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Thi- (oﬂbwiu'm the; u sungen
. "'Wnct 8 . : — P'. '8 un- si-* 3;
" sihiue brought with hid". &omss Yds,
_' und'srom her husband, in 'wbose house he
did 'lived, Mltglfet him" Bonneville,'
" and-her duce non: :W, Benjainin: ents
Thoumctsisi 'The-w: has these-nued. cours
senance, in;! tedlper of Wine. " Madam
Boooeville u'ffired it Blkimore : few days
If"? her paramour. " Life, p. 226si-7. "
** in making his "range-mean for . "per-"
manent tesidence'omongn' on." be contem
plmfilu'nheodoomenl of Mndam Bonnc
vine, whom-"he had seduced from hcr'hue
hid in sshril. and Brought "non : nrao-ct
- gon ! Bcddsi hie "'th at New ache-ne,
" : hodssl small home. no : few bnrsiren .
crn n Bordesimuwn, ' New-jaiey. Thi
link propenynvhaeh he'afcerwurdofoold lor
j'oem'*hondnd and May dolhm, he' pro
pened w give robes-," and unle her upon it
. no l-echonl'mimas, 'but she molutely Idd
ments-ally to.-lined his unsecl'tog project.
For along—lithe" he represented her lo the
wife of his sricnd,'i'?('þlbficcl when in
' Paris. 'wirh whom he*had dom-ded; & who,
diolikingsidic new order of thiugl under the
* first consul. was cve'r'y day-"expected to emi
' tesifo the United Staces. Those who be
: had him thought well of that-kindoen in"
.."l-sizrlv. hii shend'a fish: and her children badsi
- e Men;-na "son:
v'mccd :" s'v no knew him, that to the crime
of seducnon, he was nssddmg that—of inhn
quiry."-_-Lifc. p. 234.
Host-: " Before hie "n.-turn to the cky,
Blade-sine Bonnn-me paiJ him : visit, and
"cant-ded just at candle light. She told him
issdisihad an order which she wished him to
sign, for clothing for herself and th: chil
'dff". who were all, in fact, new!} naked
She presented the order. Pnim: said l'll
put it m my pncket and rrad it in she morn
ing. No, said she, you music sign it to
night; ] wctut to return and get the: things
'to-ctWrDW. 1 cannot read in me nigtu ;
l'n keep it till morning. Then, saiu Ma
thou Bonncville, with some temper,-it you
hen,! read it to nightsi—gch it me back.-—
-Plii1_c niuzcd all her ignportuniucs. He
kept the paper until the morning, when he
IM man shatead at an order l'nr cloalh—ct
.iag, it was I don-], duiy drawn, for seven
* hundred pound-. Quilt: curagcd, hc'wen'l
tosiMrn. Back, and told her the story, by
. ,vhom. And by Mr-si Cakvcr, it is lmmioped
" ") me,"-F- Life, p. 249._ _ _
,. " She (M'mrm Bonn'qvillc)siwished that
erl'nine) "s dead, but Mrs. Helldcn
cannot any whetfier it was to get poslisiou
of his My or nine hesimight- be r'xd of
the pzin'wilh ihich he wan tortured, and
which'h'e in timely bore. ss 'She was soon
fullfiedct-si' ife. p. !99. .
The public'adw being ldenimd bride
"defend-m, theresasiol ctbesilbd or noss'libsi—l,
"bough-none : y breth- .
* ﬂed-upon nddmnd the iurijythe
_ RMWWM und wretche,-al
Wﬂhmmbllss ' in:-mill.:
du "dm' ", 'v' [10 0
"my Mwmunsihnþc'si
ctFm-Mssﬂmsm! WCMJ
ojuuezs
._ ' churl-. M—W on a in not-gray
it !- quent; and." manam been kind to
1!- h vein end undimuding. In would
had". but dun-when he do motion-. and
guilt quak- lum-hall bsinbsormm
li.—li- W 'M' mer n-ss
w- Mv- 8- ..u ub- .si-m an. "in...
ctsson um came on lathe co'm't of
union of thu cny before the hoaonble
My? Below. record-er, the cause of the
but Mr. Cheecbam, author of the
ctLise o shm'n [fain,-(or : libel, alle ed
m be contained m that work on ("et
utter of Mind-en Bodncv'dle, ; French
, and-maw am,
-' Womb vrdLi'ﬂdAl. si
m no imininn'
samuzisi. 's'fianE-N,
nest!-med,.a'ezm-ic.
