Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-09-12

To the family OF his iriend-he encouras-
ed every reciprocity OF intercourse be-
tween the females and, To crown all, that
impossible suspicion might attach to HIM,
he seldom travelled without his Domestic
Chaplain Now, fit shall appear that all
this was only screen for his adultery
that he took advantage OF his friends mis-
fortune TO seducc the wife of his bosom
that he affected confidence only 10 betray
ii-that he perfected the wretchedneSs he
pretended TO console, and that in the
midst of poverty he has left his victim,
friendless, hopeless, companionless a
husband without wife, and father with
out child. Gracious God is ii not O.
noush 10 turn Mercy herself INTO an exc
CUtloncr You convict Tor murder-heTe
Is the hand that murdered innocence !
You convict for treason--here Is the v,eSt
disloyalty to friendship! ! on convict for
robbcry-here is one who pluuilered vir-
tue OF her dearest pearl, aud dissolved II
even i'll the bow that hospitality held out
TO him They pretend thai he is inno-
cent Oh etfronterv the most unb.ushing!
oh vilest insult added TO tae deadiest i'll
jury Oh base, dttestable and damnable
hypocrisy OF the final testimony il is
true enough their cunning has deprived
us but under Providence, shall pour
upon this basencss such flood OF light,
that | will defy, not The most honorable
man merely, bu, the most charitable sccp-
tic, TO touch the Holy Eyangelists, and
say, Ivy their sanctiiy, It has not been
committed. Attend upon me now, Gen
tlemen, step by step, and with me rejoice,
that, no matter how cautions NAV be the
consp,acies Of guilt, there is Power "a
bove TO confound and TO discover them.
On the 9th of last January, Mary
Hines, one of The domestICs, received di-
rections from Mrs. Browne 10 have break
last ready very eariy on the ensuing morn
Ing, as the defendant, then on visit al
tie house, expressed an inclination TO 90
out 10 hurt. She was accordingly brush.
my down the stairs at very early hour.
when she observed the handle ofthe door
sir, and fearing the noise bad disturbed
her, she ran hastily down stairs 10 avoid
her displeasure. She remained below a.
bout three quarters of an hour, when her
masters bell ringing violently, she hast
ened to answer 1t. lie asked herin some
| alarm where her mistress was Naturally
| enough asioDished at such question al
| such an hour, she said she knew not, but
| would go down and see whether or not
| she was in the parlor. MIR. Browne, how
| ever, had good reason 10 be alarmed, for
| she was So extremely indisposed going TO
bed at night. that an express stood actu-
| ally prepared to bring medical aid from
Galway, unless she appeared better. An
unusual depression both of mind and bo-
dy preyed upon Mrs Browne on the pre-
| ceding evening. She frequently burst in
| 10 tears, threw her arms around her hus-
| sands neck, saying that she was sure an
| other month would separate her for ever
| from HIM and her dear children. 1t was
| no accidental omen. Too surely the warn
| ing OF Providence was upon her. When
| the maid was going down, Mr.. Blake ap-
peared at his ,,uvr totally undresscd, and
IN tone of much confusion desired that
his servant should be sent up to him. She
went down-as she was about TO return
from her Intellectual search, she heard her
masters voice in the most violent indig-
nation, and almostimmcdiately after Mrs.
browne rushed past her into the parlor,
and hastily seeing her writing desk, de-
sired her INSTANTLY TO quit the apartment.
Gentlemen, request you will bear every
| syllable OF this scene in your recollection,
but most particularly The anxiety about
the writing desk. You will soon find that
there was a cogent reason for it. Little
was the wonder that Mr.. Browns tone
should be that Ofviolence and Indignation.
He had discovered his wife and friend to-
tally addressed, just as they had escaped
from the guilty bed side where they stood
in all the shame and horror of their situa-
ton He shouted for her brother, and
that miserable brother had the aconv of
witnessing his guilty sister in the bed
room OF her paramount both almost liter
ally in a state of nudity. Blake Blake
exclaimed the heart-struck husband, is
IIp ROT h,,+ e.
pitahty Oh, heavens what reproach
was there 1t was not merely, YOU have
dishOnored my bed--it was not merely,
you have sacrificed MY happiness--it was
not merely, You have widowed me in nv
youth, and left me the father ofan orphan
iamlly--It was not merely, you have YiO-
lated compact TO which all the world
swore tacit veneration-but, you-you
have done 1t, my friend, my guest, under
Inc very ROOT barbarians reverence where
you enjoyed my table, where you pledged
my happiness where YOU saw her in all
the loneliness of her virtue, and at the We
~ hour when our little helpless children
were wrapt i'll that repose OF which YOU
have forever robbed their miserable pa
rents do confess when | paused here
In the perusa of these Instructions, the
very life blood lroze within my veins.
What, said ], must not only reveal this
guilt must / not only expose this peril
dy must not only brand the infdelity
of IA wife and a mother, but must |, amidst
tie agOnies OF outraged nature, make the
brother the proof Of the sisters prostitu-
ton Thank God, gentlemen, may not
be obliged 10 torture you and him and
myself by such fundamentally. think
the proofs full wiIhoutit, though it must
add another pang to The soul Of tie poor
plaintiff, because 1t must render ii almost
impossible that his little Infants are not
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