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CRIM. CON. WATERHOUSE, ESQ. v. COLONEL BERKELEY. This was an action tried at the late Gloucester Assizes, in which the plaintiff obtained a verdict for £l,OOO damages. A report of the case appeared in the STAR last week. The following contains a part of the correspondence between the wife of the plain tiff and Colonel Berkeley, as given in evidence: COLONEL BERK EL...Y . S LETTER 3 TO LIRS7_WATEEHOU.E. " May 7,18 i 9. " Again you are unkind, dear Jane. Do you think Ido nut wish to be with you this week ? If you hrd told me when we met last the desire was mutual, I would have remained at Chel tenham, in spite of the great inconvenience which might have accrued to me and my affairs. My heart is with you now, and where the heart is the body delights to be. I would not have neglected to write yesterday, but I was obliged to devote the whole of the day to my law agents. Though called daily to the forms of business, still the wild impetuous strokes of love burst upon me; for you have so far possessed yourself, Sorceress! of my soul, that when your image is before me, I cease to lave the command of my faculties. When 1 permit my memory to retrace some of those sweet moments of the never -to-be-for gotten second of May, I am unfitted for the common concerns and occupations of my life. But are you sure that your affec tion is so ardent that it entitles you to know how vehemently and passionately I can love ? Tell me, sweetest, after this week, where and how I shall'have an opportunity of breathing at your feet those sweet vows of tenderness—those soft sighs of unal- terable love so delightful to the female heart to luear, so plea surable to the soul of man to utter. I certainly shall come to Cheltenham some time in this month. What is to be my fate? Could you not endeavour to ►ehuld me?" - - " May 19, 1819. " The severity of my letter, dearest love, was produced by a feeling which ought to be gratifying to your heart. I could Lot bear to hear such insinuations even from an indifferent person, much less from one any soul cherishes as its dearest treasure. You must not atsend to all the idle reports ydL may hear of me. The world is full of those who are ever ready, to invent tales to the prejudice of those whose situation in life Is at all singular, or above the common level. But your last letter is the sweetest I ever received, so devoid of injurious sus- I picion and has endeared you to me more tenderly than before. Ido forgetind forgive, and love with all my soul. You are wrong, because I complain of want of time to write to you, to fancy I do not wish to receive your letters—on the contrary, my sole regret is to be obliged to estrange myself, in the pursuit of business, from the delightful sensations which those letters are calculated to produce. The only consolation I enjoy is the prospect that, by application I may be able to emancipate myself from my heavy shackles, become free front all ties but those of love, and Listen to press thee to my fond bosom. Are these feelings that you should complain of?—feelings which overwhelm my soul with a pleasing delirium. Farewell! I hope lo be at Cheltenham next week. perhaps on Wednesday. When you write again be positive in your information. I did not comprehend whether I was to write on Thursday, or whether my letter was to be received on Thursday. To be on the safe side I write to-day. " Mrs. Waterhouse, Charlton." " 15th June, 1819. I am afraid, my dear love, that a letter of mine has been lying in the Yost-office for some time. I wrote, according to orders, before I received your last. Pray tell me when the departure of part of the family takes place, as you mentioned. Nothing then shall prevent my being with you. I shall write no more till I hear whether the last, directed as this is, has arrived in sa:ety." " 22d June, 1819. " You are in error, if you think, )pause my letters are ne cessarily short, that I dislike to receive long letters from you. I assure you they give one the greatest delight, and are not half long enough. Write to me, love, when the departure actually takes place." . -. , .. -, 7-111r , 4 , 1 - ..7. -4 . • ft ‘• l' . l r ... s. ase--orhis fire orofthioolo4 l ltladho and Peri, ang the veiled Prophet, only serves to nit* one feel more severely the want of that de voted: love in real life which rendes" them' so ar dent. I must write, dearest; oncil a week.. °natio , frtnifist is too seldom. Tell me, sweeteln! shall I write? atitwhether I shall direct under the first inittals—l mean those you first user)? Think of.any place ' sweet love, most cooveuieut to yourself to meet me in when I come to Chariton. No difficulty, no danger, nor weariness shall keep me from your antis. Consult yonr own safety, and have faith in me and say devotion. " ?aunt. " To IHrs: Waterhonso, o%oth-cottage," &c. " My dearest Jane—Do not alarm yourself. The reason I did not write on Tuesday last was, that I was obliged to go on that morning to see my mother, who lives about fifteen miles from Londo%. I conceived that I should undoubtedly have re. turned in time for post, but unexpected business detained me.