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Bromley College, in Kent, for an order for the sum
of 80001.-to he.paid them' hy the .administratrix of a
widow Lady, named-Moore, who died some- months
ago, -and left the above sum for the use of the .Charity.
Tne testatrix had herself .been 22 years in the College,
and upon her accession to a fortune, she made the be-
qu 'at, from a grateful remembrance she had of the re
lirf she had experienced. The administratrix was her-
self willing to pay over.the money, but she wished for
the crder of the Court, for her own security. After
some conversation it was finally settled that the 80001.
should be paid into the Accountant-General's Office,
to be invested in the 3 per Cent. Consols, and the In-
terest to be appropriated to the use of the Charity.—
Costs to be paid out of the Estate.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, AUGUST 1.
John Cater, a smith and bell-hanger, was opposed
by Mr. HEATH, on behalf of a creditor named Pt Ingle,
who in September,lB23, brought an action against the
insolvent, upon which the latter paid him 181. out of
261. 16s. 4d. the amount of debt and costs, and gave
him his promissory note, payable in six weeks, for the
balance. The note when due was dishonoured, and the
opposing creditor again brought his action, to which
the insolvent took defence ; but ultimately the plain-
tiff recovered judgment. In the meantime, tow ever,1
the insolvent made over his property by bill of sale to
his father-in-law, to whom, he stated, he owed 961.
and by whom it was subsequently disposed of to ano-
ther relative for 451.
Mr. Cooxe having addressed the Court on behalf of the incol.
vent, the case was then adjourned to a future day, for the insolvent
to perfect his schedule.

COMMISSION OP LUNACY.

IN THE MATTER OP THE REV. EDWARD TRANIC (A
SUPPOSED LUNATIC).
This was a case similar to the Portsmouth cause.
It was a commission under the Great Seal, audio-
rising the Sheriff to summon a Jury to inquire into
the fact whether the Rev. Edward Frank was a lunatic
and of unsound mind? The writ was in the nature of a
de lunatico inquirendo, and the Jury were summoned to
attend in the Great Room, in Gray's-Inn Coffee-house,
facing the street, and en that account subject to great
annoyance from the con inual passage of coaches.—
Eleven o'clock was the hour appointed, but the Chief
Commissioner did not arrive till twelve. Mr. Broug-
ham arrived express from York, being specially re-
tained for Mr. Frank. His sudden appearance in the
room excited a good deal of interest and surprise.
The Commissioners were Mr. Phillimore, Mr. Wbitmarsh, and
Mr. Carr.
The Counsel for the Commission were, Mr. Solicitor-General,
and Mr. Wakefield. For the Heir at Law, Mr. Pepys and Mr.
Knight, by virtue of an order from the Lord Chancellor, em-
powering Mr. Bacon Frank, or his Counsel, to appear in order to
watch the evidence.
Against the Commission, and for Mr. Frank, Mr. Brougham,
and Mr. Spence.
The following Jury were then sworn :
Sir Richard Birnie, Bow-street. Foreman.
Sir James Williams, Kentish-town.
Mr. William Forateen, Hans Place.
William Mrshy, Pall-mall place.
William Wiz, Islington.
William Creighton, Brentford.
Joseph Smith, Gray's-inn.
John Jackson, Silver-street.
James Agar, Holly-terrace.
Charles Stable, Terrace, Kentish-town.
James Mansfield, John-street, Bedford-row.
Thomas Frampton, South-street, Finsbury.
Benjamin Cooke Grilfinhoofe, Kentish-time.
