Star.
London, England, 1810-11-02 00:00:00

FOR THE STAR.

• [We have received an interesting letter, on the
subject of an injured female, which we shall subjoin.
In order, however, to understand the matter, it will
be first necessary to insert arlt)ther letter which has
appeared in a Sunday paper, and of %%Ilia our's is the
continuation : the publication of the two will, we
sincerely hope, produce the effect of rescuing the 'un-
happy subject of them from her unmerited misery.)

A TALE OF WOE.

66 To THE EDITOR-4 wish to make public the fol-
lowing statement, the truth of which you shall have
ample means of ascertaining :
66 Op Monday last, the 22d October, a friend of
mine happened to be passenger in Are Chertsey coach
coming to London. At the extremity of Hampton,
a_ very beautiful young womin, exceedingly well
dressed, was handed up to the roof of the coach by
a gentleman, who then quitted her : it was observed
pt the time, she took leave of her companion with
saerks of extraordinary agitation. She had not pro-
eeeded far on the sutside, when the heavy rain com-
pelled her to become an inside passenger.
" Nothing very particular was observed in her till,
having taken some slight refreshment, her manner
betrayed much wildness and disorder of mind ; and
*eon after she fainted. Every assistance was imme-
diately afforded, and the coach remained upwards of
stn hour in Breatford, while a humane apothecary was
exerting all his professional skill in fruitless endeavours
to restore ker. She was utterly unknown to every one,
and it was determined that the coach should proceed
With her in that inanimate state, to London. After
a time, she uttered some convulsive sobs, and gra-
dually recoverd her self-possession. The story she
then told must— f

• harratr up the tout."
said,'

most respects-
town in Scot-
inflict pain
office. She
7 and hap-
_firm state of
representing him-
',lling himself
this which

voluntarily.
it. This
ith the :no
-
gaining the af.
bore the marks
good old
establishment
her en lian-
a handsome
This prac-
thCse two
retired in
) state that
mother bore
Making
the hen-
, sacceesled•
thence he pro-
Slow degrees
carriage, but
she sub-

repining
that her
last interest
heitz.a( her
catastrophe

herself preg-
sister, he
with all her
'- • that hu-

man netweirecoils from the detail ; and this...(Mon"-
slay.) inning, after taking from her her rings, her
gloves,- and *vim her pocket-haadkcrchief, he per-
• • to take aiittle walk with him. When he
sage-coach approaching, he gave her
•.. and told her she should go to London,
and ha j""lt; follow in ahw minutes with her trunks.
She obeyed bhn implicitly, and ascended the coach ;
iitt there she learciefl from the pasisengers that there
eras no other coach to follow them, and her eyes be-
gas to open to her real situation : deceived,and cheated
out of her aTections,..deprived of her character and
honottr,----clescited. —,ornant,—mbbed of her nioney
...41112,1410the1,--enfetbled by continued ill-usage and
et4erat:altio-;-several hUndred miles fraui her poor me-

. • I

harmer up the
fiVateras, she said, the daughter of a most
Me, excellent woman, residing at a little tow
lead. /Ipttrposely ennit her name, not to it
onneceisaril7; hut it shall be left at your of
hied, she-sat.d, in the most perfect simplicity
with her mother, who was in an infirn
It alai}, tashemet the eye of a man represen
self as an oificer in the army, and calling
LileOt C. I cannot persuade myself to give a
wits an assumed name at length, 'lest I invo
litre sopge honourable man who may heir
supposed tiiettt.- C. ingratiated himself with
flier; said hut too fatally succeeded in pinin
faitiosia tithe daughter. His addresses bore
for he proposed marriage. The
wtilyian .sitgightid at the prospect of an estai
foi 4er daph4g daughter, agreed to give her
slied..:Potinds as a marriage-portion, and a It
044 of Clothes. ..
!U.) t is needless to detail by what artifices t
ti4d iedtkei imposed upon the credulity of t
peons, who had lived their whole lives it
simplicity and innocence : it is enough to st
hi*,succeeded, and with the consent of the ma
nt the daughter 'for the avowed. purpose of
hir wife he took care ajso tau carry off
(lied ji_oands and five trunks full of clothes.
44 He nfirat tools her to Carlisle, where he si
in trininibin over her virtue ; from thence
ceedeil4OVirlutahaven, and advanced by ;km
rdtoeithin. He never again talked of marri
biteente *negligent and brutal in his conduct :
initted.to these multiplied injuries, without
•r complaint, for thirteen months ; trusting
snbmission and her istptbviip would at last
him to treat her better ; bui-tlii,savage heal
*duce seenai.to have Meditated a horrihle cat
tO. this tasigedy.
" Ons4tesia7ili4l in Loo4o%.sheftriu d her.
,113#*.PFPigt Wif4arrYiliFrii- to her
t'Ooknitee to :a lane inilepear Hampton, wit
trunks. Her—ibis ttratment. of her was such,