MMGMNW "1
Malleus,.sveshn. 'J
A: :Em: ""I
ssPAlNE'S LlFE. ;
ram-(sir, mue ry. sict?
Lr—+....1:z__._ ___, ' ".
1!an man, pare-o":
m "si si '- si-siwssf-siﬄﬂ;
'v' " * "wan noted . "sisi'. '.
up;-si siba'jfe manne—time
ssdrdl man, like-fair, MTW
and apotleaa wontanaaahe in, and-sinn- siser
hernputarionr'si Shectia sia per-anger. si ss
laidfcamesibersiecttd initmq't our yo ss plead
'esid beraelf'widt; the hope 'oFebjoyﬄt her:
si'dm W;W.Mdi4 not en as
men a tynnt. Her husband in Paris . Ha!
"what is he, and yhat—niight Qe-[have been?
"He ia a armed man. and yet had he tr'tctngmcd
and fit? ed and t'urfte'd ansid ﬂattehdfehe s
elnperor, he might have been asiduke. Pom
ln'iaR-m bendeville, did siyþn'but knew howcts
si'h'er tender heart is broken"! 'll. [gentlemensi
there be justice—is you'regai'd Your-oaths; !
said Mt; Silbeli'evk Maid," on wili.oon-';
fictsithia man. ' Who ia-he 2- ct_ du me"
published aa adiwrsi How Many she!!!—
Who hlsil eaesiapquua fury! _}_lere_ctthe- cond
interrupted Mr.-V. declarin that it sscouissd
n'ot .sipertnit 'sitb'u licence o attack." After
silnonsithing not a little intpertinence toss'the'
cold, Which was properly nouceu anu re
*þressesid byth'e Recorder, Mr. S. read" the"
charge": in the "indictt'ne'nt, as above ectct'
forth,' made "some - becoming spologies1 stir
his poor hbili'ties'; M' closed ' his address"
'with juditiotisly expre'ssing a'hope that the."
ss the defendant would'be convicted. - '
Z _ Mr. Rose opened"'the Cause of th? de-._
'F'sendant in a speech which m admired by
? all ivho heard it for its nestness and perspi
; cuity. and which, though" our limits do not
ipermit us to give more than an outline of
! the trial, we regret it is net in our þower to
si lay before the reader in the elegant diction
si in which it was clo'thed. Having'ststcdsi in
' terms of approbation which we cannot re
put the motives of Mr. Cheethsm for writ
ing the Life of Psine. 'Mr. R. ssid there is
so much truth in the sdsge— tell me the
companyYou keep' and ! will tell you what
:you sre-sithst he could not refrain from
- begging the rticular intention of the" jury
to it-si Mr: ampson hss told you that the
lady sun-s for her reputation. A woman,
gentlemen, that complaint of the loss of
reputation should, Mr; Rose observed, have
had a reputation to lose. ' What could we
think of the character of a mother, the Wife
of s'tnao in Paris; Who had placed herself
land children under the protection ot a man
i {who, having raised tohisintglfsiacolumnsi of
demulished it by waging' "an impious war
against the Kingof HraVenZ Yet my client
had oowish to meddle with the character of
this woman. \That which he has published
was communicated, td htm to commtmicate
it to the public. 'He had nothing ofith'e
Mullcc which is esscntial to a libel." He
does not know madatne B. whom he has
never to this moment seen—How then could
he be acttzatcd by-mslice towards her ?—
lt was merely to illustrate the character of
Paine, by stating his conn.xions' with her,
that she wa's introduced into the work at all.
