The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-25 00:00:00

suss rooTz -TO COLONEL DEIIICELEY.

" Th charge " March 25, 11324.
y me I against pronounce to be unfair, on this ,
principle :- When &at our intimacy commenced, it was under
an idea that I was to become thy wife. Year after year passed
away, and wearied with the solitary and unprotected situation
lin whidi was placed, insulted by the world, from the sup
posed intimacy with thee, I felt that I would rather have be-
come thy mistress, and to have been protected by the insults
I was daily receiving, till circumstances would lilac permitted
thee to have made me thy wife. But when I found that thou.
wouldet neither make me wife nor mistress, and that there ap-
peared to be no chance of a termination to the miseries of my::
situation, and a circumstance occurring a second time which ,
fully authorised my claiming to be thine without any further'
delay, I resolved to separate myself from thee, if thy affection ,
was not strongenough to induce thee to marry me under such'
circumstances. All this I told thee in November: and when
you urged something about Mr. Cl4ggett as an excuse for slot
doing that which I asked, I wrote and told thee I would not
see thee again, unless thou didst promise to make me thy wife
immediately : to which thy answer was' If I come to thy house
it will he to accede to thy request.' Thou earnest, and on the
evening I promised to tallow thee to the Casdei but, on re-
tioctioth not feeling fully satisfied of thy intentions, I wrote
and told thee I should not go to the Castle, unless thou gayest
me a certain promise to make me thy wife before a certain event.
This you answered in a manner that left no doubt on my mind
of your intention to marry the immediately; and in consequence
I went to the Castle in December, and I repeated my visit in
February, under the idea that I was to become thy wife, which
was strengthened by what thou saidst during my stay with thee.
. Now, when I ask thee to perform thy' promise, thou urgent as
an excuse for not fulfilling it, my conduct with respect to Mr.
Clat,Tett, &c. not thou *Mdse not have decehred me about it,
and have led me from Decemlier to this time with an idea that
liras to because thine (which thou must have known was the
impression of roYinintl), when it aPoeers that thou hadst really
no intention of marrying. It i% that of which I now complain.
If the things you charged tue with were such that thou couldst
nut overcome, thou shouldst have told me so before I went to
the Castle in December, and not have deceived me into meet-
ing thee there, with an idea that I was to be nurae thy with int.
mediately. It would have been marl more itonouretAe
artiestin thee, end I should have hatl lett cause to complain.,
In the *mine of the above correspondence Colonel Berkeley
speaking of his own duns at Christmas time, trays--" Bat
can trust thee well for that, for extravagance was never thy
fault,"
Miss roete, with a b
presentiment that Colonel Berkeley did
not inte
•J to marry her, notwithetanding all he had said and
written, so minimed all her pride and resolution, and once more
left London for Tunbridge-wells, on the 2ilth of March, where
she again took up her abode under a feigned name,'aud resign.
ed herself to aolionle and secrecy, with her mother for her only
evoaresnion, until she might return to London free from fur-
thin. &Iva of such another disgrace. The following are some
the country, her answers:_• his /alas to her whilst in
ot
COLONEL .11TAILZLET 10 strut FOOTE.
• " Friday April 1C24.
441 have nothing particular to say, nor a.; think that thee
bast snuck reason to he autprised that I have not written before,
vehze Bence knowest that there must be xconvintion pressed
on my mind, that thou hest not the same affection for me that,
thou hut ferraelly:" .

cocoxv.. BrEZELET TO MIS FOOTS.
my char,aYntiAtrouil i-
vainate"v7 1
,o.7inde. 11°AntddiefnallY acclgation were true, thy conduct
to we was w justificatiau for all thou haft laid at my door..
L tepee.? then eras red,its zleca sucit au "nutmeat* continued,

rove and confidence as in my conduct to thee. But my affec-
tion has not entirely dastrpyea my understanding."

mos FOOTE TO COLONEL BEREELBY.
(Extract) " Thursday, April 22, 1824.
" I received thy letter to-day, and I have only to say in reply
to it, that thou canst bring no charge against me to justify the
ill conduct I have elperienced from thee in not malcing,me thy i
(
wife before a certain event, after the' ate assurances I received'
from thee. I had determined nev to write on this subject
again, for the last letters I receive rom thes,previous to my
Laving London, convinced me that thou hadst no intention of
fulfilling thy promises to tne, and therefore there could no
longer be a communication on the subject that could, giye any,
pleasure or satisfaction totither."