The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-05 00:00:00

SHIPYJNG INTELLIUESCI:.

DE4 t.; DM 4.--C f ihtern ffl cElibrlver, 194 ogled
last night; the St. tit °fir; *Am; for bromide; the
Antares, Byrrs, for Antigen; tlie. Bee; Within; tor
Smyrna ; and to-day, amtiesnaitt isind-:haled; Sew-
field, .Sinclair, from Newewstie: the Firetwoodi Bock,
from Shields, both for Jame Pet haat, this afternoot
the Nesbit, (tray; the LirAlt; Mitchell, SL Geergr,
Brown, and several more; partictdais unknown.—Wind
FALMOUTH, Dm 3 —The wind Wittig same from the
north, early thhi morning, the following Oeirvrara boon I
hare sailed :—The Elit.t, for Madrmt and Bengal; the
Andromeda, and Thalia, fur Val Memo's Lind ; the
Coromandel : the Nina; the Westbrook;. and the
Barris, all for Jamaica ; the Manbr. for per.
Wee; the Killingbeck, for Antigua ; the riliegrove,
Line • Dominica ; the Apollo, for Demerara; and the rest
of the•ontward Wood, amounting to 30 sail.
PORTiMOUTII, Dee. 4.--LArrived. bli Majesty's shill
Spertuw Hawk, from the Downie; the Ogle Castle, froin
ditto, for Madras and Bengal; the Borneo, from ditto,
for Batavia; the Atm Kemp, from ditto, for the Sontit
Sass; and a fleet of el vessels, from the Downs, bourn)
lat the West. Pitt back, • the New Frederick,
Wistian frigate and store ship; ilto Sir Cherie.
"Wearthy,r; the Kitty; the St. Ann's; the: Rawlins ;
theWilltam Manning ; the Rossi the Print." Iteteent ;
And the Lirerpool. Sailed, the Init:epid, rtansport, for
'Chatham--Bibs S3F;
r Mamma. Dec. 4.—Arrived; tbeLord Raritan Packet,
with mails, from 4,.!uttltiorrn and soiled again, With mails,
for Holland. Sailed, the Leicester Packet,, ivith mail,
let Oashniro. Arrived, several coasted, fur shelter.—
Wind W.S.W.
• PLYMOUTH, DM ships, bound foreign, remain
it the anchorage.—Wind N. •

