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MONDAY EVEN

PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM.

Letter to the Magistrates of Middlesex, oa the propriety of erecting

an Asylum for the Pauper Lunatics of the County.
IT ass ♦NDIJW HALUDAIN X.D.

Fellow of the Royal Society, and College of Physicians, Edinburgh;
Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London, &c. kc.
GENTLEMEN,—Having been actively engaged, for
more than a quarter of a century, in an attempt to
ascertain the numbers, and improve the treatment of
what, without any improper use of language, 'may
justly be called the most helpless, and still, in some
measure, the most neglected portion of the human
species (the insane poor in this great arid mighty em-
pire) ; I feel that I have acquired a kind of prescriptive
right co offer you my sentiments on a question whiCh,
understand, is about to engage your attention, !ix.
the propiiety of establishing a Public Lunatic Asylum
in the County of. Middlesex.
have seen,• perhaps, more hawks, and: certainly
more lunatic asylums, than any man in Britain; and,
therefore, I am quite satisfied that the few observations
I now venture to address to you will meet with all the
attention they may appear to merit. You, Gentlemen,
are all perfectly aware, that, about nineteen years ago,
an Act of Parliament was passed, through the humane
exertions of the Right Hon. Charles Watkin Wiltiatm
Wynn, then Under Secretary of State for the Home
Department ; and that this Act authorises the Magi'.
trates in England and Wales, to establish public asy-
lums for the reception and treatment of the insane poor
within their respettive counties; and I also presume you
are equally aware, that several very excellent asylums
have been built, under the authority of this Act. How
comes it, then, I would ask, that the question of build.
ing such• an establishment in this, the metropolitan
county of England—that the propriety, if not the ne-
cessity, of such a measure, has escaped the notice of
the Magistrates till this very late hour? I readily
admit that there are many,: very many asylums, within
the bounds of the county, established by individuals for
their private gain, where the insane poor of the several
parishes have been, and still are confined ; and that
existence of such establishments may be offered as a
plausible excuse, by individual mensbers,for this neglect
of a part of your duty as a general. body. While the
evil was kept out of sight, the absolute necessity of
the measure may not have been generally felt; bat
when the question is investigated, and its proper boar.
ings • are brought before you, lam certain you la
shew every willingness to do away with any repro:Al
your tardiness hitherto may seem to have merited t and,
by your zeal and unanimity, speedily carry into effect
the humane provisions of Mr. Wynn's Act.

The crowded and onmenfartablestate of the majority of the pri-
vate asylums, in the neighbourhood of London, mast be known to
many of .you ; they can be considered as nothing better than large
prisons, where the insane are confined ,• as hospitals for the treat-
ment and cure of insanity, all of them, / maintain, in as far as the
parish poor are concerned, are wholly Eat, and perfectly useless.
Yet you will allow, that a lunatic asylum ought to be an hosptal,
and is what the Legislature has ordered that county asylums
slimsid be.

Lord Robert Seymour, a most active and intelligent
'neither of your body—a Nobleman whose exertions in
the cause of humanity have never been surpassed--has
informed you, in a letter dated 12th of June, last year,
(a copy of which is now before me) that, at Bethnal'
Green, in one of Mr. Waiburton's houses, he saw 352
paupers, 192 private patients., and 55 attendants, mak-
ing altogether 544 patients; and that the physicians
who visited the paupers, by order of the parishes, had
repeatedly declared, that the crowd in Mr.WarburtOn's
house made the recovery of these paupers highly iris-
probable." His Lordship informs you further, " that
each of the dormitories coßtilned from 16 to 20 beds,
and, on the female side, that many of the paupers lie
Iwo in n lied, the bedsteads being. only 18 inchei from
each other ; and that the exercising yards were more
crowded than ever yet was dog kennel." From my own
knowledge' I affirits, that this description will apply to
a very great, majority of the private asylums in the
counties of Middlesex and Surrey.

