The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-24 00:00:00

PENNY-A-LINE HOAX.

ti correspondent has called our attention to an im-
139sition which was practised on us and on one or
reo of our contemporaries, a few days ago, by a
al porter, whose name we do not now publish,*
ough perhaps we are unwisely lenient in sup.
of
Pressing it. This person, who belongs to that class
caterers for the public press from which we re-
ceive things very suspiciously and sparingly, suc-
ceeded in the present instance in imposing on us
ht indefly using to a judicious contrivance, by which
u us to believe that the story had at least
the merit of a foundation. We allude to an account
of an elopement in the neighbourhood of Oxford•
ltreet, in which the parties were said to be a young
ady and a grey-headed seducer." We now find
hat the account as it was sent to us, with the mere
Change of locality, was copied from the News Sun-
,l4Y Paper of September 13, 1807. The best of
the joke is, that in order to avoid what might appear
ibellous we modified the account, as will be seen on
r.,nroParing the original with what appeared in the
lobe• The reporter, however, had no such scruples,
, ecnauße he knew that he was proceeding on sure
h'r"dat The following is the article which ap-
'"red in the News more than 22 years ago :
te:1: °l3. Wednesday, about one o'clock, a considerable.
ce„ eras collected in Charles-street, Hatton-garden, in
c'equene, of the rescue of a young runaway female from
the arrnS of an old noted seducer. The circumstances of
11;•„e*", as far as they could be collected, are as follow :
,11 grey' headed seducer, being lately liberated from
uranre vile,' where he was confined on charges of a
tik,-7,ntable nature, had immediately insinuated himself so
Yet -"
the good graces of this young lady, who has not
‘vedcnortnpleted her seventeenth year, that she eloped one
N)e,tabsideY morning from her parents' house, whoare
ther
people, in Ely-place, but not without taking
:Icni;,e4r\Y precaution (confessedly under the direction of her
of 300rii abstracting from her father's coffers the sum
114:4" Two young men (her brothers), suspecting her
11' ialtnediately pursued her while the scent was yet
fla-_,rld, coining up with a hackney-coach, where the lovely
t4na"res were suspected to be sitting at their ease, at the
fiord "of Charles-street, Hatton-garden, the ungracious
stop' was loudly pronounced ; and the unwilling
;11: one was dragged out of the vehicle, and carried to a
honey of security. Two hundred pounds of the stolen
were found on the lady, but the remaining one
414_,rldrsCd pounds were missing, 'for the recovery of which,
itlq the previous seduction, an action is to be comi,nente
the Court of King's Bench against the seciticer.'
[* As we have been imposed acti , upon by the same
%lutiat we copy the exposure of the trick by our
toNne
"Vorary, and as we do not participate in the
stns delicacy towards the impostor, we publish the
brile subscribed to the copy sent
us—which is J.
the4ll. It is injustice to the innocent to suppress
the h•
of the guilty.—ED. SUN.J

TOMB
, -----
jilt lONIB OF JULIET.--I Went to see the
ti"vh Of JULIET, about a quarter of a mile from the town
'1( theer"a• It is formed out of a trough of solid granite,
0,,i. coarsest description, and of a reddish colour, re-
.l'Culing that which in England is called Pudding. stone.
I::t°°th was formerly shown in the garden of the con-
itit. ill Which it is now placed ; but the exposure having
tf it thermore open to spoliation (and an actual robbery
ttql:vei,. of the stone having. taken place), it was
there it fro
the garden within the walls of
,thteaicnoanvmenatn,
%ix feet li'•'"1 rests.
It is large enough to cc
tbi 1g,h,,. The cemetery in which it was heretofore
P44t'ed is,tb--'atb an appl;-tree, and is now filled with
th,,iebt and used only as a garden well. After. viewing the,
otr t'e were conducted to the house in • which JULIET s
li ilentB lit e& It is a lofty and ancient edifice, with mul-
';hei"d balustrades-411e latter fast mouldering to decay.
mild t°wecl'Q
" Part of this edifice is now occupied by a saddler,
DUB Prink) piano," or first floor, by a hatter.
114 coln LINT, OCT. 20.--Captain BYNG, son 'o
-f
ttioned Cider of the Forces in Ireland, has been sum f
~ to Co
"r• 4, ]legs-street Police-office,. at. the instance o
4for an °lt, a respectable physician, residing in this city,
o.4sault) alleged to have been committed under the
ktiiieviti°E; circumstances :---On Sunday a cabriolet,einin.
to t, W.cre Captain and Lady AGNEs BvNG, happ
the fa 14 collision in Merrion-row with a car, in whichf tvijicTililY Of Dr. JACOB Were driving; in consequence. o 144;4 Pie car suffered some injury. Dr. JACOB iirtie-le
itoiletY J4°lPed out and followed the cabriolet, one
of
the
lk,tle
tr which he seized by the bridle, demanding, at
it4Ptai,,net° know the name of the gentleman who drove.
ollt --- BYNG desired the Doctor to let go the reins ;
Itatne" the latter refused to do so until he ascertained the
of the
I%,llstain BTNG applied the whip to the shoulderst.w
t4hri_, octor, who speedily gave op the reins, and, 11
ipi)e:tet proceeded. Doctor JACOB, with his brut ie , tftolla.." this day at College.street, and obtained a soint
t,,it
~or the attendance of Captain BYNG to-morrow a
0 clock.
tt t,' T
I,ltit. -' ' IRON TItADE.—At the meeting last
ire: `per of the Ironmasters in Staffordshire, the prices of
it,34 ere again reduced. Bar iron 10s. per ton, and pig
ftx. tt• The following are the prices which these articles
lot, obtain in
Staffordshire. In Wales they' are still
tlit,„er' ilar iron'
I -v N.. 4!. per ton ; pig iron, 61. Owing to
1-. i 'ulster* immediatelY
to,,_ "oos prices, it is the intention of several of the
!ft jouruai, to put out their furnaces.--Salo-