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there be-men true Breecome, the sister-in-iiw of a
blinker dicer, a major Mitchell, of the artillery, and
marriettber. She was of the age of fiftnen—he of
-twenty : inter was there an union of more
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attachment. She had no fortune, and
• he very little, independent of his profession. Gladly,
Getillemftn, toftld I pause here—gladly would I turn
from what Mrs. Fitzgerald is, to what she then was :
bld I will not throw a mournful interest Mound her,
file. well I know_ that, in despite of all her errors,
ithere is 'one amongst us who, in his sorrow's solitude,
for many a future year of misery, will turn to that
- aiding thtiugh dehisive vision, till his tears shut out
the ansierse. He told me indeed that she was lovely,
but the light 'that igave the gem its brilliancy has
. Genuine loveliness consists in virtue--all
else is ileetin&and perfidious ; it is asthe orient dawn
that ushers in the tempest—it is as the green and
&way turf; beneath which the earthquake slumbers.
In a few month. my client introduced her to his
family, and here beneath the roof of his sister, Mrs.
Kirwan, for some years they lived most happily.—
You shall hear, as well from the inmates, as from the
habitual visitors,' that there never was a fonder, a
More doating husband, and that the affection ap-
peased to be reciprocal. Four infant babes, the
wretched orphans bf their living parents—doubly
orphaned by 'a father's sorrows and a mother's shame
;--looked up to them for protection.. As their family
iinessued, a separate establishment was considered I
Aseessary, and to a most romantic little cottage on
the estate of his brother, and the gift of his friend-
ship, Mr. Fitzgerald finally removed his household.
Here, Gentlemen, in this sequestered residence,'blest
with the woman whom he loved, the children he
adored, with- a sister's society, a brother's counsel,
and a character that turned acquaintance into friend-
ship, be enjoyed delights of which humanity I fear
is net allowed aFernianence. The human mind per-
haps cannot imagine a lot of purer or more perfect
happiness. It was .a scene on which ambition in its
laurelled hear sight look with envy ; compared with
arbids.the vulgar glories of the wor":1 are vanity; a
spot of such serene and hallowed solitude that the
heart must hive been stormy, and the spirit torpid,
whialli its charmed silence did not soothe into con
tallillelit. Yet even there hell's emissary entered;
and its blossoms, blooming with celestial life, were
Widiered into garlands-for the tempter 1 How shall
i thamibe the heft) of this triumph ? Is there a len-
that has words of fire to parch whate'er they
tent Is there a phrase so potently calamitous
Ptill
its kindless freezes and its blessings curse ?
Rear from me the poor and impotent narration of
his • how as a friend he murdered
oos aince—how as a guest be violated hospitality—
how as a soldier be embraced pollution—how as a
man he rushed to the perpetration, not merely of a
lawless, but an unnatural enjoyment over every hu-
man bliss and holy sacrament, and then say whether
it is in Metal tongue to epitomize those practices
into a characteristic epithet! He Is, you know, Gen-
dem% an Officer of Dragoon:, and about twenty
years ago was it that capacity quartered in this
county. His own manners, imposing beyond de-
scription, and the habitual hospitality of Ireland to
die military, tendered his society universally solicited.
He was in every house, and welcomed every Where ;
nor was there 'any board more bountifully spread for
him, or any. iourtesy more warmly wedded, than
that which he received from the family at Oaklands.
Old Mr. Fitsgerald,was then master of its hereditary
mansion, his eldest son just verging upon manhood,
and my client but ayschool boy. The acquaintance
gradually grew into intimacy, and the intimacy
ripened into friendship. Captain Kerr, of the Royals,
is very near Usti ; he ia, a native of Scotland ; he
.has been all his life a military officer; Mother words,
to the advaatageof expenence and the•polish of tra-
iel, he adds what Lord Bacon calls that , left-handed
seiniessf with which the thrifty genius of the Tweed
haulms said to fortify her children. Never, lon
told, did their amigrate, even from Scotland, a mass
'of more Wray, or of more cunning —one whose's&
was Mont capable of inspiring confidence, or
arts were better calculated to lull suspicion:
stave given him the caution of age, without
,
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tho sensibilities of youth: nature made
mativitY made him frugal, and'half a
ernearilit now sillstored him into a perfect model
of thrift); samtimeit and ansprout'ser.ility 1 His first

