The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-14 00:00:00

DREADF UI. AYAIMINNG,

HATTON GARDEN.---IMlTledhitely after the
opening of the doors yesterday, the Office beeamo crowded to
excess by persons anxious to witness the examination Of Mar-
garet Stanton, who stood charged with having most shockingly
mutilated the person of her husband with a razor. The pri.
soner is a good-looking young woman, of
genteel deportment.
During the examination she kept her head down, so as nearly
to prevent any sight of her face.
Mr. Whitmore, surgeon, of Cold Bath-place, deposed, that
on Monday morning, about three o'clock, 'he was called up to
attend a person in Cold Bath-square. On resehing the house
he found a man in the room with several females, who stated
that he had been mutilated by his wife in a manner too dreadful
to describe particularly. The prisoner at the bar, without any
inducement being offered out to her, voluntarily confessed that
it was her that committed the deed: She had made use, she
said, of a razor, which she had obtained slyly from the room of
another person lodging in the same house, and which she had
afterwards thrown under the bed. She was sorry for what she
had done, and hoped her husband would forgive her,
ltlr. I,amo—ls she the wife?

Mr. Whitmore—l understand she is ; but it appears that
they have been living in grentunhappiness together for some
time, and that he threatened her, on the night prior to this
occurrence, that he would bring another woman home with
him, sell every thing, and leave her on the mono*.
Mr. Limo--Wu the act Mink
?
Mr. Whitmore--I should think It was, as the razor was ob.
rained some time before; and as the-num says he recollects her
asking him before the occurrence, whether he was asleep, and
that shortly after he fell into a dose, front which he was
awakened by a feeling of acute pain.
The witness then proceeded to describe the manner anti ex-
tent to which the injury. had been inflicted. While this detail
was being given, an Involuntary shuddering pervaded the
breasts of almost every one present.
Mr. LAING—I need scarcely, Atte this detail, ask you whe-
ther the man is in danger ?
Mr. Whitmore—l have great pleasure in assuring you, that,
notwithstanding the extent of the injury, I entertain strong
hopes of the man's recovery. Ile is at present in St. Barth°.
lomew's Hospital, the surgeon of which coincides with me in
opinion ' • but a good deal will depend upon the inflammation
that will
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which, us well as en an up-stairs mum, he found much blood.
From what he had beard the prisoner say, it appeared that they
were in bed together when she perpetrated tue deed. On ac-
count of what he learn; he took her into custody.
M. LAING to the prisoner--now long have You k been
married

Prisoner—About four years.
Mr. Lama--Have you any children?
Prisoner,—No.

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and maiming with intent to do some bodily harm.

has given QM .to the new
Philosophical So-
WILLIAM oliD, l'iSq. ICP"----.) M Whitfield Hall,
Northumberland,
building for the Literary and
ciety, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.—Tnomas CLEN
NELL, Esq., of Harbottle castle, has given 51. for
the same object.

PLACES OF FASHIONABLE RESORT. • '
BRIGHTON, OCT. 12.—Lord and Lady blontague arrived
at the Royal Hotel last night. The Earl and Countess of
Aberdeen are arrived at Bayham-house; and Sir John and
Lady Paul at their mansion, Weittield-houser The Duke and
Duchess of Bedford purpose returning from Bognor to this
place in the course or' the week ensuing ; and should our coast
air agree with his Grace's constitution, of remaining with us
, during the winter season.
MsuoATE, Oc.r. 12.—This place assumes a more polished
aspect. Every fine clay the Pier, the Parade, the High-street,
the squares, and the new-road, are Crowded with gay equipages,
consisting of landaus, landattlets, barouches, curricles, calm).
lets, dennets, and buggies, all from Ramsgate.
RAMSGATE, Oc r. 12.—The Promenade on Nelson's Cres-
cent, yesterday, was one of the finest spectacles of brilliant
company this Reason has produced. The fact is, that every
thing is gay and lively here. The Libraries are all crowded ;
the Rooms are well attended in the evening, and the public
rides and walks in the morning. The Widow Wells's Public
Garden at Minster is still frequented for the beauty of the
surrounding scenery.

CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH OF THE YOUNG
EARL TEMPLE.

A party of about 60 inhabitants of Aylesbury, principally
tradesmen and dependents of Lord Buckingham, sat down
to an excellent dinner at the George Inn, in this town,
on Monday last, to celebrate the birth-day of the young
Earl Temple. An excellent buck, and a quantity of game,
was giyen by his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, for
the occasion. After dinner several excellent songs and duets
were sung, and the evening, influenced by the jolly god,
Bacchus, was spent in joyous measure. The lower classpa
were regaled, in the Market-place, with, plenty of ale, which
served only to create drunkeness and riot (hiring the after-part
of the day. A female, while endeavouring to proem a portion
of the ale for her husband, was unfortunately Icnocked down by
a carriage passing at the time, and we understand is still
confined to her bed in consequence of the injury she sustained.
An entertainment on a grand scale was given at Wotton
House, on Thursday last, by the Marquis of Chandos, to his
numerous tenantry, and members of the Bucks Yeomanry.
A great number sat doin to dinner, at which' his GracP the
Duke of Buckingham was present. Numerous booths and
marquees were erected on the grounds for the accommo-
dation of those present ; the bands of" the Bucks Militia
and Yeomanry were in attendance, and played Several fa.
vourite airs, which added greatly to the gaity of the scene.
In the evening a most brilliant display of tire-works took
place, and the amusements of the day were concluded
with a ball, opened by the Marquis of Chandos and (his
mother) the Duchess of Buckingham. Part of the corn.
pany did not separate until five o'clock yesterday morn.
ing. His Grace, after dinner, observing several persons
from Aylesbury present, took occasion to remark, in words
to the following effect :—" That great difference of po-
litical opinion had existed between the inhabitants of that
place anti himself, but which he hoped was nearly at
an end. Much had been said about hint him, and perhaps un.
justly. But lie begged it to be understood that, on his part,
,there was no malice towards them, and lie wished the Whole to
be buried in oblivion. There had also been some political dif-
ferences between him and his noble brotherlugent). but those
also he assured them were totally at an end." The christening,
we are informed, will take place at Stowe, on the 22d into.—
( Bucks Chronicle.)

:IlanQv is or LOTRlAN.—Saturday, the 4th instant, be-
inn{ the anniversary of the birth of the Most Noble the Alarquis
of Lothian, the tenants on the estate of Newbattle, and a Tan n*
ber of the respectable inhabitants of Dalkeith, and the Stair
Officers of the Edinburgh Militia, assembled in .Morison's
to celebrate the event—Mr. John Stevens, tenant, Newmills,
in the chair; Mr. George Elliot, merchant, Dalkeith, croupier.
In drinking the healthy of the day, the Chairman took liberty to
notice their Noble Landlord's handsome, liberal, and feeling con-
duct towanishis tenantry, in the late depressed state of the agri.
cultural interest, anti the Chairman remarked, that he was happy
to say that in the various changes that had taken place in the
neighbourhood, he did not know of one single individual tenant
on the Noble Marquis's extensive estateo that had been re-
moved. Many loyal and appropriate toasts were given, and
the company spent the evening in the utmost harmony and
convivial rnanner...-(Edinburgh Courant, October 9.)

