To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir,-On Saturday last, the 24th inst., a young woman, appa- rently about 20 years of age, of a dark complexion, and respectable appearance, rapped at our door, and statel to our serant that she understood we wanted a servant (which was the case), and that our baker had sent her (which proved to be false), to which she was re- plied in the affirrnative, but that the ladv was out, and would re- turn in about an hour. The stranzer expressed her regret, and re- quested (as she had walked from Chelsea. and was going on foot to Greenwich, preparatory to a joumey to Seven Oaks, where her friends (as she said) resided, that she might be permitted to walk in and rest herself until the retrnm of my wife, which our servant (from hierdecent appearance and manner) consented to, and allowed her to sit down in the kitchen. After waiting three quarters of an hour. shesaid, thatas she was very much fatigued and hungrv, shc would step out and get some refreshment, promising to be back again in ten minutes. In the mean time my wife arrived, and soon afterwards, our servant, on going to a closet in the kzitchen, for the spoons for thedinner-table, found that the usgrateful femalebad decamped 'With a pair of the best table-spoons, which she had stolen during a momentary absence of our servant in the adjoining kitchen. It is scarcely necessary to add, that the pretended servant never called azain. The above niay act as a warning to others wlhom she will probably endeavour to rob under the same plausible pretext. G. L b,atLtucrweu-piace, flent-yonlu, Ap?iL L, I TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.