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•On WdnfMay 2S th fftsf. will he sold
- «< \W:JodP. Randolph** it ore ii l
f ttnLi'J thr City Hotel ,
His Stdtfc of about%o,ooo dol
lars worth DRY GcS[)DS, con
sisting of a general assortment
HUMS.
All mm 3 under Sioo cash-over
Rib and undfer SSOO payable Ist No
vember next—over Si>oo, payable Ist
next. Noie» on stamp! pa
per with approved endorsers.
JAM* S FKASKB, AuetVi
& May in. * *
' ' FOR SALK,
1000 Bushels Corn.
Apply to Wilson & Black, or
J. S. Walker.
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Also—some handsome
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Household Furniture
Apply to
WILSON h BLACK.
’May tf_
A,- • Notice.
LL thostJindebtcd to the late firm
of MewW*. JAMES A. BLACK,
fit Co. are requested to call and settle
theif accourrs with Messrs. A. Bugg, &
Co. who arc fully authorised to settle the
business of the said concern.
John Tanner.
James A. Black.
_M;y at. ts
J.&’B. Howard,
OFFER For on secnrnmodafinj*
•t rms, their STOCK ot GOODS,
atiii if the purchaser wishes, the Stoic
Wilt be let for tight: en months.
May Si. • b
" NuTICK.
f Rectorship in the Richmond Ac
_fl ademy, Augusta, State ol Georgia,
having become vacant by the death of the
Rtv’d. John 11. Thompson, an annual
safcuy' of one thousand dollars is off. red
toVpcrson well qualified as Rector
This Institution is in a fl wishing and
prosperous situation, having at this time
tw i hundred scholars eng gal in various
Studies. Applications will be address
ed to
Nicholas Ware,
President Board Trust's,
Richmond dead’my.
M»y 31 . , f
Notice.
STOLEN from the subscriber’s stable
on the lOth of April last, a bay horse
four years ott), ab at five feet high, slim
gaunt body, very long legged, {he hind
legs quite croc k d, the right hind foot
wbitVop to the pasture joint, and the left
has a fresh scar on the inside of the foot
near the edge of the hoof; has a small
star and snip in his face; he trots, pacts
‘and canters, but his most natural gate is
• long pace.
A re ward of Twenty Dollars will be
p«id for the delivery of add horse to the
subscriber, living in District,
(fi.C ) f urteen miles from La wrens C.
11. on the main Ninety Hx road.
William Holland.
M * SI. ' B
10 Dollars Reward.
STR AYED from the subscriber on the
I6ih ult. a bright bay horse, about
ten years old, With a black main and tail,
tubbed a little on the points of hia shoul
ders am) on his buttocks with the harness
—has a split in the hoof of one of his fore
feet, and has been nicked, but does not
Dow show it much - he is about 15 1
hands nigh, heavy and well made.— Any
person who m. y have found him, will
16c rive the above reward with all reason
able charges, and the thanks of the sub
scriber by delivering the horse to him
upper end Broad Street, Augusta.
R. Hogan.
May 21. bw
500ollars Reward.
%
RUN AWAY from the subscriber in
December last, a Negro Man nam
ed FORTUNE, a Hack stout m.idc fel
lew, ahem Fifty Years of age, makes a
pr f< ssir * of religion and is a preacher ;
4»c.spmi« is plausible, end walks
• Tht said fellbw is now supposed
io )>c lutk'Bg 'hour Beach Llend, He
, ’-Vvik a variety ot tfMHing with him. Tlu
ThboVe reward wilt'be paid upon bis ddi-
Vutyto Mr. John R. Tuffoss, at the plan
tation of
Nlary"Ann D. Games.
*-Msuli im
O* CHgta. t.llicrt couu/y.
Mk/dI.H&Ai finny Cook has applied to
VV rac l«>tLt'Uerß <»f Admires ration on tlic
•sietc aftdWcct, of William T. Cook, late
Os said County, dec“ «
* ’ J' n< i se are therefore to cite and admonish, all
* 8,,, P 1^v » l^*e kindred avid creditors of said
decv»e i, o be and appear.*! the nexi court of
Or.mary, to We held in and for the county
■ *^ reßaid » ,Q *'*'ew cans, (if any they have) why
•kwl letters should n>* he granted.
