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aatt ewe friendfhip. The reafr.ns aflignetl If* Mr.
Warren for giving the witnefs this valuable living
were, that he had determined rever again to fet foot
in the caunty of Effex, and that therefore he could
not refute in that living himfelf, and that he fhnuld
be very glad to patient it to fume tcfpeElable Clergy-
man, who coati read.: upon it, and thereby exone-
rate his confcence. It was thus entirely a spiritual
tranfaftion. The witnefs had only relided on that
living abmlt fix months fence be got it in 1801, Mid_
had difpored of fame of the profits of it in Charity.
The witrafs had another living, au.' Mr. W had alter
another, or a perpetual curacy, called- liamptle,ial.
Mr. W. wifheC. the witnefs to procnre a purchafer far
t'ie Advow fon of Btandey, when he went late El
f..x. lie never tlntleranod that Mr. \V.'a clii!dren
1.-d any abj.ealians 'o the file. A ktter wiitten by
this very vatnels bii:.'elf plainly thawed, naaree,a,
Celt i.e was ericav,astillft to trar.fiat the hanarfa
sv alarm the kilos ledge' of Mr. Valentin,: Winer.,
the elden fan. Some inifrindertiaridiag hail eailiad
beta eeir Mr. Ili-tifon and Mr. Warren, which had
originated about a pew ;n the church, and therefore
the witnefs knew that Mr. W. was not inclined to
dilanfe of his ;napery to that gen-lenian. Mr.
.7-lanlen, however, offered himfelt to the witnefs.
when in Mx, as a purchafer, but walled to make
Mr. Hall the other plaintiff). the oflentilde Ise. fan
Li the tranfe6lion, and fuggefted the propriety of the
witnefs mentioning his name only, as Mr. W. wean'
otherwife either not difpofe of his property at all, or
be exorbitant in his demand In thing this, the Rev.
Gentleman did not conceive that he was aCting con-
trary to the real interefi of his friend Mr. Warren.
Mr. Thomas Lake and Mr. Joflynne, two Land
Surveyors, had tome tit:inflations with Mr. Warren.
in 1793. about meafuring and felling land, and both
concurred as to his being in found judgment.
Dr. fslerr y, phyfician, anal Mr. Alexander Grant,
furgeon and apothecary, both residing at Bath, had
frequent accafinns of being in Mr. Warren's com-
pany, and were never fenhale of any fymptoms of
insanity.
Elizabeth Harris, the lady with whom Mr. War-
len lodged, at Bath, for two years, gave a very fa-
vourable account of his condull, having always
thought him a moll agreeable and fenfible man. re-
gular in his money tranfaigions, and always conduCt-
ing himfelf as n man of bufinefs.
The Rev. Mr. Henry Hutton, ReCtor of Beau-
mont, in Etre; and the Rev. Mr. T. G. Taylor,
Paid, that they never conceived Mr. W. to be inane,
althouah they frequently faw force eccentricities
about him, particularly his expreffing the attachment
towards him of his lady in Elle:. He appeared
perfeely capable of managing his own affairs.
Mr. Barton, of the Parade Coffee room, and Mr.
Robert Cook, of the Chriitapher Inn, at Bath, had
been in the habit of !icing Mr. Warren daily, dur-
ing the fpace of many months, and had never teen
any fymptoms of infanity ; but on the contrary,
found his company always courted, as being a fedi-
bit:, agreeable man.
The Sauer-rat Gr NER.II. then addreffed the Jury
on behalf al the defendants, and made an eloquent
and able fpeech upon the nccalinn. In Ihort, by it
and by the witneffes wham he called, he fucceeded in
proving that Mr. Et-aft:ars Warren was perfenly in
Pane at the very time he entered into the tranfaCtion
in quefiion. We regret that lair limits will not ad-
mit of our giving even th.e principal heads of a
(beech. which teemed In forcibly to affct the Coma,
and to change entirely the complexi in of the canti.
He was particularly fevere in hi; aaimadverfinns
upon the coadua of the Rev. witneli who had been
among the brit examined on the part of the Plaintiff,
the Rev. W. R. Wake, whole behaviour, he laid,
was evidently felf interened, ungrateful towards a
friend, and in every point of view highly reptelien-
fible. He laid, that the learned and sacred prole&
fion to which that perf.ns belanged, would not, after
the evidence he had delivered, procure him a recep-
tion among!, either Clergymen, Gentlemen, or Chrif-
tians ; and he forewarned the new incumbent of the
vettory of Great Bromley, that neither his inflitution,
the acceptance of the Elifhop, or any other forms by
which the benefice had been acquired, could retain
to him the enjoyment of it, after the verdid of this
day, which would thew that the whole was a nullity,
as the donor and patron was inane.
