upon Mr. TILLEARD's bill of costs, he whined pitifully about the Gentlemen of the Bar being "all so bad" in persuading him to take causes out of their turn-as if lawyers are not properly to be considered interested parties, each pressing his client's interests against those of all other suitors! The fault is, that his Lordship suffers himself to be persuaded. His "goodnature" is much insisted upon by his apologists; but goodnature is a poor excuse for injustice: he ought to feel, that in "goodnaturely" taking particular causes out of their order, he is keeping an enormous number of suitors in fruitless attendance, and withholding from many persons their undoubted rights.

harassing and costly their causes would come on; |

The important intelligence was yesterday received in town of the surrender of the Spanish line-of-battle ship the Asia and her two consorts (corvettes) to the Mexican authorities at Acapulco ; the account is official. This acquisition will enable the Mexican Government to blockade St. Juan d'Ulloa, which till now it could not accomplish. THE CHANCELLOR's Courtesy.—That which beauty, according to Courtesy, according to everybody, Anacreon, is to Eldon to armour of all sorts, offensive as well as defensive, is to Lord substitute. With the exception of those whom, while doubting, he is ruining, and, without knowing anything of the matter, plundering, this it is that keeps everybody in good humour; every body, from my Lord Duke down to the Barrister's servant clerk, Useful here, useful there, useful everywhere, of all places, it is in the Cabinet that it does knight's service. It is the Court Sticking-plaister, which, even when it fails to Cement, which keeps political corruption from dissolving in its own filth. Never (said somebody once) never do think of Lord Elton or Lord Sidmouth, but I think of the aphorism of Helvetius-" Celui qui n'a ni hon neur ni humeur est un courtisan parfait.”—Bentham's Indications respectRIOT AT SUNDERLAND. Ou Thursday night, about 6 o'clock, a serious riot took place at Sunderland, in which three seamen lost their lives, and a fourth was desperately wounded. There is in Sunderland, a seaman's society, called The Union Club," who have of late been at war with the Ship Owners. These men observing a vessel going out, laden with coals, manned with seamen not belonging to the port, determined on an attack; the principal Ship Owners, who had been sworn as special constables, went out to protect the vessel, and when they had neared t they were boarded by near 400 seamen, who threw the Ship Owners and the crew of the vessel overboard, excepting the captain and mate. rioters afterwards got up is the rigging. The dragoons having arrived, the riot act was read, which not producing the desired effect (the moh account says five) were killed. When this account left Sunderland, all pelting them with stones, &e), they fired, when several persons (one was comparatively quiet; but another attack was expected.

The

The pertinacity with which the LORD CHANCELLOR opposes or defeats every attempt at reform in his Court, was never better exem-hal, keeps covered ail solutions of continuity; it is the Grand Imperial plified than by his abandonment of the Motion-list practice,. He now abuses it as the most mischievous system ever adopted; but what has made it mischievous? Nothing but his permitting it to be perpetually broken through. . A rule violated every day is indeed worse than no rule at all; but when the Motion-list was first adopted last year, it was founding Lord Eldon, to answer its purpose, as long as it was strictly adhered to: all parties concerned knew pretty to no purpose were consequently avoided. Without some such rule, there is nothing but uncertainty and disappointment. Hundreds of saitors or their legal agents are compelled to dangle about the Court, day after day, although perhaps not half a dozen cases are actually called on. Instead of taking motions according to the order in which they are set down, they are heard according to the precedence of the Counsel holding briefs in them, or according to the whim of the Judge!-[The same evil, by the way, exists in the Court of King's Bench, when the Judges sit in banco; yet it is one which any attorney's clerk could remedy by making a classification of motions, and establishing a few simple rules as to the order of hearing.]- So here we have my Lord ELDON destroying the efficacy of a wholesome system by daily infractions of it, and then abolishing it, in a pet, as inefficacious;-thus, as the lawyers phrase it-" taking advantage of his own wrong!" It is by the knowledge of these and similar facts, that the public are prepared to give credence to such statements as the following, from the Morning Chronicle, which certainly affords a more rational explanation of the daily doings in Lincoln's Inn Hall, than any we have yet seen :— "There is nothing in which Lord ELDOs more delights than in the imper-first-rate shops, all of which have most cordially agreed to adopt a better Luencies and irrelevancies that encumber the business of the Courtin every possible way. They give him the opportunity of sitting twirling his thumbs, and thinking of things foreign to the matter in hand, or of writing letters which are dispatched in red boxes to Cabinet Ministers and great men. The CHANCELLOR will seem to hear Counsel in a cause for three or four day's with infinite patience; but those that know him are perfectly aware that he does not listen to one word that the Learned Gentlemen are say ing for which very reason he permits them to spout away as long as their lungs will hold out, no matter how little the speeches may be to the purpose-when they have done, he doubts, as well he may, seeing that he knows nothing about the matter; and he takes home the papers, to discover what the Advocates have been talking about, or he reads aloud in Court a team of affidavits (which have before been read to him twenty times by Counsel), and then postpones his judgment until he may be

furnished with a few more bushels of documents."

