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Wis. strews sirsinusils 41Dbtss
TO TUZ ISIAIIiTANTII OF NORPOLI.

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Unwilling as a female must feel to übiri,ide her
name on the pablic, 1 am nevertheless it iii coin;-'
pedeti to such an a!,Pcsl• Since 114 sPileu,9lPsc At
the Norwich Smisivies, paragrapns, containing. Ilse
iuost atrocious talssisuuds against myself and
have been limped in some of the London
lit "spverA ; ais.l, within the last few weeks, an
saanymoua hand-bill, repeating the bielfir ayersions,
has beets cireolated at New gueltenham (where I
at present wide), oast in the vicinity. There
L :tare been assured by my kiud neigh.
hours, they have reeeived at the house of Mr.
Whichcoti Turner, at Old Bin kenhain, the author
VF all iny injuries. To vindicate myself from these
imputations, among those lbersteni who may take on
interest in my late. but to w!:oiu 1 am Uuk now :1,
and in justice to tny parents, my daughter, and my
friends, 1 now suurnit to the public, the outline of
life, chick, 111010 not without error, has passed,
I tenst, without a crime.
My father was not a Jew, nor did he reside at
Vrankfort, at has been represented. He was edu-
tltted with* Prince. of the lionise of Denniarki was
of a high and distinguished family., lived fur thirty
years in New North-street, Heal Lion-Square, as a
rich and respectable merchant; and I am pained
beyond measure, that his honoured name should be
called in spiestion. Mr. Charles Ilwrvey, the Re-
corder of Norwich, and Mr. Twiwing, both well
known in this county, were acqnainted with my hro..
ther and this family, now on the Continent ; anal
though I am a stranger to these gentlemen, I doubt
not they will readily attest the truth of what I Have
stated. cooked, Sir I'. 44evor told me recently,
that Mr. Twining hail dined at his houe, and ac-
knowledged tee to lie the person I represented my-
GeV.

In the year 1791. I was placed by tr.; father,
daring Isi, absence, in a boarding-school at Faris,
to complete the different branches of any educa-
tion. At the htaute of a Colonel Blackdcii, white
I was occasionally allowed to suit. I had the inir-
fortune to meet with Colonel Sinclair, an officer in
the Wyatt Army, who, Hearing the large property
any falter possessed ia the Freoch luaus, tank ad-
vantage:of my inexperience, to persuade me to
marry him, without consulting my relaiires. My
f.ther so highly' disapproved of Colonel Sinelair's
tmeral character, and was so greatly eamperiated
at any undutiful behavionr. that it is with sorrow
/ own never %me afterwards quite reconciled to
me, though he left i.e at his death, tau years
ago, an equal share of his property. From the
peimit of any marriage in the yea; 1791. which
V/0.1 any IV"; entrance auto life. resided at Cola-
lent: with Caintiel Sinclair, or, during his iihselice
wind the Ninny, at Bruxelles; and at sige not till
after the first unfortunate campaign. ethiflf caused
his regiment to he disbanded, and which conic-
queistly deprived hint of his brad, that be ever ex-
pressed the least wish to separate from use. At
that period, Colonel Sinclair because i 666 i 6
91,1111111111:1, at Brut:elle% a itki a lady of fortune and
powerful eounexiorts in Scotland, with whom he
thought, under the embarrassed state of his affairs,
en alliance treuld be itchriseable. • Aly hither refus-
ing him all pecuniary assistalice (excepting a few
preseuts to myself), and as every prim et educa-
tion, who has visited the ContinEnt, must harm
that u &twee there is olatained with the ut-
most ease, and at little expense, without the
necemity of cri " sality bring attached to either
party. Colonel Siociair therefore availed himself
of tin; power of a husband, in a catholic country,
to compel me, under a threat of abutting me
up fur life in a cosiveut, in agree tor;ia divorce,
which renotios registered in the court, called the
Gera.', at Bruxelles. Hy this register it will ap-
pear that I am not arete.ed pinny impropriety, and
that the sole alleged cause of our disunion was
fa oily tlisnatr. Soon after toy divorce, I returned
tillitleiond, in the year 1794. and have never since
left thus country. I was advised to resist the op-
preacon practised against one at Bruxelles, and to
enter a snit against Colonel Sinclair, in 1./octane-
Co oions, for adultery, and for a maintentnice_L
ifor the Lady ahoy alluded to had taken say usual
and was living openly with Mtn, tat great -pleiattour,
ie ;raftee.-street„ Fitzroy-square; while I, front the
dissatisfaction of my family towards Ilse, was re-
duced In teach music to support myself and child.
Could Col Sinclair hare proved that I had mita:ln-
ducted myself, or that our divorce had arisen from
crime, he would have recriminated ; for, by so
doing, my complaint would have !west disitaimed
the Court, said he would have been freed from toy
law expenses, which he has repeatedly been c
-
pelt. 4 to pay, sod for the nou.payment of the last
demand, won', seven years ego, excommunirated au
Quern square rhumb. Betwten two rod three
yens ago, I accideatallv discorered that I needed
not the interference of the law to disunite rue train
Col. Sinclair, because he lied a wife alive at Anu-

