The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-18 00:00:00

!Ajax. sant le
Gurceuxia...".l person of flotrie iclebrity,
*lined Datenport Seilley,..brought a charge °rasa
mutt agaiest's Dutch Lady named Norton, other.
wise OsborAt, for strikinthim with a endge'l, on
Thursday last, at her lodgings near Ludgate-hill.
, Mr. Sedley, from corsiidcrotions of delicacy,
wished to confine his statement to the simple fact
of tbs'assault ; but the Magistrate chose to inquire
into th-e eircendstances of the case. •
Mr. Sedley stated, that he gent on Thursday to
'Nike lodgings of Dr. Stevenson, a medical gentleman,
Who has for some time sojourned in the rules of
-Ale Fled Prison, to claim some money due to him,
64that some dispute arose between him and the Doc-
tor, who, after several times desiring him to de-
part, attempted to push him down stairs ; and that
on his resisting the efforts of Doctor Stevenson for
this porpose, the lady in question, who resides in
the same apartments, interfered, and struck Mr.
Sedley on the arm with a large stick.
• On the other si.le, Mrs. Norton, otherwise Os-
borne, who is e very handsome native of Holland,
told her own stink with much eloquence, and in'
tiiliirably good English.
. , She said, that having become possessed of a
right to a legacy of 48001. she could not obtain
the munef for want of means to proceed at law,
by procuring copies of certain deeds, extending
to 15 skins of parchment ; she therefore wished
to raise, by loan, a sums of 0001. for which par.
Oise Dr. Stevenson had recommended Mr.Seilley to
her, as a niney-agent ; she did nut, e said, like
his character, b.it she was remolded to employ him.
Mr. Salley employed Mr. Golf's as his eo. agent, and
Mrs. Norton promised, if she obtained the luau, to
preVent them With 501. each, fot their trouble.—
The money was obtained from a Mr. Martin ; and
Mr. Coitus orought it to Mr-. Norton, who, in
the presence of Dr. Stevenson, paid him 501. fur
his own trouble, and 501. more for Mr. Sedley,
only deducting 111. which Mr. Sedley had previ-
ously received of Dr. Stevenson ; and Mi. Coutts
toOk•his lean anal departed. Shortly afterwards,
Mr. Sedlry came to Dr. Stevenson's apartment,
llnd expressed much displeasure on trading that his
share of the 1001. had been rtitl to Mr. Coutts.—
He, however, went away, and, after some time,
again returned, and demanded of Mrs. Norton
.2COI. which, if shit did not directly pa), he would
prosecute her as an alien, niftier the Alien Act.
In .consequence of Allis, high words arose be..
twee(' Mr. Sedley and Ds. Stevenson ; the hitter
141400.0 n the .fornier's immediately quitting his
apartments ; Seiley refused, and the Doctor
was preceding to enforce 114 mandate, when Mrs,
Norton interfered, a-ad.-Sentry struck her a vio.
lent blow with his stiek on the arm (which she
exhibited to the Magistrate, and which evinced

marks of a very severe contusion) ; she would
• elfididly acktruwledge, however, that after she
yr** tips sttUeir, she ielaed a stick which she found
.
'in the' toontl Anil struck Mr: gedley return.

Mrs. Norton added a very pathetic statement of
her own ca.,; e said that her lioisband, who
was a Scotch officer iii the British service. was kil.

KA in 114,1 and in the last expedition, wider the
..Duke of York ;' that she herself was thirteen
Months detained as prisoner of war, "in a •finteh
prison ; that she returned to Etigland with
.the
- Duke of York, and had sustained in this country

. -
a !wig series of misfortunes.
Auutlu rfemale, who was present at the trans-
Zaction,corroborated the stocy,;of Mrs. Norton ;
' sad both offered to verify their statement upon
; •
. oath.
Mr. Coutts also appeared, acknowledged the
receipt of the money from Mrs. Nortuu for his
, agency, but declared that he never made any de-
•. island or stipulation ; hut that Airs. Norton made
• him the compliment of 501. of her own accord.
The Magistrate, therefore, deemed it right to
'Pelisniiss the charge of Mr. Sedley, who, on his
port, being foiled iu the fiist attack, changed his
getmetid, and immediately commenced a second, by
directly tendering to the Magistrate his informa-
- twit against Mrs. Norton as an alien, and being in
this country without licence, contrary to the Alien
• Act ; and he insisted that the Magistrate should,
as he was by low bound, receive his information,
and detain Mrs. Norton in custody. He added
too, that this woman, who, pretended to be the
• widow of a British Otficer, named 'Norton, was in
fart the wife of a Danish %Vest Indian, a native
of the, Mond of -St. Thomas, and now a drummer,
•or musician in the Guards, whom she married to
get rid of her debts ; and that Norton, her first
,husband, had been many years since guillotined ut
Amsterdam, upon the information of this very wo.
MAN fur forging English bank notes.
The lady's sensibility was incompetent to with-
stand this imputation upon the honour of her dep
ceased husband, as well as upon her own to*.
• gal fidelity, and she bird.. into tears. She ad.
mined, indeed, that site had been married sine*
. she came to England, to a musiAan named Os.
borne, who rubbed her of 7001. but finding he
• had soother wife, .she never cohabited with him ;
and she protium) a Mr. Piekersgill, to prove his
hasittg given her away in marriage to Osborne.
Mr. Sedley contintit.sl to insist upon the tenth of
. hi. 0.4 • 1114fi'McIlt, and 'that the. lady had received
h../ the 6041. sod the l8t)01. by signing her name
as the widow Norton, which she was not, instead
of Osborne; and finally demanded her detention.
' Attlerman ATILINg, however, told Mr. Seilley,
dial if he bad brought forward this information
•-•withony manifest view to the service of the emit'_
as a loyal man, by -showing that Mrs. Nor.
u was a concealed alienl and wished amides-
..fly to eoutiase in the. country for suspicions
" purposes, he should be inclined to entertain his
information but as it ,appeared clearly in the
present ease to be the erect of resentment for his
disappointineut, he could nut consider him as cum-
. ,•
-hug forward with clean bands, and therefore should
• Sot reset.. is formation.
• MN. Norton' declared she bad been at the Of.

*es of the Secretary of State this morning, and
• should fend no diSeelty is producing ample crc.
dotal. 'u loom ini Lord Liverpool should return
eolon n.
The matter was dismissed ter the present. •