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Yesterday the Paris papers of Thursday were received by express The Constitutionnel contains a letter from Leghorn of the 24th July, in which it is stated that on the 29th June, the Greek squadrons, under Admirals Miaulis and Sachturis attacked the Turkish Beet of eighty sail, in the gulph of Calokythya,, and defeated it with considerable loss. burning two brigs, damaging an Egyptian frigate, and driving most of the enemy's slips on shore on the coast of Milos. This disaster, it is said, will prevent Ibrahim Pacha from receiving any reinforcements, Mr. Bentham's pamphlet entitled Iudications respecting Lord Eldon, which was reviewed both in the Chronicle and Examiner some weeks ago, is at length published. The Author has in the interval been writing a good deal of additional matter, which he intended to form part of the present brochure; but finding the subject grow upon him as to length. (like one of the Chancellor's pet causes!) he prudently determined not to increase the bulk and delay the appearance of the “Indications," but to reserve the accumulating matter for a second pamphlet, which may possibly be published at the beginning of the next session, when some hot work may be expected in Parliament regarding the Chancery.

AFFAIR IN HIGH LIFE.-We understand (says a Correspondent), that A warrant has been issued within a few days past, at one of the Police offices, for the apprehension of the Hon. WELLESLEY LONG POLE, at the instance of his Lady, for a breach of the peace towards her, attended with some very extraordinary circumstances. It is strange, that no notice has been made of the proceedings in the public prints; and yet it must surely be undoubted, that the provocation must have been great to urge this Lady to such a step

CLOSING OF SHOPS-HOURS OF BUSINESS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

SIR,-! read with great pleasure, a few weeks since, a paragraph in your paper respecting tradespeople at Edinburgh closing their shops at an early hour, to afford their assistants, &c. more time for mental improve ment. This plan, I am happy to say, is about to be adopted in London; I inclose you a copy of a circular which has been banded to several of the system; the injurious effects of the present one being too notorious to require demonstration. Being, therefore, convinced that nothing further is wanting to make it general but publicity; and knowing that you are at all times ready to rectify abuses, and to assist the oppressed, I have taken the liberty of requesting a place in your paper on Sunday next, for the inclosed circular; feeling desirous to see a better system carried into effect, and most anxious that every facility should be afforded to intelTectual pursuits.-I am, Sir, your mueli obliged and humble servant, Wood street, 26th July 1825.

CIRCULAR.

A WAREHOUSEMAN.

and its vicinity. To the Assistunt Drapers, Haberdashers, Hosiers, Lacemen, &c. in London GENTLEMEN,-Having heard that several places in the United Kingdom, as Edinburgh, Glasgow, Devonport, Stonehouse, and Plymouth, have adopted the plan of closing their shops at 8 o'clock in the summer, and 7 in the winter; thereby affording the young men ample opportunity for the cultivation of their minds, why should we be debarred from those privileges enjoyed by them? We, the young men of the metropolis, the finest city in the known world, that ought to have been the foremost in setting such an example, to be thus lingering behind in a state of slavery; we are shut out from all society, confined all the week, from six in the morning to 11 or 12 at night; we devote the Sabbath to purposes of recreation; consequently religious duties are totally neglected; but this is not the only evil, the constitution is ruined, and many are cut off in the Prime of life through this notorious evil practice. It is a question of the first importance, and we therefore submit to your serious consideration the best means of bringing the desired measure into effect. We are, Gentlemen,

Your humble Servants and Fellow-saferers.

NEWSPAPER CHAT.

The venerable Bishop of Durham now fast approaching to his hundreth year, has presented to the different Mechanics' Institutes within his diocese no less a sum than 1000!.-Hull Packet.

THE JEW.-A Christian merchant, thinking himself aggrieved by the conduct of a Jew, went to his counting-house to upbraid him; the Jew listened with patient shrugs, till the Christian became abusive, upon which he took up his peu, and continued a letter till the other paused for lack of breath and invention; when the Jew, looking up, said, beg your pardon, Sir, did you say somting ..