— I bad resolved not to write again till I heard from you, that my letters might not needlessly lie at the Post-office, as you know there is some risk in writing. lam this instant going to the Levee it Carlton House, and have only time to say I love.— I told you on Saturday I was under the necessity of keeping the appdtntment." MRS. WATERHOUSE'S LETTEitiTO COLONEL BERX ELET, - READ IN THE CASE FOR THE DEFENDANT. (The following was written in a feigned hand :) " The lost, depraved wretch, who has unwillingly cherished In her bosom a guilty passion for these two years past, now adds to her guilt by confessing it to you. What fatal spell drives her to such a step, her evil .genius alone can tell ! But if you knew balf the struggles she has had during that time with an infatua tion violent as unaccountable, you would pity at least as much as you would despise. In that period she has studied every me thod to avoid being in your society ; and during your sta y here, has always pleaded illness as an excuse for not going anywhere to have the chance of meeting you e but, alas ! all in vain ; and what has occurred within this fortnight has increased her guilty passion to madness; and though (as far as the moat determined resolution could go) you shall never discover who the guilty wretch is that now writes to you, yet the most tender of hearts beats for you, and that she may still look on that enchanting form, unnoticed as before. Shew this to no one : it will answer no end, being so totally disguised as to render it utterly useless in discovering the writer. Oh, should you discover her, too well dues ake know her fate! But If she did survive th at, believe her, the bread: of surmise from an ill-natured world would be berdeath-warrant ; and, it is said, the Berkeley. are not con tent without publishing their triumphs to that world. Can you possess such a mind? " March 20th. " A. F." (Also in a feigned hand.) " Fold up a sheet of paper u a letter, and put • Yes,' or • No; in it, meaning whether you will be at the Rooms neat Monday or not ; direct it with the two first letters of Affection, and the most wicked and mpst miserable of women will act accordingly. But beware of putting anything like a name in it, as it might be my destruction and death. " A. F. April 9th." (Written in the natural hand of Mrs. WAritaneusz.) el I have certainly been acting a ridiculous part, in confessing an unfortunate passion, which, whether I discover myself to you or not, can only raise contempt in your bosom towards a woman who has solar forgot what is due to herself. Twelve months since, how little would I have credited any human being who had said—' The day will come when you will make known to its object the guilty passion that now reigns in your bosom; and yet in that short time what a sad, sad falling off of all those good, and consequently happy feelings, I once possessed. Bat I know you are an impatient man, therefore I will at once de clare, that silly as was my writing to you, and without any end to be answered, except possessing a few lines from you, at the ' time I did it nothing could be farther from my intentions than ever kitting you know from whom you have received that letter; and the second was written that I might avoid going to the ball, if you intended being there. Do net mortify me so ranch as to suppose that from what I said I was piqued a► your not think ing me worth , a second glance.' Oh! no; I have no claims to admiration; but, feeling as I do, I may have wished you had bestowed another on me. In that respect, I will be very can did, and ten you that, further than blue eyes and very white teeth, there is nothing to admire in me ; and, knowing that, per haps you will no longer be desirous of discovering my name, for I cannot agree with you in thinking, that because my heart has chosen to bestow itself without your wish, or my consent, on you, that I or any other woman who is mean enough to make the first confession of her weakness is likely to inspire real love I in a sensible