The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-28 00:00:00

[iptITISH PRESS.]

rough we shall always unshrinklugly avow
elr principles and feelings, which are those of a
4ibiroeed attachment to liberty as it existed in 'the
Wit days of England, and an unchanging adhe-
rence to the principles of the Constitution as
settled, by Lord Somers and the other illustrious
‘Whigs at the Revolution of 1688—and strongly
al we must ever, reprobate the Mell,lllo of those
with a long career of power, have squandered
the Miiolllllo3 of the country and involved it in its
present unparalleled state of distress and ern-
((karrassment—yet no feelings of this description
feelings which we are proud to acknowledge)
shall ever prevent us from conceding the awed of
Our approbatiOn to any man, even of that party,
who may really and fairly deserve it. Were the
Foreign Secretary, in place of paltering, as we
fear lie now is, with the Continental Cabinets,
baldly to protest against their monstrous mea-
sures of aggression, and maintain, as the Minister
of England ought to do, the high character and

dignity of The country, we should give even to
his measures the-unqualified tribute of our ap-
probation, and endeavour for a while to forget
his pernitious domestic policy. With these
impressions, we record with sincere pleasure
the high and flattering testimony of praise
from the Merchants, Bankers, Ship-owners, and
others, connected with the trade of the. Port of
London, presented on Wednesday last by a most
respectable deputation to the Right Hon.Thoinas
Wallace, late Vice-President of the Board of
Trade. The answer of the Right Hon; .Gentle.
man is one that does him the highest honour for
the justness, of, perception, the liberality of sen-
timent, and the true British feeling that mark it
throughout. We tryst that his secession from
office•will be but temporary : he is one of the
very few indeed connected with Administration
to whom the country owes any measures calcu-
lated for either her prosperity or her character.

[MOItNING HERALD.]
The French Ultras are not content with hav-
ing war in Spain only, but predict and declare
themselves prepared for a general war through-
out Europe. They even lay down beforehand
what are to be the consequences, and acquisition
of territory seems already their avowed object.
One of the Journals of this party makes the fol-
lowing prophetic distribution of territory among
the powers to be engaged in the approaching con-
flict. Russia, according to this Oracle, is to have
Turkey. He, however, qualifies this sweeping
grant, by excepting from it the provinces of
Croatia, Servia, and Bosnia—which are to fall to
Austria, as her share. The King of Prussia is
not forgotten. He is to. have Hanover ! And
lastly, France is once more to have Belgium as an
integral part of her territory, and to 'Tome for
her boundary
,the Rhine. Thus liberally do the
Ultras provide for themselves and their confe-
derates, and thus unceremoniously do they take
away, a la Buonaparle, from his Majesty his
hereditary State of Hanover. There are, how-
ever, many ways of viewing the future ; and the
framers of this new plan of partition may not be
able to attain its execution so easily. If, in spite
of the endeavours of England to dissaude the
French Government from attacking Spain, that
Government should persist, and march its
troops into Peninsula ; and if England should,
in consequence, find herself compelled to side
with the Spaniards and Portuguese, she would,
It is to be expected, wage war in the most vigo-
rous and effective manner. Why should Eng-
land leave the French the choice of the ground
on which they were to fight ? Why may not
the Duke of Wellington, with an army of Eng-
lish, Spaniards, and Portuguese, carry the war
into the heart of France ?' Normandy is not.
unapproachable; and a hostile visit to Rouen, a
principal seat of the manufactories of France—
and the destruction of the cotton spinning and
weaving machinery there, are among the contin-
gencies of a war with England, which the French
Ultras do not contemplate, -but which are not
less within the range of probability. Havre
may be said to be the Liverpool of France—the
great (loot of cotton and other colonial pro-
duce, and may fall into the hands of the enemy.
The cotton, linen, and every other manufacture
carried on in Normandy, would be at the mercy
of the invading force. Bourdeaux and other
great commercial towns may be attacked in their
turn

FOR THE SUN.

THE CURRENCY.

