A letter from Edmund Wentworth Pearce ... to a noble lord containing a systematic and detailed account of unparalleled atrocities acted by Capt. Thomas Pearce ... lately a prisoner in the King's Bench : comprehending some account of the author's sufferings as a perfectly sane man, at the two insane houses of Bethnal Green.

  • Pearce, Edmund Wentworth.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A letter from Edmund Wentworth Pearce ... to a noble lord containing a systematic and detailed account of unparalleled atrocities acted by Capt. Thomas Pearce ... lately a prisoner in the King's Bench : comprehending some account of the author's sufferings as a perfectly sane man, at the two insane houses of Bethnal Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    DEDICATION. !Mv Lord, May I presume to hope that the advantages which I conceive may be derived by those of your Lordship's noble descrip- tion, from a perusal of the following pages, added to the profit that may result to other descriptions of individuals, and the necessity of this publication to the peace and justifica- tion of one of the most injured and misrepre- sented men in existence, who, for the present, has no other means of redress, may obtain your Lordship's pardon for the freedom of this Dedication. A number of truths, my Lord, that may serve to undeceive the British Nobility, Gentry, and Shopkeepers, also a series of treatment shewn to myself, unprovoked in cause, novel and most atrocious in its nature, in what I have to progressively submit. If on perusing my title page there should be any who, to a feeling of some surprise, should add that of some displeasure, at my becoming the public accuser of a man formerly called a brother, I request they will shew me the cha- rity of their silence until they peruse, before ihoy pronounce. Let them strike, but hear.