The Sun.
London, England, 1810-10-31 00:00:00

PlityATE MAD 110USgS.

Benjamin Elliot, and his wife were indieted for a
conspiracy to deprive -Mrs. Daititree of l!er liberty.
The circumstances of the case were- as folinw

Mr: ALLEY, for the proseculion statt'd,' that, in
the-year 1807, some time atter the dect-.ase of the
prosecutrix's husband, she hired apattments in -th•
defendant's house at his request, and being in a de-
sponding state of mind, through the loss of her hus-
band, frequently went to sit with the - de!endams.
and in the course of these visits unbosomed herself
to•the defendants, and told them she had property
to a. large' amount. - '
The defendants; taking advantage of the melan-
ditty stale of the prosertitrix, called in Several
ft tends and relative s,.and impressed upon their minds
I hat, the prosecutrix lvas-derand. The defendants
for a Medical Oentlrman, but he, en. seeing the
prcs..utrix',`declintd signing a certificate fOr her to
be taken to a' mad-house, unless they had witnesses
uho c,;uld prove that she was 'at tinies in that de-
Tanged_state whichthey deKribe,-1.
The .defendams, •however, not waiting for these
'forms, came at five o'clock in theevening, and with
force and AnhOinanity seiied the prosecutrix, and
carried her off to a private mad house at Hoxton„
It came out in-the Cottr••e of the evidt4ice, th::t
the proSeCutrix Was &eared with uncommon in-hu-
manity-and cruelly, as welt a: ingratitude, by the
defendants, and kept conficied fifteen weekS.
'Several witnesses wet e called, 'A ho proved 'the sane
,state of the prosecutrix's.mind tor several years past,
and up to this day. •
Mr. GLEM addressed the Jury ,to spew that she
was even'now mad, as Well as at the time when she
was sent to the mad house ; and he called several
witnesses; the objecl of whose testimony was to e-t
.
tahlisli that which the Learned•Coun'sel stated ; but
in this they most,completely failed. Among the wit-.
news cared for this purpose, was the son of the:
prosectitrix,. who not 'Only proved that his inpther
was perfectly sound in mind at the time this violence;
was committed, but that no att before or since could
warrant so base a transa:`..-ti;,n.

Another witness_ called was an apothecary, who
lives near the mact-houSe in question, which is kept,
by Mrs. ButroWes or Burroughs, at Hox,on. He:
'slated, that he never saw the prasecutrix until after
she was confined, which was. the following day, but
that he perceived.no syrOptom of insanity about her
Whatsoever; that she was in a state of irritation ;
but he added, that he went to the neighbourhood
where she resided; and there he learned that she hml,
a 6 led strangely, and upon this inforthation he, signed
a certificate that she was. mad !

Mrs. Daintree, the prosecutrix, stated, that when
she was seized to be carried to this -.mad-house,
she was drinking tea in her own room, when the
prisoner B. Elliott,laid hold of her, and two wo-
men who are keepers of Mrs. Burruughs's mad-
house, entered: She resisted their etThris tier some
time, when one of theM, natued_Luxton, grasped
her by the hair of the beail, and ptilled her down
backwards, whilst the other, aided by Elliott, drag-
ged her forcibly dOwn two-pair of stai,s, put iier
into a coach, and 'Carried her to the mad- house above
nadntioned;

When, she arrived there; • they immediately put a
a strait waistcoat on' her-, and when she was going
to bed, they Look that'off 'and put ancther on, in
which she slept all-night.. That lying there sevetal
weeks, she happened- to see by accident a Mrs:
Bailey, whom ;4'se was acrrainted
.with, pass the
house; and she called tä her, andmade -known her
situation, and through Mrs. Bailey's efforts -she at
last- got' liberated,' after 15 weeks confinement in
•
This abode of anguish.
-
In her eviden.;e she related several aasof fraud
as well as cruelty pratised on ,;ier at the mad house;.
they took her property from her, and the prisoner
Elliott triade;hiniseif master of her houses, furni,
tore, and property, and possessed himself of her
rents and'inbnies wherever hecou:d find them.

Mr. ALLEY, in a most animated reply, descanted
on the 'enormity of this wicked ,and profligate ease,
than which, as he emphatically observed, a worse
never came into a Court ofJustice 3 and the Chair-
man haling spoke'to the same etfett, the defendant
was found7Guilty.—J udgment deferred. .

Lieutenant W. 13-inley, of the Vanguard, was
lately-drowned in the Baltic. Having been to procure
water for the ship, a gale of wind came on, which the
boat not being able to encounter, he ran for a titer-
-chant vessel tor Safety. He could not be persuaded to
leave the boat till he -had seen all. his men safe on
board the ship, when in attetnpting to get himself on
board, he fell between the two vessels,\ and instantly
sunk to rise no more. On the same day a boat with
Seven men and aqnidshiptnan, belonging to the same
ship; was upset, and aAperishech

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