h EMI Ina =i tto TOW*NDAst BM Dkbntotte 444.nillibbNencinber 28.18. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE : IHE UMW OF A BARRISTER. In the second year of my connexion with the N or thern Circuit, when, even junior briefs were merit less ammo= than acceptable,lwas ngree- t bly surprised as I sal _musing on the . evening of thy arrival in the ancient city of York, upon the c apncietut mode in which-those powerful persona- r cef , the attorneyte, distribtited their valuable bvors, ;. f the entrance of one of the most eminent of the - i re practising in that part of the country, and the q ; pith wittie s t' . of a bulky brief in the Crown court on which, as my glance instinctively fellon interesting figures, I perceived that the large ve , is criminal cases, of filly guineas was marked The local newspapers, from which 1 had occasion= ally seen extracts, had been for some time busy w ;ti the ca.e : and I knelt,' it therefore to be, rela. ..teiy to the condition in life of the princij al per ,on implicated. an importa3t one. Ru.nor had 0 ..- ..:sted the conduct of the defence to an eminent eider of the circuit—since one of our ablest judg- es. and on looking - more closely at the brief, I per ire i that that gentleman's name bad been cross oat. and mine h.ubstituted. The fee also—a agiecable alteration—had been, I sac, a-ttles'ably reduced: in acconlark'e. dontule F s, !•, Ito , attorney's appreciation of the difference t.i,ue between a silk and stuff gown. .11.qi are not sir. 1 helies'e, retained for the pros the crown against Everett r• s4id Mr. :1 f. husiness manner. o% Mr !..3rpe." :r7 r.t.e. I beg to ieinzer yon the leading - ,l.o.,le:ence. It was intended, as you per- V.ice it in the hands of our oreat pri hut he be so completely- occupied 13r. that he has been compelled to declMe ti n.,•:,; toned tou : and from what I have r•otra at you in several cases. I have no nn uniorninate client will have ample jus t, o;:t- ;nnt Mr. Kings;on will be with you!' • i ! Mr Sharpe tar hi= compliment, and ;t• brief As the commission would be • ~1 ing morning. I at once applied ~e 0 , .• • a perusal of the bulky paper, aided as Pn he the A et'oa.l exptanationa and commentaries Mr. Sharpe. Our _conference lasted several and it was arranged that another should be "e“.l early the next morning at Mr Sharpe's office, whica Mr Kingston would assist. r. iemely sensitne, as, under the circiamsfan es. I must necessarily have been, to the arduous ro-e of the vase duties so unexpectedly devolved - cnn me. the iollowing, ttzume of the chief inci gf :he clDe :as confided to me by Mr. Sharpe, v4l, I think. frilly account to the reader for the -^rvott: trritabt:lty under which I for the moment .itored Mr Frsdenvir Everett, the prisoner about to be 'i-aifned before a jury of his countrymen for the crime of murder, haJ. with his father, I, A-Amoy Everett, resided for several yearn e a: Woodlands :NtanorLilouse, the seal of Mrs. Ferhugh, a rich elderly maiden lady, aunt :1-4 and sister by marriage to the last taam .:- lf-ran. A 4,eneteti.. pteus, high-minded "Mr. Fitzhilah was represented to hate been fil , en•ely tiensiiive 'that on the score of The 'Fitzlinghs of Yorkshire, she was •-• it) " came in await the Coriquerer, - any branch of the glorious tree, then firmly : ti the god of En7lanti, that degraded Itself an alllawe ‘r,-a7lh, beauty, 9r worth, `‘eilma utlhout 11,e pale of her narrow priejmit c, wa*ittexotably cut oti from her atlections, and ss far as she was 1!4. hoin her memory nie—the prim of tS.,r :.enders—had been Fitzhi:l;it_ her yr:Lin t z. tair, gentle, and only •,stel'. fa I.::er distiaiii and sligh• of the elipity ance<hy. she had chosen to unite herself to a ::- - ;orna:i of :he name of 51ot-daunt, who, though ,N , e,q.! of great talents, an nnspotteil.name, and, rs aze. high rank in the civil service of the ".as Initial, Company, had—inexpiable misfortune —a %-ader for his grandfather! This crime against !t 3lrs. Eleanor Fitzhugh resolved nev e . and she steadily rearmed; unopened. ttecceot :eters addressed to her by her sister, Oil pined to her distant Indian home for a renew-, of the oli sisterly love. which had watched over glaiiitecel her Ide from infancy to woman xod. A Ion& silence— a silence of many years— xi-reeled broker:. at last, by the sad announce -tent, that the ctitoT,is-en one had long since found ear') rav e in a foreign land. The ;ester which brought the intel li gence bare e Lonean ?est-mark, and was written by Captain to iom, it was stated. Mrs. Eleanor F*- 7 -Lt.'