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' • ;1 . • • • • . • • 1 • • MilD NOVSLL. • .ISETHLEM HOSPITAL. ILICTAACTII Mk THE InTIMINCE GIVEN A 11011. SUTTEE orTsta ItnUSE OF COMMONS. Continuation of he evidence of Mr. John liculain, Apo. checarro Me ibulsitaL What are the disldvantages ymi, conceive attend• ink; on the use of a strait waistcoat ?—The hands are completely seemed if the strait-waistcoat be tied tightly. respiration is prevented or impeded, and it is always at the. mercy of the keeper how tight he chnnses to tie the waistcoat. It the patient be irritat ed by itchirm in any part, he is unable to administer the relict by scratching, or if troubled with flies in hot weather, it is a painful incumbrance, and if not changed is liable to absorb a great deal of perspira tion, which renders sometimes the skin excoriated. He cannot wipe his noir, and he becomes a driveller in c , nserpience ; he cannot possess personal cleanli ness as long as the strait.waistcoat is applied. Then there is another very curious effect that has resulted keeping on the strait-waistcoat for a consider able time ; in every human hand accustomed to use the organ of touch, the sentient air palpitating extre snitieh o r taugent extremities are deaduied as to their sensibility from want of use, the nails are pinched up, and I have seen same instances where patients have been long kept in the strait-waistcoat, where the nail has resembled the claw of an animal; so -that I can pretty nearly judge by the look of the bani of a lunatic, if I do not see his fic.e, whether he has been the subject of a strait-waistcoat a long while. How long has it been left off ?—They were used When I came there, but we have left them off by de. glees, and now we have got but one patient in a strait-waistcoat. How long his she been in a strait-waistcoat?— This morning I found she hid wished to have it ; I spoke of the inconvenience, and recommended the manacles ; she said, she was jumping out of hersrlf, she was afraid of doing mischief, and she said, hav ing so long been accustomed to the thing, and it wool,' rot last long, as het paroxysms were of short duratico, she would prefer it. Do you think that cases can often occur, in which it can be necessary to confine a person either in ma stades or in a sttait-waistcoat till such effects shall have been produced ?—Yes, if the necessity contitiu ed ; 1 have seen a patient •continue with unabated ferocity for more than twelve years, with unabated ma.evolence, and where the necessity for coercion Of isted the whole of the time. Sufficient to require either the manacles or the strait-waistcoat ? —Suficient to require that sort of coercion that should prevent his doing mischief. Is that degree of insanity which requires such a degree of coercion as has been usually applied by the strait-waistcoat, known often to last for such a period as that when the strait waistcoat is applied, such effects as you have described are known to occur ? Ceitainly .t does not frequently occur. Have you any objection to mention the name of the person to whom you alluded as having been under restraint for twelve years ?—His name was Norris. Do you know of many other instances of the same nature ?-1I feel great difficulty in recollecting the names of all the patients who have been in our house for 20 years. Dc you recollect other. persons having been in that' situation ?—We had a man in our house for many years, of the name of Abbott, who had murdered three or four people in one morning, and he was con fined by the chain round one arm, and a hole made through from the other cell, by which, when he be came furious, he could be drawn dovsn until the lt;teper came to apply the hand-cuffs ; but in general be was at liberty, only this chain round his hand al ways ready, as he was a man of extreme power. Did Norris remain in that state of ferocity and consequent confinement till the period of his death ? —No, he was released some weeks previously to his death. Can you recollect about what time that was ?—I think he died in February. Do you recollect at what period he was released from his confinement ?—I would say, on guessing at the thing, three weeks or a month before his death. Are you vim certain it was not longer than that? It might be longer, I will not be sure; the sum total I recollect very well of every thing, but I cannot ci-4 , ge my memory with particular names. WAS the release in coosequence of may alteration in his mini ?