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

COLONEL VERKELEE TO 31TBS FOOTE.

(Extract.) " Friday, June 11, 1024.
" My principal object now is, to ascertain from you what in-
tercourse and what communication you wish in future to exist
between us. Am Ito consider that my society and my protec-
tion are no longer either agreeable or serviceable to you i • or do
you conceive that),ou.still have claims on me, (I do not allude
to the living ones=-they undoubtedly have) ; and if so, what
line of condUct do you mean to adopt•with regard to me ?"

alts 3 17:09TE To COLoNDL.BERIMLEY.
" Sunday, June 13, 1824.
" Yesterday morning I received your letter, written in
a style of Which I have latterly had too many. On the
I answered two questions that you asked me, by say.
int, that I knew nothing of the circumstances you mentioned.
This Fainkidered sufficient to have satisfied you on both points.
There was a dine when it would have done so; and I am now
weary of being faiselynccused. You have refused me the pro.
tection 1 wished from you—that of a husband. During our
engagement, I could not call myself protected by you : you
separated yourself too mudsfrom me to be a real protector.
Your society was ever most dear to me—which on reflection you
must be convinced of, and what have I not sacrificed to enjoy
it P—my health,,mysest, =Trepidation every thing! Dad I
known that you were so hound by uncontroulable circumstances,
and could not havenuule me your wife, before this last event,
['Might have been reconciled; but the excuse you made for
nut performing your premise to do so, made to me in Novem-
ber and again repeated in December, convinces me that you
have no real and ;defier affection for me; and if you conceived
it to be true (which I cannot believe) that I had given oncou.
:agement to two other men, and which supposition prevented
our fulfilling yfiur promise of making me your wife before—
pray what happiness could I anticipate from your society after '
that ? I was contented while I thought that circumstances con.
fleeted with your family delayed your making me your wife;
but I must beg to decline the honour of being a suspected
mistress. I shall Make no claim on yOu ; but it is a duty I
owe my children to claim a provision for them—to enable me
to educate and bring them up as gentlewomen, and which I
am sure you will not refuse. I sun also reduced to the neces.
sky of entreating you will send me bOl. to defray my expences
here, as I am anxious to discharge my doctor and nurse as soon
as possible, they being expensive to me, and I cannot dismiss
them till I receive a further supply of money. I suppose you
do not intend to relieve me from the debts I mentioned to you
Well ! if you do n
in a former letter,
oftorfejoinuclliinavede
tonoatmiresitilsted to
ie,
Ye brue (t 1 u one
resource, and that I told you when I made the appea
to you. When next you write, direct your letter to Miss Foote'
Keppel•street, and it will be forwarded to me wherever I may
be." --

COLOIf.EL BERKELEY TO 311113 FOOTE.
" Wednesday, June 16, 1824. ,
"Do not complain of the style of my letters; you adoptet
that style first, because I dial, not comply with a demand the.
uncontroulable circumstances, and your own conduct, did not
authorize you to make. When I say your own conduct, I do
not apply the expression so much individually and personally
to you, as to your father and mother: but you have identified
yourself with them,, and have given me up, to follow their
counsels. They presumed to ask me to make you my wife,
at the same time that they gave positive encouragement to two
other men; and you yourself told me that, even to become
my wife, you would not give up their society. I think I am
warrant;d, then, in including.you as responsible for some of
the acts which they have committed. As for your father; his
conduct has been such a compound of folly, knavery, anti in-
delicacy, as 1 defy you to match under any circumstances, or
in any situation ante. That you may not hereafter say that
you are ignorant of the conduct he has pursued, I will place
before you two or three facts, and leave you to form your own
judgment on them. I shall confine myself simply to that
which has passed between him and Mr. Ilayne. I take it for
granted that you will oot think me as exacting too much in a
determination, that if I were your accepted and acknowledged
lover, no other person with the same pretensions should be re.
ceived ov countenanced by yon, or your family. Now, Mr.
Hayrte is openly and avowedly a lover of yours luso. He has
a miniature Of you —(how he obtained it I do not know, but
for the fact I pledge myself)—which he does not scruple to
phew to moat ot bit acquaintance. Now, mark, during the very
period that your family were Making the modest request that
you should become toy wife, (the demand at least should have
been sustained by patect correctness of conduct on their part),
your father went .to this other lover, Mr. Bayne, and
naturally enough, what his
bor-
rowed a sum of money from him. What has been the con-
. :t_e quence ? This fact is uoiversally known, and Mr.
you; and he naturallyenough
I)!ltilheFietdh—teinia'if:n6'f.t:iwetarulmetaekierlylopeueTto.kla.se;lmi )istr'ess,
if a settlement would do
~_ I know this to be the fact. Your father last week
gavel mner to' Ur. Hayne, and this week he went down to
Awith I • •
mer-
cenary 1 ~.,.. hum. If I had looked you in the light of a mei-
, • ••, try only, I would not have endured this. Does
totistity ..--
, lon,
7:
u.ae,nal.,,e)rabanwlidaent ottitheriuein,
ariiimignitthiese
dwegrould Pm h3ve
, 4 real and
t„,. yoYrOPLT affection' submit to? I never have abandoned
1 P"Pueed in November last is approaching Yo'llidativianal. heavy
stridcs ! With regard to the children, your last letter ImplitA
which
that they are both girls, though you did not do me the honour
which the improbability place.in society
mon ing may rower rather
and fit w hold that
coaftedmaklngs gtenhatitow.°3lllo:l7ortiinalcPeCiallYl
siy.lau.
all:
olliveyylih alit:
have
' "
a, hn.jacrtant_,One ; but wbdher
--- arge ui their education, is not alto, !Other tio Fr.
min. Certainly
not, if
they are to
_s„. 7i alto
to the society
of bream. Claggett and Hare, and
Nor if they are to remain with you, w
abode or occupation a mystoryi os your
imply; but I will have free anti constant gentlepe.B of
either
class.
in I nave your
last letter seems to
nstant access to them when-

ever I please. It is neither my wish nor intention to do any
thing harsh by you, and to you I should not fear to intrust the
education of the girls to a certain point ; but your father and
mother Jand the society which I foresee they will fall into,
end drag you with them) shall not be the guardians and com-
panions of my daughters, even though I should be obliged
to resort to legal means to obtain charge of them myself,—
This, however, I hope, you will not drive me to do. I send 501.
siistitg
As to the London bill I shall determin - ore when I
hear more from you. I c 'dub, . of pa he expellees
of that house, if it is to b toe a c ing sh : for 3lr.
.
Hayne. One word more wit tegart iii- lis gent an be-
fore I have done. I have heard that he (Mr. Hayne) has
actually made written proposals of marriage to you through
your father.' Deal with me honestly : if it is so, and you
think your happiness would be consulted in accepting such pro-
posals, I pledge my word that I will not only not throw any
obstacle in the way, but I will further the accomplishment of
your wishes by every means in my power. Tell your father
and mother this from me, and that if they shew me these pro-
posals, I can give them that advice, without which your father
is wholly incapable of bringing the business to an honourable
conclusion. But if there is no truth in the report that such
proposals have been made, I insist that Nothing further is
heard of Mr. Hayne, as connected with you—that is, if you
mean to have any thing to do with me, or the children. Is not
this fair ? And do not fancy, that in offering to assist in mak-
ing a marriage for you, that I have ceased to love you. I love
you tenderly: but I hold myself bound in honour to give way
to a man that really will marry you, if circumstances (f what-
ever nature they my ba) prevent my doing so. Let me know
where you picture is ; I feel the want of it now that there is a
probability of losing you."