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estebtillted
celebrated fame.
same tribunal,.
powers d
recolleetiew.

jaatillOS
• OS
by Mrs.
public r repreoestation
full of of outputted suffering and
highly-wroinght asotal turpitude. and in which so
little relief iv alordrd tp the worst view of gm fig-
tore ef hnoion life, and such.* multiplied ArtAtt•
rage."( Vuitton. miterraext 'dui% ankumolased
upon s charocter emiumitly reluiludate for eitestoa-
cy. teniesuess. and istudtcrad Wcactita•
Miss O'Nuru.'s performastur of 4801wLis Os Sa-
turday uigbt was enc of hyg..lout eltwits ill tint ar-
duous character ;—her tftdeenew sod rosiipation.
uuder the suffering"; mid privations tp weep her
supps.ited widoolroil.cousipied her..-11u magnaat-
gutty to. the exttepoisy
.181 her distress. oleo *boo-
duned by those who ,should
_have been, hot impost
protectors,--the cold reluctance of that mon! to her
marriage with Patton*, orlach his assiduous soil
disinterested services.erout from her gratitude—and
the formal. but respectful, anbasimsion to his wishes.
which she }fields in the place of that tender semi-
mead of.the heart. which she timely apprises him
he is never to expect, its it is for ever buried in the
grave of Biroo—it was iir the successive daw
play of all these virtues and heart.rending emo-
tions that tali* evinced • tender and
exquisite sensibility•wlnelt found u ready channel to
every heart. But it is lint *lone in the diripluy of
the softer emotions of temple attachment end auto-
ous coriabincy that Misit-O'Nstot.i.'i excellence in
the performance of imbeffit consimul...-she deliouts
ed and excited pavvions of a higher Hod more terri-
ble class. is the concluchng scenes of %tit I.lBy,

I *flee fte dresclrol discos* is tihrtiptly thille of
the eXistence of her first husband /Jima. for whose
ppliiird death she had me:timed Seer, oars.:—whoa
he throws himself into her antis. without • CO/1,
sciou4siess that her sense or gratitiide had bin one
day earlier. compilled her to fie the wife of an:
Other—it was iii those heart.oestviing and conflict,:
root loinotamas that ,Mini O'Neti.t. displayed all
her putters. roil Called into action the most
appalling sensatimii of Which the iitn•ii 'Mod
is siisceptible.. After the first momenta of horror
and astonishment subiide, and when the ruling pas-
Siou of her lure fur R/rost burets through and ear.
minims the eetolletion of the dreadful contract on-
to which she had but a few boors entered. it was
alotost inipos.illie ni 'conceive title, frantic expression
of her joy boa alfectiooak anise:meld to him. But
whet) Oni transieut glernsof.happiness bloke under
the quick anti keen recrillectirai rdf her bring mar_
vied to two hulthansla.' and wife to neither, the de*
span' and horror which she pinirt.a.S.eil was acute and
terirtic, mid produced the must thrilling effect. It
would have been difficult, IF sot unprmAicable, to
have married the effect of this &spilt,' ton higher pitch ;
and her convolinve agonies in the dying scene were
tfelitieeted with a force of conception mud agonized
feeling which itnpressed the audience with all the
horror which virtue and inootrisee ire calculated
inipire when exposed to the fast stage of real calm.
'Mir. Miss O'NEILL was throughout loudly up-
pl?ttded. Mr. YOUNG'S Bin)* was excellently ins.
tinned; Mr. EagaTos Vilkroy *via% interesting
the part could well be matte; and sir. C. K EMU taett
Carlos was supported with as much skill as could
well be infused tido a part remark.ihle for no trait
of active passion, which, like fasto's. could be de.
linetted du the stage, and winch *lime tire/toted
one gantioto_lisue course of concealed infamy mid
'cupidity: Miss MAtTitiltll end Mrs. STkRLIND
in the Epithdantiust were raptunmilly ripplatided.
The Barber or fullowed ; and the fine
sibging Of Mrs. Dtcious, Mrs. tits:atisa. and
Mr. Pio g, and the coolie powers of Jonli, haw.
CWI7, and LISToN, insensibly recalled the mind
from dwelling on the pitigismicy of Is,,hellu's our.
innings and catastrophe. to the contempt:mon of the
lighter and more agreeable delosivasl of soot, sod
gaily, and humour.
The houAe MO very crowded:

POLICE.
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iwir•simert.

