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London, England, 1827-07-10 00:00:00

CAPITULATION OP THE CITADEL OP ATHENS.

" Art. 1. All the troops of the garrison march out with their
arms and baggage.
"2. All the Athenian families withdraw without arms, but with
baggage, and may repair to their dwellings and villages, where the
Pasha engages to restore their property macaw, and to guarantee
that as well as their lives. The Pasha further eagages to give
Means of• subsistence to the women and. children who have lost
theft husbands and parents, and to assign them a village for their
residence. _ • .

3. All Mussulmen of whatever age or sex' who are in the cita.
del, are to be given up to the Pacha.
" 4. The tract of land which separates the city from Cape CoUas
shall be evacuated by all the Turkish troops, except the Philopap-
pos. which remains unoccupied.
" S. The French Officers, and three Officers of the Puha, and
the three Albanian Chiefs, who are required by the Greeks as hos-
tages, shall accompany the column to the place of embarkation, and
remain there tUI all the troops are onboard.
*6. The Pacha furnishes 60 horses (or the removal of the sick and
wounded. The citadel shall be given up in its present state' with
all the artillery, ammunition, and provisions.
" 8. The Paths having learned that mines may be laid, will
send three confidential persons, who shall be received into the cita-
del as soon as the capitulation is accepted. As these three persons
may be considered as hostages in the hands of the Greeks, the latter
shall give three distinguished persons in return, who shall be sent
back as soon as the citadel is evacuated.
" 10. If the Pacha's Officers sent to the citadel End any damage
done atter the acceptance of the capitulation to the walls or the
towers by means of mines, the capitulation shall be void.
" 11. As soon as the capitulation shall be accepted, the hour
shall be agreed upon at which the emotion of it shad commence.
We, the undersigned Commanders of the Acropolis' have ac-
cepted this capitulation to the above form sod team.
GBKASIMO PHOKA& N. KIUSIOLI.
" N. LACHAZITZAS S. kATZIKOJANNIS.
SIIKOSHEICAL DEUMORPHOPULO.
' S. VIACOPULO. G. WAIKIKI."
" COLONKL FABVIBIL *

The evidence taken before your Committee leave ne
doubt that these observations are still applicable to
licensed houses where paupers are received iss the
neighbourhood of the metropolis, and theylnie appre-
hensive that similar abuses elsewhere prevail, as no im-
provement has taken place in the law. It has been
clearly established in evidence, that there is no dqe
precaution with respect to the certificates of ad-
mission, to the consideration of discharge, or to the.
application of any curative process to the mental ma-
lady. Your Committee therefore repeat, adopt, and
confirm, the recommendations of 1807. and 1615 ; and
they trust that every effort will be made during the re-
cess, by all persons concerned in the controul and ma-
nagement of their establishments, to improve the con-
dition of the unfortunate lunatics committed to their
charge; and they further recommend. that legislative
measures of a remedial character should be introduced
at the earliest period of the next Session. They have
therefore, in consequence, prepared a series of proposi.
lions, which they beg to offer as the basis of future le-
i .
iodation. Your Committee have purposely omitted any
statement of fines and penalties, conceiving such points
may more properly be considered when any Bill or Bills
shall be introduced.
Your Committee are aware that some expense may
be incurred by .the system of visitation they recom-
mend, but the appropriation of the fees on licences
(which might perhaps be increased), and fines levied,
would defray a considerable part of such ex
pense ; and your Committee confidently anticipate, that,
the additional sum required will not be considered of
importance when compared with the great and practi.
cable benefits to be derived from an extended and Ms:
proved system of regulating and visiting lunatic asylums,
1. That it le expedient to repeal the Acts of 37 Geo. 11. e. 5.
s. 20 and 21, 411 Geo. 111. c. 96, 51 Geo. 111. e. 79, 5.5 Geo. 111.
C. 46, 36 Geo. 111. e. 117, 59 Geo. 111. c. 127, 5 Gee. IV. c. 71,
59 and 40 Geo. 111. e. 94. And to consolidate into one Act of
Parliament the provisions of the same, and to make such further
rovisions as will facilitate the erection of County Lunatic Asylums,
and improve the treatment of pauper and criminal lunatics.
2. That it is expedient to repeal the Acts of 14 Geo. 111. e. 49,
19 Geo. 111. e. 15, 26 Geo. 111. c. 91, and that an Act of Parlia-
ment should be passed, under the provisions of which all houses for
the reception of insane persons, except County Pauper Lunatic
Asylums, St. Luke's, and Bethlem Hospitals, shall be licensed and
regulated ; and that the following provisions should form the
ground-work of such Act.
3. That it is expedient that the Secretary of State for the Home
Department do, on the day of in every year, by an
instrument under his band and seal, appoint persons, of whom
not less than five shalt be police magistrates, together- with five
physicians, to be 'biters within the cities of London and West-
minster, within seven miles thereof, and within the county of Mid-
dlesex; and that the Secretary of State fur the Home Department
do appoint a cletk to attend such board of 'Weirs, and to record