G, NOVEMBER 20, 1826.

eltises of the people are so greitgnd pressing. Instead,
therefor; of the pecuniary distress of the times being
a Cause for delaying a measure already brought to
your notice by the benevolent Nobleman who, alone, of
all your members, seems to have taken an active part
in proposing it; livould say, that it ought to stimulate
you to enter unanimously upon this part of the public
duties with which you have been intrusted. - •

The Legislature having full confidence in the proper
feelings of an English magistracy, did not make the
Act compulsory in this part of the Empire : you have
therefore been left to exercise your own discretion, and
allowed a power of judging of time and place proper for
establishing such an asylum within your county.
That such an establishment is not only proper, but
absolutely necessary, for the comfort and proper treat-
ment of the insane poor in this county, few of you,
after giving the subject the slightest consideration, will
venture to tieny; VEd that it is still more essentially re-
quake, in order to lessen the sums le*iedispon your.
selves and the inhabitants tlf Middlesex; for the support
of these helpless outcasts, a referent* to die ficti and the
distress of the preterit think/tight, itithoot farther' align-
ment; to convince yoti..
Mr. Peel, our present exCelletti . and inatifatigabre
Secretary of State, has been Much Eluded ftir hit Ad.-
tions and success in improving the criminal-fasv; and in
providing for the humane treatment'of the proffigate
and worthless; Just the best act of his public lifetliat:
act which will render his natlne iiinasortal as a sallies:
Mari, and beloved as a Christian—was the Bill which
he got liaised fOr the establishment of county lunatic
asylums in Ireland. Anfidst all the active labour
which the political concerns of that distracted nation
imposed upon him, as Mir Secretary of the Govern-
ment in Dabliti, he found leisure, not only to have the
state of pauper lunatics examined into, but to prepare a
Bill, and have it pasied into a law, compelling the
Magistrates of the several counties in Irelibd, at the
Command of the Governnient, to build asylums for
their insane poor. The state of Ireland, io different
from that of Englanclonade compulsion in some measure
necessary in the former kingdom when it was not con-
sidered so in the latter ; yet I angels, front the lute-
warmness with which many county Magistrates have
treated this sacred trust, so committed to them by Mr.
Wynn's Act, I have often lamented that, in the various
*amendments it has subsequently undergone, a clauW
was not introduced, similar to that in Mr. !'eel's Irish
Bill, which makes the measure imperative.
trust, Gentlemen, I shall have no occasion to lament
the want of such a clause, in as fir *as you are con-
cerned ; and, if the matter has not already been decided
upon, that you will lose no time in taking measures to
investigate in what part of the county it may be proper
to build.

The treatment of insanity is now so, well understood,
and the requisites for forming a perfect asylum, or hos-
pital, for the reception of insane patients so fully ascer-
tained by experience, that they admit of very, little dis-
cussion; and no county in England affords so many
facilities for forming a most perfect establishment as
Middlesex.

Your asylum should be at such a distance from the
metropolis as to afford sufficient space; yet not so dis-
tant as to make it inconvenient for the patients' friends,
or the parish physicians, to visit it frequently, or to be
beyond the bounds of the London police. Good air
and plenty of water are also of primary importance;
and all these are to be found within twelve miles of
Hyde Park Corner. When your plans, however, are
more in train, I shall enter upon the localities with more
minuteness ; and, in all that regards either the plan or
the management of such an asylum, I humbly offer you
the benefit of all the experience I her gained by time
and travel.

The agitation of the qustion of lunatic asylums,
during the last twenty-five years, has obtained for sue,
dical science a great and decided victory over all the
prejudices and metaphysical sophistry of your ances-
tors. The language of the schools had brought into
common use expressions and terms which led to the
grossest errors, both in theory and practice. Insanity
had come to be considered a disease of the mind, un-
connected with the body—madness was called " nsental
derangement." And mind being considered a something
beyond the reach of pill or draught, the unhappy ma-
niac was at once consigned by friend and Doctor to the
dungeon keep or cheerless cell, where, loaded with
fetters, he was left, uncared for, to endure a state of
often long protracted sufferings, until death put an end
to the scene. A temporary ailment was soon converted
into a permanent disease; and the dogs in the kennel",
were certainly more attended to than the helpless mad-
man.
Thank Goa it is now known, that insanity is as
curable as any disease to which mankind are subject;
that it arises from deranged bodily functions—not
mental affections ; and that, by kindness and proper
medicine, there is often less difficulty in removing this
malady than many others of whom juster.notions have
Ong been entertained by the faculty. Hence, Gentle-
men, you have another, and, if I may so speak, a still
more sublime inducement for you to enter upon your
task—lhat the sufferings of human nature may be
alleviated, as well at a public duty performed. In
proportion as proper treatment is adopted, the number
of the insane will diminish, and the expense of their
maintenance be lessened ; you cannot, theg, grudge the
little extra trouble by which so much good is to be
accomplished ;—you cannot hesitate, for ode moment,
in carving into effect a measure which, independent
of future advantage, is immediately to relieve the
county of a very heavy expenditure. True it is, that
the establishment of such an asylum as is now called
for, will affect serionsly,the pirate interests of many
madhouse keepers, wbo live by the present system, and
have many induciments for wishingit to be continued;
but I•shotild feel ashamed to thinkohat there was one
among your whole number thirt could be guided by
ally sisch•viewS, or who would dare to oppote wsnea;
sure which is so much called for by the numbers and
condition of the insane poor in this county.