LADY BRUCE.
•
We stated om Friday, that Lodi liratee bad been hroeght
to this (lffice, charged with feluuinmly stealing a smote./
of for trimmings the Pr" Pert, of Armen. Harding end Cu.
haberdashers, in Pall-Mall, and WWI discharged by she Sias
ting Magistrate, on the ground that the trimming had bean
scut to her Ladyship's house,. No. $, Upper Gelrge4treet4
Bryansione.sipuire, which wile kept, and on its being iliaru-
erred 11 the parties, her Ladyship time !...t then charged
with steelier die trimming, but the payment for it had
hero demanded repeatedly, ur tha trimming to be returned.
She was then discharged.
At this decision allmein. Harding and Co. were not satis-
fied, and applied split to Mr; Itirnie. the 3lsgistrste, nit
Friday morning, and urged before hint, that the evidence
in support of their charge had ant been prigs tly gibes, end
'AMA or lbs apprehension of Lady Brace, sewn stating,
that when a Box, containing • pug' snit trimming, had
been *rut from their shop to Lady Brute, 'move, the bus
*101.41M-eta The porter; Stlthuid 'Amine him that say
of its contents had been taken oat, emit Belt he millpond ha
mistaking beat in the box all that he bad brought.
Upon thit represeidetion a marrent was xi-sutra against
bee Ladyship, charging het' with feloalinisly stealing the
trianathig from Wilkinson, the *totter.
Balaton, the olio', was secording)y diapatehed with
the *arrant to ninth:ed./ter. LatlyeitiN mad hr fumed her
at the bourn of Calomel ROW, in Primpectlow, Lambed.,
and brought her Ladyship to the (Mice, „mid is the eves.•
lug she uneforgent en efiandoadon hemp Mr. Birsim the
length to which it ektendeditad the tmehisar before it our.
eluded, it being between ten end sleben
~o'clucli when it
finished, prevented as front giving it on ipierday. On tier
Ladyship being placed at the bar, the hiltilerine 4.logne leek
plate :
Magistrate, to the Primmer—a Whit is /oar same r
Priamier—m Lady Emily Bruce."
Magistraten Are you a mestittl if4Mif,t.?"
Prisunee—n My mime h the .ague of sy !lONIA and I
hare always bees Lady Bruce Slats I was Wares years of
ate."
allailitrati *ho is your basWidr
IPritiwocr—m My hislisiio is tart Bruer."
Magletrate—“ Where Ana Our Inainand resider
Prisoner—" My buntstkl WSW tradettee is England, be
resides is Itched, is DAUS COO.
caseof the charge of Mews. Bantu( sad Co. of Pall
Maas, haberdashery *lost her Loalihip, was ilea &Übe-
sollely gore into.
• Awe!. Is the hoe's of Mows. Wording sad Cs. of
understood
A Friday last
4 attended her
be Isey Moat,
skewed

approve of ;
Word for six
• speed for a
. poor was
Bryosoloo-
sorb in
y Nally
w rise
Mar sod

Wk. •uit
Gimirgaistreet,
it wilt.
address
•PPe•n

deal of

'Muck,
weesing be
when

...a, which
• tippet tile
which the
I to him,
with the
I kept the
*bat bre

trimming
stated.
Ilerjami II ;
her L•dy-
witb it,
he ac-
U pp. r

_ ,beebaut
_
answered frets * ages, oho astir Lads aware woe within,
and came and °rood the dose; he N 441 leer where he came
from, mill the goods he had boot*, sad she lurk the
eibulatuiutt • mai sod tippet, op *Nile le lode Ware, •tut
the asTraut rya word with a sterisco hotel her Lad'alut.,
nest treat tatekwarda sad ismer& several Omer
menages wail,. answers M to the peke of the lulu I",
sod sitar tbst hr saw her Ladyships wito.sprosel tsr the
rime, auj scut a usevage that she would cal) auJ pa/ foe

