The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-29 00:00:00

' Mrs. Grant, whtn his Lordship asked every qties.
tinn as to-her situation, with a view to alleviate it,
Mr. Paul said he' had not seen her distinctly, for
r the eumiins" were' closed round her, but the opium.
lia d had an effdt which he had knoWn it frequently
'to produce it kid given her'eyes a more than
Usual brilliancy, With respell to lodging it was
a' very small room., Ihe woman who attended her,
see med a good sort of woman enough, and she
was- also' attended by a Surgeon or Apothecary.
With respect -to himself, he said, he had been.edu.
sated at Westminster and Oxford, and had the
living-of St, Kitt's, in Jamaica ; that he bad pro.'
petty in Ireland, and was,going to America on pri.
vate business. To WS. Lotifship's question how he,
was so fortunate to meet this young woman, he re.,
plied it was by accident', that quite looked like
.romance. He was coming to town in the Ongar,
.stage, in which was a young woman, two children,
and a Lidy all it) Mourning. He entered into con.'
versation with her, and was surprised to find her,
the cLoghter of a person at whOse house, in Ja.„
na;,ica, he had hiMself been frequently received,
:with `kindness. • Although his business pressed, he"
de:ermined to stay and afford, her some assistance.
He then stated that he had that day given her a 21.
note, which hii Lordship, at this interview,' re-
turned (being the note on Which the Indiament
was
.founded), Ile. added, that Mrs. Grant's fa.
tiler was extremely affluent, and he should not Won_
der if he was to remit suoi. at the first inteiligehce
of hii' dziughter`a situation. His Lordship added, .
:that he expressed:himself in .the language of the
purest truth and benevolence, and as he appeared a
well,cducated Gentleman, who had seen the world,
his Lordship had,no suspiCion of any fraud. At..
ter this interview a correspondence ensued between
Mi. Paul and his Lordsinp, the firmer lamming
his Lordship,daily,. the state of Mrs. Grant's
health,- aCCompanieti with request; for pool.
try, fruit; and wine,- of Which were supplied by
:the 'Minty of his, Lordship, At length Mrs.
Grant' is sufficiently recovered to write to his
Lordship ; she tells him, but that for the kind as_
iistance of the Rev. Mr. Paul, she should have
been lost. And although she is ordered by her
medical attendanr, to keep herself perfedly quiet;
yet she sits up in bed to write to. his Lordship, dfli
anticipates the pleasure 4)1 meeting her benef,ietor.
The last letter from Mr. Paul, is dated Aug. 13.
He acknowledges the receipt of 61, as.' which had
been expended for Mrs. Grant, and tells his Lord.
ship, that the sheets which had been_ sent, had by
some accident, been near brimstone, which affelled
Mrs. Grant very 'Much ;- that her situation re-
quired fine old linen, if his Lordship had any such.
He apologizes, if there be any inaccuracy in his
letter, becauSe he bad a' head.arh• and wive 'degree
of fever.
Tlie farce new began to draw to its conclusion.
His Lordship received another Letter from Mrs.
Grant-, dated Saturday, August i 1, in which she
says
" Last Saturday her father's sister came to town, ;and
found iter out. She was a SOW' old lady, a man-hater, and
snarttriat the whole sex, Sbr; had taken Mrs. G. into on
country with her, although she Wag removed at the peiil of
her lite. 'l'lle Lady she was With was nearly as bad as her
aunt I but as the tatter was going out iota few days, her Ar.
gus would let hv.oollle to tOyv,O, which 'would enable her to
eettet his Lordship. As her 111-tempered aunt had gtven her
neither money not clothes,: she begged 41. of his Lordship,,
this opportunity Was lost, she should never, be able to see
hiin, its tier,aunt, was a vigilant guarded woman, and'hated
the men so Muth, that at the first entrance into her room,
finding the Rev. Mr. Paul there, she most grossly ;intited'
him. 51w could not have. any Letter addressed in her own
name, lest it should' All into the hands or her guilt, and t fie:
fore 'begged his Lordship to direct. to hys. Herrier, Post,
Office, Waltham."
His Lordship, in his answer to this Letter, ex.,
piessed some suspicions that he had been duped.; in
answer to which Mrs. Graftt,thatiks Lord
,clarendon
fur his favours, it sorry to think he should conceive
himself to have been duped, but he will find hii
mistake when she gets home to the West Indies. In
a Postscript she adds, 46 the best of men, Mr. Paul,
died sudderdron Saturday last,."
This closed the intercourse:between his Lordship
and his Correspondents,' Mrs.-Grant and
,Mr: Paid.
Soon after W a ilia he received another Letter from a
Rev ervrid Mr. Bennett, setting Itirth a 'deplorable
tale of misery ;, but his suspicious being aWakened,
he eropl,,yed his Steward to trace the supposed Rev.
Mr. BEN when it turned our to be the Pd.
saner at thebar,• who had imposed himself on his
Lordship as the.keverend. Mr, Paul, that -" best of
men whotn Mrs. Grant stated 'to have died sudden,
ly." Elia lodgings being searched, two books were
found in'his hand-writing, one of them sn account'
of money received, by which it appeared, that by
these swindling practices, he had plundered the Pub.
lit to the amount of 4881:within the last two years..
The other. was an outline, or transcript, of all the
letters he wrote, with .memoranda, in what hands he
wrote them. Thus, Mrs. Grant's first
,letter' had
the follnwing notes-.stall running hand—Mrs.
Smith's left laid*—,-Mr, Paul's large right.band
seaariibrd—So char, by referring to theSe notes,
always preserved, consistency in. his feigned hands.:
The jury found him. Guilty—and the Court i., mme
dtateiy 'iientenced him sever,. years transportation.

A man, named John Tucker died lately at Leigh,
the 95th year of his age. in hhearly
yeari) he
.worked. as a jobbing lartiener, and in
1757 he entered on board the Terrib/4„ Captain
Dr fire, which sustained the memorable`-.Engage.
merit with the Pengefiece French Frigate,. of •36
guns•, anti 3ov meo. The Terribtetarried z 6 small
guns and iv) men; and though the rerzieance was
aided by the'Grand Alexander Letter' oeMarque,
the Terrible maintained the contest till only ten
of her crew remained eifeetive. Tucker• was one
of the few who escapad unhurt ; and,retujning some
time after to Leigh, he hired a cottage with about
an acre of garden ground, by the cultivation Of
which he maintained himself. This= premises, hew.
ever, lately felt into the hands' of another landlord,
and Tucker hiving been dismissed, took to his bed
and died, according to his own declaration, of a
broken heart.