Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-12-07
MISTAKES CORRECTED.


II IS an additional proof of the extent
to which any imposition has been practis-
ed, that the very person who processes TO
expose il, should himself, at the same
moment, labour under lis influence, and
contribute TO promote 1t. The lmpostor
must have been wonderfully successful,
when even It's enemies unconsciously
yield to its decisions In The article
which we published on the Esd nit. respec-
ting Miss Adelaide Brent, in tic very at
tempt TO correct some errors, we fell into
others. We now learn, from indisputa-
bic authority, that Notwithstanding the
Impostor's execrable success, there was
no similarity between the person, features,
or complexion of Polly Pagan, and those
of Miss Brent; that she was not in pos
session of those facts supposed to be
known only 10 Miss B.-that she succee-
ded in imposing only on one distant CON
nexion, who had not seen Miss B. since
her childhood-tha the idea of her lIav-
ing imposed on the acquaintance of Miss
Brent, was also erroneous, for with the
exception of one instance, Colonel John
Cooke, of Stafford, } the realacquaintances
of Miss Brent were unanimous * decisive
in denouncing the Impos;or as such-and
that Miss B. has not been mistaken, by "a
part of society, for the deceased Impos-
tor-however much the paragraph in the
Camden paper, Stating the death of a
female, in whose possession were found
papers addressed 10 Miss Adelaide Brent, J
was calculated to lead to belief that it
was Miss B. who was dead, and the I'M
poster who lived-lt was TO obviate the
possibility of such a mistake, that the
paragraphs III this paper were intended.
Editor Enquirer.
The world have heard much of the
great knowledge of the Impostor, of facts
relative to myself and mily-and trust
shall not again be under necessity of
declaring thai thisreport was circulated
by persons, with only one of whom had
ever had any Acquaintance in my life, that
had never even heard ofby far the greater
number of those who set the report afloat,
until was informed Of their corroborat-
ing the Impostor's taisehoods, and relat-
ing incidents and conversations which
they said had passed in their Intercourse
with me, and that the lmpostor had re-
peated to them the assertion, that she
was a domestic in some house boarded
at, and that she stolemy journal, is equal
~ false-for never kept any kind of Il
journal-and as far as negatives could
possibly be proven, could prove that
never saw the lmpostor in my life-and,
indeed, knew not of her existence, until
after she had assumed my name for sey-
eral weeks. had never been at Falmouth
except in twice merely passing thro' in
myfather's carriage, accompanied by him /;
Yet did a gentleman OF that town or Fred
cricksburg, assert, that he danced and
conversed with me at some public party
at the former, that tainted, that he bore
me TO the air, and that the whole was re-
lated to him by the Impostor. | have ne
yer been in Philadelphia, and received
my education entirely beneath my faith
er's roof-yet did Mr.. of Fred
ericksburg, assert, that had been there,
CPhiPa.) at boarding school, with his
wife, and that heImpostor had reminded
his wife, (whom he said was my intimate
friend,) of every particular that had there
passed. did not know that this gentle
man, or the wife of the one, {" my dear
friend, y had ever existed, and | would
publish their names, and those of other in
ventors, did | not hope that the Impos-
tors terrible death would awe them into
silence. a. Il.