The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-01-17 00:00:00

INTERESTING FE4ULI LE.

A few 'vetting* since, an elegant and hairlsoine
female was observed, nattier the Piazzas of Covent-
Garden, in a state of stop, :ictien. She was
brought into the shop of Mr. salter. The stupor
still continuing, she was removed to Covent-Gar-
den watch-lioa,,e. A mensal gentleman attended,
and gave it, as his opinion, she had taken poisett.—
He administered some stroug and effector! moth-
elites, which, with the kind atteation of Mr...
Harris, wife of the keeper of the watch-house,
proved effectual, and she recorcied, when she
guy*e, the fulltcring account of h•rsslf:—
That she was going to the i-land or Sante Croix,
to take posses:situ of a plai,tatioa ; her name na4
Jago ; she had been married, Luc hi r hush:toil
was dead. She was codicil, by he, hu•ltanti, to the
estate in the West Indies. She, unfortuttattl,
sent a female servant, in whom she played a false
contidonce, with her trunks, to pot nit board the
ship she intruded to embark in. The trunks coo-
tamed her clothes, plate. cud a picture of the Mar-
quis of id—, encircled with diamonds, also the
title deeds to her estate. She abused her conti-
itel.ce, and ;pawned then,.: sent the duplicates, M-
closed in a letter. to Mrs. Jnco't mother, at Alter-
der n, who wrote to her, informing her of the cir-
cumstance. and cenwaing her rooduct. as she
must have fallen into a very abandoned cute of life,
when her servant would dare to take such a liberty
wait her. She also mentioned, that she was goi:ig
e:i a visit to the Duchess of IL at her Grace's
(-notary. seat, where she might eummionicate with
110'6. Mrs. Jags represented that this letter had
such an effect eat her, that it induced her to take
eighteeopence 'worth of opium, which left her in
the state in which she was found. &waist. stated
that thecircurnitance of her mother's reeeving the
dupireatcs, was nut the only cause of her displea-
sure, as siie wa• acquainted with the circumstance
of her having eloped, and living on terms of refixed
/one with the Marquis of She left the
wateli-house, deciaritig she-was going to the Stvan
with two Necks inn, Lad lane, wht•re.. she was con-
fident, there were letters for her from the Marquis,
and she could want a maintenance while he
lived.

This imorolrilsie story she maintained.
seemed extrimcly anxious to be Alm% ed to depui t
from the watch-liousr, which was nt last grwited,
the parish not wishing to he charged with the ex-
pense of the support of so fine a Lady.

A new Excham.e has been recentl♦ erected in
Manchester, upon an extensive and splendid scale.
The site of this is the property of the
Right Hon. Losil llucie. and is held by the Pro-
prietors (wile have e.ecte'l the building by sub-
scription) upon pay went of a yearly chief rent.
A Coroner's unrest war held, Ohl Wediwsday
last, et Oakedge, near Wolfeley Bridge, Stafford-
shire, on T. HAIRRYINATI, a boy about eight years
of age, whose death was occasioned by the follow-
ing singular circumstance : He was as.isting his
father to plant trees, and finding a small white
stone he put it in his mouth. A nide of pheasants
getting up near him, he suddenly elevated his head,
and the stone stopping in its way down his throat,
he was choaked before any a, SIot:MCC could tie leo-
dered him. Verdict—Aeeideatal Death.
Chs the 7tll instant, the fishermen at Crail, in
Scotland, observed a bladder approaching the har-
bour, which they picked up, and foetid that it con-
tained n letter front the person in charge of the
lightlimise on the Isle or Ala), addressed to o Gen-
tleman in that town, infonning his friends Of the
welfare of his family. What is siii4ular, the let-
ter was dated Cie 7th (the day it arrived), mine to
the very place for which it was intended, and that
probably within a few hours after it was committed
to the waves. from a distance of G 1 miles. There
h:,, been no communication with the ishind for some
time past, owing to the stormy weather.
As perfection in machinery is a desideratum,
and we profess, ourselves admirers of useful sad
important inventions. it is with pleasure we are in-
formed, from correct sourees, that the iinwieldt
and inadequate machines hitherto u►ed for the serf
necessary purpose of mangling linen, are com-
pletely superseded by the compact and finished
tnaebiue invented for that purpuse by J. Monists.
No. 63. whirl', for ease of working, and
s•'laerisnt; of performance, delis nil competi-
tion.