Star.
London, England, 1817-06-26 00:00:00

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IA Bristol Paper, after giving a re•s;m:ls of the cliaravers
Ani,loyed by thf. young woman, Wl•eti whise,l to .
pas. cur a
jat,a. . t: 1 her rc.il I....nd•wraLinz :Liar j r,
3.1,11. I•13:.a y::
This girl was bun at Witheridge, in Devonshire,
in the year 1792, w!ene her parents (poor but indus-
t: ice's honest peopl2) are still living. From a very
early age, she was accustomed to roaming :damn—.
Her mother tangle her to spin wool, and obliged her
a work as much as see could, and in the season she
wee employed in weeding in tire corn fields; but
Mary evinced strong inclination to follow the occun
pations and amusements of la boy. She 21-erefore
te:ed to drive the lariecia herses, and wl.en :lie was
fatigued would go in:o the water, an.) Inas neon
learned to swim and to dive.
elder nitelicr brine,
uneasy at her way of life, prnceted her a place of
service at Exeter; but she serer left in arts cam-
p:erred in earnest the tile of a wandering meedicant.
Sometimes she met sinet eecouregement, and some-
theta with rebut(. ; hot the coon acquired the habit
of tearing her c utiles to tatters, a IA to appear as
miierebie as possible. In a word she became a pro-
fi.nerit iit all the artifices, met was a :posed to all the
vicissitudes of the trade the hod ciiesen.
From Leeter she wandered to Tanntonn-sleeping
under hey-ricks and in barns, and, when in eoati
luck, at larm•heusesn-alwar, ma: ing cen,paseoe
rather than importuning for alms. In this way pool
lalary's stars guided her to Bristol about four years
ago. When she had expended all the money she
had celieeted on the road. she applied to tl:r s. StrAr,
ger% Friend Society ;I'. but on inquiry having been
set on foot as to her character and history, the deem-
ed it prudent to decamp, and set id for Lenolon.—
Oa the road, she was taken ill, and the future Prin-
ces: yf Javara was conveyed in an humble waggon to
St. Giles'a Hospital, where she was confined a con-
siderable time with a frenzy fever. Her youth and
engaging manners induced the Chaplain of the In-
stitution to commiserate her ford ern situation, and he
humanely procured her a situation, as servant in a
with whom she remained three years; but
her mistress being very strict, and refusing to allow
her as much liberty as she wished, Mary packed up
her little wardrobe, and bade her mistress fate well.
Her weges were soon exnended, and having beard
that the Magda:en was a Nunnery, she determined to
se the inside of it. For this purpose she invented a
alery, which her appearance tendered very probable,
and was admitted. Her cutioeity, however, (for she
lied no other motive in going there) was soon suffi-
ciently gatified, and she embraced the first °ppm..
%unity ut taking litnei leave.
• Being 'of an exceedingly 'semantic turn of mind,
she now assumed male attire, and procured a place,
as Fnctmas; and in this disguise she actually lived in
her native place, close to her tether's house, withont
exciting the slightest suspicion. having acquired the
art of altering her features tin compeetelat that no
nue knew her.
After residing at \Vitheridge some time, she re.
moved to a ne.ghbourieg village; but being seitt
with a message during the deep snow about three
years ago, she was ne..rw;leinied, and lay
.buried all.
night. In the m eaing she was found benumbed
and insensible. The removal of her wet clothes dia.
„covered her sex, and she was obliged to leave the
place, and alit out in pursuit of new adventures.—
Heviog begged her way to London, she again went
to service, and again in a few months became weary
pl restraint, and resumed her wandering habits of life.
She now met with a foreigner, lee smitten with
her charms, married her, and they travelled together
to Brighton, and other pl ices .at the Southern coast..
But the silken bonds of matrimony soon became
irksome to Mary; and one 'morning she gave her
busband the slip. revaced her steps to the metro-
polis, and again got into service. Her present con-
.ditioti, however, prevented her front retaining her ,
place. She soon became a mother. and having I
pieced her child in the Foundling Hospital, again
d. crimped. It this part of Ign story is to be credited,
the infant is dead.
Once more she turned heeback upon London, and
wandered in the old way to Exeter, where she fell in
wilt a gang of Gipsies; she left them, however, in.
three days; but not without profiting by their tui-
tion : for she was an apt scholar, and learnt a great
deal in a little time.
She now bent ber steps towards Bristol, and on her
andial, took up her abode at the house of a Mrs.
Neale, in Letein'e Mead. Here• she soon became
tired of a stationary life, and hearing a good deal of
that modern Paradirt, America, she determined to
shift the scene of action front the old to the new '
world. For this purpose she applied to a Captain on
the Quay, who promised to take her far five guineas,
elle finding her own provisions. But whence was
this money income ? !'here Was die rub ! In this
dileitimit she watid:red to the end of Park-row, un-
noticed by airy of the passengers, and she began to
perceive that the little attention paid to her would
render ber efforts to raise the money by begging very
tedious, and perhaps fruitless. In a lucky moment
she encountered two or three of the French lace-,
makers from Normandy. She watched their move-I
ments, and perceived that every body stared at them.
This VAS enough for Caraboo. 6he.fixed her eyes
on the French girls' peculiar head-dress, and it im-
mediately occurred to her, that in the garb' of a fo-
reigner the might obtain that weich was denied to an
Englishwoman. She soon twisted her handkerchief
into a turban, out/arufiriiri/ her genteel attire, arid set
off on the Gloucestershire road. After walking a
few miles a Gentleman accosted her, and perceiving
e.et she was fatigued, took her to the next public-
.heese, and give her meat and tpirits and water,
seinen she, not being as yet an Bladed, demolished
4 ia FrdieCtuiet for she was now a Frenchwoman.
It is already known how she went to a cottage at
10mcndsbury, and was there humanely taken to the
Louse of Mrs. Worrall. At' first she was suspected,
and threatened if she did but speak the truth ; but
alas, English was to her an unknown language. They
addressed her is French :—Neer tons rev—no raves.
Thta she must be Spanish. Wrung again: no
napagad. Now it happened that one of Mr. WOr.
Isles domestics was a Greek, who had travelled to
India, and be thought be could discern the Oriental
uumeers about the girl easily enough—but still she
alight be a Portuguese, or a German, or a Pole, or
Russian, Or a bOI3CIIII/11110 00C.COWld tell what ;
bus, after ptetitlig her to the question at the Stamps

