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(facts that appear on their "Minutes.") He shows that
he afterwards persuaded several of those Directors to
relinquish their thus appropriated shares, and that
he himself held but twenty shares, on which he duly
paid all the calls. Secondly, It is urged that he held
various offices in this Company, such as director
trustee, and chairman. He replies, that he was
not the originator of the Company; such appointments
as he held were pressed on him by the Proprietors;
and such duties as he discharged were performed by
him without fee or reward ; that, far from taking or
making anything, from or by, the Company, he is a
loser of several thousands of pounds by the specula-
tion; that these offices, so held by him, were not in-
consistent the one with the other, and are commonly
held by one and the same person in a Company of this
nature. Thirdly, In the next place, he has been ac-
cused of deceiving the public by sending coals to Dublin,
represented as of very superior quality, and the produce
of the Talacre mine, but really obtained from
some other pit. His answer is, that the Company
took its name of " Talacre" from the appellation of
Sir EDWARD MOSTYNIS seat, Sir EDWARD being
the party from whom they rented their coal-fields;
that they had three coal-pits, respectively known as
the " Picton," the "Bryn," and the "Marsh." The
coals sent to Dublin were produced in, and raised
from the "Bryn," where they are of very superior
quality, and such coals, therefore, we, in fact and
truth, as represented—" Coals from the Talacre
Works," &c. The last of these principal charges
is—that on the purchase-money having •to
be paid to the lessors :of the mines, Mr.
Alderman WOOD refused to join with his Co.
Directors in signing bills of exchange, with the view
of thus evading personal liability, and of transferring
such liability on the shoulders of his colleagues. But
he shows that he had already assumed the like
liability, by the execution of a deed of covenant for
payment of this very debt ;—that "articles" into
which he had entered with his partner precluded him,
(under a condition very common in partnership
deeds), from signing bills of exchange; but that his
not concurring in such a step with the other Direc-
tors was so far from working to him any such ex-
emption from the same liability, that he has actually
been sued in the matter.

Again we say, to us this seems a most reasonable
and satisfactory defence to the charges. That the
Alderman should have been mixed up with any
Joint-Stock Company is to be regretted ; but the fact
infers an error of judgment, only, common (as was
observed at the meeting of his friends) to some three-
fourths of his Aldermanic brethren. That he should
have been a severe sufferer by his connexion with a
bad Company is an argument to show that he acted
with no kind of fraudulent intentions as to others.
His private and his professional character
are allowed by his opponents, as well as his friends,
to be unimpeachable. Then, on what grounds should
he be deprived of the benefit of a precedent which
would make his seniority on the list of Aldermen
eligible to be elected to the Mayoralty, a guarantee
for his election on this occasion? If there be, thus, no
ground of objection to him on the score of professional
conduct or private character, is there any on the
score of unfitness or incompetency for the office he
seeks ? So far from it, he has already filled the office
of chairman of many important committees in
the Corporation, and is most eminent in his
own immediate vocation. Are we to suppose that
he has compromised his conventional title to be
elected, by not having come forward at an earlier
period of these charges to give the same satisfactory
answers to them which he has now brought under the
public eye, or to make still more ample disclosures of
all facts involved in the history of his connexion
with the Talacre Company ? Why, it is notorious
that any man, who might volunteer a detailed state-
ment of all the circumstances attending a transaction
of this kind, might thereby—however blameless or
even commendable, they should establish his con-
duct to have been, to:ruin, by thus exposing himself
to an endless succession of legal, though most
unfair liabilities, which legal subtlety and
the constructions of technical ingenuity would
at once rivet upon him, through pleas founded on such
admissions on his own part. The public, of course,
would have no right to demand of any man any such
suicidal proceeding. But with what justice and force
might not his own family reproach him for having,
by an act of exaggerated simplicity, demolished his
own fortune, and destroyed their natural prospects and
equitable rights ? Suppose Mr. Alderman Wool) to
hare addressed himself to one of the highest legal
functionaries in the kingdom, complaining that certain
publications had much maligned and misrepresented
him in an affair of this nature, and asking advice as
to the institution of civil actions or criminal indict-
ments with a view to redress and vindication, we can
imagine the QUEEN'S Attorney-General replying to
him—" I have read these papers, perused your an-
swers, studied the documentary evidence you have
sent in to prove them. I am clearly of opinion tha
they establish the fact of the libel you com-
plain of, and vindicate your character ; but,
I am as clearly of opinion that, to put
them on a record, or to introduce them into a
plea, would cover you with overwhelming liabilities
for all the acts, debts, and obligations of the Company
with which you have connected yourself." Of course
we are in no sort of condition to say, or even to
assume, that the facts of the Talacre Company's
affairs warrant any such hypothesis. But it is a fair
hypothesis for our purpose; and on this ground and
for the reasons we have offered above, we really
hope that Mr. Alderman T. WOOD may successfully
proceed to election as Lord Mayor of London.

