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COURT OF'CI-IitI4CERY, TAN, 22.

OJNATIC 141.1: MATTER OF MRS.

E. .1,131 TH.

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This was 3 mataT which came before the. Court
in ahm Master'* Report, describing a Mr. Har-vey
as 3. p'roper 'perhon to be the Coturntitee of the
Lunatic.

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Sir S;oiuut IlottltiCOr staled the- caro wth his
usual eloquence. He observed, that Mrs. Leith
Was a Lady Svb!), about f 5 bears ago, amnia into poi-
session of a considerable estate, supposed to be of
the value of lour or '6OOOl. per annum, 'by the death
of a brother,..wiio died in the :West Indies. She
unhappily tell under mental derangement', and in
the; case Major-General Hay, an Officer, residing
in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, was -appointed
the Committee of her estate; and Mr. Harvey was
appointed Committee of her person. The" Lady
way lodged at the house for lunatics,.kept by Mrs.
Holmes, at Islitigton,Thn a stipend 0f.1301. per an-
num. SeVeral years etipsed, during which Major-
Gen. Hay gave in no account of hitt trust, and he was
never called on so to do by the Committee of het
personi in consequence, it was presumed; cat trim e
intimacy between theme, and it was not until
180$ that Mr. Leith, who %Arts one of the next of
kin to, the Lady, iiiterfervd, and on his.mere sug-
gestion, the allowance co the Lady was raised Irian
801. to 1701. On application to the Cotart, Gen.
Hay was removed, and ordcred to account tor his
trust. At the same lime it was re:erred to the
Master to appoint aproper Committee to tier estate.
General Hay did not account, and a suit had been
instituted in the Court of Session„
,in Scotland, to
the determination, of which emery possible impe-
diment twd been apposed. )The Master had report-
ed Mr. -Harvey a proper person tube Committee pf
the rstate.

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Sir SAMUEL ROMIL.LY Contended that Mr. Har-
vey, who had been so negligent in calling the Com-
mittee of the estate to account, ery unfit to be
.placed in the same situation. Ir was of the first
importance, that persons who fall under so heavy a
calamity as that of insanity, should haVe all the
comforts of life which their fortune afforded theM.
If • their estates would. not admit di those comforts,
they must submit but this was the case of a Lady
,intitled,to considerable income not placed in a com-
fortable establishment, but in a receptacle at Wing-
ten, where she was in the habit of seeing persons
lkiely to increase her malady. '
Sir ARTHUII PIGOT said, that the estate of the
lunatic was in mortgage,
.and not produaive till
lately, and that Mr. Harvey had no wish to have the
controul of the 'lunatic's estate, unless with the ap•-
probation of the Court.
The Loin CHANcELLoa intimated, that if the
Court of Chancery could endure that a Committee
-of a lunatic could suffer fifteen or sixteen years to
'elapse without accounting for the lunatic's estate,
and to keep her at. a common mad-tiou•ie on a
stipend of ROI. a year, the Public ought not to en-
dure the Court of Chancery. His Luidship there',
fore said, that he could not think of sutforing Mr.
Harvey to have the care of the lunatic's estate.
With respect to Mr. Leith being the proper person,
there were some circumstances relating to an ano-•
nymous letter Which his Lordship would consider
ot, and in the mean time he directed- that Mr.
Leith should make an affidavit whether he was the
author of the letter imputed to him.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY afterwards stated that Mr.
Leith was not the Writer of the letter in. question ;
and he also obscrted that an account had arrived
trout Scothnd, that Major-General Hay had been
ordered, in the Court of Sessions, to pay 'all costs.

It gives us great pleasure to observe that another
edition of "rl Father's Tales to his
_Daughter," is
already called for. The amiable author of this ex-
cellent work appears eminently adapted,' in his qua-
lity of fattier and first instructor, to loan, at an early
hour, the charaaer.acid mind of youth, and the
Tales which he bas composed for his daughter are
suclias cannot fail to be read with peculiar intere,t
bYltoung.people of either who are sure to im.
frum thou), Sound itiea4 of religion and.mo.