man's bosom. Upon the most sacred promise of secresy for ever on the subject, to every one, I may be induced to mention one circumstance that will, perhaps, assist your dis covery—that is, U you wish it, after I have told you I live very retired, and shall, probably, continue to do so for a year or two; never receive or write a note or letter (except once a year) with out a person seeing them who would not be pleased at seeing any from or to you; and, like a great many other women, do not live in Cheltenham. If you wish now to let our correspon dence rest, only-give me the assurance that the letters I have written, under the influence of an unfortunate and misguided passion, are no longer in existence, and have never been seen by any other eye than your own; for, from what a particular friend of yours has told me, Ido indeed tremble. Excuse me if I say you are much deceived in a woman to whom you have given the credit of being able to keep a secret. I cannot at present direct you to any jperiod for answering this, as I shall not be alone for some time. " Laadon, May 9,1519. " Now, my dear pen, be careful what you write, for I do not like to be called unkind by those I love anchveish to plead.. Yes, a day Is still an age in the annals of love ; and it did soothe me, your saying for why you did not write on Thursday. You thought I should be disappointed, and I am glad you told me you did think so; but women should never interfere in the thoughts of any one, when serious business is to be attended to; and much as I must regret having lost the happiness I sigh for, by my own folly, it is lessened by knowing that you said you I would have been inconvenienced. Could I have wished such a thing, knowing that It would have proved that I loved myself better than Ido you? Which do you think I love the best ? Do • I feel sure I love you ardently? Do I feel sure that I exist? The one Is as uncertain to me as the other. Must I again write? Think on what I have done, and never again say- 4 If you do love? Oh! you provoking creature! You long to make me angry with you, but you shall not succeed. No, I cannot endure that you should i be here and I not see you; but how, or Where, is a great cousideration. I think I could con trive it some m orning. I might walk up that lane, but after rain it 4 impassable—or if you could thi n k o f an y ot her spot, I would endeavour to meet you; but, at the same time, to meet you anywhere out of a customary walk, would, if I happened to be seen by any one, consign me for ever to disgrace; and that my proud and sensitive heart would not survive. " For the first time in my life I feel that I love—fondly, ten derly, and affectionately love; and when I reflect upon every' thing that has nursed that passion in my bosom, for an object so long only known to me by sighs, I am convinced all exertions to conquer it would be striving against fate. And oh ! it is a hap- pines* so exquisite, such an indefinable passion, painfully pleasing, such an acute sensation of delightful agony, that I would not forego its soft pangs for any other Win this Mt can afford. How much eetsern two hearts often feel for each other, and fancy it love, whereas scarcely one spark of that vivifying flame may animate either of their bosoms. " But there are hearts that will not be satisfied but by an swering oars of tenderness and love, and such a heart is mine. You may write once more, answer all these questions. Do you think I might venture to hear from you once -a week, directed as when first you wrote to me, or once a fortnight, for the blank will be dreadful otherwise. Do you love musk and poetry? and if you do, tell me something of both that you most admire, to charm away some weary hours. Do you admire Liao Raukh T • Ok there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life bad sought r And pray do tell me if we are to be gratified by an Ama teur Play this month. Do write to-morrow, as Tuesday even ing some one's return is positively fixed. I have just had a letter, saying he will be here by eight o clock. FatewelL" Sunday, at Mr. CneirropEß's, an innkeeper, in Eccleston, near Leyland, a man, in a state of drunken ness, sat himself down in a cradle, in which a child was sleeping, and the mother, on removing the stulti fied brute, found that the poor ianocenthad breathed its lag, baying died through suffixal:ital. 2 ' ' ' . OtD BAILEY. - PERJURY AND ABDUCTION. The following extraordinary and interesting case occupied the Court from five until nearly twelve o'clock on Wednesday evening: Edloin Mosty,, Jones, a young man of respectable