Given under my hand at office, thi»2lat dav
« May, 18 ir
Job Weston, c.c.c.
Prepi the Glasgono Herald ts April 11, received
at tfic Office ts tfie Jvcvi- York Evening Pjht.
MR. PHILLIPS’* SPEECH*
BREACH OFEIIOMISE OF. MARRIAGE.
Jihtke v. WHkjna.
This cause, which had excred universal in
terest, came on to be tried on Tuesday week,
nt Galway, before the Hon. Baron Smith and a 1
. Special )nry.—Every avenue to tbb Court-house
was crbtided at an early hour, and long before
ihe trie) it was impossible to procure a seat.—
The plaintiff is a Lieutenant in the navy, not
above SO years of age; the defendant is, at least
65, and is the widow of the Staff Physician in
whose arms General Wolf died at the siege of
Quebec. The plaintiff’s rase having been gone
through, Mr. Philips addressed the Jury on
the part of Mrs. Wilkins, in pretty nearly the
following terms ?
May it please your Lordship—-The plaintiff's
Counsel tell me. Gentlemen, most unexpected,
ly, that they have closed this case, and it be
comes my duty to state to you that of the de
fendan*. The nature of this action yrtu have*
"already lieard. It is one, which, in my mind,
ought to be very seldom trough*, and be very
sparingly encouraged. It is founded on circum
s'ances <>f the mos 1 extreme delicacy, and it Is
, intended to visit with penal consequences the
’ non-observance of an engagement, which is of
the most paramount importance to society, and
which of all others, perhaps, ought to be the
most unbiassed—an engagement which, if it he
voluntary, judicious, and disinterested, gene
ral ly produces the happiest effects; but which,
if it be cither unsuitable or compulsory, engen
ders not only individual misery, hut Coitse
, quences universally pernicious. There are few
, contracts between human beings which should
he more deliberate than that of marriage. 1 ad
mit it should be cautiously promised ) but, even
when promised,! am far from conceding that it
should be invariably perfo-tned ; a thousand
circumstances may form an impediment; change
of fortune may render it imprudent; change of
. affection may make it culpable. The very par
ty to whom the law gives the privilege of com
plaint, has perhaps the most reason to be grate
ful} grutelul that its happiness has not been
surrendered to caprice j grateful that rd-ligion
lias not constrained an unwilling acquiescence, !
■ or made an unavoidable desertion doubly crim- 1
hal; grateful that an offspring has not bren
sacrificed to an indelicate and ungenerous en
forcement; grateful that an innocent secret dis- 1
inclination did not too late evince itself in an
irresistible and irremediable disgust —You
will agree with me, however, (hal if tiff're ex
ists any excuse for such an act : on, it is on the
side of the female, because every female object
being more exclusively domes'ir, such a disnp- i
pointmt.nl is more severe in its visitation ; be- j
cause he very circumstance concentrating their j
feelings, rentiers them naturally more sensitive
of a wound—because their best treasure, their
reputation, may have suffered from the inter
course; because their chances of repara'ion are
less, and their habitual Seclusion makes them
feel it morec because there is something in 1 hfe
desertion of their helplessness which almost
merges the illegality in the unmanlittess of the
abandonment. However, if a man seeks to en
force this engagement, every one feels that In
delicacy attached to tho requisition. Ido not
inquire into the compatible justness of the rca*
soiling, but, does not every one feel that there
appears some meanness in forcing a female into
an alliance? Is it not almost saying, “I will
expose to public shame the credulity on which
I practised, or you -mist pay u> me in monies
numbered, the profits of ihat hearth-ss specu
lation; 1 have gamboled with your affections, I
have secured your bond, 1 will extort the pen
alty either from your purse or your reputati
on !” Ipm a case to you where the circum
stances are reciprocal; where age, fortune, sit
uation are the same, where there is no dispa
rity of years to make the supposi ludicrous,
where there is no disparity of fortune to ren
der it suspicious. Let us see whether the pre- |
sent action can be so palliated, or whether it I
does not exhibit a picture of fraud, and ava- !
rice, and meanness, and hypocrisy so laughable, 1
'hat it is almost impossible to criticise i'; »ml
vet so debasing, that human pride almost for
bids its ridicule.
