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

bre..ers, the unfortunate Charles, arranging
her elopenlent "l'or the present remain
where YOU are, but pack up all your clothes
that YOU hive 10 present occasion fof--you
can certainly procure chest Of some kind
If your woman is faithful she can manage the
business-let her take the chest 10 Castelar,,
and let her send it 10 me but let her take
care that the carrier has no suspicion from
whence il comes-stir not one step without
my ordes-obey me implicitly, unless You tell
me that you care not for me one pin-in that
case manage your own affairs in future, and
see what becomes ofyou % Thus gentlemen,
lid this 1anus-fronted traitor, abusing Mrs kir-
wan BY fabricated crimes-detaming Mrs
Fitzgerald by previous comPact-confding in
all-on the general credulity and the general
deception found the Accomplishment OF his
odous purposes There was but one feature
wanted to make his profligacy peculiar as 1t
was Infamous. Ii had the grand master
touches of the demon, the outlines OF gigantic
towering deformity, perfidy, adultery, ingrati-
tude, and irreligion, flung in the frightful
energy of their combination: but it wanted
something to make it dcspicable as well as
drcadful some petty, narrow, grovclmg mean
less that would dwarf down the terrific mag
nitude of its crime, and make men scorn while
they shudder; and it wants not this. Only
think of him when he was thus trepaning, be-
traying, and destroying, actually endeavouring
to wheedlc the family into a settlement of an
annuity on his intended prostitute. You shall
have it from witness-you shall have it from
his own letter, where he saws to Mrs. Fitz-
gerald, "where is your annuity | dare say
you will answer me you are perfectly indif-
ferent, but believe me am not" Oh, no, no,
no--the seduction of 1nother-the calamity
of husband-the 'desolation OF household
the utter contempt of morals and religion-
the cold-blooded assassination Of character and
ofhappiness, were as nothing compared to the
expenditure of a shiling-he- paused not to
consderthe ruin he was inhicting, but the cx-
pcnse he was ncurrlng--a prodisal in crime !;
miscr in reInuneration--he brought together.
the RIGHTEOUSNESS of youth and the ayaIice of
age, calculating on the inheritance of her
plundered infants 10 defrav the harlotry of
their prostituted mother Did YOU ever hear
of turpihlde like thisl Did YOU ever hear Of
such brokerage in in9uity If there IS a single
circumstance to rest upon for consolation, per-
haps however, it IS in the exposure Of his par
simony. lie has shewn where he can be made
TO feel, and in the very commission Of his crime.
providcntally betrayed the only accessible
avenue to his punishment. Gentlemen of the
Jury, perhaps some of you are wondering why
I have so studiously abs aimed from the contem-
plation CT my client. 1t is because cannot
think Of him without the most unaffected an
guish. II is because, possible IS it is for me
to describe his suferings, it is not possible for
you adequately to conceive them. You have
home and wife and children dear TO YOU, and
cannot fancy the misery of their privaton. |
might as wellask The young mountain peasant,
breathing the wild air Of health and liberty, to
feel the iron os the inquisition's captiye-I
might as well journey to the convent CRATE,
and ask religions virgin devotee to paint that
mothers agony Of heart who finds her first
born dead in her embrace Their saddest Vi
sions would be, sorrows mockery--to be com
pretended, misery must be felt and he who
feels it most canleast describe it. What is the
world with its vile pomps and vanities now to
my poor client? He sees no world except the
idol he has lost-wherever he goes, her image
follows hinl-she fills that gaze else bent on
vacancy-the slightest neon" of fortune now
would only deepen the shadow that pursucs
him--eyen "Nature's sweet restorer. balmv
Sleep" gives him no restoration-she COMES
upon his dream as when he saw her first in
beauty 'sgrace aid virtue 5 lovclincss-as when
she heard him breathe his timid passion, and
blusHed the answer that bcst him with lis re-
turn--he secs her kneel-he hears her VOW
registers what it scarce could chasten. and
there, where paradise reveals itself before
him, the visionary word vanishes, and wakes
him to the he'll of his reality. Who can tell
the misery OF this Who can fancy his SQUIRT
wing endurance while his foul tormentor e,.a-
dually goaded him from love into suspicion,
and from suspicion into madness Alas
i" That damned minutes telis he Ger,
Nh0 beats yet doudfs-suspects get strongly
ioees."
Fancy, if you can, the accursed process by
which his affection was shsken--his fears
arou,ed; his Jealousy excited, until ct last
roistaking accident for design, and shadows
for confirmation, he sunk under the pressure
OF the human vampire that crawled from his
fathers grave to clasp him into ruin Just
imagine the catalogue of petty frauds by which
in his own phrase he made himself " impene-
trable"-how he ingented-how he exaggera-
ted---he pledged his dupe to secrecy. while
he b'ackened the character of Major Brown,
with whom he daily associated on terms of in
timacy-how he libelled the wife to the hus-
band, and the husband to the wife-how he
wound himself round the very heart of his vic.
tim, with every embrace coiling deatllier
torture, till at last he drove him for refure in
the woods, and almost to suicide, for remedy.
Now gentlemen, let us concede for moment
the ycracity of his inventions. Suppose this
woman to be even worse than he represented
why should he reveal it to the unconscious
husband All was happiness before his inter
ference--all would be happiness still but fol
his murderous amity-why should he awake
him from his dream of happiness-why shoule
he swindle himself into reluctant confidence
for the atrocious purpose of creating discord
What family would be safe if every little ex
ploded cahimny was to be revived, and ever,
forgotten embcr to be famed into conflagra
toni Is such a character to be tolerated il