Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-03-31

deluded woman!
Ii Miss Cook, afterwards Mrs. Beauchamp, was
the abandoned wretch, which the writer in the
Delaware Gazette would make her, why have not
the friends Of Colonel Sharp, attempted to sub
stantin'e tie fact, ard employed those presses
which exist in their own immediate vicinity, TO
promulgate il to the world, when its substantial
iion IS essential TO the reputation Of the dead
scducer, and the legamens of life which be has
lef behind him! Why employ press to vindicate
his poshumous fame, more than eight hundred
miles d'st ant from the theatre Of his life, and the
scenes of his nf,my Why not at home attempt
TO rciu'e the tales Of is murderer and the stories
of his disgrace' The reason is papable-thcy
could not secure press, sufficiently prohiga'c TO
succu,ab 10 their wshes--there was too muclf
stern n certy in the conductors Of the Kentucky
papers, suffer them 10 listen to their ovortures.
They were convinced OF the depravity Of Sharp
and they were not 10 be made the partners of his
guilt.
TIE fact of the Delaware Gazette, being en-
ployed for this purpose, proves the falsehood of
the assertions of Colonel Sharp's defenders, and
satisfies the mind, that the story Of Miss Cooks
wrongs, and the incidents which led to the assas-
s,not on of her seducer arc not the mere orcat-
urcs Of (elon's f,ncr.
b., there are other facts, that cannot be
con'ro'erted, which go fir 20 prove that Sharp
was the unprncipled wretch that Beauchamps
story has ,1adc hm.
A. u, da, hon nf Ipio Lap tIo
tic and wretched murdc ar plunged the dagger 10
the Lenrt of his victim, les e'rrp should descend
20 the grave witt ont knoH Ig oy whose hand he
fell, he exposed his hitherto disguised person,
and, IN an aud bic voice, told him his name, and
the object of hisvisit. This was heard by the
wife, although she could not afterwards recollect
il; and 'he moment that the brother of Colonel
Sharp apprized of the murder, Le exclaimed
10 the persons present, g That deed was done by
Bcauchamp," and minated it was an act that
he had long anticipated. They were fully saiis-
fed that he was the guilty offender but yet, so
unwilling were they TO have him examined and
tried, on the charge Of mmder--fearng that the
Investigation would expose the nf,my Of the lus-
band and bro' hcr-that they made every effort to
screen hlm from the hand of justice, and to fas-
ten the guilt upon the head of Mr. Patric II.
Darby, Editor of the Frank fort CONNIE tator-a
man Of spotless integrity, but who had had some
political differences with the victim of Beau
champs revenge. And in this they had near
succeeded ; and to accomplish their diabolical
designs, they neglected no articc- they suffered
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fulfment of their wishes and had not Beau
champ, in his last moments, avowed the inno-
cencc of Darby, the injured man would have liv-
ed, ndecd--but lie would have lived to wear The
gnomny of murderer. The conduct of the
Sharps, throughout the transaction, has been
such as the world must abhor-such only
tend TO discrcdit their testinony-and such as
renders them olious in the eyes Of every man of
principle and honor.
Beauchamp and Sharp are both in the grave,
and there lie, them rest; but if the friends of the
latter will persist in their attempts to render the
crimes of the former still more odous, they will
only pursue an object, winch, in the end, must
necessarily blast the Little that is left Of his pos
thumous fame, and excite tie syinpi f,es Of the
world in behalf of his assassin. We are not the
advocates of Beauchamp, nor would we be the
slanderers of Sharp; and if we contemplate with
horror and disgust tie crimes of the murderer,
what must be our feelings when contemplate
the deeds of him who was more than thice mur-
derer--a man who betrayed guiltless girl, blast
cd her fane, and then basely attempted TO entail
L.. 4; I,
with the spirit of "a demon, stroYe to cut her Off
from the sympathes of the world, and leave her
an outcast, to contend against the malice of her
enemies
POoR PARsoN IN A DIFFIcULT.'-A
reverend gentleman, who, out OF courtesy TO the
" reverend rohes,' was elected TO say prayers,
! for the honorable members of the New-York
le sla ors-sintI aouls--baS Of lao az petcr a.