The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-09-19 00:00:00

VIOLATION OF PERSONAL RIGHTS.

TO TEE EDITOR OF TIIF. STATESMAN.
SlR,—Whatever allects the sectarit) of an
dual is interesting to the community at large.
A Gentleman, who is possess. d of considerable
pro ), was taken from his lodgings a few days
`since by a ruffian, whirl-it is'snp:wised, is the
keeper of a private •mad.house. The number of
the hackney 'oath in which they went was takers
down. and application made at the Hackney Coach_
Office, in Essex-street; 'anti orthe proprietor of
the coach, to kunst where the Gentleman was set
down, but no satisfactory answer could be ob.
tained. From the circumstance of this Gentleman
having been confined, three years in a private mail.
house by his unfeeling relations, it is supposed they
have sent him a second time ti the same dungeon.
Ills -account of hii ilMreatment, while confined,
moved the compassion of all who heard him. Its
said he was chained round his neck, traist, and
legs, and beet unmercifully with a large stick, by
a ruffian who was hired for the purpose; and that
ho was half starved. fie states.also the cause of all
this inhutean treatment to be the avarice of his re..
lotions, who do not Irish him to marry, but, to die,
that they might inherit his property.
This violent invasion of the liberty of the sub.
ject requires immediate redress ; I therefore, Sir,
respectfully propose the following regulations to
Parliament immediately On its meeting
Ist. That no person be confined or sent to a mad..
house on the pretext of his reason being atfected,
before he is examined by three practising Physi:
clans, who are to be on their oaths.

2(11y. That these houses shall, each of them, be
visited by a PhysiCian every day in the week. Thal:
the friends and acipiiintance of the unfortunate
.persons confined shall have access to them f.,‘r a cer.
tain number of hours every day ; and that the
houses shall be situated near the metropolis, in II
healthy and airy,sit nation.
idly. That a Board of •Physicians be appointed
every throe months, to hold a meeting in each of •
those houses, for the purpose of examining and re.
porting such patients as are sufficiently recovered,
and in a state to be restored to liberty and society.
4thly. That persons who are very much disor.
dered should not be in the same house or hospital
with those who are less so ; and that persons who
are slightly disordered, be not received into those
houses unless they partioularly requot it themselves,
as confinement always makes such persons worse.
Whip. That those dungeons of chains, sticks,
whips, and starvation, called Private Mad Houses,
be converted into Hospitals, with gardens and
grounds attached to them, for the exercise and re.
creation of their unfortunate inmates, who should
be treated with humanity, and have every atteutioo
paid to them.
I am not induced to write this from any other
cousidsiatim Visa those of humanity.
I am, Sir,
• Your humble servant,
Londva, Sept, 16, 1110. A. 11.

Mr. TUCItTIi, the Surveyor to the Prince of
WALgs, as Duke of CouswaLL, has 'published a.
Report, in which he maintains that Port St. Mary,
in the isles of Scilly, can at all times, and under
every eircunistancts 'of wind and weather, be *pi
proached with more certainty, and far 4cai dangermt
than either Falmouth or Plytuouthi; that tke
steel offers a safer and better anchorage than Ply, .
mouth Sound, with excellent holding ground; .that
ships can put to sea room thuse.blands
and weather, and that if saotea were bails,, tbj
port will hold ten or twelve sail of the line, and 500
sail of transports or merchant vessels.

Yesterday an unlucky mistakes occurred Is
Covent.garden.. A man, who appear...il to be a
vender of vegetables, having pulled up his car! near
a Stall belonging to a stout market gardener, the
latter was much offended, mid after a long speech,
which coptained all the figures and logic peculiar
to Corent.garden orators, threatened the, object of
his displeasure with chastisement a la 4ekher,—
The man in the cart h.ippelel to be no less a chit, •
racter than Caleb Balilwin, the veteran bo;er, wbu •
descended, and convinced tbc' gardener, with tits .
greatest ease, that he had mistaken his man. After *.
the challenger end his tongue battery had been.
silenced, the man of science reti.ounted hit; du4
curt, and left his adversary to he I.inghed at 14y the'
mob, who esiembled on the occasion;
On Friday setnnight, about eight in the evening,
the coach which runs between Thortibui•y and Brig.
tol, in descending Alvestune.hill (near the furniet.
place), was, by the breaking of the polcoiveriurn.,
ail, and the whole of the passengers, six inside
four out, in some degree hurt. Mr. DAstiet,
WIRT e, a respectable.inhabitant'of SlakenCy, *ha
was outside, was taken up nearly lifeleis, and ec„,
Tired in a few hours 1 Mrs. WHIT* was• hiside,
and a truly.sorrowful spectator of the awful scenes
but was not herself materially injured. Mr,
*Sum., of Thornbury, 'had his leg broken, .and hia
analspiat est ofjoint; but the others have nearly
*overeat their bruises, The coach Will nut gain
ntasiolcut rate, but unluckily had no Wheel locked.
Thomas Duff, James Gormey, and John Lrsra,
rey, privates in the YUth Light Dr..gonna., !Ave
been apprehended, the former for committing s
rape, anti the two latter for aiding bitn, op this
hotly of Mary Sulthorpe, the wife of 'n curparalot
the Royal Artificers, in Cheryy.garden.fiehis,..•4ear
Portsmouth, at half.past ten; o'olock on Sunder
evening sennight. Thomas. Pull. is only lsiean
of age. They; wen? *la ittatts.pf intosiostitat at aids
time. , •
John StOod of thirgonth Hants stb4
lately deserted frosnithet regittwitt at *Nyman*,
being suspected robbing A utaut a:,,b,,,.. lits
den of
.flunk of ttiglatictinVis to 4 ectasideratito
amount, &ai ros. whoso-ippalitiitztt a great* -ces4
has been .4401: has tfeet(As kid St Chtlet.clinrets
of which plate be •il'it nativih aiktflenttleisiled Is
Winchester gaol.. Irsis si lending-ma Key thole ia
such Ito imprudent manner as gave site tssapiri.,u,
and, on being apprehended, 'between tved end fliree
hundred pounds were fintul elicit' him. Vn the
day he was taken, ite And purchased a brace of
pistols aud a good horse,„„-'
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