poht Royal, Nova Scotia, at the very tune he wall
married to sne. Mr. Turner has seen the written
doeum .nts in lay possession, nis.l knows the re.
spe,•talality of the parties. who are rea•lC lit and
time to west the attic fast. lie had further en..
gt4e,l, iu whatever way my *bouillon probs.
bly could he legal:y etrtcted, he would defray all
aspvosesi ; and every thing to this intent was se far
am+►ged. that it was only suspended till Mr. T.
bail quitted the army.
Monet four years ago I took the name of Suther-
land, eunsequence of property left to me, upon
that c.inditiou, by a female relative.
Iluriint me reiiidence upon the continent, I was
kiln's, in families of the highest distinction ; ainesug
other to-mass, to Louis the XVlllth, esud lilon-
lie•er. h•. brother, whose court was kept at Co-
hlrats islet at Bruxelles to Lord Elgin, our Eng-
bee:i Winder, and Count Nlettertsich; the Austria's
Atnha•aaeinr, who can be appewle& to lot the truth
of naaertions, and for the propriety of my con-
. doer.* Since I have been in England, my residence
. has been in London, (for these last four years in
Portinan-street) where I ant received in a circle of
• respectable friends, some of whom are nearly mlat.
eel to families in this county.
Whet Mr. Turner rirst induced tie to listen to
his proposals of marriage, I head an inconar.vf 0001
per animal. and ten• establishment was seitable to
my condition ; and the gentleman to whom I ►e.
(erred Mr. Turner, and le he, was kind. enough to
act in my behalf, was& Field-Officer of great falai-

daratiais in sartice. and to whose lis-
t ter I luiriformerly, Issters much eudetired.
I.,rein M. Turner's .acquaintance, I have not
autiNiff4(ei4 Meet pecuniary less, hut have hero
lowest condition of wretehedne,,i,
and hove ruish-r,role mental distress, more acute
than lan L;ftisge eau coneyy. from the emhttrraa.nrcata
he .übjuted use to • and I shall shortly wild a
• herr:titre of all the circumstatices of our connec-
tits°, au ',ported by authenticated copies of his letter's,
and other documents in my possessi•in ill .1 which
will clearly shew, that DU port of my conduct af-
fords him the slightest pretence for his behaviour.
Those who may be interested for either 0(0., will
then have the surest means of jinbring between us.
My ',resent statement is now before the publiconul
retry Out will have the power of detersuiniini how
far it is' ust and honourable to make the the sub-
ject
of shoitymiosts hand-bills mid fietitiosu histories.
Ltit'Y SUTIISRLAND.
New Buekenbam, Sept. ts, niog.
• t transcribe the following note from the original, among
roany others in my possession, in proof of this sosertion
" Erunelks. 1793.—L0rd Elgin present's his compliments
to Mrs. Sinclair, and regrets ranch not to have bail it its his
power to mower her note last night. If Mrs. S111(1311' wishes
to convey any thing to Mademoiselle Metterinch, after Mrs. S.
leaves Bragelies, Lord Elgin will be very happy to deliver it,
and obey any direction Mrs. S. may be su good us to favour
him with As fur bringing things from England, he is sorry
to have no particular comveyance whatever: lie takes the
liberty at nirotioniog, that Mademoiselle Metternich did, in
conversation last night, any, that Mrs. Sinclair bad hero so
obligitil as to toEiT to procure her some fans from Englaud,
hat that she had declined givin4 Mrs. S. that trouble, hav-
ing tiler iit, conoinissitioed thetas sonic Iliac ago. Lord Elgin
hogs a thousand pandoni for his frredom io repeating this
conversation, bat hr einsreives from kn.)wolig well what
etiminiasio..s are, that in cam Mrs S. bad in view the stud-
ios asty faits, this hint may out La, unacceptable to btu"

FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

Admiralty:. lice, %t13t....1 G. 1 flO9.

Cupy of a tatrr from; Yiee Atiattrat Wteitbheti, Cumin:outer-
in • f :bier on the Coast of trolioti. to 11•• 800. WilliAut N el.
te.ley Po;r. dated at Cody tb• bib
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SIR-1 1 minima Herewith, lor the information of
the Lords Curninissumers of the Admiralty the
ropy of a let tor that I ree•-iveti from Captain Worth,
of IN 31.. j• 1.1001. stieno4 Ins having
ruptured, on the tat inst. in latitude ,t 5. 0. N. *nil
longitude 8 10 W. Le Jason, French laLtger Priva-
teer ; Hod I hate to acquaint you. that It Jason ar-
rived at tins port last evening.
1 have the honour tr be, itc.

(Siert!)

.lAN ea H. 1‘• HITSKED,
Fier-Adinurad.
netena, at sea, Sept. It tang..

Sts—•l have the honour to t tomiluiiityou.i 4 10
bluji 'it sloop. under my vomit-Hid, captured this
afternoon Le Jesuit French liigger privateer,
(pierced for ten gun. and 44 oleo, trout &Inutile,
21 dad., not made a capture) after • Chace of 70
miilts; she threw' her guns ovelhourti except two.
111rxrepo
re was fortunate, as she would huve inter-
cepted tile pocket, which 1 crossed during the
cheep, and answered her private signals ; supposed
her to have beets front Lisbon.
1 hare the honour to be, &c.
J. A. WORTIL
Vice•Adutiral %%Willett, &cite. Cork.