„;it's sister, early widowed, bad been united tee Nut nupitais. and by whom she had borne a Ftet'enek Everett, now nearly twenty years V 4 The keg-pent -tip affection of hire. Fits= f.x her once idolised sister bond forth at tins ,vir.conceinerit of her death, with uncontrollable ":•etes- and. as some atonement for her past sin css,llracy she immediately invited the husband to t ot her long-lost Mary to Woodlands ;llta.H le' be .heueefortb, she ard, she hoped , so on alter their arrival, Mrs. Fitz made s W la--the family property was endue a her disfrosal—revokinga former one, which eatiied the whole of . .the real and personal * " ..5. 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Youth, beauty, innocence, and grace, united in the person of Lucy Carrington-- the only, child. of Mr. Stephen Camngt, oir, a respec table retired merchant of moderate means, resid- ing within a fris miles of Woodlands Manor-House --crossed his path ; and spite of his shield of ma ny quanerings, be was vanquished in an z instant, and almost with Out registance. The at least tacit consent and approval of Mr. Carrington and his fair daughter secured, Mr- Everett, junror,—hasty, headstrong lover that he was--immediately dis. closed his matrimonial projects to his father and aunt. Captain Everett received the announcement with a sarcvtic smile,, boldly remarking, that if Mrs. Fitzhugh was satisfied, he. had no . objection to offer. But, alas! no sooner did her nephew, with much periphrastic eloquence; impart his pas- -ion for the daughter of a mere merchant to his aunt. than a vehement torrent of,indignant rebuke brol,e horn her lips. She would die rather than consent to so degrading a rnesalhanu ; and should he persi=t in yielding to such gross infatuation. she would not only disinherit, but banish him Imm her house, an. cast him forth a bear on the world Language this : one can easily understand, pro- coked lanzuat..7,e from the indignant young man, which in less heated moments he would hare dis- d.tined to utter; and the aunt and nephew parted in tierce anger. anti after mutual denunciation or each other—he as a disobedient ingrate, she as an oniferiou , , ungenerous tyrant. The qiiartel alas, with some difficulty patched up by Captain Ever- et; ; ald with the exception of the change which took place in the disappointed locefs,demeanor— from lighted hearted gaiety to gloom and sullen ness—thio. alter a few days, went ow pretty near ly as before. The sudden rupture of the hopes Mrs. Eleanor Fitzhugh had reposed in her nephew as the restor er of the glories of her ancient " house," tarnished by Alary Fitzhugh's marriage, algected dangerous ly, it soon appeared, that lady's already failing health. A fortnight after the quarrel with her ne phew, she became alarmingly ill. Unustial and balling symptoms showed themselves ; and after suflering during eight days from alternate acute pain, and heavy, unconquerable drowsiness, she expired in her nephew's arms. This sudden and fatal illness of his relative appeared to reawaken all Frederick Everett's tenderness and affectiod for her. He was incessant in his close attendance in the sick chamber, permitting no one else to admin islet to his aunt either aliment or medicine. On this laner point, indeed, be insisted, with strange fiercenes.s, taking the medicine with his own hand from the man who brought it; and after adminis tering the prescribed quantity, carer:llly locking up the remainder in a cabinet in his bed room. On the morning of the day that Mrs. Fitzhugh died, her ordinary medical attendant, h 1 r. Smith, terrified and perplexed by the urgency of the symptoms exhibited by his patient: called in . the aid of a locally-eminent plysician. Dr. Atelier. or Dr. Archford- 7 the came is not very distinctly writ- 1 ten in my memoranda of these occurrences; but we wilt call him Archer—who at once changed the treatment 01 then pursued, and ordered powerful