Coax, Sov. tO.—A trtink, died post, end several painted
,boards,.sepposed to be part of a vessel's cabin or Manse's;
were us Wedoesday cast ashore on. the Borrod-of Bally-
MI e Bally-
MI . The trunks contained ionth !articles of female wear-
' ispperel and a few books. In One of which was a receipt
* following words:—•• Received from Mrs. Dobell, 63
Ware fbr rent, for her lodgings to March inst.—Dated
Roston; March, lidO. •'-Wx. t.ITTLI."
Prinetraissisw.—Mlller, who has undertaken to go 84
Miles a day; on the main Romford road. in 14 hours, for
four successive days, last night accomplished his third dais
task, aid arrival at the Plaines; Stratf,rd. forty minutes
width; the gilled belie. Ile is now on his last day, sod it
seems very probable that be will win his eager; havirlg
come In mach better In regard ib his swollen legs than be
did on Tuesday sight. To-eight he finishes his task at Cue
'Crown mad Barley-mew, Gray's-lns-lane.
There are new in the workhouse at Marrow Moor,
in Yorke:4r, five old meniahnse united ages %mown to
upwards of four hdadred years; a sixth pauper died a
few days ago is the same honor, 'of the name of Henry
Wild, who bad attained his 100th year. This venerable
man (ought under the Marquis of, year.
in Germain',
'let served several years is North America during tile
war wider the nonmetal of the date Marquess Corn-
wallis. . . - • •
Van's-next.— Tag EtlrgaointieinT latrasnan.—
Yesterday, the Magistrate vf this DLO ieesived a looter
'fowl' Warrington, which .Igacti the character of this
eingulai Pii"Sitl a light Alit shckelted and: astonished
even those wbe,have watched her conduct luring her
evinetien.. - . • -:,
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following Is the eXa•ealeet, which it win be urn
Ms beef estivmed by the overseers of Warritguin and
the hetilieldevis4ll,6;•••••-**- ./•-•'.4"• -.'''•••
I 6.. !Wet the bead ' unles-bail.' la the police repeni
lef Siturdsy last, there leen' attain% of 111 f etthordinary
' impostor, of -whom it it laid ^ id Warriegion the very
extraordinary young weimilfilnipo ead open a atinsber of
medical men." This- is-mit atily-truit, but the ciresta-
'seems. were such, that had not the minutest inquiries
-Wen said,, and the Strictest scrutiny. resorted
to, it is more than presets'e that two ineopent men
would have been sacrificed to her diabolical falsehoods.
'Ste Was rewind in estate apparently dying, and conveyed
to the petor•besse. An investigation took piece, wham
she accused two men at first robbing bees, and then ben-
tally abasing bee leaving her nearly blindest!. llyr
story was believed. The towaseas ip .a ferment, and two
men who had been al.en on the road, *ere taken op and
yed to prison. Every possible kindness and atten-
dee were shown to her by the magistrates and clergy,
the medical gentlemen, the'overseera and the respect.
able inhabitants of the teey, many Of whom visited her
, daily. The first time 1 'sailors 1. really did not think
!that she could exist till mending. Sha sat up in her bed..
supported by pillows,•frothing.stithrtrooutb, andlu short,
.appearing as one on the 'verge uf,eteroity. She bad per-
.sons to sit up anti watch all nightgand ou my inquiring
-la the morning, 1 was surprised to hear that Mary Ana
Sterrett (which I believe is he real name) was • same.
thing beret.' This hive continued some time; tact
the accounts she gave of herself ad tier relations being
found incorrect, sitspician took place of certainty, an I
Indignation of pity. It fortunately happened that some
gentlemen, well aegueinted with that part of Stafford-
shire from whence sue had stated she came, knew Kittle-
shirit of the family to which site said she belonged. 41
laquiry- was instituted in the proper. quarter, .when t
was found that she was a dreadfully artful impostor :
that at that very moment she was nuder a recognizanrc
to inipear it- the ensuing Stafford ',sixes against a gen-
tleman of respectability, when) she hid annoyed of an
attempt to comMit a rape. 'Tie lloferapr,of the Stets-
fun, pollees sent for. 'He came &two, and instantly
recognised her. Till 'Oda 'period she eadeavouned .t.►
keep tip the imposture ; hut id aeon a; this gentlenpri
appkared she toreotr the mask, and exhibited herself it
such.• manner as really to leave. us is .doniat -*beaie
we could have imagined each -a. character so fdsolent,
soimpudent, and so brutal as she proved-to be. Tpp
'poor men who had been confined tia thartime•were aen
at liberty, and she was nominated by` the. Magistrates
to the House of Correction at .Kirkdale as a vagtaot.
''' it May pet be improper to apprise the kioventor p.
theTreal mill at Brixton, that she has I power of feier..,
lag Mies% 1111 that to an entreme,degree, beyond w dm
ill.the Method gentlemen, supposed a llamas cteanua
capable of. She has at times pretended to be dying, mil
eye*. dead. She has the art of proturiug er Cr othintes 3t
her lips; it if 'opposed by means of soap, ww.fah she coa.
teals fur this purpose; besides which, slit will for days
refuse instenancr, under a pretence of Lying soe.in e,
takelood. From bean', or rather.wben liberated fro".l
Kirkdal', she went to Nortimich,, where she played the
same tricks over again, and 'was ag-iio discovered-to be
abimpostor. It is her practice when in confiberurn:,
to accuse either the (Liver nor of,tbis prison, the medico&
anendant, or some other person, of an attempt at raps ;
'conseqtientty,it behoves those wafture at all acquainted
with her villany to make it known," • .
• • This statement was. signed ".J. K. illatehrook,"
and ii ccinfinued by the overseers of Warrington-, and
the Governor of .13ridewell, the last of whom assert•,
that the two. men alluded "lo were in' prism*. tit e
• As .rafgbt be expected, this sir" feh has feigned il'-
iseet.as. dleispau;liati 'made, it lise_girytext. of. • refs, :I
be erfarit'it din mill. -The.iVefitar.outder the dime:ion
ar•the lilbigNtratei, has therefordifiv.n 411reciions that
retie shall be detained in itobtary salatienaent -until her
lit is Oren
-. Mr.' Perry, of the. Drill Weeny Sentreettosin; pro.
red frosslhe Alagiatratesoni order to tee 'the Pri Salter,
as be stated his conviction that she had robbed birti u.•
!Ul. while is his se: vice.

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