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COIIIIIT-GeeDllll.
Neturday night the Tragedy of ?he kittal
IP was rffonbed tit this Tbeidrt—the part of
ally Min 10.114/444 whaamitaistod it with the
isioisiteteiadesneas nod polliliefoldeatios wbriclt
played on her forwserappanseuew this efts.
It was in isebeffe that *TN Sisson Snit
Aced before a Loudon- audience litr,listly-
ted fame. To perform the pirt,4selere the
tribunal. while
,yet • tbe wonder-Working
of their great heroine are still fresh in their
Wone was an attempt winch crinld only be
d igy the commaarl and exercire of talents in
degree similar to those that were exhibited
a. Swims.. and which so tong Axed the
attention ow the representation of a play so
' the disploy of unmerited *offering end
. .

Nu. ilk VWilsolit ram sailed, whom oars, we ander
to 6 fredericit kloimaes, who eableri, that as Frids
the lady at the lope osese.lo theirdhip. sled be atoms&
at Ile .Catielae• fill he lbw sodoreidemi her In be Lady 1
opitabin
whoa Ohe be „look at maw doe stioamiog t he M
:r Me. othtsh oho did rest apprise
bo . *mead her semee•erodire; she word I
, of tpdliole sweated he 11. lee abit also mem
Ilit, Pit POI% aid Het some oodmileineia else gar
4.`..14dir
_glph . m." Upper. Gloorde.etriset, Bryan
r.,...„5,...... pad entered it as es
. were . art ,asp .positive abs Aid Not my
es. hit -Orem sod he has Moos tailed her leg
k, sad she aoswored to it. He pewhod up the mail
tiriosoimp wheeb lbs Persson had aiterred foe iota a hoe
Zion es it i:rjorierto take se Upper George-arm
' imiimetimes that he orassret to kayo it
osii . pm& ea be hod moms nitpicks the se
the gave was sot correct, from the appn
tee= tdi lifilef hettediteg a totter to •ber in the
'if eh* imam dmilt for ready moon, 1
he
. it
:JP .41.11%11.1:sld add
They
snp Ig sift re
soli
. • 11•0111111010111 L as Ike fallowing mond
.ihe MOW Arab hell dose at Lady Brute's,
Obe . . •Selaili. 11111 todyabip bed restrood the muff,
eir .hiler.hmedesi swami him to he* r a iippe
at is& Ss essneimed *hobs, whir
ymiteckadOsesmehailemlitteell bask is, manienrevad to
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impokook Abe for esimmewi, wei
, uiN:gt INIGh be beseleps Leireip had ke
tot prim edpkisCie did we keel, *6
r indit implisedAimishMdi hat, the kin
- is_ 61 •10• reueloee. yr bake.. peeeemt4
The wiMmeasomirerod poithei.he‘dinso *Moe ; and e
Thal he obserevelhe the PIMP, Alkeis shalt jab. Bevis
114*.e1,44410.401111 40 leis seesehige eweasely to her
ship'. appoistmest, sad we Meat die the host we nn er
iilm! 4.4,oewpritiesaties rwisikie siat ie used, I
ennipanied the porter to Lady Brow's hone, in I
Geurge.street, sodas luesokin Melte door a feniak roe

