The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-01 00:00:00

'HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

other excitement, even without the primary
authority of any medical practitioner.

We now return to the question of the possi-
bility of a personal examination in the case of
Mr. F. ANDERDON. Dr. BURROWS says in
his letter, " the unsettled wandering habits
of this gentleman presented an insuperable ob-
stacle to an interview with him, and it was re-
presented to me, that to preserve him from utter
ruin, he must be placed under restraint
.by
the following evening," and he then asks,
" how an interview and medical examination
was to be obtained within twenty-four hours
with such a peculiar character ?"
Now what are the facts ? The keepers sent by
Dr. BURROWS do not find any " insuperable
obstacle" to an interview with this " peculiar
character ;" they quietly walk over to his house, as
Dr. BURROWS might, and we conceive ought to
have done, wait his return home, acquaint him
with their mission, and are forthwith consigned
over to the legal custody of the police, fortu-
nately, most likely for the individual who was to
be submitted to their restraint (had he once been
restrained, his future fate must be left to con
jecture), but at all events, most fortunate for the
public.

According to the representations said to have
been made to Dr. BURROWS, it would appear
that "to preserve him from utter ruin," "this pe-
culiar character" " must be placed under restraint
by thefollowing evening." Mr. FREEMAN AN-
DERDON, however, was not placed under re-
straint, and had he, in consequence, consigned him-
selfto "utter ruin," it is fair to presume the parties
to this transaction would have informed the
public for their own justification. The bankers,
or relatives, of Mr. F. ANDERDON, doubtless
took very effectual stops to prevent his " utter
ruin," by refusing to honour his drafts, and put-
ting his money " under restraint ;" and then it
appears presently sought Dr. BURROWS, who,
on their representation, of his single authority,
and without any examination, did not scruple
to endeavour to put his person under restraint
also. We do not know what the eccentricities
of Mr. F. ANDERDON may indicate, but there
certainly seems no want of method in the rest of
the proceeding.

Dr. BURROWS says, " To publish a detail o,
the overt act of insanity, upon a knowledge of
which I judged Mr. FREEMAN ANDERDON
to be of unsound mind, neither the vulgar
taste for tales of madness, nor my own jus-
tification, shall induce me to commit a vio-
lation of professional confidence." " Know-
ledge of an overt act of insanity," on hearsay
evidence, without any examination! ! Profes-
sional confidence, without seeing the patient !!
We admire the sentiment, and lament we cannot
equally admire the illustration, for Dr. BUR-
ROWS does not scruple to publish on hearsay evi-
dence only, (which scouted by Courts of Law
according to Dr. BURROWS, has found sanc-
tuary in the College of Physicians), and without
personal knowledge or examination, if not all,
at least a vast deal, his employers represented of
the intended patient,—whom we should igno-
rantly have thought was entitled to share the
benefit of the " professional confidence"
vaunted of. Perhaps, however, physicians, like
lawyers, only owe professional confidence to the
party who pays the retaining fee.
We know nothing of any of the parties to
this extraordinary proceeding, and only advert
to it as deeply affecting the cause of humanity,
and the dearest rights of Englishmen. We en.l
tertain no disrespect towards the Faculty, we
know physicians highly gifted, most estimable,
most respectable ;—we are willing to believe the
body at large, even including Dr. BURROWS,
may share the same good qualities,—but we
at the same time believe the Duke of
WELLINGTON, and his Right Honourable
Colleagues, are at the least equally respect-
able, and we further believe that the people
of England are almost to a man of the same
opinion ; yet neither the KING or his Ministers
cau put under restraint, or incarcerate any man,
unless by due course of law. Of what use is it
that the power of the SOVEREIGN be limited by
law—to what purpose do we boast of Magna
Charta, the Habeas Corpus Act, or Bill of Rights,
if any man with a medical diploma, or perhaps
even an apothecary without one, may with imp
pui4ty commit an act like that which has lately
been attempted ? In all other cases of im-
prisonment the period is limited—confinement
is not secret—the prisoner is still under the
protection of the law; but when confined as
lunatic—notwithstanding the late Act, the un-
happy object is # the mercy o the physician
and the keepers; and if any man is ignorant
of what that is, let him read the Reports of
the Parliamentary Committees in 1815, 1816,
and 1828. Thp Act of the 9th GEORGE was
intended to redress some of the monstrous evils
there disclosed, but is wholly inefficient, is only
temporary, and must he amended. There can be
no doubt, hovevp7, 3,7bilp such men as Lord
ROBERT SEYMOUR,LOrd GRANVILLE SOMER-
SET, the Members for Middlesex, Dr. HUME,
and others of the same character, are Commis-
sioners, that they will fearlessly, as tiemper#4,
discharge their duties, and exert whatever powers
have been intrusted to them, as well for the
protection of the unhappy persons afflicted with
that severest of all the visitations of Providence,
unacy,—as for the protection of the rest of his

