The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-05 00:00:00

SOMNAMBULISM.

The following tale appears in a late number of the figilof
gemeine Zeitung. After stating that the bathing Flaceihst
Germany are all unusually crowded, it goes on to PI that
at Nidda, near Salzhausen, there came a gentleman in ot,
service of Hesse Darmstadt, who suffered from the Peer
He was accompanied by his daughter, who laboured `lll to
a weakness of the nerves, and in whom a tendencypg
somnambulism had been previously remarked. One efelshs
soon after eleven o'clock, as the father was lying in b_el„„lers
heard his daughter, who slept in a neighbouring chw" Of
groaning anxiously, and crying, " Father, father !"
immediately went into her room, and found to his nst°l3. r
ment and terror that the bed was empty. ribs
ceived He then ribs
ceived that the window was open ; and who can desjder t 0
his horror when he saw his child hanging by the.hart•ch
'
the window sill, and her body out of the window, ber;
was high above the earth ? He immediately seized
Yed
but, gracious Heaven! terror and sickness had deer' ID.
him of all power : all his exertions were in vain, Aimig
plete powerlessness fell upon him, and with a hre7iecl,
heart he beheld his beloved daughter fall to the grl3-001.
The noise of the fall, and of the calling, brought a ',near
ber of people together, who expected nothing less, on Pot
ing of what had occurred, than to find the young !!°,i
shattered to pieces. But no ! Except a few e,0rn..,,-:ess
she was unhurt, though since the fall her nervous whier-- si
has increased, which it is hoped care and her youn ulsbe
enable her to conquer. That she left her bed—tflia"o--"'
climbed outside of the window—that she had fallen uo-wito
was all unknown to her. All that she remembered, at
that she dreamed that she was attacked by robbers, fr°
whom she concealed herself.


B THS.
On the 25th ult., at Baden, the Viscountess Dillon, 6 I°lll
still-born.
the
ltdl
On the ht inst., in Montagu-place, Bryanston-square',"gbtaf•
of Edward Burn, Esq., of Templeton House, Surrey, of a ""pq., °
On the 2d inst., in Dublin, the lady of S. W. Blacks'',
Colamber, county of Longford, of a son.

MARRIAES. Coto°ll
On the 4th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-squa!e' ei
Wortham, of the Royal Engineers, to Elizabeth 3111 P
~,,,.
daughter of the late Robert Williams Pickwoad, Esq., 111*..9
Chief Justice of the Island of St. Christopher's. 1,4"
On the 4th inst., at St. Mary's, Hornsey, Richard ll
th' els"'
of Crookham House, Berkshire, to Sarah, only daughter °
John Sancton, Esq., of Hornsey, Middlesex.

EATHS. . r 81.1
On the 3d inst., in Orchard-street, Portman-square, 113.0 he,001"
year, Maria Caroline, eldest daughter of the late Lieut. .
Wynyard, Colonel of the 20th Regiment. t St.keih
On the 2d inst., at Blackheath, Eliza,
Esq., of Fludyer-street, Whitehall.
econsbirg4
On the 24th ult., Charles Chichester, Esq., Hall, D_A, Nor
Anne, wife of the Rev. Thomas Hulton, Rector of Gayo''''"
it
folk, aged 29. - . JoseP
wife of Robot.

On the 2d inst., in Wilson-street, Finsbury-square) Mr'
of
Walter, in his 61st year.
reaslilu
On the Ist inst., Thomas Ebenezar, elder sou of Dr. tel."
Uxbridge, having survived his younger brother about threeet,birt
On the Ist inst., at Foxdowng, Wellington, &sumo. r's°-
Harriet, wife of John Walter Lewis, Esq., late of the
India Company's Civil Service, Madras Establishroent

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