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 The following lines, descriptive of | scene in 3 private nad-houses are from the pen of M. c. Lewis, Esq. They were published in the National Intelligencer about eight years since, the editors of which paper introduced them with these remarks: "lf any one can read the following lines without shuddering in sympathy with the supposed captive, he must have heart dead to every humane feeling. The peru sal of them had the more effect upon us, from the conviction we have for some time entertained, that insanity, when sgperinduc- ed, (not natural, )--when II Is an affection of the mind, and not defect of organza- tioh--is often the consequences of the treatment of the disease-pot merely of the arrangement of friends of seclusion from the world; of coercion; but of the horrible dread of being thought mad by others. We recolect hearing of the case of an enlightened physician, who was car ried by his friends to an asylum for the in- sane. after exhibiting symptoms of an alienation. of mind. "Aiy God am come to this Never shall I leave these walls !'-and he died within them not many days after."