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320 . PARTICULARS OF THE LIFE OF
an overset boat, and to whom our adventurer had per-
formed some acts of kindness.—For some days nothing else
-was discovered but a bill for 100/. drawn on a Devonshire
bank, which he had left behind him with Mary’s father and
mother ■ and with which they were to have paid off a
mortgage on their little property.
Among other villainous schemes of this merciless wretch,
he had attempted to persuade the old people to sell their
little estate, to place the money in his hands, and to go
with him into Scotland. The bill proved to be an old bill
that had been long paid, and (as it will after appear) drawn
on his own bank, under the names of Dennis and Co. in
Devon.
We heard nothing more concerning the impostor till
the 27th or 28th of October, when Mary Robinson dis-
covered, at the bottom of a trunk, which had been left at
Buttermere, a large mass of letters.—These she. delivered
to Mr.-, who, with his wife and the young lady under
their protection, have behaved to her with a kind of
tenderness and respect, which does infinite credit to their
hearts and understandings.—Never, surely, did an equal
number of letters disclose a thicker swarm of villainies
perpetrated by one of the worst, and of miseries inflicted
on some of the best of human beings.
In this research, she also found various letters addressed
to Hatfield, from one of his former wives and children ; a
circumstance, which added that of a Bigamist, to the rest
of his crimes.
Buttermere, near the Lakes, is about nine miles from
Keswick by the horse road, and fourteen by the carriage
road. From hence we learn, that immediately after his
escape from that place, as we have before related, with
the assistance of a fisherman, he took refuge on board a
sloop off Ravenglass. Finding that he should be detected,
lie went in the coach to Ulverston, and was seen at the
hotdl
an overset boat, and to whom our adventurer had per-
formed some acts of kindness.—For some days nothing else
-was discovered but a bill for 100/. drawn on a Devonshire
bank, which he had left behind him with Mary’s father and
mother ■ and with which they were to have paid off a
mortgage on their little property.
Among other villainous schemes of this merciless wretch,
he had attempted to persuade the old people to sell their
little estate, to place the money in his hands, and to go
with him into Scotland. The bill proved to be an old bill
that had been long paid, and (as it will after appear) drawn
on his own bank, under the names of Dennis and Co. in
Devon.
We heard nothing more concerning the impostor till
the 27th or 28th of October, when Mary Robinson dis-
covered, at the bottom of a trunk, which had been left at
Buttermere, a large mass of letters.—These she. delivered
to Mr.-, who, with his wife and the young lady under
their protection, have behaved to her with a kind of
tenderness and respect, which does infinite credit to their
hearts and understandings.—Never, surely, did an equal
number of letters disclose a thicker swarm of villainies
perpetrated by one of the worst, and of miseries inflicted
on some of the best of human beings.
In this research, she also found various letters addressed
to Hatfield, from one of his former wives and children ; a
circumstance, which added that of a Bigamist, to the rest
of his crimes.
Buttermere, near the Lakes, is about nine miles from
Keswick by the horse road, and fourteen by the carriage
road. From hence we learn, that immediately after his
escape from that place, as we have before related, with
the assistance of a fisherman, he took refuge on board a
sloop off Ravenglass. Finding that he should be detected,
lie went in the coach to Ulverston, and was seen at the
hotdl