Being descended of such parents as those we have described, 'tis no wonder that Jane should have a natural propensity to all the vices that might be learned at her father's house. While very young she took great delight in spping gin, brandy and other strong liquors, and listened so favourably to the addresses of the soldiers that before the age of fifteen she had got that disorder which has been so often fatal to the noses of the votaries of Venus.

            It has been said by some, that her father himself frequently lay with her. Of this we will not be positive, but certain it is that he encouraged her in her vices, finding that her free behaviour brought him every day new customers.

            Her father dying, her mother, finding herself unable to carry on the business alone, came to London, where she carried on the business of a receiver of stolen goods; but being at last detected and brought to her trial at the Old Bailey, she was condemned to be transported for fourteen years, and has never been heard of since.

            To return to her virtuous daughter, Jane, though she had not inherited a fortune from her parents, had received from them an education which prevented her being in the least at a loss about getting a livelihood. Being then but 19 years of age she had charms sufficient to captivate the hearts of many of the bucks of Aberdeen, most of whom she was a match for in drinking. But as she did not think herself sufficiently supplied by their bounty she sometimes stole a watch, from one, his purse from another, and finding herself at last threatened with a prosecution, thought it advisable to change her quarters and make a retreat to Edinburgh.

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