Ma. EDITOR—It was reported in the Parlia.
rnentary debates immediately after the passing of
Mr. PEEL'S Bill, that a certain old experienced
Statesman of the Upper House, nearly connected
with Mr. PITT by family ties, and his colleague
and coadjutor in office, was profuse in his senti-
ments of approbation, of that Gentleman's con-
duct, even waling him the Saviour of the Nation,
and grievortqy lamenting, for his own part, that
he had assisted in departing from the safe and
sane line of Metallic currency into that of Paper
by the Bank Restriction Acts. Now, is it pos-
sible that such statements should proceed from
the mouth of a Statesman of the above descrip-
tion, who ought to have seen the deleterious con-
sequences of that enactment, in the almost
immediate and total ruin of all the most sub-
stantial interests of this great and productive
Country ? Could he, besides, reasonably blame
himself in uniting with his kinsman and col-
league Mr. Pitt, perhaps one of the greatest,
if not the very greatest Minister this kingdom
has had at the head of its councils for some cen-
turies pasty in maintaining a most expensive war
against the arch-tyrant of Europe, at• whose feet
this country would have been laid prostrate, but
for the opportune and timely assistance from
the only quarter whence it could be given ?
Would. his Lordship prefer that state of things
even to the truly distressful one of the present
times, which derives not from an adherence to the
Pitt system, but the premature abandonment of
it? Was it not in this currency that an additional
debt of 600 millions was contracted, and could
Mr. Pitt, or any man of honourable, fairs and in-
genious mind, conceive that justice could be done
either to the public or Individuals in corn.
palling the discharge of an enormous debt of that
amount in any other currency than that in which
it was incurred ? One would have supposed that
the injustice and impracticability, nay insanity,
in effect, of such a measure, could have never
entered into the imagination of any man of
the plainest understanding, much less of those
appointed to the government of a great
eation, and invested with all the honours and
dignities of the. state. The most that can be
urged in excuse of such a pernicious system of
conduct must be, that it arose from miscalcula-
tion, bad intentions being wholly ont of the clues-
don, propped up by sophistical reasonings, and
supported by those who were deemed the sa.
viours of the State. This junto4f calculating in.
dividuala estimated that bank paper being at
that time subject to no depreciation beyond three
or four per cord. at the utmost, that the difference
between bullion and paper did not exceed that
ratio* and consequently that an exchange of an

