The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-18 00:00:00

CHARGE OF SWINDLING.

Bow-STREET.--Yesterday Eliza Louisa Web-
ster alias I'dy, was brought up in the custody of Thos. Jones,
a police constable, on a warrant, in which she stood charged
with obtaining by false and fraudulent pretences, three silk
scarfs, and a quantity of gros de Naples, bombasin, and other
goods, value 251. and upwards, the property of Messrs. Mann,
drapers in Parliament-street. The prisoner, several months
ago, kept a coffee-house at Charing-cross, and was at that time
in custody at this office on charges of obtaining money under
false pretences from one of her lodgers, and other persons.
From the evidence now adduced, it appeared that a lady of
the name of Johnstone, widow of the late Comptroller of the
Twopenny Post-office, in Gerrard-street, Soho, had been fo7
many years a customer at Messrs. Mann's. She now resides
at Woodford, in Essex. A short time since, during the ab-
sence of the managing partner, a letter was received by the
principal shopman of Messrs. Mann, dated " Woodford,"
and purporting to be written by Mrs. Johnstone, desiring that
mourning for her three nieces might be furnished, and placed
to her account. The articles which would be required
were then enumerated, and the firm were requested to
send them packed to her (Mrs. Johnstone's) late residence, in
Gerrard-street, from whence, it was added, they would be for-
warded to 'Woodford, by one of the post-boys, who had been
spoken to upon the subject, and who would bring them without
delay. The shopman, believing the letter to have been written
and sent by Mrs. Johnstone, packed the gros de Naples, scarfs,
bombasin, and the other things comprised in the orders, and
sent the parcel to the Two-penny Post-office, in-Gerrard-street.
The order was placed to the account of Mrs. Johnstone in the
regular way, and no more was thought of them after until
Friday last, when another letter, purporting to be written by
Mrs. Johnstone, came by the two-penny post to Messrs.
Mann's, in which tile articles betbre sent were referred to in
terms of praise, and directions given that some more gros de.
Naples, lawn for handkerchiefs, and other things, might be
sent to the shop of a Mr. Pedley, in Holborn, where they
would he called for by a friend of her's, who was coming
to Woodford by coach from the George and Blue Boar, Hol-
born. Mr. Mann was at home when this letter came, ant there
was something about the manner of it which made him suspect
that all was not right. He, however, caused the goods to be
packed and taken to Mr. Pedley's shop, taking care himself to
accompany the young man who conveyed the parcel. He ob-
tained leave to sit in a parlour at the back of the shop ; and in
the course of the afternoon the prisoner came in and asked for
the parcel whieh was to he left there, addressed to Mrs. John-
stone, at Woodford. While she was speaking, Mr. Mann
entered from the parlour, and put sonic questions to her, which
she declined answering, observing that as he appeared to have
some scruples, she would leave him to settle the matter with
Mrs. Johnstone. She then left the shop, and was followed by
Mr. Mann's shopman, who watched her till he saw her go into
the George and Blue Boar, when he returned to his employer.
—Subsequently, however, an application was made to Mrs.
Johnstone, and she declared that the letters were Rot written
by her, or with her knowledge. Further inquiry was then
made, and it was ascertained that on the morning of the day
upon wbich the first letter was received at Messrs. Mann's, the
prisoner called at the post-office, anti inquiring for a lad who
was employed when Mr. Johnstone officiated there, asked him
if he would take a parcel which would be sent there in the
course of the day, clown to Mrs. Johnstone, at Woodford ?---
He readily assented, and the parcel was brought from Messrs.
Mann's, but in the afternoon the prisoner called for it herself,
and said she would forward it by another conveyance. By way
of satisfying any scruples that he might have, she shewed haul
a note, apparently written by Mrs. Johnstone to her, begin-
ning 64 My clear friend," and requesting her to make some al-
teration in the order which she (Mrs. Johnstone) had sent to
Messrs. Mann. She took the parcel away. A warrant was
issued at this office On Tuesday, and Jones ascertained that the
prisoner was living at No. 5, Queen-street, Brompton, with a
Life-Guardsman named Withnell (the same with whom she
avowedly cohabited when before in custody here), anti he went
there with one of the prosecutors. fie found Withnell in the
house, but lie denied that he knew where the prisoner was to
be found. .Jones, however, went up stairs, and found the
prisoner behind the door of one of the rooms on the attic story
He found some lawn handkerchiefs, bearing the prosecutor's
private mark, in the house but could find nothing relating to
the charge when he searched her person. Yesterday morning,
however, when he went to fetch the prisoner from the watch-
house, he found in the room where she had slept a great many
pieces of pawnbrokers' duplicates. The pieces were wet.
The prisoner seemed dejected, and when asked if she had any
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Mr. Hatts said, that the presence of Mrs. Johnston was ab-
solutely necessary; and the prisoner therefore would see her at
the next examination.
The prisoner was committed to Tothill-fields prison for far-
ther examination on Tuesday next.
The following very singular doctithent was found in her
pocket by Jones, the officer :