. It is not in the power of any man, or number of
men, to bestow upon the inmates of such establishments
either the Medical or moral treatment that their eve
imperatively calls for. Look at our well regulated
'ptiblle asylums, as they now exist in the metropolis,
and in the counties where they have been established
.under Mr. Wynn's Act. Look at the numbers 46-
citarged, cared; from. these public hospitals. And com-
pare them with •the numbers discharged from even the
best regulated and least crowded of our private institu-
tions.* and then tell me if you have dune well in allow-
ing thepre,eat system of.providing for your insane poor
tb exist so long ; and yet this is only so far as the als•
stract feeling df hu-dhosity is concerned. There is,l
however, Gr.ntlemen, still another point, of more jai-
portable than any sack abstract feeling, and which, as
Magistrates of this county, and guardians of the rights
of the community, you are bound to take into consi-
deration; this is, the enormous expTitsi which the pre.
sent srsteni his entailed upon the several parishes.
By returns made to the Clerk of the Peace, it appears that Atte
ari saw upwards of 700 linen* padpers id actual contnedient ;
that of these 600 are in.private asylums, about 50 in public hospi•
tate, and' t* di( id ' wistkhotites; End that Upwards of
ei
wih
gliteettlfiesessraii t e required for the support of these pau-
pers. Now, f du not hesitate to &Mtn), (and it can be proved b
a referehee to &dui caulitlel•Acli ay/liana 'Wee liked estastlable)
ilast,even deducting thefill laterest•of fitly per cent. for the motley
levied to build.and furnish a cowry asylum, the mutual charge upod
Wee leafing'sifil be dasittfiskalnibiti' this% -cati64lilld: •
I 'Phis, GehttenterflletiOuilt allow 'Prat winter of viiiy
lOaette;egatidenttilm4 whoa the deasmdi.upon WI

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discharged; that in the Innatie.o!yinnil of 3014 pollimoro,lso.ot
proportion nearly one-half, hate bean discharged,cared, and 17
• relieved."

I hue the honour tobe,
gimmfaus
Tour very 'Oe'dlent SerWaskl,
• ANDitliW HALLIDAY.

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LAW REPORT.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov.lB.
wirLuicurr v. vat Dols or SIMUFOILT. •
Mr; SHADWELL observed, that in this case, which Ws
Lordship had promised to dispose of on Monday, his
client had informed him, that a very important affilsvit
had been lately made, which it was necessary his Lnrd•
ship should peruse previous to his giving judgment.
Mr. Haar inquired, by whom the affidavit was made?
Mr. Snaawzi.L—lt is made by a pinyon °Ube name of Scott.
Mr. HART said, if the practice of filing fresh affidar
wits was allowed to be continued, his client would never
obtain the judgment of the Court. ;
The LORD CliAbicawrp-0..1f0u • had better apply OD
Monday to have this teWavit received, and in the mean
time Mr. Hart's client ought to have notice of what the
affidavit contains. Whether the affidavii is received or
pot I will give my judgment on Tuesday morning.
Mr. HART said, that as far as regarded himself, he
was quite indifferent miller-subject, but . he could not
forget the repeated applications of: Mr. Wellesley, who,
if he was entageci to have bis ohiliftent.had been b d
in getting his Lordships jticlgtiteist in cqnsequence of the
opposite parties filing new. affidavits on, the eve of hi;
Lordship's giving judgment.
The Loin eIIANCILLOIt observed; that great anxiety
had been evincedi for having the decision of the Court
.as speedily as possible. Ile could only say, that the
having to &Gide this cause wax what hp could not help
calling the misforitine of his.jadicial life, for it was oup
of the most piitiful duties' he had ever had to perform,
and one of the most- important. yVhaittver way his
opinionivas, it. did not metely apply to this family, bit
to every family in the kingdom. The parties would
understand judgment would be given on Tuesday.
Mr. HAILT--•••Mre shallsq understand it, unless Mr. Shadwell
wishes it to be postponed till Tuesday week.
Mr. SHADWRI.I. said, all he wished was, that before
his Lordship gave judgment in this cause, which he
admitted, and which was felt by every one, to be one of
the greatest importance, that as much light should be
throWn on the subject as could possibly be affoided.
The LORD CRANCILLOX stated, that since the matter
was originally heard, new and important evidence had
been given, which it was impossible could have been
produced at the time the original affidavits were filed.
Mr. SaaaWma—Then I understand your Lordship gives me
permission to read this affidavit on Monday morning, giving Mr.
Hart a copy of it in the mean time.
The LORD CUANCRLI!OR —All the permission I give
you is, to apply to lead this affidavit on Monday morn-
ing, and perhaps the reading of it may make. a great
_alteration in_my view of the case. However. all I c4n
say is, that whatever the affidavit may contain, the
judgment shall be given on Tuesday instead of Monday.
—HisLordship, addressing himself to Mr. Hart, sail,
(that even should he nbt permit Mr. Shad well to read
the affidavit, he did not mean to say he should not
:call foaurther explanation as to certain circumstances.