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_ sure . • Pity,
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forsoet. that such talents' and such virtues should
deftauithe world of their exercise—he would write
to General Hope .to advance him—he would resign
to him his own Paymastership—in short, there was
no personal, ne pecuniary sacrifice which he was
not eager to make, out of the prodigality of his
friendship ! The young, open, warm-hearted Fitz-
gerald, was caught by this hypocrisy—the sun itself
was dark and desultory, compared with the steady
splendour of the modern 'Fabricius. It followed.
Gentlemen, as• a matter of course, that he was al-
lowed an almost unbounded confidence in the family.
His friendly intercourse with Mrs. Kirwan—his
equally friendly intercourse with Mrs. Fitzgerald,
the husband of neither-had an idea of misinterpret?.
ing. In the mean time the temper of Mrs. Fitzge-
rald became
,perceptibly embittered—the children,
about whom she had ever been affectionately solici-
tous, were now neglected—the ornamenting of the
cottage, a favourite object also, was totally relin-
quished—nor was this the worst of it: she became
estranged from her husband—peevish to Mrs. Kir-
wan, her manner evincing constant agitation, and
her mind visibly maddened by some powerful though
mysterious agency. Of this change, as well he
might, Captain Kerr. officiously proclaimed himself
the discoverer ; with mournful affectation he obttu-
ded his interference, volunteering the admonitions
he had rendered necessary. You can have no idea
of the dextrous duplicity with which be acted. To
the unfortunate Mrs. Fitzgerald he jield ur the al-
lurements with Which vice conceals'and decorates its
deformity—her beauty, her talents, the triumphs
which awaited her in the world of London, the in-
justice of concealment in her present solitude, were
the alternate topics of his smooth-tongued iniquity;
till at length exciting her vanity, .and extinguishing
her reason by " spells and drugs, and accursed in-
cantations," he juggled away her innocence and her
virtue ! To the afflicted Mrs. Kirwan he was all af-
fliction; weeping over the propensities he affected to
discover in has wretched victim ; detailing atrocities
he had himself created; defariing aizinsdeelfrading
the guilty dupe of his artifices,. and ; iag the
instant.separation which was to afford him at °nee
impunity and enjoyment. Trusted by alt
be was tree to nose. Every day maligning
pact
Fitzgerald to the rest of the family.. When ft
to her ears, he cajoled her into thebelief that kkeas
quite necessary be should appear her- enemy, 'teat
their secret love might be the less suspected! Ins-
posies on Mrs. Kirwan the fabricated tale of Mrs.
Fitagerald's infamy, he petrified her virtuous mind
beyond the possibility of explanation! With Captain
Fitzgerald he mourned over his woes, enjoining si-
lence while he was stodiously augmenting them. TO
Colonel Fitzgerald he wrote letters of confidence and
commiseration, even while the pen of his guilty cor-
respondence with his sister-in-law was wet! Thus,
Gentlemen, did this Janus-frosted traitor, abusing
Mrs. Kirwan by fabricated erimes--defaming Mrs.
Fitzgerald by previous compaet•—ciestided in-by all
—extorting from all—and all--on all—on the
general credulity and the deception found
the accomplishment of his odious purposes! There
was but one feature wonted to make this profligacy
peculiar as it was infamous. It had the grand master
touches of the daemon, the outlines of gigantic,
towering deformity, perfidy, adultery, ingratitude,
and irreligion, flung in the frightful energy of their
combination ; but it wanted something to make it
despicable as well as dreadful; some petty, narrow,
grovelling meanness that would (brad down the
terrific magnitude of its crime, and make men scorn
while they shuddered ; and it wants not this Only
think of him when he was thus trepanning, betray-
ing, and destroying, actuallyendeavouring to wheedle'
the family into the settlement of an annuity as Mt
intended prostitute. You shall have it from ix wit-,
ness—you :ball have it from his own -letter, 'dime
be says to Mrs. Fitzgerald, " Where is your annuity?
I dare say you will mauler inn you me perfectly in"
ifferent ; but believe me I am not." • Oh, no, no.
nb I—the seduction of a me thei—the calamityof it
husband—the desolation of a household—the utter
contempt of morals and religion—the cold-blooded
assassination of character and of happiness, were as
nothing compared to the expenditure of a shilling ;
he paused not to consider the ruin he was inflicting,
" the expense he was incurring ; a prodigal in
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a friend while

