Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-08-28

ule capuNc ne mas ueSIlneQ 10 Tic saCFlHce.---
The intimacy thus commenced, was, on the
part of the defendant, strictly cultivated. His
visits were frequent--his attentions indefatiga-
ble-his apparent interest beyond doubt, be-
vond description. You may have heard, my
lord, that there is class of persons who often
create their consequence in a family by con-
irving to become master of its secrets. An
adept in this art beyond all rivalry, was Cap
tain Kerr-not only did he discover all that had
reality, but he fabricated whatever advanced
his purposes, and the confidence he acquired
was beyond all suspicion from the sincerity he
assumed and the recolleetions he excited. Who
could doubt the man who writhedg in agony at
every woe, and gave with his tears crocodile
attestaton to the veraeity of his inventione
From the very outset of this most natural
though ill-omened introduction, his only object
was discord and disunon, and in the ACCOM-
plishmcnt he was but too successful. How
could he be otherwise He seized the TENDER
est passes of the human heart, and ruled them
with worse than wizard despotism. Mrs,
Fitzgerald was young and beauuful--her hus-
band aflectionatc and devoted. he thirsted
for the possession of the one--he determined
on his enjoyment, even through the perdition
of the other. The scheme by which he effect
ed this--a scheme of more deliberate atrocity
perhaps you never heard Parts of it can re-
i..a Int tbare ora- c,;,oae reu.;p;noc +o x,bch
even ;f our law o,peved a name could nor
degrade myself into the pollution of abiding.
The commencement of his plan was most os-
tentatious affection for every branch of the
Fitzgerald family The welfare of my client;
lis seclusion at Oaklands; the consequent loss
of fortune and of fame, were all subjects of his
minute solicitudei II was pity, forsooth, that
The world IF tha;r exerc;se he would write to
CsneraI IGona 70 oJ,,ance him he would re,
Co., e., L., X, 49,, ,,n,,,,o.ta,sb;,, !, sLan+
tbsra ,,os No ,,a,sonal M ,,ec1n;a,,, soc,.;foS
,rb;oh h. ,,,o, ~ 800, +c r,,,ala ~ of a..
,,rod;o.,l;., ~ ~. E,;arJsb;,, TIL ,eo,,,,,,
pnen y,.y,o h.a,tad E;tsoorold ,,os canoit
br the bv,,nc,;s,, he sun ;ts1If ,,os darl, "a
desnltor; connsred With The ,e stcady snlendor
If tba ,,,oJ,,, Eal.;o;ns II f,llo,,,ad n.a,tIo
men nc a n,a+tor " co,,rso tbat he yas o1lowa5
IN ai,nost ,,rLonndsJ nSdonco !, +ba fa,,;l,,
His f,sendl,, ;ntercourse With ,Irs K;rwon-
bis eonoily % evil, ;nterco,r.e With Mrs T;tz-
eeroIa tLe hnol,and NJ ra;+bor had an ;dea -
m;s;nt srnret;no, In The ,nean4;rne the temr,e.
If Mrs ts tss. hecorne ,,ercent;hiv en-
b;,tared thee oh;idren aho,. ,uboln che haa
eycr bee, atfcc,;onato,v eoEctouS were nou,
ncolec,ed tho crnornont;no. of the cottorn n
faTorte oh;act oloo u,as ,s,l,, roi;non;sha
nor woe ne tbe ,,orst of Il sho hecan,a
t,anged from ber bnsh,nJ nae,sh f. ,Irs
K;rwan hcr manner ey;nc;ng constant .o;ta.
t;on' and har n,;nd ,;s;ll1 ,na5donad h., g.,
Ill, $500 Gc ~.
rhan,l 90 s', IA h. ,a;n,ht $50 ~ "a;
o;nnsI o VA, ''1 hsse,f | tao Nv. I'm
MN 49, p no niraa.a.n u nv 49, - ~
W. a,ta. . ne oD a't: ,i' IN, h
had rendered necasso,, T n can bana
Of 4hc d.v,ro,,n ,nrl;c;,v M gb;,h he actad