VIOXCHANCRLLOR'S COURT, Nov. is.
MOM. V. DOSILISIL
This was a motion for the purpose of compelling the
defendant, Mr. George Dorrien, the Bank Director, and
the leading member of the firm of Dorrien and Co. to
pay into Court a sum of money, which had improperly
come into his hand,.

Upon Mr. thews thing to explain the pounds of the maiming,
Auseams, for the defendant, requested the Lamed Cost *
to postpone his motion for a few days, in order that ho sraWbove
an opportunity of becoming better acquainted with the cam
lr. tioonorsaid he certainly would not consent to any postpone.
meat whatever.

Mr. ANDERTON replied, that the wish of postpone.
meat was altogether his own, and did not at all come
from his client. He was the only Counsel for the
defendant, and as he saw his learned friends attach a
very considerable importance to the case, it was very
natural for him to wish to meet it somewhat better pre-
pared, and in a condition to do every duty to his client.
Mr. &Kum then proceeded to say, that the facts of
this case alone were almost sufficient, without the no-
cessity of comment or observation, for the purpose, of
the present motion: In the year 1795, a Mr. Mollies,
an Auditor-General in Hanover, being desirous o 4 in-
vesting a sum of money in the Funds of this country,
employed a Mr. Levi Solomon, a merchant of H stn.
burgh, to purchase for him 5001. Tine* per Cent. Con.
sols. This commission was duly performed by Solomon,
and the charges of commission paid by Movies, who ot
the same time gave instructions that the stock should
be purchased in the name of Solomon, to be held in
trust by him, it being more convenient to invest it in
that form, from the facility which it afforded of re-
ceiving the interest, in consequence of Solomon's rec
lay commercial transactions with this country.
regular deeds and papers connected with this trust of
5001. being-all duly executed, Mr. Movies, in the year
1797, placed in the hands of Solomon a second 5001. to
be laid out in the same manner as the first, in the Eng-
lish Fonds. This commsision was also matted and paid
for, with the single exception, that the second 5004 al.
though placed in the name of golonson,was not regularly
takes as upon trust by him, although there could be no
doubt it was intended so, from a memorandum to that
effect between the parties,commission and brokerage be.
ins regularly charged, and an agreement drawn up to the
ant which had been stated. Interest upon the ipooq6
wa; regularly received and paid by Solomon, until the
year 1808, when Mr. Movies died, and the right to the
property vested in his brother, JJ.Movies and the widow,
who received the interest still from Solomou until the
death of the brother, and then no proceedings seem to
have been taken with regard to the property for a great
number of years. Upon the death of Solomon, boyg.
ever, about the year 1821, a Mr. William Conrad Keats
a relation of the family of Movies, living in London,
was requested by the widow of Movies to make some
inquiries with respect to the property of her husband,
supposed to be stauding in the name of Solomon, in the
books at the Bask 91El:iglus& Eorf applied to Mr. Dan-
rienben eminent 'perch:tot, and sk person, both 1100 his
connexion with the Bank of England,and the Contissot,
the best capable:of managing, such no a /EAT • 1.01 his
alliSstAllee in ascertaining the existence 9( dm
And in determining the tett melhod of recgsvering, its
pulling for the benefit of the widow. iVar. ,porn u
readily promised that assistance; the hooks Fite
searched, and the sum mentioned was sound to be still
vested is the some of Solomon, with dividends ussisnid