We all remember the late philosophical
president ]esserson, who in'_ his Notession
Virginia particularizes the murder ossi'Lo
gan's family by Cresap- Here Mn'R- cit'ecl
the narrative of the murder, and repeated
a want" "Legen's celebrated speech. 'Ms.
Martin, "Mr." R. continued, publicly ad
dressed st-veralletters to Mr. ]esserson,' in
which'he denied the truth "of his state'ment
respectingsi Cresap. * in the appendix of :
recent addition of the'Nut-s; Mr. ]eﬂsienon
investlgates the complaint ol' Mr. Martin,
and blamesﬄim for stepping'at once into
the newspapers, without having previously
and privately enqsi... .u' on-what grounde the
an hor had related the pathetic story. silf
Cresap was slandered, Logan. not Mr. --]es- 4
l'enon, was the slander-er, "for Logan, in the
delicious "eloquence which he haslelt-us,
stated-' the circumstances of the murder to
others, who had communicated them to
Me sij'eﬀerson, in a manner which justified
that-gentleman in the propagatign of them ss
[in the form in which they are now '
sisssiSo el Madau't B- ls she be libelled, those ;
[who communicated the then to' Mr. Cheet- .
.ham-en-ae-to warrant his state-hent osthem, '
[ere she libellere. She ought therefore to
line-called upon M r.- Cheetham's lnsotm
ents. and. is there "were-;reund for com
plaint. to hue made them aatwephle. Yet
when Mr. Emmet wrote to the defeadaat
and pointed eut to hlaten the hehalt' of
maden I. what he Milmd assserrora es
'saet. Mr. C. readlly consented tame!
"them on the authu-lt os Mr. linnet- Did
this-show malice,! t note-odd he
.mt Aadheralt wasmnludaddm
she-attertrasat not. The ct 'Iln
i
"of the earth.'had wantonly-and wicked]?
't-sssoct-ct-ss-ss ye sim', = w? won-ama
wuoqctisild ;Hiigsi QPVWMZ:
! . Wsi . sso to; ss m ct
fixmﬄsiffinectu ss' duck-ba .osic
:ssa man a. s-vzoaq; 'M'eþrinim
Yb'ossdd nionph !.- ct'Herect Msi 'sissssKc win inns-?
wwvssmsicoyemctss Wit
-Mr.'R:"i7atct-_ -_f _ . . umour-e
imctuiz'B-"csiid "yo'u'cbio
emoss'yould'h'io- been brought into tbil
si Sons: if Dilsixwaj not the bui- os it !—
*_Thdobjeetsiof the þg-ooecucioo quid-(ct
e'drjrssid :Gpfifid zsiM wsslsilffih' ss ' WR'.
paid come Complimgnu ctw (be "work-hid!
' {he teagectrjuon'txtus'dfsi nsiﬂar not repeat
f ing-:] ' at way-sadly! bhhe unseje'fiiusihbu'
T of brid'gipg in! hidden: sent;-le before "the
siþublic in "an "sitsiddious light. ' Yel, another
_ Cleopatr'a The be introduced upon the "cage
ss to Me 'ssa dejotical 'tr'zq-ph; ' "And whoss is
an B.} would t'? God her son was
ssherC'si-xo cttcs'tisfqhqt hgct fqproaclied her for
living with a man whoqu brok-jn-upsi-shc
traoquility' of .hizss' Taxhcr'o' 'houst! - Here'
'Mr. Golden-aguilt interr'uþted Mr': R. on.
the "ground that thin part o'sbis opeding m
'irr'clevantctsithere beinfi no testimony to sup:
s "Mr. Can-er being sworn, testtneu tnat
he had toltl Mr. Cheetham, that TOm Bon
neville has " the. features, countenaneesiand
temper of Paltse ;" that Mistresi BI had
told him that Passine had inchedsi her to
come to this country ;sithat Painecthad told
him., when speaking harshlysio'f Mis'tressss B.