It has been left to me to defend my unfortu
nate old-client from tlie double battery of love
and of law, which at the age of sixty-five has
so unexpectedly opened on her ! Oh ! Gentle
men ! How vain glorious is the boast of beau- 1
ty ! How misapprehended have been the charms
of youth, if years and wrinkles can thus des
poil their Conquests, and depopulate the naiy
of its prowess, and beguile the bar of its elo
quence? How mis’aken were all the amatory j
poets from Anacreon downwards, avho prefer- J
red the bloom of the rose, and the thrill of the j
nightingale, to the saffron hide and dulcet tre
ble of 65. Even our sweet Bard has hud the
folly to declare, that
“ He once had heard tell of an am’rous youth
Who was caught in his grandmother’s bed;
But owns be had ne’er such a liquorish tooth
As to wish to he there in his stead,”
V * »
lloj-al wisdom has said, that we live in a
“ new era.” The reurn of old -women has com - ;
metieedt and if Juiiannah Southcoat converts j
England to her creed, why should not Ireland, j
less pious, perhaps, but at least equally passi- j
onate, kneel before the shrine of the irresistible |
widow Wilkins ? It appears, Gentlemen, to j
have been her happy fate to have subdued par- j
a icularly the deaih-c’e ling professions- Indeed j
in the epistle of the heathen mythology. Mars (
and Venus were considered as inseparable. I !
know not whether any of you have ever seen a j
very beautilul print representing the fatal glo- j
ry of Quebec, and the last moments of its im- \
mortal conqueror—if so,you must have observ
ed the figure of the staff plqs clan, in whose I
! arms the hero is expiring—that identical per- i
sonwge, niv Lord, was the happy swain, who, |
forty or fifty years ago, received the rewaid of
his valour and skill iu the virgin hand of my
venerable client /--The doctor lived something
more than a century, clurirtg a great part of
which Mrs. Wilkins was his companion—-alas!
Genthmen, long as he lived, he lived not long
enough to behold her beauty—
" That beauty,like the Aloe flower,
But bloomed and blossomed at fourscore.”
He was, however, so far fascinated as to be
queath to her the legacies of his patients when
' he found he was pre-doomed to follow them.
To this circumstance, very far be it from me to
bint, that Mrs. Wiikirts is indebted for any of
UerjiUractions. . Rich, however, she undoubt
-1 edly was, and rich she still undoubtedly would
i have continued, had it not. been for her inter
s course with "the family of plaintiff. Ido not
i I impute it as a crime t« ihepn that they happen
i ed to be necessitous, but I do U pule it as
I both criminal and ungrateful, thayd'ier having
y 1 lived oh the generosity of their iriend, after
J having literally rxhaus'ed her most prodigy
liberality, they should drag her infirmities be
«. ' V
I * ‘4 W * *,#
fo;s rte fcnUJt giff, i£Wy tfeaiVt
they could hide tW c.Wn cortiepptible aVa- \
rice in Ihe more prominent exposure other {
melancholy dot The father of thejplaifitiff, c
It cannot be unknown to you, w«» ior many i
years in the most indigent situation. Perhaps I
it .is not a matter of concealment either, that s
he foiioJ in Mr*. Wilkins a generous bcnefac- I
tor. She assisted and supported him, <
last his encrcasing necessities induced him to j
take refuge in an act of insolvency During t
I their intimacy, frequent allusion was made to <
1 a son whom Mrs. Wilkins hud never seen since <
he was a child, and who had risen to a lieute- i
nancy in the navy, under the patronage of their i
relative Sir Benjamin Bloomfield. In a parent’s
panegyric, the gallant lieutenant was, of *
course, all that even hope could picture —1
Young, gay, heroic, and disinterested, the pride 1
of the navy—-i he prop of the country—indepen* !
dent as the (pile that wafted, and bounteous as 1
the wave that, bore hint. lam afraid it is ra* !
