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Rh of the said James Tilly Matthews is sound.

GEORGE BIRKBECK.

By the Court. Thus armed, the relatives moved for a Habeas Corpus, in order that the said J.T.M. should be discharged.

It may here be proper to state that it had been the unvarying opinion of the medical officers of Bethlem Hospital, that Mr. Matthews had been insane from the period of his admission to the present time. Such opinion was not the result of casual investigation ; but a conclusion deduced from daily