John Lewis Blackmore, Norton-street.-..
Isaac Smith, Ditto. •
Joseph Spictr, Gray-street, Mary-la-Bonne.
George Hamby, North-place.
Richard Latham, Great Russell-street.
Thomas Richanßead, Claremont-temce.
Richard Carpenter, Goswell-street-road.
Francis Stedman, Barron-street.
John Inwood, uston-square.
William Bryden, Tavistosk-square.
The writ of inquiry was then read.
The Chief Commissioner (Mr. PHILLIMORE) then
stated the nature of the inquiry. Tie Jury were to
inquire whether the Rev. Edward Frank was a lunatic,
enjoying lucid intervals? or whether he was a person
of sane mind, and capable of managing his own affairs?
for it was now decided in law, that a person labouring
under lunacy or unsoundness of mind, which consisted
in being subject to the influence of a particular delusion,
rendering him unfit to manage his own affairs, was, to
all intents and purposes.of lite, in a state of lunacy, If
they should so find, they would mark the time at which
lunacy commenced, and say whether there was a con-
tinued delusion of mind, and report the result of their
inquiry to the Lord Chancellor. He would merely add,
that the whole business should be conducted like a case
at Nisi Prius.
Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, he had the honour to
appear before them in support of the Commission which
they had just heard read ; is he was compelled to raise
his voice beyond the ordinary level, he trusted that
they would attribute it to necessity, arising from the
noise which they then heard ; be did hope to have ob-
tained the use of Gray's Inn Hall for their convenience,
and he trusted that by to-morrow he should be able v
do so ; they had heard what it would be their duty to
enquire into was first, whether the Rev. Edward Franks,
Clerk, was of sound mind and understanding, or
whether of unsound mind, and incapable of managing
his own affairs? and if they found the latter, to state
the time he became so : the latter part of the enquiry,
however, he (the Solicitor-General) thought would be
in the present case totally immaterial,although his friend
Mr. Knight seemed to think that it was because the
pet iod of time would not at ail affect any question of
utle, the verdict of that Jury could not make void any
deed or transfer of property by the lunatic.
Mr. BROUGHAM here interrupted the Learned Solicitor, observ-
ing, that, by a recent decision. the verdict of a Jury under .a
Commission of Lunacy, bad been given in evidence in order to
invalidate the transfer of property by a lunatic.
Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL resumed.—He admitted
that fact, but of the propriety of such new law he
would say nothing ; and it only extended to receiving
the verdict of the Jury in support of the presumption
of the lunacy, and not as conclusive evidence of it. In
order to their understanding of this case, it would be
necessary for him to go through a great portion of the
history of the life of the Gentleman, the state of whose
mind was the unfortunate subject of their inquiry;
but lie would first trouble them with a few observa-
tions upon the law of the case. It is not necessary
that in their verdict they should use the word lunatic ;
this was decided in the case of a Mr. Cranmoie,
a Gentleman in Essex. It was only necessary that
they should come to a conclusion that the person cifl
whom they were to inquire was of unsound mind,
and unfit to manage his own affairs. In Mr. Cran-
't was proved that lie was unfit to ma-