barbarism; iat we+=-
we
were•planning his destruction ; that we could not
affect his'table while we were profaning his bed;
chat we could not preach morality whilst we were
perpetrating crime ; and, above all, that if in the
moment of our nature's weakness, when reason
• ps, and passion triumphs, some confiding crea-
ture had relied upon our honour, we could not dash
her from us in her trial hour, and for our purse's
safety turn the cold-blooded assassin of her character
Suppose I concede his whole defence to him—sup-
pose she was hegrimed and black as hell—was it for
him to take advantage of her turpitude ? He a
friend—a .guest—a confident—a brother soldier !—'
Will you justify him, even in any event, in tramp-
ling on the rights of friendship, of hospitality, of
professional fraternity, of human nature? Will you
convert the man into the monster? Will you not
fear the reproaches of departed glory ? Will you'
fling the laurelled flag of England scorched with the
cannon flame, and crimsoned with the soldier's life-
blood—the ag of countless fights, and every fight
a victory—will you fling it athwart the couch of his
accursed harlotry without almost expecting that the
field sepulchre will heave with life, and the dry
bones of buried armies rise reanimate against the
profanation ! No, no: I call upon yhu by the cha-
racter of that army not to contaminate its trophies—
I call on you in the cause of nature to vindicate its
dignity—l call on you by your happy homes to pro-
tect them from profanation--I call on you by the
love you bear your little children, not to let this
Christian Herod loose amongst the innocents. Oh !
as you venerate the reputation of your country—as
you regard the• happiness of your species—as you
hope for the mercy of that all. wise and all. protecting
Goo who has set his everlasting canon against adul-
tery—banish this day by a vindictive yeidictthe
crime and the criminal for ever iron amongst us."
• After a trial which lasted for seventeen hours, the
Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff of £1,500 da-
mages, and 6d. costs.

could nut e►;

_Joseph Naples and George Martin were yesterday
.Iseld to bail at Union-Hall, on a charge of stealing
the dead bodies of two children out of Sutton churth-
yard, Surrey. It app that there have been only
butted m that burying-ground, out of
who S-lateen have been stolen. Oy for the preci-
, pitate retreat of the villains from the Office, they

ZTrOtid have been roughly treated by the enraged po-
pulace, such was their indignation against them.
TOWN- IiALL, Sourniraar.--Thonias Wing was
brought up by Reeve, the Marshalman and exa-
mined before Sir Jon N EAMIR, the sitting Magistrate,
charged on suspicion of robbing his employers,
Messrs. Sentance and Flint. grocers, 300, Borough,
High-street. The prisoner's detection Was caused in
the following singular manner:—He was porter to
the prosecutors, and was frequently about the shop ;
a large house-dog having seen him take money from
the till, whiCh he tied in his pocket-handkerchief,
followed him about till he saw him conceal it in a
shed near the stables, and then he came into the
shop and appeared quite restless, pulling every per-
son by the st,and apparenti?- wishing them to
follow him. At length Henry Heydon, the appren-
tice; having occasion to go to the stable, the dog
followed him, and having drawn his attention to the
heap of rubbish, under which the money was buried,
began to scratch at it till he brought the booty to
view ! The apprentice brought it to his master, who
counted, and found it to contain /2s. in copper coin.
After marking it, he desired the boy to place it in
the same spot, which h(did, and soon afterwards,
finding that it was removed, he asked the prisoner
some questions about it, but he declared his igno-
rance of the whole transaction. Reeve, the Mar-
shalman, was then sent for, who on searching the
prisoner, found some of the marked halfpence in his

Quasi-suoAstE,-.-Yesterday, Scroggins, the pugi-
list, and a prostitute, named Smith, were brought up
from the watch-house, charged with being drunk and
disorderly in the street on the preceding night. The
watchman said he had been attracted to the spot by
the wom*n's screaming “ Murder 1" When he came
up, Scroggins said she had robbed him of his pocket-
book, containing £lO in notes. She then
watch-house,

