A singular Fraud. On Monday last, at noon, a woman, most handsomely dressed, and affecting the woman of fashion, went into the shop of a hosier in the Strand, and appeared (being without a hat) as if she had just stepped out of a carriage; and indeed this was the case. She asked to look at some silk stockings; several pairs were shewn her; and presently in came a fellow in livery, who, with his hat off, said, "Sir Thomas is in the carriage, my Lady." She replied, it was very well, she would be with him in a few minutes.
She then paid for two pair of stockings, went away, and got into a post-chaise standing in the street, and the footman followed her into the chaise, which then drove off. This latter circumstance somewhat surprising the hosier, he examined the different loose parcels of stockings that he had opened, and discovered that " her Ladyship" had stolen nine pair.
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