that' she was n0t dun-ries] 'to' Bonneville,
whom she called her husband ;' and the able
in the Life; pt'MQ, respecting the bond,
hnvingsibeen shownsito him. hsie'tes'tified that
s it at; ask-'Wssslsi'sizsissssfrss";J'LKFFJMZBPJF
him to the defendant. To this Mr. Colden
objected as not being legal evidence ol the
fact, and entered into an elaborate amu
ment in support of his objecdonsi—fhe
.court: The question of malice is the only
one for the iury to try. '- This was admitted
by 'Dlr. CUdm-si—The court: The testimo
ny is thereforesietlmissahle to shew the bsiona
ct side intention of Mr. Cheetham in' relating
the sins. 'An historian or'biOgrnphe'nnust
have his faets from somebmiy' or from some
thing; he cannot be supposed to have act
-knowledge of them himself; Thesssacts may 5
si be false in themselves in respect to "Madam ?
B." and Yet Mu-Cheethsm may have be
'lieVed them to be true, and have had fea
' sonahle- 'grdutlds for his. belief. ctlf this
should besimade out, Madam'B. "may be in
nocent and 'Mrf (I: not guilty-'si-Mr: Cnrter
proceeded—His letter, included in the life,
being 'sbown to him; he acknowledged that
' he Was 'the'writer of it,' and thst be placed
it in the—hands of fhesidesndut when he
was writing the Life. s-He sent'it to-Paine
in 1806, three 'yeals'bssOte-his death-.—
Mistress Bonnevllie saw it, and threatned
, a prosecution ; he oh'ered to sumishihermo
: ney for the purpose, but nsio prosectnion-wu h
; commenceu. - rrom um leucr m r. urunn
? read she following extracu to the jury :—
sssi " ] bare often wondered that a French
" wonnen and three children should leave
I France and all her connexion to follow T.
"Painc to Arneriea. Snppoae ! Were to go
to my native country, England, and take a
nother man's wise and three children of hie,
and leaVe my wise and finally in (hie coun
try ; what would be the natural conclusion
in the minde of the people. but that there
wae eome criminal contention between du
woman and myself ? You have often told
me that the French woman above alluded
to, lm never received one lemr from her *
huaband durln; the four yeara ahe had been
ln ellle country. How eonua- ebla lo pan.
Perhape you can eaplaln the matter."-—
less., ?. m-ae *
" ! came according to order, and sound
you pmlenlarly en [ad nlch the French 1
woman and her an whether-th boy
[:Gl't llo' lne court, scacrvvug "": out-un,
decided that M. R. mighctt'proce' . Who"
is madam, sin;! will agaiffiasiaid'Mn'Rsint
the'- question ? To this en'quiry ssMÞ. Colden
a'gain 'objected," as enranedus. "What then
was Paine, the househbld deityssof mad'aln
B.? '_ A man d'evoid of m'orailty. a drunk
ard. and actblaspheme't of ouf'Saviour.'—_
' Was this an altar for a mother to teach her
children to kneel 'atf 'Mr. R. concluded
with 'obaerving that' the 'only'diemverable
malice was in the prosectiti'on', with repent-si
ing that the object of it-was to'auppres's a
work which vlarmed the'Dfistsfnnd v7lth
maintalnin' , that as the defendant had pub
lished nmningctreopecting mad'am B. which
had not been communicated to him. which
he did not believe to be true. and had rea
sonable groand for his belief, Ne was 'tiot
] guilty of a libel. _
_-A. , " --__—
i Mrs' Desn testiﬂed ss tothe Band. She
had heard the di-smdsat odd Cane! talk :
.bout it, who nked her if he had but had
' something concemingit! She ssidshe had
heard such a thing. Who! had-he heard. *
'Why such a mass. Do )ou know Mr.
.Cheetham? She had never seen him. ' Up
; on your oath what" do you know Mr the
Bondff - [havessheard Mouth;! She
lit ed in the neighficthood of him at New
Rochelle and had hard nsch lilting. Mr.
