Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-11-07

rays upon her, and when she shrunk from
its too radiant noon, it was within iht
shelter of husbands love, which Coo
and nature, and duty and morality, as
sured her unreluctant faith should BIZ
eternal. Such was she then, all Joy aud
hope, and generous crednlity, the credu
llity that springs from honor and from in
lnccence. And who could blame ii /? You
had world to choose, and she was your
seleciion--your ages we're compatible
your births were equal--you had drawn
her from the house where she was honora.
bile and happy had a prodigal allow.
ance showered on you by the people
Iyou had bowed your anointed head before
1.-THE altar, and sworn by its majesty 10
cherish and protect her, and this you did
in the presence Of that moral nation from
whom you bold the crown, and 10 the face
Of that church of which you are The
guardian. The ties which bound you
were OF no ordinary texture-you stood
mot ID the situation OF some secluded
lprofligate, whose brutal safety might
leave its victim 10 a death of solitude,
where no eye could see, nor echo tell the
lquiverings of her agony. Your elevation
vas loo luminous and too lofty to be over
looked, and she, who confided with yes
tails faith and a virgins purity in your
honor aud your morals, had corrobora-
i've pledge 10 that publicity, which could
not leave her 10 suffer or be sinned against
10 secret. All the calculations of her
reason, all evidence Of her experience,
combined their confirmation. Her own
parental home was purity itself, and yours
might have bound Republicans 10 Royalty;
il would have been little less than treason
to have doubted you; and, oh she was
right TO brush away The painted yermiu
that infest Court, WHO wonid have
wiihered up her youthful heart With the
wild errors Of your ripe minority! Oh!
she was right 10 trust the honour Of
g Fair England's" heir, and weigh but as
"a breath. blown grain Of dust a thousand
follies aud a thousand faults balanced
against the conscience OF her husband.
She did confide, and what has been the
consequence
History must record il, Sire, when the
brightest gem in your diadem shall have
mouldered. that this young. coniding, in.
experienced creature had scarcely heard
the last congsatuIatory address upon her
marriage, when she was exiled from her
husbands bed, banished from her hus
bands society, and abandoned TO the pol
luton OF every sIanderous sycopIant who
chose to crawl over the ruin! Merciful
God! was il meet to leave human being
so situated, with all her passions excited
and inflamed to the impulses oil such aban-
donment? Was it meet thus to subject her
inexperienced youth to the scorpion sting
ing of exasperated pride, aud all its incl
dental natural temptations I? Was it right
TO cling the shadow of husbands frown
upon the then unsullied snow Of her repu-
iation? Up TO the blight OF that aII.with-
ering hour no human tongue dared to as
perse her character. The sun OF patron.
age was not then strong enongh To quicken
into life the serpent brood Of slanderers
no starveling aliens, no hungry tribe OF
local expectants, then hoped to fatten upon
the offals of the Royal reputation. She
was not long enough in widowhood to give
the spy and the periurer even a color for
their inventions. The peculiarities OF the
foreigner-the weakness of the female-
the natural yiyacity If youthful innocence,
could not then be tortured into demon
STATIONS sirong;" for you, yourself, in
your recorded letter, had left her purity
not only unimpeached, but unsupported.
That Invaluable letter, the living docu-
ment Of your separation, gives us the
sole reason for your exile, that your 6 in.
clinations" we're not in your power! That,
Sire, and that alone, was the terrific rea-
son which you gave your consort for this
public and heart-rending degradation.
Perhaps they we're not; but. give me
leave to ask, are not the obligations OF
religion independent of us Has any man
right to square the solemnities oil mar
rage according to his rude caprices ? Am
I your lowly subject, to understand that
may kDeel before the throne of God,
aud promise conjugai fidelity till death,
and selfabsolve myself whatever momea.
it suits my " inclination?" Not so will
that mitred Bench who see her majesty
arraisned before them read to you this
ceremony. They will tell you II is the
most solemn ordinance of man--consecra-
ted by the approving presence Of our
Saviour-acknowiedgedb by the whole civ
iIized community--tbe source Of life's
purest pleasures. aud OF deaths happiesi
consultations rich fountain Of our life
aud being, whose draught not only puriiies
existence, but causes man to live 10 hi:
posterity they viii tell you that i can
not perish by g inclination" but by crime
and that If there is any difference between