Accounts from Madrid to the 17th instant have
reached us. The appointment of M. MARTINEZ DB
LA ROSA to the department of Foreign Affairs is bit-
terly attacked by the Opposition journals. They
dread the alterations which they say he intends to
propose in the Constitution of 1837. The Castellano,
in reply, observes, " that M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA,
instructed by long experience, would now adopt a
wiser course. If, at the commencement of the civil
war in 1834," he deemed it expedient not
to press any important measures of reform, for fear of
detaching and frightening the Royalists; now, when
the revolution is over, he cannot be influenced by the
same considerations." El Globo reminds the detrac-
tors of M. MARTINEZ DB LA Ron♦ that it was he
who contributed most, after Queen CHRISTINA, to re-
establish the constitutional system in Spain, in 1834.
" The Liberal of 1812 and 1820, the Minister who,
after the demise of the KING, opened the doors of Par-
liament, has not, as asserted by El Clamor Publico,
constantly resisted the progress of liberty, and the re-
forms of civilisation. M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA
never regarded the Estatuto Real as a work of per-
fection, or a definitive concession, but merely as the
basis upon which the structure might be erected."
We are inclined to believe, with the Castellano and
the Globo, that the Spanish Ministry do not now in-
tend to propose very extensively anti-liberal altera-
tions in the Constitution of 1837, but we also believe
that they did at one time intend to propose those al-
terations, and that they are only prevented from doing
so at present by the dread of a Carlist outbreak in
the north, which, should it take place, will force
CHRISTINA to adopt a conciliatory policy towards
Liberals of all classes. On the subject of the threat-
ened Carlist outbreak, a private letter from Bayonne
of the 20th inst. says :
" The state of Navarre excites the attention of the
Spanish Government far more than is generally believed.
Besides the forces marched to that province, a formid-
able police is about to be organised in it. A superior
officer of the new gendarmerie, or guardias dudes, left
Madrid on the 16th, in order to organise that corps.
The Carlists are stirring up the country in the most
energetic manner. More than six thousand proclama-
tions, published in the name of Don Carlos, were about
to be forwarded from Bayonne to Pampeluna, Estella,
San Esteban, Lodoso, and other points, when a counter
order arrived which suspended operations ; nevertheless,
everything is ready for a movement. A friend of mine
has seen these six thousand proclamations in a house of
this town. A good number of deserters from the army,
and of young men whom the Quinta includes, continue
to arrive at Bayonne. If a Carlist band, provided with
some money, were suddenly to appear in the environs of
Pampeluna, you may rest assured that it would be joined,
within a fortnight, by three or four hundred refractory
recruits."

The scrutiny of the votes has made no change in
the situation of the candidates for Madrid. The
Moderados are all returned. The Deputies for Ma-
drid are MM. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, NOCEDAL,
ALCALL-GALIANO, GUERRERO, EGUIZABAL, FER.•
NANDEZ DE LA Hoz, and NUNEZ•ARENAS. The sub-
stitutes are !ht. Dula, D.l TIP CNTE4, the Marquis DF
PoYAR, and CABRERO. The senators are the Mar-
quis DX PEXAswxwe, the Duke Ds CASTKOTZRRZNOe

RUIZ DE LA VEGA, GORCOECIIEA, AGNAR, and the
Marquis DE MIRAFLORES.
Several of the newly-elected Deputies have arrived
in the capita], and preliminary meetings to organise
plans of action are already talked of.
The Duke DE GLUCKSBERG has arrived. He is
the bearer of the treaty of peace concluded with Mo-
rocco, and it is said will proceed himself with it to
Paris.

