The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-26 00:00:00

LOVE AND SUICIDE.

" STUTGARD, Snrv. 14.—0 n the 9th, a young man
and woman arrived here by a coach from Cerlsruhe and
alighted at one of our inns. They passed the whole of the
next day here and at Carlstadt, and ordered the coach-
man to be ready on the afternoon of the 11th. The coach-
man having waited more than an' hour,.Went up stairs to
ask instructions. To the questions that he put the young
man answered that he might come in. The door, however,
was bolted on the inside, and barricadoed also with a chest
of drawers. After he had got in through anotheeroom,
the young woman was found lying insensible on the bed,
bathed in her blood--qtnd the young man was leaning
against the wall of the apartment, with blood stream-
,ing from his mouth. They had attempted (it would ap-
pear) to commit suicide, and had put a number of hail
shot into two small pocket pistols for that purpose ; but
the charge was so weak that most of the shot remained
in a barrel. The unfortunate pair were carried to the
Hospital. The young woman is severely wounded; she
can with difficulty utter some unintelligible words, 'and is
considered in a< very dangeroua state. The condition of
the young man is more favourable, and he speaks distinctly.
" The following are the Rarticulars which have come: to
our knowledge :—The young man's name is I*4-7: He
is 24 years of age. Was born at L—, in the Grand
Duchy of and
She was born at S—, in Alsace. The motives which
lle yoiingacitveodn:aan S'sug
name is at
isCtehreoltlinoespital t
of
Carlsnrinduced them to 'attempt- suicide are hut imperfectly
known. They
left Carlsruhe on the Eith, and when here
they did not live in a very economical manner, although
they had no money, net even sufficient to pay their bill.'

NEW PRISON, CLERKENWELL.--It appears, by
a return from the books of . the keeper of this pion, that the
Wd
number of prisoners committed to his custody,- within the hot
ttehrri:t al month,number of prisoners committed from Jane to
&member &salmi, 1826 ...
287
Discharged by proclamation ...

Total number going out of prison in ons flay

SIIICIPX.—On Saturday an Inquest wax held at
the orehod House, Poplar, before J. W. Unwin,
on the body of Sarah Bolton, who, in a fit of mental
cln meat, an end to her existence by hinging.
Verdict-- ,
The Rev. B. Hall, now preaching at the Baptist
ege, insanity.,,
Chapel at Cambridge, is quite the rage—all ranks and
degrees flock to hear him.--Lincoln Mercurry.
l'ratle here continues steadily though slowly to "m-
prove. Several of the mills are beginning to work full
time ; thc demand for calicoes still increases,: and MU
advance of from 3d. to 6d. a piece has been obtained
in the better description of goods within the last ten
days,..-Stockpoil

PERTH, Seer. 21.
Duncan Clark, writer in Perth, waa put to the hart yawl& Of
the murder of a child, by placing it in a desk, where it was 501.
located. An objection to the relevancy of part of the indictment
being overruled,

Ann
Cameron (General Stewart of Garth was sworn inter-
preter, as the witness could not speak English), knows Christian
Cameron in Earlsdyke. Knows she was delivered of a child on
a Saturday morning in the end of harvest 1826. In the morn-
ing, witness was sent for, and went to Christian Cameron's house
before day-light ; believe, it was about two o'cloek, No midwife
was present, but the child was stately delivered. The child was
properly attended to after delivery ; was a stout lutalthy
Knows Isabel Cameron; she was present shout the time of the
delivery. Witness attended to the child. Margaret M'Nab was
there. The child was dressed in a petticoat, a printed frock, and
a flannel band was put round it. A little punch was glytto to it.
Witness remained at Christian Cameron's tilt the child was dreneo
and put in order. She then came to Perth with the child to give*
it to the father. Margaret fiPNab and Isabel Cameron time with
her, before breakfast. They went to the prisouer's house, which
is up a stair in a close in the High Street. Margaret NPNah
went in first. Witness and Isabel Cameron followed, and found
the prisoner in his writing room. They told him they brought
the child to him as the father, at the desire of the mother. He
desired them to go home and take away the child; they refused,
and desired prisoner to find a nurse. lie went out to search
for one ; be was not long out. On returning he said he could
find none. Witness was unwilling to go away till he found
a nurse. Prisoner went out, and on his return said he had
found one. He wished one of them to go with him to the
woman he had got es nurse. , Witness and the others re-
fused to go unless they all went. Prisoner went out se-
'mei times. After this he desired them to, ge away and
have the child. They were unwilling to go till some witnees
came to see they had left the child there. Prisoner went out and
brought in Robert Ritchie AS a witness. Prisoner, then wanted
to keen the' child ; he said the nurse was coming and would be
there in halt' an hour. He acknowledged the child to be his, in
presence of Ritchie. They then all went to prisoner's bed-room.
Prisoner took the child and laid it on the hed ; he put the bed
clothes properly over it so far as witness saw.—They then all
went away into Mrs. M'Leod's house at the bottom of the stair.
Witness had charge of the child at the time. it wee a healthy
female child. They went into M'Leod's house to see if a mule
came. M. M'Leod was looking out at the door to bee if the nurse
came. Witneis saw prisoner ge out two of three times while
they remained in M'Leod's house. Did not sea him carry-
ing any thing : saw no person with him. They were
" thinking long" that no woman was coming to pri-
soner's house. APNah went out once when the prisoner passed,
and when she returned said she thought the prisoner had some-
' thing in his hand. She then went up to the prisoner's to lee if
the child was quiet. She came back, and said she had seen the
ehild. They then went to the stair, but nobody went up : they
wanted a man to :go with them. James Halley came and went
in with 111‘Nalt and witness to prisoner's house. They did not
find the 'Child : the prisoner was in the house. They asked the
prisoner for the child. He said be had sent it to a nurse at
Bridgend. Halley, the primoner, and another man, went to
see the child. The third man was David Garrick. This was
about an hour after they had left the child. Halley and the
other man were absent a short time only. They came back to
the house. They said they had not found the child. Witness
then left the others and saw prisoner on his way horns was not
near him : did not see him again till it was late. In the even-
ing she went with her brother's wife to the Fiscal, then to the
SherifG .Dore not know what passed as they were speaking
English. She and sonic others went to the prisoaer's house. The
prisoner came -down stairs as they were in the close. Nothing
passed between them. Went back to the prisoner's house on
Monday. Saw the child lying on the leaf of the desk, which
was open.--Bailie Luke was there ; cannot swear it was the pens
child. The dress was the same. The child was dud.