ther an anti-nitnax to tell you afar this, that
he is the present plaintiff. The eloquence of 1
Mrs. Blake wes not exclusively confuted to her
encomiums on the lieutenant. She diverged at 1
times into anepsipode on the matrimonial feli
cities, painted the joy of passion and deligh's
of love, and obscurely hinted that Hymen,
j with his torch, had an exact personification m
j her son Peter,bearing a match-light in his Ma- 1
1 .jesty’s ship the Hydra. While these contriv
ances were practising on Mrs. Wilkins, a by
plot was got up on board the Hydra, and Mr. 1
Blake returned to his tnoun.ing country, influ
enced, as lie says, by his partiality for the de- i
fendsnt, but in reality compelled by ill heaMi
and disappointments, added, perhaps, to his 1
mother's very absurd and ■avaricious specula
tions. What a loss the navy had of him, and 1
what a loss he had of the nary. Ahs! Gentle
men—he could not resist his affection for a fe
male he never saw. Almighty love eclipsed
the glories of amhuiob—Trafalgar and S! Yin- 1
cent flitted from his memory—he gave up all
for woman, as Mark Anthony did before him,
and like the Cupid in Hudihrus, he
’*
Upon a widow’s jointure land—
His lender sigh and trickling 'eat
Long’d for five hundred pounds a year.
And languishing desires \vvre fond
Os statute, mortgage, bill and bend.”
—Oh! Gentlemen, only imagine him on live
j lakes of Nortli America-—alike tr him die V,v
i rieties ofscasr/n, or the vicissitudes of warfare,
i One sovereign image monopolizes his s--hst
bi lit it g. Does the storm rage, T;, e Widow
Wilkihs ou'sighs the whirlwind. Is the ocean
calm? Us mirror shews him the lovely widow
Wilkins. Is the battle won ? He thins his l&u ( j
rel that the widow Will?ii s may interweave
her •myrtles—Does the broadside thunder?
He invokes the widow Wilkins!
i •* A sweet little cheitib, shesi sup aloft
To wa'ch for the life of poor Peteri”
1 —.Vlas! How much he is to he pi'ied I tfow 1
amply he should be retompemed ! Who but '
must mourn his sublime, disinterested, sweet
soil led patriotism! W.u> but must sympathise '
tVith his pure, ardent, generous a flection ! At- 1
fiction uti impatient for an interview !—AfiVc
tion too Warm to Wai* even for an introfluc ion! 1
Indeed,his Amanda herself seemed to think tha :
his love was most desirable at a distance, for at 1
the very first visit after his return, lie was re
fused admittance. His captivating charmer, *
was then sick and nurse-'ended at her brothers
house, after a wintti’s teflect u g,
most likely, rather on her funeral than her Wed- !
ding. Mrs. Blake’s avarice instantly took 'he
alarm, and she wrote the letter which 1 shall
now proceed to read to you.
Mr. Vandeleur—My lord, unwilling as I. m !
to interrupt a statement,which seems to create
so universal a sensation, still V hope jour lord
ship will restrain Mr. Phillips from reading a
letter which cannot hereafter be read in evi
dence.
Mr. O’Cohnel rose for the purpose >f sup
porting the propriety of the course pursued h
defendan-.’s counsel, when,
Mr. Phillips resumed— ** My lord, tlibo’ J<
i is utterly impossible fir the learned genthna
|to Say, in what manner herev.fier this le-.u-r
might he made evidence, still ray case is mo
require any cavilling upon such'rifles
—I am content to save the public time and wave
the perusal of the letter. However, they have
i now given its suppression an importance which
, perhaps i‘s production could not have procured
tor it. You see, gentlemen, what a case thi y
have when they insist on the w.i hholdingof the
documents which originated with themselves.
I accede to the ir very polite interference. I grant
them, since they entreat it, the mercy of my
silence* .Certain it is, however, that a letter
was received from Mrs. "Blake, and that almost
; immediately after its receipt, Miss Blake in
f triideff hcraelf at Brownville, when Mrs Wil
kins was; ,remained two days; lamented bit
leily her not having appeared to the lieutenant
when he called to visit her; said that her poor
mother , had set her hear' on an alliance; that ‘
she was sure, rlenr wntnnv, a dis appointment
would be the death of hei; in short, that there
was no alternative but ihe tomb or the altar!
