Star.
London, England, 1809-01-18 00:00:00

SEDU-TION.

The daughter of a respectable tradesman, at a
town in Snrrey; not far distant from London, a very
pretty and accomplished girl, only in her 15th year,
was permitted by her father to spend. the Christmas
Holidays with a friend at Hampton Court, -who had•
a niece about her oven age; when, one day, calking
in the Cloisters of the Palace,- she-was seen by an Of
ficer of a regiment quartered in that neighbourhOod, •
more renewnedforhis conquests over female innocence
than military atchievements. He unfortunately saw
and marked her as a victim foi his worthless desires;
to accomplish which he had recourse to the servant in
the family wilere the young lady was, and, by bribery,
g.lt an opportunity of speaking to her, when he so
worked upon her unsuspecting mind, as to induce her
to-consent to an elopement, which, with the assistance
of a male pander of the Captain's, was effected bn
Thursday night last, betkveen nine and ten o'clock;
and, notwithstanding the severity of the weather, the
fugitives walked from Hampton Court to Hounslow,
where they procured a post-chaise, and proceeded to-.
wards town. The young lady being very soon miss-
ed., her father was immediately sent for, who soon
ascertained the cause of his daughter's 'flight, and,
almost frantic with grief and rage, set off in search of
her. At Hammersmith he learnt that the chaise had
broken down there, but that they had procured an-
other, which had conveyed them to Leicester.fields,
where all trace was lost, the driver stating that he had
p.it them down in the street. All Friday and Satur-
day the unhappy father, whose anguish of mind can
be better imagined than described, spent in fruitless
searsh of his daughter, though assisted by tbe
Another elopement took'place from the neighbour.
hood of Kingston, on the same evening as that from
Hampton. A Custom-house officar was the gallant
.in the secor:d affair. -His companion was the wife cf
a-dealer in grocery and hardware, 40 years of qige ;
whom the husband was fortunate enough to find yes-
terday in Puke-street, Manchester-squares 'The hus-
band got possession of her again by the interference
of.the Police, and £7O she had furnished herself with
was returned to him. •

Our Readers will recollect that a short time since,
Mr. Richardson, Collector of the Lead Company, at
Durham,. stated that he had: been robbed of his 'sad-
dle-bags, containing upwards of-5001. by two foot-
pade; and that two men; whet had-been taken up for
the same, -were committed for trill in consequence of
Mr. R. swearing to their persons ; since whlcli, one
of them has incontestably proved, by the oath Ofone of
the Magistrates of Carlisle, that he was at that place at
tne time of the robbery. • In consequence of which, a
letter was written to the Magistrates of. Bow-street,
requesting an officer might bOent dowti to 'investi-
gate the business. Anthony was accordingly dis-
patched, who, on hearing the business fully detailed,
and examining Mr. Richardson, gave it as his• opi-
nion, that WI.. R. had net been robbed at all, and thist-
opinion was fully confirmed on searching him, as se-
veal papers, which he stated to have beenbeen' in the
bags at the time, were found upon him. The Mawi
gistrates have, therefore,- committed him for trial at.
the next Durham Assizes, for embezzling the mone'y
of which he pretended to have been robbed.
The plate belonging to Streatham church, winch
been fresh burnished, tke. at Messrs. Rundle and
Bridge's, on Ludgate-hill, was sent in a box by the
errand cart, on Saturday evening, but while the driver
left the cart for a short time in Bishopsgate-street,
some villains , who, it is supposed, were apprised of
its. value, stoic the box, and it has not since been
hoard of,

On Monday aftmoon, a quantity of linen, value
201. was stole out of- A cart in St. Paul's Church-
yard, belonging to a Mrs. Bisset, laundress, in St.
George's Fields. • - -
A tradusman from London, whose shop was broken
into in. November last, and gold seals and jeweller)'
stolen out to the amount of nearly £4OO, on Monday
went into the shop of Mr.[Zachariah, of Portsmouth,
when a customer happened to come in, and asked for
a seal ; a drawer was accordingly taken out for him•
to make choice, among which the tradesman recog-
nised several which had been stolen from him. -He
i,lihiedrately laid an information against Mr. Zacha-
iiah, whose shop was examined; and a considerable
nnMber of the articles, which were stolen, found. Mr.
Zachariah was taken into custody. He says he bpugiit
hem in London.

A. numerous gang of sheep-stealers, whose depreda
tions have been heavily fiat in several flocks on the
borders (.f. Somersetshire and Dorse:shire, were lately
detected by the seizure-of one of the gang, who has
impeached no less than twenty accomplices.

3. r).IXTEii and Co. Confectioners, in• Edinlvargh
and Glasgow, respectfully inform the Nobility arid
(;entry, that at this season they have for years been
in the custom Of sending th London,-Bath,- and all.
over England, COTS BUNS, Snont BREAD, and
other CAKES, which for rich and delicious, flavour,
have .long had a preference at the tables of fashion-in
evc:y part of the united Empire. This slcar: they"
can wan- rit them of the very tx:sc kind, having been
particularly fortunate in meeting with .a quantity of
nice Dutc.:l Butter, which gives such a delicate and
peculiar iiiimess to I ie tstste of the Buns, as,tumake
them in the highe.st degree, delicious and exquisite.—
Boxes frNm one G ut;:tea to five, containing a'variety
conveyed to any distance with perfect
Great vari.::y of Scuts Comfits, from Is. fid.
to Is. per pcoad.
As grcr.t number of persons are rendered very un-
happy I>y ‘:; ms, wind in the Stomach,Obstructions in
the tiowels-, Iv:tr.t-ef. regular perspiration, Vomitings:
and Biliolis C. miplaints, Head .Aclrs, Heart Burn, Cos-
tiv'eness, Net ,Totis litsorders, Cholie, Gout, &c. We
are nothoril,cd. to say, that Sr,:e;iinian's Pills are in
most case, an excellent rctr.-.jv for these complaints:
mict•espet ;illy recommended during the time of Sea-
bathing,
and drinking the ti, a and Mineral Waters ;
al•$0 for those v.iiiting warm ,:jirnates. Prepared by
Thom.s,s SuftraroE, jun. Tottenham High
Chats, Middlesex, by virtue oci. an assignment trom-
He.and BrAIVICK, s-)le proprietors of the receipt, by
the will of M. Spectllman ; and are sold:by Shaw
and Edwards, No. 66, St. Paul's Chinch Yard r and
D on arid CO. No. 150, Oxford-street, in Boxei at
23.45.,..61. 10s. 6d. and One Guinea ; and-may be
had of the principal venders of Medicines in' Towu
aad,Country.,