Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-07-06

ed n perrnapeuce. The human mind perhaps
cannot iniagiue lot OF purer or more pei feet
happiness. IL WAS scene on which ambition in
! its iaureied hour might look with envy COM
| pared with which the vulgar glories of the
/ world are Nanity--a spot of such serene aud
haiioweu sohlnde, that the heart must have
/ been stormy and the spirit turbiJ, which its
chdrsscd silence did not soOthe into content
| inent. Yet, even there, heirs emissary enter
Itu-Het even hence the present god was bsR-
iShed-its streams were poisoned, and its paths
/ laid ursolate-and its blossoms blooming with
celestial lie, were witbered into garlancis, for
The tempter! hew shalt describe the hero of
| tins triumph Is theie Il language that has
~OidS OF hre to parch whate'er they light on
Is therea phrase - poteuiiy calamiious that it's
I kiudness freezes aud its blessings cursel But
no--it You must see him, 20 to my poor client
! ur"n whose breaking heart he croucles like a
| demon: 20 10 ms dead fathers sepnlcre-the
troubled spun OF that earl, friend will shrek
Us naiedictory description 20 to the orphan
ihianis cradle, without mothers TO Z 10 rock,
or sttes arm To siieid-Its wordlesS cries
| viii pierce you with his character-or. hear
from 49, the poor and impOtent narration OF his
pTaciiCes--hear how friend he murdered
! rontidence--how as u guest he violated hospi-
tally how as al soldier lie embraced % nlIuion;
how 49, nau he rushed to the perpeiraiiou,
not mei.iN vi a lawless, but an unnatural en-
| loyment, over every human bliss, and holy sd
cra'nent, and then say whether II is in mortal
! tongue To epitomizc those practices into "a cha-
racteri>tic epithot! He is, You h; ow, gentle
men, an officer of dragons, ami about twenty
/ Years aeo was in that capacity uuartered in
| country. His own manners, imposing be-
You'd description, aud the iabituai hospitality
of Ireland to the military, rendered his society
| uni, sisaiiy solicited. He was in every house
/ and welcomed ever, where--nor was there a.
ny board more bonnItulIy spread for him, or
any courtesy more warmly extended, than that
winch lie received from the family at Oak
| lands. Old MIR. Fitzgerald was then master of
'ishereditar, mansion, his eldest son Just yer.
.'ng upon manhood, and my client hui school
boy. The acquaintance gradually grew into
Intimacy, the Intimacy ripened iutO friendship
| AID tile day that saw the regiment depart was
| 10 his generous host day of grief and tribula-
| ton. Year alter year OF separation followed
Captain herr escaped the vicissitndes of eli
mate and tate OF wariare--and when after
| tedious interval the chances of service sen,
| him back TO Mayo, he found that time had moi
| been indOlent. His ancient friend was i'm
| better world, his old acquaintance in his faith
| ers place, and the schoolhoy Charles an lus
band and a parent in the little cottage of which
| you have heard already. a family atfliction had
estranged Colonel Fitzgerald from his paier-
| nal resdence--it was Ivy mere chance while
| attending the assizcs dnty, lie recognised i'm
one OF the officers or The garrison the friend
| with whom his infancy mad been famiIiar.-
| You may easily guess the qualification he
| eAprrieBced--a qualification mingled with
ne other regret than that II was Soon 10 va
nisl. Tie was about TO dssjpate by foreign
travel the melancholy which proved OF him
and could not receive his friend with personal
hospitality. Surprized and delighted howey.
Il n
courtesy TO my client, requesting from nm and
lis brother-in law, MIR. kirw zn, every attention
in their power to bestow. And now -entle-
meA, before L int oduce him TO the scene of
his crimInaiity, You shal have even the faint
unfinished sketch which has been given me of
hs character. Capt. Kerr OF the ioyalsis We
~ near sixty; lie Is "A native of Scotland. lie
has been all his life military officer in
other words, TO the advantage of experience
and the polish OF travel lie adds what Lord
Bacon caiis thai" lett handed wisdom" with
which the tsritty genius of the Tweed has
been said TO fortifN her children. Never, lam
told die there emgraie even from Scotland a
man of more ability, or of more cunning--one
whose address was more capable OF inspiring
confidence, or whose arts were better caIcula.
ted to iull suspicion Years have given him
the caution OF age, without eXtnguishing tue
sensIriIiiies of youth nature made him roman
tic, nativity made him frugal, aud half A ceri-
fury has now matured him into perfect mod.
sl of thrifty sentiment and ahOrOus senility I
shall not depict the darker shades will, which
TO me this pOrtraituTe has been deformed if
they are true, may God forgive him hi. own
heart can alone supply the pencil with a tint
black emrugh 10 40 them justice. His first
visit to OaklaudS was in COMPANY with a Maior
Blown, and he at once assumed the air of one
rather renewing than commencing an acquain
tance themes of other days were started--ilie
happy scenes in which parents image ming
led were all spread ont before fai eve and
when, teo soOn, tier visitor departed lie left
not behind him the memory of d stranger. He
was as one hose death has been uutrnly ru-
moured-a long lost aud recovered intimate
dear tor his own deserts, and dearer for the
memory with Which lie was associated
Gentlemen, have The strongest reason for
believing that even at this instant the smbryo
of his baseiIess was eugender ing-that even
then, when his buried friend stood as il were
entOmbed before him IN the person of his oE-
spring, the poison seed was sown within the
shade of whose calamitous maturity nothing of
humanity could prosper. cannot toll through
the rOman,ic cant with which the hypoGrIe
beGnlled this ciednlOus X unconscious family,
hut the concluding sentence OF his visit is too
remarkable to be omitted. " Ii is" said he
awaking out OF a reverie OF admration lit is
all a paradise there (ponIting TO nv client !
there Is \ dam--She (hIs future victm,) she Is
Eve-and that (turnlng 10 MAJOR Brown that
is The devil - Perhaps he might have bcennotc
ielicitous in the last eXenipiltication. This of
course seemed hut jest, aud raised The laugh
ilft was intended. But u was poison in
Jest" it was an" Iago prelude" of which infe-
roT crime could not fancy the conclusion
Remember 1t. and you will timd that, jocniar az
il was. IL had its neaniug-tiat il was not as
IL purportcd, the popularity OF innocence Inn
OF TINT murderOns I'D savage nature that
prompts the lndIah TO iIS OuiOuS gamIjul ruuu,I
lie captive lie has destined 30 the sacrifice
! lac intimacy thus commenced. was, on iht.
part OF tie defendant, strictly cultivated Hisyi
sits were irequelIt-hlSat northumberland
his apparent interest bey0 doubt, beyond
description. You may have beard my lord
that there is class Ofpersons who often create
Their consequence ~ family nv COntrIviun 10
become IsasteT OF its secrets. An adept in this
arI, beyond ali rivalry, was capt. Kerr not
only didhe discover all that had reality bnt lie
fabricated whatever advanced his purposes, n
the confidence he acquired was beyond all
suspicious from the sincerity he assumed and
the recollection hc excited. WIN could
doubt the man who writhed in agony At every
wO, and gave with his tears a crocodile aItes-
taiion To tie VerdCity OF his Invention From
the ycry outset of this most natural though ILL
Omened Introduction, hIs only Object was dis
cord aud diSunIOn, aId in the accomplishment
bo vxaa huI tno supCpssim How could L. -