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THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.-The tone of fashionable English society has not made a very favourable impression on M. Pichot (author of Travels in England and Scotland.) "To hear," says he, "the youth, not only the women, but also statesmen, you would fancy yourself among the most frivolous of people. The General of Waterloo himself is in the world the most insignificant of petil-maîtres."-Petit-maître is not exactly the word for the Personage in question; but, leaving the point undetermined to what class of triflers he belongs, it is most true that he has acquired a sort of renown for uttering-not nonsense, which may be agreeable, but shear niaiseries; and, what makes the matter worse, he speaks his silliness with the silliest air conceivable.-London Magazine.

ROYAL LIFE-The King of France is said to be very melancholy: he has no longer the same amiable manner. This change is attributed to bis increasing deafness, and to the embarrassments in which M. de Villele finds himself involved. The following is the manner in which he passes his time at St. Cloud. He rises at five o'clock, and has all the journals read to him. During the reading he appears to feel very sen sibly the attacks made on his ministers. He then breakfasts, receives the great officers of his household, signs such ordinances as Villele mnay have prepared for him, goes to mass--on bis return stretches himself on a sofa, goes afterwards to the great park of St. Cloud, lies down on the grass, plays with his dogs, has always a fowling-piece by his side, ready To shoot sparrows or other small birds. At five o'clock visits his grandchildren, and plays with them, dines, plays at whist, goes to bed at eleven o'clock, and sleeps until the morning, when he re-commences the same regular course of political and intellectual life.-Morning Paper.

the principal room at the Gray's Ion Coffee-house, which was crowded to excess. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE is the foreman of the Jury.

Mr. PHILLIMORE, the senior Commissioner, addressed the Jury. They had heard the duty imposed upon them, which was to enquire into the sanity of mind of the individual alluded to. It was now settled by law, that a person labouring under a particular delusion of mind, so as to be unable to manage his affairs or his person, was to all intents and purposes a lunatic. The next question was, the time when such a dela sion of mind took place, and to report what they so found to the Lord Chancellor. The SOLICITOR GENERAL said, that himself and Mr. Wakefield appeared in support of the commission. Mr. PEPYS and Mr KNIGHT said, they appeared on the behalf of Bacon Frank, the eldest son and heir at law of the supposed lunatic Mr. BROUGHAM and Mr. SPENCE said, they appeared to oppose the Commission.

A JUDGE'S OPINION OF EQUITY!-An action of ejectment was tried at Durham on the 1st instant, in which a point of law raised by Mr. Pollock, was over-ruled by Mr. Baron Hullock, his Lordship observing that the point must be decided elsewhere. "Your only remedy is in a Court of Equity," said his Lordship," and I, for one, would not advise you to go there." ANOTHER FURIOUS A'BECKET!-Thomas A'Becket, the driver of a new London coacir, called the Independent, from Worcester, has been convicted in the penalty of 51. for furious driving, whereby he drove against the house of Mr. Walters, and endangered the lives of the foot passengers. Hereford Independent. EDUCATION. The general exhibition of the Edinburgh Academy took place on the 29th July. There was oue novelty in the distribution of prizes-the awarding of them for general good conduct, in whatever part of the class the boy might stand. One of these prizes was given to a boy who stood at the bottom of his class. The intention of this prize, Mr. Cockburn explained, was to reward industry, where it was not assisted by commensurate ability; and to hinder its being discouraged for future exertions by want of notice. We do think that this practice should be adopted in all other schools.-Edinburgh Times. SHAKING HANDS.-In this country you shake hands, but let me see a person shake hands with another, and I know by it if his attachment be nominal or sincere. If you give another merely a finger or two, and just drop the hand down and remove it again in the same way, oh! then know the power is not active. (A laugh.) But see how good old friends shake hands; they do it with an earnestness, and you may see that sin-enough to take his fancy-nay, he would think that the lawn sleeves of cerity and attachment flow through their fingers, so to say.-(Another laugh.)-Dr. Spurzheim's 13th Lecture-See the Lancet.

THE VOICE.-The voice also bears a relation to the prevailing powers; if a man be very secretive and sly, his voice will be soft and sweet; but if very combative, firm, or courageous, his voice will be of a stronger tone.-Dr. Spurzheim.

COMPRESSED WAISTS.-Now-a-days, it is the fashion to look like an hour-glass, or a huge insect, or any thing else cut in two, and bolstered out at head and feet. A fashion that gracefully shows the figure, is one thing; fashion that totally conceala ir, may have its merits; but voluntarily to accept puffed shoulders in lieu of good ones, and a pinch in the ribs for a body like that of the Venus de' Medici, is what no woman of taste should put up with who can avoid it. But as fashion is naturally at variance with beauty, it is also at variance with health. The more a woman sacrifices of the one, the more she loses of the other. Thick legs are the least result of these little waists. Bad lungs, bad livers, bad complexions, deaths, melancholy, and, worse than all, rickety and melan choly children are too often the undeniable consequences of the tricks that fashion plays with the human body. By a perverse spirit of justice, the children are revenged on the parents, and help, when they grow up, to pervert those who have the advantage of them.-New Monthly-Art. Criticism on Female Beauty.