office, the Council-hoose, mid Atwitter', it Wu con-
cluded that she was a Malay; and a sailor was found
out who could speak to her. By the girl's confession,
all the palaver that passed between her and the sailor
was mere gibberish; but Jack clapped the Knowle
elect into liiscker, put hil. helm hard up, and bore
away for Marsh-street, to drink the Primer: cf ✓ava-
;r's good health, in a r s of Castle and Co.'s best
-6-having, he said, met with no such flute fora long
time briore. _

Shoals of books were now conveyed to Knoivle,
to find out from what pair of Terra-Incognita she
came. Maps were shcwn her of the Indian and
Chinese Seas. Fry's Pantograplita was pored over;
together with vat ;tills plate,. exhibiting the customs ut
the East. The girl had access to these books, maps,
and plates, at her leisure, and she made a good use
of them. From them she obtained her cue. She
quickly observed, with a Cartaho eye, how the ir-
bahitasits or the different nations dressed, what they
.te, how. they wrote, how they saluted. Ste. &c. the
whole of which she imitated as well as she could. and
in some instances with co small degree of dexterity
It shwa be rentembered alto, that although eie could
snot speak- English she could hear it, and she took
good care to profit by the different ren at Ls made by
the multitude of ;smarts who came to see her.—The
woodetful thing therefore, and almost the only won-
derful thing as, tier amazing cell•curnmand—her wilo-
nislong /towers cf Jute. An iii:aata.e ot ti.is we will
mention here. (hie Gentietriaii tried flattery. He
drew his chair clme'ro the gill, loo6:e.1 steadily in her'
face, and chug red, " You are the most beautilul
creature I ever beheld—you are an Angel." Not a
1 musc:e of her face moved, her countenance. rearsiiel
liss uhshaken as a stone. The dinntstic alresidy An.
Visaed, when she first came to Knorile, observe,
in the girl's presence, that it she was an East Indian,
she would retitle brandy, or any kind of spirits. She
profited by the feature. A glass of brandy and water
was offered to her, :end she 'ejected it with a truly re
ligious ali;orrence.
But nothing perplexed the cognercieti by whom this
gay deceiver was visited, so much as her pronunciation
of the language of Javasu. Her articulation was'
unhke any. thing ever heard before. The only sound'
which wits intelligible to the ear was her own name,
and this the uttered distinctly and rapidly.—ct Car-
taboo I Carraboo ! Carraboo !" leaving her wonder-
struck admirers to trantlute the rest of her gibberish
as well as they were able.
Still Carraboo was restless, and panted. for Ante- 1
rica. One morning she suddenly disappeared ; and 1
returning in the evening with a bundle, and her
clothes, shoes and hands dirty, gave the people to ,
understand, that she dug them from a place where
she (ricotta imeatis amid) had buried them, to hide 1
them from the alfairutoor. The real truth was, that
during her short absence, she had hastened to &is-1
tul ; but fearing that she might be pursued, she cut 1
across the country to. the Duchess's Woods, waking ,
her way through hedges and *err ditches, till she
reached her old landlady's in Llewin's Mead. These
she packed up her trunk, and. leaving it ready at her
lodgings, she ran to the quay, to 'mil tor the snip, but 1
the vessel had:ailed ! At this moment, observing a
man look at her attentively, and suspecting him to'
be a spy upon• her actions, she contrived to elude him
fora moment, and then leaped into an empty barrel,
where sloe actually
