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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

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contrary, they had prou

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ry loquaciou:

great men, the deliverers of

rank oi -cnerais, mei.—
" It Las long keen I _-
bears the imprint of prid,
this fact so forcibly borne ou

the revolution of Pel;;;;;dro
who, imbued with socialist. coy

••• . &&&&&
ideas, believed themselves d
part in the world. Going t

h one of my prof

with one of those patients
Daily of a ki❑d and peace
nd enthnsi:

grown rest

-usual and regular occupations
times, and flung into the strc
the working classes. He spok
discussed two points which ha
late :—` I perceive that pcoph
that I tan mad, Lut I am pro.
be shed on my name when poet
and ask, with painful astonisl
such useful and philatithropic v

OCCII 1

Why shoe,. i

Nas not Tasso loci

same su!

" The terrible insurrecti

.Tnno 11:1

to bear its fruits. 1 have receil
tients already, and I know tha
large in other establishments.
were several cases of mania ;

more than twenty -pa

rtion is equally
s number there

who were t

acal were threatening to kill, sl
they were constantly calling a
and were, in fact, in u state of
I have been told that a patient
a hospital for a wound, said,
a national guard, soaked in the blood of
Although I do not vouch for the truth o
can state, that what /heard i
as bad as this savage wish.
the firing of the musketry and

everybody
and ' help.,

.ble exciteme

, and lying in
at tie flesh of

I want t

its report,

t is full;

The ex&

merit caused bit
aven seized upon

women. One of teem, who was brought to this asylum,
after having been removed from a barricade where she
was holding forth in a furious manner, told me that she
had left her husband without knowing what she was
about, and that she remembered neither the words nor
the acts that were attributed to her. This lady, who has
a cultivated mind, is full of talon
poetry, seems to me to have
a febrile over-excitement, ht

the agency of

terrible events upon a natural!
disposition. But the greater nu
belong to the mel.ncholie form of t
February patients of the same cl___„„.„
death, the guillotine, ruin, pillage, fire, ic:4
terrible scenes which they have had under •
plunged them into a sort of stupor. A
the asylum, was telling me yesterday:.
dreadful revolution I wgis of a cheerful d
how is it possible not to go mad, when
apprehension for the life of one'
perty, and where the certainty

anu nervous

patients
Like the

talk of

their eyes have

Before due

tripped of every-

thing Stares one in the face? These ft
plunged me into this wretched Mire.
constant frights—the least movement
makes me shudder. I endeavour to res

events have

)rcy to

tate, but I fuel po
at our civil discord

Id be no

the direct

mugement with nil th

ichts4 nageiverc
Le4Pll_-flg `q4o

some among them who, f

e time

shown symptoms of aberration of nand, aiPili AthNiii
revolution has hastened the appearance of the eotifimt'd
disease. Others had had ant ericr at:ac .'s ;•')mt allout ti all
of them had been in the full enjoyme t O'MA of. their-1
faculties, and their madness had no of %calge•tl444;t4r
fearful political conimotious." i . -; ;----",•:%: !_