The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-18 00:00:00

SEDUCTION.

I From the Dullin Star.
Perhaps the whole history of crime in this country furnishes no
parallel to the iniquitous case we now lay before our readers. The
criminal is :11r. J. J. Pl'', a young man, about twenty-three years
of age, connected with one of the most wealthy and distinguished
mercantile houses in the kingdom—a house, in whose very name
even so much respectability centres, that he who bears it finds it not
only a passport into any society, but a letter of credit throughout
the commercial world. _

On Thursday afternoon the absence of Mr. P" first excited
fears that he was a party in the elopement of a neighbour's wife, a
beautiful woman, the mother of three children, the youngest of
whom is a babe only a few weeks old ! On Tuesday night, it
seems, the guilty pair hired a jab carriage. and filled it with trunks,
containing money, plate, and other valuables. The lady, Mrs.
31 , had not been long seated with her paramour' wiien, ac-
cording to the driver's account, she burst into a fioisl of tears, and
upbraided him with his and her own crime. They took a route
which inclines their respective friends to believe that they have gone
to Waterford, there to take shipping to America. The distraction
of the husband of the unfortunate lady mocks the force of language.
He kfi Dublin yesterday morning, accompanied by some friends,
in pursuit; and other parties are also is quest of the offenders in
various directions. _ .

But the adulterous intercourse of Mr. P. with the wife of his
conliiiing friend, is but one division of his enormous guilt! He
has not only robbed a most respectable, and once happy man, of his
beautiful and accomplished partner, and a nursery of children of
their mother. but he has availed himself of his connection with one
of the first mercantile families in Dublin, to obtain large sums from
almost every merchant with whom he had been intimate ! Nay, he
has induced the lady, as well as to dishonour her husband's bed, to
rob him of his money, plate, and other property.
On the very day they absconded, Mr. P. borrowed of the man
who was that night to be the victim of his perfidy a sum of 1701.
The Bank of Ireland was, a few days previously, taken in to the
amount of 700 f. 'rile respectable house of tiewrge Thompson and
l'o., of Temple-lane, wine merchants, have been defrautied of root.
Other houses lust equal or much greater sums ! A house in
Iteinster.street, that of Mr. Mane, loses neatly 300/. I: but, in fact,
the recentness of the discovery renders it but too probable that these
are minor transactions, in comparison with Wow which may be dia-
closed during this day's inquiries.
The whole of the property, amounting to many thousands of
pounds, has been carnal off; several Dublin merchants will
each give, we understand, a hundred pounds for Mr. P.'s &ppm
hension.
We 'egret to say that Cat male offender's mother is over.
whelmed by her sorrow ; her life, it is feared, may yield to her
peewit deep affliction. Owing to her being of the Protestant re-
ligion. Mr. P. was reared in that persuasion, though his father was
of the hoeisty of Itieads.

THE BRITISH PRESS.