emetics to be administered, without, however, • we hare seen, prodncing any Faxing or sensible .effect. The grief of Frederick Everett, when all hope was over, was unbounded. threw him self, in a paroxysm of remorse or frenzy, upon the bed, accusing hiniself of having murdered her. with other serape and incoherent 'expressions, up on which an intimation soon afterwards made by Dr. Archer threw startling light. That gentleman, conjointly with 3dr. Smitli f reirmstertan immediate interview witteCaptainEventi, and Mr. HanlYaran, the deceased rally's land-steward and sticitor, who happened to be in the house at the time. The re quest was of comae complied with, and Dr.. Arch er at once bluntly stated that, in his opinion. poiion had been administered to tbedeceased lady, thoogh I of what precise kind he was somewhat at a limit to conjecture—opium essentially, he thought, though: certainly not in any of its ordinary prepanuions— one of the alkaloids probably Which chemical eel enee had recently discovered. De this as i* *ley, a post-mortem examination of the body worth) clear up all. doubts, and shonld take place at' apbedily is possible. Captain Everett at once acceded to Dr. Archer's proixisl, ;tithe same lime observing that be wee quite sore the result would entirely disprove tnat gentleman's =gumption.. Mr. Elaidyntan also fully concurred in the necessity of a rigid investi gationi' and the ,post irionem examination should, it was arranged, take place early QO the Jollowing inTilince • . VI bate =Whet and very painhd duty to . pet. form,” noutinned Dr. Archer, addiesaing Captain Everitt. "I find that your son, Mr.. Ftederink: ET - erett,.alone admit:tittered. medicine .and,alintent Dins FitztitrAi daring bet illness. -"tinagerf ptesi. tity - uliolly Iterated expre!akiotis,•ltit which sound ed vastly like cries of rinnone, irrnprestrible'b, person ended to crime, esealied • bins in 'ms just after thi.t:tose of the finitrreise But perhain Captri Everett, you had , h o uttut . reSrot2e; ttc.f . • GO on. nr,.. ILW Captain, over 11(h(IT , , r ` 2 44 1e 44 /r Ce Asgiatii4 .11. AF .11 a fiitalitdr , CO . CIIV; bettat taws t , , We all knew," " armed ,pr„—.4trtleriPitiii; PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, AT :14** , 1 1,.. BliADF611D- 7 COUNTY, PA.i BY E. O'IIEARA GOODRICI4I I== arc ar:t , asountaa* OP Dlls u tATWa rao.) . ! £X 4,lmurrsALP greatly. MG Frederick Everolgtynkin i i rnkltlatoy his aunt's death y and that bet disease, ,-mortawer, will enable him to conclude the marriage 10-which she was so deterinineffly opposed. I think, there fore, that, under all the cireomstanFes, ive shall be fully justified in placing the young gentleman un der such-;-.1 will not say custody, bet surveillance, as will prevent him either from leaving the house, should he imagine himself suspected, or of de stroying any evidence which may possibly exist of his guilt, if indeed he be guilty.))• . " I entirely agree-'witloyesuk Dr. kieberxlrlex claimed 111 f. Jia4 listened` iit much . excitetneat to the doilOr 3 s nartativp, will, upon my own responsibility, take the twee. Nary steps for effecting the' object you have'in, view." " Gentlemen," said Captain Everett, rising from his chair, " you will of course do your.dow ; bat I can take no part, nor otter any counsel, in such a case: I must leave you to your own devices."— He then left the apartment. - He bad been gone but a few minutes, when `Frederick Everitt, still in a state of terrible excite- ment, entered the room, strode fiercely up to Dr Archer, and ilemand3d how he dared . propose, as the butler had just informed him he had done, a dissection of his aunt's body. • " I will net permit it," continued the, agitated young man : "I am master here, and I say it shall not be done. What new horror would you evoke Is it not enough that one of the kindest, best of God's creatures, has perished, but another sacriece must --What do I say I Enough that I will not pennit IL I have men familiar cases-- very similar cases in—in India!' The gentlemen so strongly addressed had ex changed siguifih.ant glances during the delivery of Lois incoherent speech; and quite confirmed in their previous impressions, Mr. liardymin, as their Spokesman ; interrupteil