MADRID BOLZA, SEPT. 17—Three per Cents. 26
13-16 for cash ; 273 at sixty days; Four per Cents.
1971 for cash ; Five per Cents. 20 for cash, 201 at
sixty days; Floating Debt 63 fur cash, 63,"4'- at sixty
days; Coupons 2i at sixty days; Debt without in-
terest 6i at sixty days. Exchange—London, 374.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday
They contain as usuel articles on the subjects of
Morocco and Otaheite. The Warspite correspon-
dence and the visit of Capt. WALLts to the French
Consul also come in for a share of notice. The
.National speaks in the following handsome terms of
the conduct of Capt. WALms :
" We mentioned two days back the honourable pro-
ceeding of Captain Wallis, of the Warspite, with the
Consul of France at Gibraltar. This brave officer, who
had appeared sincerely indignant and annoyed at the
disgraceful conduct of his subordinates, has hastened,
as he promised, to stigmatise them publicly."
The Algerie contains a few particulars of the
manner in which the pacific termination of the war
between France and Morocco was brought about.
The account is as follows :
" The Pacha of El Araich, Sidi Bou Sellam, made
the first overtures of peace. He wrote on the sth, in
the name of the Emperor, a letter full of friendly protes-
tations, and in which he declared that his master, who,
notwithstanding the hostilities, had not ceased to be
our friend, was disposed to subscribe to all the condi-
tions. The Consul-General of Naples, M. Martineau,
undertook to carry this letter to the Prince de Joinville.
He embarked on board the Var steamer, and arrived at
Cadiz on the 6th instant. Sidi Bou Sellam hail already
given too many proofs of his duplicity for the Admiral to
place entire faith in his letter. The Prince therefore
ordered M Warnier, who had been the bearer of
the French ultimatum to Sidi Bou Sellam, to go to
Tangiers and verify his powers. The Cuvier left Cadiz
on the evening of the 6th with M. Warnier and M. Mar-
tineau, and arrived in the roadstead of Tangiers on the
7th. M. Martineau alone landed, and found the Raid on
the shore waiting to receive his orders. At nine o'clock,
the Pacha arrived in town from the camp, and went with
the Kaid to the Neapolitan Consul, who shortly after.
wards hoisted a signal which had been agreed upon. M.
Warnier immediately landed, and was received by the
local authorities, civil and military. There was a line of
troops in pretty good order formed from the landing
place to the Casbah. Sidi Bou Sellam received M.
Warnier like an old acquaintance. When M. Warnier
stated that he had come to verify the powers which Sidi
Bon Sellam said he had received, the latter expressed
his regret at not having applied to the Emperor for a
special letter to this effect ; but in order to obviate a
difficulty which the distance at which the Emperor was
would otherwise render irreparable, the Pacha
affirmed by a document in due form, and written in the
presence of witnesses, that he had received orders to treat
with the French Plenipotentiary. According to the
usages of the Mussulmans the word orders, which the
Pacha made use of, signifies that the person who nego-
tiates in the name of the Prince is charged with full
powers, and relieved from all responsibility. M. War-
nier and Sidi Bou Sellam separated on the most friendly
terms, and at two the Cuvier returned to Cadiz. The
document given by the Pacha attesting the mission with
which be was charged appeared sufficient to our nego-
tiators. On the 9th the squadron quitted Cadiz, and
arrived at Tangiers. On the 10th, at ten in the morn-
ing, the Kaid Abbou, Governor of Tangiers, went Oa
board the Suffren, to renew the demand for peace, in the
name of Sidi Bou Sellam. The Prince received the Raid
with distinction, for he is a brave soldier, who, on the
6th of August, was appointed governor of the town and
chief of the garrison by public acclamation. The Prince
presented him with a pair of pistols, as a sovenir of our
attack and his courageous defence. At two o'clock, M.
Warnier, accompanied by some officers, landed, and pre-
sented the treaty, which was accepted by Sidi Bou
Sellam. A signal was immediately hoisted at the Nea-
politan Consulate. MM. de Glucksburg and de Nyon
then landed, and went to the palace of the Governor,
where, at five in the evening, they signed the treaty
with Sidi Bou Sellam. Our flag was then hoisted at
the French Consulate, and saluted with a discharge of
21 guns."
The Moniteur Parisien gives the following from