ADULTERATION OF FLOUR.-The name of the flour-factor whose con

duct was the subject of complaint at the Mansion house, is Thomas Humphrey, of No. 4 Water lane, Tower street.

LAW.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.

IN THE MATTER OF THE REV. EDWARD FRANK,

This was a proceeding for authorising the Sheriff to summon a Jury to enquire into the state of mind of the Rev. Edward Frank. It was held in

The SOLICITOR GENERAL said, that the Rev. Mr. Frank was a Clergyman of the Church of England, and was descended from a very ancient family in the county of York; he was possessed of a family property of 8,000 per annum, and two livings, one in Norfolk and another in Suffolk, and he had a large family, the eldest of which is Mr. Bacon Frank. In 1800, whilst a minor, he married Miss Sowerby (daughter of Adiniral Sowerby) and in 1812 he became possessed of his family estate. In 1815, the wife of Mr. Frank being then at York, there appeared a wonderful performer, à man capable of performing, he believed, any character in any drama; this gentleman's name was J. Dickenson, but he was now called Dr. Dickenson.. About the year 1815, an advertisement appeared in the Doncaster, Nottingham, and Lincolnshire Gazette, inserted by this Doc tor Dickenson, in which he promised to cure all sorts of ruptures, and offered his services to the nobility and gentry. The rupture Doetor 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 twelve years of age, had ruptures, and the Doctor was called in to Campsall Hall to cure them. The Doctor got into the house, and she wrote to her husband at Shelton, several letters, praising the Doctor in the strongest terms. Sbe described him as a man who for 401. a-year had performed the medi. cal duties of the family. In another letter she wrote that he lived with her in Campsall Hall, where she was quite enraptured with him; and there the most bare faced adultery was practised. In 1817, Mr. Frank being ill in Norfolk, she went with the rupture Doctor to attend him, and there the adulterous intercourse was continued. She afterwards wrote letters of the most obscene description to her husband, and the Jury might have these if they thought proper. She wrote one letter to her husband, invit. ing him to commit fornication. As for Maria, I dare say you work her plaguily hard, but pay her liberally" This was in 1815, while she is carrying on adulterous intercourse in Yorkshire. He would not say, that because 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? He never saw letters like them, and it was impossible that a woman writing such could believe him to be in his senses. In 1816, Mr. Frank was, beyond all doubt, as confirmed a madman as any one confined in St Luke's. The fringe of a petticoat or flounce-the mere colour, was Dr. Bathurst in the Cathedral Church of Norwich were those of a lady. 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 consented, in 1825, to continue the Doctor as an intimate member in the family. In 1817 Mr. Frank 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 bred fellow, Dr. Dickenson;" but in the year 1821 he went to live with her. What would they say of the intellect of such a man? Was he sane for one moment? After 1821, when he went to Winthorpe, 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 ion, while she and the Doctor lived in the cottage, pigging together.The SOLICITOR GENERAL detailed other circumstances of a similar mature, and the Commissioners then adjourned.

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room; Dr. Dickenson always behaved very well towards Mrs Frank with two women the night before, without his shirt, but he had his flannel when Mr. Frank was present; Mr. Frank never gave any directions waistcoat on. One of the women was fat and the other lean. (Laughter.) about the household affairs; Dr. Dickenson was most master of the house, He said that he did not fancy the lean one, but he turned her over, and and Mr. Frank did not interfere.—Dr. D. often used very violent lan-kept to the fat one the rest of the night. He said that he would give 5l. guage to Mrs. Frank. One morning, the door being ajar, he saw them to see Miss Fonte. He asked me about the women of Cambridge, and in bed together. His master used to talk a great deal of nonsense abɔnt named two or three who were eminent in his time, and asked witness women; he asked him to get him a nice woman, and used to spend his where they lived. He told him that they lived at a place called Barnwell. money very foolishly in making presents to girls of the town. From 1822, He said that he should like to go and see about them. He appeared to be witness thought him incapable of managing his own affairs. sober. He asked witness what one was going to do with himself the next day Witness said he was engaged, but that he would come in the evening, and sit with him if he liked. He said he was much obliged to him, but that he should then be engaged with the women. (Great laughter.) He was slovenly in his dress. He spoke properly, but he would not allow witness to speak at all. As soon as he ceased talking on one subject, he went to another immediately. It struck witness, that such profligacy could only be the result of an unsound mind.