artificial for a sane metallic currency would not
affect the prices of articles at market beyond
that trifling ratio. This, upon experiment has
,
proved one of the grossest errors ever committed
by any set of Legislators on earth, 30, 40, or 50
per cent. being much nearer the mark of depre-
ciation than a decimal portion of that ratio as by
them estimated. By the experiment, so far as it
his been hitherto tried, has a' third or fourth
part of all the cultivators of the Kingdom been,
either totally ruined or reduced to the greatest
distress, and the remainder must very shortly
follow ; without an immediate and effectual,
change of the monetary system, taxes cannot be
much longer paid, the poor sustained, the la-
bourers employed, or the land cultivated, with-
out the repeal of this most destructive Act,
whilst subject to its repeal, peace, plenty, and
happiness may be restored and diffused through
the land. If any man is so ignorant of financial
policy as to ask how that enactment has occa-
sioned all this mischief, he is at once answered,
by a reduCtion of the national circulation. With
no more than a.moiety of the Currency in, the
Country, prices must necessarily fall that moiety,
and reduce that porportion still lower, and pro-
portional prices naturally follow. Whilst the
Bank must meet its Notes in Bullion, it must al.
ways retain a sufficient.quantity in its coffers to
meet them, nor can it with any degree of safety
hazard those accommodations Which before it was
most liberal in giving upon valid securities. Pri-
vate. Bankers derived theii accommodation from
the same source, a general circulation was in ac-
tivity, the landed men and cultivators deriving
their accommodations from the private Bankers,
and they in turn from the Bank of England, with-
out hazard ,of inconvenience or risk of any de-
scription, as no stoppage in the grand reservoir
could ever take place. without a return to those
sources, how are taxes, to the amount of 60 mil-
lions per annum, to find their way into the Ex-
chequer, and how can private individuals manage
to parmortgages and other debts contracted tin,
r der one currency in another of so very differt%nt a
description!? Must not the Exchequer ultimately,
and perhaps at no very distant period, fail, and
all the private debtors in the kingdom be abso-
lutely ruined ? Where, in short, can so evidently
destructife a syltem be, stayed but by a repeal
Of the measure on which it is founded ? Not-
withStanding the low prices" of all the necessaries
of life, are the manufacturers and shopkeepers
satisfied ? Is not, on the contrary, every farming
and trading individual in the Kingdom more or
leis aggrieved ? his true, that they have their
provisions-at a cheap rate, but have they where-
withal to purchase them ? Does not every one
feel the want of coin in his pocket ; and how can
it be otherwise' when the grand staple manufac-
ture of the country, the soil, lies unproductive of
profit to the cultivator ? What has he_wherewith
to purchase of the shopkeeper or manufacturer ?
And the home market being done away in a great
measure to both, what remains but the uncertain
and diminished prospects of external commerce,
unequal hi value to one-third or one-fourth of
what r as before derived from home consumption?
That a revenue of 60 millions per annum can
be derived from low prices, and in the preci-
ous metals alone, when a sixth part, of that
bullion is not to be found in the country, is
more than I believe can be determined by the
ablest financier that ever this or any other
country produced, And when even that inade-
quate quantity of gold and silver is daily and
hourly withdrawing from the circulation. It has
been said besides, but I can scarcely credit the
information, that the same Noble Lord, at one
time considered as the first politician of the State,
and united as was said before with Mr. Pitt,
in all his financial operations, that paper cur-
rency has been declared from its commencement
a bubble, and that now the bubble has burst,
there the delusion ends. Should that report be
equally founded with the other, may it not be
asked,—Did you theo, my Lord, anti your rela-
tive, combine to form that bubble, and deceive
that public which had entrusted its government
to your hands ? Did you mean it as a bubble to
the creditors who entrusted you with 600 mil-
lions of their money, or to the borrowers, whom
you now compel to pay in a more than two-fold
ratio for every guinea they b-tirrowed ? To which
of those parties do you tneart°the term bubble to
apply ? It is true, that whbe you enacted the
Bank Restriction Bill, you annexed to it a tte.
claration, that at the conclusion of the then
pending war the paper currency then establish-
ed would he done away, and recourse had to the
old metallic currency of the country; but did you
foresee the consequences, anti perceive the utter
impracticability of that promise without the total
ruin of the country ? You. have already made the
experiment, driven hundreds either into foreign
countries, or into prisons In this ; and in fact
dislocated the very joints of all the social system.
What then is to be expected from a persever-
ance in the same ruinous measures, the very at-
tempt at which has cost you, 'or rather the com-
munity whose Government was entrusted to
your hands, but utter misery and destitution ?
Paddington. S.

AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.—The
Rev. JOLCN BARTLARt, of Alceston, in Warwick-
shire, having appointed the lion. Mr. E tnntx
to meet him at Mr. Lt.ovo's, bookseller,
.._
E Harley-
street, at two o'clock yesterday, Mr. Attnt,cY
not having arrived at the time appointed, the
Rev, Mr. BAftTLANI sat down to wait his arrival,
but he had not remained in that situation ten
minutes when he fell from his chair in an apo-
plectic flt, and instantly expired. IMt. 14.0Y0's
shop was very full of Noblemen and Gentlemen
at the time, all of whom afforded the utmost
assistance, anti interested themselves exceedingly
upon the occasion; but notwithstanding their
efforts to restore animation, and the administra-
tion of the best medical assistance, it was soon
perteived to be unavailing, the vital spark having
fled. The friendship between the &ceased find
the Hon. Mr. EannLry had.been of very long
standing, and nothing • could exceed the mental
suffering of the latter Gentleman, when Mr.
LLoyn-broke the melancholy intelligence to him.
The Rev. J. BARTLANt was one of the most dis-
tinguished scholars of the age.