! seized on the island of lltiatatn, in the Bay of Honduras,
and purchased from an Indian chief for a few puncheon'
of rum a vast extent of country. Several estab;i.yalents
have been founded on this coast by a cernpaev, ith
the authorisation of the English Government, COo'
tempt of the complaints of that of Central America.
Finally, for the last two months, the British flag floats
over the walls of Blew fields. A man-of-war arriving at
Belise landed a governor, soldiers arms, and took P"s-
session of the town and port. This town, whose exist-
ence is revealed to Europe by this >udden act, is at but
little distance from St. Jean de Nicaragua, which the
English continue to blockade, and which is the most trn,''
portant port of Central America. Here then is England
on the point of being mistress of all this coast, studded
with so many ports placed between the two Americas,
and destined to be opened one day to unite the tw°
oceans. This progress takes place in the midst of peace,
without pretext. Let it not be imagined that the Ca"
quest can be looked on in the same light as the Mar'
quesas, Otaheite, and the islets which are disputed to
us with so much clamour and perseverance. Few coati'
tries have been more liberally endowed by nature, and
offer a richer and vaster field to human industry. The
interior contains a population of several millions of In'
habitants, which the want of manufactures renders la,e"
cessarily del endent on foreign produce. Heaven 0.01
knows what a rich empire England will found in time
in Central A merica."
It would appear from the following, that the Or
sical difficulties, in the way of the formation of a ship
canal across the Isthmus of Darien, are almost if not
quite insuperable :
" We are credibly informed," says the Courrier
eels, " that the hopes entertained with regard to, °he
,
piercing the isthmus of Panama have not been reabseu;
exploree
M. Gazella has returned to France, after having
the isthmus, and ascertained that the point at which the;
junction between the two seas was contemplated was n
ten metres 30 feet above the level of the sea, as itste,.i
by the Frsnco-Grenada Company, but 125 metres (3d.
feet); so that instead of a mere trench, and a canal ivihi;
out a sluice, or, in other words, an artificial strait, ler,
company,was deemed practicable from the survey of the eng!nee,
of the the canal to be opened at the point 0f
3.
junction would require upwards of 60 sluices. 31.
z ,ila is a distinguished engineer of the mining de ,ure to
anent , and had keen sent by the French Government
explore the isthmus, and verify the levels taken by the
surveyors employed by the above company."
THE BOURSE-11oNDAy, SEPT. 23. ~,se
First Highest Lowest ;ice.
Price. Price. Price. g 5
French Five perCznts, ex div 118 90 .. 118 95 118 85 •• 104
Fours., ex cliv• ••• •• 103 75 .. 104 .. 103 75 •• 81 g 5
Three per Cents.•• .• 81 85 •• 81 90 .. 81 80 ••
Bank of France.... •• • ..... 3055 .• 3055 .• 3055 •• au%
Lafiltte 8ank,,5,000f. Sharesso6o —5060 5G60 ••50666;
Belgian Bank 665 .. 665 .. 665 ••
Belgian Flves,lB4o .. •• .• 105 i .. 1051 .. 1051 • • 1iv0.71
1842 •••• •• 1071 .. 1671 •• 1071 " '
Spanish Passive .. 51 •• 51 • • alt
Active .• •••• • • • • 311 .. 311 .. 311 • • 4k
Threes .• •.• • • • .... 341 .. 341 • • 341 • • 461
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 461 .. 461 .. 4Ol '• 9g 70
Neapolitan •. • . 98 75 .. 98 75 .. 98 7° " 105
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain .• • • • ... 925 .. 925

.. 925

.. 925
30
•• _

Versailles,R.B.•. •• ........ 385 .. 385 .. 385 •' 2t,0
L.B.•••••••.... 258 75 .. 260 .. 258 75 e• „:7 50
Rouen •• •• •• •••••• •••••••• 987 55 .. 987 50 .. 987 50 .•
. 75_ •

Rouen to Hal-re•• •• • •• 752 SO .. 752 50 -• 750 * gt4s
Orleans ........... •• ...... 983 75 .. 985 .. 983 7' 2bo

