A general view of the present state of lunatics and lunatic asylums in Great Britain and Ireland, and in some other kingdoms / by Sir Andrew Halliday.

  • Andrew Halliday
Date:
1828
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Credit: A general view of the present state of lunatics and lunatic asylums in Great Britain and Ireland, and in some other kingdoms / by Sir Andrew Halliday. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pains to prepare a bill, which, in the opinion of all who had heard the evidence,and had taken a disinterested part in the investigation, was well calculated to remedy every evil either ascertained or anticipated. The subject was dispassionate^ canvassed in the lower house, and his bill passed by the Commons, almost un¬ animously, three or four several times; but it was uniformly rejected by the Lords, and after Mr. Rose’s death, it got into Chancery, and there it has slept for the last nine years. I do not mean this remark in any manner as a jest; for literally and truly, the late Lord Chancellor took the whole matter upon his own shoulders, and promised to prepare a measure more suited to the exigencies of the sufferers than any that the collected wisdom of the Commons of Eng¬ land, in Parliament assembled, could think of or devise. I hope Lord Eldon will now have leisure to fulfil his promise; and my opinion of his perfect fitness for the task is not altered, provided he is not swayed by the advice of those, who, if common report is to be credited, have boasted of their influence with his Lord- ship. The House of Commons have again taken up the matter, and I trust they will not abandon it, even though they should be opposed, until
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