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he pleased. But led into a more public declaration,
and finding himself committed in a promise of mar-
riage. which was to take plakelh September, he in-
stantly changed his plan, and nothing is stopped at
to procrastinate that event. The link girl, already
an excellent player on the piano-forte, and ready to
work for her bread, and the bread of her worthless
lover, is persuaded to transport herself to Ireland, to
learn music according to the system of Logier, which
was then taught there by a man of the name f Bluet.
The defendant, in the name of Miss Ritchie's brother,
who, from a complaint in his eyes, could not write,
tarries on a correspondence with 13luet in Dublin ;
professes to inquire into Bluet's -character, and at
length makes my client go to Dublin, and pay one
hundred► guineas for eighteen months instruction
under that man, for the professed purpose of marry-
ing the defendant, and working as a music-mistress
for his support. Having arranged all this to his sa•
tisfaction, he then calculated that she had better be
off, early in June, as' by that time he would have
nearly exhausted her money, and left her barely suf-
ficient to pay her hundred guineas to Bluet ; he, how-
ever, proposepto attend her to Dublin; it would have
been a delightful party of pleasure, and would have
cost him nothing, though it might not have given ,
him the power perhaps to ruin, but surely to defame
her. This Mr. Hazard prevented; he attended her
to Liverpool, and she arrived safe in Dublin. Ar-
rived there, she finds herself most miserably situated,
in a house very different from what she had been ac-
customed to, and with companions very ill suited to
her education. From the moment of her arrival in
Dublin, a correspondence commenced between her
and the defendant, which terminated only with this
action; and it will be a curious subject for you to ob-
serve the various changes of this man'scorrespondence,
as his plans shifted from time to time respecting her:
his love and anxiety for her company, from December
to April, before he wastied by a promisiof marriage in
September, and his plans to get her out of England be-
fore he could be urged to perform that promise% The
young Lady's letters, from the first, are filled wi th com.
plaints of Bluet, in Dublin; and in the second letter,
written by defendant to her, within one month of
her departure from London, and three or four days
after Hazard had paid the hundred guineas, the de-
fendant tells her he had known Bluet's character a few
days after she had left London, but did not tell her.
Here Mr. Ropait read aPoem, entitled lire Maiden
and Snake, which concludes—.

" Deep in her breast of snowy white,
The reptile fiz'd his venom bite ;
Too swift, alas! the poison sped,
Through every vein its power spread ;
Whilst the revengeful cruel adder
Saw her madder grow, and madder; .
O'er wood and dale and heath she flew,
So swift, 'twas hard her form to view ;
At length she reached a rocky shore,
'Gainst which the angry surges roar;
Driven by frenzy from the steep,
She plunged into the waery deep;
In vain she shriek'd, in vain she cried,
She sunk, then rose, then sunk, and died

Gentlemen, the author of these verses—if the defend-
ant be the author, has in some degree depicted his
own character : but he has fallen far short of the ori-
ginal; the adder was provoked; he had nothing to
complain of bat the kindest confidence. Gentlemen, I
have already observed to you the change of the de-
fendant's plans, when he found himself engaged to a
marriage in September. I am now to request you to
take notice of the marked alteration in his correspond.
ence, when the plaintiff, finding herself getting forward
in her musical pursuits, in December, 1819, wrote to
her friends in England, informing them that she
hoped to return in September or October following.
His answer, dated 19th Dec. says, " My dear girl,
do not be too sanguine in your expectation of return-
ing in September ; you will by that time become use-
ful to Mr. Bluet ; he will not wish to part with you
then." Previous to this, Gentlemen, he had been all
love and anxiety for her return; but now the ardent
lover began to cool. Before this period be had never
talked of the distress of his family ; now they were
reduced to beggary ! His fine feelings were such,
that he could no longer bear the pangs produced by
witnessing such misery; and, to avoid the affecting
spectacle of his family in distress, he determined on
expatriation. It is new necessary to observe, that
about the time of Miss Ritchie's absence, he began to
re-establish himself in the intimacy of a young man
of the name of Foster, wto will appear to have been
for years the disinterested and liberal supporter of
the defendant. This Mr. Foster, Gentlemen, was re-
presented by the defendant as a man of £BOOO a-year
in Ireland. Ido not know what his fortiine was ;
but he will appear to you to have been an extravagant
young man. You will find that the defendant acted
as the servant of this young man, wishing to pass for
his friend ; that he was his humble companion, and
Maitre de Hotel, and that, though he sat at his table,
be wore, if not his livery, at least his clothes. You
will find the defendant acted the same part by Mr.
Foster that he did by all others ; he sat at his table,
he rode hir horses; took care of his servants and
establishment ; his debts were paid by Foster ; he
put a gold watch, chain, and seals, in his pocket, and,
in fact, he lived, in that luxury and idleness which
,was requisite to his comfort, and for which he was
ready to make any sacrifice but the expenditure of
his own money, or the manly exercise of his own
industry. Thus he west on with Foiter as long as
Foster could go on ' • and during this delightful sa-
turnalia, he never thought of my client, but to write
her sententious sentimental letters, indicative of the
brilliancy of his talents and the infamy of his heart.
And you.will find that when he had squeezed the
last possible accommodation frog; Mr. Foster, and
was disappointed in hoaxing out of ,bim a furnished
house and establishment in this Isle, he turned short;
'accused .114 of having imposed upon him—of har-
ms run away in the night from his dear friend, who
confided in hint—and of having laid upon him all
the undeserved odium! of ,his misconduct; and he
conchisies this !scion:)4los distressed friend and
betrefactor, by pr;iirli that he might never again see
his face. The g mom of &Reit practised by
the: defendant will be manifeat .wbon you come to
read his letters to my sliest, hoth from Ireland 'and
fromthis island. Those 1 will be a corrobora-
tion of the parole evidence have to lay before you,
'and Will prove that the defendant stern told one
word of truth; either to the plaintiff or to her friends,
and that he was equally deceitful to his own family.
.Theiwpresentatinnt he' make to her of his familyt
'distress, and his intended +joy* io another cliiiate, 1