,remained nearly two hours.—
Emerging
from this awkward retreat, she conveyed
her trunk (having first paid for her lodgings) to thc 1
Devonshire waggon.and tent it to her lather's—retur.i
sdn with the bundle to Knowle with all possible ,
esped•tion. Is it any wonder that the girl should
have been foot tore and sick ? Having thus disposed 1
of her heavy baggage, she bad nothing to look to
but herselt and bundle, and was thus ready for a
nlarCli at a moment's warning, whenever an oppor-
tunity might offer.
The curtain now draws up for. the fifth act. She,
was about to present herself before the great folks in
Loudon. She had been in the metropolis before, and
she knew that it was not like the House on the Hill,
or the Stathp Office, or the Council House of Bristol.'
She therefore became ski—this was the only remedy'
for the Acme which now threatened her. She disco-
vered that a little black currant jelly would give her
mouth and tongue the appearance of a typhus fever ;1
and who shall say that she did not dread the tads
eenditus of her medical attendants ?—it might quicken
the pulse even of Carraboo. Indeed she felt now
that the twilit was at hand, and her uneasiness on that'
head might derange her animal functions. Many
who now laugh, might themselves have been de-
ceived. When Columbus spewed the courtiers how
to make an egg stand upon one end, they all won-
dered that they had not found it out themselves. 1
By this time however, Mrs. Worrell had received
information which opened her eyes. D.'. Wilkinson's
letter had mentioned Carraboo's antipathy to Itirits.
The Gentleman who accosted her on the road to Al-
mondsbury, as already mentioned, having read the
Doctor's letter, immediately recognised what he had
supposed to be a poor French girl, who bad drank his
brandy and water at the public house. The Gentle-
man wrote to Mrs. Worrell, and this circumstance
led to the denouement.

Soon.after the letter had reached Mrs. Worrall
Carraboo thought she observed a very material alte-
ration in the conduct of her kind protectress. The
latter would not be left alcii:e with her ; and every
thing looked shy and suspictuus. She perceived that
all was not right. and decamped for Bath. Oa the
way thither, she preserved her isseq. and arriving at
a cottager's on the road; frightened the poor old man
and woman by her singular gestures so much that
she could scarcely prevail up.in them to admit her
into the house. During the night she was separated
from the old couple only by A thin partition ; and
whilst IWtening to the dialogue which they maintained
respecting her. she was compelled to stop her mouth
with the• bed clothes, to prevent her from laughing
at them.

Her reception at Bath is perhaps the most curious
part of her adventures. She was them recognised in
the street. by Mr. Carpenter, we believe—v:llo not
being a true isfigver, and fearing the girl might have
robbed her protectress, immediately sent for Dr. Wil-
kinson. She was taken to the Pack Horse Inn, and
thither the Ladies of Bath hurried in crowds to. do
honour to the supposed Princess of Javasu. Here the
scene was ludicrous in the extreme. l'he'Ladiev
kneeled before her—oue took hold of her hand,—
another wiped her Royal lace—a third covered her
with a rich lace veil—and 'brit it was—"• Pour 441,

Keaton I"—'d What !hall we do to make her torn.
tunable !"—•" Poor •dear creature I" The girl her-
self laughed heartily at this scene afterwirds, and she
declares that the knows not how she withstood all
the fuss that was made about her.