family, was indicted for a misdemeanour in making a false affidavit, in order !o procure a license for mar riage with Charlotte Lovell, and by that and other false devices, inveigling-pier from the home and pro tection of her natural guardians. Mr. A DOLPHUS, in an eloquent appeal to the Jury, described this as a case of most gross fraud ; and this fraud, he said, bad been followed up by conduct so base, that it was almost impossible to conceive that a person gifted with a liberal education, and moving in the society which the defendant must have been accustomed to, could have been guilty of. The pro , st4utor in this case was Peter Harvey Lovell, Esq. of Cole Park, Wilts, and the defendant a Captain in the North Gloucester Regiment of Militia. Mr. Lovell was blessed with ample property and a numerbits progeny, and bis happiness never knew any diminu tion until the unhappy period when the defendant became acquainted with the family. This took place at a review of the North Gloucester, at Cirencester, in June last. After a short acquainfance, the de fendant wrote to Mr. Lovell, requesting leave tu'ad dress his daughter Charlotte, but met with a refusal.. This, however, did not deter him: he followed her, from one place to another; and finally, having by falsely swearing that the young Lady was of age, and that he knew of no impediment, the defendant obtained a license, he partly by force, and partly by persuasion, induced the Lady to elope with him. The marriage, however, never-took place. In conse quence of the death of the Rev. Archdeacon Wills (some time before this transaction), a near relation of the Lovell family, who was repot ted to have left im mense property, a rumour had gone abroad that the Misses Lovell would have jot tunes of 30 or £3.5,000. This the defendant, it was supposed, had heard.— When he arrived in London with the young Lady, he found that, by marrying her with the license which he had procured, he should not obtain command over her fortune, and he therefore placed her in lodgings, and caused bans to be published. In the interval he ascertained that the young Lady's fortune was I.:100O only, and that not to be paid to her until she was of age, and to revert to a relation in case of her death before that time. Upon this discoyery, strange and unaccountable, the defendant deserted the unfortunate young Lady, leaving her in such a state, that ia hen at length her father found her, her clothes were de tained by the landlady of the house for the payment of rent which was due.-*Eflere aloud murmur of in dignation ran through the Court, but was immedi ately repressed with severe animadversions by the Learned Judge.}—Mr. Adolphus having, with some 7 further remarks, concluded his statement, Messrs. ALLEY and ANDREWS took an objection to. the form of the indictment, which was argued at great length on both sides, and finally reserved by. the Court for more mature consideration. Mr. Charlton, from the Vicar-General's Office, pro; duced the affidavit made by the defendant on obtain. ing the license, in which he swore that he and Miss Lovell were 21 years of age, and that he knew of no lawful impediment to their marriage. The affidavit was sworn on the 24th of November, 1820. P. Lovell, Esq. deposed that he was the father of Charlotte Lovell, and saw the defendant at a review at Cirencester, in June last. About three days after- . wards he was introduced to the family at Cole Park, by Captain Vaughan. Before he went away, he said to the witness, "I am ardently attacked to your eldest daughter, and wish to be permitted to pay my ad dresses to her." He went on to say that he had pro- perty to the amount of £5OO a-year, and the witness said he would make inquiry. He did so, but the result was unfavourable ; and he wrote to the defend ant, declining any further cbmmunication with him on the subject of his daughter. This produced a letter of remonstrance from the defendant. This letter was read, and couched in terms of the bitterest I disappointment at the determination of Mr. Lovell. Witness saw the defendant after this at some races, and at Bath, and common civilities were exchanged. Shortly after the elopement of his daughter he sad the defendant, and asked him if he had married his daughter? He said he had. He asked him where? but he refused to tell. Witness told him he must be aware that the marriage could not be legal, as his daughter was not of age, and proposed a re-mar-' riage, and offered terms, which the defendant con sented to; but witness afterwards discovered that he was incapable of complying with those terms from pecuniary disability, and having, in the interim, found out where his daughter was, he determined, at all risk, to break off the connexion, and to have her back. He found her at a lodging in London, and when he brought her away, her clothes were detained for arrears of rent, &c. Cross-examined.