The Soatcarna GENERAL laid, that it would be
fuilitient for him, it he could prove that the Rev.
Erfaums Warren was not of found mind at the time
of executing the deed ; or rather, etat he was di.
ranged immediately previous and fubfequent to the
tranfaCtion ; and milers his learned opponents could
make an exception of that particular interval, it
would be in vain for them to contend the question.
He then fumed the various inflances of mental int.
perfeetion. The Rev. Mr. E. Warren, without the
fmaliell foundation, had charged certain per l'ans with
(urging the will of Sir Thomas Spencer Wilfon, in
order that he (Mr. E. Warren) ought be deprived
of a large eilate. Among the conlpiratnrs in this
Pappored fraud, were introduced the King, other
branches of the Royal Family, and Sir Charles Bun-
bury, and it was Paid by this Defendant, that onr
:Inuit Sovereign had been tinder the visitation of
Gno for his concern in the affair. An the members,
however, of that illußrious bottle, had not been the
objeas of his detelhation. The little god had name-
times vilited this maniac in his paroxyfnis, and he
_prefumed to fappofe, that the Princefs Royal of
.England, now Eleerefs of Witten:burg, bad enter-
tained a partiality for him. Under this perfuafion,
Ice wrote tie following letter to her Royal Highnefs:
a Marrawa—There is an echo which perpetually vibrates on
any ear, the ornaments of roar mind and perfun. It Gays, you
have a held worthy of a Criv.vit, and nature has dune her utrooft
to brine every pin to perfedlion. If I were to attempt to ripofe
in the chatict of the fun, I fhould inevitably encounter the fare
of Photon ;hat though I cannot e:alt myself, you mayconnferee's&
The Roman Julia floored to naive the hand of Agrippa, a ple-
beian. Von have thrown out the gauntln to nit. (the answer is
at kilt gallant, laid the Learned Counfel) I accept the challenge,
the confenoence is et. main, your charms mutt fubdue me. May I
hope for abfottaiim midis. yr ur own fign manual for thi, intruftsa.
All I leave to offer is, taithtulncis and affeetion. Permit the to
lubferibe myfeli, Your &voted fervent,
. ZRASIII7S warmest."
LSuch a letter could have been written only by a
madman. Among other crimes to the charge of,
,
. Sir T. S. Wilfon, was alleclged by Mr. E. Warren,
that of attempting his life, hecanfe Sir Thomas had
merely laid, that although Mr. Warren was fourteen
or fifteen years younger, Sir 'Thomas thought it not
unlikely that he lhould outlive him. The lentiment
thus carrell-A, by Mr. E. Warren, was under his 1

own hand Lit appeared in a mannfcript hook, en-
titled" Ala Diurisa," and the Right Rev. Prelate
of Landaff was in the fame work made partial: crimi.
we, becaufe the Bilimp had accidentally remarked,
that he th- wen Mr. E. Warren would one live long.
This Defendant alto took it into his head, that his
own tinnily, and, indeed, the whole world, had form-
ed a confpiracy again!' him, not only to deprive hill
ie of his eccfrattieal living. but alto of his natural life.
Of one,perfon he wrote thus ; ',The cloven font ap.
Ipears in its full deformity, thou enemy cf man, thou
devil in a doublet. Under the ma& of friendfhip,
;yotahave_ covered treachery, fraud, and murder."
1—
,(Thefe words, Paid the Learned Connie], may be ap.
plicable to Mr. Wake, but fcarcely to any other hu-1
man being.)—" Can nothing fatisly your envy, thou.
dark allaain, but the deftrution of your, friend, for
toe living of Hampftead, Bce." In Jannary, 1795,
the malady took a different turn, and then he thninvit,
not that others would deftroy him, but that he thould
elcitroy himfelf. 6
" Hzeet lateri arundo."
" I had rather, (lays he) fall by the hand of ann.
ther, for there is no atonement for fuicide. is
Francis, one day (he adds) alluded to the Duke of
r:tetrifaerry and the Whig Club, and gave no realms
tot it—l with (he continues) it would pleale GOD to
take me." The aignment, on the other fide, was
grounded on two affertions firß, that Mr. E. War-
ren was never mad until the time of his confinement;
next, that if he were infane, the deed was executed
during a lucid interval. If the matters now Rated
were confirmed by the witneffes, neither of tilde two
pofitions could be maintained.
