Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-10

uncle, merchant, win WHOM hS s"'s ~,
partnership and who at the end OF lew years a'es
and leaves him iucalculabe wealth. ne returns
home, where be remains "a prey 70 acPe,ess ,o.e
and hopeless hatred. cursing the nenu' !ne s.a,''
and every thing, and every body IN the "oN
"puweriul Manner until be encounters his mis-
tress in wood, follows and rescues her IRON sui
eide by drowning, and while laying insens'oie 10
his arms he makes the following 6endiike speech;
"And now," cried, raising her arm, anu
then allowing it to drop heavily on the ear'n.
IS the ruled has become the ruler; the slave Is
converted into the despot. l., the tremoler' nave
now but to command, and 10, am obeyea' l
have but to say, Do this, and 1t doeth Il; anu
again I raised the arm, and waved 1t IN the arr
in awful mockcry Of the action OF NE
The next morning a letter is brought him, writ
ten by his mistress the day previous to that IN
which she had attempted suicide. acknowledging
that Notwithstanding he was the murderer OF her
brother. she still "adored him." He thus de-
scribes his feelings on reading this letter..
with the exultation Of fend. | STROBE up
and down the chamber, the eventfuI letter N my
hand She was mine, then,-MINE! oouho 70
me by the ties Of ndivisible affection. Tree
career was open to me, and might gut eitner
nv love or my hate She adored me-had inde,
| li6ly recorded her adoration-and then grasPed
that proof of it which admitted OF neither change
nor sppeai Was she not beneath my ROOT, un-
protected, friendess, utterly, irre'ocao'y within
nv powell Might l not. then. avail myself Of
her weakness 10 effect her eternal disgrace ana
thus at once CRAFTY the two dearest passions OF
my heart"
He finally decides that the most effectual mode
of reyengine himself on this poor lady-for hea-
yens knows what-wiIl be to marry her. Ae'
cordingly lie decides on this mode OF vengeance.
The wedding is unique and original; to wit:
| uCoid blooded, selfish woman, as obstinate as
irresolute in duty! And yet you say YOU love
me. You love MEl DO you remember my claims
TO your affectionl Forget you 50 soon the misty
morn, when blood stained, dishevelled. breath
| ing hatred and vengeance, you STOOD ike taii-
en- spirit before me, invoked curses on my head,
and denounced ME-, your adored now. as the as.
sassin of your brother? Faithless, tickle sister.
remember you not that in boyhuod, like coward
and fienj, stabbed him in the BACK; and that,
in manhood, mine was the bullet that sent him to
heaven or 20 helI?-Ha! ha! ha! even now can
sec his convulsive leap!-"I 1t was his last"
The poor girl swoons under the infections OF
this beastly barbarian, aud then comes the senti'
ment, the ''powerful writng"-
81 threw myself on the body stamped
foamed-I eursed-l blasphemed"
The lady, however, is determined TO marry
this sentimental. amiable person, and according
~ the day is fixed; the wedding dresses prepar
ed, and the preparations made. The bride Is d.
rected to wear black Grape; the bridegroom ap
pears in full suit of sable; the procession to the
church is formed BY mourning coaches with black
nodding plumes; the walls, the floors, the Pew'
and cell ings Of the church are hung with Grape;
the windows all have Grape hansings, and on Ell
! 4 Al Ia hnnr
of the bride, the other Of the groom. Find
ing the former did not sink under this accu.
mutation of dastardly insult and malignitv, the
groom thus addresses her but we will not shock
our readers with the recital. 1t is too disgust
ing. Suffice it to say, the marriage takes place,
and the LADY, dies the next day under an accumu-
lation of cruel devices, and malignant ingenuity,
which almost induce Us to pity her, though 10
truth she deserves it not.
Such is the brief outline, and such the style
of work which is praised by the London Lite
rary Gazette as "s,rik'ngly original foroible,
and interesting, by the London Metropolitan
Magazine, as &" the imprisoned work OF man
of TALENT; BY the London Spectator, as :" work
which takes a convusive grasp upon the atten-
tion': and by half dozen other TRANSATLANTIC
oracles as "writ,en with great powers; as being
worthy of Goethe; as one to be "ha,led with
cordial welcome" aud "to be read with feelings
of sincere qualification" Such testimonials,
from such unquestionable authorities, will no
doubt outweigh, as they outnumber, our own So
litary, Insignificant opinions; but we consider it
our duty to bear testimony against such false, ex-
aggerated deineatiuns of PASSION such bare-faced,
disgusting wickedness as is here displayed, ra'
Their to CLAIM the pity than TO call forth the re.
probation Of the reader. Such works as this are
calculated to mislead our sympathies, from sui
ferlng virtue, to triumphant guilt; to deaden the
imagination to all perceptions of real nature aud
beauty, and to render US insensible to any other
excitements than those which arise from tho
contemplation Of wilful wickedness and deserved
misery. OF the work before US, we may justly
say" MiserImus-O most mserable-most mi.
serabIe:"