LIICETT'S ADDRESS ON INSANITY.
?xis Address, as it is called, has been sent to us along with a letter in praise of its author, by himself, for any thing we know to the contrary. The publication comes under the head of quackery; though we are far from saying Mr. LucErr is a quack. The-Ad- dress is quackish, and the author may be a quack, " but then again he may not." It is very easy to compile eighteen anony- Mous cases of cures of great difficulty, especially fur a man of a Poetical turn. Out of extensive practice, it would, indeed, be easy
to pick eighteen cases of real- cures whereas the-Wfible. system of treatment might be bad, and little• conducive to general reeovery. Mr. LUCETT.Noresses to have some extamordinalty -plan of proce- dure, which produces effects almost marvellous: ..be does not,, however, even hint at its, nature. We neither deny the troth of some of his statements of remarkable success, nor discredit; his story of Government reward; but since anybody might say these things, we would advise him to substantiate his own praises by less unsatisfactory means than letters signed " Ilustaffiras."-
This same pamphlet, with but slight difference, if any, was pub- lished in another form in 1825 ; since which time, Mr. LUCETT' ha* added no new case to his list. The Address was than addressed to Lord LIVERPOOL : his Lordship being gathered to his fathers, we have no doubt "the British Nation" will do as well.
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