The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-22 00:00:00

2118/1 FOOTS TO XII, ITAYNE.

Saturday, 3d July, 1824.
All disappointments, all injuries. dee p ar,d base as I have endured.
and 11)11U still endure through my wretched life. I feel that I could
bear with fortitude: but the reflection that you should believe me base
enough to have had an intention of becoming your wife without a de.
claration from myself of the sitoation which my unfortunate Ir.
garment with Col. Berkeley involved me in, is too agonizing, and I
feel that I cannot exist without you alli;n1 me an opportunity,
personally, of convincing you that such not toy intention,
an! that the villany of Colonel Berkeley, who himself by lever
urged a cemecaliticnt of the circumstances which I was deter-
mined to reveal, and caused a delay of my diselosare. which delay
I shall never cease to regret, not solely heranse I ef,:lridre it the
probable means of having prevented our union, but bccaus- it has
left me doubly dishonoured in your eyes, in the suspicion you
must have of my never having intended it. By the tenrictne• • and
kindness you have entertained for me—for God's sake. add one noire
act of F encrosity ; let roe see you once to vindicate this point, and
I promise you by all that is sacred, I will never attain molest 1111.
nut seek again to divot', that repose which I have so unlor le.
nem', and so unineentionally intruded on. I fear that you will
hesitate in granting me an interview, but could you know
the wretched and the unprotected situation in which I stand in
the world, without one friend to redress my injuries, and crushed
and overwhelmed by every minforttine—lint by none so mut
as the reflection that you think an basely of riv..-1 cenrot
believe you will deny tee, under any cite-me:stances, the only
consolation I can now derive—that of acknowledgirg to you
all my errors, inch as they rea:lv are, not as they wile re-
presented to you. by one who, under the mask of role nc's end
generosity, was detvrtnined to sacrifice me in his revenge, and
to noway you and to wound your mile, by endeavouring m make
you feel tl.at yin had placed your affections on ore who, sty his in-
t riiirerc s tc placed ir so black a 'iglu its to Opp, a- %mot,' 11.11..rif.y
e; your i. ree. Code r the 11111CRIT circumstances in which I feel
you must now be situated with your family on my account, I wisb
you to poict one in what manner our meeting may be e mitered 110
as to render it the least disagreeable and inconvenient to you. In
this appooninent,theugh reganllcu of myst If. I am anxious to avoid
its bring in any way injurinos to you. I will come, accompanied
only by my mother, to 3lsrlborough, or any more distant place from
Burdemp that coo may like to appoint; for I know your heart
will yield to this my lost and only request, and on which my only
hope of consolation rests. I shall anxiously expect your answer
on 3londay to say when and where we are to meet : and I shall
hold myself prepared to leave London im-retliatelv for that yur
porie.—.Farewell, most generous of men ! %Sicilia that the hapriness
that might hate been ours had nut been blighted by tier cruel des.
tiny. MARIA.