8 DECEMBER 1832, Page 3

A writ de lunatic° inquirendo having issued in respect to

the wellknown champaigne-vendor, Charles Wright, a Jury was on Monday empannelled to try the case. It would appear that Charles's resolution against speaking has forsaken him; for he conversed freely with the Jury when introduced before them. It is one of the poor lunatic's fancies that he is a son of the late Duke of York. He told the Jury, that he was supposed to be the son of Thomas Wright, a butcher; but that was a mistake. The reason why he was the son of the Duke of York was because he attended the funeral of his Royal Highness as a gentleman pensioner, and wore a very expensive dress on the occasion. All at once be was thunderstruck at being called out to perform the office of chief mourner, and he followed the bier through the ranks of the Cuirassiers, who were very big men, and walked round the vault in a slow pace. The question being forced upon his attention, "How do you infer from that or any other circumstances that you are the Duke of York's son ?" He replied, " It is a wise son that knows his own father. Who knows the meaning of the word soldier? S-o-1--soul ; YOU can't tell where the soul comes from or the body either." He had studied his Bible, and thought it a hard case he should be deprived of the liberty of an Englishman or a Frenchman, for he was half of each. Re said he was accustomed to let all the boxes in Drury. Lane, and was known to have possession of all the money in the Bank, which a gen.

tleinan present, whom he pointed out, could aver. He kaew more about women than any one present, and to that he attributed his present situation. Doctors Turner and Johnson were examined previous to the lunatic's introduction. Dr. Johnson, who had attended Mr. Wright from April 1830, expressed his opinion that Wright had had no lucid interval from May of that year. The Jury found accordingly.