To all this, Mrs. Wilkins only replied, how
totally ignorant the parties most interested
were of each other, and that were she even in
dined to connect herself with a stranger, (poor
old soul !) the dib:s in which her generosity
to the familjfliad already involved her, formed,
at least for the present, an insurmountable inv
| pediment. This was not sufficient. In less
j than a week, the indefatigable Miss Blake re- '
j turned to thechaige, actually armed with an
; old family bond to pay off the incumbrances,
] and a renewed representation of the 1
: anxiety and the brother’s despera'ion. • Y-. u
j will not fail to observe, gentlemen, that ’' bile
j the female conspirators were thus at work, the
; lover himself had never seen the object of his
idolatry. Like the maniac in the farce,'he fell
j in love with the picture of his grandmother.—
j Like a prince of the Wood he was willing to
i woo and be wedded by proxy. For the gratifi
cation of his avarice, he was contented to em
brace age, disease, infirmity and widowhood ; *
to hind his youthful passions to the carcase for
which the grave was opening—to feed by anti- ;
! cipation on the uncold corpse and cheat the
worm of its reversionary corruption Educat
ed iu a profession proverbially generous, he of.
sered to baiter every joy for money ! Bom In
a country ardent to > fault, he advertised his
happiness to the highest bidder! and he now
solicits an honorable jury to become the panders
to this heartless Cupidity ! Thus beset, harass
ed, conspired against, their miserable victim
entered into the contract you have heard—a
contract conceived in meanness, extorted hi
fraud, and sought to be enforced by the most
profligate conspiracy.—Trace it through even
siage of its progress, and its origin, its means,
its effects; from the parent contriving it thro’
the sacrifict « her son, and forwarding it thro’
the delicate instrumentality of her daughter,
down to'the son himself unbius’- ingly acceding*
to the atrocious combination by which age was
to be betrayed and vouth degraded, and the
odious unioaoCdecripit lust and precocious av»- i
•s,. ; . —in
rice b'&splienxHJslv consecrated by lift* jSrlncl
plfes of rertgidh: tsmis the exam pie* which as
parents you wotild sanction » Is this thy prin
ciple you would adopt yourself J Have you ne
ver worshipped the bliss by whicn it has been
hallowed, when its torch, kindled at affection’s
altar, gives the noon of life its warmth and its
lustre, atul blesses its evening with a more
chastened, but not less lovely Illumination ?
Are you prepared to say, that this rite of hea
ven, revered by each country, uherished by
each sex, the solemnity of every church, and
the sacrament of one, shall be profaned into
the ceremonial of an obscene and soul-degrad
ing avarice •?
No sooner was this contract, the device of
their covetousness, and the evidence of their
shame, swindled froth the wretched object of
this conspiracy, than its motives became appa
rent; they avowed themseives the keepers of
their melancholy victim They watched her
movements; t hey dictated her actions ; they for
bade ail in ercourse with her own brother; they
duped her into accepting bills, and let her be ar
rest* d for the amount. They exercised the most
cruel and capricious tyranny upon her, now me
nacing her with the publication of her follies, and
now wiih the still mote horrible enforcement of
a contract* that thus betrayed its anticipated in
fliciions! Can you imagine a more disgusting
exhibition oi how weak and hi w worthless hu
man nature may be, than this scene exposes ?
On the one hand, a cotnbina ion of sex and age,
distcgaiding he most sacred obligations, and
tra>r p ing on the most tender ties, irom a mean
greedin.ess of lucre, that neither honor or grati
tude or na’tirr- could appease—'* Lucri bonus cst
odor ex re qua!ibet.* ; f On -he oiher hand, the
poor shrivelled relic of what once was health*
and you b, nd animation, ought to be embraced
in its infection, and caressed in its Infirmity—
crawled ovet and corrupted by the human rep
tile, before death had shovelled it >o the less odi
ous tn.t more natura, vermin of the grave !
What an (hj c - for the specula*ion of avarice !
