Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-04-08

ture to keep her appointment with the men
and to tell them that they should be admitted to
her MISTRESS chamber before she retired that
night The femme de chan,Jre met the vii.
lans once more, and communicated with them
as she had been instructed. The men de-
sired that they might be safely concealed be-
fore Lady Bnlwcr could enter the apartment
A late hour that night was agreed upon, and
the parties separated with mutual satisfaction.
At the hour proposed the men presented
themselves. They we're soon comfortably con-
cealed between the curtain bed and the wall
The femme dc chambre, when every thing
partment. A moment aflerward Lady Bulwer
herself entered the room attended by her law
yer. She Immediately walked up to the bed,
and, drawing away the curtains, disclosed the
terrified ruifians trembingly crouching in the
furlhcst corner. They were arrested and sent
to prison. Lady Bulwcr instantly commenced
suit against them.
| saw her the day after the above occurrence
heard all the particulars from her own lips
and behed the chamber in which the un-
expected disclosure took place.
On the day OF hcr trial, the sensation through
out Paris was so great that the court was
crowded TO overflowing with the English and
French nobility. Two hours before the pro-.
ceedngs commenced we found it impossible to
obtain seats. | therefore waited, with tremu-
lous anxiety, to hear the result. The trial had
hardly commenced, when Sir Edward Lytton
Bulwer himself appeared in court. His en-
trance Of course increased the excitement.
The counsellor for the prisoners, who was no
other than the distinguished Nj. Thers himself
then rose and requested to be heard. He in
formed the court that by the laws both of Eng
land and France, married woman, undirorced
had no right Of her own TO institute legal pro-
ceedinCs without the consent Of her husband.
| He then begged that these proceedings might
be stopped. as Sir Edwa,d Lytton Bulwer
nom presented himself 10 withhold his permis-
| sion
There was no resoursc. Such was indeed
the law The proceedings were stopped and
the court broke up Lady Bulwer sorrowtul.
| " returned to her home feeling more than e.
yer, that there was "no lao 10 shield ,romnn "
Her domicle had been violated at nght-her
person endangered papers laid open-and
she could not come forward in court OF jus.
tce to say, al demand redress IcaH upon
the country, uhose lgicS sLouH protect me, for
justice ~ Her husband, omnipotcnt in his vii
lany, had robbed her, by a tecbnicality of the
law, Of that common justice, which the mean
est peasant could ask and obtain.
Splendid as may be the genius, and number
less the requirements OF this equally notorious
and celebrated man, should his work; 90 dowI
10 prosterity, will not the stain of his domestic
cruelty 90 down with them, and cast perpet
usl shadow over their glory
| must not close this imperfect sketch of tn,
talents and personal charms of one, who pos
sesscd too many of both for justice to be don,
them in so short a space, without mentiOnIn.
perhaps her principal fascination. Her voic
but how shall | describe what must be .fel
before it can be conceivedl 1t was rich, thrill
ling musca., and yet low; wanting in force
lis power existed in It's expression. Its yer
tone conveyed the sentiment, when the word
were indistingushable. 1t was one Of thos
voices which haunt us in dreams, which long
after they are silent, echo in our ears, and whic
touch our hearts whenever they are heard