- He was weaker in his body, and he prrmised to behave veil. He died of a decline I—Yes, and an affection of the lungs.. What age was he 1-4 should presume fifty-seven or fifty-eight. What do you mean by released I—He was suffered to walk about the gallery. -Without chains He requested first of all to have pair of hand-cuffa 4 n to walk about ; it was a se of his own. Did his less degree of dang erousness arise from any atteratioa in WC state of P his mind, or frrini his :Liy irairii , g become infirm believe more from the feebleness of l is body. . y.;;1 brlieve that the degree of restraint 'that Morris was in, was less painful and disagreeable to hien than a strait-waistcoat would have been Mush more easy ; a strait-waistcoat would not hAre been efficient. Was the order for the release of Norris, so signed by yr.'', given prior to those gentlemen visiting Bvtb )em who drew the picture of Norris, and who found him in the situation in which he was 1-4 never saw any pic ure, or knew of any picture being drawn; nor did i know of any visitation having been made when this spoai:o.us or restraint was taken from him; he was coutititd 19 a chain round the neck, and a cord affixed to .s stivion, which is an iron bar. • In comequence Oa whose report was it that the or der wa.ori 4 .ioady ltiveh confine Norris in that man ner I—When lie 114 committed various acts of des - Ixration, I stig;;ested that ha should be confined in a _ double cell; that thla man, being perhaps the most mischievous patient that eve.; I saw, should have two tells, a door communicating between them, so that 11 should !lave a sitting-loom and a bed-room; he Potod Ao into his tied-room without his clothes, that would %stable the keel to clean out the sittinropm . had tb eatable daily his pockets. to sot that he had no offensive weapon or any thing with which he could do mischiet ; that when he retired from his bed room into the other room the keeper would be ena bled to ventilate and sweep the bed-rooms this was my proposition, and this forms part of the report al 'laded to ; this was over.rnled, and the present 'appa -1 Titus, by whom contrived I do not know, was exhi bited, and its imposition agreed on. This was the advice you gave to the then Com. atittee ?—Yes ; and that forms a part of the report itlluded to. By whom was th at advice of yours over ruled ? I"cannot* say that it was overruled : they did not consent to k. It was overruled iy the Governors ? By some existing Committee at that time, to whom it was proposed. • It was over•ruled by the Committee to whom it was proposed ?—Certainly. Who composed the Committee to whom that ad vice was given by you ?—I cannot tell, after a lapse of fifteen years. How many Governors ? It was an open Commit tee ; and stimetiines it is one hall-dozen, and sow times another. As this was a very remarkable case, did not it' make any impression on you ; did not the circum• stance oi . his' case coming before the Committee make a greater impression upon your mind than the case of any ordinary patient ?—Certainly, and therefore I proposed additional security, which was what I had the honour to submit to the Committee, ot his hav ing two cent.. And that propcsal was over-ruled by the Commit tee : of whom was thai. Committee composed ?—That I cannot tell. . Will it appear upon the minutes of whom the Com mittee was composed in which Norris's case WAS dis cussed ?—I cannot say whether the clerk made a mi nute of that. When this apparatus WAS fixed on him I took care that a minute should be made, that I might know who was present. Do you know by whom the plan of confinement was devised to which he was afterwards subjected ? Nut certainly : but I did hear, as a matter of report, that they had some dangeross man in Newgate for whom this iron had been made, and this was brought from there; but it is mere report. Did you aplrove of that mode .of confinement ? -My other proposition beir.g ever-ruled ; this, for reasons which ought to be explained, and that form a part of the report, that it met with the concurrence of Dr. Munro, and the medical offiters. . Among whom was Mr. Ilaslant ?—Certaittly. Then you mean to say, that the plan of confine= ment by two cells, being disapproved by the com mittee, no other or bettef mode of counting the pa tient than that which was adopted, was recommended by the medical officers, but that they consented to and approved the adoption of that which has been already .alluded to ?—I have no greit genius myself for any contrivance of this kind. It is recorded in the minute that the physicians and the medical of . cers approved of it. I presume that is - correct. They approved specificallybof this mode ?—The apparatus was brought into the committee-room and exhibited. Will you give your own description of what that mode ot confinement was i—There wes a sort of frame. through which the arms went. What Sat of frame was it ?--Iron. There was an iron frame which went round his body, and to which his arms were confined ; was there not ?—His arms went through some part of this contrivance ; - but the machine is particularly de scribed in the Report of the Committee. Have you any thing to say explanatory of the rea-' sons on account of which the medical officers agreed to this mode of confinement ?