emu et the shop, which he refused tense he, sod said he
miss either; hove the money thee or tare the goods heck, as
Arty did net give reedit to Wagers, suet after 'sense woes.
,ease epos the subject the agoras hymnist the hes with the
no& and tippet its it, he hawks said he would mot leave the
lions without the money os the poet. sad ale smart deli-
weed a message to his from Lady Brace, silks& if he did
wet Aimee to less Hese he wind Mite them'airay ;he la.
'sired for the fur triessmieg which the plats bid hemsght
the greenlet', sends', es he wiebed to take that lark elms
ever pi it was thin paid for. het was answend open this
miltiert that it was at the milliesh to pot an a pelisse, sad
is eonld ant have It. This cooyerotion •s 4 being consi-
dered legal midenre It was not posited any further.
Benjamin Wilkiesots. Are putters plated, that he the
hirt4 as deseribeel by the last attars, to the hoes of Lady
NUE!, ill Upper Grorge.sheet, Bryaissowennes, se the
triday evening. hot coarsest be did not keow the contests
of it, nor had he say desire to blow. He was told mot to
lope* without the mosey. He took a hill of parcels with
Met ; Ise did omit leek et It, es did he lowa the anima of
it. Me Squired fee lady Bruce at the loose, sod wee told
Iser Ladyship was at home, mid sermon tusk the hex from
hint. and he eaderstood took it up stairs to Lady Bose.
'De illd es see her Ladyship; he was told by the servant to
tette the hue beck, and to being a tippet the weld morafeg to
sits* the muff. He said he raw • ereff is the hex wise be
gave it to the @email, bet be knew leatitiss of Ms we know-
ledge respertiug the trimming, alma which the poiut er
the rharge of Meese. Harding against Lady Ihwee depeeded,
and they having no other evidence to pru.Nsre, the groomed
wpm which the warrant of felony was greeted completely
failed.
A clerk is Itiehostee of Moors. Harding IS inttreustly
intemperate in his over seal Baal a see should basede out
imams Lady Bruce, by einleavooriag tot,peesspi the mit-
oses sod interfere with the. altboalri irepeatedly adalca
eddied by Mr. OWN and Mr lfilensild, the Magieseste who
was sewing with him, that he was ordered to ale dowse at a
Astaire front Sent, sr he most he tensed oat of the oils.
A *umber of pesetas seeded the Odes wee had deal.
Aligns. with the Prison% 'Try wine desired to Sep forward
If they hod nay charges to make, when a yields lady per.
isestAt herself to the Illagistralee, and staled beset( to he
I. the employ of Mee Carr' of Pell-Sail, and gave a long
statement of inkiest dresees fee Lady Beare. Oat day
skeu AC was al Lady Brash hews to aloft a . deem, shle
'waited • long time to e. sive the aanient of* bill, whew, to
her sorprise, • sertraat told her Lady Brace was gear out.
litre said the bill emeseted to ft/. soil she had hers offered
IW. by her Ladyship. The Magistrates thenblit she had
beta to blame he sot seeptieg the offer of Ittl. as it was
probable their moths would have admitted of it i she, how.
ever, teeing lured beestatesent by saying, Neither she woe Him
Corr had any charge to snake against Lady litres.
A erineeneerhant stated, 1110 he had sent three donee of
.wire, soda gallen of brandy, es ordered for Lady flitter,
to No. f, Upper George street, and in corn/egress of nose
report., he called at the hoarse is Tuesday last, whet i.e
min his wine, wbieb be wished to take sway, but to his gnat
dial pp ,intment, was tefuresed be • Mrs. Tenfietil, who was
in the house, that she was the landlady, and had seised it
for real, end so She was shoot to keep • hotel, it would snit
her. Mrs. T.ulleld also told him, that she inquired set Lady
News who wall her wine.wierehant, when she replied, Prise,
Vol -tinny's wine.eierelieut ; else Nov eforrired to Lady Bruer,
"(11.! get some wine for me wad that will do to pay my
"rent" He observed ern, this conduct of Mrs, Tanicld,
that he thoreht it a conspiracy tp ryh hiss. He received a
written oritrr fur the wine from Lady Drees hegienivi
6. Lady Kees desires," which was brutish, shin; by a livery
pervert. He moderstood wise" the *sae went into the hmis
Lady Bras treated her ettlehritee with a bottle of it. The
esosinet of the wise and tinnily was 1101 so mar" se object
with hits a. it was to make au example of the Prissier, if
possible. her the luitetic good.
The Magi hates told his his readuct did him credit, sad
if more into would net so, there would sot be so sail
swindling. They desired him to tell Mrs. Tandelik lltat if
• risieted has seek sodas, her license to beep as hotel