LORD PORTSMOUTH'S CASE.

IXAMINATION under the KING'S COSIMISSION.
FREEMASOYS' lIALL, THURSDAY, DAT.

This day's proceedings were entered upon at
ten o'clock.

The Earl of Portsmouth was (at his'own request) re-examin-
ed bythe Court and Jury, on Wednesday, privately. It is
sail that his Lordship appeared pefectly prepared upon all the
subjects upon which he was questioned—still, however, various
answers escaped him, which, from their incoherence or simpli-
city, are said to have made a strong impression upon the Gen-
tlemen of the Jury.
Mr. ADAM put in various papers, in'continuation of the pro-
ceedings of Wednesday, which was interrupted by the variety
of conversation, charge, and exoneration, already laid before
our readers.

Mr. France was re-called, and examined by Mr. WILD*
Has heard the. examinations of three of the Medical Gentle-
men; never gave them any instructions to examine his Lord-
ship ; did not give Drs. Munro and Willis such instructions ;
saw them upon the subject; they had examined his Lordship.
What would have been their testimony if they had been exa-
mined ?

Commissioner Hu LLOCIC objected to the question.
Mr. WILDE rose to show the propriety of the question, and
after some conversation the question was withdrawn.
Mr. France examined by Commissioner HuLLOCX—Wasiit
thi conference between the Lord Chancellor and the Medical
Gentlemen; Dr's. Munro and Willis were present; did hot
consider that they were among those who were directed to exa-
mine into the state of his Lordship's mind ; witness requested
hrs. Munro and Willis to be present at the conference with the
Lord Chancellor.

