Aged thirty-nine, admitted 8th December 1820. The disordered fancy of
this patient was influenced by a thorough persuasion of her own high
rank. She imagined herself to be a foreign princess, of blood royal
and regal lineage. She considered her confinement here as oppressive
and arbitrary in the extreme; and it hurt her excesssively when she
reflected, that instead of such treatment, she ought to be riding in
her carriage and four.
All this building belonged to her, beside numbers of other princely
edifices elsewhere; and she would, some day ere long, convince her
hearers of this grand truth, when her carriage and four should come
driving up for her.
She was a married woman, but her hatred to her husband was inveterate,
beyond all bounds. She often declared, that rather than return to such
a monster, she would suffer the most horrible death that was possible.
But, notwithstanding this antipathy to one man, her heart was not
insensible to the tender passion towards the whole sex, for she was in
love, even to dotage, she said, with Mr. Lawrence the surgeon; and, at
the same time, to distraction with Sir George Tuthill. But she could
hardly tell which she loved most, or which of them she would have.
She was of an agreeable person, generally quiet and orderly, but her
conversation was always wild and incoherent. After twelve months’
confinement here, she was discharged uncured, in December 1821, and was
removed to a private mad-house.