At

Eleanor Rawson lived in the family of Mr. Frank in 1821 Newark, after she had gone to bed, she heard what was sufficient to convince her that Dr. Dickenson and Mrs. Frank were together in the Dr's bedroom every night. She frequently called Mrs. F. out of the Dr.'s room for orders about dinner, &c. Mrs F. never showed any attention to her husband. Mr. Frank did not notice anything. In her opinion, be was not fit to manage his property.

Captain Mainwaring, of the Navy, was nephew to Mr. Frank, and married his sister in 1801 In consequence of a letter from Miss Frank, he went down to Yorkshire. He told Mr. Frank that he understood Mrs. F. had attached herself to a quack doctor, and that there were stories of so disgusting a nature respecting them, that they ought to be investigated. Her son Edward, a boy about 11 or 12, wishing to pass through his mother's room, found the door locked. He knocked repeatedly, and was desired by Dr. Dickenson to go away. He afterwards said to his mother, 66 Why did not you let me in?"-She said, "I could not; I was naked."-The boy said, "If you were naked, what business had Dickenson there?"-Another story was, that the youth had seen Mrs. F. sitting on Dickenson's knee in the shrubbery, when he said, "Look at that fellow Dickenson, with his black arm (he had on a black coat) round my mother's waist." Witness told Mr. Frank that his wife had been giving dances in the kitchen, and that she and Dickenson had been sleeping together at a hotel in Bridge street. Mr. Frank said, he did not believe these stories, and moped a little. He afterwards said, "Go and make inquiries." Witness did so, and in January 1817, by Mr. Frank's desire, he turned Mrs. F. out of the house. She did not attempt to deny any of the charges made against her, except that of having made up a private purse for Dickenson. In 1817, witness found Mr. Frank, at Shelton, in a very low state, refusing to eat or drink. He never considered that Mr. F. was a lunatic, but he had not an acute mind, and was flighty and eccentric. Mrs. F. was a fine and beautiful woman, and Mr. F. seemed to feel her conduct very much.

them.

Lucy Bradley was in Mrs. Frank's service, as lady's maid, from 1814 to 1817. Dr. Dickenson and his wife, and two children, were shabbily attired when they first came to Campsall. In the house there was a passage between two bed-rooms; at the end of this passage there was a door, which, when shut, entirely separated these two rooms from the rest of the house. Doctor Dickensou slept in one of these two rooms, and Mrs. Frank in the other; Mr. Frank slept in another part of the house. Previous to the journey from Yorkshire, Mrs. Frank had lost a deal of her hair, ou, account of which her night caps were altered, and false fronts attached to Witness used to have to dress the false fronts, and found them full of powder; Mr. Frank did not wear powder: she examined the beds; they did not look as if both had been occupied; one appeared just as though a person had laid down on it, and the other very much tumbled; the tumbled bed was Mrs. Frank's bed.-Mr. F. appeared to be fond of his wife, but she did not seem fond of him. She observed an alteration in Mrs. Frank's conduct towards her husband after the Doctor came. considered Mr. Frank to be of au unsound mind. When be was at Shelton, in 1816, he never slept with Mrs. F. and he said that he was going to marry Miss Waldron, and would give a rout on the occasion. He mentioned this more than once, because he sent for Mrs. Frank to sleeep with Never mentioned the circumstance of him, and she refused to come. finding the powder in her cap to Mr. Frank, nor to any one else at the time.