the speaker, to inform him that he was th& suspected assassin of his aunt ! The accusing sentences had hardly passed the so- licitoes lips, when the Pinions young man spmri towards him with the bound of a titer, and at On blow prostrated hint Go the floor. He immedi ly aetzed by the two medical gentlemen, and belt) haying been summoned, be was with mach difftL culty secured, and placed in strict confinement, to await the result of the next day's inquiry. The examination of the body disclosed the ter rible fact, that the deceased lady had perished by acetatemorphine ; thus verifying the sagacious s t guess Dr. Archer. A minute search was imme- 1 (Irately ale throughout Mr. Frederick Everet's apartnitas, and behind one of the drawers of a cabins in his bed/Gam—at the back of the shelf or parn. l ion on piich the drawer rested, and of course completely bidden by the drawer itself when in its place—was found a flat tin flask, fluted on the outside, and closed with a screw stopper; it was loosely enveloped in a sheet of brown pa. per, directed " —Everitt, Epq., Woodlands Ma nor-House, Yorkshire;" and upon close examina tion, a small quantity of white powder which prov ed to be acetate of morphine was found in the flask. Suspicionof young Everitt's guilt now became conviction ; and, as if to confirm beyond all doubt the soundness of the chain of circumstantial evi dence in 'which he -was immeshed, the butler, John Darby, an aged and trusty servant of the late Mrs. Fitxhaeh, made oo the day the following deposi -1 lion before the magistrates : " Ile had taken in, two days before his late miss , ress was seized with her fatal. inflows, a small brown paper parcel which hail been broteato by coach from London. and for which 2s. 10.1.carritwe ,_ was charged and paid. The , paper found in Mr. Frederick Everett's cabinet was,.he could positive ly swear, from the dates and figures marked on it, and the handwriting, the paper wrapper of that par cel. lie had given it to young Mr. Everett, who happened to be in the library'. at the time. About five minutes aherwnnis. he had occasion to return to the library, to inform him that some-fishing-tack le he-had ordered was sent home. The door was ajar; and Mr. Frederick did not at first perceive his entrance, as be was standing wtth his back to the door. The paper parcel he, the butler, had just before delivered, was lying open on the table, and Mr. Everett held in one hand a flat tin flask—the witness ha I no doubt the same found in the cab'. net—and in the other a note which he was readings He, the witness, coughed, to attract Mr. Everen's attention, who huriedly tumeckround,elapped down the flask and the note, shuffling them tinder the pa per wrapper, as if to *deal them, and then, in a very . confused manner, and his face as red as flame. asked erimees-vrhatkewanted there I Wit 'boss thought this behaviour verf- stranke at' the' time; but the ineident'isoixi from his miad; and he had thought nn'iiiiirsi• Opt til the fin 47, of -the, paper and the flask. as deacribed . by the other witnesses .v - - - . Mr. Frederick Everett, who bad manifested the strangestiirilla- 4 Pirt l Yr ..? c almness _ of : des p air, then4bouulteeoquiry, which perplexed , and dis heartened Mr. Sharpe, whew. *Mew bad been re: (mired by Captain Everett,.': irlioiiiid eel, A& rtias,..l chievous evidence - fcr ;lasi with6iin 7initeoe com ment or expbusitiow: and be was,. as st Miser ilk coerce, folly iecfmited for the wpfut dinnier'efbia_ relative. ` The 4: !iritiinettidiel ; awl/Jetta*, motive inelged, was, items irk,compbub-rint.,ak. link was wanting_ • s ~ . ' ..- -- •• ' - ' A '.' 6 . --. These were thethief iiteiilettbr Afeleeel r ?iti.' by Mr. Sharpe dutieg cr,a51414k144 11 4 4/4.0 : •+ tation. Al the precise eutergto4 l ,4 l4 MOW AlrPiw , cions whiCh haunted and disturbed me, I shall only ! i - h. Inl isjillaCelsaY lhat4* lll g. 0 4 r sSIPPIPrr eoriP9 l . - . . sequently, myself, would in all -probabibar have. guessed-we glanced anktenr,-bot forttbso pessitaitit asseiebrdisf MissC'FlP" l ° T ) ' e r ' hail ` g • laili fiet — KZ:4'i' ;a . 4,,,i n g ) 4 4„wr kin.: k, - ii;....' c hi g ruig, motive of hosier' ror duty. - - • ; PAiiscideantlenatity. - -Mhniosalt4wrt dain:.