Living in what may be said to be in a country which forms the link between civilisation and barbarism, so favored by nature, so neglected by man, where we have constantly so much before us to admire and so much to condemn, we have naturally been led to enquire into the condition of the poor lunatic in this city of the Sultan, into the state of him, whom mental and bodily disease has overtaken in its worst form; whom the public in some countries are disposed to honour as a gifted being, and whom in others they are inclined to look upon as the especial object of divine vengeance and torture.