The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-17 00:00:00

THE NOTORIOUS MRS. WARDLE.

The Gloucester Journal has published another account of the
proceedings of this infamous woman, which professes to be
" minutely accurate." As the lady is likely, from the pub-
licity given to her various exploits, to appear in a more ele-
vated character than any which she has yet assumed, we
are induced to copy the article from the Gloucester Journal,
which contains particulars not included in the former ac-
count.—A well-dressed female, about forty years of age, late-
ly applied for and obtained lodgings at a small public-house,
kept by an honest and respectable old man and his wife, in
a borough town, not a dozen miles from Gloucester. She at
first represented herself as a lady's maid in a family then
resident at Cheltenham ; she staid only one night, but re-
turned in a few days, observing that the family were gone
to visit a noblernan in the neighbourhood for a week, and
that for that period she had been put on board wages.—
After staying a few days, she came back, with a similar
story of the family being on a visit to a Right Rev. Prelate.
She again staid about a week, and then pretended to go to
Cheltenham to meet her mistress ; but within a fortnight
returned, and said the family were gone to Ireland, where they
would probably stay some months. She now became a regu-
lar inmate in the house, and paid for her board and lodging
liberally. She seems early to have studied the characters of
her best and hostess sufficiently to find that they might easily
be made her dupes; her first act was therefore to adduce fabri-
cated statements ofthe dishonesty of the servant girl ; and hav-
ing by this manoeuvre got her discharged, she offered to fulfil
the manifold duties of her situation as bar-maid, tapster, cook,
&c. until a suitable person could be procured. The landlord's
wife very opportunely died at this period, and the whole con-
cerns of the establishment devolved upon this kind-hearted
stranger, in condescending to perform offices which were so much
beneath the dignity of a lady's maid ! She frequently re-
ceived considerable remittances of money in letters and parcels,
which she said were sent by her mistress ; and she was
thought, by the kitchen customers, to be a person of no
small importance, until, in an evil hour, one of them, a
female, who was passing through the town, recognized her
as an old acquaintance, and immediately gave information
to a Magistrate, that she was a notorious utterer of forged
notes ; that she had been convicted of the offence at Staf-
ford, but the gang with whom she was connected had found
means to bribe one of the turnkeys to connive at her escape, and
for which offence lie was himself transported ; and that 1001.
reward was offered for her apprehension. The Magistrate, how-
ever, unfortunately determined to wait until an answer could
be obtained from Stafford, before he granted a warrant ; and
the lady, having got intimation of what was going forward,
escaped just in time effectually to evade two officers who
had been sent from Stafford to secure her, immediately on
the place of her retreat having been communicated to them.
There is no doubt whatever but that she was provided with
a plentiful supply of fictitious notes, if an opportunity had
presented itself of putting them in circulation; but she was
perhaps prevented from attempting this, by better prospects
unexpectedly opening upon her ; for it appears, that, from
the moment her hostess died, this artful woman had con-
templated becoming the Wife of the Landlord, who was
possessed of considerable property ; and it is believed that
they would have been married in the course of a few weeks.—
But the most melancholy part of the detail is, that this worth-
less adventurer, who has a husband now living, had gained
such an ascendancy over the mind of the old and infatuated
innkeeper, that, in a moment of temporary frenzy, brought
on by a consciousness of the impropriety of his conduct, in
harbouring this unknown female in opposition to the re-
monstrances of his friends, he put a miserable period to his
existence within a few days after her flight ! The officers sent
to re-convey this extraordinary personage to Stafibrd, repre-
sented her as a character of the most daring anti dangerous
description ; and they came duly prepared to interpose effk-
tual resistance, should any attempt at rescue have been made
on their journey, by those gangs of desperadoes infesting the
central districts, to whom she acted as a sort of directress and
rallying point,in the prosecution of their marauding pursuits.—
( Staffordshire Advertiser, April 13.)

ROBBERY AND MURDER.-011 the night of
Wednesday week, the 3d instant, on the road leading from
Lightwoods, near the fourth milestone on the Halesowen-road,
Shropshire Mr. Samuel Whitehouse was robbed and murdered.
It seems that the deceased on that day had been shooting in the
Lightwood, in company with his brother-in-law, Mr. Joseph
Downing, of Rowley, and after having dined with him at the
house of a blacksmith named Fox, in Beech-lanes, they left to-
gether on horseback about nine o'clock in the evening, and in
the space of half an hour, and at the distance of little more than
half, a mile from the cottage of Fox, the deceased was found by
a lad returning from West Bromwich, lying across the road,
quite insensible. On being taken up he was conveyed to the
Beech Tree public-house, where he lingered till Friday morn-
ing, when he died. On examining the body, it was discovered
that his death was oreisioned by a dreadful blow on the back of
the head from some dreadful weapon, by which his skull was
shockingly fractured. It was also ascertained that he had been
robbed of several Bank notes, his watch, chain, and seals, and a
leather shot pouch. A Jury assembled on the day following his
death, under the direction of Mr. Hinchliffe; Coroner for the
county, and the investigation was resumed on Wednesday and
Saturday last, from which day it was adjourned Saturday
next. The depositions of M. Downing, and of 'Fox and his
son were taken, but we refrain from entering into particulars.
The elder Fox, we since learn; is. detained in custody on sus-
picion of being implicated in this dreadful act.—( Birmingham
Gazette, April 15.)