Strasburg to Bale •• .• .• • . 260 260 .• 260 O.
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, SEPTEMBr," 7? to
Versailles, 387 50 .. 387 50 .. 3E7 50•• 23860
L. 8.• •••• • • • 260 .. 260 .. 260 •• ;90
Rouen ••••• • • • • • 990 .. 990 .• 987 20 . 1,11 ?,
Rouen to Havre ••••.• • • • • • • 750 .. 752 50 • 750 • • '•2•7
Orleans .• ........• . • • •• • • 982 50 .. 986 25 .. 982 50 •• '"" 75
t 54
Strasburg to Bale • 260 .. 260 . 258 75 " 761 2.
Avignon to Marseilles. ..• .. 761 25 .. 761 25 .. 761 25 "

LUNACY AND LUNATICS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS. "of
SlR,—The report of the inquiry into the sUt—,ur
mind of Mr. Thomas Telford Campbell, in -;/).
journal of Monday, who it appears has been so
mate, and (from the abhorrence he expressed) tg,i;;ll
willing inmate of Dr. Allen's lunatic asylum,
Beach, during the long period of 14 years, but avian
g his liberty by the decision of the jurY (find,oea
that he was of sound mind), should not be pass
over without observation and further inquirP,,,ev ste3
In the absence of a more able and better avoier
examination of his case, allow a fellow—sla,-ssed
of Mr. Campbell's, who two years since Pit-botit
flys long years in five mad-houses, si-
af'
his having been conscious of having be:n
fe eted at any time with any aberration or 05°i' cii
ness of mind, and as he is not conscious of anJ
change having taken place, now that he has P3s:ess
the grand climacteric of life, he feels that if he \ti:st
insane during any period of his confinement, he eat
have been so trom his infancy, and which a hie 1,1 at
wOll
in active, inventive, and useful employment
once negative. Allow me to add my testirnoliciii
that of Mr. Campbell as to the annoyances to which
persons are subjected in such establishments, and cost
loudly and bitterly would I complain of the rhiay,ve
ment of four out of the five houses in which 'letter.
been confined; but this might prejudice tnY si it
and annoy you with denials from the proprietcne.foret
not with threatened actions for libel. 1: thel