Lord Joust FITZROY—" I have only waited until a air
opportunhy presented itself to acquaint the Court with the
unanimous wish of the Jury, that Dr. Munro and Dr. Francis
Willis should he put into the witness-box, they not having
been called by the Counsel on either side.
Cit/EF CommissioNEn—" It is enough that you request
it; the Jury have a right to be satisfied and I am informed
that both the Medical Gentlemen are now in Court."
Mr. France, who bad remained in the witness-box, entered
into a variety of explanations, which tended to show that he had
not availed himself' of the evidencel of Drs. Munro and Willis,
because they had prejudged his Lordship's state of mind.
Dr. Munro examined by Chief Commissioner TROWER—
Atfentled Lord Portsmouth on the 7th of January, at the re-
quest of Mr. Carr; received, previously to his visit, a great
variety of' aflidavits, which were laid before him by the direc-
tion of the Lord Chancellor ; was introduced to his Lordship
by Mr. Coombs as a Mr. Thomas; his Lordship was reading
a newspaper ; proceeded to examine- Lord Portsmouth upon
various topics; he stated that he had been compelled against
his will to sign many blank drafts, and also to assign over an
estate in Hertfordshire; he said he bad been inmotent for eight
years, but had once had connection with Lady P. in Nov. lr.'ll-
- wished to be divorced ; had already selected and determined
upon his future wife; he expressed his intention to have a
throne erected for the purpose of celebrating the birth of the
child, which, in the very next breath he disclaimed as his.
Alder had slept in the same bed with his Lordship and. Lady
'Portsmouth ; could not turn him out of the room, because the;
Countess would not allow him. He stated, that when he left
Edinburgh, Alder and some of the Hanson's family had pursued
him as,far as the seat of Lord Grantley ; saw his Lordship on
the ensuing day ; he was then more polite than at the preceed-
big interview. Mr. Coombs remained in the room all the
time ; his Lordship's manner was singular and morbid ; he
stated that he had been turned out of his bedroom, and
locked up in his drciishig-foom ; denied Copy's evidence as
to " Aristotle's Masterpiece ;" knowing what his Lordship's
weak points were, he wished to ascertain Inecisely how far
the delusions existed. Ifrom the observation of witness at
these interviews, is of opinion that hit Lordship's mind is
decidedly unsound. He has not the least shadow of a doubt
upon the subject-; should think, from the evidence given during
the inquiry, and the affidavits laid before him, that his Lord--
ship was insane ten years ago, when lie was pulled from his
horse by his servant, whom he did not afterwards discharge
I consider his Lordship's came as lunacy supervening upon a
very weak mind.; l'coneeive, from the way in which his Lord-
ship reasons, if he may be said to reason at all, that his Lord.
ship is both insane and a fool ; he draws just conclusions front
wrong premises at one time, and at another, wrong conclusions
from Just premises ; when he speaks of his impotence, he speaks
as a madman ; he says to this effect--' I am Impotent ; an im-
potent man may enter into a third marriage, with a prospect
of happiness ; I am impotent, and therefore I will marry a
third wife e—the ..prernisses in this instance were wrong, the ;
conclusion just; it is the language of a morbid mind, and
therefore waives insanity. With respect to his folly, he says I
this—.' I have been cruelly maltreated by my, family and ser-
vants ; a man of Renee would discharge his servants, therefore
I will not;'—here his premises are correct, and his conclusions.
unfounded ;" went by the name of Thomas, because he con-
ceived that the name of Munro was so notoriously mixed up
with cases of lunacy, that it would probably have alarmed his
Lordship ; he is totally unable to manage his own affairs.
By the Jury—Conceives weakness and lunacy combined in
his Lordship's unamindriess of mind— insanity is of so different
a complexion in different patients that it cannot be precisely
defined--eccentricity and aberration of mind is sometimes
as difficult to distinguish as the confines of night and day;