would he lii 'lmager.
Two coaeltasseers slated transactions they had had with
Lady deuce. The first ass foe the hire of • carriage, horse,
mid eassehrnan, fur a month, which amounted to twenty-eat
guineas, which he nut being able to obtain, had discontinued
supplying her with a carriage.
TIM second was for supplying her Ladyship with a carriage
for three shays whey in comenprece of some esepictosia,
fwd resifts chick be brood, he dist:sedosed analog hie
The next rase was that of N. hippo, a better, of laud.
et reel.
Frances Dewitt, the sister of If,. Japp, rousted, that she
log booms the Primer soave time as Lady Bruce. The
Rest Midge she hod at their shop she paid ready stoney for.
Ihr Mweday the loth, et Tttestray the 13th tart she could set
litereriair which day, bee t.tillehip ease tu their shop, and
desired to tank as mate hats end beliefs; she chewed her
enee Meek ridiag bets and beeoes heitnets with plumes of
feathers; her Ladyship tried souseem, and deed op • hat
• and a lioneet, which she ordered le he mot to No. t, Lipper
Grorge.attert, Ileyeestooe.sgeare which she did by their
poser, Joseph Rivers, bet desired hits sot og leave the bat
had Imenet without Ibe payaseet. He redirect, without the
geed. sir mosey, bet with a owesiage from Lady Bruce, otays
trig, her ladyship would call the next day, at three o'clock.
lir r Ladyship called at the shop at that time, egresohly to
promise, end pointed oat eons alteratioes he *Shed to
hare wade, sod ordered some sore trintsaieg jo be seat,
witch was accordingly dose, with the altered beast, sad
Use porter came beck witbost any money, but with as order
for another hat, which was seat thitnext day. The porter
ton lit* return stated, that the sensed said Lady Brace had
left the boost, and it was ant known elites die had gone.
Joseph Rivers, the porter, confirmed the testimrsay of the
het wises sa to his taking the goods, aid the teetructions
he received from her not to leave theta without the money.
Hr inspired et NO.ll, Upper George•strett, fur Lady Brace,
✓od was hill by • sweat she was at home; he pee the
gamble she servant, *hes he received • message do.
siring him to go bark to Mr. Jeep's, end ads if be woeful
lee the geode be left till the next day, at one o'clock. He
did sit, arid Mrs. Deneett agreed that they should be left.
He went tea the following slay, at nue (Mock, sad received
• message by a female servant that Lady Bruce would call at
the shop Staten two sad three o'clock, which she did, sad
desired him to all the followieg day at her house and she
would pay for the whole ; he went at that time, when: he we
a female meow who told hies Lady Brace had goo,
o, fir
thee boom, asseeho did sat know where. -•
Upon the latter pad of this eviftesee the Magistrate, sate
of (skim. that it was a tangible charge against the Prisms",
lied that she should go to prison. They then asked bar
whet she had to say to the charge, and who end what she
was!
In her defence she dill not appeatabashed, and spoke de.
liberately and with some degree of Imam, evidently with
an Irish accent. She asserted positively that she was the
character she had rearrested herself to he, and that she was
I.ioly Brace, end that she was the wife of Sir Stewart Bruce.
She wail asked who Air Stewart Bruce was, and where he
hired! her ladyship replied that he was a Baronet, and lived
in nubile Cast leowlo re he had lived daring the last sixteen
years, Choir the ries of Usher to all the Lords
Lieisteneet, as his place dsd sit change with the change of
Londe I-noisiest, and was • peneseent phis at Court
there. Shama had prevented her him sombre to her friends
to attend 'wall ruck a charge; it was the disturbance Mr.
Harding lead made about the payment for his fur trimming
that brought all the dillicelties epos her. if they would
wait ten deem she would pay theme'. She said that she had
lived in Welbechstreet, sad had canteen,/ penile their dee.
The Prisoner was asked by what means she lived in
London, to which she replied, by rendition* from leer hus-
band, os backers.
Magistrate." Dose your hothead seed over Irish mosey!"
Assurr--" Yes."
Megistrate—a What sort of money r
Answer—" By drafts payable in Pell-Mall!'
Magistrate-." What Banker's there r
Answer—" At Horlaads."
yi.,Ei.traif Mat is the worth of Irish money in Loudon!"
A 1151111.14 It is worth If Ss. lid."
Magietrate—l How doss it happen that your husband is
living sr Dublin Sail you are F.sigiaisdr
Aaswer--.." My husband hes so objection to it, and 1 his