Lord Grum summed up the evidence with his usual perspi-
cuity, when the Jury returned a verdict, finding, by a pinrality
of voices, the prisoner Guilty, at the same time strongly recom-
mending him to mercy. On hearing the verdict the prisoner
fainted.

Lord GlLLuts then sentenced the prisoner to be executed, eb
Perth, on Friday the 3d November, and that his body should be
given for dissection.

MURDER-MANIA.

"A few days before we set out on our journey into the
iiterior of the country," sari M. If net, Bishop of A vrtui.
elms, in his travels through Sweden, "a strange adventure
took place at Stockholm. A. young man, who was very
easy in his circumstances, and whose conduct had always
appeared very regular, in passing by a shop in the middle
of the day, seized a little child that WAS playing before
the poor, and cut its throat with a large knife he had con..
cealed about him for the purpose. Ile was instantly ar.
rested and taken before the magistrate, who interrogated
him as to the motives that had inducts' him to perpetrates
so horrible a crime. Sir, replied he I confess my guilt,
and acknowledge that I deserve to die. Far from seeking
to justify my conduct, or to obtain pardon, I should think
you did me an act of injustice, were you not to sentence
me to punishment. I have deeply considered the subject
of life and death ; the first appears to me a source of crime
and misery—the second a state of innocent., and peace.
After mature reflection, seeing that the commistion of
some serious offence was the surest way of attaining the
end I aimed at, I made nkt my mind to the act I have
committed, as the least injurious, and the most excusable.
I have killed a child at the age of innocence, and have
thus insured its salvation. I have lightened the burden
of his father who is loaded with a numerous family, and
with very little means to provide for their, subsistence.--
I, at the same time am conscious of the full extent of my
guilt ; but I trust that the punishment I expect to receive
through you, and the manner in which I shall be prepared
to meetit, will obtain pardon from my God. On being
led out to the scaffold, he advanced with an air of Bois.
tied resignetion ; and underwent the execution of his seri-
,tence with a firmness and joy that astonished the attendant
multitude," A. similar kind of insanity seems at this nine
to be prevalent in France. M. 'lathier, the head physi-
cian of the hospital at Amiens, and the author of several
very able works, lately made a communication to (hi
Academy of Medieine in Paris, for the aecersPY of which
he personally vouched. A woman, who mil br-a!, recently.,
delivered, hearing people talk of the
.although with great
tier-mania. She struggled
difficulty, against' the desire 4JI P
:lately committed a horrible .murder)
felt pursues' her; but at
be able much longer to
arts semen with
confessed tier feelings to her husband, who
e
tar to be confined ; and she is not
*yet
solf"tillimturder committed by Hen-
riettats
Cornier had been published, he had received into
hie. private mad-house six or seven women, who had been
attacked by a similar complaint—One of the member* of
the Academy made * communication of the Rama kind.—
At Guyac, to Languedoc, a woman, hearing a narrative of
Cornier': crime, also became afflicted with-. murder-tntiolas
and* conceived the project of killing one of her own Ail-
dren, Forxhat purpose, she provided herself with a rator
which sle carried about her, coneealed, for some time,
point A committing the murder, she kit a But, at the veryl
in ipr mind; and she found no other weY o
waiting 'or a favourable opportunity.
f ,Pre,ven!lng
frightful inclination,
violent struggle
the possibility of giving way to her j. mad, and it was
claret' that the
tlan by ailing for help.
nidiSheh 'yr" Another 'member &-
thought necessary
nee similar to those which
had given rise to an
i A lady of very high lank,
have been already
I;lf.'uvit the place in which the assas-
having the curiosity
".)minitted, was seized at that very
ainati°ll had l'e" "'tuna!
moment with minder-no
dotuoliclenfilierrrodereemninitted by Papavoine

Dorvill, Grenadier
MALVERN WELLS, SEPT. 23.—AitittvALs AT
' and Counivia of Harcourt, Sir John
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ouarda,Ebtit*C° SirrdWir CHlTlU)VlDtbLariyetent t4.11,t-Nefall:rlitutton, 4th Dr 40,,,,,
Ocuirda, Sir F. and Lady Drake, Lady and Mims Brahman, *ll4
General and Mrs. Durham.
_ , ,
DiCt'AitTUAßSh—r:ptr and s.aoy T.rottealg, Colonel anti
Mrs. Kaye, Colonel Hicka, Sir Thoinaa aui,l
family, Rev. Mr. Allen and family, Sir Thomas and Lady Gooch,
General Tolley, Roe.. Dr. and Mre. Ricliarde, Colonel Rawstores,
&e. &e.