Star.
London, England, 1826-04-06 00:00:00

THE LATE ABDUCTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Sta—l have received several nurnbigrs of -the STAIt, containing
various accounts and statements respecting me and the daughter of
Mr. Turner, of Cheshire, all of them on one -sides And all of them
evidently proceeding from.the same source.
They cannot, I imagine, have received the sanction of Mr.
Turner, or of his daughter ; for I know not how to believe that he
would unnecessarily expose her to public comment, or that she
would approve the publication of statements that are untrue.
Be this as it may, your sense of justice will, I am confident, in-
duce you to publish this letter.
The true character of the transaction described in the newspapers
is widely different from any account that has appeared. Many of
the newspaper statements are as far from the truth as they can be
without being wholly untrue, and many of them are utterly false.
It is obvious that in my present situation I cannot enter into a
detailed reply to the statements in question. It is probably a know-
ledge af this circumstance which bas induced a publication of them.
It was thought a man who was abroad and who was threatened
with a serious prosecution, might be misrepresented and libelled
with impunity. Besides motives of delicacy, in regard to. Mr.
Turner and his daughter, which will be readily appreclattd,'Wopid
induce me to forbear publishing any statement respectift diems,
without first submitting such statement to their consideration. "
1 did not leave England, after my marriage, trim InfirititlVtli of
fear, but solely in consequence of an engagement in France,' Of se
serious a nature. that I felt myself bound to keep it at arty periolsal
sacrifice. When Mr. Robert Turner and Mr. Crirchtey informed
me at Calais, that Mrs. Turner was dying, I shared their anxious
wish that her daughter should be at once conveyed home ; and I
offered to return with them to England, if the lawyer who accom-
panied them would undertake that I should be immediately ad-
mitted to bail. He declined giving me an assurance to that effect ;
and I have, therefore. delayed my return to England, in order 'to
avoid Imprisonment before trial.
So far, however, from wishing to escape the consequences of
what I have done, I am ready and most desirous to' give hail fur
my appearance, and will do so the moment I am informed that it
will be accepted.
At all events, whenever any charge against me is ready for trial,
I pledge myself to gt, to England and meet it ; and should an appli-
cation be made to my solicitors taaccelerate the trial, I will instruct
them to facilitate so desirable an object. lam as anxious to meet,
as Mr. Turner can be to make, any charge that be may be advised
Co prefer against me.—l am, SIN
Your most obedient bumble Servant, '• •
Marsh 26. EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD.

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It is reported in the City that favourable intelligence
has been received from India.
Earl BATHURST arrived in town from Brighton. on
Tuesday evening.
Yesterday marring Mr. CAVATIRA arrived at the
Colonial Office, with dispatches from Sir leasnaarcli Amax, the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. The Messenger
was impeded sometime on his journey by an uncommonly deep fall
of snow off the mountain of Simplon—in consequence he was obliged
to employ a number of men, horses. and mules, to cut through the
snow for his carriage to pass. Previous to the Messenger's depar-
turture, Mr. Du ream the King's Messenger, had arrived off Aicona.
but was not allowed to land till he had performed quarandne.—
, Mr. C. also brought dispatches from Lord Gaarnt.t.z,otir Am-
bassador at Paris, which city Mr. CAVATTRI passed through.
WORCISTRIL, APRIL 4.—This city has been thrown
into' considerable alarm by a serious accident which betel Charnel
Dawes (one of the city Members) in the course of his canvass
yesterday, in the parish of Clahws. l'ise gallant Colonel had just
stepped into his gig, when the horse turned restive, and getting
side-ways in the foot-path, overturned the vehicle. Col. DAsiss
was thrown on his head, and taken up senseless. He was carried
to the Star and Garter, where he was copiously bled by Mr.
Pressen:ow% an eminent surgeon, who, thisisseesiegt l• allay the
fears of his skull being fractured, informed the umerous inquirers
that no danger was apprehended.. Our new candidate, Mr.
sitowei.on, who bad finished his canvass, had reached the turnpike
on his road to Kidderminster, when he heard lithe accident. lie
immediarely returned, and made the most. maims laithins after
the gallant Col, enressing the greatest concern al illeiwievellees•
The gentleman who read bis recantation from the
enors of Rome, in the Ckurch. of, St. Martin in the
Fields, no Sunday last, was 'Mr. OLIVIIR CLAITON,
minty of Galway, in Ireland, now of Ozertrion street.