ATAJEsTI's subjects from improperly suffering
under that imputation. The law at present is
anomalous respecting lunacy. When the estate is
to be administered, a commission issues,"a jury is
sworn, and witnesses openly examined,—but when

the personal liberty of an individual is at stake,
the fiat of medical men is deemed sufficient to in-
carcerate him, perhaps for ever ! ! No man, we
conceive, ought to be otherwise than temporarily
restrained under such an imputation, unless by
the verdict of a jury, and we trust and believe the
public will not rest satisfied until the law be al-
tered by such an enactment.

The following communication has been re-
ceived this morning from our Paris correspondent!:

" PARIS, NOV. 29.
" The accession of the ultra-royalist party to
power has kad an extraordinary effect on the white
inhabitants of the little island of Marie Galante,
which you are aware is a dependency on the French
colony of Guadeloupe. If we may believe the nu-
merous letters which have lately arrived at Nantes,
by the Amelia, from Pointe-a-Pitre, the conduct of
the governor, a Creole, called the Viscount de Tur-
pin, a native of Martinique, who appears to have
been joined by the greater part of the white popula-
tion, cannot well be explained on any hypothesis but
that of some sort of epidemic insanity. They seem
to have seen some undefinable connection between
the late change in the ministry, and their own right
to lord it with undisputed sway over such of their fel-
low colonists as had the misfortune to be tainted with
the slightest portion of African blood. Scarcely had
the news of the change in the ministry reached the
French colonies by means of private letters, when
the whites of Marie Galante flew suddenly to arms,
under pretence of a conspiracy among the negroes
and men of colour of the Island. Their first pro-
ceeding was to compel the Procureur du Roi, an
officer corresponding to that of our Attorney General,
to retire from the island, and proceed to Guade-
loupe. The court in which this officer exercises his
functions is entirely composed of Europeans ; but
it appears that the Procureur du Roi and the
Judges had all given serious offence by dealing
out impartial justice between the white popu-
lation and the men of colour, and by ne-
glecting the invitations which were sent to them by
the rich Creoles of the island, who seem to have
pushed the aristocratical principle a little farther
than has yet been attempted in Europe. The
Next object of their vengeance was M. Ventre,
another European, who had long resided in the
island, as the substitute of the Procureur du Roi,
and it is stated, that he was assaulted in his own
house, and with his wife and family seriously mal-
treated by a band of ruffians and madmen. The
accusation against this officer was, that he
had expressed a wish to see an end put to
the prejudices by which the colony was di-
vided, and that all classes of the population
should live together on a good understanding with
each other. Such was the violence of this attack,
that his furniture was destroyed, his plate and other
valuables plundered, and himself and his family
obliged to leave the colony and proceed to Pointe-a-
Pitre, carrying on his person the marks of the
violence of which he had been the victim.
" After all the officers connected with the ad-
ministration of justice had been by such means
driven out of the island, the insurgents had ap-
pointed a deputation with the cure at its head, to
proceed to Guadeloupe and make some representa-
tion on the subject to M. Desrotours, the Governor,
but the deputation was very ill received at head-
quarters, and the cure has not ventured to return to
Marie Galante to account to his constituents in their
present state of excitement for his want of success.
" In place of listening to the ex-parte representa-
tions of the cure and his fellow deputies, the gover-
nor had sent a counsellor of the Royal Court as a
commissioner to Marie Galante to inquire into the
circumstances on the spot, but he on his arrival was
so insulted, that it was necessary for him in passing
through the streets to be escorted by a piquet of
gendarmerie and of troops of the line.
" On the evening of the 10th of September M.
Monton, the Chief of the Staff, was despatched
from Basseterre, the seat of the government of
Pointe-a-Pitre, with a reinforcement of troops for
Marie Galante, but with orders to wait for further
intelligence as to the success of the mission of the
civil functionary, and his efforts to pacify the peo-
ple, before making any useless display of this ad-
ditional force ; but, as these efforts proved wholly
unsuccessful, he proceeded on the 16th in La Rose
sloop of war, Capt. Cube, for Marie Galante, with
the magistrates on board, who had been driven
from the island, the troops under his com-
mand and some pieces of artillery. The sloop of
war returned the same morning to Pointe-a-Pitre,
without bringing any further intelligence than what
has been given as to the progress of the revolt.
On the 18th ;the commandant of Marie Galante,
the Viscount de Turpin, was brought to Pointe-a-
Pitre in the custody of a Captain in the regu-
lar service, and lie has been carried to the resi-
dence of the Governor of Basseterre, where he will
be called upon to give an account of his conduct.
" M. Mouton, who has been invested with the
command of the Island, has recalled the national
guard or coloured militia, who had been dis-
missed by M. Turpin, and assigned to them their
former duties. On this proceeding the white
militia immediately refused to act, so that the armed
force of the island now consists only of the coloured
militia and the troops of the line.
" It is pretended by the insurgents, in excuse for
their conduct, that there was a conspiracy among the
men of colour, and that it was necessary to take up
arms to repress it. But whatever their purposes
may have been, they seem to have been completely
disconcerted by the vigorous measures adopted by
the Governor. Three creoles, who were regarded
as the leaders of the insurrection, are stated to have
suddenly quitted the colony, and I need not add that
those who are most interested in the subject, are
waiting with great anxiety for the next advices from
Pointe-a-Pitre."

