The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-05-28 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER.

Oa Sniurday a ystung woman calling herself Donna Caro-
lina Ists6•lla Isidore de Pereleyas Comfit*** de elsantul,
alias Carollae Riley, underwent en exameossiroa, on n
chants of betng an nnperstor, before Sir Richard Bowe,
which, although private, some of the parties contrived to
get the particulars. The 'skied of the second investigation,
which took place yesterday, was not in visit the Defendant
with any legal proceediogv, but merely to give publicity to
her real character. Rlsckaley, the patrol, whip went to
serve the 'ominous nn the Defendant for her appearance,
found Ism residing in • small hut vespeetrible illOl/%47, at No. b.
Hayes-place, Li4SOll Grove North. Tit- house contained
four moms, which were bat scantily furnished, A UR.. was sup-
posed to he for the reception of ladies of atatioetioo ono
visited her and took its interest iu her welfare.

The Defendant and all the parties taking as interest for
and against her, contrary to expectation at the officc, arrived
•hunt two o'clou k, is it wee not supposed that any thing
more would be bard of her or she partieg, as Do ploceedings
against bar were intended, only as exposer* wanted,
A chair was mine-steel for the Defendant, Oh", was readily
grouted by Sur Richard Burnie, and daring the IliVe.ti,;,:llloU
the Defendast euustantly rr6esht.d turner with a /WPM

John Westmore Birchen, of Chichester, .s dentist,
that he 6►st brew the Defendant about wine years ago, when
he lived at Ryde, in the late of Wight she then torsgitt by
the lame of Allis Riley, mail whirs be fiat ass her it %Iry to
stifled her peefearroualiy, she being t►en extrema ly til, occa-
sioned by violist *outback, be foiled it neerseary to army,
two of ►er teeth, mid he was a a►ert time afterwards obt tied
to extract two mom teeth. She thew kept a small school
at Ryde, which decreasing instead of iserearing, the 'aromae
arising from it was mot soffit:Uwe to sappers her, which in-
'Need her to eiiinqulsb it, and to *env Memel( with a Slit,.
Allmon. s Goveroess in her fatniity to two of her gland
II; asserted that he was quite positive Dili the
Deferidestwasthe same peteus w►om w had known at gydr,
and as m confirmation that he mosild set be asistskeo, she
had bees on a visit to his 'wave at Chichester, which place
she left *lariat five years ago for Loudon.
Frances Burkett, the wife of the last redeem, stater!, that
she bad eaamtatd lbe litanies of the Defendant very putt.

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rain*, iota was quite certain tl•st she is the same person who
head nt 14t In the Isle of Wight, about niue years
~ad passed in the name of Miss Riley, and who was after.
reds at her Imam at Chichester : she had often dined and
Spent days with the Defendant.
The statement was confirmed ►y the slaughter of Mrs.
Dachau, as to the identity of t►e Defendant ea Caroline
Biliq„ Red living at Rye,.
Ii was upon this family reining to town on a 'visit to Mr.
Rackets brother, of Omar-street, Red Lion-square, that the
ilescovery was made of the Defendant's probing as a foreign
Cowden*, and her estrissodinary history sad grievapas mi.-
%Inoue' bad excited the eommiser:stina of Mr.. Loney and
Ohre meth!, !whirs, who we understand ►ad actually
toiseil the aura of one thousand poll mad were nhout
porchase an annuity for her, that she had oh-
.aitaed relief hone the Society fret t relief of foreigners
•o distress; to prove which Mr. .Murray, of that So-
inety. attended, and produced a gerber of letters from
the Defeatism, use upon which she gained relief was
is the year 1819, io which she state. she bad applied to the
Duke of Gloucester, sod Major Cargos, one of the Duke's
equerries, answered her knee, and referred het to the Sere-
io.ey. In e.iusegmence of the receipt of that bitter, the Rev.
Railer, ke, belonging to theSticiely,was deputed to make
'inquiries respect's( tlee. Defendant. His report of the Dr.
tendant Wan tat very favourable, but spun some further re-
;•restulatletts by Mr. Horneyinan, the Amistasit Secretary,
V?Wt was relieved with two pomade, and Mare that time she
. bad received U. at various times, sionumiag to 101. more.
Au time representations she bad slated herself to have hero
iu F.sglau.l only five years ; it was asked if it was out pos-
.-ate that she mtglit have snide a mista►e, and confoubdid
1 °abut whh the country, hot this was explaiiird, and
• araa stated that she had e alted it Great Britain.
'the most extraordinary sod contredietory part iv, that slip
Jetties all kuuoletlge of the Bucket! (swap, and that their
s•attment about their having been ecquainted with her for
1 inn yeast, and that she was residing at Rytle, au the Isle of
'nimbi, was wholly unfounded; although they endeavoured,
fry a great variety of circumstances, to make her ackatio.
ledge the correctness of their representation. It was even
"'hid that she bait burnt a mole, with hairs so it, off her face,
to prevent her being identified by it.
• She was questioned bow she came into this country, to
whirl' she answered that able rame from Dieppe to Harwich,
she did not knew the name of the I she came In. '
It was slated that weir-la /rum Dieppe did mationnie
to Harwich; this she explained by saying that they put into
Harwich in coosegn►oce of a storm.
Ste was naked how she was 'rotted al the Akin Office
at Harwich, she replied that she was not catered at all, and
was never applied to on the subject. This was considered
false, as so foreigners nee allowed to land without en.
tering their d.scription, &c. at the Alien Office.
A desultory and unititerestiog conveisatiou ensued, is
'stitch several rms. look a part. amongst whom %vele
a Mr. Newport and a Mr. Collett, *bleb etiaclnded by Sir
Richard Bleak, addressing the Defendant, *beers ot. that he
was instructed to say that it was sot the interims of the
Society to prosecute, but all foreigners might larnastiteal that
if they ettempted any imposition they world be ex pined.
The Defendant was then taken home to Mr. Newport's
born in Yur►-place, Baker-street.