(corr.)
" I, Eliza Louisa Webster, wife of John Webster, of Bidbo-
rough-street, Burton-crescent, and before marriage Eliza Louisa
Dunbar, daughter of the late Sir George Dunbar, of Fwqeth-.
park, and Mount-pleasant, Liverpool, do solemnly bind myself,
to live during my natural life with Thomas Henry Stanley
Withnell, now private in His Majesty's first Life Guards, and
in case I fail to fulfil any part of the above contract, I do fur-
ther agree to forfeit to the above-named Thomas Henry Stanley
Withnell, the half of whatever property 1 may at any time
from the date hereof possess, such as by bonds, will, or deeds,
goods, chattels, lands, tenements, &c. As witness my hand,
this twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord 1824.,,
(Signed) ". ELIZA LOUISA WEBSTER.
Several applications wire made some weeks ago, for a star'"
mons against Mr, Charles Pitt, of Adam-street, Adelphi, for
disturbing a congregation of Dissenters, at a meetinghouse, In
Burleigh-street, Strand. Both Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. If AL Ls
referred the complainants to the Sessions; and finally an ap-
plication
was made to the Court of King's Bench, for a ma" dames, and a rule to shew cause was granted. On Monday 3
summons was issued, and yesterday the case was heard at great
length, and the result was that Mr. Pitt was held to hail, to
appear at the Sessions to answer the charge.

Dublin is at length to be lighted with gas'
The erection of lamps, and laying down of pipes, will be com-
pleted by the middle of April.
On Monday evening week, a prayer-meeting
was held at the 3lethodist chapel, Pontefract : Mr. Baines,
shoemaker, of Brotherton and his son, were passing at the tune
and stopped to admire the congregation singing,. they were at-
tracted near to the front of the chapel, when both unfortunatelY
fell into a deep area, that had been sunk for the purpose 01
giving light to the school-room, which was undet the building.
On Mr. Baines being extricated, it- was found that life was ex-
tinct, as he had violently fractured his skull its the fall. Tile
son was injured, but not severely. An inquest was held on the
body, when the Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death,
and recommended the building committee to have the place
Made secure by a fence, which was immediately cone.
ATTEMPT AT 11111RDER.-011 Monday morning a poor
Irish labourer, named Cannon, who has a family- of five
children, called on his employer, Mr. Brady, a master Pe"
viour of Westminster for the amount of his week's wages;
Brady had refused to pay bins on Saturday, and feeling enrage"
at the request, he struck Cannon a violent blow on the boa
with a handspike, which fractured his skull. Cannon remains
in
in ada ng erous state in the Westminster Infirmary. Brady 1'
custody.

COAL MARKET, FEB. 16.
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Price.
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On the 14th inst BIRTHS.
a son. , the lady of Cuthbert Rippon, Es.(l,
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st.,in Bernard-street.,
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MARRIED.
On the 15th inst., at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Lieut. W.. (3.*
T. Lewis, of the Hon. East India Company 's military .service,
to Caroline, second daughter of Mr. Hume, of Long-acre.
On the loth inst., at Earl's Colne, Essex, J. P. Burrows,
Esq., of Austinfriars, London, to Henrietta, second daughter
of the late Rev. Thomas Carwardine, of Colne Priory.

On the 13th inst. DIED.
, Arthur Skeere Loftie, Esq., late of Carl'
terbury, in the 78th year of his age.
On the 14th inst., 111 r. J. Garry', of Gray's-inn-lane aged W 6f.;.:
On the 13th inst., .W. Prideaux, Esq., of Portland
square, Plymouth, aged 28.
At the 111ou1t, near Ringsbridge, Devonshire, Wm. Jackson,
Esq.; late a Comtnissioner of the Bohicl of Excise, aged 72.

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THE SUN.

SOLEM 0171 ti DICERE FALSUM AUDE3T

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, FEB. 18, 1825.

We understand that an express has just arlived
from Liverpool with favourable accounts to the
cause or Independence in Peru. The account is
dated from Panama, late in December, and states
that Bout VAR was in the neighbourhood of the
city of Cusco.

The remainder of the Paris Papers of Tuesday
arrived last night. The only articles of political
intelligence worth extracting are the following :
( From the Constitutionnel of Tuesday. )
LISBON, JA). 31.

