Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
22 June 1844
POLICE
SATURDAY.
ELIZABETH GRADY, holding a ticket-of-leave, made her courtesy to the Bench under the following peculiar circumstances. If our readers will call to mind a scene in the fifth act of the comedy of the Inconstant, they may remember how one lady fulfilled the duties and office of wife to four gentlemen of no very estimable or transcendant reputation; change the scene of action to New South Wales and you have a realization of the Dramatist’s ideas. The men on MR. BLACKETT’s farm, at Quaker’s Hill, had resolved to establish a species of Seraglio on their master’s demeane, and the fair ELIZABETH, no ways loath, was the reigning Sultana. MR. BLACKETT, on learning what was going forward, not sharing with his men in the Saint Simonien notion of a general community of goods, ordered GRADY instantly to decamp from his estate. She did so, but it was only a temporary absence; she returned to the resumption of power she held over her vassals, and to perform her nightly itineraries from hut to hut. MR. BLACKETT finding his first notice to quit had no effect, brought her before the Court, in the hopes that the process of ejectment to be there awarded would be both summary and efficacious. His desire was completed with, and despite the prisoner’s protestations of her virtuous innocence, (query innocence of virtue) she was awarded cancellation of her ticket-of-leave and returned to the Factory.
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