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"l'he ef Clarendon-1. Mrs. Gra it being re.
prr..csitia to me in th it state of health, 1 thottiht it
would be 'serer s.;ould gs to the country:
Jid tlo, with A %%A.A. C . for comfort and r covery,
an.: flom tto mit; r maive, so help me God."
Aiier rs, the l tte; from Doclor Paul
td-L0..1 dead apptanzing an interview with
,as I.•;rds ip Kl!eirti, was real His Lordship
the:: Foceed d to give his evidence nearly as follows:
The Earl of Clarendon—" In consequence of
these lettera, I tn.t the Prisoner at the time ap-
pointed, on ti:e 9,h of Au :last, at Kil:,urn. A very '
little cony rs ttwn in,r stl iced us to each other ; he
had the appeararce of a in of eAucation, who
had lived touch in the world; he was dress-A ex-
tremely well, in the style of • clergy i,—much as
he is now. We vim entered into conversation on
the subjeet of Mrs. Graot. I wished to make the
lai. pos.• of nu: rneetir as effeetual as po‘sisle, and
I r,,olsed to make every enquity possible. in order
n I.:Neve het. I a•ked the Prisoner wi.lt respect to
her health, the sita ttion of the house sh • lived in.
wh kills' of per-on the woman she ofd with
WA'., as to the me al attendance, dec. He told
me, that she was certainly better in psiht of health;
as to her countenance he could not speak ; he did
not see her face for the curtain of the bed; but her
dis .rsiar, and the quantity of opium which she had
taken, had caused a more than natural la i!lazecy in
her eyes, what was generaily termed a elate. [ ler
lodging was a tolerably comfortable ene, but no-
thing in comparison with what she etijoyed in Ja-
maica, where she had all the luxuries of life at her
command. 1 he woman of the house was a toler-
ably good kind of person, and the medical m u, was an
apothecary or surgeon, and As attentivo AS possible.
—As Me. Paul had in his letters shev.s. some signs
of education, I asi,ed hem at which of cur sentioa.
ii,-s lie hat been btonght up. Ile answered, he had
received his education at ‘Vestnilostar, ,11,1 Awe, -
v:Jr..ts went to Oxford: he was a Cielgyl.l) •ki
Church of England, and had a living at tit Kitt's,
which, 1 thi::k, he told me produced about 7uol.
year ; he also had property in Ireland. and was
hht.: tl gain; t t Anorica upon privata business. 1
aska.lliiin Low Le was so fortunate vs meet this
young woman he said it was quite an accid• nr.
“71,1 appeared I.:se a romance. He was coming
to London in the Nottingham coach, and there ILA
a young and beautiful woman in mourning. She
leet.i two children with her, who setae afro

in mourning,
.r.nd an infant, in bey arms. He
fell Into conversation with het, and; fi his great
surprise,
,found she seas thr daughter of his plow
particular friend, who. had don- him an ess.witil
piece of service in his youth. ThouAh his I:l:mess
required him to go to ,kynericA, he said he would
wait to see Mrs. Gri.at recovcr..d, and consfortab. y
settled ; I thought myself fortunate in finding such
a coadjutor, and paid him the t,s o minds h: had
advanced by my dir.ai ais. Ile told me he lived
at Rumford, and had come almost et cry Jay to see '
her." In consequence of one of the letters from
Mrs. Grant, I sent her at one time 3 fowl, a bottle
of wine ; and, at another time, some sheets : some-
times I sent her frua front the coun:i y, and gave
Dr. Paul direetions to buy various nec:ss:tries for
her, which I aftsirwards paid for. I told him I
was very sorry for the occasion of the dela; in the
first instance, and told him a story of my having
been recently imposed upon by a melancholy talc,
at which be appealed (rite sliocked : I had not the
slightest doubt on my mind as to the truth of the
bnsiness ; for, if I wanted conti• mat:on, the simpli-
city of the Prisoner's manners, the pr .bability of his
account, and his very circumstantial way of relating
ir, left me nn room for suspicion : his whole conduit
appeared to grow out of the purest b:itevolence and
humanity." '
The last letter his Lordiliip received in the name
of Mrs. Grant mentioned the sudden death of Dr.
Paul, at Bristol. In a few days after, his Lordship
received a letter from a person calling himself the
Rev. Daniel Bennett, who stated, that he sea; a re-
duced clergyman, of the age of 7S, Was then on his
way to 'lreland, and in the deepest distress. The still
I and manner of this epistle immediately struck bis
1 Lordship, as being similar to that of Dr. Paul : he
ordered his steward to take back his answer, and
make every inquiry relative to the person who sent
it. The steward accordingly waited at the Post-
office, saw the Prisoner receive his Lordship's An-
swers to Mrs. Grant's letters, and traced him from
one place to another, till he at last discovered him to
be the origin of the whole correspondence, and that
no such personages as Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Smith, Dr.
Paul, or Dr. Bennett, were in existence.
Mr. GLEAM:, as Counsel for the Prisoner, ob-
jeCted to the evidence upon two grounds : first, that
the charge against the Prisoner did not come within
the meaning of the statute, as his Lordship might
have seen through, and discovered the imposition ;
secondly, that the indiament charged the Prisoner
with having obtained money. He therefore con-
tended, that Bank notes were not considered as
money within the meaning of the statute. The
Court over-ruled the objeftions, and Mr. GLEADL
proceeded to state the Prisoner's Defence. His
defence was chiefly grounded on some words in
the first letter written by the Earl of Clarendon to
Mrs. Grant. 4' But it is to be lamented, twat the
condss& of impostors had been a great enemy to
charity." These expressions, be contended, gave
an air of suspicion to all the subsequent letters of
bis Lordship, and the only way he could be deceiv-
ed was in the great benevolence of his nature. The
Chairman summed up the evidence.
The Jury pronounced their Verdict Liai,isy. And
the prisoner was then sentenced to transportation for
seven years. •
He was a very respeaable looking man, between
fifty and sixty years of age, of a very intelligible
countenance : he was dressed like a deer name.
The ‘vitole ot. the case excited the highest ch..gree
of veneration and esteem fur the charafer of a no-
blema,,, who appears to have discovered the true
rnetnod of enjoying his wealth, and is an ornament
not poly to his country. but to human nature.