On being brought there, the necessary proceedings were gone into for the purpose of indicting the house as a common brothel.
"It was afterwards discovered that this unhappy girl was of the most respectable parents, and for the last six years had been residing with her Aunt.

About three months ago, some difference having arisen between them, she absconded, taking with her only a few shillings, and the clothes she then wore.

The first night of her remaining from home she went to Drury-lane Theatre, and was there pick'd up by a genteel woman dressed in black, who having learned her situation, enticed her to a house in Hart-street, Covent-garden, where the ruin of the poor girl was finally effected.

It was not until she had immersed herself in vice and folly that she reflected on her situation, and it was then too late to retract; and after suffering unheard of miseries, was, in the short space of three months, reduced to her present state of wretchedness.
"The worthy Magistrate ordered that proper care should be taken of the girl, which was readily undertaken on the part of the parish.
"The Prisoner set up a defence, in which he said, a friend of the girl's owed him 14L.

and that he detained her clothes for it--but was stopped by Mr.Bimie.
"He at first treated the matter very lightly; but on perceiving the determination on the part of the parish to proceed, he offered to give up the things.