To The Editor Of The Time...
The Times, 1824-02-11T00:00:00

I ADVERTTSERrE-'7T.1 S take the-libert ZE. rancras, Mlsouesex, reD. LU. Sir,-I t ulke the lnberry of requesting yoa to insert in your paper the following affidavits, in contradiction to a statement which ap- peared in your paper of Thursday last, under the head of Police Reports, Marlboroughbstreet, as to a miserable-looking poor woman, labouring under the worst effects of a loathsome disease, who stated to the sitting magistrate, Air. Dyer, that she had apnlied to me for parochial assistance and had been refused, and that I abused her in the mostgrosslanguagc, applying to her the most foul epithets, and upb-aiding her with the complaint she laboured ux.der, and ulti^ metely turned her away. Your paper then s1ys that I was present, and was asked by Mvr. byer to explain such coiduct, and states, that in answer I denied having seen the woman before; but the fact is, the above statement was made before I entered the police-office, and I should not have known any thing of i;, had I not been led there, upon otherbusines.; consequently,on entering the office I was taken by surprise to explain one individual case out of betwixt 100 and 200 applications that were made to me, and instead of having pal- pably denied ever having seen the woman before, which is incorrect, I stated I had no recollection at that moment seeing her. After leaving the plice-office, I ascertained that the woman. wvhose name is MIargaret Benson,had applied to me onDlonday the2d of Feb.inst. stating she was born in Iteland, and had no settlement in England; that she lodged in the parish on Sunday ni-ht, the 1st of Feb. inst., and befere then, in Whbitechapel and St. Giles's. She was relieved with. one schilling, and wcas told that if she was lodging in the parish she would be sent to the lUiddlesex Hlospital for cure, at the ex- pense of the parish. An inquiry was made whether she so lodged at the place she stated in the parish, which turned out to be false. She received from mne, at the police-office, an admission into the Workhouse, bvorder of Ur. Dyer, and was sent the next day to Middlesex Hospital. I trust that this explanation and the following affidavits wiU be sufficient to justify my conduct. I arn Yours. W. A ISTMON. Vne ol0 the Overseers of the Poor of St. Pancras, Alliddlesex. (COPY.) AMiddlesex to wit.-1 William Pepall, one of the overseers of the poor of the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Mliddlesex, do voltntarily make oath, that I was present when an application was made by Margaret Benson to Mfr. 'William Alston, also one of the overseers of the poor of the said parish, for parochi^l relief, on Mion- day, the 2d dav of Februarv instant that no improper or indecent anguage was used by the said W'illiam Alston to he said Margaret Benson, but on the contrary, he, the said WVilliam Alston, spoke to her wsith mildness and humanity, and thlat relief was afforded her; and that the atatement of the said Aargaret Benson made yesterday at the public office, in AIarlboroughstreet, and reported in Thc Tinter paper of this day, is totally false and unfounded. NILLIAM PEPALL. Sworn before me, at Mlarlborough-street, the 5th day of February, 1824, H. Ai. DSER. (copy.) Aiddlesex to wit-I George Sellers do voluntarilv make oath, that I was present when an application was made by Margaret Ben- son to Mr. William Alston, one of the overseers of the poor of the parish of St. Pancra., in the county of Aiiddlesex, for parochial re- lief, on Mlonday, the 2d day of February instant; that no improper or indecent language was used by the said Mlr. Wi'illiam Alston to the said Margaret Benson, but on the contrary, he, the said Aly. Milliam Alston, spoke to her with mlldness and humanitv. GEORGE SELLERS. Sworn before me, at Milarlborough-street, the 5th day oh'February, 1824, H. M. DYER._ TI) T'HE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.