Lord Portsmouth's case is not dubious, it is clearly mark-
ed ; his Lordship's mind has always been weak; his in-
sanity has doubtless been aggravated. although not created,
by the cruel treatment he has received, and the rapid jour-
ney from Edinburgh—by a morbid means a diseased mind;
ill-treatment may have been an excitement, acting upon a pre-
disposition to disease; the only part of his Lordship's conduct
winch Td not bear out the affidavits was that relating to " Aria;
totle's Masterpiece." Has been physician to Bethlem Hospital
for many years, has for the last twelve years devoted his at-
tention to lunatic cases ; no two cases of lunacev are precisely
alike ; Lord Portsmouth's unsoundness' of mind is incurable ;
he considered the mere seeing of Dr. Hamilton as a necessary
preparatory step for Lady Portsmouth being delivered of a
child ; should have little doubt that his Lordship was bOrn
with a very weak mind.
Doctor Protein Willis examined by Chief Commissioner
TnowElt-43 a physician ; his Practiee is confined tO the parti.
cular branch of Ins profession termed insanity ; visited Lord
Portsmouth at the request Of Mr. France; the Lord Chancellor
gave the medical gentlemen directions to give their evidence
in Court rather than by affidavits; saw Lord Portsmouth on
the 22d of January ; went alone., being out of town when
Drs. Ainslie and Latham went out Of town ; *as introduced
by Mr. Coombs by the name of Jones; his Lorditip thought
hafwas a friend of Mr. Coombs, and received him very
well ; conceives it extremely improper to introduce a medical
gentleman as avowedly such to a supposed lunatic tinder ex-
amination. His Lordship said he had been taken to Edinburgh
against his will, to serve the purposes of a base woman ; her
Ladyship and the whole of her family had M-treated him;
his Lordship called Lady Portsmouth Mrs. A--..; they bad
knocked him down and flogged him. Mrs. A. had brought Alder
to his bed, and had had a child by him; his Lordship said
he bad never had sexual intercourse with any body; he had
been made to sign blankdrafts-=-tumed out of the carriage at
Witham to make room far Mr. Alder; he said they had never
made him ride behind the carriage, but he thought it quite suf.
ficient degradation to be made to ride before. Be then related to
witness the particulars of his marriage with the present Countess,
as already given in evidence ; Its Lordship was extremely
anxious for a divorce, and wished to know if he could marry
a niece ; they remained at Edinburgh, because, after Mrs. A.
Lad seen Dr. Hamilton, it was found necessary ; the reason he
did not thrash Alder when he found him in bed with his
wife was, because he was a stronger man than his Lordship;
if he obtained a divorce, he intended to erect a throne at Hurst_
bourne, similar to that used on the occasion of his Majesty's
coronation ; at another time he expressed his intention of using
the throne for the purpose of receiving" congratulatory d.
dresses upon his return from Scotland after his long absencae.
Witneas saw his Lordship last Monday *ea ; Mr. France
called upon him, and asked hint what was his opinion as formed
at the three interviews he had with his Lordship ? Witness told
Mr. F. that he thought he (Mr. Franco had not a leg en stand
upon. Withal considered Lord Portsmouth's mind decidedly
unsound ; in fact, his Lordship, if he was in a low condition of
- society, would be looked upon a " Tom-a'-Bedlam,” ad would-
be pointed at by poisons in the Weer as omit wholly desn tituts of
understanding, and Incapable of managing any business of im-
airtance. Lord P.'s mind was not of such a description as
would be capable of being remedied, and appeared to have been
originally in the same state of distemper in which it new was.
Tho-delosions were not to be removed by any courfe of treat-
ment ; `rnildnesS would not improve it, nor would harshness be
likely to make it worse.
Examined by the Jury.—The treatment Lord P. met with
from Lady Portsmouth piobably did not aggravate the disease.
Viritnesi believed that" Lord l'. haul the unsound mind from his
birth, from the CiTCRUIStaIICe of his being, when witness vi-

