Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

Singular Circumstance.
A female, aged upwards of seventy years, had resided for a considerable time in a small house at Cambridge-heath. Hackney-road. She kept no servant, associated with none of her neighbors, and the only inmate was a favorite cat,—and the signal of the milkman, or any one applying for admission, was throwing a stone against the door or window. A neighbor's daughter was in the habit of going every morning to procure her water: but on Monday, after repeated signals. she could get no entrance. The girl went for her mother, and with a diamond ring they cut a pane of glass, got admission, and proceeded up stairs. There they found the old lady, by the side of her bed, with her clothes on, and a small piece of cat's meat in her hand. They soon discovered that she was dead. It is supposed she died of apoplexy, as no marks of violence appeared, nor was any of the property disturbed. From the abstemious manner of her living, it was supposed her circumstances were very limited; but, on examining her drawers, stock receipts and Government securities were found to the amount of nearly ten thousand pounds! She always declared she would make no will, for the "King should have all her money." Every search has been made but no will found. Her sister died a few years ago, and left her £700, which it now seems she at first declined, saying she was not in want of money. No relative has yet appeared; she was a maiden lady, and her name Sarah Bond. No doubt, all the musty parish registers will be examined by those of a similar name, in order to trace her pedigree, and deprive King George IV. of such an immense sum.
[London pa.