Proceedings of the General Quarterly Board of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum, held on October 13, 1830. With the official papers.

  • Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (Lincoln, England)
Date:
1830
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Proceedings of the General Quarterly Board of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum, held on October 13, 1830. With the official papers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    43/70 (page 39)
    preliminary measure to call a meeting for the nnmn.fl e i *• another Director in Mr. Fisher’s nlnoo tiJ? P t e ,of e*eetirig 'wins advertisement. fHere Mr p i d?e bf ‘he fol- meetingof 28th July.] Now, my Lord ‘illlmuodfti5.rtlsc,ment. for the disgraceful thing indeed if the comse^f S T, S’ 1 would be a and man, in a society like I! , fair dealing between man technicalities,and mere formalomldons Wm rme’ir'1:'^'^ eonlend that a proposal, for the re-election of Mr \ - i?’ et me as^> sistent with tl/proceedings of a mee °ng whteh C°?' judgment upon Mr. Fisher, after discussing a mo on for his ,f S “ not only refused to listen to an amendment foH 21 „n ^ ^ continuance of him in office, but even made a <?u,ltioi , f .T a”d priety of accepting his resignation, instead of exSn him ^ situation at once? As if \fr. Fisher afW ln» *llfn ftom his could possibly emerge a different mail from whVT™ was bef Hovyever, my Lord, to make this question independent of a. to placet altogether beyond the ‘reach of caWl let s ir,TZ'T' Resolution upon which the ordpr fnr tc*. i ,? 1 us le*er to the vertisement itself were^“oundeT that ad!?r‘is<™e„t and the ad- words Mr. File, tiZg ok rodto To “ S 2e T ‘he another Director; Resolved that the same he ! ‘ . a ,Ponjtinent of day of July next. That £t00 per annum ^2“-‘b<> ** tisement, as the salary of the new Director »P TfokV tbe adver- might here, my Lord, at once cut short all fnrtW 18 ^ enou^* I invalidity of M r. Fisher’s re-election, by observin J^nonT” ab°U/ the anomaly of a meeting, called together for one objectaid a special one too, actually terminatincr ^ tj and that object plishment of another object, and nit l l !;V tlle accom- object totally at variance with tlie on“ forwCh rh ?bJect>. bu‘a» been called together. Why, my Lord if the l,„ V‘fi - “eetI.nS bad emanaling from these Boards, ar e to emanate or tf |thlS Iustllutiol1> emanate, aslaws do, or ought to do, elsewherefn higW ntees ofhonor; from men who wive theirwnivl nnri, 11 e.rp ,aces’^J°m men who are above all mean ^tricks and^audulmit1 arlifir^F from men circumstance, the monstrous incongruity wlnlhTh60®8“.‘is sin°le must of itself be sufficient, in the oidlion of »M nT P°lnted out- this re-election as fraudulent, illegal, mj voider ™T’ *°,dam“ However, let us go on in search of further absurdities S lT l Upon what ground, then, 1 ask, was the pronosal for m!v‘l !a,UffA> election made ? and upon what ground was tha/m^n' J. 'Sh,Cr s re- Hpon what ground ? Why, upon the ground of Mr ^*1 adoPted ■ known merits and qualifications! What my l.or,l i ',?ls ier a we- qualifications, of a man who had been punished ' <Pe merits’the a month before, by virtual expulsion from officeZZnolduC‘nbUt expulsion had only been exchanged for the alterative ’ ™h?se resignation, which was granted to him as a m,,! a Pe,miss,'e lavor and as the only favor, too, to which his aSlfo,l ri- aSa weighed in the balance against his demerits wfrl ’ be,?g fairly entitle,I him ! Is it possible that any sei of Governors cottbfh *° 'T of a mockery like this ? Yes, m$ Lord, veriHnTMg