The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-16 00:00:00

I',IL Li FECTS OF SEDUC NON.

Yesterday an Inquisition was held at the sign
of the IVliite Hatt, in Turner-street, Mile end
old-town, before JOHN IVRIGHT UNWIN, Esq.
Coroner for the County of Middlesex, on view of
sire body of Miss Mary Ann Scales, an interest-
ing young woman eighteen years of age. It v•
Dears that the di, teased had quitted her paternal
root for some time, and occupied furnished apart-
ments in a respectable house in the neighbour-
hood krbere she passed as a married woman, on.
der the ass,med name of Mrs. Williams and
there she was frequently visited by a Gentleman
who passed as her husband, but %vho there is great
reason to suspect had been her seducer, and whose
desertion of her led to the follotving melancholy
catastrophe, as will best appear from the evi-
dence :

Elizabeth Young being sworn said, she lives at
No. 30, Plutn►ner's-row. About half-past eleven
o'clock, last Moaday forenoon, the mother of the
deceased called on her to inquire if she had seen
her child, as she was very uneasy on her account,
not having seen her since Saturday morning, a
thing very unusual, as she was in the habit of
frequently visiting her; witness informed her she
had not seen her, they then went together to the
house in which the deceased lived, and inquired of
the person who kept the house, who informed them-
that she had nut seen her for some time ; and the
window-blinds being down roused their suspic ons
that all was not right ; but on going to the door of
her apartment, they found the key was in the out-
side of the door ; the mother of the deceased went •
in first, and exclaimed in the most piteous
cry, '' 0 God ! my poor child is dead in
bed ! " Witness followed, and saw the deceas-
ed dead in her bed, partly dressed. Wit-
ness turned down the bed-clothes, and was
shocked at the sight that presented itself, for, in-
stead of the beautiful person she was accustomed
to see, she beheld a fearful corpse, black aa►►d
putrid. There was a tea-cup standing on the
chimney-piece, with a sort of • black sediment in
it, and a glass of water on the table ; there ap-
peared no marks of violence on her person. The
people of the house were highly respectable, and she
had no cause to suspect any persous. She knew the
deceased for about three years ; and from her be-
ing a playful, sprightly girl, she became of late
quite melancholy and low spirited, which witness
:Attributed to her having formed an improper con-
nexion of late.
The following is the copy of a letter found in
her toilet, which, from the post-Mark; it appears
site received on the Thursday before her death,
and is supposed to be written by her seducer, and
which led to the fatal catastrophe :

" Again I am obliged to send you pap,: instead of appear-
ing myself. My mind is constantly on the rack, and my time
so divided and subdivided that I find, to my sorrow, that I ant
utterly incapable of keeping any engagement that I may make,
therefore I shall mate no more, but trust to chance and for-
tune. MY partner still continues dangerously indisposed; I
have Occasion to go and see him almost every day to Camber-
well : how long this state of things may continue with me
know not, but this I do know, that' shall rejoice much when
they are terminated • my health of late is somewhat impaired;
to-morrow morning I shall leave London for a few days, and
return on Wednesday next—longer I cannot stop. As you
are difficult of belief, I must rely or rather appeal to yuar li-
berality for the truth of this statement.
" I remain, yuur's sincerely,
J. Sir."

" Thursday evening.

Nicholas Parke sworn : be keeps the house in
which the deceased lodged since the 24th of June
last ; the last time he saw the deceased was about
half-past eight o'clock last Saturday (Horning ; he
heard nothing of her since till 4 o'clock on Mon.
day afternoon, when she was found dead : he was
not surprised at not seeing her, as she was in the
habit of going from home ; for the last three
weeks he observed a great change in her, she ap-
pearing quite melancholy and &jeered to what
she used to be. A Gentleman used occasionally
to visit her, who he understood was her husband
but now finds he was not.

William Li ockley, surgeon, ofGloncester•terrace,
sworn, said he saw the bony of the deceased, but
he could not form any decided opinion as to the
exact cause of her death, the body being in so
putrid a state tl►at it could not be opened with
safety ; and if it was to he opened, frnn► the state
it was in, it could not lead to any satisfactory re-
sult ; be saw a tea-cup in the room with a sub-

stance at the bottom, which he did not think was
poison ; but there wss something bitter it it,
which might be opium.
II re tt►e evidence concluded ;, and out of feel-
ing to the mother, the Jury dispensed with calling
her as a witness. The Jury, after some consul-
tation, returned a verdict of—Died, supposed from
poison.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT DOVER.—.A boat
'with three men in'it was lately crushed to pieces
between two packets in attempting to get out of
the harbour. The King George was coming in,
and the night was dark ; the poor men were li-
terally smashed to a mummy.. One widow is left
with nine children, another. with seven, and the.

third with five or six. A. subscription has been
opened at the several inns. Common humanity
suggests that if every Gentleman and Lady, who
ale proceeding to the Continent to spend thou-
sands, would leave one shilling only as a mite
to these distressed objects, they might be pro-
vided for.

COAL MARKET, AUGUST 15.
Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price.
30 Newcastle . ... .c 26
2 Sunderland
1 Cinders . 1 2ls. Gd. to —s. Od.

BIRTH.
On Thursday, at Barnet, the lady of William Cattle}, Esq.
of Lamb's Conduit-street, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 2(1 inst. at St. James's, Clerkenwell, Mr. Joseph
Jeh, late of Bordeaux, merchant, to Mrs.MAry Barker, reliet
of the late Wui. Barker, Esq. of 'Mabledon-place, Burtt,ti-
crescent.

On the I ith in.,st. at James Dalrymple's, Esq. North Ber-
wick, Francis James Adam, Esq. youngest son of the Right
Hon. the Lord Chief Commissioner Adam, to Mary, daughter
of his Excellency General Poltaratsky.