The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-04 00:00:00

PRINCE AUGUSTUS.

" 26th March, 1793.
" Do, my dearest Augusta, trust me ; I never will abuse
the confidence you put in me, and more and more will
endeavour to deserve it. I only wait for your orders to
speak to Mr. Gunn. Say only that you wish me to do it,
and I will hasten to get a positive answer. See, my soul,
it only depends upon you to speak ; thy Augustus thou
wilt find at all tines to serve you. lie thinks, he dreams
of nothing but to make thee happy. Can he not succeed
in this, all his hopes are gone; life will be nothing to him;
he will pass the day in one constant melancholy, wishing
them soon to conclude, and finding every one longer than
the other. Indeed, my Augusta, that cannot be the case;
my solemn oath is given, and that can never be recalled.
—I am yours, my soul, ever, yours."
PRINCE AUGUSTUS, 4TH APRIL. (STILL UNMARRIED.)
" Will you allow me to come this evening? It is my
only hope. Oh, let me come, and we will send for Gunn.
Everything but this is hateful for me. More than forty-
eight hours have I passed without the smallest nourish-
ment. Oh, let me not live so. Death is certainly better
than this ; which, if in forty-eight hours it has not taken
place, must follow ; for, by all that is holy, till when I am
married I will eat nothing ; and if I am not to be married,
the promise shall die with me! lam resolute; nothing
in the world shall alter my determination. If Gunn will
not marry me I will die. * * I will be conducted in
everything by you, but I must be married or die. I
would rather see none of my family than be deprived of
you. You alone can make me ; you alone shall this even-
ing. I will sooner drop than give you up. Good God,
how I feel ! and my love to be doubted sincere and warm.
The Lord knows the truth of it; and, as I say, if in 48
hours lam not married, I am no more. Oh, Augusta,
my soul, let us try ; let me come ; I am capable of every-
thing; I fear nothing; and Mr. Gunn, seeing our resolu-
tion, will agree. lam half dead. Good God ! what will
become of me? I shall go mad most undoubtedly."
THE LADY'S ANSWER.

" My treasure, my dearest life and love, how can I re
fuse you? and yet dare I trust to the happiness your let
ter promised me? You shall come if you wish it; you
shall do as you like ; my whole soul rejoices in the assur-
ances of your love, and to your exertions will I trust. I
will send to ( ); but I fear the badness of the night
will prevent his coming. My mother has ordered her
carriage at past seven, and will not, I fear, be out before
the half hour after. To be yours to-night seems a dream
that cannot make out; the whole day have I been plunged
in misery, and now to awake to joy is a felicity that is be-
yond my ideas of bliss. I doubt its success; but do as
you will; I am what you will; your will must be mine ;
and no will can be dearer to me, more mine, than that of
my lover, my all. Don't be angry at my not adding, my
husband. I cannot any more say this till marriage sanc-
tions it. Forgive my doubts—my fears. They are ex-
cusable in Augusta."
EXTRACT FROM LADY AUGUSTA'S JOURNAL ON THE