The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-12-18
SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER is, 1858

wish to have the gtnuintncSS of the papers
established by some vouchers residing in
Buffalo. ~. ,Jr.
On BOARD SHIP AT SEA. J
Lat. 40 deg. South. long. co deg. East,
August %, 1858.
Mr.. - Sr. Sir being very anxious
that the enclosed letter should reach your son
-, and having no means of ascertaining
where he now is, take the liberty of sending
1t to you, with an earnest request that YOU
Will take every care to see it reaches him.
should you know where he now resides, if IN
decd he lie living.
or any member of Mrs family into
whose hands this package may fall, is
requested to see that the enclosed letter is
safely delivered to the one addressed, or scat
TO him BY the mail, it EisrcSidence is known
ii. CASE.
p. 81 give this package into the hand
OF fellow passcnger-a sailor-to take to
the lirSt European port he may touch at
where he has agreed to mail il and prepay the
postage. | have given him fifty cents TO do
SO, but fear he may not, after all, and should
it reach You unpaid, ] should regret it, and
beg you will understand that have done all
| can:
On BOARD SHIP AT SEA,
Lat. Al deg. South, long. G3 deg. Fast
August 20, 1858
SIR DO not, ! cntreat YOU allow the
just indignation which know the sight of
my handwriting Will cause you. to prevent
| you from reading this communication. 1t
| cannot hc more painful for YOU to receive than
Tor me to write. and nothing but ii sense Of
justice to you, and a solemn promise made
| to the dead, could induce me to harrass YOU
and to agOniZc myself. | will enter into 10
unnecessary details, nor weary or disgust you
With any protestations Of repentance or
remorse.
fl have sinned God in heaven only knows
how have suffered, and if in your cruel
bereavement yon have cursed me, that curse
is fcarfully fulfilled, And now. sadly. to
the unhappy task of telling You what have
so solcnnly engaged to do, and to fulfil the
last duty to those have so mi,lcd.
Your former wife died in Ceylon. in June,
| 1856, of disease Of the climate, which was
aggravated by previous one from which she
suffered while i'll Maulillus. In that Island
both her and myself were very i'll of the fever.
My own recovery was thought hopeless, and
indeed, it was reported that | was dead. -
This, of course, coming to her know edge.
had severe and injurious ,iItct upon her
| But as these particulars are of less consc-
quencc will say no more on this point
| In course Of time we both recovered and on
gaining sufficient strength again took passage
on a trading vessel TO Ccylon, in search OF a
better climate. We went to tho mountainous
regions of that tropical island, near the city
Of Handy where the air is cool, and to most
people healthier than other parts of India -
There we lived many months in Comparative
uuiet, but fever again overlook her who was
the mother Of your child, and though she
| ingued long and suffered much no human
means could restore her. lie. moral scnsibi.
ties became more acute as she failed in
strength, and with the loss Of hope RECOVERY
! She became anxlously distressed to secure the
restoration Of her dear little Child 10 its
bcrc,r,d father.
| She was inc,sSant in eXacting promises
from me that if lived, f. should be taken or
sent back safely to you. Flom these de.
mandS | had no wish to escape. NV only
anxiety was to do anything in nv power to
afford a small consolation, in the strongest as.
suranccs | could make, that her wishes should
be carried out although, after the mother
was gone from me forever, the poor child be,
came dearpr TO me. She was all | had left
Yet, as had promised her poor mother, and
as that mother had sacrificed the world and
everything on ca, tn for my sake, had not
the slightest thought or wish to neglect the
discharge of the responsible, and, to me, fear
| lul duty. During all her last illness She re-
GREETED having brought the child away but
having then much hope of the happiness we
might enjoy, and anxious to be less alone in
| the world, she could never think of leaving
Il. behind, claiming as her mother she had a
stronger pei sonal right to daughter than It's
father whom she was about to leave forever.
After this sad and dreadful time constap w
and anXiously sought an opportunity to send
her to you, or her grandfather S family, whtrc
you would eventually obtain her. My object
was to find some good trusty woman. or a lam
lily going to America; but such q chance never
offered, in single instance.
Before 60 further, or into still more pain
in' results. beg YOU will allow me TO say that
| have spoken Of the anxiety Of e., and her
constant Efforts to renew my promise to her,
ana which were repeated only two days be
fore her death, i'll tie hope that you will cx-
crcise more charity towards her memory
Let me trust that you will do So and think
and feel less severely towards her. She paid
bitter penalty for all the outrage which
was committed upon you, with how much re-
gre: need not say, but wishing to acknowl-
edge to me that you had always treated her
kindly and carefully, and that on her and
myself alone rested the responsible Of that
now fatal separation.
You will have perceived ere this that have
yet more to communicates and ola still saddcr
character, TO you. have written pu,poscly
in the "past tense, as 1t were, in order that
you may be less suddenly drawn to the anti
clpatlon of my unhappy narrative, as cannot
write but once for obvious reasons. And now
comes the most painful part of my duty.
hardly dare tell you how crucly severe
the poor child took the death of her mother
She never forgot il. Although her own health
was always delicate, and she suffered much,
yet from this lime she seemed TO become
more sensitive. and grew weaker as she grew
older and Her. But were it not for the oc.
culrence of what is to follow, should not
have attempted to write you until E. was
within your reach, and on the point of being
restored to you-rCrhaps not even then.
AS before stated falling to find any suit.
able opportunity that could trust to take her
safe to you, at last started with her myself,
determined to risk going TO England for the
purpose. there TO seek some married pair Of
e.nigrants to whom could tr,lst her or en-
poy suitable person to so with her. Size
had been very i'll before starting, hut
thought her sufficiently recovered, and her
physician thought she would risk nothing in
going to sea but unfortunately all my Lopes
in this last effort was doomed to The same