The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-25 00:00:00

A FEMALE SWINDLEk AT VIENY Z.

LAST Autumn-a-Lalipcalling herself the Baroness
Von Fittan Vienna in •a•brilliant
page attended by foul, men-Aervanta'and two 'maids'.
Shea took very elegant apartments which she fur_
nished in stile ; all her expeAces were: paid in ready.
money -and in' gold% She was presented at Court,'
and in the first circles,, as the wid6W7i4 a: Prussian
Colonel:iminensely rich. 'ln November she recei-1.1.
edr a- credit -from a bankiog house • at,: Harnburghi:
-upon oneof the first bankers at Vienna, for 50,060,_
florins. Her expellees and insinuating manners,,
with a tolerable good person, and the charaiter of a
widow in affluence, procured her numerous
revs, and a number'of-stiittirs; aavingst ethers„seve-.
ral of the young Nobility'. She declined, however,
all offers of Marriage, having determined upon an
-eternal widowhood; in gratitude for the large for-
tune left her by •herever, regretted husband. • She
went regularly to 'church and to confession,. was
irreprOachable in her conduit, and chaste in' her,.
Manners •and conversation. —She was looked upon
,as a model of vii cue and religion, •and soon be-
,
came the envy of her own,sexi: in becoming the
admiration 'of the other.- • Site ,was very chari-
table to- the poor ; visited often the-hospitals, and.
subscribed largely' to philanthropic: -institutions.-
-The hiatst'oppOsite to her apartments belUnged tti a,
young man,-son of a grocer,- whobAd a very high
oliitiiOn of his own •person and merit, because lilt
-Falb& had left him .200,-000'.flOrins.- He addressed:
himself to one of her servants, to have a letter tae
-livered to the Baroness, with an offerof his hand
and fortune, but was repulsed with indignity. For-
a 'large present the sante servant undertook again,
though at the risk' of losing. his service, to carry
another letter ; which met with,a less severe reeep-
lion, the-- Baroness- being smitten by the" person of
the young man, whom she ar last admitted :private_
ly into her,preseoc, ;Ir.Rl after many ,prayers,- sighs,
tears, and presentsi.she -agreed to give her hand
next Easter ; but having refused tn:;ny great
peo'file, the young man was laid tind,r strict se.
creev,and their marria:;e was to be. celebrated

Beilin.
In Decembellasf -Shereceived a, letter, import.:,
ing that her younger sister way promised to
sian Nobleman She consultd lice 'secret lover,
%Omni she persuad-ed believe that she had- a,
fortune of 200,000 fl:,ritis in -the:Yeir, 'abtirtt"vthe
present she sliould: make her"- 4st&',.:on her wed-
di-ng-day, and it Ivas
_agreed they coud nut
be of lesS'Vaitte than 66,:obr6'fforins _lain rout
in diamondS; and as :Oise. Wanted to ehotlse, the'
young man was deiired'-t bring zoo;oop worth
from his uncle, -a jeweller, whoui she -said she
would pay in -ready money for what- she deter—
mined to keep. • •
The diamonds were brought in ,-the evening,
and left for her inspeaion, ',until the next day.--
But when the young man called ,at the
.appointed
time, the servants said their mistress was all, and
could, see no company till the day after ; and
when the duped lover then returned, he was in-
formed that the Baroness, with one of her female
servants, had, forty- tinvis_Jr.efore, left vile
house but previously left orders to neclarc lief ill
if ingnired ;tier, as she was going to the Ursuline
Convey to make her devotions. She had indeed
been there, but swindled the supetior of a brilliant
cross of the greatest value, which the late Emprzss
Maria Thema had given to the statue of a mira-
culous virgin, and the. Baroness had ..borrowed it
as a pattesrn for.one she intended to give her •sister.,
She had the same clay been at her banker's, and,
upon pretence of buying jewels for her sister's
marAage, had obtained in gold, and in. bank
for bills on Hambargh, 100,000 florins more than
she had credit for. Ti. has since been found out.
that she had played the same tricks at Berlin, Dres-
den, and
.at Naples. Couriers have been sent
every where after' her, but in vain; the only in-
' formation obtained is, that a lady nearly answering
the description, had embarked last month at
Ernbden, either for England, or for America. It
is-said; that her desolate and deserted I6ver is now
on his- way to this country; and if he can find her.
out, intends to forgive, and marry her:.,
She is
about fwenty,five years-*df age, speakS flnently
moste European languages, has a fine taste for
drawing, and' plays the
side.
piano-forte in exquisite