Algiers
The garrison of Djidjelli had for some days been
expecting an attack, for the Chiekh of the Zeramchas
had stated on the 22d ult., that the Kabyles would un-
dertake to carry off the flock when it should be sent to
graze outside the lines. On the 26th, at break of day,
some Beni Kaids, and other Kabyles of the four frac•
tions who had obtained authority to come to market,
were installed in their usual place, when suddenly Lieut.
Ferrand arrived, and stated that as he was going to the
lime quarry be was nearly carried off by a party of 200
Kabyles in ambuscade. Being on horseback, he made
his escape under a general fire, and happily no ball hit
him. The commandant immediately took the field, and
by ten o'clock the Kabyles had fled. We lost only one
man in this affair, but the enemy had several men killed
and wounded. All the Kabyles, forty in number, who
were at the market were retained prisoners, until the
30th, when the Cheikhs of the fourteen fractions of the
Beni Kaids came up and claimed them, and they were
given up on the payment of fines, and a solemn promise
to pay up their arrears of tribute."
The Akbar of Algiers, of the 12th, mentions a
report that ABD-EL-KADER and his family and fol-
lowers are established in the valley of Wad-el-Azha,
between Ouchda and Tazah, about twenty leagues
from the frontiers of Algeria.
Accounts are also stated to have been received at
Toulon from Oran, dated the lath. The news of
the treaty of peace had not yet arrived there, but on
the 11th General LAMORICIERE received from the son
of the SULTAN a request for a suspension of arms, with
an assurance that peace was on the point of being con-
cluded.
The Afrique states that Marshal BUGEAUD is soon to
come to Paris. Six Arab chiefs are also shortly to
visit Paris at the expense of the Government. The
object of the visit (says the Afrique) is to let them
judge of the power of the country by which they have
been subjected.
" Another English ship," says also the above quoted
Algerie, "has been cannonaded by the Moors ! It is the
third time in the ten days that the British flag receives
such an insult on the coast of Morocco. The English
steamer Sydenham, on arriving off Vibat, on the 3d inst.,
was received there, not with some isolated cannon shots,
as the Vesuvius had a fewdays before, but a ith a shower
of shots, which did her so much damage that she was
obliged to return to Gibraltar in order to repair it. This
third cuff applied to the British flag, seems to denote an
intention quite clear enough."
The Siecle has a long article on. Lord PALMER-
STON'S proposed visit to Paris, which, it contends,
must be connected with politics, more especially as
he has expressed an intention of visiting Louis
PHILIPPE. The Siecle then calls upon the Cabinet
to keep on its guard. Lord PALMERSTON thinks that
the Tories are tottering, and that the Whigs may
soon have a chance of recovering office ; but he
knows that an Administration openly hostile to
France would have public opinion against it in Eng-
land, and he is, therefore, coming to make his peace
with LOUIS PHILIPPE and his Ministers.
"We wish," adds the Siecle, " that there may remain
of this step but the recollection of a sort of amende
honorable made to the Prince, who represents France, by
the Whig Minister who betrayed the French alliance
and revived against us the evil feelings, as well as evil
designs, of the coalition."
The aggressive spirit of " perfide Albion" is the
subject of comment in the Constitutionnel, which
views with alarm the progress of our settlements in
the Bay of Honduras.
" The progress of England does not stop, and each
day she extends her power and her commerce in some
new point of the globe. It would tire one to enume-
rate all her enterprises. She is attempting the con-
solidation of the subjection of India, and she is
trying to establish herself in the island of
Borneo. She is increasing her commerce in the Chinese
seas, where she has just established herself; and in New
Holland she has recently joined Port Islington (Essing-
ton?) to her establishments. Without the fear of
a rupture with the United States, the British flag would
at present float over the Sandwich Islands. On the
eastern coast of Africa Port Natal and Victoria are ac-
quisitions not to be despised, and will not fail to become
the centre points of considerable colonies. In the
neighbourhoood of the Red &a the mission of Major
Harris to the Kingdom of Shoa, explored originally by
the French, will open a new market to the commerce
of Great Britain. But as if so many different under-
takings were not sufficient for her ambition and her ac-
tivity, she pursues without cessation her progress in the
sea of the Antilles. It is not merely from yesterday
that Great Britain has fixed her attention on the rich
countries which this sea washes. For more than a cen-
tury she possesses on the coast of Honduras an import-
ant establishment. The colony of Belize, at the mouth of
the river of that name, has a vast territory. It is from
Belise that come four-fifths of the mahogany annually
imported into England. The English find there cochineal,
dye-woods, and sarsaparilla; cotton and the sugar cane
grow there naturally, and almost without culture. But
Belize is, above all, important as the storehouse of the
English products, which are distributed through Central
America. The annual movement of this port is estimated ..arele4
has for-- o
at upwards of 20,000 tons. Up to the moment that the
f
Spanish colonies separated from the mother country, the Her Majesty the Queen
situation of the English on the coast of Honduras was 101. to the institution existingfthe!:°Wwnaeglewrich
precarious, disputed, uncertain; but scarcely had Cen- the wives and children o
town 13
tral America formed herself into a federative republic, Artillery. It
isSported with the
independent of Spain, when England commenced her most respectable familiesrod
ace of occasional fac.,Ls ono
accustomed career of encroachment. She has succes- garrison, and by thel p
po d mbyenabutsconrginvagonsto wirora
gopi
sively enlarged her territory at Belize, and stretch- held at Woolwich.
ing to the south has taken possession of the most families of the
imports i$ points of the coast. lu this way she hie their bullheads to foreign etotioaa.
gunners oobfjethct_eißs
Royal
ortasi assist the thee:01101101