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it has issikthallaiL Whoa I name to Yon 1111 ""'"r" Marled them with a worse than wizard deaPoSitm• if you can believe him, found this young and hies-
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no ankliant- A Yoftym' brother, the ample akarril band affectionate and devoted wire thirsted for the pretence of assisting, &egged her down the preci-
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of his family devolved not upon him, and be was possession of the one—he determined on his enjoy- pice ! Will he in the whole host of strangers, with
• • - to look far to the labours of a
Tom.meat, even throu the perdition of the other. The whose familiarity he defames her, produce one this
4 _ . • (Jahappily for him he chose the Army— Y; scheme by whichte efibcted this—a scheme of more day vile enough to have followed his example : one
, unhappily, because, inspiring him-with a sol- deliberate atrocity perhaps you never beard! The out of even the skipping, dancing, worthless tribe,
,•); a clivalrf, it created a too generous credulity In welfare of my client—his seclusion at Oaklands-- whose gallantry sunk into ingratitude, whose levity
; dicabldiersi honour. la she year 1811 he was quer- the consequent loss of fortune and of fame, were all sublimed itself into guilt ? No, no ; •• imperfectly
'k . • i land wl* his Miasma a the Island °l.:any, and the subjects of his minute solicitude! -It was a pity, civilized" as his countrymen have called us, they
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the amierse. He told me indeed that she si
but the light 'that gave the gem its bully
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she is imand perfidious; it is wheel
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floe ay turf; beneath which the earthquake
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In a few month. my client introduced
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.J,,,, family, and here beneath the roof of his si
1' Kirwan, for some years they_ lived most I
' ‘' . Yoe shall hear, as well frornthe inmates, al
.'," •• habitual visitors,' that there never was a
r, , , mime doeting husband, and that the affe
I 4 . jeered to be reciprocal. Four infant I
*retched orphans bf their living parent
orOnined by 'a father's sorrows and a moths
, P••• e ' —looked up to them for protectior.. As chi
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, estatee of his brother, and the gift of I
4 I ship, Mr. Fitzgerald finally removed his I
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Here. Gentlemen, in this sequestered reside
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4 . with the woman whom be loved, the et
2.dt with- a sister's society, a brother'
R • 1 . *character that turned acquaintance it
ship be enjoyed delights of which humar
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is sot allowed a permanence. The human 4
1, haps cannot imagine a lot of purer or too
happiness. It was.a scene on which atithi
• laurelled beer isiitht look with envy ; comp
1 • whids.tbe vulgar glories of the wor":1 are
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~. , spot of such serene and hallowed solitude
heart must hive been stormy, and the spit
will& its charmed silence did not soothe
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' • tediums. Yet even there bell's emissary
- and its blossoms, blooming with celestial 1
wbbesid into garlands-for the tempter 1 I
I shamibe the here of this triumph ? Is th
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Fes P is there a phrase so potently c
' t its kindness freezes and its blessings
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• his Practices- —hear how as a friend he
• meaisce—how as a guest he violated hos
how as a soldier he embraced pollution-1
man he rushed to the perpetration, not in
lawless, but an unnatural enjoyment over
man bliss and holy sacrament, and then sa
it is in Mescal tongue to epitomize those
into a c.haracteristie epithet! He is, you ki
demo, an Officer of Dragoon:, and atic
years ago was is that capacity quarter,
7 . county. His own manners, imposing bi
j s • scription, and the habitual hospitality of 1
the military. needered his society universall:
He was in every house, and welcomed eve
~ . nor was there any board more bountifully
i • bim, Cr any iourtesy more warmly wed
that which he received from the family at
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Old Mr. Fitzgerald was then master of its
• 1 mansion, his eldest son just verging
I• . and my client but *school boy. acc
gradually grew into intimacy, and the
. , ripened into friendship. Captain Kerr, of t
is very amr sixty ; he lb a native of Scc
.has been all his life a military officer; lad
to the advaattaxiirif expenence and the•pol
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.• i viedeas" with which the thrifty genius of 1
hashasa said to fortify ber children. Ne
-' told, did tbsee,amigrate, even from Scotia
ofraori Wray, or of more cunning —one
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I visit to Oaklands was in company with
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' . (his future victim), she is Eve—and that 1
Major Brown), that is the Devil !' I
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of thrifty seutinant Mg ansprouesendity 1 His first crime, I miser in remuneration, he'brouihttogethar. bind:, containing PO in notes. She was then con-
visit to Oaklands was in company with a Major the licentiousness of south and the avarice of age„; eyed to the watch-house, where she was searched ;
kora, and he at once assumed the air of ow rather calculating on the inheritance of her plundered in- but moos were found upon her. Scroggins then
mewing than commencing an acquaintance,: I can.. (ants, to defray the harlotry of their prostituted nano- o at he knew she had not them. They were
pt toilthrough• the romantic cant with which the ther! Did you ever hear of turpitude like this? • y both . detained all night. The female
perite beguiled this credulous and unconscious Did you ever read of such brokerage in iniquity?` said, emet Scroggias sear Westminster Bridge, and
2bat the concluding sentence of his visit is too If there is a single circumitatese to rest upon (ercoo- he treated her and another female; he accompanied
le to be omitted. llt is,' said he,•awaking solution, perhaps, however, it is in the expoirare of her across the church-yard, into Bean-street, where
ois or a reverie of admiration, 'it is all a paradise : his parsimony, He has shieWn Where he can beside he knockna her down, and accused her of robbing
there'(Poistrair to my client), there is Arlaio...,:she tored ; and in the commis of his aims provision- him. • &togging denied having struck her, and said
(his future victim), she is Eve—and thatit
_ming to oially betrayed the only assve,td La's puaidasseot. it was all a mistalis.--.Mr. Mniostatio asked him
l'ilm. Brown), that is the Devil!' Perhaps he -4lie deilindant, Gentlemen, has alit driven noun how.heobtained his livelihood? He replied, that he
Ate been more felicitous in the last ezina- coakctore his ' 'on obis heestbeinindissery itio 'had kept a public-4151116 ltd intended soon to keep
This of course seemed but a jest, and bletia it t lemilip-santameat do pee think istethers be. was a APOisager in Westminster. The
raised tbe lattgh that was intended. Bat it was it-is? Oh, woultietteetatenkteall !Seesaw* said be war a, very Wait Parma for kee,P-
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