of that room is extremely simple-the bedstead 4of irnr,,
single 1.43,44 et ;cud a silk coverlet. On his Grace's return
from his short excursion, he ands his letters a ffd newspa-
pers arranged, generally to the amount of forty or fifty o
the former, and eight of the latter; all these he opens f
and notes Antwerp to such as he does not mean to reserve.
for an autograph reply. ft is his biyaFialile Fostoria to
TIIE PREMIER AT WALMER CASTLE.
The Pasatiza, rises before day, devotes three-quarters o
an hour to ablutions and the other labours of the toilet
takes a walk for a quarter of an hour, during which time
his bed-room is put in order. This last operation would
not seem tp be one of particular difficulty, as the furniture
without curtains, and covered, even at Ada season, by a
make a note of the intended answer to each separate let-
ter before he proceeds to open the It eat in succession—
this mode, which is rather unusual, is adopted to prevent 1
confusion. As a host, his Grace's manners are repre-
sented as being, to the last degree, unaffeeted and disen-
g4e4 ; and 419 house is considered as one of the most
agreeable.
The Court Journal seems lately to have
made some brilliant additions to its list of fashionable non.
tributors; and its late numbers have overflowed with high
life intelligence accordingly. Its number of Saturday last
is unprecedentedly rich in this class of matter. Besides a
brilliant satirical jeu d'esprit, ip the form of a poetiFal
Epistle from Brighton ; a set of lively Stanzas, depicting a
scene atAlmack's ; and two " London Letters," detailing all
the piquant private gossip of the day in the highest circles ;
also' contains
it a lij,tlp poem eallpd " Beauty's .Alpbabet?"
wiiioh will be like)), of itself alone to sell' an Otion
since it gives the uninitiated reader a characteristic potion
of almost every acknowledged Beauty of the day--ont
for every letter of the Alphabet.
.
4 hew line of road to Hastings is projected,
which will, it is said, shorten the distance between that
place and the Metropolis 15 Miles.