The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1830-04-22

oner selected for examination vas female
named ELLEN HARVEY, the nero wreck
and skeleton Of the young ana once vrtu'
GUS daughter of an honest, but poor man,
whose grey hairs, snow 20 the dust gone
down" were bnrried to premature grave
Nv the misconduct of his recroant child.
She was only nineteen years Of age; yet,
from her own lips fell narrative of guilt
md suffering seldom realized by the most
abandoned or unfortunate. When only
fourteen years of age she had become the
victim Of rich mans articles, in this city,
who tore her from her fathers vlrtuous roof
and heaped indgnty and insult upon him
whenever he demanded his daughter, until
shame and horror at the disgrace of his
child drove him mad, and nc closed his
lite in the hospital. Ellen with her para
mour sailed for England, where, being
charmed by the new scenes untolded to
him and facnatcd By the manners Of the
female circle into which his wealth had IN
troduccd him, he abapdoned her suddenly,
without larlhng in her purse, to the hor-
rors Of utter destltution in the city OF Lon.
don Here she was soon compelled to part
with the rich clothing which her seduccl
had lavished upon her,to support life itself
and when that was gone, no resource re,
NAMED but to plunge into the vices by
which so many wretchcd beings support o
lingering existence in that emporium o
OF the wickcdness and misery of the whole
world In this way she existed more char
two years, suffering every thing bnt death
and committing every crime but murder
TO enable her to drag on her wretched life
until an opportunity offered her of return
ing to her native city, Philadelphia. Sh'
had not been here month, before tha
cheap vice, drunkenness, overlook her, an
she became thief, beggar, and prostl
tute oflhe most abandoned order. Will
out on one of her nocturnal expeditions
sumber came upon her, and the watchma
coming up, found her sleeping on dung
hill in tho rear of q stable
She spoke with feeling and prophet,
and shed tears freely, declaring 1t was Tn
FIST time in four years that she could pre-
vail on RESPECTABLE individual TO listen
her! She earnestly desired TO be take
somewhere -anywhere-rathe than suf
fer her TO follow those desperate course
she had been accustomed TO. The Mag
dalen Asylum was snggested--thc Relug'
on which she exclaimed, 80, take me to
let me work all doy-- let me do nnythn
TO live honestly i am dying with remorse.
IIor figure, light, delicate and graceful
in spite Of the accumulated miscries sh
had undergone, attracted general attentio
though clad in thin and ragged garment
aud the pale white hue Of her emacinte
cheek, was even yet flushed with the dyin
tingc Of that luxurant bloom which ha
once go profusely man,od over it. lie
mild blue eye was fixed upon the floor, tn
spark Of vlrtuous SHINE that had been bor
with her. still burning in her breast,and th
sobbing Other agonlzed bot repentant splj
it, drew many hearts to sympathlsc in he
peculiarly unhappy condition. After muc
consul,iou, she was finally provided for b
one Of tho humane societies Of this CIT,
with n 1attcrng prospect Of producing a
entire and permanent reformation.
Phil. Sat- Bulletin.