—He did 'once consent that the defendant should marry his daughter upon certain terms ; but, in consequence of various subsequent discoveries, he altered his mind. He never said his daughter had £.5,000. He never said that he was sure that the defendant had not swoin falsely, for that he must have taken Charlotte to be above 21. Upon his oath he never did say so. Reexamined.—His daughter had been more than five weeks absent before he knew where she was. , Miss F. Lovell, sitter of Charlotte, deposed, that some time after the acquaintance, she and her sister went by a stage-coach on a visit to their uncle and aunt, Sir David and Lady Goodge, in Hertfordshire, and on the road they were joined by the defendant. In the course of conversation, he said to witness, " I should have - thought that you were older than your sister Charlotte ?" To which she replied, " Oh, no! I am between sixteen and seventeen, and Charlotte is nineteen years of age." He left the coach on the road,' and some days after their arrival at Sir David's, he was seen riding along a lane, in front of the house. He once met them when they were out in .the car riage with Sir David and Lady Goodge, and he was, constantly presenting himself within view of the house, but never was admitted. At length witness', had an interview with him at the gartien-gate, and, entreated him to quit the neighbourhood, as he had been seen about, - and they would be sent home if he continued there. He implored an interview with Charlotte; but she told him it was impossible, and ,he went away. He still, however, continued hi ; ap- _ . ~,.z,~ rearances, toed by Sir The plirport for she was her friends bewailing . desired it, g diet up to. _ . part or th e sheet, howeverythere were a few sentences written with lemon-juice (which were not discovered till a mono ag - .), imploring-her to save him from distraction, aod to rewnrod his fidelity by " running away with him.* On a Sunday, shortly afterward.., when Sir David. lady Goodge,'and all the men -servants, were poem church,. witness and her sister being at home alone, a message came that a Gentleman was waiting to spealc'to -Miss C. Lovell. The latter went down to the garden, witness followed, and found h er convers. ing with t he defendant; the latter pressing he r eo elope, and declaring he had a license in his pocket', and would marry her the following morning, at St; Martin's Church, London. She begged him to go away, as she would never marry him without her friends' consent. Witness also begged him to desisti and promised she would write to her fatlicr and be his compliance. All, however, wa s v a i n: h e sal / such another opportunity would never offer, and no earthly power should compel him to forego it. There was a gig standing close by, in the care of one Marc. tins; and the defendant, at length taking . Charicite t by the arm, pulled her dowa the lane to th e g i g . Witness - laid hold of her, and appealed to Rawlins to assist, but in vain. He got her into the gig, aw l witness polled her out again. Ste all this time cr i e d, and declared she would not r ; but he swore no power on earth should make him resign he:. Here • her.again into the gig, and drove off. Her sister wa s now in Court, having been subpoenaed in behalf of the defendant. Cross-examined.—Witnes; cried, but did not all out. She. and her sister had both .the hooping-conch at the time, which was the cause of their . staying* home. They kpew they mete to be joined iti•the stage-cdach *by Mr. Jones, but not until after they had left their father. They made no secret to him tiles of where they were going. At the elopement scene her sister made no resistance either one war or the other ; she seemed stunned.. Captain Vaughan, of the Gloucester Militia, swore that lie communicated the citation of Miss Char lotte to her father after the eldpement, the defendant having disclosed it to him. An interview took place in consequence, between Mr. Lovell's brother and the defendant, at- which witness was present. Mr. Lovell's brother requested the defendant to give up his niece, and fold him if he would say where she was, no proceedings would be instituted against him. He refused to' give her'up unless Mt. Lovell would come down" with a settlement, and pay his (de fendant's). debts ! If.that were done, he would marry her; but without it; he would.neither marry her not give her up. The conference ended here; and akw days afterwards the defendant called upon witness, on his way to London; and told him that he had had ap inseryiew: with Loiell and the Solicitors, but no thing aras.settled.. He added, that he had but a small fortune, and had incurred considerab'.e debts in this " running off."