-1111e sionillittselliin iildt 4 tettionlik , ,__...... ...... iii „, :i .4 014 , 461 : t1 w -,*righoms, ~,. , , ~ , t.i,linlil;•;,:i.--der-fr-iilWit7i4og ERIE and.readinets on all occunoms Kt sacrifice his .own,ess,e „his own wiohes, to bum] the kappi ,!!tfe and, above all, =Wits. °Cbottlot—duty, ifyou will—wtrielt ' woald,.l feel wined, prompt him to incur any peril, death itself to shield from &Apr say one who had claims up onhim eitber_of blood or of affection. You know t whom my suspicion! , point;, awl how dreadful to think that one so young, so brass, pious, auk so true, should be sacrificed for such a monster as I $1 4 4 ,114 0 4 1 3 14 1 .4 0 ,,be.,2! • . -.taT.n thilfltftlwillaele-PAP l 4 ll Wreas ibe_extos ney could only reply_ Ojai ssore i suspicistw wets. ,apt judjMal.proo flu , and ttstaf Als.biteilevick, Ryer- IWw°4 Persist in,his vatetitabuessrvet'ataal re• milt was -inevitable. But Mt. Sharps readily con sented to gratify the :wishes of Mr. Carrington and his daughter on me point: be returned the mooey . not a verylatgesurn, which Captain Everett had sent hirn,.and a„, , .c.wd, that Mr. Caningtoo should supply Ike, funds necessary for the defence of the primmer. Our consultalion the next day at Mr.•Sharres Was a sad and hopeless, one. Nowheredid a gleam of cheerful light break in. The ease was over whelmingly complete against the prisoner.. The vague suspicions we entertaiueslbioled to a crime so monstrous, so incredible, that we felt it could not be so much as hinted at upon sucklegally Ma' sidered, sli 3 Oupounds. The prisoner gas said to be an eloquent speaker, and I undertook to draw up the outline of defence, inspogning, with-all the dialectic skill I was master of, the conclusiveness .of the evidence from "the' crown. To thiP7 and a host of testimony to character, which we proposed to call, rested our faint hopes of " a good deliver ance !" Business was over, and we were taking a glass of wine with Mr. Sharpe, when his chief clerk en tered to say that Sergeant Edwards, an old :told ier—who had spoken to them some time before relative to a large claim which be asserted hebad against Captain. Everett, arising out of a4egacy be queathed to him in India,. and the best 'mode alas wring its payment by an annuity, as immeseA by the captain—;had now called 10 nay that ee terms were at last finally arranged, and that he wished to koow_ when Mr.. Sharpe would be at leisure to draw up the bond. " Ile not leerier his money ! excjaimed .41arpe tartly ; the captain will, I fear. be rich enough before another week has passed over Mir heads Tell him to halio•rhorrow even ing;l will see him after 1 retorii . from court."' A hswmincitesafterwards, 1 and Mr. Kingston toot our leave. The Crowe Cram was thronged to safkCatiotfron the followirg morning, and the excitement , of the auditory appeared to be of the intense tied. Mira Carrington, closely veiled. tat bewide her father on one of the side benches. A true bill nainst the prisoner had been found on the previous afternoon ; and the trial,-it bad been arranged, to suit the con venience of counsel, should be first proceeded with . The court was presided over by Mr. Justice Grace ; and Mr. Gurney—afterwards Mr. Baron Gerney—wittrenother gentleman appeared' for the prosecution. As soon as the inapt had taken his seat, the prisoner was ordered to be brought in, and a hush of expectation prevailed the assembly. ' In a leer minutes he made his appearance in the dock. His aspect—calm, mournful, and left of pa tient , tpr d ,ation—spoke strongly to the feelings of the audience, and a tow murmur of sympathy ran through= the Cont.. He bowed respectfully to bench, and then his sad, proud eye wandered roan i the auditory, till it rested on the form of La ex Carringrten, who overcome by redden emotion, had hidden her weeping face in her father's bo som. 111:11 Strong feeling, which he with difficulty master ed. shook his frame, and blanched to a still deeper Bailor his fine intellectual countenance. lie slow ly withdrew his gaze from the agitating spectacle, and his troubled glance meeting that of Mr Sharpe, seemed to ask why prneee3ings which could only hare one termination, were delayed. He had not long tri wait. The jury were sworn, and