to obtrude her name on the public, I am nevertheless again compelled to such an appeal. Since my appearance at the Norwich Sessions, paragraphs, containing the most atrocious falsehoods against myself and family, have been printed in some of the London newspapers; and, within the last few weeks, an anonymous hand-bill, repeating the same aspersions, has been circuJated at New Buckenham (where I at present reside), and in the vicinity. These hand-bills, I have been assured by my kind neighbours, they have received at the house of Mr. Whichcote Turner, at Old Buckenham, the author of all my injuries. To vindicate myself from these imputations among those persons who may take an interest in my fate, but to whom I am unknown, and in justice to my parents, my daughter, and my friends, I now submit to the public the outline of a life, which, though not without error, has passed, I trust, without a crime.

My father was not a Jew, nor did he reside at Frankfort, as has been represented. He was educated with a Prince of the House of Denmark, was of a high and distinguished family, lived for thirty years in New North-street, Red Lionsquare, as a rich and respectable merchant, and I am pained beyond measure, that his honoured name should be called in question. Mr. Charles Harvey, the Recorder at Norwich, and Mr. Twining, both well known in this county, were acquainted with my dear father, and are still acquainted with my brother and his family, now on the Continent; and though I am a stranger to those gentlemen, I doubt not they will readily attest the truth of what I have stated. Indeed, Sir Thomas Beevor told me recently,

that Mr. Twining had dined at his house, and acknowledged me to be the person I represented myself.

In the year 1791, I was placed by my father, during his absence, in a boarding-school at Paris, to com. plete the different branches of my education. At the house of a Col. Blackden, where I was occasionally allowed to visit, I had the misfortune to meet with Col. Sinclair, an officer in the royal army, who, hearing the large property my fa ther possessed in the French funds, took advantage of my inexperience to persuade me to marry him without consulting my relatives. My father so highly disapproved of CoJonel Sinclair's general character, and was so greatly exasperated at my undutiful behaviour, that it is with sorrow I own he never was afterwards quite reconciled to me, though he left me at his death, ten years ago, an equal share of his property. From the period of my marriage in the year 1791, which was my first entrance into life, I resided at Coblentz with Col. Sinclair, or, dur. ing his absence with the army, at Bruxelles; and it was not till af ter the first unfortunate campaign, which caused his regiment to be disbanded, and which consequently deprived him of his bread, that he ever expressed the least wish to separate from me. At that period, Col. Sinclair became intimately ac quainted at Bruxelles, with a lady of fortune and powerful connexions in Scotland, with whom he thought, under the embarrassed state of his affairs, an alliance would be adviseable, my father refusing him all pecuniary assistance (excepting a few presents to myself), and as every person of education, who has visited the Continent, must know that a divorce is obtained there

with the utmost ease, and at little expence, without the necessity of criminality being attached to either party, Col. Sinclair therefore availed himself of the power of a husband, in a catholic country, to compel me, under a threat of shutting me up for life in a convent, to agree to a divorce, which remains registered in the court, called the Greffe, at Bruxelles. By this register it will appear, that I am not accused of any inpropriety, and that the sole alledged cause of our disunion was family dispute. Soon after my divorce, I returned to England, in the year 1794, and have never since left this country. I was advised to resist the oppression practised against me at Bruxelles, and to enter a suit against Col. Sinclair, in Doctors' Commons, for adultery, and for a maintenance; for the lady above alluded to had taken my name, and was living openly with him, in great splendour, in Grafton-street, Fitzroysquare, while I, from the dissatis faction of my family towards me, was reduced to teach music to sup port myself and child.-Could Col. Sinclair have proved that I had misconducted myself, or that our divorce bad arisen from crime, he would have recriminated; for, by so doing, my complaint would have been dismissed the Court, and he

would have been freed from my law expences, which he repeatedly has been compelled to pay, and for the non-payment of the last demand, was, seven years ago, excommunicated in Queen-square Church, Between two and three years ago, I accidentally discovered that I needed not the interference of the law to disunite me from Col. Sinclair, because he had a wife alive at Anapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, at the very time he was married to ine. Mr. Turner has seen the written documents in my possession, and knows the respectability of the parties, who are ready at any time to attest the same fact. He had further engaged, that, in whatever way my disunion probably could be legally effected, he would defray all expences; and every thing to this intent was so far arranged, that it was only suspended till Mr. T. had quitted the army.

About four years ago I took the name of Sutherland, in consequence of property left to me, upon that condition, by a female relative.

During my residence upon the Continent, I was known to fami❤ lies of the highest distinction; a, mong other persons, to Louis the XVIIIth, and Monsieur, his brother, whose Court was kept at Coblentz; and at Bruxelles to Lord Elgin,* our English Minister, and

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Count Metternich, the Austrian Ambassador, who can be appealed to for the truth of my assertions, and for the propriety of my conduct. Since I have been in England, my residence has been in London, (for these last four years in Portman-street) where I am re'ceived in circle of respectable friends, some of whom are nearly related to families in this county.

When Mr. Turner first induced me to listen to his proposals of marriage, I had an income of 19001. per annum, and my establishment was suitable to my condition; and the gentleman to whom I referred Mr. Turner, and who was kind enough to act in my behalf, was a Field-Officer of great consideration in his Majesty's service, and to whose sister I had formerly been much endeared.

From Mr. Turner's acquaintance I have not only suffered great pecuniary loss, but have been reduced to the lowest condition of wretch edness, and have undergone mental distress more acute than language can convey, from the embarrassments he subjected me to; and I shall shortly print a narrative of all the circumstances of our connexion, supported by authenticated copies of his letters, and other documents in my possession; all of which will clearly shew, that no part of my conduct affords him the slightest pretence for his behaviour. Those who may be interested for either of us, will then have the surest means of judging between us. My present statement is now before the

public, and every one will have the power of determining, how far it is just and honourable to make me the subject of anonymous hand-bills and fictitious histories.

LUCY SINCLAIR SUTHERLAND, New Buckenham, Sept. 14, 1809.

CANINE AFFECTION.

With an Engraving.

THE following instance of canine affection, we believe is not to be paralleled in quadruped history.

On the 18th of April last, Mr. Gough, of Manchester, was at Patterdale, on his road to Wyburn, a place he frequently visited in summer, for the agreeable amusement of fishing. After receiving some refreshment at the inn, Mr. Gough requested the assistance of a guide to conduct him over the mountains; but it being a general review of the volunteers in that neighbourhood, he could not procure one; he therefore proceeded on his journey; without any other companion than a favourite spaniel bitch, and had never been heard of until Saturday, the 20th of June following, when a shepherd boy, in search of a sheep that had strayed, wandering that way, was attracted to the fatal spot by the howling of the bitch, which had pupped at a little distance, and was still watching over the remains of her master.

The boy immediately hastened to Patterdale, and informed some

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