The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-08 00:00:00

MARLBOIMUGII.STREET.

On Wednesday, un old gentleman, of venerable
appearance, came to this oilier, accompanied by a
gentleman named Taylor, residing in the lidgewet.-
road, to apply to Mr. CONANT, the sitting magia
trate, for his advice and assiitance as to the best.
menos of recovering, his daughter, who was' lost to
him under the following ifwertmca.rTs.
The unhappy aged gentleman appeared to over-
come with affliction at the Insi of his child that he
was unable to relate the tale of his distress himself,
and Mr. Taylor, the uncle of the ebseonded girl, too.
dettook to do that duty for him.
Mr. Taylor stated, that his old friend by his side
was a most respectable man, re.itling in Iluckina-
hamshire, and bad brought up and educated a family
of children in the most reputable manner. The girl
who was the subject of the present application had
received an excellent education, but she took into her
head to fancy the dress-mak'ng business, anil after
spending sometime in learning that business with a
respectable lady in the country, she came up to Lon-
don, about 18 months ago, by her own request, and
was placed with a Mrs. Marshal, who has a very re-
spectable establishment in Leieester-tields. She re-
mained with Mts. Marshal giving every satisfaction
until about a month since when she quitted Mrs.
Marshal's establishment of her own accord, telling
that lady that she had engaged, with the winkle'', of
her friends, with it lady who was going to travel on
the Continent as a companion, lie, (Mr. Taylor)
about a week ago received a letter from the girl
herself, stating that she had left Mrs. Mar.hal, and
that she was then engaged with n lady in whose
family she wits residing as companion. The general
tone of the letter, and particularly the latter part of
it, which requested that any communication to her
should be addressed to the twopenny post-office,
No. 49, Strand, " to be kept till called for," in-
(Need him to fear that there was something wrong,
and after a great deal of difficuby he learned, by a
description of her, and Mentioning her Christian
name and. some other particulars, that she wits
living somewhere in the neighbourhood of the
Straud.l The father having come to town, they
this morning learned, through the agency of a laun-
dress, that the unfortunate young woman was living
at a house of ill.fAme,' in George-street, in the
Adelphi and the purpose of the present application,
Mr. Taylor paid, was CO know hew they could obtain
access toiler by force.
Mr. CONANT asked how old the girl was?-34.
Ta;lor replied that she was in her 19th year, and a
remarkably tine young woman.
Mr, CO ANT said that it was a very afflicting
COO; but it was to be feared that a girl of so ad-
vanced an age it would be extremely difficult to
j withdraw from such an evil course of life.

The father, with the tears streaming from his
*yet, said. that if he could only once obtsio tau 441(1-
view with hii dsughter he bud no doubt of beiof
able to persuade her to aceotnpany kith borne, and se
she had never in her life erred hrfore it 4 the
degree, and it being only a month rimy she
quint(' Mrs. Marshal, hi trusted she Witt not so
deeply steeped in guilt as to be insensible to the al,
penl of a father's feelings.
Tha Magistrate then directed Andrews, this
officer, to take all the necessary means of seeing the
girl, and procuring
h
the officer:for that purpose.
rather
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Mr. Taylor mentioried,the acme and surname of
the girl, but' from" respect for the feelings of her
&mit, we forbear slating
A vest number of tint 'household inhabitants of
St. James's perhrh appeared. to answer summomes
served upon them by thi eollictor of poor-rates fir
comparedt
now
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rc-eret t .I..aeasetari anti.isatoeasf.
had ever paid
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an
etialepylataihnotitolintiacs,tuoititilititimeatouldeoo..f the increase, he refuseda
to.r g,ive them ,any, and .the
The collector said, that the increase IVO its erlits,r-
quetsee of the expeaces of the New Police, end he
did not think that any exp was nee.
lanation
the rate hall 1 • 4*-asY. „a
wen regu 31'1 Ile had toss hin,
rir
to do but to eolleet it.

The defendants stii,cl tit,t slt's %oat the tioNt tiroo
they heard Any thing a thy iNew this not-

ter, for in the account for rates in the notices. served I
upon them, not:one word was, said about the police, •
but the whole was called and demanded as poor-rates.
The collector said, that although they were called
poor-rates, they, in fact, were both poor-rates and
police-rates.
The defendants said, that that ought to have been
stated in the notices, and then they would have
known what was demanded of them, and not make
an affair of mystery of the business; and several of
them declared that they should take time to consider
whether they would pay the rate at all in its present
shape, particularly as it was well known that there
were some strange doings going on just now in that
parish; and that some of its functionaries had been
dismissed from otlire lately for no creditable transac-
tions. Some of the defendants, therefore, refused
to pay the rate, and thus the matter rests at present.