Mr. Gur ney rose to aediess them for the crown. Clear, terse, logical, powerful without the eliOtest pre tence to what is called eloquence, his speech pro duces!, a tremendous impression upon all who beard it; and feW persons mentally witheld their assents° his assertion, as he concluded what was evidently a painful task, "that should be produce evidence substantiating the statement - he had made, the man who could then refuse to believe in the pritswoes guilt, would equally refuse credence to acttiiiiS iiiinewed by his own bodily eyes" - The.differeat wiiresses were then called, and testified tos`the'varions facts I have before related ltainydirklbd7filirgaton and 1 exert omsehresso in valittainibir hien - a - fib% pros& of guilt icrdisPass- O'orlaiely Uselesir . ," whispered Pra*eoes* 1 an erns -examination ofthiragenatlee.' 4 l - tie have done all that 'could be &de; -bat he is a doomed man, spite of his in nocence, 00%1411 kel; every Moment that I at him tt e'more __ God help tiNlfe-.2 l MPClat,:fellaPlaccescatas, frith allow eatiSc machiaetylargethsplittinhr • -11Wisawfosithattowevraikofliti *Abe taiscia- Crif:l/11;6ttpe16T114A 1 .841 dress I * -. 514:41k nalasthisa lis-asnretteamsoaily, tittieh.; Nio; f(4PrT.l.%tr.' wv.ov bedid Upload toretiscamtiand elmitmeittad. - dreske:TVlliiirldtinif 0 1 4 64 4r 12 .4,1 1 15 6 ,74 7 4 °1117 ' feL# ll'l 44, _ii** 4 lrlvrialgui4Pilay! prohibits the advocate of a poaaaniaidlis; • 1 : •:: I • • r ~ r .1 : 1 AP I -,42 P. 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M . = 0, • CM EEO lEli so Mae effect didlt inothatei 1 otir, in thnt Mem, hotrecer ably 'aohei, and io*entisfied ant T that though it . nieterrinideted with an artgedeloritiou6e, it wooldlioie itit r pOrent to abate the stroll> eerie ghtlC *lift+ yin; sik• iriihred. meugebe ennui inive drairn from the %ody niirrenoii yin haverhelini, tin& i 'etiltnot:f2tiitrffon reading it, 'Fitt Only otisierves &telt pohrt.4o.l*- jay to the awkinuid; sn to specie', anuyr:d againit nre—in die MY oriniiptUting that* thiAiretriumf stitirdererieoneritaite.snntiv liersiso brsitt tint* leting the goal portion so the violin with 10. ettee Or 'Tbeie siiiroshtr - bet this is by fir tfid - rinstfpowerftsi out: no. 1" esnopt , Pehevit thaftitlitithiOe you to rtntn, a ver dict nieding Inittiyibit the tooliph ts• '1 ing fiam'itriietrances, trill call a shmernt deaf,', bot'wbich T; knowing my own heart, .feello sanctified by theliighest motives which can itit! eince'inatr—it - tiontd be merely waste of time to te. peat them. , From be first Moment, gentleman; that this acensaiionqiis preferred against me, I felt that I had done with this *odd; and, young as am. but for one belayed being whose presence lighted up and irradiated this is else bold and bar- ten earth, I should, With reltictance have neeepted tbiS gilt of an apparently severe, but perh4ps rnee eilnl fate. This rife, tentleinen," be contibned af ter I short puttee, " it bas been well said, its bnt a tanle and march. T have been'struck down caily in the Cornball but of what moment is that, ail be Nil by Rim ivho witnesses the world-unnoticed 'deed of all his . sohlieng, that I have earned the vie. to crown ? Let it be your consolation. enII e men, if hereafter you should ai.eover that you have sent me to an undeserved death, that you at leas: will not have hurried a soul Fpotted with the nwitil crime of murder before its Maker. And oh," he exclaimed in conclusion, with solemn earnestness, ,‘ may all who have the gaik of blood - upon them hasten, whilst lite is still granted them, to cleanse themselves by zepentrincee of that fool sin, so -that not only the sacrifice of our poor life, hot that most holy and tremendous one offered in the- world's consummated hour, may not Na them have been made in vain! My loot and gentlemen, 1 have no more to say. Yob will doubtless do your duty: I hare done mine." 1 was atomics few minutes after the conclusion of this strange and unexpected address, to call our witnesses to cbaraiter; when to the suppose of the' whote court, and the Consternation of the Prisoner, Bliss Carringuni started up threw . aside her veil, and addresiing die judge, demanded to be helm). grieenly, grauefriT, rind of.tooching loveliness