COPPER SMELTING FURNACES.
The world are well acquainted with the injurious effects
of the ware of the vast quantities of sesenie and other de.
leterioen substitte's from the copper smelling furnaces in
the neighbourhood of Semmes, Cilomorgausimee. These sub-
stances, falling on the eurrounding country; have not only
greatly injured, hut almost totally destroyed, vegeleble and
animal life in that vicinity. Thousands teeters* are render-
ed useless eatirely. front the arsenic faiths, in skewers apex
As surface of the load ; and, indeed, memberless iustuices
base occurred of the teeth dropping horn the mouths of
cattle that have grazed in the neighbourhood of these fur-
naces, and, upon esaminatioa of the teeth, they Lave been
found so be coated with a shone cruet of copper!
Several chemical and imerbasieel projects have bees
*deeded to prevent the escape of them. sebassuces from the
cremney, and althouth their effects have been crania, ti with.
se the winks, yet it has bees footed intruded with consider-
able trouble Duel expense, which the copper smelters seem
•enwilling to airopt in their daily practical operations. The
C.:ado:ion experiments seem fully to remove the objectless
sof the emetics', Gild yet obviate all the iucetivenieuct to the
verrouridisig country.
The pLineiple aimed et in this experiment is simple pre-
c panties ; the effeeliag of it by gaining as much time as
possible between the production of the smoke in the larnace
seed its final exit inter the atmosphere; in abort, by ionstat.
tine as nearly as pensible the condensation of vapour iu a
still, where the worm (presenting the greatest possible sue.
feet in the smallest possible spare) may be considered the
e Ye: if the floe in this place could cunventently pees through
• cold medium (as the worm of a still), the imitation would
be still seem; but it should seem freers the remelt of titer
✓aperiment .bat it is not ueccssary. The expertuicut was
as fellows:—
A calcining furnace (which throws out the greatest per.
five of noxious ingredients) of the ordinary dimensions has
trees erected; instead of a short perpendicular flue. an hori- '
sunlit thee was carried from it on the surface of the greened,
oe rather a set of connected flues, lweeity•four in number,
re/misting of straight parallel lives rounded off at the end.,
and furnished with doors for the purpose of observation,
each live being 34 fret in length; from the end of this line
the flue was contieued for some tbstauee to the pits of the
ueighbouring lime-kiln 22 fret deep, which was fuiniehed
with a brick cap iu the shape of a cone, terminating at the
lop like a common chimney, and making so upright veut
of fifty feet, the whole length of the flue brine 950 fret;
the bottom of the flue ruse. about an itch iu every
'thirty-four feel, upon the principle that a regular ascent
was necessary to indulge the propensity of the hydrogen
to alarmed, anti ihns facilitate its passage forward, whilst
• If was at the same time desirable to keep the smoke confined
-to a Passage as neatly horizontst as was consistent with that
Veiticiple ; for, is a termer experiment it had been roved
that, hose the want of cautiou, end in consequence delouse
dement in the Hue, the hydrogen accumulated in it so as to
burn like gsa on the application of a light, and ou wit oc-
casion to muse a violent explosion.
. The deposit from the regale: copper-works in the neigh-
bourhood of Swasses•ad Neath (iv which essay elmidruus of
rosier/ cocinesed emery hour, chiliad sight, throughout the
year) must be immense, and it will be matter vicarious
inquiry whether them deposit may nut be tamed to profit
by. the manufacturers. Ii has been found to yield, by
mealezing. three pee cent. of Pee copper, and the arsenic,
sulphur, and other subst.oree which Rimmed in copper ore
rimy possibly be wear preflablr ; s west the spare heat on so
Isere S surface as these horizontal flues cover, may present a
shawls for trades requiring a muderate degree of heal, or
for 60-houses, emits framer, Bc.c. 'lime will probably de.
v-op.: great improvement in this blanch of trade, which has
renamed stational) perhaps for • century

TO THE EDITOR OP WE DRITISEI PRESS.

cia_spelog a statement of it lease CoaSis'e speech in the
iirbol, of T00..41,4,4 cloven:Z., respecting the charges fur land.
inn passeiseerli at Dover, wherein Sir I•trie in represaiteit to
bane said that a demand of Ills. Gil. was made fur landing. by
the bo II sio,o ; and further, that they were • Set of " unpity-
ing, tioprini ioted robbers" I her leave to oh , that so far
horn such a mortice 4 swine, the rates abandons awl pnitina
ralleneets oil board is regolsicil by the Commissioners ref
Pavement, nutter the 48th Geo. 111.. viz. for every passeneer
lauding 4s. Rod for posotine, oil hoard 21. Oil. Any deviation
from the.e the boatman furl; its his license. AUuw me
to observe ako, Ihat the bo:11111418 do not ofeNerve the tippet.
of " mina, log oopriliC pled robber..." It frequently
happens through illness mot the confusion of lauding that •
number of WWI arlier9 are Irft in the boat, and very often
p.„„,,, with moue, ; list be it bo-wo to the reedit of them
" sepitytue uoprinciple.l robbris:' that they have iiivariab!y
broiled the aiticles, and sought 0111 the owners of the lint
property. and whets nolo,. 41 have nut I Yen asked fur • re.
ward. Those thine. have frequently mime Willin) my own
knowledge, nod as an iitbabilaut of Dors r, I have omen ly
stated the above fact. in hopes of rescuneg their character
(ruin acme an i.nrlaallo,l.
Your obedient Servant,
Dover, May 4A,1P22. T.

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