—I have ; Norrs's wrists were so consti ucted that handcuffs or manacles were of no 'wry ice,.the bones of his hands were smaller than his wrists ; and on many and repeated occasions where • the manacles had been imposed, he slipped them off and converted them into weapons of Offence; so that the ordinary mode, the ultirnatum of restraint to which we had hitherto resorted, was unavailing in Norris's case; and that was the reason for further means of coercion. Do you know whether he was capable of slipping his feet out of the footlocks ?—Certainly he was not. Was not confined by an iron collar round his neck, exclusively of that which went round his body, which has been already alluded to, and which neck collar was fastened by a chain to an uptight bar be hind his bed ?—Yes. What was the reason for this additional confine ment of the neck-collar and chain ? —He was inclined to dart forward, and be would not have been secure in his bed-place. Is it your opinion, that if this man had been confined in footkicks, with manacle: on his wrists,' aod his arms fastened behind him, that he would have been able to have darted forwards, and done the olisehinf that items to have been apprehended ?—I have previously stated, that•handcaffs or manacles were nor/ailing, from repea:ed experience. Is there not in the books of 13eililem a minute, en tered by the Governors, and signed by some of them, in whi:b there is a narrative of the case of Norris ? There was, after the case of Norris had made some noise, a Committee assembled, convened by die Pre ,sident and 'treasurer of our hospital, inviting all those Members sof the Lords aed Commons who were Governors of our hospital to, the investigation of the case of Norris, and the subject was gone into by them, ar.d a report prepared thereon. Was that report made ?-*That fepOrt is in exis tence, in the books at Bridewell. When did that investigation take place ?—I think it was last June. You say that was about the time that a noise was made about the case of Norris public papers abounded wit!, it. 1"" Is there not a minute entered in that book of the' luisiiital some years back, in which the reasons that were supposed to warrant the nature of the confine ment 14 Norris are entered ?—That minute is therein recorded, speaking of the report. That is to say, the report that you .suppose was made last June contains within it the minute to which Ilse Committee allude does. There would bt no objection to prodnee a copy of it ?—I should conceive, not the slightest objection,— tilftc i$ Aothinis to ;vigil', a as s motia liecrecy, S rint DUI2I CP 11214INGANI. . The appellation of lie Seeioor of Swops has more than once been applied to our illustrious hero from the higheit authorities : our Readers will not be dis pleased to learn, perhaps. that a bumble individual, and that individual an honest Bruise Tar, has likewise a claim to a share in this dignified title. to the year 1806 the Duke of WILLLINOTON, (then Sir ARTHUR Wat.cesutv) after totally routing the Indian Chief HOLKAR, on the plains of Laswaree. took his passage for England, on board the Company's ship Lady Jane Diindas. When the anchor was dropped at St. Helena two boats put off from the drip, as usual, crouded with passengers de,imus of viewing the island. The boat which conveyed the illustrious Alrat.i.m6Torr, when about a hundred yards from the those, was upset by one of those sudden squally blowing from the vallies, which are quite common at St. Helena—two men and 'a boy were instantly drowned—the rest. among whom was our hero, kept struggling with the waves. The moment the accident happened, the boat in company made towards the scene of distress: Sir litut sten WecLesurv, unable to swim, had been once or to ice under water: a seaman instantly leapt into the sea and swam towards the sinking Hero, whom he bore in triumph to the shore on Isis left arm and shoulder. The generous tar was totally ignorant at the time of. the rank of the person whom be thus saved : he merely svlected him from the rest of the sufferers because he thought I,:ss danger was the most imminent ; the others, with the exception of the two men and the boy above mentioned, were picked up by the other beat, On landing his exhausted charge, Jack was rewarded by a cordial shake of the hand Irom the illustrious Hero, six bottles of rum, and a warm invitation to come and see him in England. a visit which the hontst tar was too modest and units suming to pays The Duke's deliverer has now retired from a sea faring life, and is settled in Rotiserlsithe. His friends banter him with the appellation of " the saviour of Europe," which he takes is good part, but he never hoists of his achievement: indeed it is very rarely that he can be induced to tell. his own story, and when it is wrung from him, it is adorned •witls all the graces of truth and modesty. In this respect he is Lollard 'Trim himself.