held both by Lords Erskine and Eldon, who were
high authorities on this...subject. He Solicitor-.
General) was. Counsel in the case, and lie knew ..that
it.was carefully discussed by Lord Erskine, who ap-
proached the subject with.the skill of a lawyer, and the
science of a metaphysician. What the law said, AS ap-
plied to what constituted a lunatic, was non compos
rentis—at least so it was laid down in Coke, Littleton,
and Blackstone. He should therefore relieve them
from any metaphysical discussion, or the classification
of cases, and general opinion of medical men, and
merely prove that this individual was of such a state of
mind as to be totally unable to manage his own affairs.
He would now briefly proceed to lay before them the
materials which were to form his case. The Rev. Mr.
Frank was a clergyman of the Church of England, and
was descended from a very ancient and respectable
family in the county of York; he was possessed of a
lamily property of eight thousand pounds per annum,
and he had two livings, one in Norfolk, and another in
Suffolk, which were worth about two hundred pounds
per year, and he had a large family, the eldest of
which was Mr. Bacon Franks, for whom Mr. Pepys ap-
peared—and when he had related to the Jury the facts,
and the manner in which the Rev. Gentleman had con-
ducted both himself and his affairs, it would be for the
Jury to say, whether a Gentleman, a clergyman, and a
father of a family could, if in his senses, have so con-
ducted himself? In the year 1800, whilst a minor, he
married a Miss Sowerby ; and in the year 1812, he
became posses ed of his family, estate. He, in the inte-
rim chiefly resided at one cf his vicarage houses, at Shel-
ton, in Norfolk ; but in the year 1811, set up, by the
desire of his wife, an establishment in Yorkshire, he
himself principally residing in Norfolk.. In the year
1815, the wife of Mr. Franks being then at York, there
appeared a very wonderful performer, a man capable,
he believed, of performing a character in any Drama;
this Gentleman's name was J. Dickinson, but he was
now called Dr, D'ckinson, where, however, he was di-
plomaized with his aictorship, he knew not—but such
things were to be purchased, and probably it had been
so purchased by the money of the Rev. Mr. Franks, but
a Doctor certainly he now was. About the year 1815,
an advertisement appeared in thenoneaster; Nottingham,'
and Lincolnshire Gazettes,inserted by this Dr. Dickinson,
invvh ch he promised to cure all sorts of ruptures towhi:h
the human frame was liable, and he offered his services
to the Nobility and Gentry of the neighbourhood.—
(The Learned Solicitor here read the advertisement; the
reading of which excited some laughter). Now it fre-
quently happened that those who undertook to cure
ruptures, were called in to cure persons who had no
ruptures at all, except those brought uponthern by those
who pretended to cure them ; whether this was or was not
the Case withDr.Dickinson,he did not know. The adver-
tisement was dated April,lBls, and this rupture Doctor
was called in by the Lady. Whether she had a rupture or
not he could not say, but two of the children, Rodolphus
and Aspinall, the youngest 12 years of age, had ruptures,
and the Doctor was called in to Campsel Hall to cure
them. Whether bigot his degree of Doctor at -Odor d
or Cambridge he could not say, but he would say who
this man was who had got complete possession of Mr.
Franks, his wife, children, and property. The woman
was abandoned beyond all doubt. The Doctor got into
the house, and she wrote to her husband at Shelton, in
Norfolk, several letters, praising and recommending
the Doctor in the strongest terms. She described him
as a man whotfor 0. a-year, had performed the me-
dical duties 'of the fatuity. In another letter she wrote
that he lived stithler in Campsel Hall, where she was
quite enraptuVed with him, and there the most barefaced
adultery was 'practised. In 1817, Nix.. Franks being ill
in Norfolk, she went with the rupture Doctor to attend
him, and theie the adulterous intercourse was continued.
She afterwards wrote letters of the most obscene de-
scription to her husband, and the Jury might have these
if they thought proper. She wrote one letter to her
husband, inviting him to commit fornication. 'This
was in 1815, while she was carrying on an adulterous
intercourse in Yorkshire. He would not say, that be-
cause a man was profligate he was mad, but he would
ask them what they thought of the mind of a man who
would receive such letters from his wife? The case of
Lord Audley, in the reign of Charles the Second, was
one in point as the character of profligacy being dis-1
tinct from madness, for there the greatest abominations
were practised from a mere spirit of wickedness ; but
where they found a man carrying on, as the Rev. Gen-1
tleman had done and had suffered others to practise
on him—a man who conducted himself unbecoming'
the character of a Christian, a Clergyman, or any'
other nran—it was impossible that they could not
see the real state of his mind. He never saw let-
ters like them, and it was impossible that a woman
writing- such could believe him to be in his senses.—
In 1816, Mr. Franks was, beyond all doubt, as con-
firmed a madman as any one confined in St. Luke's.—
The fringe of a petticoat err flounce—the mere colour
was enough to take his fancy—nay, he would think that
the lawn sleeves of Dr. Bathurst, in the Cathedral
Church, at Norwich, were those of a Lidy. In 1817, he
made a deed of separation, and parted with his wife,
and wrote a letter to a friend saying that he would
never live with her again. But in 1821 he lived with
her again, and to complete the disgrace tenfold, he con-
sented, in the year 1825, to continue the Doctor as a
friend and intimate member in the family. In 1817
Mr. Franks assumed a tone of reason, and settled some
property on his family; and in 1818 he wrote to his
sister, " that his wife was the most abandoned woman
in the world, living with that most impudent, swearing,
low.lifed fellow Dr. Dickinson ;" but in the yeas 1821
he went to live with her. What would they say of the
intellect of such a man ? Was he sane for one moment ?
In 1821, he went to Winthorpe, near Newark,
where he lived in a cottage with her and the Doctor,
There she put on a white sheet—a robe of purity, and
looked the fair penitent, but not in penance, although
her husband forgave her, and he lived in an inn, while
she and the Dr. lived in the cottage—pigging together.
Mr. BRouslus here wished the witnesses might retire, which
was agreed to.
Inc' Cuter COMM.
had occasion to retire.
Mr. Baocouwat—Of course no member of the family could be
here to hear their mother called
The Curer Consusatousa—Mr. Franks himself may remain.
Mr. BROUGHAM-ob, it is impossible that be can be here—
quite impossible.
The Souctroft-Gzeze.te then continued to detail other circum-
stances of a similar nature.
At four, o'clock further proceedings in this extraordinary case
were adjourned,—Tbe Jury will sit again to-morrow (this morning).