sited him, in a perfect state of bodily health, and the sYl,°.l_l'.
toms being confirmed, and by no means of the nature
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presented the usual expectations of recovery. A drunken
labonred under deprivation of sense, and so did a ler ~
t
a delirium, but no person could call a man in ea?)
those conditions a lunatic, for the delirium and theer
cation at an end, the person who. laboured under
facts recovered, the body being restored to its nets e
(ions, the mind also assumed its former tone anres_m..
• ect. But Lord Portsmouth, either in bodily sicknesst
ily health, was just the same in the mind. Did no
too
der that if a man shewed proofs of memory, and was a/lrie
n.
SvhUersaeStaiwastniorartnn:pokleinleesaiwa conversation, he
unsound but upon one particular subject ;
was not at all qualified to conduct his tiff.
would follow a log of wood and mistake it f(
be entrusted with the management of his owl
' to differ from two such experienced and a..
Latham and Doctor Ainslie, but looked upt>
Lord Portsmouth to be that of complete unsoundn
Here the examination of witnesses concluded,
for Lord Portsmouth were informed by tb
ed
that they were ready to hear Mr. Adam upon
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far ant man who had watched tius case, are
the evidence upon both sides had produced,'
that he had much to remove, much to eradical
of those who were to decide upon the importan'
difficulties of the case prinapaliv arose from
inquiry itself, which regarded 'the operation
mind, and required the most solemn and mit
A period of 25 years, diversified by a number
to be travelled over, and all the statement
made of facts alleged to have occurred within
Ito be weighed against each other. The great.
' which the circumstances embraced, the nature
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allimance for any apparent incongruities tiPon t greet
winesses. His Leared Friends on the other side Ir vivo
address availed themselves In the proceeding of the PT'S& este
of the Hansons, and take all possible pains to coool„,„sisie
of that family with that of Lord Portsmouth. It was_ri;AS
that any one could feel more indignation than be felt it wsfat t
of those individuale; but he would impress Vet.°
apprehensions of Lord P's future expos'
were at an end. To sum up the difficulties'
selves, it would be recollected that earl'
this P.
Serjeant Pell had comlntl
Lord P. and of that unfair denia p aie
l he had
further complaint. The Jury had to con'
Lord Portsmouth was, a person of sown
whether he was or was not incapable oi
the management of his own aims.
other side must prove, that his insuffii
soundness, not fin weakness of minds
were at an end. It must be admitted,
Lord P. had committed acts, which beyr
proved, that his faculties were beneath
of man S that his understanding was um
bat God forbid, that the mere fact of
mind should subject him to the charge of
should pause before they permitted the
the other side to weigh with them. —de
facts stated in evidence, and place those'
to ten thousand opinions. They were as
as the medical men who had been exam:
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upon the merits of which depend upon the
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d imposition had bete Pre—e
doing away the validity. of a will made by
!less was not considered adequate to °lnc°
for the other side would have defined-I
subject, There appeared to be no grounti -41 ,I,At,
to them all; and how did Sheir opinions agree svi` tkol r•
e
pon
he
d
which Lord Hardiiricke required ? Was oat he not atria'?
tocomcoptpertilicetsnandl,:ndurthaitt.';tacaltirlPt:uentoarhhrwarsiffieecalastrniertsaiseid h
his jtifillan?
ll as
and
Was there any occasion to chew that he was derient
to sal p„
faculties which constituted soundness of tnititlie vois4l,la:
who heard him speek the day before say, that range
man of feeling—and that he was not out of the, .uoonii,oy
eases to which Lord Ilardwicke had referred ? 11 rotor'ttit..4
of mind were to be defined, as some defined 14,014 oritioi,l
of reasoning upon probabilities, and drawing Ju'a oast
from premises laid down before it, he feared t„,h4„to of the set
set
who were masters of their properties in viol lr would conic under the clenamination. In fact, era rdr.?lset
said of a precise nature affecting the sanity of f his ells bol
The Learned Council denied that at any period At i‘jor
P. had betrayed the mind of a lunatic, or an of
wiled
he had strewn capability. In the year 1799,
ried to the Lady P., what evidence was ''-^lajr" -100
aberration ?. Was it credible that such a woman:, caeft,,t o
ley's sister could marry an idiot, who was fitter `""
than for the Altar ? All the documents that w:ertinst2.a ?,•
furnished no stronger grounds of' the charge ujeolin'velt"
fondness for the low amusements of the
but vulgar' de to;
had testified, betrayed no insanity :noel,' use e
mind. Could. it be said that a EllAll,was mad,that es`
a black crape- on his hat, and followed forces/e 0'
cause he slaughtered a bullock ? Was it not kniere
of the most accomplished men of his age took uof isser;
tending executions ? Cruelty was no quiPt°lll,ll art,„ that
and who couldusay that the driving of a stage-e"a(rtions,
to foie
soundnes mind ? Those were degrading °4Patethee,,,,ree "
guedinsensibility, but not insanity. -With resPeahroen cgr.
of madness, that the reins of the horses were t" och %di A
Lord P. at a moment of dagger, who could have act $
mend over himself as, in. the moment of pq,,,td.'in
manner as to secure his own safety ? Lord I:24l,,..oeti''pohe"
of his conduct shtvm cowardice and insensiou"/4 all wirror
never. He had shevm infirmity of purpose, and iottr'
attributes of a weak and imbecile mind. He b she a#
lardy of appetite ; but if all who had irregtilsritl°OltAxiP
don about them were to be deemed of unsoun I°.
immense multitude of inesanwouldth ere bell% °s ale ►ln g."--1,
From the great bulk of evidence, Brandt a°l4 p. ;0,0;
spectable sources, it was to be inferred that Lot, obscrt`dtSl
himself as other gentleman had done. After 5° reconecosir'•
on the conduct of the Maisons, who it would be _ tbe_o 111
not haul an opportunity of defending theniselvee: .
Counsel concluded the first P°Ttion of his address , .
tot, 1
of four o'clock having arrived, the Coluroisei°lseiitsee ;31
the Court, after having more than ones.e°L.l,,)r ft is 01'
Adam upon the conduct of the case.--The
conclude this day.

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the Lady of John Maier, ,of a daughter.. f 111
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of taking upon hires
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the 'want of vigour ct
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ingenuity of the PIO
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as not one, the tiecioleo
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of s wait glee:
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innontroveruble 01,_0,,"'
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him ; but thst Wea",
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kl give the least ssis,
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tlif.
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