The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-07 00:00:00

CRUEL FltA t-D.

BOW.STREET.-A fe;(1;;:.ctgo, a respectable
looking ttanale, who had evidently seen better
days, and who described herself as the widow of
Mr. Bland, an Attorney, who had died a few
months since, and lett her in a state of destitu-
tion, with five children dependent on her for sup-
port, applied to Mr. Bra 1I E, in great affliction,
tinder the following circumstances :—A short
time after her husband's death she )ecatue 'ac-
quainted, at a friend's house at Richmond, with
a person who had the appearance of a Gentleman,
and who described himself as a Mr. John Lloyd,
brought up to the law in London, and as lately
following that profession at Newark ; he sympa-
thized in the tenderest manner with her distress,
and called at her residence, No. 8, Bridge-row,
Lambeth, and told her he could get her eldest
son, a youth about 19 years of age, provided for,
(if she could procure the sum of 1301.) in a place
under Government. She exerted herself among
her friends, and a Gentleman very humanely
promised her the stipulated stun. Mr. Lloyd
called again, when she informed him she had
succeeded in getting the promisf! of the hundred
and thirty pounds; he said he should he able to pro-
cure her an appointment for leer 5.,1) in a few days ;
and shortly after called again, and told her to
have the money ready by the 14)..inin, of the 24th
of December last, as he had procot, d the pro-
mise of an appointment of a Page to, the King ;
she accordingly went to the Gentleman, her
friend, who bad proniked the taoney, and he gave
her a 1001. and a 301. Bank note, %%lio, she gave
to Mr. Lloyd on the morning of the 24:11 of De-
cember, he desiring h-r to acComp,siy him, and
he would give her the necessary documents and
warrant of appointment for her soh ; she accom-
panied tom to the Treasury, when he desired her
to " toddle" about the passage for a few mi-
nutes, and he would retort, to her. Sit saw him
go up the Great Staircsse, and in a little time
return with some papers in his hand. She after-
wards accompanied him across the Park to St.
James's Palace, where be told her he was going to
the Lord Chamberlain's Office, for the warrant
of appointment as a Page to the King. On their
art ival at the Palace, he desired her to " kick her
heels Aont for a short time, and he would return
to her with the warrant from the Lord Chamber-
lain's °thee," She waited between three and
four hours in the Palace, wheuher patience became
quite exhausted, and site ventured to go to the
Lord Chamberlain's Office, and inquired for Mr.
Lloyd ; but nothing was known of hint or the
transaction ; she then began to suspect that she
had been doped by Lloyd, and that, to her

great mortification, she had lost her friend's

money; she made inquiry of every person she
suspected had any knowledge of itlr, Lloyd,h
could not find him, or learn where he was to be

found, and afterwards made her application to.
Mr. Birnie, who without hesitation gtatkted
warrant against Lloyd for a fraud. Mrs. Bland
had fortunately got the ,numbers of the notes.-
17,410 is that of the 1001., and 11,041 the 301.,
and the payment of theM has since been stopped
at the Rank.--Adkins, the officer, very kindly un-
dertook the serving of the warrant, and is going in
pursuit of Lloyd, whom Mrs. Bland described to
be about 35 years of ng* , five feet five inches
high, bald head at top, aiC wearing powder,
pale face, thin, and very long i:ose; and yvhen he
defrauded her of the- tboney, he Wk.s dressed in a
blue coat, black silk waistcoat, hl,:e pantaloons,
bouts, and a mixed great coat. Adkins has not
yet succeeded in tracing him.