§ Order for Consideration read.
§ MR. HUNTsaid, he wished to take that opportunity of mentioning a matter on 1022 which he had received a letter from Dr. Forbes Winslow, complaining that he (Mr. Hunt) had misrepresented his opinions. When the Bill was in Committee, he (Mr. Hunt) had stated that "Dr. Forbes Winslow had based his opinion of Townley's insanity chiefly on his extraordinary perverted moral sense." It had been represented to him that this was not a correct statement of Dr. Forbes Winslow's theory of the case, which was, that there was a great moral obliquity in Townley, and with this a mental aberration; and, viewing these conjoint conditions, Dr. Forbes Winslow came to the conclusion that he was not of sound intellect. He (Mr. Hunt) did not see much variance between the correction and what he had himself stated, but he was anxious not, in any degree, to place Dr. Forbes Winslow's statement before the House. For himself, he protested against moral obliquity being taken into consideration at all in estimating the sanity or insanity of a prisoner.
§ Bill, as amended, considered; to be read 3° To-morrow.