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their proceedings.
4. That such visiters do meet at least four times in each year;
and at such meetings the said visiters (five to be a quorum, two of
whom at the least to be magistrates) shall, if they think fit, grant
licences to all persons requiring the same, for keeping houses for
the reception of two or more lunatics, within the.cities of London
aid Westminster, and within seven miles thereof, Red within the
county of Middlesex, such licences to be for one year from the date
thereof; and that in case the said visiters shall think he to refuse
any licence so applied for, they shall state their reasons in writing,
and deliver a copy of such reasons to the person so applying.
5. That in other parts of England and Wales, the Magistrates
assembled in Quarter Sessions shall, if they think fit, grant licences,
such Licences to be for one year, to all persons requiring the same,
for keeping houses for the reception of two or more lunatics in their
respective counties; and that the Clerk of the Peace or his deputy
in each county shall set in the same manner within his county as the
Clerk to the Board of Visiters within the cities of London and
Westminster, within scents miles thereof, and within the county a
Middlesex, and that in ease the Justices of Quarter Sroions shall
think fit to refuse any licence so applied for, the seasons of such
refusal or suspension shall be delivered in writing to the party
applying.
6. That previous to the granting sK any such licence, the person
requiring the same shall give One month's notice in writing to the

19. That in every cue of the death of Mr? patient in sorb licensed
house, a Coroner's Inquest shall be held upon the body I and it
such Coroner shall see fit, he shall direct the body to be examined
by a medical man not belonging to the establishment.
20. That in case the London Visitors er Visiting Magistrates and
Physicians appointed at Quarter Sessions, who shall visit the licensed
houses, shall have reason, on examination, after two separate visits,
to believe that any patient confined in any of these houses has reco-
vered the use of his faculties, they shall make a report thereof to the
next Quarterly or other Meeting of the said London Visite''', or to
the Magistrates at Quarter Sessions, as the case may be, who shall
have power to order the discharge of such lunatic, with or without
further examination, due notice having been given to the keeper of
such asylum of the intention on the part of the Visiters to apply for
such discharge.
21. That in order to provide tot the due care of such lunatics as
axe confined separately, it is expedient that every person who shall
receive into his house for hire (such house not being licensed) any
one lunatic, shall, within three days after the arrival of such lona-
ties, transmit to the Clerk Of the Commissioners or Clerk of the
Peace of the County, as the case may be, a copy of the order and
certificate, without which, such as in the case of licensed houses,
no such lunatic shall be received; and on the lit January, sr within
three days thereof, in every year, be shall transmit to such clerk a
certificate, signed by two medical men, describing the then actual
state and condition of such lunatic ; and in calm of the deatkremovaL
or discharge of such lunatic, he shall forthwith notify the same to
such clerk, which said orders, certificates, and notifications shall be
duly entered in a register to be kept for that _purpose, and that
the said clerk shall make therefrom a separate register, containing
the true name of such lunatic so separately confined, together with
the place of confinement ; which last-mentioned register shell be
open to the, inspection only of the Secretary of State, London
'inters, or Chairman of Quarter Sessions in their respective
counties, and to such persons as are authorised to inspect the
same by an order under the bands of the Secretary of State or
IChairman of Quarter Sessions, in their respective counties ; and that
every such house shall be subject to the same visitation as licensed
houses. which, however, shall only take place, by order of the Se-
cretary of State, Loudon Visiters, or Chairman of Quarter Sessions,
in their respective counties.
Ex. That ail lunatics confined in custody, of their relatives and
' friends, or of a Committee appointed by the Court of Chancery,
shall not be registered, and shall not be subject to visitation, tlcept
by the authority of
.the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
, ment, who shall be empowered, on special application, to appoint,
if he shall think fit, Tither, for such purpose, in the same manner
as for special visitation of lunatics or lunatic asylums in the country.
Your Committee beg leave to co. etude their Revolt
by referring the House to the Appendix, containing the
-vidence end other papers.-29th June, 1827.