The Good Old Times!

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At the present time, when several deeply to be lamented abuses in asylums for the insane have come to light, and have produced something like a reaction in favour of the old regime, the following unpublished letter, written by the late Godfrey Higgins, Esq., may serve to prove that the moral tone of our asylums was nearly as low then as now! I would especially commend it to the attention of the past-admiring editor of the “Pall Mall Gazette.”