— Here the case ter the prosecu tion closed. Mr.ALLEY addressed the Jary in a powerful speech, for the defendant, who was found—Godly. The Court suspended judgment on the defendant till the first day of the nest Session; but ordered him to enter into recognizances, himself in 000, and two sureties in £lOO each, for his appearance on that day. THE LUCKY PrrrtcoAT !—A few days since, a woman of the name of THompsos, purchased a flan nel petticoat, which hung up for sale at the shop of Mr. MUNDAY, pawnbroker, Golden•lane, for which she gave two shillings. On .undoing one of the tucks, to lengthen it, to her great surpise, she discovered a Bank note concealed in it. Elated with her goad fortune, she went immediately to the same shop, and tendered it as a one pound note, in order to redeem some articles of wearing apparel. Mr. Two-to-ant stared with astonishment. Instead of a one pound note, it was a fifty ! He questioned the woman as El how she came by it, and on her declining to tell his, took her to Worship-street Office, where, ambulant being investigated., the woman was discharged with her prize, to the no small chagrin of the pawnbroker, who claimed the found note as his property. BIRTHS At Kentiatvhere Cottage; Jersey, on the 29th March, tie Lady of Colonel Ross, of the 7th Royal V. Bat. of a daughter. Sunday sennight, at Teignmouth, the Lady of Sir Edina Francis Stanhope, Dart. of a son. Saturday, in Upper Harley -street, the Lady of Dr. Clate,d Jamaica, of a still-born son. MARRIED. April 8, at the house of Captain Orde, at Portobello, mg F.dinburgb, Hugh Moises, Esq. 7th Dragoon Guards, to loo• bells, youngest daughter of the late Robert Lisle h hsq. of Acta House, Northumberland. April 9, at Dublin, Captain Francis Stupart, of the Sold North British Dragoons (Scots Greys), to Anne, daughter d John Jameson, Esq. Alloa. • DIED. At Copenhagen, on Saturday, the 24th of March, after ale geeing illness, Benjamin Porter, Esq. the only son of Thorne ('hinnall Porter, Esq, of Birlingham, in the county of Wonting. Thursday se'nnight, Mr. John Cawxhorne, of Carreverect Sheffield. Ile was engaged in complet:ng an organ for tic Cal vinist Chapel in Howard-street, which was intended to be timed on Easter Sunday next, on which he was playing, in 'Plod good health, at three o'clock, and was a corpse at tear. Friday, aged 53, Mr. Thos. Wesison, of the Mount, widtost Micklegate-bar, near York. Ile had been vi.iting a Magi the preceding evening, was suddenly attacked with a spasmodic a L fection, and died in a few hoors. Friday se'nnight, at Maltby, near Doncaster, Mr. Geer Flower, surgeon, in the 58th year of his age. Saturday ae . nnight, after a long illness, aged 57, Joseph Pardue Esq. Alderman of Newcastle, and one of the joint Connuiiiienre of Greenwich Hospital for Northunillerlaa Saturday se'nnight, at Bramharn Park, Yorkshire, after SWF years 111 health, but at last an illness of a wet k., James Lane Fah Esq. in the 55th year of his age. Sunday sennight, Mrs. Nl'laitelock, wife of the &v. IL it Whitelock, of Manchester. Monday se insight, wat his nthn's hatme, at Whitby, n oels Bateman, M.D. of London. April 2, Mr. Gairns, farmer, New Posso, near Perbiev: en tie turning from the House of Muir Narkct, he was uutottunatelf drowned in the Tweed, at Lynefurd. It is :opposed his last had stumbled in the water, mid that Mr. Gairns had felled ego as the animal returned home without b]s rider. Th.: body 10 not found till Friday se'nnight. Nlr. Gaits' watch, rc WP book, &c. were found in the pockets. 1 H-WATER A 41.014 DON BR IFGIt Morning ' • 1 1 4 3 Aft e rnoon. . ,ONDON Printed and published by Livia, Kuri l Place, Temple-Bar. ,~. .. . tie dos, 83 , 1 Wt. deß 1 hie hi bat by 4a Sau Dir OW Bit Ott Ditt We; Din Din Lst *hie by t 'not 1 lereh L t~wb, ' ...._ %It ..