Mr. Cruden greatly injured: an account of a trial between Mr. Alexander Cruden ... and Dr. Munro [and others], defendants ... July 17, 1739, on an action of trespass, assault and imprisonment ... To which is added a surprising account of several other persons who have been most unjustly confined in private madhouses / [Alexander Cruden].

  • Alexander Cruden
Date:
1739
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Credit: Mr. Cruden greatly injured: an account of a trial between Mr. Alexander Cruden ... and Dr. Munro [and others], defendants ... July 17, 1739, on an action of trespass, assault and imprisonment ... To which is added a surprising account of several other persons who have been most unjustly confined in private madhouses / [Alexander Cruden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wife, unlefs they brought an Order from one of the three 'Turn-keys. The above Obje&ion and the following had almoft been omitted by the Plaintif. A certain Perfon in Court blamed the Plaintif for making Monro a Defendant, and faid that it took off his Evidence. No¬ body had Courage to (peak a gain ft this Perfon, for fome Perfons feem’d to be as blent, and as much afraid to fpeak as Schoolboys are before the moft auftere Schoolmafter. That Perfon hath been greatly cenfured for fpeaking fo warmly for the Defendants. The Plaintif has already accounted for making Monro a Defen¬ dant: And as to this Objection, it is to be confider’d that Dr. Monro, an abfolute Stranger to the Plaintif, did not vifit him till a Week after his Confinement, and therefore could not give Evidence of his Cafe at the Time of his Confinement. The Plaintif talked always fenfibly and becomingly to Dr. Monro, who gave him only four fhort Vifits at Bethnal-Green. As for Wight- man and Ofivald]s falfe Calumny of Intervals, it is as falfe as that Tn.vo and Three make Six. And the Plaintif is perfuaded that Dr. Monro can no more fwear, /alvei confcientid, that he faw the Plaintif mad, than he can fwear that he never attended the Meetings at Ofwald's Kouie for tranfporting the Plaintif to Beth¬ lehem: Yea it was proved that he faid to Sergeant Cruden that the Plaintif was not a Lunatiek, why fhould Monro then have been fo ablive in endeavouring to fend the Plaintif to Bethlehem? The Plaintif is fenfible that this Scene of Iniquity will be more fully underftood by reading t Xwfournal together with this Trial: The Iffue of this Trial will doubtlefs be amazing to die Plaintiffs Triends in Scotland, as well as to thofe in England; for the De¬ fendants themlelves might juftly expebl they fhould be caft. A noble Lord of great Generofity and a Patron of Learning, Paving read the /oumal, afk\i the Plaintif* in May laft, how he could be able to go thro’ fo many Hardfhips ? The Plaintif faid, that the only Anfwer he could make to his Lordfnip, was to afci ibe it to the Power and Gqodnefs of God who fupported him. This noble Lord at the fame time greatly approved of his Con¬ cordance, and faid that it was very well done, and in a moft generous Manner rewarded him for a Copy of it the Plaintif had fent his Lordfnip. The Plaintif-received a Letter dated April 3, 1739, fr°m Eagers of Stamford, Inventor of the famous Gout-Oils, who vif ted him four times at Bethnal-Green, wherein the Dodtor fays ; “ I have carefully read over your Printed Cafe. I am lurprifcd how you bore up under fo many Cruelties; for nothing but the “ Power of the great and good God could have fupported you C( under io many Aftliblions, and even in his Mercy to preferve you in your Semes. Thoufands would have gone mad, had ** they fuller’d a tenth Part ,cf the Tyrannies and Oppreftions that were laid upon your Shoulders ; nay, I may even fay T your whole Body and Conftitution. I do moft fmcerely wifh v “ that