The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-14 00:00:00

usual course of ordering a Committee of Inquiry.
It was composed of most respectable persons, the
Members being Dr. Rennie,. (the Physician to the:
Hospitals), Dr. Crampton, and. Dr. Jackson,..the
State Physician. (Hear, hear). There was some
difference among these gentlemen—they all agreed
that Mr. Macdonnell was very ill, but they did not
all agree as to the extent of the danger from re,
maining in prison. Four days afterwards one of
the three again visited the prisoner, and made a
separate Report. Upon making that Report, a
conversation bad ensued between the Physician
and Lord Leveson Gower, the substance of which
he would read to their Lordships, if they had no
objection.
Earl 13A THURST—Read the substance.
The Noble MARQUIS read as follows—

" I have seen Dr. Jackson, and his conversation was
stronger than his report, if possible. I think the only
question is, whether you could take the responsibility of
waiting four days for an answer from the other side of the
water. I cannot recommend you to do so." •
On the same day, the 27th of August, continued
the Noble Marquis, I wrote to Mr. Peel, that I be-
lieved it was necessary that I should release. Mr.
Macdonnell on the following morning. I trans-
mitted the reports of the medical men. I stated that
I would see the Members of the Committee on the
following day, and if I found that I could do so in
safety, I would wait an answer from him. I added
that I wished him to understand that I would take
the whole responsib:lity of the act upon myself, but
desired to have the advantage of his experience.—
The next application that was made, the Marquis
then added, was a memorial transmitted by Mr. Mac-
donnell to Lord Lcveson Gower, written in pencil,
mating as follows:
" Within the last week Dr. Collis and Dr. O'Bierne
have mot Dr. Roney in consultation at Kilmainhatn on
my ease; and Dr. Jackson visited me repeatedly. They
all concur in the opinion that I am in a most dangerous
state of health, in consequence of confinement. To request
an answer of some sort—if unfavourable to get copies of
the certificates of the physicians, that I may have them
laid before the King as the ground vk application to his
Blajesty. Since I made my application, two persons have
been liberated from this gaol ou account of ill health, on
the certificate of Dr. Roney alone, who is the official
authority, and also President of the College of Surgeons "
He received a letter from Mr. Secretary Peel,
dated the 27th of August, in which the Right Hon.
Secretary states, that if Mr. M`Donnell's health was
in such a bad state, that his life would be in danger
from longer confinement, he himself would take
upon him to discharge him; 'out, at the same time
observing that every care ought to be taken to guard
against mistake or imposition. He wrote back to
Mr. Peel, that he would not at that time liberate the
prisoner, but that he would leave an order with Lord
Francis for his liberation, i►► case the state of his
Jiealth should imperiously demand it, before he
(Lord Anglesea) returned from Carlington, whither
he was going for a few days. When he returned
from carlington the prisoner was not liberated, and
he was informed that his health was very precarious.
But not being fully satisfied with the previous
consultations of physicians which had already
taken place, on the arrival of an eminent physician
from London (Dr. Cheyne, probably), he caused
another Committee of Physicians to sit, and take
the matter again into consideration, and the physi-
cias who arrived from London was called on to sit
in that Committee. The Report of the Committee
as to the prisoner's state of health, and as to the
effect which further confinement might have on him,
was so unfavourable, that he tlid not think himself
justified in delaying the liberation any longer, and he
let the prisoner out.—(Hear, hear.)
_ . .

Lord CLANCARTY wished the Noble Marquis
had been present when the Noble Duke (Welling-
ton) stated that Dr. Cheyne would not sign any
certificate except that the prisoner was in sound
health.
The Duke of WELLINGTON, who appeared
to labour under a severe cold, stated, as we under-
stood him, that the Noble Lord had misconceived
his statement, which was only that Dr. Cheyne did
not sign a certificate that the prisoner was at the
point of death.
After a few words from the Marquis of ANGLESEA,
The motion was then put and negatived without
a division. _ .

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY moved that
a Message be sent to the Commons to request that
they would communicate to their Lordships certain
documents in the possession of that House on the
subject of the Coal Trade.
Ordered aecordingly.—Adjourned.