What an angel for he idolatry of youth ! Gen
tlemen, when this miserable dupe to her own
doting vani y and the vice of others, saw how
she Was treated—when she found herself ton
tro.le by the mother, beset by the daughter, beg
garni by die father, ai d held by the -on as n kind
of windfall, that, too rotien to keep its hold, had
fallen at his be squeezed and tiamplecl;
when -he saw the intercourse of her relatives
prohibited, the most trifling remetr.br.nces of
her Ancient friendship denied, the vety exercise
of her hubhuil charity denounced; when she saw
that all she was wonh was to be surrendered to
a family confiscation, and that she was herself
to he gibbeted in the chains of wedlock, an ex
ample io every superannuated d-tard upon whose
plunder he raVens of the earth migh* calculate,
she came to the widest de.ertninat on of her life,
and deeded hat her fortune should remain at
her own disposal. Acting ■ pon ihis decision she
vviotetoMr Blake, complaining of the cruelty
with which she had b en treated, desiring the
rcstora iou of the contract of which she had
been duped, and declaring, as the cnly means of
securing respect, hcv final determination as to the
control over her proper y To this letter, addressed
to the son a verbal answer (mark the con piracy)
was returned from the mother, wi hhnlding all
consent, unless the property was -ettied on her
family, but wi ho ding the contract at the lame
t’tne. The wretched old woitiah could not sus
tain this conflict She was taken seriously ill,
confined fur many months in her brother’ house,
from whom sh was so cruelly sought to be sepa
iattdpun il ilie debts in which she was involved
and a recommended change of scene iramferred
hr to Dublin. • here she was received with
the utmost kindness by her relative, Mr Mac
Namara, id * horn she confided the delicacy ard
distress of her situation. '( ha gentleman, act
ing at once as her agent Jlnd her friend, instantly
had an interview with Mr. Blake Ihis was
long before the commencement of any action A
co yersaiion took place between them on the
object, which mult, in my mind, set thep esent
action at rest altogether ; because it must shetv
ihat th. non-performance of the contract origin
aed entirely with the plaintiff himself Mr
Mac Namara enquired; whether it was not true
that Mr Blake's own family declined any con
nexion, unless Mrs Wilkins consented to settle
on them the entire of her property ? Mr. Blake
replied it was— Mr. Mac Namara rejoined, that
h* r contract did not bind her to any such extent
*’ No, replied Mr Biake, I know it does not;
noVvever, tell Mrs. Wilkins that 1 understand she
has about 580 pounds a year, and that 1 will be
content to set'ie the odd bO pounds on her by w; y
qf pockc money ’'—Here, of course, the conver
sation erd-d. which Mr. Mac Namara detailed,
a* he was desired, to Mrs.W who rejected it with
the disdain, which, 1 hope it will excite in every
horn urab.t mind. A topic, however, arose dur
ing the interview, which unfolds the motives
and illustrates the mind of Mr Blake more than
any observation which 1 can make on ;t. As one
of the i ducements to the projected marri, gt, he
actually proposed thi prospect of asu pounds
annuity an officer’s widow’s pension, to which
she would b*- entitled in the event his decease ! I
will i.ot sloop to remark un -.he delicacy of this
inducement'—l will not advert to the glaring do
tage on which hfr speculated, when he could se
riousiy ho d out to a woman of her yea.-s the pros
pect of such an improbable survivorship. Hut I
do ask you of what materials must the man be
con posed who could debase the national liberali
ty. \Vha* ! Was the recompense of that lofty
heroism which has almost appropriated to the
Bnti h navy the monopoly of maritime icnown
—was >hat gta’efui offering which a weeping
country pouts into the lap of its patriot widow,*-
and into the cradle of its warrior’s orphans—was
that generous consoation with which a nation’s
graiitude cheers he last moments of her dying
hero by the portraiture of his children sustained
and ennobled by the legacy of his achievements,
to be thus deliberately perverted into the bribe of
base, relucant, unnatu al prostitution ? Oh! I
know of nothing to parahel the self abasement of
such a deed, except the audacity that requires an
honorable jury to abet it. The following letter
from Mr. Anthony Martin, Mr Blake’s attorney,
unfolded the lu urt plans of this u feeling con
spiracy. Perhaps the gemitmen would wish also
to cushion 'his document' They do no-.—Then
{.shall read ir.
