598 
statue in brass to the glorious me, 
mory of my master, king William 
the Third. (Signed) 
SamvuEen TRAVERS.” 
In the subsequent year (1725) an 
act of parliament was passed for 
adorning the said square. ‘The be- 
quest appears to have been totally 
forgotten, until the money was 
found in the list of unclaimed divi- 
dends. ‘The matter has been se. 
riously taken in hand since this dis- 
covery, and the noble square will 
receive its ornament from the hands 
of Mr. Bacon. 
The following is the return just 
made to the house of commons, of 
the importation of Spanish wool 
into Great Britain, in the course of 
the last ten years, viz. 
Yrs. lbs. \¥rs. 
1796, 3,439,242|1801, 
1797, 4,609,759|1802, 
1798, 2,609,268|1803, 
1799, 5,027,836|1804, 7,340,886 
_ 1800, 8,395,528|1805, 7,160,537 
13th. MARLBoROUGH-sTREET,— 
A nest of swindlers, consisting of 
four persons in one family, viz. the 
father, mother, son, and daughter, 
has been found out, and the father, 
who acted as valet to the daughter, 
who called herself a Mrs. Wake- 
field, has beeu taken inta custody 
by Levett. Since the apprehension 
of the father, whose name is M‘Ea- 
vy, alias M‘Kay, &c. &c. the bro- 
ther, Henry M‘Eavy, has been se- 
cured by Craig, one of the consta- 
bles of St. Anne’s. Mrs. Wake- 
field is now in the king’s bench, and 
her mother, who acted as her house- 
keeper, is since in custody. The 
father and son underwent a long exa- 
mination at Marlborough-street, and 
such was the anxiety of tradespeople 
to view them, and others to prefer 
lbs. 
6,538,674 
6,510,869 
4,773,522 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
i 
charges, that the avenues of the | 
office were filled at an early hour. 
The depredations committed on the’ 
public by this family, exceed any § 
thing of the kind we have heard o ] 
in a similar way. There were about § 
forty persons ready to prefer charges” 
against the prisoners and their col- 
leagues. Amongst the tradespeople | 
who gave their depositions were, 
Mr. Clark, milliner in the Strand 
who had supplied Mrs. Wakefield: 
with goods to the amount of between. 
601. and 701. by the representation) 
of her servants, who stated her hus-} 
band to be a man of independent 
fortune. 
Robert Sewell, coal-merchant, in 
Portman Mews, had been defrauded) 
in a similar manfier, by the repre- 
sentation of Mrs. W’s. character, by) 
her father and brother. 
Matthew Fratil, a victualler, i 
Oxford-street, was precisely in thef 
same situation. 
Mr. Swan, a fishmonger, in Port. 
man-street, had engaged to supply 
Mrs. Wakefield with fish, and on 
delivering his bill, at the expiration 
of a month, according to agreement, 
the lady had fled with her domestics, 
A jeweller, at No. 145, Piccas 
dilly, had let out apartments te 
Mrs. Wakefield, at 15 guineas per 
month. She represented herself 2 
the wife of a gentleman of fortune 
in Essex, and her family consisted 
of two maid-servants, a valet, and a 
footman ; the two last of which weré 
the prisoners. They were attire¢ 
in livery, and the jeweller was in 
formed by them, that Mr. Wakefield 
kept his horses, curricle, &c, but he 
would not bring them to London, 
as he preferred a country life 
These, and numberless other imposk 
tions, have been pactis ed by Mrss 
W. ang 
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