said, that no member of the family

The last Hamburgh Mail sailed from the Thames in
the Hylton Joliffe steam-ship. This is a great improve-
- bout fill- hour..

SPOUTING LVTELL-14XCE..
BF.TT 1 NV- ROO M, TATTER SA WS, A UO. - 1.
The attendance of heavy better-a was very good, and bu•iaess
was done to a large amount. Altisrdora and . Cleveland have
changed places; the former being backed against Ike latter at 6 to
5: Lord D. betted 1700 to 100 agst Cleveland two or three times.
Nothing was done on the Derby or Oaks.

sr. La 0614
24 to 1 agst Dauntless
25 to 1 apt-Homer
30 to 1 agst Pastime
30 to I.agst Trioculo
35 to 1 apt Brownhick
50 to 1 apt Brigand

5 to 1 agst Memnon
7 to 1 agst Alderman
8 to 1 agst Redgauntiet
16 to 1 agst Altisidora
16b to 1 agat Cleveland
18 to 1 agst Brother to Addy
9.3 to 1 agst Whisker

KNUTSFORD RACES, JULY 28.
The Dunham Massey Stakes of 25gs. each.

Sir J. Byng's br. c. Comedian • • • 3
Sir W. Wynn's br. c. by Champion • . . 2
Seven paid-5 to lon Comedian. Won in a canter.
Sixty Pounds, for all ages.
Mr. Clifton's by Ardrossan • . 1
Mr. Thompson' b. c. Butler, 4 yrs: old . 2 2
Foot Race for SOO soy. between Wantling and Beddoe.—Dis-
tance 500 yards—the f.rmer giving the latter ten yards. Ran on
Tuesday, and won easy by Beddue.
Bowling match for 20 30Y. each. Thursday, between the cele-
brated Mr. John Wray. of Ashburne, Derbrhire, and the re-
nowned Mr. Samuel Ozden, llarputhey, near Manche.ter. Won
by the former ten ahead.
SOUTHANIPTON RACES, JULY 27.
The Town Plate for all ages.
Mr. Farquharson's Black and all Black, aged
Mr. Gauntlett's Prima Donna, 4 yrs old
Mr. James's 111onirnia, 4 yrs old
Mr. Fleming's Front de Neuf, 5 yrs old

1 1
5 2
2 dr
4 dr

The Southampton Stakes—Two milts.
Mr. Messer's Presentiment, 4 yrs old, Vt. 10Ib. 1
Lord. Palmerston's Grey Leg, 3 yrs old, Tat. 31b. I
Mr. Fakuharson's b. f. by Waterloo, 4 yrs old, Bst . 3
Mr. Biggl Bulovi, 4 yrs old, SA. 7th. 4
The Stoneham Park Stakes was walked over fm by .Mr. Flt-n-
-ing's f. by Ruben..
The Three and Four Years Old Stakes was won at two he :::s b f
Mr. Grzme's Presentiment, beating Front de Ea J.

THURSDAY.
A Gold Cup value XlOO, with £3O added, for all :gee.
Lord Palmerston s Grey Leg, 3 yrs old .
Mr. James's Monimia, 4 yrs old
Mr. S. Stanley named Tiara, 4 yrs old

. 3

The Ladies' Plate of .C5O for all ages.
Mr. Lautmoor's gr. f. Brengaria, 3 yrs old . . 1 I
Lord Palmerston 's Conquest, 3 yrs old . . 1 2
Mr. Farquharson's b. f. by Waterloo, 4.yrs old . . 2 3
Sweepstakes of 25 son. each, for three years old colts and fillies.
Mr. S. Stanley named Grey Leg . t
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Mr. Flemings Front de Bceuf . . . 2
Forty Pounds given by the Members for the Town for all ages.
Mr. Grzme's Presentiment, 4 yrs old . . 1 1
Mr. Farquharson's b. f. by Waterloo, 4 yrs old . 2 2
KENDAL RACES—Saco:tun Day, Joys' 27.
The Gold Cup, value i 00gs by subscription of 10 guineas each, p.p.
Three year olds to carry 6st. 61b. four, Bst. five, Bst. 81b. six and
aged, Bst. 1215. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Three miles.
. .
Mr. Smith's ch. f. Sophy, 3 yrs old .
Mr. Chaytor't ch. m. Lady Bab, 4 yrs old . .
•
Mr. Simpson's b. b. Corrector, 5 yrs old .
Lord Lowther's ch. c. Mountaineer, 4 yrs old •
Six drawn.
A Sweepstakes of 10 sox. each, p.p. for horses not thoroughbred,
foaled in the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland ;-• titter
yrs old to carry Bst. four, 9st. five,9st.l2lb. six and aged, 10st. 41b.
•Mares and Geldings allowed 31b. Two mile heats:
Mr. Goulden's b. g. Tawpy, 5 yrs old •
Mr. M‘ltlinnie's b. g. Moorduvock, 5 yrs
Mr. Jackson's b. f. Lily, 3 yrs •
•
TROTTING MATCH.
The great trotting match of ten miles, between Captain I‘Ln-
ton's grey mare, and Mr. R. H. Osbaldeston's famous horse Pope,
took place at day-break yesterday morning, over Ashted Cour..e,
of two miles, for a stake of 500 soy. Pope won .50C2. a short time
since in a trotting snatch, and he was backed to win this mach at
sto 4. J. Allison, Esq. of Royston, was umpire for both, a.ld
thetnatch was done as follows, with six stone on the back of each.
ion & M. s. MAUI. M. 4.
• First Info . 8 410 First mile _ . 3 18
Second . • 3 52 Second 3 40
Third . 42 I Third . 410
. Fourth . 4 50 Fourth • 4 14
• Fifth. 4 1 Fifth 4 58
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SO 44
C 3 31
Total 42 55 r 43 .55
This was as fine a race as ever was run, and the horses broke
into a gallop once each.

20 15
Last five miles - 22 40

Last five miles

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109

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