The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-11 00:00:00

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.

Within. the la .S t day. or two, the family of a lady named
Ablett, NO. 1, Cobham-place, Finsbury-square, has been
plunged .into the deepest misery, in consequence of the
extraordinary disappearance of Miss Emily Ablett, a young
lady only I.s.years of age, and an only daughter.
It appears that about twelve months back the father of
the young lady in question, died at Manchester, where he
carried on the business of a Manchester warehouseman, in
partnership with his son, Mr. W. Ablett. for many years,
and had accumulated a considerable property.- Immediately,
after Mr. Ablett's dis Solution, his - widow, with the con-
sent of her son, gave up the business at Manchester, and
came to London with her family, and took up her resi-
dence six months ago, at Cobham-place. In consequence
of some affairs of of the late Mr. Ablett being left unsettled
in Manchester, Mrs. Ablett-and her son were Necessitated
to leave London about two months since, and left the
house and property in the care of her daughter and a
female servant, who had only a few days before been
taken into .the service: The property consisted of a
very large and elegant assortment of ancient family
plate, trinkets, &c. &e. ' In a few days after the departure
of Mrs. Ablett and her son for Manchester, the house became
nightly a scene of riot, and persons of very questionable ap-
pearance were nightly in the habit of visiting the maid-
servant, and amongst the most frequent of them was an old
sybil, well known to the. neighboUrs as a fortune-teller.
This old witch* was noticed to be continually going back-
wards and forwards to the house, and on one or two °eva-
sions she was seen to be in deep conversation with the
servant at the dour, who appeared to have the complete
guidance of her young. mistress. • On another occasion,
two young men were seen parading before the door, and
looking, up at the window where Miss Alden frequently
sat' to- Woik, and while 'they were there, the old hag made
her. appearance, and then the yoilhg men disappeared. On
Sunday last, Mrs. Ablett and her son returned home, when
some of '-the neighbours waited upon thetn, and informed
them generally of the conduct of their servant, in introduc-
ing Miss Ablett into the society of such people as were in
the habit of visiting the house during their absence. How-
ever, no notice was then taken qf the business, as Mrs.
Ablett intended to take some other opportunity of speaking
to her • daughter upon the subject. On Monday morning
the family sat down to breakfast, the servant-maid attend-
ing the table, and it was noticed that Miss Emily up.
peered to be in a great hurry to finish her meal, and
the girl also seemed much flurried. After the break-
fast-table had been removed, Miss Ablett proceeded
tip stairs • into her .bedchamber, and from that moment
to the present neither she nor the maid-servant have
been seen. About 11 o'clock in the forenoon of Monday,
it was ascertained beyond all doubt that the young
lady had been carried, off; and on the house being
searched, it was discovered that nearly all the valuables,
had been carried away also. Messengers were despatched
in every direction., but all returned unsuccessful.' Yester-
day morning inquiries were made in the neighbourhood as
to whether any persons had seen Miss Ablett that morn-
ing, when it was ascertained from a Mrs. Liimett, the wife
Of a baker opposite nearly to Mrs. Ablett's house, that she
saw the -girl run up the street with the maid-servant about
11 o'clock. Miss Ablett's bonnet strings were untied, and
she seemed to be in great agitation. The maid-servant
seemed to be hurrying her off as fast as possible. They,
were seen to go into. Paul--street, where there was a hack-
ney-coach in waiting, into which the young lady: got, to-
gether with the servant, and the old fortutukeller, who had
a child in her arms, and also the stolen plate, which was
wrapped up in a white bundle. No sooner were they all
inside, than the coachman drove off as fast as he could, and
nothing has since been heard or seen of them. Various is
the conversation this most extraurdinary affair excites in
:he neighbourhood, and yesterday Mr. Ablett, the girl's
brother, gave information to Mr. Twycord, the magistrate
of 'Worship-street-office, and requested his • interference
in
. regaining- his sister. The young gentleman said he feared
it would' hiNk: his poor mother's heart, and hoped he
should havo the assistance of the officers in tracing her out,
RR he was in posseoiOn of the number of the coach that
bore her away.
Mr. TWYPORD said he sheuld have every assistance, and
referred him to lVirGarton, the Vbiel officer, to whom Mr.
Ablett related the particulars.

