The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1820-11-15

she shed her silent tcar--upOfl whose
head she poured ber daily behediction-
IN whose infant smile She lived, and mo-
we'd, and had her being, was torn away,
and in the mothers sweet tndearments
she could no longer lose the miseries OF
the wife. Her father, and her laurcIled
brother too, upon the field of battle, seal
ed a life Of glory, happy in a soldiers
death, for happier that this dreadful day
WAS spared them! Her sole surviving
parent followed soon, ard though they
lett her almost alone ON earth, yet how
could she regret them? she has at least
the bitter consolation, that their poor
.child's miserics did not break their hearts.
Oh, miserable woman made to rejoice
over the very grave Of her kindred, in
mournful gratitude that their hearts are
marble.
During long probation Of exile and
of woe, I,ercit OF parents, country. child
and husband, she mad one solace siii--
her character was unblcmished. BY
refinement upon cruelty, even that conso-
lation was denied her. Twice had she
to undergo the inquisition of a secret TIL
al, originating in foul conspiracy, and end
ing in complete acquitla. The charity
of her nature was made the source of
crime-Ihe pecuiarities inseparablc
from her birth were made the ground or
accusation-her very servants were qnes-
toned whether every thought, and word,
and look, and gesture, and y;si. were not
all so many ocst acsS of adultery; and
when her most sacred moments hadb
heartlessly explored, the tardy verdict
which freed her from the guilt, could not
absolve her from the humiliating con.
sciousncss Of the accusation. Your gra-
cious father, indeed with a bsneyolencc OF
heart more !.'yal than his Royalty, inter
posed his arm between innocence and
punishment; for punishment twas, most
deep and grievou,, to meet discounte.
nance from all your family, and see the
fame which had deGed all preof, made the
capricious sport u hint and insinnstion,
while that father lived, she still hid some
protection; even in his night OF lie there
was sanctity about him which awed the
daring ofihe highway slandercr-his hon.
est, open, genuine English look, would
have silcnced whole bandl,i Of ilali4Is.
Your father acted upon the principals ne
proiessed--hc was not more reverenced
as King than he wa. beloved and re-
spccted as man; aGd no doubt 1 he felt
how poignant 1t must have been 10 be de-
nounccd as criminal, without crime.
and treated az a widow III her husbands
lifetime, Bu, death was busy with her
best protectors, and The venerable form i.
liieicss now, which would have shielded
a daushtef and Brunswick. He would
have warned the Milan panders to beware
the honor ofthis ancient House lie wsild
have told them, that prying. pttiios.
ging, purchased inquisi,ion upon the un.
conscious privacy Of a royal female. was
not in the spirit of the English character; !;
he would have dlsdained the petty larcesy
of any diplomatic pick-pcekct: and he
would have told the rabbic OF Italian in-
formers and swindling ambassadors, th,t
his daughters existence should not be
come perpetual prescription that she
was doubly allied to him by dirth and
marriage; and that those who cxacted all
wi!e's obedience, should have previous
Iy procured for her husbands counte-
nance. God reward him There is not
father or an husband in the land, whose
heart does not at this nomsrf make a
pilgrimage to his monument.
Thus having escaped from two con-
spiracies equally affecting her honor and
life, finding all Cancellation hopeless, be-
rcit by death Of every natural protector,
and fearing perhaps that practice n,ghf
make perjury consistent, she reluctantly
s,eternained upo, ltsa viotr ENGLAND One