She

Mr. James Hales, an Attorney at Norwich, was employed by Mr. Frank. In October 1816, at Shelton, he saw Mr. Frank, when he thought James Roebuck, now a waiter at Hull, was servant to Mr. Frank in he was not sound in his mind. Mr. F. told witness, that he should take 1814. When Dr. Dickenson first came to Campsall house, he was very a Doctor's degree, and get himself made Bishop of Norwich, and many a shabbily dressed; but afterwards he used to wear his master's shirts, fine handsome girl he had seen in the neighbourhood. Witness sent for stockings, &c, which Mrs. F. gave the Doctor in witness's presence. The Dr. Wright, a physician, and afterwards took him to Norwich, where he Dr.'s wife also came to the house very shabbily dressed, and she too was seemed in a very desponding state. On the morning of the 21st of June, fitted out. Witness told his master that unpleasant circumstances had he did not come down to breakfast; witness went up to his bed room, occurred in the house, and that the Doctor had made himself particularly where he found him lying on his back with his breast bare, and he had free. The Doctor sleptaway from his own wife. Witness assisted to rub scratched his stomach until the blood was flowing from it; he repeated the Dr.'s legs, when Mrs. F. was present. She said, "Poor man! he is about his being a very wicked man, and that his sius would not be forvery weak; do all you can for him." She added, that she took pity on given him. He also said, "I dreamt a terrible dream last night; I thought him, and would rub his legs herself: which she did. Witness told this had died, and that I felt my soal burning in hell." Dr. Wright was to Mr. Frank. Witness brought him down about eleven o'clock in the On the second night the Doctor was ill, he said the pain called in to him. had removed to the small of his back. He turned over, and Mrs F. morning, and he stood in one position until seven o'clock at night. He rubbed him. Witness carried up tea, at a late hour, to the Doctor's bed, saw Mr. Frauk in February last; his manner and dress were very peculiar; when Mrs. F. came from under the curtain in her chemise, and said, he had on a short blue jacket. Witness in 1815, gave a recommendation "Oh dear!, is that you? It is of no consequence; put down the tray." to Mrs. Frank to have a deed executed, because the younger children Witness told all to his master, who did not seem affected, but said that were unprovided for; they had no settlement except that of a policy of there were strange goings on. The Doctor's bed appeared as if two 8,000. Mr. F. was then decidedly unfit to sign the deed; but after people had slept in it. At an hotel in Bridge street, London, the Cham-November he grew better, when be fully explained to him its nature, and bermaid said to witness and his fellow servant, " By God, the gentleman asked him whether he understood it? He said he did, and assented to (meaning Dickenson) slept last night with your mistress. It is true; the arrangement. Witness always felt Mr. F. to be a very weak man, and he left the powder of his head upon your mistress's pillow," They and therefore did not look to him for discussion in a matter of business. remained at this hotel 14 days.-This witness was cross-examined by The effect of the settlement was to secure the property for his children, Mr. BROUGHAM, when he said he left Mr. Frank in consequence of his and witness's sole object was that they should be provided for [Here bringing a bad woman into his house, but did not know whether Boots, at the Commissioners admitted the propriety of witness's conduct, and said his inn, was as virtuous as himself. [Mr. B. said, he was anxious for that his motives could not be impeached.]-In witness's judgment, Mr. F. information on this head, as he liked virtuous waiters, and wished to was of weak mind, and unfit to manage his own affairs: he ceased in know where to go] Gave his master a month's notice; remained three; 1816 to perform duty as a Minister. saw but one bad. woman; did not see a second. Witness described a supper given by his master to Mrs. Barry; never offered gold buttons for | sale, por gave them as presents; knew nothing of four gold watches ; † never had one. When he told Mr. F. of these matters, he did not seem angry about Dickenson, or to care mich about his wife. Witness did not think him sane at all times. At one period he would neither eat nor drink. He did not leave his chair for three weeks or a month.-[Here the witness detailed the loathsome and disgusting consequences of Mr. Frank's mental and bodily imbecility during this period ]-He gradually became better, and ran up and down the pleasure grounds halloping with dogs.

Dr. Wright, physician, who keeps au asylum for Innatics, attended Mr. F. in 1816. He was then decidedly insane, in a state of melancholy madness, and labouring under a delusion in regard to his marrying a young lady of the neighbourhood. Witness told him he was already married. He answered that he would marry her in spite of every body-he would be made Bishop of Norwich and give a feast to the whole country. He was obliged to administer food to him by a machine, and at that time he had not had any evacuation for 15 days. In 1817 he was more deranged than before. Witness saw him last night and Monday last, and thought him ineapable of managing himself and his property. His judgment of him in February last was, that he was in a calmer state, but weaker. Witness asked Mr. F why, after separating from his wife, in consequence of her conduct with Dickenson, he had taken her back? He said, there might be something in the matter, but he did not believe the half of it. Witness asked if he took steps to disprove the assertions; he said ( No.?? He did

not seem to take the interest in the matter that might be expected. He
said he was ill used by his brothers-in law, and that this investigation was
a shameful business
Mrs. Maria Nicholson, landlady of the Woolpack inn at Doncaster,
knew Mr. Frank in 1822 and 1823; knew. Dr. Dickenson. Mr F.
bronght the Doctor to her house in June 1823; they remained there
three days. Mr. F. drank two or three pots of coffee, and ate three or
four rounds of toast, and nine poached eggs; he took a pint of champagne
in his coffee. This was about one in the morning. He was very noisy,
rang the bell repeatedly, and called for the chambermaid, hostler, waiter
and boots. Wished her to buy an estate, which he said he was about to
sell. She declined. He said his object was to boild; he intended to
erect a playhonse and a methodist chapel. She heard his voice all night
in his room He ordered breakfast for company that did not come, attered
hunting eries and tallyhoes. The next night he was equally noisy, and
had a pint of champagne for his breakfast. He called at her house on the
following Sunday; said he was going to his church, and should take two
or three bottles of champagne with him. He called for the hostler from
his bedroom, and said he should go out through the window.

