Description of the Crimes and Horrors in the Interior of Warburton's Private Mad-House : Spradabach Publishing : 9781909606395 : 1909606391 : 07 Jun 2023 : When Lady Briget Perceval tricked John Mitford into supporting her campaign to promote Caroline of Brunswick, the then Princess of Wales, he was hidden away in Whitmore House, a for-profit mad-house owned by the cany and bombastic Thomas Warburton. From the inside, Mitford helped Lady Perceval place forged letters in the newspapers-an arrangement that ended badly, with a falling out and a lawsuit from which Mitford was acquitted. During his stay, he had opportunity to observe the cruel suffering to which mental patients were subjected in this and other private asylums, many of which were equally if not even more depraved and corrupt. The horrors were such that he, a Navy Officer who had seen his fair share of inhumanity and death, was moved to campaign for their abolition. In the two pamphlets collected herein, first published in th