The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-19 00:00:00

I suppose—pray did you examine his bodily
health? The witness—l did not.
Mr. BRODNRICK—What ! do you prescribe for
your patient without examining into his state of
bodily health ? The witness—Dr. Cobb prescribed
for him, and by my sanction put my name to his
prescription.
Mr. BRODERICK—DO you put your name to a
ma i certificate at the request of a friend, without
examining the party whom it is to deprive of
lil,erty ? The witness—That's quite another mat-
ter. Ido not. When I was at Crouch-hill I did
not know that Mr. Davies had been taken away
from Furnival's Inn Coffee-house by force. I did
not see the keepers who were with him at that
place. If a sane man had been so treated by his
mother, I should consider it to be an adequate cause
for his dissatisfaction with her.
Mr. WRlGHT—Supposing Mr. Davies to be
worth at the outside only 13,0001., and to owe
13,0001., and to have only 8001.; or if you like only
twice as much at his bankers, and to lay out 7,0001.
- on the purchase of a villa, do you not consider that
to be an an act of insanity ? The witness-1 do.
Mr. BROUGHAM—You do ! Imprudence it may
be, but surely not insanity.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—This is mere as-
sumption, Mr. Wright, we have no evidence before
us as to Mr. Davies' property.
Mr. WRIGHT—His banker's books have been put
in, and they prove that he had not more than 8001.
at his banker's.
• Mr. BRODERICK—That merely shows what was
his balance at his bankers. These assumptions are
unfair, in a case where the mother is striving to
make her son a lunatic. -
Mr. WRIGHT—I say you slander the mother, if
you say that she is striving to make her son a
lunatic. She is in fear of her life from him ; and 1
know from personal converse with her that she is
not striving, as you. say, to make her son a lunatic.
The confusion, uproar, and vehemence, became
extreme ; and it was long before order could be

restored,
A Juryman—Did you not consider Mr. Davies
much better on. the Sth December; or, if you did
. ,
not, why did you. try to reason with him and per-
suade him that he had been insane ?
Witness—Oh yes, I did consider him better.
To questions by the CovrtT—He was much bet-
ter. I tried to persuade him that he had been in-
sane; he answered that he could not bear the im-
putation of madness; I then persuaded him that in-
sanity must not be taken in its common tease, that
it meant only an unsoundness of mind; he then ac-
knowledged himself to have been so far insane as
to have committed some acts previous to the 6th of '
August which in his present state of mind he would
not repeat; on the next Tuesday he positively re-
fused to acknowledge any unsoundness of mind at all.
At a quarter to six the Court adjourned to this
day (Saturday), at eleven o'clock.
The alleged lunatic was in attendance in a private
room in Gray's-inn Coffee-house during. the day.
On an application made to .the Commissioners by
Mr. nobler, Dr. Mackinnon was sent for Mr.
Davies. He was left in that gentleman's care only;
and on a keeper's trying to interfere, and be in the
room with him, an application was made to the
Court for its interference. Dr. Burro NS then went
and had the room cleared of his keeper; and thus
Dr. Mackinnon and Mr. Davies were left alone
together.