. It is asserted that M. Sivestre Pinheiro Ferreira, named for
the present Minister for Foreign Affairs, will go with Sir
Charles Stuart, Ambassador Extraordinary of Great Britain,
first at our Court, but now to that of Brazil. M. Pinheiro will,
4 is said, be charged with full powers to obtain the best possible
conditions in favour of Portugal, as the price of the acknowledg-
- rnent of the independence of the new empire.
- It is.generally-acknowledged here that so delicate and intri-
cate a commission could not have been placed in better hands
than those of that able statesman, who possesses the double
advantage of having long dwelt at Rio Janeiro, and in conse-
quence of having been ahlefok&ow and appreciate all the men of
influence in the country, and enjoying the perfect confi-
dence of the King, his master, and that of the Emperor Don
Pedro. Besides which, men of all parties look upon M. Pin-
heiro as a good and loyal Portuguese, and do not doubt that if
the news of his nomination should be realized, as it is thought
it will, that he will chew much zeal, talent, and warmth, in the
defence of the interests'ahis mother country.
MADRID, FEn. 3.
The King was so ill the day, before yesterday, dint he was
thought to be at the last gasp, and all the Court already went
to the Infant Don Carlos.
The dreams of our Government upon the conquest of Ame-
rica strengthen every day. Two of the four regiments destined
for the new expedition, viz. the regiment del Rei (King's), and
the regiment de la Reina (Queen's), have received orders to set
out immediately from Valladolid, where they arc at present sta-
tioned, in order to march for the port of Ferrol.
N. Gregoire Ribalcabr, a rich merchant of Madrid, has just
set out for London, accompanied by aM. Gregory. Their mis-
sion is to enter into a negociation respecting the propositions
Made by some London bankers for a loan of 200 miilions of
teals, on condition that the goodness of the loan made by the
Cortes should be admitted for a nominal value of ten per cent.

A Flanders Mail, with Brussels Papers to the
loth instant, arrived last night. The Kr c. of the Nr.T En-
LANDs has granted fronehis privy purse 100,000 florins for the
relief of the sufferers by the inundation. The accounts from
the Northern Provinces continue to give h deplorable picture of
the ravages and destructive effects of the late extraordinary high
tides. The letters from Guelderland contain the most melan-
choly details, and the town of Embden has suffered greatly.
It is most gratifying, in the midst of these calamities, _to sec
the humane feelings which have been called forth, and the zeal
anti eagerness with which all classes have come forward to the
relief of the distressed sufferers. Subscriptions were opened
on the Exchange at Amsterdam, which produced 1,000;000
florins. A single house is said to have given 250,000 florins.
A project of a law has been transmitted to the Second Chamber
of the States Geheral for a vote of credit, the maximum of
which is fixed at 8,000,000, for the reparation of the disasters
caused by the inundations.

The accounts in the liamburgh Papers of the 11 th
instant, received this morning, relative to the effects of the late
storm and inundations are of the most afflicting nature, and the
damage sustained is a counterpart to that caused in North Hol-
land. Not only are the dikes broken through in a great many
places, but the waters in numerous instances rose over them,
having reached a height never before known. In the Duchy
of Bremen many houses were entirely washed away, and a
great many persons perished. The dikes of the Stor, which
runs by Gluckstadt, are broken in above fifty places. At
Gluckstadt a Greenland whaler and two barges were forced
through the dike, and carried away two houses on the
harbour ; thirty_ persons are said to have perished there•
The accounts from the Hanoverian side of the Elbe are
equally melancholy. Besides the actual immense damage,
the flood has deposited in many districts such vast quantities
of sand, that it is feared the fields will not recover their former
fertility for many years.
. The reports from Embden arc dreadful beyond all
expression. Even on the Bth, several streets had no com-
munication with the other parts of the town. A letter
'from Steinhausersitl, on the river Jande, says the water rose
in an hour and a half (from half-past nine to three-quarters
'Past ten in the evening) fourteen feet above the usual high
Water mark. It flowed over the dikes in every part. The flood
is said to have exceeded by four feet that of 1717, the highest
on record, and according to which all the dikes and other works
were calculated. The Senate has appointed a Committee of
three' Members (Senators Jenisch, Abendroth, and Benicke,)
to receive and distribute the contributions for the relief of the
sufferers. •

Dutch Papers to the 17th instant, continue to
'give lamentable accounts of the late disastrous floods. It seems
that the whole coast of Overyssel, from Kampen to Kuinder,
15 overflowed, and that the water impelled by the storm carried
every thing before it, co that very few houses could resist its im-
petuosity, and many persons lost their lives. In the province of
East Friesland alone it is supposed that 200,01)0 acres of fertile
.land are under water, and that 10,000 horned cattle have
perished. Accounts froni llusunt, on the coast of holstein,
are of a similar nature. It is certain that the numerous small
islands on the coast have suffered severely, as is evi-
dent from the quantity of household furniture, among
.Ivhielt are twenty cradles that have been washed on shore.—
There is no positive information, says a letter from llttsum,
but as far as we can see from the beach, only three houses are
left on the islanA of Kleinmoot, and Judfall seems to be entirely
~ashed away. It is intimated that above 200 waggon loads of
household furniture and other goods are washed on shore.