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

Gr4n.na ALL.- A sai- di.tairt woman of family, call-
aing •herselt Harriej .lago, was yesterday' brought up
her second examination, upon a charge of being
an incorrigible vagrant and Impostor, hfrving endea-
voured, under false pretences, to inculcate it belief
her being abandoned by a most fespOtahle
to whOrn she;alleged-berself to be closely connect-
ed, and that she was thereby, driven-by despair to
attempt her own *de.aruttion by opiuM, in order,
by such indlrea means, to, interest, the compassion Of
tho credulous, and to obtain charitable contribu-
tions. Suca .a mass of hi formation was-adduced in
illustration of her charader in this_ way, as to strew
thit sbe'has been rarely; if ever, paralleled in the
annals of imposture.
It appeared, on the statement Of Mr. Kirby, a
respectable bookseller, of London Honseayard, that
on the'hight .of Sunday, the 6th instabt, he was in-
formed by the head-beadle of his parish, who lives
• next door .to himathat iflady in:distress 'had fallen
ddvin at 'the (twit of, .Mr: Ibbetson, Proctor, Bell-
cburt, Doctors' Commons, and-was actually dying of
the-etre:as of opium, or sbme other deleterious drug,
which she had swallowed: Thither Mr. Kirby im-
mediately went, with the beadle, and found the un-
haPpy,otaiett -in the situation described : he had her
removed' tar his own house, in London- lionserlard,
in Order to prncure for hcasome medical assistance ;
and he accordingly sent to Mr. Hurlock, a respect-
- able Surgeon add Apothecary, in St. Paul's Church-
yard, from 'whence art assistant came, and alter an
attendanCe'of nearly six hours, and the administra-
tion of emetics, a quantity of opium was discharged
from her stomach, which this assistant declared must
haVe killed her, had she reniaitted three hours longer
without proper remedies. • -
She told \Mr. Kirby a 'plausible' story of lier
high connections ; said she wag born near Aber-
deen, was a near .relation 'of the Gordon.. t cavity 5
that she was 'the daughter of COlonel Sir William
Maxwell ; that she had three sisters, Mrs. Dupr6,
and two others,
.now at Brighton ; that her brother,
-the younger Colonel Maxwell, had: lust his arm at
the battle of Corunna, and
.was now at Aberdeen ;
diet her family had abandoned her, which had
driven her to despair, and urged her 'to the rash act
she bad committed. She said she had been of late
permitted by the housekeeper -to sleep at the ho.us
ot Lord File, in Privy-Gardens, Whitehall, where
she had slept-the night before. The reason why her
family 'had abandoned her was, that she had been
Seduced by trii-Marqdis'of nuntly, with whom she
had-lived aotee time at Blackheath, and had a son
by him, who is now at-the School .of the Rev. Pre
Borne, near 'Chiswick; and that .she had but a
" short time 'before broken out Of a mad-house at
Gravesend; wheie she had been confined by her
friends. She Mentioned a long list of names and'
coaneaions, to whom she stated herself to be
related : and after being somewhat recovered and re-
freshed, she exeressed a desire to go away, which
4r. Kirby permitted her to, do, care of the,
tieadle, to conithia her to the protedien of her
friends; but finding herself watched in her retreat.
down Ludgate-Sheet by the beadle, she told him it.
was in vain to follow her, 'fornothing should pre
vent her from putting an end to her existence.
mob was colleeied, to whoM she made her appeal;'•
and the beadle was very roughly handled, for at--
tempting to condueher out ot his palish.. But in
the result of the disturbance which took place, the
lady was conduaed to the watch-lionse, and brought:
next day.betore Alderman -Wood.
Mr. Kirby procured the attendance of Lord Fife's
and the Hon. Mr. Fordy ce's heuse-keepers frona
Whitehall, by whom she pretended to be, known -
and befriended; but both positively denied any
knowledge ot her. She, however, persiSted then in.
her story o being thedaughter,olCol. Sir William
Maxwell, and hi the cause she before pretended for
attempting sell-deal auaion. Mr._,Alderrnae Wood,
at that 'time, ordered her to:be taken 'care of, until
proper enquiries should bg made oft her tricuds, and
to-ast-t she was- brought up fur fu-rilier• examination.
- She affected mech agitation and poignant disttes4
insisted he'was, the d,inghter of. Sir William Mai-
will, though-not born in wedlock that his abaci=
donment of her, and-the cruelty of her !artily; were
the causes of her distress of mind ; that she Was in
• the habit-of taking opium as a means of relief, to
assuage her pain, and quiet her :perturbed spirits ;
that site tad often taken it, and if she was taken up
and committed to prison everytitne she-took Opium,
or if that was a crime that deserved puniahment,. her
*ish was at once to be tried, and-sent to Botany
Bay, for she must still continue to take opium so
long as her pain and anguish of mind continued.
Mr. Alderman WooD, who was. now present,
cross-esamined her with great. mildness, :touching'
the truth of her story,, in which she still -persisted.
He asked her if she had not a brother named Greaves,
• as. ho drove the SalisbUry mail coach, or whether that
brother hrel.not appeared as an evidence against her,
some few years since,. at the, Exeter Assizes, where,
she was trieti as a vagrant and convicted : ' She de-
nied positively any knowledge of Greaves, and said
she never was at Exeter ; that she was n,,t_in Eng-
, land five .years ago, having beelt abroad many nears,
and only returned within the last two. She paid
she had. twe *others, one of Whom died at Cape
C Africa, and the other was in ,Scotland.—
. Mr. Aldermae Wood, however, Led; by la-oper en-
quiries, well ascertained the tad of her trial and
conviction at '....Extfter, and the appearance of her bro-
ther, Greaves, the mall-coachnb, as a witness
there against her,. and stated, several-other circum-
stances of her having applied for pecuniary aid to
Several respeclabie persons in the vicinity of London,
under false pretences, reapetting her family connec-
, lions. •and particularly to Mr. Adams, who keeps a
. naval academy at Eh mentor, to w hum she stated
herself to be the near relation of Lady Madelina
—, and daughter of Colonel Sir William Gor-
don, and allied-to sneral other persons of distinc-
tion : bat4hat Mr. Adanss had written to those per-
. soos, who denied any knowledge w keever. of such a
womal 1; and said she must be an arrant impostor.
-Mr.Cotterell, one of the Magistrates for we county.
Of .111Adlesey., also attended, and slated that the pri-
soner was otic the moiC consummate impostors
alive that. she had imposed upowthe credulity of
_ hi, ~wit lamq, whose protection she, eljoyed for se-

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