- A letter from Paris, dated August 31, says—There are several regiments here in daily expectation of an order to move, particularly those . of the Gth division, which returned from America. The fate of some regi ments of this gallant corp., has been somewhat sin . gular ; they served with great distinction for the but six years in Spain, Portugal, and France ; they were ordered to America last year. and returned just two days too late to be at the battle of Waterloo. They are thus excluded from the einlluments as well as the honours conierred opal those who gai!ied that memorable battle." Little seems now to be thought in Paris about NAPAATE% personal lite.. He is. however, by this. time well on his way to St. Helena. We hair: 1. irnt that on the 19th ult. a Captain Rostatt:., of the Sal vador, a Sicilian vessel, fell in off ,Li,lionvtith a Sri that ship, by which he was infornud that the man of war then in sight was the NORTHUMBERLAND, and lb BONAPA UTE was on board.her as a sity to see the fallen Tyrant, led the S.ci!. an if) dirt his CORM toward the NORTHUMBERLAND t and when he came near her BONAPARTE haplientia to be Lyon deck. The wind was then .fair for St. Helena : *ad the NORTIIUMPUHLAND was making the best of her way thither. It may be Supposed that the crew of a merchant vessel coming fr , .m a uistant port in the Mediterranean, and ignorant till then, of the battle • of Waterloo, would be not a littlesurprised at met ing the soi-dimat Emperor on such a destination ; but the mystery was cleared up, when they learnt toe oc- Currences and ec,ntequencea or that toemorabte day. Among the many causes which isincaPawre will leave behiud him fur posterity to curse ills memory, is the total demoratzation of France. At present not the smallest respect tor honour of r!•ligion is found among the inhabitants—but wish the profession of brigandism tlw7 Lave auopted all the 'licentious and bark asees manners of a country without law; or, if there tau , be any thing more profligate, that of com mitting barbarities under the nan►e of religion. The allied troops in France have been amo'tgst the most strenuous supporters of the Corn Bill. They will take sufficient care that there snail be no importa• tom of corn from France during the ensuing year, to hut t.the agricultural interests of England. The joy of a , Frenchman is the happiest and easiest th;ng imaginabk. Hi rejoices when a King is tented out, and lie rejoices when he comes back— he re-jokes when he devoun the good dings of other countries, and he rejoices when she inhabitants of other countries devour him. B iron IYUKLANSKI I II TRAVELS through POLAND, AthitiU/19 BAVARIA. SAXONY, and the TYROL, will be published in it few days. A Mu Age.—When Mrs. Rontsm published bet 44 S wiho and Phaon," she wrote to Mr. Bonnets, the Newspaper Editor, in the following minis : 44 Mrs. R. would thank her friend Bonne): for a dosenpidi fur &mho and Phase." By mktake of the penny post, this note was delivered th Mr. BOWDEN, the . isartrycooi s in the Strand, who sent hex this answer : " Me. BOWDEN'S respectful compliments to Mrs. R. :hall be. vert happy to serve her ; but as Mrs. R. is not a constant customer, he cannot send the ftuj for the.tetarg fa& without first reviving the money." His present MAJESTY once said to Sir J. lstwitr, a celebrated ion vivant, " They tell me. Sir John, that. you love a //au of wine."-46 Those, Sire, who have so reported me to your Majesty,P answered he s bow ing profoundly, 64 have done me great injustice— they should have said a bottle." Fleet -street, Ludgate•hill, St. Paul's Church-yard. and other western parts of the City. were 04 Tuesday night involved in EA.yptiari darkness, by we sudden disappearance of the gas-lights, owing, we under. stand to the . impetuous rustling of a large body of wirier into .the principal gass . tmeter ; this instanta neous shange of comparatively meridian light to the extreme of nocturnal darkness, gave rise to several; ludicroni scenes, a well in the shops as in the streets; nor did the pickpockets fail to turn the event to their advantage, at cite expense of the unthinking pedes trians on their way to and from Bartholomew Fair. The cause. however. being speedily rebored. the streets resumed their yawed appeiraoce. Hews= the STATE PAPERS. TREATY or AOREP.MENT indersigned.G,itorai Prince of CAIIA's, AA le Camp of Ms Majesty the King of Naples, on the one pat, L „ ROBIRT CAIIIPILLL, Esq. °distal& of his Majesty's 114 Tie mentions, and Senior °facer of his Britannia Majesty's di., and venal. in Naples Bay, on the other. It has been expressed and agreed upon a s fo lows, via. Commodore Campbell, on the %tit 0 April, 1815, having appeared in the Gulf of Naplc with two line of battle ships 'and two frigates, he. sc : under his orders, has declared that, agreeable to v; instructions trona the Government, he was to graph all the means in his power to act holilely avai a , Naples, has declared, at the same time, tliAt avoid useless bloodshed ; and. moreover. to large capital from the disasters that hcbstilities migi produce, that he should. feel disposed to conclude „ arrangement which mwght conciliate the views of e. Government with those which must animate tl,c vernment nt Naples for the tranquillity of its c.