It seems, however, that the girl herself, &Aired
by the kindness of her protecuru. seemed disposed
to confess how she had abused her generosity ; but
the catastrophe was somewhat unexpected. On her
return from the 13ath expedition. site was conveyed
to Bristol, and on entering the parlour of a Gentle-
man's house, there were waiting to receive her (!.•or•
risco referent !) the kind Gentleman who had treated
her on the Almondsbitry road, and her former land-
lady from Llewin's Mead ! The Priers' if Jaws:,
immediately sunk spun her knees—and by one nt
those beautiful and mind-bewildering metarnorphobes,
one of Ouse transmigrations which is not surpassed
by any thing in Ovid, nr in any novel, aticknt or
modern—this eldest daughter of the Sun, this Moon
of Moons, this inhabitant of Sirius, was in an instant
44 fallen from her high estate," and changes! to Mary
Baker, of Witheridge, in Devonsliire." Sic trantit
gloria
That the girl's mini has been cast in no common
mould is certain. Since her residence in this neigh.,
bourto she has in no instance been accused of dis- I
honesty ; and her conduct towards her parents has I
been exemplary, as it appears that during her service
in London, she regulaily sent them halt her wages,
And at other times what she could spare. She avoids
all mention of them, as if the subject was a painful
one. Her memory is singularly retentive. She went
to hear the Rev. Mr. Day preach at •St.
Church some time ago, and on her return borne she
repeated to her landlady all the leading pnirig of the
discourse, with surprising accuracy. All she knows
of writing she learnt from the daughter of one of
her mistresses; but (if we may believ her) sl.e can-
not Spell Any words—nor can she write them without
a written copy, net even her own name, though she
handles her pets dextrously. Fur this ream,- ail her
autographs differ. lit fact she imitates what is placeti
before her, and that is all she can do; Her drawings.
and maps, which we have heard some people praise,
are mere scrawls.

A question now naturally intrudes itself, what can
-be dome with her ? Pick her off to her pariih,"
say some. And what then ? Why, in a few days
she will return again, if she wishes so to do, in spite
of the great rcarecrour Boards from St. Peter's Hos-
pital. • Besides, atter ail, this unfortunate girl seems
to be as much an object of pity as of. blame in this
affair. Like poor Malsvao, stye " e had her honours
thrust upon her." Her throne was ready to receive
her, and she had nothing to du but to seat herself
gracefully upon it. Her vassals were determined to
mike her a Princess, and what could she do but bear
the load of royalty which they had 4. buckled on her
back." Poor girl I she had picked up some Jul tigs
on the road, and had it been as many pounds she
would now have been ploughing the Atlantic, instead
of being under the necessity ut concealment a few
mail off, to screen her front the gaze of thimultitude.

The young woman who lately appeared In the character of
Cassrales, is, we are informed, the same person who, a few years
ago, passed with some respectable bundles In Ayrshire, M. the
west of Scotland, under the =meat Mrs. Matins:4as.

COURT OF CHAIICERY.--Yesterday, the motion
'at.tde by Mr. Taylor's Counsels for an injunction to
restrain Mr. Waters from performing Frei.ch Plays
or Recitasions, was dismissed, with an order o i Mr.
Taylor to pay costs. Mr. Mills, the plaintiff's Solici-
tor, had previously produced one of the policies cf
iasusance of the Opera house against fire ; and the
LORD CuAncituant, after reading ii, observca it was
quite a general policy. He was therefore of opinion'
there were no grounds whatever for-resteainffigllim•
sieUr Talala and Mademoiselle Georges from amus.
ing the public at the Opera•house in any way they
pleased.—Thistlewopd, one of the late State priso-
ners, was in the Court of Chancerylesierday relative
to a suit which tie has pending in it. •Illy salt did
not come on.

COAINGLII or Terxeoh„ fcc.—On SatnrdAy, •JeLn Holmes,
Fraittir 11'm-4 and Sazeziel Ilayte.t, who were brought to-London
by a King's Messenger and two bow-street Officers, from Not-
tingham, on charges of Treasonable Practice-, underwent an
exainatation before Lord Siostoirtit, Lord CAaL LENA:At:a the
Law Officers, Sir NcTifes hitt Cosy .i NT, /cc. at the ()like of
the Secretary of State fur the Home Department. Thet were
committed fur a further investigation. • -
Dow-rraitT.—On Tuesday login a ,Lady and Gentleman I
going totfielr carriage from the Ortrs, were hustled by two lel-
lowa with so much violence that the i.ady wig tinny knocked
down; Humphreys fortunately came up at the time, when they
an cif; he pursued, and secuted one of.thent anlottg the coaches,
who proved to be a well-known character °l'd& 'war tit Robert
Barnes. He was yesterday brought to the Oilier, and committed.
IVldiataoaoutm sracer.--hlrs. Jane icon, a Homan al
re-
spectaltiity, was yesterday charged with ascaulting„leabeas
a child, It years old, by kicking her violently.: ihe child is the
daughter of a widow; whom adverse fortune had c.atiliclirti to to
to service. Tbectukt was the prisoner's servant. She stated
that on Thursday last her ndstress desired het to do something at
the fire-place ; sheiad at the time a severe pain in her stomach,
and not being able to more quickly, the prisoner panic her a vio •
lent kick on the groin. The child was carried about the Oilier,
being unable to walk The ntotbcr of ihr child proved that bbr
had been very ill since : the certificate of a surgeon stated that
slit bad received a most material injury. The prisoner was de-
tained, in default Of bail.

iItMLAND.—IO the course of I:tst week, several acts
of vio trice were committed in .I).)blin, by a number
of diwrderly persons, who attacked bakers' stteps,
and other depots of food. Thiq agitation, essiied by
want, had entirely subsided on Saturday.

