The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-08 00:00:00

Mr. Warden deposed that he knew Mr. Fenwick,
and that Mrs. Warden was Mrs. Fenwick's sister. He
knew Mr. Fenwick foe the last twelve or thirteen years.
Witness was in the Bombay civil service, and Mr. Fen-
wick had been a Master in Chancery at Bombay. He
also filled two other situations connected with the
Courts there, which occupied his time constantly from
six o'clock in the morning till eleven o'clock at night.
The only hours of relaxation which he enjoyed,
bAng those during which he took his mi al?. The conse-
quence ofthis incessant labour was that his mind and body
gave way under it, and in January, 1836,his memorywas
completely gone ; so much so, indeed, that the moment
ieter he had taken his broth he would forget it. In
that month he proceeded to the Cape, and returned to
Bombay in 1837. Witness cal!eil upon him at his
office. but he did net appear improved. In reply to a
question put by witness, he said " that he was now
keeping the lawyers i❑ order."—(Laughter.) Wit-
ness shot- ly afterwards proceeded to the Cape of Good
Hope for the benefit of his health, end in May, 1837,
Mr. Fenwick arrived there. His health continued
poorly, but it was not uct 1 November in that year,
hat ho manifested signs of iosan:ty. In that
month Mrs. Fenwick was confined, and he then
told witness that Mrs. Fenwick had turned him out of
doors. He said he knew thi.t his wife had prayed for
his death, and that he had been informed of the fact
through the medium of a celestial being. He said that
he had direct communication with Ideas en, and that his
former wife (for Mr. Fenwick had been previously mar-
ried) was the celestial being to whom he referred. The
witness dim deposed to Mr. Fenwick having treated
his is ly cruelly in consequence of the delusions
which he was suffering from ; and also that he
said that Lady Dervan, the Governor's lady, had
gone to church iit Cape :rown, and had paid him
divine honours. Mr. Fenwick took a dislike to
witaels, and he did not see hire often after Nov. 1837,
but he did see him afterwards with a strait-waistcoat
on him, Mr. Abercrombie, his medical attendant, hav-
ing deemed it desirable that he should be so restrained.
Mrs. Fenwick was ultimately taken away from Mr.
Fenwick. Witness afterwards saw Mr. Fonwielt tit
Bombay, and subsequently in London, but he never
spoke to him since Christma4, 1837. His opinion was
that Mr. Fenwick was never able to manage his own
affairs from Nov. 1837.

To a Juror—Mr. Fenwick was tawny s a temperate
man.

To Mr. PIIILLIMORE_Mr. Fenwick was always
upon affectionate terms with his wife up to the morning
after her confinement at the Cape of Good Hope.
James Noblc, waiter at the British Hotel, Jermyn-
street, deposed. to Mr. Fenwick coming to the British
Hotel in October, 1839. He remained there about
ten weeks. He was accompanied by his daughter, a
young lady of 19 years of age. Mr. Fenwick's brother,
the clergyman, called, as did also his lather-in.law, Ge-
neral Lodwick. Mr. Fenwick had portraits of his wife
and daughter, and when ho was angry with them he
used to turn the faces of the portraits to the wall, and
displayed other eccentric acts. He also complained that
poison was put into his fish sauce and his food generally.
He wett away at the end of ten or eleven weeks, and
returned about July, 1840. Ho then seemed to get
more eccentric. He used to go to St. James's church
every day, and said that the church used to be con-
stantly crowded, and that the object of the persons
who came there was to pay him divine honours. He
said upon one occasion that he had been insulted by a
person staring at him in church. He gave a descrip-
tion of this person, and witness described him as a me-
dical geutleman, named Davis ; and ever afterwards
Mr. Fenwick used to say that Mr. Davis was con-
stantly giving him poison in his food. When Mr.
Fenwick went away the first time he paid his bill cor-
rectly, and so far acted rationally. Sir Astley Cooper
and Dr. Munroe saw Mr. Fenwick at the hotel.
Mr. Cherry, the proprietor of the British Hot(1,
also deposed to the delusion under which Mr. Fenwick
laboured, in reference to poison being administered to
him in his food. He said that the witness was instru-
mental to the poison being administered, and that he
would have to answer it at the place of judgment, and
that he (Mr. Fenwick) would be a witness against him
on that day.

The proprietor of the King's Arms, Bagsbot, the
chambermaid at that inn, and the proprietors of the
G:een-man, Blackheath, deposed to Mr. Fenwick being
at the hotels mentioned, and that at each of them he
declared that poison had been put into his food.
Tee Rev. John Peregrine Fenwick deposed that he
saw his brother upon his arrival in England, and that
he told him individuals were obliged to go to church
to pay him divine honours. His brother's manner and
general demeanour were quite ratione. He knew what
his property was, and was quite capable of looking to
his accounts and of drawing cheques.
Mr. Austin, the alleged lunatic's sol;citor, was also
examined, and he deposed that up to that day
he laboured under the delusion that petso is
were obliged to go to church to pay him divine to tours,
and elso that poison was constantly placed in his food.
So mach was be under this latter delusion that he had
declined to take any food for several days. He was
quite reduced by it. The present proceedings were
taken with the consent of all parties connected with
Mr. Fenwick, forit was clear he could not manage his
his own affairs, and the trustees under his marriage set-
tl~ we had declined to pay him any money, on the
ground of his not being able to give them a legal release.
General Lodwick gave similar testimony.
Mr. Calvert then produced a petition which had
been written by Mr. Fenwick addressed to the Queen,
in which he claimed a pension for the loss of his situa-
tion in Bombay. The petition, which came from the
Home-office, displayed an extraordinary compound of
sanity and delusion, but the composition as a whole
placed the lunacy of Mr. Fenwick beyond a doubt.
Dr. Alunroe and Mr. Steadman were then examined,
and they unhesitatingly gave__ it as their opinion that
Mr. Fenwick was insane. The former gentleman said,
that ability to cast up accounts and draw cheques was
not incompatible with positive insanity,
Mr. Fenwick was then introduced to the room. He
was a gentleineely•looking personage, apparently under
50
yezrs of age. He was placed in a chair, and seemed
perfectly composed.
The CHILI CoerettsstoNea communicated to him
the result of the present inquiry, and said that it would
be necessary to ask him sonic questions.
Mr. Fenwick—Then the questions had better be
put to we in writing and I will answer them in the same
way. As Cie investigation is an important one, I
should like that my answers should be precise.
This art angement baying been acceded to, the ques-
tions to Mr. Fenwick were written, and ho replied to
them in the same way. When those questions were
put which had relation to the delusions under which he
was labouring, his answers left no doubt of his insanity.
He was then taken away-
The Jury shortly consulted, when they returned a
verdict "that William Fun wick, Esq. was a lunatic,
and had been so since 1839?

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