•kit.. His propositions were as follows, vii. " Ist. That the ships of war ►hall be delivered up to !.:. B. taunts Majesty's ships under his command, in their pre 'lf 4 2.. the slate, to be di.posed of as the respective Govezme.4nt. 1.1 hereafter determine. " 2d. That the naval arsenal should be &tic re,i up, Commissioners appointed to take an inventory of an th e 'taw. Ste. to be disposed of in like manner. 14 Listly, This 'fu rry is (of course) meirit elude the line of battle ship wit!! afi rtals requisite for her completio.i, her , :tiety 1; guaranteed by 'the Neipolitan Governamit, t., made over to the British Naval Commander demanded, and when the respective Govetnr:tx determine on the whole. 64 On these conditions the Commodore not 01, gave the assurance that no hostilities shonld place against Naples, its Bay and !lands, but offered to the Queen Regent the prote:ton of ti. British flag to her private property, and v) those favotir of whom she might dim it, as as ere; facility to the passage of a Negociator that her M. jests wishes to send to England, or the Commode,. in-Calla in the Al:diter rane.m. 64 The following arrangements will prove to 11 - C,ommochre the desire which the Neapolitan C verntnent and the Qn:en Regent have always mu_ • tested toward . , maintaining the best undastc.ii:. with the British Governinent, via. • 66 lst. To avoid all hostilities between the Bri:i ,end Neapolitan forces, the ships of war in 6. , and harbour of Naples shall be given up and trp, sited in the hands of Commodore Campbell, can-. minding the British squadron before Naples. " 21 These ships shall receive on board an La:, 'Ash crew,• but it Chill be permitted to the Neapi , l4,l Government in leave three or four Olcers on un-I each ship, t look %suit the conservaticn of all t objects therein. " ad. These ships shall kave Naples within ion eight hours front the subscription of the arrant aunt. .4th. An Eng!4h and Neapolitan Clmmiit4 - 7 shall take .n inve.:tory of all the objects in the rsa time arse , a, btionging to the ships war. L. objects ~tall remain deposited properties fn. which the British Government *establishes its rt- '4l the Convention between the two Courts and Neapolitan Government shall guarantee their serration. • 4# 5 h. The aforesaid Article shall be ertenl4 the line of battle ship on the stock; at Castletaa and .o all the materials %kstined to her building. " 6th. The ships of commerce shall ue received before, and treated with the same favour. It is . Glared that the Queen will avail herself, if necem - of the offers and favours proposed by Commod Campbell. " 7th. By the ezecution of these Articles, (.7 , . modore Campbell engages to prevent any host& from the part of his Britannic Majesty's ships cc his command against Naples, its Day, and Liana; tith. As part of the Royal Family are at t. moment at Gayeta. the ship-. of his Britannic Mir shall oppose no obstacle to the communication tweets the port of Naples and that of Gayeta, pro. I videci neither military stores or provision. for the Fi7. rison are carried. " 9th. Every Wilk) , shall be granted to a nista- of - the Queen, who might be sent to Lord mouth, and to London, there to treat in the Kai name. 66 10th. The present arrangement shall be sent mediately to Lord Exmouth for his sanction 2t hi probation, and when obtained, Commodore C4r bell engages speedily to notify it to the Nerpoli: Government. 66 Signed and ratified by us, on board his Britt Majesty's ship Tremendous, in Naples 1; this 13th day of May, 1815. (Sigaed) 44 Li P. DC CARIATI. 11.0dEla CAMPBELL. 4° Her Majesty the Queen Regent baying Ai); tod that one of his Britannic Mai sty's snips remain at the anchorage before the city of Ni for its better security,. Commodore Campbell to the above wtsh of her Majesty, agreeable to :1 - - 6th Article. (Signed) 6 ' LE P. DR C A RIATI. 66 MOSIAT CAMPIIeLL. EXTRACT FROM On PT OF LORD BURGRERsHI3 • DATED !tuba, MAY lfi, 1815. • 4 He (Captain Campbell) returned on the litf with his squadron. consistirg of his own Tremendous, the Alcmene frigate, and the Pallid/ sloop of war. By a lefty from the Duke d e he was requested not. to proceed against they T' Prince Cariati was sent by Madame Murat, tortz ciate for the surrender of the ships. and C a Campbell dictated the following terms which r agreed to. 44 Ist. The ships the line in the bay to be 0 06 r :f .' • " 2d. .iisenal of Naples to be deliverei and Commissioners appointed to take an invents:" its actual state. 46 Sd. The ship of the line on the stocks, W 4ll ' l 2 the materials for its completion, to b e also ;Ircr' JP and guaranteed. " These captures to be at the joint disrsi_ Jur the Gomm:tient of England, and of ftrthilao Fourth ot Naples. te ln return Captain Campbell engaged Ya agti u$ the %MVP of Narks. 10 1., . • 4 V' r. • • •.3 to !r" , :C: 1:11 W.)" ro• P.!) . is - '