[18] 1796, 1797.
[19] Vide Report, Part II. p. 25.
[20] Report, p. 59.
[21] Ibid, 57.
[22] Report 54.
[23] “We shall use the general term of methodism, to designate these three classes of fanatics, [Arminian and Calvinistic methodists, and the evangelical clergymen of the church of England] not troubling ourselves to point out the finer shades, and nicer discriminations of lunacy, but treating them all as in one general conspiracy against common sense, and rational orthodox christianity.”—Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1808, p. 342.
[24] Traité Medico-Philosophique sur l’Alienation Mentale, 8vo. Paris, an. 9, p. 47.
[25] The late Reverend Dr. Willis.
[26] With respect to the persons, called Keepers, who are placed over the insane, public hospitals have generally very much the advantage. They are there better paid, which makes them more anxious to preserve their situations by attention and good behaviour: and thus they acquire some experience of the disease. But it is very different in the private receptacles for maniacs. They there procure them at a cheaper rate; they are taken from the plough, the loom, or the stable; and sometimes this tribe consists of decayed smugglers, broken excisemen, or discharged sheriffs’ officers:
“All that at home no more can beg or steal.”