The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-23 00:00:00

POLICE.
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ARGItt IiatPOsTOR.
G tit curl ALL. —Yesterday a sal disaal woman
•.-' family, calling herself Ilarriet Jagut was
bought up for her second examiastien, upon a
eery of being an Incorrigible vagrant and im-
raideritiming endeavoured, underfelt': pretences,'
to inevitable a belief of her being abandoned by a
must rcspeetible family, to whom she alleged
heceell L. elvsely emesiereed, and that she was
thereby drivel' by despair iomttempt bar own de-
stenetion 11 opium, in order, by such indirest
linens, to inkiest the compassion of the ermine
lops, and to obtain charitable coetributions.--1
Serka mass of infprrnation was adduced in Qui- ,
twists of hereberacter in this way, as to Mew
Ow site .hap
ftepa rarely, if ever,. paralleled Its
the annals pestare.
It appeered, pc the statement of Sir. Kirby, It
. respectable bookseliee, of leendele „ Betase-eavdel
tholes the night ef Solidity, iha Stir inst. he was
inflossed by the heed-beadte of kis parish, wile
lava nest door to him, that a lady in distress hi*
fade* dowaat the dour of .Me. Ibbetann, 'tractor,
Deil.dbeet, Doctors:Commons, and was :churn;
debrief theelfeets bi opium, or some other de-,
lateriinie dreg, *high she bad seallowed. Thi.
thor Sit. Kirby lame/Hatt-1y went, with the Wa-
di., .mid found the nithappy object in the situa-
tion d; he bad her m reoval /to -his 01,11
11,...,thter.,.. Rouse-yard, in order to pre.
enve4wilair some medical assistance ; and he ac-
cordingly seat-to Mr. liurlock, a respectable sur-
geowerat apothecary, in St. Paul'4 Church-yard,
tram whence en assistant came, and after an at.
tendence of nearly six hours, and the administra-
tion of emetics, a quantity of opium was dis-
charged from her stomach, which this assistant
gagged most have killed her, had she remsined
• three boors longer.withont proper nallildias.
! She told Mr. Kirby • plensibie Hairy of her
high connections ; said she was Merle sear Aber-
deen, was a near relation of the 'Gorden family ;
that die was the daughter of Col. Sir W.Maawelt;
dust abs had throe autos, him.. Dupre sad two
Miller, .1110 W at Brightow ; that bee brother, the
rierpf COI. Maxwell, bid lost his arm at the
boldest Gertillails and "e, 111111 et Abode's •
thee her &oily bed laftalioard barr Mak )reel
• dbisteet bet en ikweitlii sed forged kir .* Op ,00h
atilt she bed liessmitteds $e lad siii 414.1141 i it
lelOpeessitied br the housekeeper to VI ke
been ateLoed be the
io,Prieeepsdeal,
sabardiht basl shipt the niels dielare. The -
alas way het family had abandoeed her was, that
JAiii bed born •edeeeti-47 tbeillatigeis of H tez,
11114 k whoa 'imbed lived some daseatialaek t
Od bad elan by kip* whit it sow at the school
• 4 thle Sow. Dr. . "at Chiswick; andediat
- 911.81140114 ash tellers! broken out of a
.
pad-Itaiiie et . elided, vriNa she bad beers
credited by her friends. She useatiemed a long
list of names aad high contrections, to whom she
stated herself to be related i • and after being some-
*hat recovered and Wet-shed, she exprevsed a de-
sire to go eway, which Mr. Kirby permitted her
tiedu, in care of the 'beadle, to conduct her to
abe protection of her friends; but finding [terse,.
vratehed in her retreat down Ludgate-street IP .lie
beadle, she told him it was in vein to f 171 • a her.
for nothing should prevent he r Irtea putting an
and to het ehibtence. A mob was collected, to
wean/he wade her appeal, and tree beadle was
very uptight.' hanled, for attempting to conduct
hur out of his vita b. 84 its .the emit of the
trislurtiance which took Meer, the lady was eon-
ducted to the watch-house, amid brought neat day
befere Alderman Wool,.
M,. Kirby pro' n r...t1 Ike attendance of Ld. Fife's
and the lion. \l r. Fuedyee's hoese-kerpers from
Whittlall, by whom she pretended to be known
kid befriended ; but both positively dented any
:kno-tile:lge of her. She, however, persisted thee
In her story of being the drat ter -of Col. Sir;
Wm. Maxwell, and in the cause she before pee•
tended for attempting self-destrortion. Mr. AL
dermas WOODi at that time, ordered her to •
taken rare of, until proper enquiries should be
made of her friends, and to-day she was brought
op for further examination. She affected mach
siltation aad 'poignant distress ; insisted she was
• the daughter of Sir Wm. Maxwell, though not
bez
born in wedlock ; that his abandonment of her,
and the cruelty of her family, wore the causes
of her distress of mind ; that are was lu the habit
of taking opium as a means of relel, to assuage ;
her pain, and quiet her perturbed spirits ; that she
bail often taken it, and if she w to to be taken op
and committed to prison every time she took
relearn, or if thAt KU a crime that deserved pis.
atisleme•nt, her wish wag, at once to be tried, and
sent to Botany Bay, fur she must still continue to
take opium so luag as her pain and anguish of
sled continued.
Mr. Alderman Woos, who was now present,
eross-exandned her with great mildness, touching
the truth of her story, iu which she still persisted.
Ile asked her if the had nut a brother named
Creases, who drove the Salisbury mail coach, or
whether that brother had not appeared as an evi.
hence against her, some few years since, at the
Exeter A abiati, where she was tried as a vagrant
and convicted. She denied positively any knew.
ledge of Greares, and said she never was at Exeter;
that she was not in England five years ago, hav-
ing been abioad many years, and only re-
termed within the last two. She said she had two
brothers, one of whom died at Cape Coast, in
Africa, anti the other was its Scotland. Mr. AL
derman Woos, however, had, by proper inquiries,
well ascertained the fact of her trial and conviction
at F.:sew'', and the appearesee of her brother,
Greats*, •the rnail-coarheusaf, as a witness there
against her, and stated several ether circumstances
of her hiving applied for pecuniary aid to several
respectable pers4ne is the vieinity of London, me.
d..r false pretences, respecting her family counce.
lions, and particularly to Mr. Adams, who keeps
a naval academy at Eilmontou, to it horn she stated
hcriell to be the near rel.cion of Lady Sladeline
—, and daughter of Colonel S4r William
e. Guidon, end ailit..l to wend other persons of
distinetiew ; but 'that bit. Adams had written to
tease reasons, ihu deuie,l auy knowledge %hat-
e