The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-23 00:00:00

veral days, •and he found she had told them a thou- t-
sand lies ; fur, being induced to make snme inquiries.
respecting her, he had written to several of the per-
sons before mentioned, and alscyto Lady-Cornwallis,
.to whom- she had also claimed near rerationship ;
but received letters from all, totally denying any
knOWledge of her. He said he had convicted her
himself, at the last Clerkenwell Sessions, of being a
•
• rogue, vagrant, and impostor; but that the Magis-
trates, in consideration Of her being previously im-
prisoned a month, had only sentenced her to another
!month's Confinement, which terminated only about
the time she stated herself to have broken oat of a
mad-house at GraVesend. He repeated al,so the cir-
,
cumstance of her conviction at EXeter ; and said,,
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that so far" from having been abtoad many years, as
slif pretended, she never-had been out of the coun-
try ; but had for the last five years been, as it were,
going circuit-- through every part of the kingdom,
practising similar impoSitions, pretending to be the
rnal-treated and abandoned- relative. of highly re-
spectabfe families, and swallowing opium; or atlect-
nig. attempts to -drown herself; but. always taking
care so to time those tricks as 41Qt to incur any real
danger; that, she once affeaed to Swallow two
ounces of laudanumbefore the whole "Gloucester-
shire regiment, when drawn.up
,on parade, at their .
country quarters; and that she ltaA played otf shin-
Jar stratagems at Clapham, at Edmonton, in St.
Paul's, Covent-Garden, at Bath; at Cheltenham, at
Bristol, Tunbridge Wells', Salisbury, Southampton,
Brighton, Winchester, and a number of other places
in different parts of the kingdom,—andthis trade she
had been carrying on successtvely. since 1804. ;GO .
convictions for vagrancy had nut been sprficient
wain her from continuing her ;impostures. Mr.
'Cotterell, therefore, urged, that the Magistrate
should now. commit her, as anincopigible vagayond
and impostor,.so that she might again b tried <rt toe
next Session,,nnd if convicted, either tie iinprisnned
rortwo years, or transported, as the L‘Lrgi,trates in
their discretion deem best.
, Alderman Sou OLEY that he did not, feel
himself warranted to take cognTance 01 any- cir-
cumstatiCes of the prisoner's, misconduct ,preceding
her last conviction, As. all these appeared to hate ,
been then considered ; and he could not see there.
was any evidence now before him of her having (;fr-
tained any money by false pretences, in the,c_se un-
der consideption-, which. could warrant him to corn-,
mit her to prison. •
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Mr. Alderman WOOD, however, was of opinion
that the contumacy with which toe fri-sotier.s'cill
persisted in' being the daughter of Sir William Max-
well'; her denying the fad of her trial and conviaion
at Exeter, arid all knowledge of her brother, the
Salisbury:mail coachman ;' her pretending to be a
woman of education, though she could not write her
name, but always pretended to be .nervous,, when
required td write ; and the vulgarity of her lauguake
shewing her to be a person of low degree, were all,
proofs. of imposture , and her pretending to be what
she was.not, warranted her commitment, at least for
further examination.
1:1. this opinion; AlclermanfSir JOHN ANPuRsp.N,
who was present, concurred ; and the prisoner was
remanded till next Tuesday.

QuaEN's-SatrARE. ;Yesterday, John MaxwO
was btbught up, 'charged with having violently as-
saulted a very young warnan the night before in her
father's house at Chelsea,- with the intent of violat7,
ing.her person.. Many'of "the circumstances of the
case are too "gross to meet. the 'public eye ; fortunate-,
ly, however,stor the .yiintig;Wotnari.,-by her cries, ,t 97
gether with tie efforts and struggles which she made,
she' effectuall.cr.resi'sted the attempt of the Piisoner.
Yee'Magistrate ordered that he should find bail,
himself in 40-01, and two sureties in. 2001. each, to
take- his trial at the next Quarter Sessions for Mid-

FRAUDULENT COUNTRY BANK.NOTE.S.
.Mary_ Mills, alias Mary 'Mullins, alias Connor,
stood next charged with turering notes of a.country
bank, purporting to be of, the house of Gardiner and
Co. of Luton, In Bedfordshire, and made payable at
another house in London, whereas there existed at
the time of In tering no such banking-houses. A great
number of persons attended, who had been &hand-
,ed.by takirfg in payment bills of the above descrip-
tion, all of which turned out to be fraudent. -
Mr. BARRY attended on the prisoner's behalf, and
although a great. number of individuals spoke ag to
their belief of_i,dentity, only 'one young woman would
venture positively to swear to her person, which she
did, and deposed that 'about four months ago the
prisoner came to her 'master's Shop, in Little New--
Tort-street, Newport-market, and_ bought about
two .shillings worth 'of pastry, tendering a Luton
,Bank Note, which a butcher, of the name of
'Webb, in the neighbourhood, gave silver tor, and.
which,silver, as change, she gave to the prisoner,
who went away with it; but that the butcher came
in a few minutes after, ;saying it was a counterfeit,
and demanded his silver back. 'The prisoner,. how,
_ever, was gone, and from that time till she saw her in

the dock at the 'Office, she had.nevdr met with ,her.
.Upon this evidena she was ordered for another ex..'
aMination on Wednesday the 30th instant. The
Magistrate observed, that the number of persons at-
tending, who stated themselves 16 be plundered by
these fraudulent notes, led him to canjedure ,that

there was a gang of these depredators, and he had
hopes they would be discovered.
WIIITCHAPEL. - Yesterday Elizateth
'alias Burnels, servant to :the Rev. Mr. Robsoit,. a
Mdgistrate, was charged with stealing a quantity of
silver plate, 'which she pledged iA different parts of
the town, and spent the money at Vamelfail-gardens.
She was-only committed to the House of Correaion
for three months; to.be kept to hard labour:
'Eleven Americans and two Irishmen were corn-
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mitted tc Clerkenvvell Prison, for want of bail,,for
making arf "alarming riot at the west-gate of the Lon-
don Dock, andkpoCking down every Portuguese sailor
they could meet with,, who gav,e their] no provoca-
tion. Thomas Griffith, an officer, received a severe
contusion on one of, his thighs by a brick hurled at
him by one of the rioters.
WORSHIP-STREET .---JOh/2 Roberts, a carpenter,
working in the house of Mr. Tenant, in broker-
row, Moorfields, was charged with stealing articles
Of plate from the said house. The pawnbroker's
duplicates were found upon him, and he was fully
cormnittedito Newgate for trial.