, 1874-02-28

LOO, WudI. CuIl6B6 duu Military llo JUG
had discovered that he INDUCED in stimulants;
and intemperance is a habit rarely shaken off.
This fact, added his lordship. has been grossly
exaggerated if it is meant to imply that he was
an habitual drunkard, But Lady Doughty
dreaded these indications in the man who had
privately confded to her his growing attach
ment for her daughter; and she hesitated and
wavered in illustration Of which his lordship
read some letters Of Lady Doughty couched in
language remarkable for its good sense, and
even its eloquent exhOrtati0nS, which were
listened to throughout with the closest atten-
tion.
The Lord Chief Justice then explained at
considerable length the " vast and Important
changes in the disposition Of the Tichborne
and Doughty estates in the time of Roger IIch-
borne and showed from the letters the exten-
sive knowledge eyinced by Roger of the com
plicated schemes for resettlement of those pro-
perties in which he, being of age, was able and
was expected to concur. In referring to this
subject later the learned Judge took occasion to
comment upon the barbarouS phraseology and
Pathology of legal Instruments which appeared
not to have puzzled but to have Disguised the
young officer of Dragons. "Oh, that the
time had COME exclaimed his lordship when
conveyancing could be reduced within the
lllIlGS WHICH CUIlluuUl 6ouS0 WOuA0 OASNCOO1
an ejaculation which was received with some
hilarity along the crowded benches devoted to
the Bar. Reading further, his lordship OBJ
served how resolutely Roger refused to execute
the settlements prepared, and insisted on sub
shutting a scheme of his own, which was Subse-
quently carried out. The jury, he said, would
have to consider whether this young man was
q mere passive instrument in the hands OF
others, or whether he " did not understand and
take remarkable pains to master all the details,
and he added that it would also be a question
for them whether the suggestion of the defend
ants counsel on this point was not made to
cover the absolute ignorance of these arrange
mentS shown by the defendant. His lordShip
then directed attention to the circumstances OF
the death of Mr.. Seymour, the maternal grand
father of Roger at Bath, and of Rogers visit to
him there during his last illness with reference
to the defendants statements that he had died
at Knoyle, and his denial of having visited him
under those circumstances. The death OF old
Mrs. HOpkinS0n, the mOther-ln-law OF Mrs. Sey-
mOur, at KnOyle, as mentioned In one OF Rogers
letters, was also referred to in connection with
the defendant 3 inability to remember any person
of that name. Thus his lordship went through
the voluminous Doughty correspondence to the
year 1850, pointing out the significance of
numerous illusions in reference both TO the
defendants answers and to his habits and con-
duct dwelling also upon the differences IN
style and thought between the letters Of the
young officer and those of the defendant, but
also noticing one or two condolences in the
matter of errors of grammar. Rogers letters,
he remarked, describing scenes that he had visit
ed, were of a kind of which a man of literary
education need not be ashamed and reviewing
the whole series of letters, his lordship observed
that the jury would have to consider whether
the correspondence with Lady Doughty, which
is of q kind that touches the very soul of Roger
Tiohborne to the very quick, could ever have
been forgotten - for The added it is a fact in
this case that this correspondence, extending
to over one hundred letters, and dealing with
the interests, the feelings, the hopes, and, above
all, with that great passion which engrossed
him, was to the defendant an entire blank"
The remainder of his lordship's observations
were devoted chiefly to the evidences of intel
lectual capacity-to be found in the letters
to which he added that the catalogue of Mr..
Tichborne's books would assist them in judg-
ing whether he was the weak, poor sunken
creature which DR.. Kenealy had described him, .
and finally his ~lordship called attention to the
\ proofs of the unreserved confidence with which
Roger Tichborne treated his friend and exc
cutor, Mr.. Gosford, which the jury, he said,
must compare with the conduct of the defend
ant towards that gentleman.
Ito be coninued)