B 1 rrixo A'I"I'ATTERSAI.I.Iti
Jol.lr SVAKCI NEII'A:ARKL'I.
3 to I ar.,st Lord Staw. out
4 to I ac,t Mr. Paint's Lily by Vb ax.y.
6 to 1 ag,t Mr. Vansinart's liodper.
High odds azuitht any other.
BETTING ON THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER, 1817.
6:1 to l agst Mr. Watt'ib. c. by Wit:trim It, duns by Cori:/:144.r
b to I agst Sir T. Stanley's b C. Wirral', by I itajarner, out of
Handmaid.. t
9 to 1 agst Duke of Hamllt.on'4l). colt, Restless, by Remem-
brances_ ~out of Criny's datn.
10 to 1 sin Lord bililton's b. c, Suinilionaugh, by Dirk An-
drews, out of I lurnpipe.
11 to I agst J.ord Queensberry's W. V. Caledonian, by
Woodpecker, out of aligu's
15 to 1 agst Mr. Nears b. c. brother to Raphael
At the late Portsdown Races sf,me Yorkshireiockies
made a good thing of the'Commodores Trunnion, of
whom many, now anchored near Portsmouth, attended
the sport, One of the latter, nho was betting deeply
upon Mies Breirane,. being remit,4d by a tricattl that
Artie Bueirain WAS lest, replied, ** D.-0 your eyes !
don't you see Luw We 4il.as:: them all betote

Pi .2E:
A tremendous five
ing, about four o'cleck, on
misea cidird Flockton's Tor
Potter's FiPhis and FreePi
which ccnsumed the ware!•

and five hundred barrels of
pentine ; the amount of
Flocktnn, we understand, is
premises were, it appears, set on tire !;2 years Iv,
an.! how tire present kre origie.ated dne-. not appear.
ALartsriNc; Flan Licurmiric.--lirtract of 4
I.etter horn Redbridge, near Sauthampton, dared
.1;:th. 1817 :-.".One of the mast awful thunder.
storms den has for mar y years been known here, hap.
pened about four o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
lightning set fire to the timber-yard of Mr. Bl:x.ftscrt
Iluniss, of t'•'s place, and burnt down four Lug?
store-houses, &c. one ccritaitikg a qe intity of bark.
many tons of -which were ceniumed. For ne.ely
hour there was scarcely a hope of any of the build.
ings or valuable Ariel: being saved ; but pr^rider.
tially a heavy fall of rain, acentucanied by 1 chanr,e
'uf wind, served to avert the calamity. A vessel an
the Stocks, and several others laying at the Qeiv,
were in imminent danger. and hay' these taken hie,
halt the village must Mt% itably have been consumed.
It was two boors before the fire engines from South.
ampton arrived, and it trip orily by the judicioos and
exertion:: of tht:•w.arkmen, promptly aided
by the large assemblair of personscvlk•cte.t, that the
loss, which .rt present is color-aratively was
rot most ruinous. All the build;rigs ere insured.''

On Tomby m•antr g two ram! vlsitoei
.t:egs, grunt out fur the purpose of r..rhiAg. They rh..se for
place of tl.is enjoyment that pat t of the sea called the Was
Gate. e3nt,l-,tiot • to the Whi:e no :lc, t; here ..hvy em.rynad
a unity ebb tide and dangeroui mitt. Tile Luter very khoi.l-.•
tarried tinnn beyond their ii.t;th ::td art., ; &silents ornr...
one of Site regained the shone, %state Lb hapless roonpa-
ohm (a Mr. Baynes) %link, t•.l the nu more. 'the was Abet
bound,
.but all attempts at .:!..o.clta:lon w.Ke un,acke•acuL Flt
inquest was held hi the eeeninf...ll 2t4;c14p.1, enitn a Verd,ct
of ilccidenzal Death sea, return, I.

ont yetterclay ?Wyn-
n the vary emen;ive pre-
rpentine Works, berwr,-3
Toole7-stref3,
!inin,±, hind latqween !r
oitcii, Sir, rosin, load tor.
3is not asceriained. M:.
is Lot insult/1. The um,
let nit Fr. 414 _