The letter is addressed to Mrs. Wilkins.
• “ Gal-way, Jan 9, 1817.
“ Madam—l have been applied to profession
ally by lieutenant Peter Blake, to take proceed
ings against you,of rather an unpleasant nature;
hut from every letter of your’s and other docu-.
menu, togcher with the material and irrepara
ble loss Mr. Blake has sustained in his profession,
al prospects, by means of your proposals to him,
makes it indispensibly necess'-ry for him to get
remuneration from you. Under these circum
stances, 1 am obliged to say, that I have his di
rections to take immediate proceedings ag dnst
vou, unless he is in some measure compen-ated
for your breach of contract and promise to him.
1 should feel happy that you would save me the
• bhe had signed a written contract to marry
.he plaintiff. * ",
t Sweet is the odour of lucre from whatever
source. - ♦
9.
necessityof awingfrojjw^ ytyS£^ n .
bnßire s *, [Yob see, gentlemen, money mc"«
money runs through the wh„le amourVaaff* *
suffeHt to come to a public investigation,*^
Cutaii*, »» * COr.Cci>e fiOßi tap iegai I( i vj *
Uiake has got, together with all l have
will ultimately terminate most boncurablvTo v
advantage and your pecuniary loss. 1 “*•
“ I have the honour to remain.
Madam, jour very humble* servant
. . , , . . , “ ANTHONY IWARIIN'*
think Mr. Anthohy M; rtin is
ken Indeed, 1 think, twelve men upon tS
oarhg will tty (evetf adoutting the truth «f 3
he asserts) that it was honorable for a Brit!.?
officer to abandon the navy on such a snecu'.
tio« to destrr soncble a
the ambition it ought to have
rank to which it leads—the glory it may confer
—for the purpose of extorting from an old *«.
man he never saw, the purchase money of hh
degradation! But I rescue the plaintiff f rom th *
disgraceful imputation. I Cannot believe tb»t a
member of a profession not less remarkable for
the valour than the generosity of its spi r it_ 0 f a
profession as proverbial for its profusion in the
h„rbor as for the prodig. lily of its life blood on
the wave, a profession ever willing to fling mo.
ney to ihe winds, and only anxious thatthw
should ivaft through .heworld its immortal bin
ner crimsoned with the record of a thousand vie!
tones; no, no, gentlemen, notwithstanding .hr
great authority of Mr. Amhony Martin, lean,
not readily believe that any man could be found
to make thi high honor of this noble service
base, metcenary, sullied pander to the prostitn.
non ~i his youth! The fact is, that increasing
ill health and the probability of promotion cbm.
bined to induce his retirement on half pay. You
will find this confirmed by the date ot his resiv
nation, which was immediately after the battle of
■Waterloo, which settled (do matter how) the
destines of Europe. His constitution wasdeclin.
mg, his advancement was annihilated, and as »
forlorn hope, he bombarded the widow Wilkins 1 'i
“ War thoughts had left their placet vacant,
In their »oom came thronging, soft, and ama.
rons desires;
All telling him how fair— r,swg Hero was*
He first, geot.cmcn attacked her fortune, with
f through the artillery of the church and
having faded n that, he now attacks her forum#
without herself, through the assistance of rht
law —However, if I am instructed rightly, he
has nobody but himself to biame for his disap.
poimnjent, Ob erve Ido not vouchsafe for ihe
dU'henlicity of his fact ; but Ido certainly at.
sure you. that M-s. Wilkins was persuaded of it.
Yob know the proverbial frailty of our nature. I
f l.e gallixrit lieutenant was not free from it!-. 1
Perhaps you imagine that some yobnger, «r ac»
cording to his taste, some dieter fair one, weaned
h m from the widow Indeed they did not. He
had no heakt to lose, and yet (can you solve the
paradox 1) his infirmity was love as the Poetl
says—
-11 -Still— Love.