In fupport of this defence, the principal witneffes
called were
Mr. Lewis, a furgeon and apothecary, who had
been intimate with Mr. Warren for many years ; and
who had, from the year 1794, regarded him as com-
pletely deranged, and incapable of managing his
own affairs, and who had in confcquence communi-
cated his obfervations to Mr. W.'s family. The fob-
, jets of his malady were an alledged forged will, by
which Sir Thomas Wilfan held certain Oates to the
prejudice of Mr. W. as he, however, believed, with-
out any acceffion on the part of Sir Thomas, who,
he figured to hinifelf, was anxious to give up the poi-
fefLon. A very formid rble ccnfpiracy had elfin as he
believed, been formed againtt him on this fuhjeet,
among the parties to which were Lords Mantfield and
.Loughbnrnugh, Sir Charles Banbury, and the (teen
1 and Royal Family. He alma foppofed his own family,
and the whole gentlemen of Effer, to he in a con-
(piracy againft him, to prevent his martiage with a
lady cf the name of Rnytion, poffeiTed of great for-
tune. And he was moreover impreffed with an idea
that the Princes Royal had, previous to her marriage,
conceived a liking to him. The witnefs fate Mr. W.
in June tBoa, after the fale in queftion, and found
him exatly in the fame Rate of mind, nor could he
figure that any interval of lanky could have taken
place.
Dr. Latham was of opinion, from his experience,
that no interval of fanity could have taken place. They
were accuitomed, in fuch a malady as here exiled,
to thiok nothing a lucid interval which had not en-
dured fur fix months. He thought it, next to impolfible
that filch interval of fanity fhould have occurred in
this cafe.
'I he examination of Dr. Creighton, at prefent in
Raffia, was alto read, which completely thengthenect
the foregoing opinions. He had Peen a letter written,
by Mr. W. to the Princefs Royal, which could not
nave been written by any but a madman.
Mr. Bayne, who had been butler to Mr. W. for fif-,
teen years, (wore, that from the year 1794. down tn.
the prefent time, not a day had palled in which he had
not %ennead the incoherent language and condut of
his matter.
Lord ELLeasoreotroir here interrupted the evi-
dence. He thought, that if there had been the leall
pretence for laying the deed was executed at a lucid
interval, there could be now no colour for it whatever.
Mr. EISKINI replied, that he meant to contend,
that after the numerous witneffes he had called to the
lanky of the Rev. Gentleman, no credit oliOrt to be
given to this contraditory teflimony.-1 he Jury,
without delay, found a verdit for the Defendants,
Mr. W.'s two font,
Lord ELLEN mitotic rt all() laid, Mr. W. having given
up his incumbency at a time when he was deranged,
his refignation mutt Rand as pond for nothing. A
dee laration which feemed to give univerfal fatisfatinn.
This terminated the Sittings alter Term at Weft.
mintier.

A Foreigner remarked lately, that he wondered to
many of our countrymen were fo prone to fuicide.
Being allied his reafon, he replied, " becante you have
a rich Lottery, every three months, to keep alive the
hopes of g:tiniost, by a mere trifle of a flake, a tom
that might d;llipate all melancholy arifing. from
embarralled circittlittan.css. There is more weight in
this obfervation than Come imagine ; and never was
a Lottery Scheme better calculated to inspire Ode
hopes than .the prefect one, wherein the firft dr.iwn
5000 numbers are alone capable of diaributing for.
tunes of confiderable magnitude.
Mr. DENT, who recently broke his leg, has had
the misfortune to have his recovery confiderably pro-
traded by another ferioas accident ; whillt wanting
laa week on his crutches, one of them flipped from
under him, which oecalioned his falling down ; a
difunion of the fradure was the confequence, and he
is again confined to his bed.
The cafe of Scrophula we have tubmitted to the
public is extremely interclling as i mull convey to
the molt prejueiced minds the importance of a me-
dicine which fucceeds to admirably when the glands
are difcafed in the worft ltages of the King's Evil.
This cafe does not fiand fingly in the lilt of cures
performed by SPiLssualr's Patent Antilcorbutic
Drops, when given in this difeafe, which proves the
merit of this antifcorbutic, fo well known as a (Peet-
fic in Scurvy, Gout, Rheurnatifm,Eruptive,Nervons,,
and Bilious Complaints. To thofe Ladies who with
for a pleafant Colmetic, to allay trifling irritations,'
SPILssuRY'S Compound Effence will anfwer petted-
ly. Be careful to alk for SPILSBURY*4 Patent Anil.
fembutic Drops, with the wctrds " By the King's
Patent" expreifed on the botf.c.bill of dinglions, and
outfide wrapper; the damp alfo (the King's duty)
k printed in black inllead of red ink. Bottles, price
ss. 6d. tos. and.zl as. duty included.
Difratory, No. Is, Sobo-tquare..