clean or dirty clothes; and she thought he was far from a sound state of
mind.
Wm. Virr, a waiter at the George inn, Grantham, said that Mr. E. was
there last January. He rang the bell often, and then did not kṣow what
he wanted. He said Miss Foote was a beautiful little insignating erea-
ture, and that had he been in Mr. Hayne's place, he would have married
her immediately. He had a party of players to sop with him, when he
made a speech to them,

Joseph Tunhard, keeper of the Blue Lion at Grantham, knew Dr. Dickenson, who came to his house in January last, as did Mr. Frank, from the George inn,, Mr. Frank behaved very strangely. He had us money, except two sovereigns, which be received in a letter from Dr. Dickens, He was continually ringing the bell, though he wanted nothing. He said that Dr. Dickenson had gone with him to a house of jil fame at Granthan; that Dickenson was a devil for women and so was he tinself, Witness took the Reverend Gentleman to his house, where he staid all night; when he returned, he told the witness that he had slept with a very com. fortable git all night. Witness thought that he was not of sound mind while at his house.

Sir Geo. Tuthill had attended the Rev. Edward Frank since March last, and considered him to be in an unsound state of mind He attributed all his misfortunes to Mr. Bellamy (one of the parties prosecuting the com mission); said that it was all a contrivance of his and his sisters, and that since his affairs had been under the controul of Dr Dickenson, they had been capitally conducted. He appeared to be quite insensible of the im propriety of his conduct at Cambridge and elsewhere. Witness did not think that he was fabouring under any particular delusion, buf was of opinion that he was quite incapable of managing his affairs.

Mr. Chatham, a tailor at Doncaster, said that Mr. Frank came into his shop in the summer of 1823; inquired about the number of women of town in Hall, and expressed his satisfaction at their being numerous. Made some gross allusions to Mrs. Frank and Dr. Dickenson, which compelled witness to cry shame upon him. He left the shop, returned in a short time, and began to spar in play with witness, who was finally obliged to give him a gentle knock or two. Wm. Short, a waiter at the Dog and Duck, Hull, knew Mr. Frank. He frequented the house in June 1823 Conversed always about bad wonen, particularly about a Miss Slater and a Miss Pearson. Bought Dr. Monroe, first saw Mr. Frank on the 29th ult. Mr. F told him that various articles, as gowns, parasols, for these. Witness detailed Mr. F. he had once been impressed with a belief that an improper connexion mode of life at Hull. Mrs. Frank came to the ian, to look for him. Mr. existed between Dr. D. and his wife, but that he had beeu deladed inta F. was then at Miss Slater's. Mes. F. waited until he came in. He that belief by a conspiracy, of which Mr. Bellamy was the head, and that told his wife that witness was a trusty servaat, and knew all his secrets. he now believed that Dr. D. was his friend and a good man. Mr. Frank's Mrs F. asked what he was doing, and witness in his presence told her of appearance was extremely uncouth; he laboured under a delusion that Dr. his proceedings. Mrs. Frank said she was glul to hear he had met with D. was his friend. Witness classed his unsoundness of mind under the such a person as Miss Pearson. Wituess told Mrs. Frank that Miss Pear-bead infirmity, and thought he was quite incapable of managing his owa son was a nice girl of that description. This was their dinner conversa- | affairs. tion. Mr. F. spoke of his attachment to Miss Pearson. His wife wished him to live with Miss P. near his own house, as this would keep him at home. Witness expressed his astonishment that so fiue a woman as Mes. F. should drive Mr. F. from home; she said he had a natural disposition to stray; she advised witness, as he was in his good graces, to be hired by Mr. F. The witness stated certain language used in the presence of his wife by Mr. Frank, that did not seem to excite her anger; upon hearing it, she merely said, "you see what sort of a man he is." Mr. F. was a liberal-minded inan, and made many presents of wine; from his manner of acting he inferred he was not right in his mind; he would send wine to a girl in the street to whom he had never spoken. If he went into a shop and liked the people, he would send them wine, saying they were good, and should drink. He spoke to Mr. F. about his wife and the Doctor, and said there was something unpleasant;; his answer was, there was no such thing.

