The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-07-17

her husband, and then he shows YOU, in an
other page, She never had a husband -
How beautiful and uniform is truth How
mul,iform and intricate is falsehood How
like the SPIDERS fimsy web How like The
coi!ing OF the scaly serpent, the windinSs
| of the guilty
My eye just glanced upon some words
where there is mention made of Paine's last
cuU That is the key to this mysterious
league of apostolic slsnderers. mortified ex
pectants and disappointed spectators.
Perhaps the lady's greatest crime was
that which did not come to 'ght till Paine
was " I'm the dark and narrow house ;" that
IN return tor the compassion her husband
had bestowed on him in his da, S of trbula
ton he constituted his benefactor's wife
! and children his legltees. Hence too the
| strong resemblance grew more strong be
| tween the god-son and god father |, is
| blessed thing that whatsoever Nickedness
| and anger is most rife, the worse of Sian
derers finds at his elbow an historian thar
| will give body and duration to the troubled
passions of his soul who will not even
wait till they are brought to him. but G.
about to look for them, like beggars that
pray for broken meat and offals at Your
kitchen doors
In this Cody history Madame Bonneville
| is charged not only with adulterous prosti
! tuition. but with swindling and it is said
| She offered Paine bond to Sign, pretending
| 1t was an order for some clothing for her
children. For this, too, Mr.. Carver is the
author although this day he swears he
never saw that bond. nor is there one in
life that ever did. 1t is slanderous tale,
| that ought t. choke the utterer, and stands
| at best on what Paine said on the report of
! Carver, which Paine Doth Carver and
Cheetham, the historian saw never told
truth. But can he be believed who came
this morning to protest, and swagger and
maintain this truth AID now has no defence,
but that the same is false. though nor ma
HctonS lfit be not malicious. tigers are
gentle, and serpents very harmless.
cross examined Mr.. Carver, and ask
ed him whether his evidence had not been
rejected ia courts of Justice by reason of
his inhdelity. did not this from any cant
ing motive OF self arroga:ed piety. for that
is odious, but TO show that the main prop
OF all this Goodness and of this proud defeat
OF atheists and deists, was himself AN atue.
list, and perhaps the only one this country
ever saw.
He first evaded. I asked him whether
Mr.. Emmet. there beture him, had not
made the objection, and if II was allowed
mere was, says he, some such objection
made. waS nor sworn, and T 7vaLked
away.
l asked him. then if Mr.. Griffin. the de
| iehodht present Counsel. wuo lIns dav be
slowed upon this lady the sharpness of the
oitterest invective that tongue could utter.
oet who' not long ago, had gained the palm
oi eioquence by Painting his now client as
| tne 'erriesr monster that disturbed the walks
OF men; l asked Carver whether he ron
had not objected to him: Again he Darl,ed
stated to him the question and his own an
swer--'' Do you believe in future state
OF rewards and punishments? II once dld
NOT, out since. have recanted those obi
mons; tor seeing that kings commit so ma
ny GRIMES, and that there is no power to
punish them, and lawyers never think them
selves enough rewarded in this life, came
TO the conclusion, that there must be some
future state. when kings would meet their
punishment and lawyers get their last re.
ward Gentlemen, such AS Mr.. Carver
may seem to you, at best witty prohigate,
yet l would rather trust him still, than the
defendant, who seeks to throw his crimes
upon his head, He that processes open de
Ism, or even atheism. which is mere eoui
vocation and abuse of words as that there
| is power greater than man, none ever
truly doub ted-he still is less obnoxious in
my sight, than one who, without any spark
OF faith or charity. processes outwardly to be
a christian.
Mr. carver adds, 1t was about two years
and halt, or three years since, that, thro'
these medltatIons upon kings and lawyers,
ne became convert; till then, he swears
with his uplifted hand, he was an atheis, ::
! out now he is firm believing deist, and
IN such quality can furnish matter to any
| CHRISTIAN book maker who is disposed to
write down woman, the fairest of Gods
Creation for the love of God.
| pushed him further, and he stated. That
nc and his 7uife had often gone to Mr.
| Purdy's on the farm to visit Mrs. Bonneville
hen 1t was, that seeing the tolls in which
MS honesty and decency had fallen. he Ia j..
pered Oft by saying. ne never had seen the
slightest indication of any me~etricious or
illicit commerce between Pane and Mrs
Bonneville that they never were alone tope
Their and that all the three children, the
little god-son Tom, and all were alike the
OBJECTS OF Paine's care. Yet upon this au
th"rity did the defendant say, in terrible
menace, TO the surrounding and astonjshed
crowd not that he was mistaken and sorry
Tor what he had done, but that he would
prove II true, and prove much worse. and
timer things more shocking and more cruel
than ever, till That hour, had fallen from.
the tongue of honorable Counsel, or good
men against woman
Mrs. Ryder, whom he has dared to voucb
among his complrgators. damns him deeper
stIlk Paine lived with her, and Mrs. b m
neville often came TO visit him. She never
saw bur decency with Mrs. Bonneville -
| She never staid there but one niobt ,,,b.,