The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-27 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

FEMALE FoLLlES.—Yesterday Matilda Morgan,
a young woman about two and twenty, with no-
thing peculiarly interesting in her appearance, was
brought before Mr. Alderman VENABLEs, charged
with being found in the street at an unseasonable
hour of the night.
She said that she arrived in town only last Fri-
day from the neighbourhood of Cirencester, in
Gloucestershire, where, in a weak moment, she
listened to the faithless vows of a son of Neptune,
and accompanied him to the metropolis, where the
knot indissoluble was to be spliced forthwith. But
as soon as they got to town the tar slipped his
cable, and left poor Matilda to steer by herself her
course among the shoals anti quicksands of this
" first-rate" of cities. She raised a trifle by pawn-
ing a few articles of clothing which she had brought
with her. This kept body and soul together until
Tuesday night, when the watchman found her in
the state already described.
The Alderman ordered her to be taken back to
the Compter, and a few necessaries given her; after
that she will be sent home at the city's expence.
Elizabeth Williams, only 16, and possessing at-
tractions of no ordinary calibre, was also brought up
for re-examination.

This young heroine was found on the night of the
6th, in a state of great destitution, by Seeger, one
of the officers of Aldersgate, and, appearing to have
but just began the march of crime, he conveyed her
to the Compter.
She stated that she was a native of Bristol, and
was induced to leave her widowed mother on the
representations of a female much older than herself,
who painted to her young imagination all the good
fortune that awaited her in London. They spent a
week on the journey to town, where the unfortunate
creature was immed►ately inducted into one of these
sinks of infamy, and was pursuing her v►c►ous career
only three days when Seager encountered her. She
gave her mother's name and address at Bristol, and
a letter was sent to her by the direction of the Al-
derman, the girl being in the interim taken care of
at the Compter. A►► answer was received yester-
day from the mother, stating that her mental feel-
ings have been intense since the disappearance of
tier daughter on the 27th of October. On that day
a female took her out on pretence of getting her a
situation, but instead of which she was put into a
coach for London, and accompanied thither by a
gentleman. The mother added, that her poverty
prevented her coming up for the girl, but if she
came home she was ready to receive her.
The prisoner denied the fact of being accompa-
nied from Bristol by a gentleman, but admitted being
met by one in London.
The Alderman feared he was only holding out a
dangerous precedent in burthening the city with the
expense of sending back young women who had
quitted home so improperly; still, he saw no other
course left open to him, as, if he discharged them,
and let them loose again upon the town, their ulti•
mate ruin was inevitable.

Miss Williams was then sent back to the Comp-
ter with her companion in folly, and orders given to
send both to their respective homes.

UNION-HALL

Yesterday a Mr. John Pilkington Crampton, re-
cently arrived in town from Manchester, attended
before Messrs. IioNE and ELYARD, against a man
named Stevens, who, with others, plundered him
of 101. at curds en the preceding night.
It appeared that Mr. Crampton, who is a perfect
stranger to London and its ways, imprudently ac-
companied a low woman to her lodgings: here he
met four ill-looking fellows, who induced him to
sit down to cards, while they plied him with drink
to such extent that he was almost stopified : he
however, recollected the circumstance of being
fleeced of his money by the four men, one of whom
was the prisoner, and he also swore that in his be-
lief the prisoner's intention was further to rob him.
Stevens was committed to Brixton for three
months.

At this time there are at Eton College the
unprecedentcd number of 620 beye.