The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-06 00:00:00

°THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING; DECD MER 6, 1859.

you should feel dissatisfied with me, but I have
been so peculiarly placed for some time past that I
hardly know how to act, and then you accuse me of
being on the eve of marriage with some young lady
or another. Than this accusation nothing could be
more false. No thought of the kind could ever cross
my mind. Indeed, I was so much put about by
the death of my grandfather and the illness of my
sister, that I scarcely "knew what to do ; so that, if
I was neglectful to you it was not that my heart
was pre-occupied with thoughts of another. No.
I hope when we meet—which I hope will b soon
—that I will be able to express myself more clearly.
I met Miss Ifope one day towaodh the latter end
of the summer. Do you ever see her now 9 Do
you remember how Alai: ;'p4 and she were when
going to Carrick 9"
The letter concluded Believe me, your
fondly attached Hugh."
When the poor girl wtote to him complaining of
Ins apparent neglect, even after he had protested
his cohttnued affection for her, he wrote to her
thus

" I have to complain of you. I have not, it is
true, been as attentive to you as I should have de-
sired, because I heard that you showed my letters
to other gentlemen."
She applied to her parent for advice and protection
in her sorrow. When she received that shocking
letter she gave it to her mother, who replied to it
stating that it was false. She referred expressly,
and in terms, to the engagement of that man with
her daughter, and declared that there was no pre-
tence in justice, in morals, or in conscience, for say-
ing that that solemn contract should be broken by
the defendant. Mrs. Trowsdale's letter was written
about the 2d or 3d of April, 1859, and he replied
on the 4th. He ought to have written to the
mother, as she wrote to him, but wrote instead to
Miss Julia Trowsdale herself :

"I this morning received a latter from your
mother in reference to my letter to you. I am
sorry I cannot at present take the liberty to give
you the name of my informant. What he told me
he told in confidence—that he saw the letters, not
through you, but through another. I intend, how-
ever, as soon as possible, to get his address and
write to him for liberty to use his name ; of course
I could not do more. I am, indeed, sorry that any-
thing of the sort should have occurred, and hope
that it will still be satisfactorily explained. Your
explaining this to your mother will suffice for my
writing to her, and when I get an answer I will at
once apprize you of it. Hoping to see you soon,
and that all will still be settled, I am, my clear
Julia, your own loving " HUGH"
He (Serjeant O'Hagan) denied that there was any
such person as was referred to by the defendant.
He did not believe that there was the shadow of a
shade of truth in that allegation with reference to
those letters, and if there was, that was not the
way in which the letter of the mother should have
been answered. The poor girl wrote again to him,
repeating her solemn denial, and on the 20th of
May, 1859, she received his 84th letter
" My VERY DEAR JULIA,-By yesterday's morn-
ing's post I received your, I must still say, fond
letter. I assure you that this state of suspense is
as painful, if not more painftfl, to me than it is to
you. You think you are the only sufferer. How
much are you mistaken ! Think you it is nothing
for me to have my dearest and fondest hopes
blighted--to be wakened from a dream of happi-
ness to —. But excuse4me. Time must, and
will, and that shortly, reveal all things. Then you
will see which is most to blame."
Then he told her that, on receipt of her last, he
wrote to the person of whom he spoke, but that his
letter had to go to the Western States of America
—(laughter)—and he promised when he got a reply
to tell her of it. He added—
" I fondly trust it will be one that will bring
love and happiness to each of us. I could not tell
you what was told to me in confidence. I must
still subscribe myself your still loving and attached
" HUGH."
On the 16th of July he wrote, addressing thus:
—" My dear Julia." It had of old been, "My own
Julia," or "My dearest Julia," or, "My very dear
Julia," and onee„'" My very, very dear Julia,"—
(Laughter.) Now it fell to "My dear Julia," and
soon it tumbled to "Dear Julia," and that before he
got the reply from the friend in the Far West. In
the letter of the 16th July he told her he had got
no answer yet from America ; that his friend was
in business, and had lately moved from the place
where he had located—(laughter)—on a kind of
business tour ; he did not know his address, but
when a reply was received it would be commu-
nicated. She wrote again to him, requesting that
he would come and hear from her own lips the re-
futation of the calumnies of which he spoke, and he
replied on the 19th of July, saying, " It would be
very unsatisfactory for me to have an interview
with you on a subject on which I am not yet at
liberty to speak." Well, the anonymous slanderer
never appeared ; no letter appeared ; no letter
came from America ; the travelling trader
never was discovered. Miss Trowsdale pressed
still ; a matter not to be wondered at when her
position—publicly known as it was that she hal
pledged her troth to Mr. Hugh Stewart—was con-
sidered. She was to have been his wife. The time
had arrived when his fortune enabled him to
marry, and she was forced to appear before her
family and the public in the equivocal position of
a woman who, having been promised marriage, had
been thrust aside as if she had done some act dis-
honourablea woman—doubly dishonour-
aherbleto asto aher as
woman who had been bound by this
solemn contract. She implored of him to give her
the name of her traducer, and to allow her an op-
portunity of setting all things right. On the 14th
of September he wrote the following letter, which
concluded the correspondence on his part. He be-
gins, " Dear Julia." What a tumble from "My
own ever dearest Julia !" and its fond variations:—
" You again ask the cause of my silence. As I
before told you,
havingi it was because I did not at all relish
theuo
t uhideakr of
my letters to you exhibited. As
wrote, but have not yet received
disclose the informant, &c., to whom I
ayoint
know,
vr
to
refer. 1 have also had great reason to complain of
frequent statements made by you relative to your
family affairs and expectations, which I afterwards
discovered to be quite erroneous, and, I believe,
made by you without any misapprehension of the
fact. As I before told you, I will, on receipt of an
answer, make it known to you. Till then, believe
me, ever sincerely yours, " HUGH."
The learned sergeant concluded with an eloquent
appeal to the jury on behalf of his client.
Several witnesses were examined for the plain-
tiff, after which the proceedings were adjourned to
the following day (Saturday).