The Sun.
London, England, 1802-12-07 00:00:00

IMPOSTOR.

A i'BW days since Mr. BOND received a letter
from Mons.WissAEG, Prefed of Police at Boulogne,
stating, that in the prison of that place there was a
young Englishman, who, in passing through Calais,
had formed an acquaintance with a Mr. Sandwell, a
traveller for a mercantile house at Bristol, and
agreed to proceed in his company during their jour-
ney. This young man sometimes assumed the rank
of an Officer in the Life Guards, and at other times
called himself a Captain in the Light Dragoons
nay, once he stiled himself a Lord ! He introduced
himself to Mr. Sandwell under the name of George
Wilbraham, acquainting him that he was a Captain
in the 3d, or King's own Regiment of Dragoons,'
-commanded by Colonel Lord C. Grey ; that his
brother (Henry Wilbraham) was Lieutenant-Colonel
in the First Regiment of Foot Guards, commanded
by his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester ; and
that his father, George Godfrey Wilbraham, resided,
when in London, in Somerset place (there is no such
place), near Harley-street, Cavendish-square ; and
when in the country, at Ashley Hall, near Hastings,
in the County of Sussex.. Mr. Sandwell having ad-
vanced him a sum of Money, received from him in
return several bills on different houses in London,
which were all protested ; one of " George Godfrey
Wilbraham, Captain K. O. D." or, " King's own
Dragoon 4." He was therefore apprehended as a
Publisher of counterfeit Bills of Exchange ; and in
his examination before Mons. WISSAEG, Prefed of
Police at Boulogne, declared that he was an Ensign
in the soth Regiment of Foot. The Prefect, io
consequence, wrote to Mr. BOND, requesting he
would cause the necessary inquiry to be made, and
inform him of the result. Mr. BOND immediately
applied to the War-Office, and to Messrs. Cox and
Greenwood, Agents to the Regiment, and under_
stood from the latter, that they had received advice
from the real Captain Wilbraham at Paris, warning
them to be cautious in their acceptances, as there
was an adventurer in France who had assumed his
name and person. This intelligence has been trans_
mitted by Mr. BOND, through the medium of Ge-
neral ANDREOSSI, to the Prete& at Boulogne, and
will no doubt prove a satisfadory detection of the
gross imposture.

Hatfield, the Keswick Impostor, was examined
yesterday at the Public-office, Bow-street, and spinT
mined to Tothill.fields Bridewell, for furtbex exk
amination on Monday next. 01 7,5 i•

He concluded himself with the greatest propriety
duriog his journey to Town, and on his examina-
tion,; but said nothing more than answering a few
questions put to him by Sir RICHARD FORD
and the Solicitors. He was dressed in a black
C6at and waistcoat, fustain breeches and boots, and
wore his hair tied behind, without powder his
appearance was respenable, though quite in disha-
bille.

His Royal Highness the Duke of CUMBERLAND,
Earl of AYLE3BURY, Sir CHARLES BUNBURY, Sir
EDWARD PELLEW, Hon. Mr. AsHLEI", Mt. AN-
DRF.W•:;, M. P. Hon. Mr. MACDONALD, Colonel
FULLER, Colonel M'IVIAHoN, Colonel STEVENS,
and a number of n!-ler Gentlemen, were hre,enr at
the examination. His Royal Highness remained a
consider-61e time afterwards, to near several other
cases that were brought forward.

Sunday morning a man was brought in custody
from Liverpool, by Anthony, Lne of the Bow-street
Officers, on Suspicion of having been guilty of the
wilful murder of Mr. STEEL ; and after undergoing
a private examination before Sir R. FORD, was com-
mitted for further investigation.
SINGULAR ROBBERY.—The following may be
relied on as a faft : On Saturday evening last, as a
poor labouring man was passing through the Rope_
walk, near Traitors-bridge, in Bristol, on his way
home, he was stopped by two footpads, who robbed
• him of 9s. being the whole of his hard-earned week's
wages ; the man expostulated with them on their in-
humanity-, alledging, that himself and family would
inevitably he starved, in consequence of his loss,,
-Wh.en one of the fellows proposed returning; him a
:shilling, to save them from starvation tlfht night
to which the other objeaed inimediatelf Jftier;the-
first who made the proposition, presented him with
(as he supposed) a shilling; but how great was the
poor man's surprize, on his arrival home, after dis-
closing the unfortunate and melancholy circumstance
to his wife, to find that, instead of being in pos...
_session of a shilling, the robber, by mistake, had
made him possessor of a guinea.
Preservation of Plants from Frost.—The fol-
lowing method has been recommended to preserve
plants from dying after having been touched by the
frost. It is particularly useful for exotics which
are in flower-pots, because the experiment can .be
more easily effeeted.on them.
Before the plant has been exposed to the sun,
or thawed after a night's frost, it should be well
sprinkled .with spring-water, in which sal-ammo-
niac or common salt has been infused ; this must
be continued some time ; but we would rather re-
commend, where it can be effeeted, to immerse the
whole plant in the above infusion.—lt is parti.
cularly requisite that the root should be immersed,
because that part being harder, withstands the frost
much longer, and will not so soon thaw, owing to
its being covered with earth. The philosophical
reason will be easily perceived. Indeed we are in-
clined to believe, if plants were to be watered
every morning in the spring, after the cold nights,
with some such solution, it would preserve them
greatly from the blight. For if the blight is a
species of gangrene or mortification, as Dr. GAR.
NETT asserted, brought on by the anion of the
rays of the sun in the spring, on the morbidly ac.
cumulated irritability which had been produced by
a considerable subtraetion of heat during thy pi
" especially if," as the Dotior ob,erves,i
night succeeded by a cloudy or misty• nforni,n, is
never attended with these effe&s, whica? .: almost Cer •
tainly follow, if, when the spring is considerably
advanced, a frost should be succeeded by a fine I
warm morning ;"—if blight is a species of the'dis-
order above-nrentioned, why should not this me-
thod be as effectual in its cure of plants aS'snow is
when used to prevent a mortification in any of the
human members

I4AMBURCH MAIL

VIENNA, Nov.

PRINCE NiCtiOLAS STEItt-IAZY, Lieutenant_
captain of the Hungarian Guard, is going to Poi-it.
He took leave of His Imperial Majesty the day
before yesterday. He will pass the greater part of
the winter at Path, and will, it is said, likewise go
to London.

The brother of the Prince RuspoLS, who has
been ele&ed Grand-master of the Order of Malta,
is here, and has received a Letter from the Prince,
who is in England, informing him that he has de-
clined accepting the dignity of Grand-master, and
stating his masons for. his refusal.
Letters frim Italy say, that the Vice-president
of the Italiai.tepublic, Citizen MELzt, will make
a journey to iris Estates in Spain, and that General
M'URAT will, in the mean time, exercise his
fundions.

General CULLS, who formerly commanded the
Sardinian Army in Piedmont, which ',vas joined by
the Austrian Troops, being now completely re-
stored to health, is again in alual service.
The PALATINE Of HUNGARY iS preparing to
make a journey to Petersburgh, which is supposed
by some, to have a reference to an intended mar-
riage with a Russian Princess.