desist. _
dreds•
It is on the part of the many, very many (bill/ pa 0
if not thousands) of unfortunates not so privileg- lair
Mr. Campbell in being allowed out-door exercise', 0
who, like myself, have been secluded and immure L 0
lunatic asylums, under circumstances w hie.), l'ita
my experience, I am free to declare that the chaegcoe'
the confinement of a prison would be as great arisen
trast, and as pleasing a change as that from A P, oa
to a palace, and to be preferred both in treatrae"
comfort. feelies
These unfortunates, being quite capable 0.
„d the
and appreciating the miseries of a mad-house, 3,-exer-
. contrasted enjoyments of free air, unrestrain7e ;Nu,
cise, and a comfortable home, and who, 11
Campbell, and I trust myself, are harmless. oblic
I would congratulate Mr. Campbell and
ithhePpe, to
on the decision of the jury, as leading,,,
many similar decisions. Are we to su that the
Pf7t-lier be 31.101
shock of the death of Mr. Campbell'sP
once righted his mind, or rather that at Wl‘,,Yillillg t°
of his confinement he would not have been,. il'i, con'
submit his sanity to the verdict of a jury el
trymen
I should have been too happy and
submitted myself to such an ordeal, and shtu,e con'
had no doubt of m having been able to 1',3.,1 1 105
vinced any honest jury, fairly constituted, ti'ost tlnit
not a fit subject of a lunatic asylum • and Itr give,
' 'll be t° 0
the first alteration of the law of lunacy will
..4,4lege t
in an inexpensive form and mode, this 11'.0fferin5
every person who may be deemed to be or pion, the,.
as a lunatic, and who may impugn the deel'Nrot that
right of a trial by a jury of his countrymen' t that it
juries always arrive at a correct decision, buatio 013'
pro uod
itcoi
have av e
would tend to satisfy even the mind of a hindenCY t°
he had been fairly treated, and have a ten
promote his recovery. n on the
I have no objection to give to medical Ineedne.idellt
respect and deference that their suppose,_d t 1 can°,,,°
and experience may entitle them to ; vuthe inst'''''
allow that it consists with rationality or oof then''
tions of a good order of society, that anY tvi the in'
without incurrin any responsibility, and become the,
stigation of an interested party, should hall have'
medical advisers, jury, and juthte, which so all t:he.
the power at once to consign any one these n'is.
horrors and torments to be experienced in the partfd
called asylums. And then again, without le friend
so condemned being allowed to inform 3 Sing toisb4
or relative of his situation, but to be secereli P
ancl
for making the attempt. f the jut.): „,.
To satisfy the minds of the foreman 0 tutu
on in*
one of the jurors at this inquiry, and all_llll.,_ on the"
men, that it is not wise to pin their facrniecision
sleeves of medical men, but- to trust for their
_u honest
r
on the rest of the evidence, and their °wi'_i_nearion
judgment of the case from the conduct and deco relate
of the party who is before them, allow Ille
floe('
the following anecdote : n . . I
__,a, cod
and
At the firtt lunatic asylum in which w t
the surgeon of the establishment, a Well'eitejaa; beei
highly-talented man, of mature years, ",..,d beano?
afflicted with a paralytic stroke, his riv,“cks did be_
disordered, and many high fantastic , truip, and 'l2
play, to the astonishment of the neig'bn° via among
lin° d ID
the house, so that it became generalli mad, an b
the inmates that the doctor had gone ,
_inn. whiF
which state he continued some weeks,
.0:.1_1 comm'
time two Committees of the Metropoi Wil
sioners in Lunacy officially visited the
each of these Committees, having tyke'°,llin, hem, 011:"'e
in medical science and lunacy atts
mull .6,
d. doctor at ted,
on both occasions, actually left
tbothuit 300 mad patient.;
head and superintendence
Of
a r his insanity, althou.g!
not having been able to discover
had ,
taken some paaln_
I and another imputed inadhme
adman
nact of his unfortun.:_e
eeralstbitehrlissbiernvrenunend
to call their attention to t
situation. I presume they
thing of the kind 4
out our insanity to discover a y
this may appear to i';..
the doctor. However strange
as some of the qe.,....
the statement is easily established,
me the fact of ti tr
werne
,too intent on may
.14
tlemen have since acknowledged to
OS
doctor's insanity at that time. thataset_ool_
h hly extolled t.rr,
of Bpuartlidaomneoott thhaevepubbeleicn rpesatssoend,theTlign
Commissioners, with a nobleman
hi
as their cbsls_
talent and humanity (Lord Ashley),
,n__ such oho. e,
man, for the very purpose of prevent_t. g Leo care,
vvh these 14- tot
in mine, and in so many others ? . Y, duties, jrn _
and wrong as has taken place in Mr. CamPu „put e
leave them to explain, and thus, for
men have not performed their obvious
my observations on this painful subject.,EvlCTll6" 0,
Sept. 23. ONE OF 7-II
mcertinen"„
anv I—. • -idre-t
and for yours alone, not to satisfy -, ,I, eel. „
two Joie J
P.S.—I have enclosed my card for yo.ur satisfactle r
curious inquirer; for I have theapureisen t, CIO'
twhheorseepoprrtoospfetchtesirl
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