The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-02-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENT.  On Thursday last, Mr. Austen, the proprietor of Peele's Coffee-houSe and Hotel, waited upon the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house, London, for the purpose of representing to his Lordship a certain description of annoyance . to which he had been subjected since last August, and which was calculated to do much mischief to the establishment.  Mr. Austen stated that an advertisement appeared in . the Manchester Guardian on the 26th August. last, headed "Matrimony," and requesting that answers might be sent addressed to "T. A. D., Peele's Coffee-house, Fleet-street, London." He did not think it necessary to notice the liberty taken with his house until letters began to arrive directed to "T. A. D." Ho then wrote to the editor of the Manchester Guardian, complaining of the insertion of the unauthorised reference to his house, and publication was at once gin to the denial. Answers continued, notwithstanding, to pour in, and some of them were to all appearance the effusions of respectable women, who seemed to place reliance upon the candour of the writer, and to deal with the utmost explicitness on the subject of their own condition, prospects, and personal_ recommendations.  The Lord Mayor said the observations of Mr. Austen brought to his mind the fact that Corder, the murderer, had obtained a wife by means of an advertisement ; so that ladies who trusted to that delicate sort of introduction, might meet with partners who would not hesitate to perpetrate the most atrocious of all offences. Mr. Austen said that one of the letters which had been _ _  directed to " T.A.D." surprised him very much. It professed to be the writing of the brother-in-law of a young lady of moderate personal attractions and pretty good property, and it invited the advertiser to hiS house: to see the lady, who was to be kept in total ignorance of the object of the introduction; so that if a mutual liking was not likely to arise from the acquaintance, a termination could Le at once put to it without the least chance of inflicting pain. The Lord Maykr.—You, of course, refused to deliver up those letters ?_  Mr. Austen.—Most certainly I did, my Lord. Application was made to me for the lettersaddressedto "T.A.D.," and a solicitor of respectability called upon me to demand.. them peremptorily ; but I not only indignantly refuied to delivtr up one of them, but I told the person who applied to me that I should hold him up to public contempt for engaging in so disxraceful a transaction ; for being, in fact, involved in the disgusting conspiracy. The Lord Mayor.—You did perfectly right.Mr. Austen said, that since the advertisement appeared and had been contradicted in the Manchester Guardian, a matrimonial advertisement had appeared in a London newspaper of very great circulation and respectability, referring ' " A.Y. " at Peel's Coffee-house." It had been ascertained that Mr. •` A.Y." in search of a wife, was no other than Mr. "T.A.D." who .had tainted LI; pages of the Manchester Guardian, and he begged that his Lordship would let him know what was tfie Most advisable course to be adopted before a magistrate to put as end to so injurious a system. The fellow, no doubt, calculated something on the fact or the pretence stated in his advertisement, that he belonged to the legal profee:. sion, for exciting apprehensions as to his hostility. He, stated in the newspaper that he was one of that class, 5 feet 11 inches high, and proportionately.stout ; that he would be found very useful to widow ladies who might be entitled to property from their deceased husbands' estates, or the estates of others, and that he would exclusively devote his attention to the comforts of any lady with whom he might be united. (Laughter.) The Lord Mayor said, he- did not believe that Mr. Austen could have adopted a better course for the prevention of any mischief to his establishment, than that of complaining publicly that his house was stigmatized by being made a reference for advertisements from matrimo-nial adventurers. He thought that the mere statement would have the desired effect. If, however, there should would be any repetition of such offenailance probly s conduct,ab Mr. A would call at the justice-room, ceive advice to pursue another course ; and it-might thm be necessary. with the Vie* of setting the matter at rent_ to publish till the curious (tom/mote which-had fallen 6-! Vs Laud d 6.