Mr. Wentworth, surgeon, of Cambridge, said he was sent for to the Eagle inn, to see Mr. Frank, who told him that the chambermaid broke a bottle containing medicine which he was in the habit of using; and after some inquiries on the part of witness, be offered him sixpence for his advice and medicine. Witness thought, from his conduct, that Me. F. was a fool or madman, or perhaps both.

Mr. Newby, Chapel Clerk in Trinity College, Cambridge; saw Mr. F. last February; knew him 20 years before, at College; came to see the Chapel; wished to see witness at the ion; went to him as he was finishing his dinner by way of giving him a bonne bouche after dinner, he asked witness for his old friend Fanny Wells. Mr. F. commenced a conversation of a most singular nature with witness, boasted of the favours bestowed upon him by the virtuous females of Grantham, and exposed his person. Mr. F. did not appear like a clergyman; he wore a green jacket, white waistcoat, and striped trowsers; he was not in a sound state of mind. J. Boast, of the Bear inn, Yarmouth, said Mr. Frank came to his honse in February. Mr. Frank appeared wild in every look, and spoke inces atly. His bill is not paid; saw him at the door with two women of the

town; boys followed him.

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B. Boast, sou of the preceding, proved to finding Mr. Frank in a certain house, with two low women of the town ; thought bim deranged. Thursday, August 4.

Mr. Warburton agreed in opinion with Sir G. Tarhill, with whom be had visited Mr. Frank. Mr. F. told him he had made no personal in-quiry into his wife's conduct, but that he was convinced she was a god wife, a virtuous woman, and an excellent mother; and that Dr. Dickensen was the best friend he had. Witness asked him if he thought it was coa sistent with his dignity and character for him to run about in a strange manner, and go along with women of a certain description? He said, "What does it signify, Dr. Warburton?" Witness denominated his eam plaint "unsoundness," and thonght that he had been unsound long befors 1816. The Jury now proceeded to a room up stairs, to examine Mr. Frank is private. On their return,

Mr. WAKEFIELD addressed them, contending that after the evidence they had heard, it was impossible to come to any other conclusion thạo that Mr. F. was of unsound mind. No man in a sound state, said Mr. W. would have permitted his wife to have written him such an indecent letter as Lat sent to him by Mrs. F. prompting him to an intercourse with other women, in order that she might indulge herself more securely with her own para mour; but she knew that he was weak enough to yield to the delusive influence of women, aud that he would swallow the bait." When he was reasonable, be separated from his wife, but afterwards' took her back without making the slightest inquiry into her conduct, which was another proof of his unsound state of mind; he lives with her at this present time, nor would all the evidence in the world convince him of her misconduct. This showed an utter destitution of judgment, Nã man could be deemed sane who took a wife back under sheh circumstances without making due uitry. The peculiarity of his case was an atter insensibility, which lis conduct at Grantham, Cambridge, and other places, amply proved. He Mr. Wy knew that wickedness was not insanity; but Mr. F. was hot a sane profligate, for he derived amusement from conduct and language which could afford no grafiscation to a man of sane mind. He suffered Malcolm to be placed over hini as a sort of keeper, and allowed Dickenson to treat him like a child, and send him two sovereigns. The persons he (Mr. W.) represented, had no interest of any kind or shape; they were the brothers in law of Mr. F., who had six children, and if the Jury declared him fucapable, he could not make a will. They were influenced by pure and honest motives, their object was to take him out of the custody of others, and pluce him under the protection of the Great Seui. his family. He maintained the unsoundness of Mr. F.'s juind to be cas They wished that his estates should be managed providently for his and tinued and settled; he never relaxed from the delusion of his wife being

George Tetsall, keeper of an hotel in the Adelphi, said that Mr. Frank was at his house in February last for five days, and had a person named Malcolm with him all the time, who had his meals along with Mr. Frank.innocent, and the Doctor being his friend. The Jury wasld discharge Ile conducted himself with great eccentricity, and said that his name was De Frank, not Frank, Witness did not think him of sound mind. Letitia Chatham, servant to Mr. Tetsall, said she used to dress and undress Mr. Frank like a child, and had him led up and down stairs, as he seemed quite blind. He talked a good deal about Miss Foote, saying he was much attached to her. He did not know when he was wearing

their duty conscientiously; their verdict would do Mr. Frank the greatest service; it would give him that protection of which he had, for these for years, been deprived. He would be removed from those who nos cas trolled him, and be placed the hands of individuals who would consult the honour of his family, and remove from a gentleman and a clergyman the disgrace of living as Mr. Frank does at present.