14 NOVEMBER 1829, Page 8

DR. BURROWS ARD MR. ANDERDON.

A READER of the SPECTATOR has pointed out to us an inaccuracy in the statement of facts on which our comments on the case of Mr. ANDER. DON last week rested. We stated that Dr. BURROWS had granted a certificate for removing Mr. ANDERDON to a private madhouse ; but on referring to the best police reports, we find that the application related merely to restraining him in his own house. We regret the mistake, in so far as it might tend to impart an injurious colouring to our com- mentary. Our correspondent finds fault with our description of lunatic asylums as horrible prisons, and points to some in the neighbourhood of London as very admirably conducted. But here our correspondent is in his turn mistaken: we did not mean to offer any remarks on the management of these receptacles—we described the confinement of the sane person with the insane as horrible, and stated that the forcible confinement of a sane man among mad people is of itself sufficient to engender mental malady. We perceive, by the Daily Papers since our last notice, that Dr. BURROWS waited on Mr. CHAMBERS at Union Hall, and after explaining some of the circumstances connected with his previous appearance there, expressed his hope that the public would suspend their Judgment till the termination of certain judicial proceedings should have given him the means of stating all the particulars without a breach of pro- fessional confidence. We concede this the more readily, because we learn that all the statements have been not only ex parte, but more or less inaccurate.