'OF A WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
Au Officer of high rank in the British Navy,
then in the service of Russia, advised the Empress
CATHERINE 11. to have Crim Tartary and the
country of the Nogais Tartary ceded to her'at a
peace. He also proposed to her Imperial Ma-
jesty to form it naval arsenal at Cherson, to build
there a certain number of ships of the line and
frigates, with a flotilla, to give the Russians the
entire command of the Black Sea. This British
Officer recommended the immediate formation of
a Colony in th.t country, which was to have every
encouragement to cultivate the soil. When pro-
visions were here raised in abundance, should a
war break out with the Turks, a Russian army
could be supplied from thence, or, if the army
proceeded coastways, the Russian squadron with
provisions, by means of the flotilla, could supply
the army from time to time with every thing re-
quisite for continuing its march to Constantinople.
This advice was strictly followed. It was diffi-
cult, in the war of 1771, to supply a Russian
army with provisions, because General ROMAN-
ZOW, who then commanded the Russian army
against the Turks, subsisted his army at one
thousand miles distant from his depitit of provi-
sions, and was left at one time with only 113,000
infantry, within a few miles of the well fortified
Turkish camp, mounted with cannon, and an
army of three hundred thousand Turks to de-
fend it. The rest of the Russian army were
bringing up the convoys of provisions. None ar-
riving, and the provisions of General ROMANZOW
being reduced to two days, he advanced to the
Turkish camp with 16,000 men in three squares.,
all the light troops being placed in the waggons
in the centre of each square. The Turkish ca-
valry swore to support the infantry, and the
Turkish infantry swore to support the cavalry, and
in opposition to the remonstrances of the. French
engineers, the Turkish army marched out' of their
camp and attacked the Russians. During the battle
the third square of Russians marched round., and
got into the Turkish camp, then advanced' near
the scene of combat, where they threw up an en-
trenchment, which occupied a space capable of
containing the 16,000 Russians. When this
work was finished, these Russians fired upon the
rear of the Turks, who were unable to break the
two squares under General Romanzow, and suf-
fered a loss of men from the light troops station.
ed in the waggons. The Turks fled, and all the
Russians entered the part of the camp intrench-
ed for them, where they remained quiet. The
Turks returned to their camp, and began plun-
dering it. Then the Turkish cavalry accused
the infantry of cowardice, and a second battle
ensued between these. Then a third battle of
individual against individual for the plunder, and
when nearly ended, the Russians dashed out and
gave a finishing blow to the Turks, who instant-
ly fled from every part of their camp. General
Romanzow told an English General, a volunteer,
that the Russians did not kill above '2,000 Turks ;
Lut that 35,000 Turks fell by each others' sabres
in the camp—the tents of which, with the can-
non and provisions, became the booty of the Rus-
sians. When a Turkish army is defeated, every
man runs to his own home ; and many months
elapse before another army can be, assembled.
The English embassy which accompanied the
Grand Vizier and his army through Asia Minor
to Egypt, mention the danger of the'plague in a
Turkish camp. This scourge is the greatest esil
the Russian army is exposed to. At this time
the Russian armies are not only well-disciplined,
but also more numerous than the Turkish armies.
Knowledge is progressive every where but in
Turkey,—so that the Russian army has attained
all the improvements of the most modern art of
war, whilst the Turkish army has reaped no be-
nefit whatsoever from them. If Austria joins
Russia, and every delay is avoided, one cam-
paign will give those powers Constantinople and
the rest of Turkey in Europe. Two or three
battles will be fought, if a fierce desultory attack,
and an immediate flight, can be called one.:—
If a Turkish force should take possession of any
town, the chances are that the want of provi-
sions would compel a surrender, by the blockade
of a few (lays. Self-defence, and personal secu-
rity, will afterwards drive the Turks out of Asia
Minor. It is probable that, the greater part.of the
Turks will turn Christians, as the greater part of
the Asiatic And African Greeks did Mahometaus,
when conquered by the Arabians and the Turks.
The Island of Lemnos is of importance, if pos-
sessed by a naval power : it has two good har-
bours for ships of the line.. Five thousand men
to garrison the Island, aided by a strong squa-
dron, will bid defiance to the whole force of
Turkey, and 'starve Constantinople at any time
into terms.