CATTURZ OF MIAs ANL/tin atm OR% MAID SeRVANT, MARY
RENTLIY.—It gives us great pleasure to state, that Miss Ablett,
whore abd tiction by the servant-maid, Mary lientley, we have noticed
above, has been recovered, and delivered over to her almost; heart-
broken mother. About three o'clock yesterday afternoon, soon
after the, information was given at Worship-rtreet, an officer of
that atahllahroent, the brother of the young lady, and a Mr.
Simmons, a friend of the family, took a coach and proceeded to a
house in Folly-street, Dockhead, which they ascertained to be
the residence of the old fortune-teller, whose name ap-
pears to be Wright, and who is of great notoriety as
possessing skill in the mystic art. On the officer and Mr. Ablett
entering the room, they found Miss Ablett, the servant, and the
old hag, sitting round the nee, and on Mise Ablett beholding her
friends she fainted away. The servant girl was io a terrible state
of alarm, and wept bitterly, The carer proceeded to search both
the young lady and the girl, and on the former he found the dupli-
cate of the plate stolen from her piother, and eleven shillings or
thereabout* in silver. A coach was immediately called, and both
Migo A. and her companion, were carried awry to the Police-
office, Mies .Ablett war delivered over to her mother, and the
Police-
family no wishing to press the elkarge against the girl, she was
this mornint: diaeltarted•
N. it. It ie ,extraordinary that this story, premising it. to be
true, should be 0,,s hieroglyphical. 'What did the young lady ,run
away for? Why in ,;_he servant girl discharged? Surely not front
any apprehension of naps, ure on the part of the family, that expo-
sure has been already made. We give the whole fact with a
strong feeling of mistrust : it wa,:given to us, however, by a cor-
respondent (in the accident line), '.eti.o supplies tho Miler papers
with similar information.

No'rut TO MARINERS.—Vrom and after the t
18th instant, a Floating Light will be exhibited during
the winter months, or until the new Light-houae shall
be completed, on the east side of the Rock Peroh, at
the entrance of the River Mersey. The following
will be the bearings of this Light, by which a clear
channel will be found cm both sides of the vessel,
Upper Bootle Mark, its own breadth open
0 the southward of the Bridge ; and Taylor'e Mill, its
own beeadth open to the westward of St. Paul's Church.
A Ai.lotieat,t DAot aw.----The barbarous inhabit-
ants 01 Dacia (one of the conquered Roman pro-
vinces), were remarkable for their love of raw meatst
T
and fish. he following person, we conclude
be one of the game tribe, A young man, in the em-
ploy of Mr. Stacey, sit, `
annto-n Mills, lately ate 18
raw dace before breaktata,K,m,s.,
I Gazette.
White elephants are rare in nature s , and 0 greatly
yalued in India, that a King of Pegu, hewing that a
King of Siam hail a pair of these
vale
sent a formal embassy, desiring leis Royal breather to
sell him one, and name his own pricaa. paguan
Sovereign being refused, declared immediate war, to
chastise the insult. Burning with revenge, he invaded
men ie
Siam, and after sustaining a loss of 500 00
etrieved, 0
his
made himself master of the elephant, and r
honour.
At a Petty Sessions held on Friday last at South-
ampto», before F. L. Beckford, Esq., Eyre, Esq,,
and Captain Rainier, R.N., three persons d were sen-
tenced to serve five years in the navy, an a fourth
off the
fined 1001., having been found in a vessel
Needles, having contraband spirits on board.
PnoveozwriAr., ESCAPE.----011 Friday a little boy,
whilst playing on the Cliff, at Dover, approached too
near the edge, and fell down a height of nearly 100
feet. Ile was carrie4 to the shop of Mr. Mitchell,
chemist, in Snargate-street, when it was found that he
had only received a slight injury. Ile is fast recover-
ing.—Maiktone Journal.