The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-25 00:00:00

1111.1RDISR-MANIA.

" A few days before we set out on our journey into the intetfp,
of the miuntry," says ill. Iluet. Bishop of Avranehes, in his meth
through Sweden, • a strange adremure took place at Stock`infrn.
A young man who was very easy in his circumstances, asst whose
conduct had clwan appeared very regular, in passing by a shop in
the middle of the day, seized a little child that was playing ;Afore
the door, and cut its throat with a large knife he had conceded
about him for the purpose. He was loser:n:ly arr seed, and taken
before the Magistrate, who interrogated him is to the mot'ves that
had induced him to perpetrate so horrible a crime. eepife4
I he, I confess my guilt, and acknowledge that 1 ileserve to die.
tar from seeking to justify my conduct, or to chain pardon,
temuld think you did me an act of Injustice were you not s set'
tence me to punishment. I have deeply considered the 'aieu of
life and death ; the first appears to the a source of crime seal
misery—the second a Thee of Innocence and peace. After mature
reflection. seeing that the commission of some serious offence was
the surest way of attaining the end I aimed a*, I made up ley
mind to the act I have commiited. as the least i jurious, and the
most excusable. I have killed a child at the size of innocence, no
have thus insured its salvation: I have lightened she burden of its
father, who is loaded with a numerous family, and with very little
means to provide for their subsistence. 1, at the same time, am
conscious of the full extent of my guilt ; but I trust that tie pij„,
nishmeit I expect to receive through you, and the manner in which
I shell be prepared to meet it. will obtain pardon from my God.'
Ou being led out to the scaffold, he advanced with en air of %Mil.
lied resignation : and underwent the execution of his sentence with
a &minas and joy that astonished the attendant multitude." A
similar kind of insanity seems at this time to be prevalent in France.
M. Barbie., he head physician of the hospital at Amiens, and the
author of several very able works, lately made a communna.
don to the Academy of Medicine in Paris, for the accuracy
of which he personally vouched. A woman, who had been
recently delivered, hearing people talk of the girl Cornier (who
lately committed a horrible murder), was seized with tuurder-
mania. She struggled at first, although with great die.
eulty, against the desire which pursued her ; but at last, fearful
that she should not be able nut(/' longer to resist, she confused her
feelings to her husband, who very wisely caused her to be confined ;
and she Is not yet cured. A 31. Esquire/ reported, on the some
occasion, that since the details of the minder committed by lieu.
rietta Cornier had been published, he had received into hit private
mad-house six or seven women, who had been attacked by ssimi.
far cotnplaint.—One of the members of the Academy made s com-
munication of the same kind. At f3n7ac, in Languedoc, a
woman, hearing a narrative of Cornier s crime, also became
afflicted with murder-mania, and oonceived the project of killing
one of her own children. For that purpose, she provided
herself with a razor, which She carried about her, concealed, for
some time, waiting for a favourable opportunity. But, at the very
point of committing the murder, she led a Violent struggle is her
mind ; and she found no other way of preventing the possibility of
giving way to her frightful inclination, than by calling for help.
She was disarmed ; and it was thought rv.reessary to confine her.
Another member declared that the double 'Murder committed by
Papavoine had given rise to an occurrence similar to those which
have been already mentioned. A Lady of very high rank, having
the curiosity to visit the place in which the assassination had been
committed, was seized at that very moment with murder.mania!

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