DIsTEI.L.A.TIoN •--The Distillery Act took effect
yesterday, and will be attended with the mast beneficial conse-
quences.toBcotland. distillation will receive from it a
deadly blow. In proof of this there are already orders received
in tilatgow for legally distilled whisky from Aberdeen, and
other ports in the north, formerly supplied wholly by illicit
amraat, Oct. 11.)
b'EmALL Itoaucu.--,-A. person in the dress of a
man, styled M. Joseph, was latel led among other criminals
to Rochfort; to be put on boards the galleys ; but on heing
desired to strip, according to custom, previous to assuming
the dress of a gallerian, after some hesitation and resistance,
Mr. Joseph confessed that she was in fact .'hiss Maria. This
was immediately ascertained to be the case by the principid au r-
geon, and thelady was again turned over to the P,v s; roe du
Bei. It is said that the description of Merin not correspood-
ing to that of Joseph, this case is not provided fur by the
Criminal c0a,..-; and that though the young man was de-
tected in stealing purse% the young lady, will he at liberty to
direct her skill towards some othet species of theft more cone°.
nem to her sex, particularly as she has blue eyes and it clear
it:in, and looks pretty, rapt the French Journaliet, in wonien's
clothes. /ler crone was robbing on the highway, for which she
had been condemned to hard labour for life, and had actually
been marked with the letters T. P., being the initial letters
of two French words signifying perpetual labour. ♦t"Lai is
perhaps most extraordinary in the of is, that Joseph had
been 13 months in prison, without any of his companions even
detecting him to be ,Maria.--(Freneh Paper.)
On 'rhurstlny afternoon, the 9th instant, about
half-past four o'clock, as a little boy, about six years of age the
son of Mr. Jarrett, Renton-cortege, flexion, was standing at
the gate of his father'. garden he was accosted by three
Lager boys; supposed about to
be lb, who endeavoured
to entice him with them to catch birds, but on his re-
fusing they seized him by the hands, threatening if he
tnade the least noise they would " cut his head off." They
hurried the poor child for a considerable distance at n very quick
pace through several lanes and fields, of which ho has no know-
ledge, repeating the same threat when any person approached,
until shout dusk they took him into a gravel-pit contain-
ing some water, when one of the boys stripped hint entirely
naked, while. the other two threatened to kill him with their
knives if he cried, or ventured to stir from that place till
they returned. They heft his pinclotk, which the poor little
autlerer put on, and sitting down on the wet gravel, the
thoughts of home awl the fear of never seeing his parents again
made him weep bitterly ; but, es he artlessly expressed himself,
"he thought he had better not sit there and cry, but try to get up
the hill," which, as he was naked and cold, and the sides of the
pit IA ngof loose gravel, he found a very difficult task. After a few
unsuccessful attempts, he happily, reached the summit, at which
time it was nearly dark, when a little dogran barking towa ids h im,
which attracted the notice of a man who providentially was near,
and Who humanely_ caused him to he wrapped in a coat, and
brought home—a dietance of three miles, after an absence of
nearly three hours. His family, as may he imagined, were
almost in a state of distraction, having misted him tmtnediate-
ly.. It is to be lamented that no tract% have yet been disco-
venal of the barbarous perpetratta of this act a • cruclty to
such an intent.

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FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
Ford Rivers, at his house in Orosvenor-place, from his seat,
Hare Park, Newmarket; the Bishop of London and family, at
Fulham Palace, from Weymoth ; Sir Charles and Lady Conte,:
and family, at their house in Connaught-place, from their seat
in Trelantl; Mr, and Mrs. Theolutht, and family, in Upper.
Brook-street, from Nunney, Somersetshire; Count de la Pas.-
tura, at Fladong's Hotel, OxfOrd-street, from a tour; the Hon.
the Missem Monckton, at Batts's Hotel, Dover-street ; T. Carr,
Esq. at ditto ; C. 11. PonsonbY, Esq. at ditto, from France ;
0. ththagan, Esq. and family, at ditto, from India; the Earl
of Lismore and family, at ditto; Captain and Mrs. Darcil• of
Norfolk, after an abseiled! of 18 months from England, from
Rome, Naples, &e.
CEIANGES.—The Earl and Countess of Stanhope, at .their
seat in Kent, from Lord Carrington's, Deal .Castle; the Earl
of Carhampton, on a tour ; Viscount Barnard, for Hants; the
Hon. R. Curzon, for Staffordshire;' Lord Foley, for New-
market; .the Earl of ,Mexboropgit, at his seat, Metchley Park,
Yorkshire, from a tour; J. Reed, Esq. from Batt's Hotel, to
Paris; J. Baker, Esq. from ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson,
from ditto, to Bath.