Carvrr was called in sad tusked whether the
witness had not in his presence related to
Mr. Cheethsm whst !! stated in the note re
ccting the Mind, 'to which hesi mwend in
: the asirmative 1 -—
; 'lhe Rev. ]ohn' Foatrr testihd thnt he
! me well scquainted with Peioe end Mis
trrss B. to whom Psine showed ! dolhm s
,,week and thst hehad borrowed I'Odoilm
! at the witness tows'rds the psytnetit of the
weeklv allowsoce. !n answer to the ques
i thing to the witnest about him? s seducin
tion, whether Mistrcss B ever ssid sny
ther imm Paris, he act-vered that the ends
' told him that she cher would have lest her
, country but for his promise, and that Paine
; was under the most sacred of obligntious to
. aPppon her and her children, but especially
sim.
Dr. Maniey testified that Bhdim B. had
expressed :: wish that Pain: is is dead. This
branch of the indictment was afterwards &
bandoned. ss
Peter Undexhill of Weatchester. testiﬂed
ss out he- Irneer Pai'nesi'antl' Missrcssu. and
had dealinqs'" with the sortner, and thst he
must observed to Mist'ress B. that Tom.
Bo'nneville was very like Paine. towhich
shectreplied that he was Paine'e shiid [child.]
TThe counsel for the prosecutssion' called in
Hin'SommeVZlie, of \Vcstcheater, to im
pench the credibility ot' Underhili. . Mr. S.
said that is he must speak. ss to his own
knowledge he must say from a sinfile trans
action which he had with him, that his cha
racter was good—that is. from the re of
some peroons in t e country. herf ss'ai
stopped, such report being bowe as
ss evidencesi) Daniel Peitoosi ipsalso called
sico impeach the eredibilitv 9! Uptluhilt, but
ss he knew-nothing himself against the wit
ness . .
Here the testimony foe the defence was
closed, the recorder having decided. with
the eoncurrence mdrapprobsfion of Mr.
Colden, district attorney, me as the quee
tion os malice-Was the only" one before the
'ur ', it was unneoecs . and assure it
Jwa: not the wish of thctessytief't-ndasit, boss"!
strong or weak he vason this point,) to go
into an munication of the character of Me
dame B. which might, a"_ the court had sl
resdy remarked, be siir si "at-habie, and yet
the deseodant not be _ 2. ct
Thomas Addis-Emtnet'. Esq. wss intro
duced to prove. from emvetaadbuwhieh he
had with Mr. Boece-We, thsis'e-Uistress B
had left France with the oosinsent'ot' her hus
* The ascendant me intredweliyﬄr:
Caner to 4 ". 1)wa newe.- art/repr
pore, or she led bear fret-tone 9 appnzed,
of hearing what elze had te ea_ eke to the
had, in "corrodes-trim- es Cereer e in ema
tr'en ." 01!er- Crmt down tri work ing in
the preemce qsC'ener end Mr. C. Seat/z
soiel, who happened te be from". the ever-de
Nre. Deon and g/ierwarde read then is
er. Me. Dun (eld Mr. (Wert/ten. He!
Palm lo!-toes related to her tue-(emp
elen, all the clear-meum a noted in the
n'ete eeneersinl'l/u bond. Ne. Men/m
iles within the feet tree mouthe been at Me .
'bM'ctf Ire. Dead. et Ne! Reebelle. esw
her endeth-end with he! ne He. ('- ell
,tltepndrvrriele mlieeenshedebeeete
um-ZIM,MMM ee .
)ﬂyssWÞ- dey. 5'ctlctctctﬂ_ms WO
Mould-len J-mctctfbssm ,"
'WMW hide Me)"
lauream! [m en medled ee'eem with
[Pm'ct "Kit- -' \
" * sssslfi one!
* He never did-. Plilict - _ Diet-find
Minreu' B. often came! as "his. Arm
pefivd'tbcy lived together n-Paiu'. for-.
asii New Rochensie. _ - ct _"' ct ss
! \ ' MnsRydee nium,-sithe: Pain lived ::
their [muse, where Mimmsiﬂsicame see.
quently 't_o_ lee him. ,Tmsi'booneviuc'c
; even werg like Pline' . .Shesiﬄeruw'
;" (hihg iin'ctproper becfvee'nj'aioesiand her; She
, knew nothing herself against Madame Bon
5 neville. ,_ : ct — -