- , and witneKs mole a letter to him, d' ic - . iir David Goodge, and her sister signed it , • srt of it was, to desire him to quit the pla t% is determined never to marry him m iehn lit s consent. This produced a letter from him, his fate, but declaring that he would, as she give her up for ever. In another pan of dub • (Date torn el) If you think me capable of entering into a correspondence of such a nature as the present, when I am seriously contem plating marriage with another, I must request and desire that you will not write to me again ; and be assured I will trouble you with no more of my letters. I can derive no pleasure is writing to one who could for an instant suppose me guilty of such baseness, and who, W of necessity, can no longer look upon me with that tender affeon, that love, which she has so lons . . _ . professed. You little know the warmth and delicacy of that heart which you have so deeply wounded by hazarding such un worthy suspicions. If I love you at all, you will be everything to me. I and know teo well how to estimate a fond wo man's devotion, to attempt to gratify my affection with two ob jects at the same time, You have had no reason to complain of I my letters. They have been all the tenderest woman could wish. They have all been dictated by the sincerest truth. Do you not remember what Rousseau says of the letter of a true lover. If you saw the multiplicity of business with which I am loaded, you would wonder how I get time to write a single line. Fare well, my still dearest Jane. Do not injure, by false suspicions, that affection which ought to be productive of the greatest mu tual bliss." _ _ " 3d July, 1820. 4 6 My dear Jane—l am uncertain whether I shall be able to come to Cheltenham. I have some particular busineu to trans act; but I advise you on no account to come to London. I cannot understand why you may not communicate by letter any thing which you have to say. I shall be always most happy to offer you my advice. " I am, &c. P. & I mast be at Cheltenham before the 4th of next month, if that win suit you." " Pily dear Jane—The box you mentioned was not reserved for any friends or even acquaintance of mine, and I have not the slightest knowledge of the persons who sat in it. How lam worried !" " May 4, 1819. . " No unkind word shall escape from me towards you. My heart Is much too tender in its vibrations to allow my lips to utter, or my band to write, an:ehing which Is calculated to give you pain. If in future your cruelty give me cause for complaint, my sighs only shall be heard, grieving for the want of love and tenderneu from you. Would to Htsysai I had never known you! You seem daily to have obtained an influence over me, that I deemed it impossible any woman could have arrived at. You appear to have pervaded the inmost recesses of my heart, and to have touched a chord which was destined to vibrate at no common touch. You have established a sway over me, that I did not believe any woman in England but yourself could have done. Will it not give you some little pleasure to know that my theuehts wander to the sequestered .pot where you new reside? I would forego anything this place can afford for one more meeting in the lane, now so dear to my recollection ; and yet at the time I almost fancied it would be our last interview. I hoped to have emancipated myself from the dangerous power which you begin to exercise over me. There appeared a cold ness in your manner, which did not agree with the warmth of heart with which my fancy had clothed you. You seemed to recoil from those caresses which my soul and my lips prompted me to bestow—not to love so warmly as j had hoped; and had not your tendeniess revived in some degree before I quitted you, I should have torn myself from you for ever ! You were unkind to have accused me of impetuosity: it is the characteristic of a true lover to be always impetuous when at the feet of her who has overwhelmed him with tumultuous emotions. If I should cease to be impetuous, you would have just cause to suppose that you bad ceased to interest me.--(Here there was an erasure of two lines.)—Were I engaged in any ordinary concerns, I fear it would be given up for the sake of wandering by the cottage doss to the Church. lam in hopes that by the 22d or 23d of this math I shall be able to quit this place. Shall I then be admit ted to see you under any circumstances? Can you not contrive to see me fur two red minutes? Farewell, dear Jane. Every happiness attend you. • " 3lrs. Waterhouse, Church-cottage, Charlton." " 10th May, 1820. " I have merely time to write a line; but I must not oink to thank you for the prettiest, the tenderest letter thatever cheered as absent lover's heart. You do, indeed. knew how to love with the most delicate ardour, and the roomiest of your affection Must evor prove a sovereign balm for every wound. I begin to feel mY:folitary situation, and I am not ashamed alt. 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