic- it .his
own househad been made. .. It was his duty after-
wards to inquire whether proper-careliad been taken
of :li is,'brother,. and. if 'Mt.:Young had 111000 t that
he was not a fit person to- have chtv.ge-:of the 'Lana,
tic; as lijs'ecimmittec,- therishould hate applied to
his. Lordship.. From the .affidavits it appeared -that
Mr. \Tandem= could have introduced. proper..peni
sons.-to,iake care of the Lunatic, if Ise hathpleased.
One 'had been • said to have been. sent from 'Mr.
Miles, :thon2gh'without authority or.power to-exercise
arlyre4traint averqjle-Lunatic but,.. upon ;inquiry it
was flitEld that no such person had everbeemsint.—
If:Vier/Igo men .from Dri Munro iratVbeen in
charge. •of Mr. Ludlam, he' icould.,:ne.v.er..llLlVO
eicatied.. 'The order, therefore, of his Lordshipliact
noubech compliutwith:,; .been disobeyed by!•
Mr,„Vandercom,and by. Mr, .Young, .and he trusted-
hisLordship would now matiesucCi order as would•
seenret'ne safe custody of the Unfortunate person.,--
Mr: Vandercom, had hadludouble duty tuiperform,
as a •Solicitor of his Lordship's' Court, irri obedience
to-his• Lordship's order, and as a PoliO•Aelagistratia; in
execution of his 'office of Sub. Sheriff of .London.' • •I
Mr. Ludlam .was not a lunatic; asstated byMr.Van.
dercona, then -he 46ughttaliave 'sectifed ltim?on the
.charge of felony in- the warrant which 'he had him-,
self filled up at the Lbadbiv-Tavern if,he' was
an. unfortunate lunatic, he .Ought, as an Officer of
that Court, to -have assisted in ~the execution of his'
Lordship's'iorder.'! He•thought; .theretbre, that the
eondue:tof Mr..Vandercoin WaS ;a-proper _subjeit for
animadverSiOn. •! -• , ‘' (, .

The SoLiciToa-GnkinAL adMitted; that it was
• • •
extremely dpsirable tdihave a cfdegtion of this descrip-
tion deetdettWithas'' little delat'As vossible.' The
manner, lid Aver,. in which it had been brought for-
ward, had'been attende&With disadvantages to both
sides. Client; Mr:Vandercotn; had provided all
the affidavits 'that 'on sol Short a notice he could ;- and
one of. the'diSadvahtageS that occurred on 'the other.
side Was, that hiS Learned Friends-had not 'an-op-'
.portOrrityof looking into these,affidaVits, which di
redly denied every staternant wade by them its fads,
upon,which they,hadsall' the -conduct of Mr.' Van.:
derconi w'a's A just objed of animadversion; 'All:
,parties had but one obje( that the' unhappy
Person :should be allowed as much comfort and.
libetty as would be consistent with the pUblie safe::
ty. When the question was formerly before-his
Lordship, it had been attended with 'considerable
difficulty. On one hand the person had been repre-
senied as in a dano.erous Malady; On the Other; as
only deranged on extraordinary ocLasidns, after hav-
taken much wine. The Stati ite whiebgave him
a right to traverse the applieation'for a torntnissitin,
certainly gave him the privilege Of hav'ing-' access to
his friends till the traverse should be denied. He
bad been consequently given into the care-of Me.
Young; who had been recommended -for that pur-
pose, and ;.1-nplyi instruated as to thCdutyhe was
to perform. He was not to be given Up' to
his Committee unless in case of any violence.--=
So far froryi having strewn any such violence, he had
been perfedly tranquil. The occurrence at Dr.
Reynolds's had been preVious to his Lordship's' last
order, and he. had the affidavits of the alters'at the
hotel where Mr. Ludlani then, waS,''and that night
slept, that he had, not been out of the house all night.
Dr. Reynolds had not Seen the person who called at
his hOuse, and if was only from 'the description
given of him by his servants that he concluded it
to have been Mr. Ludlam. Mr.' Ludlam had been
constantly tranquil, had never access to fire-arms,
and never been unrestrained since the period of his
Lordship's. order.. The abandonment by Mr. Young
of what he ,had undertaken to do, was not such a case
as' required Mr. Ludlam to be given upto the custody
()tithe ComMittee. A man from Mr. Miles's had been
in attendance upOn him since the Bth, and slept in a
dieSsing-room neat to his room. Mr. Ludlam be-
trayed no reludance to be visited by Dr. Willis, in
company with. Dr. Reynolds, and the reasons why
Mr. Vandercom refused to introduce the two men
recominended; were, that they belongFd to Mr.War-
bUrton,- at whiiie house Mr. Ludlam had, been for-
merly confined. Dr. Munro's men had both seen
and attended Mr. Ludlam, they had searched hiM
for fire-arms, and taken from his person, without any
objection on his part, a stehall pocket7knife, the only
instrument he had with which he could do any this-
-. chief. It Was bis friend Mr. Miles's man that bad
sprung the rattle from the balcony when he.. found
the officers attempting to break into the house atter_
ten o'clock at night. This friend followed Mr.,
Ludlam the nex day,' when the officers had brOken
f.into the house, up stairs, out of the' trap:door, and
along the leads, till Mr. Ludlam escaped frOm bjm
by leaping down from a height; 'which his friend
'would not attempt;from an apprehension of his life.
Since that he had never been heard of.
The LORD CHANCELLOR asked if the petition had
been served on Mrs. Henderson ) and was informed
it bad been left at-her house; he then naked whether

Mrs. Henderson did not know where he was ? and
being answered by Mr. Vandercom that he did not
know, as he had not seen her since the 9th, observed,
-that he .would recommend to her to take good care
of her condud.. His Lordship then stated, that their
objett would be to get possession again of the unfor-
tunate person, and made ..an order. that he should
be found without delay, and given over t 9 the
legal custody of his Committee, meaning, however,
therebynot that he should be confined to a comnoion
madhouse, but under the. care of proper persons in
his own house, where his disease might be soothed
with every possible alleviation, consistent with his
own safety and that of the public. " For," added-
. his Lordship, " I am not to be prevented from ex-
tending every mitigatiouthat humanity can dictate to
the case 'of a madman, because a man, that is not
mad, thinks proper to ad as if be were, and in this
light' I 'View the conduft of Mr. Young." .The
business terminated in a recommendation trom the
Court to Mr. Vandercom, to me every effort to
recover the person' of Mr. Ludlam.