No, it was not to Venus, it was to Bacchus,be
sacrificed With an Eastern idolatry, he com
mer.ccd at day- ight, and so persevering was his
piety till the shades of night, that when he was
no on his knees—'ie could scarcely be said to be
on bis legs! When 1 came to this passage, I
could not avoid involuntanly exclaiming, Oh.Pf
ter, Peter, whether it be in liquor or in love— I
“ None.but thyself can be thy parallel !’• I
I see by your smiling, gentlemen, thatycucor. I
rect my error. I perceive your classic memoriw I
recur ing to, perhaps, the only prototype to in j
fru.'d in history 1 beg his pardon. 2 should I
not have overlooked
<• . tne Immortal Captain Wattle, I
“ W ho was a 1 for lol r&—and a little for the bottle f
A rdent as our fair < ties are announced to be,
they do not prefer a flame that is so excluuveiy
spiritual. Widow Wilkins, no doubt, did not I
choose to be singular. In the words of the Bard, I
and, my Lord, 1 perceive yen excuse ray dwel- I
iing so mm h on the authority of the Muses, be*
cau eieatlyon thio occasion the Minstrel seems I
to have combined the powers of poetry, with the
spirit of prophrey—in ihe very words of the I
Bard—
“ He asked her would she marry him—Widow I
W ilkins answered— No— I
** Then said he, I*ll io the cctan rock, I’m ready I
for the slaughter,
“Oh !—l’ll shcot at my sad image, as its sighs ■
mg in the water— J
V Only think of Widow Wilkins, saving —Go I
Peter, Go!” f
Bin, gentlemen, let us try to be serious, and I
seriously g.ve me leave to ask you, on what I
grounds does he solicit your verdict? Is it for H
the loss of his profession? Does he deserve com- I
pensation if he abandoned it for such aputposej I
it he deserted at once his duty & his coumryto I
trepan the weakness of a weal hy dotard? But I
did he (base as the pretence is) did he do so? Il I
there i.othing to cast any suspicion on the pi** I
lex-.? Nothing in the aspect of public affainl H
In the universal p’acc? In the uncertainly of bo I
ing put into commission? In the downright toy H
posibility of advancement? Nothing to nuk* I
you suspect that he imputes as a contrivance |
what was (he manifest result of an acciden al I
contingency? Does he claim on the ground of I;
sacrificed affection? Oh, gentlemen, only fay I
tutat be has lost! If it were but the blesstd taf I
ture&of a bridal night ! Do not suppose la® I
going to describe it: 1 shall leave it to the Lear* I
ned Counse he has chosen to compose his epi- ■
thalamium I shall not exhibit the venerable i
trembler, at once a relic and a relic; with a g ric ® I
■ f or*every year and a Cupid for every wrinkkl*'' I
feeling to shrink from the flame of his imp*" I
tience, and fanning it with the ambrosial sigh n I
sixty-five!!!—l cannot pierce the fierce mem I
dian transports of the honey-moon, gradual f I
melting into a more chastened and permanent a* ■
section, cve>y nine-months adding a link I
chain of their delicate embraces, until, too I
Death’s broadside lays the lieu enant low, ■
soling, however, his patriarchal charmer, (°~ 1,
nough at the time to be the last wife of Mu * I
selah,) with a fifty pound annuity, being then 3 w
lance of his glory against his majesty’s shtp in I
Hydra!!! I
Give me leave to ask you, is this one ox lll I
ses, to meet which this very rare and delict ■
tion is intended? Is his a case wlitre a wu'P 1 I
citv of circumstances, of affection and of , vt3 I
* ” iliP Cgl** H
throw even a shade of rationality over ■
tract? Do not imagine I mean to insinuate « ■
under no circumstance*, ought such apr<* tl I
to be adopted. Do not imagine, though ■
this action b> longs more naturally to a « ■
its. doption can never be justified by one c
other sex Wi’hout any great vio'e nc £ r ° v I
imagination, I can suppo ea nan in the ■ ■
spring of life, when his sensibilities are 0 10 I
cue and his passions mostaident, at aching ■
self to sdWie object, young, lovely, talcn f' '& ■
accomplished, concent, a*ing, as he thought,W
ry charm of personal perfection, and m
those charms were only heightened by t ( . reRC {B
desty that veiled them; perhaps his
w.is encouraged; his affections returned:
sigh echoed until he was concious or I
ence but by the soul creating sympathy, , u '*
world abated but the residence o! b» • C,V!