did she look in her 1r ebernc4 of sorrow—radiant us sunlight is her dayi of joy she must have been— as she stand up, affeetion-Oompter.l, regardless. of self, of the world, to make one last ellen to save her affianced husband. " What would you say, young lady!' said Mr Justice Grose kindly. "It you have anything to testify in favor of the prisoner, you had bettercom ctionicate with the exsunsel." " Not that—not that," she hurriedly replied, as it fearful that her strength would fail before she. had entmciated her purpose. "Pot, my lord, put Fred eriek—the prisomitr, 1 mean--on his oath. Bid him declare, as he shall answer at the bar of Al mighty God, who is the murderer fur whom he is about to madly sacrifice himself, and you will then a Your request is an absurd one," interrupted the judge with some asperity. " f have no power to question a prisoner." "then," shrieked the unfortunate lady, sinking back fainting and helids in her fathers arms, he is lost ''' She was immediaily carried out of conn ; and as soon as the sensation caused by so extraordinary nd painful an incident had subsided, the trial pro ceeded. A cloud of witnesses •to ammeter were called ; the4 , odge summed up; the jury delibera ted for a few minutes ;and a verdict of 4 , guilty" was returned. Sentence to die on the day after the next followed, and all was over! Yes; all was, we deemed, over; but happily a I decree, reversing that of Mr. Justice Grasse, had gone forth in Heaven. I was sitting al home about an hour atter the court had closed, painfully ma sing as the events of the da p when the door of the apartment suddenly flew o , and in rushed Mr: Sharpe in a state of gent e hement, accompani ea by Sergeant rAw-ai, whom the reader will re. member bad called the previcins day at that eentle man's house. In a few minutes I was in pewee ion of the following important information l abelled by 31r. Sharper from the hall willing, balf-reluctrun sergeant, whom be had found wailing for him _at ' his office In the first place, Captain Everett was not that fa ther of the prisoner ! The young man was the son of Mary Fitzhugh by her tint marriage ;. and bis' name, Consetptenlly, was biordzonc not Everett, Fre atether had-survived her secondmaniicebare ly iris mouths. Everett, cakulatindootalms upon the great pecuniary advantages which would be. likely to result to himself' as the reputed father of the heir Ma splendid -,English estate, should the tiSitel with Mrs Eleanor,. Fitzhzeu be Bah -1 isgvioateed-r.bssultimstelV made up, bad. tweCbt bardeceasel-wife's'infintson Spas his own. This vrakthesemet al 'Edwards aid lita 'Wife; and to 040-40meizoi. iegiii told . to give r the band *lc se tausiry *hick-14p. Sharpe, weissdraw-aP. Theatoty-Of Mir letticy arts: a'' .**4 ol .'''o/ 1426 0 .4 4 .4 ' *1*itY. 4 1 befe . rt iT erlu glali l d v him _bent wills?. a' tam of money and apromise to-do more * fin, him iik: l6lll 4 l iiilei t "/ "ifrezif#.: l llk 4 7o9ol4.: u m it ialk tha rtw. . . .. . AIM rims isilk May, pssiiiist to* ikiiissowst Sir it , risoCfivileiff cam , at i l • + , 4C. •WW151r.4444 1 .111 6 %- i4l)g :' iiss,llotaxibriemsosiststimpa Uhl" Iss was addireseed for some very ran sod saleable ' - '0 i 'll:4-'4.-'g.,,,:,:,‘,:t . 2=lllM • ' ISM f:cvrilir, which the . captain, Aur scitnti66 parpow, and whills FAlwardi iTsis to''foriatio? ecrielt to Woodlands Manor Houma. . • . itd4rds obeyed his inandetirs, and delivered' iitemettgat • to thwgibeer busby headed 'foreigner to wb it was addressed, whb told lath timrirhe' brought him the sum of 'robe!: mentioned in the gete.lee, ihe,44lPaiegzillW, ate. gheithi. have thi‘vie ti;_ilo tki fired. lie also-bade bins bring te well slop; , tiered byl , atle to_put it in. ,it's Mo . bottlii wit/ iii ft( kint.• her Fritteb4EllA lib '4617. as if fording a bail . ti 4 iietrthlfyitaiiisliifeAtiltiat'and - ii*iiiii-lleal?- ett the povrdeutacked itni?ely Op,and.toldiagree wel,3 4,4.14.1* og twri t ,ltopeTtketiot 4, ir ti - e4ittn iViVfiti -- gaiiptit; j 6t(ininilefeiei t.. ViloctlindsVinor-flalle, ioikiliftKitiiti then take A to ttielicialrhig.;ofilt4. Ito -1110erViCtsf.,6iii#, thrtc2h he sail) sitiriln S . ..jocular way, that' wdald hate(treMed tt C olra i n fre'rett, aahhti*4 • built sie;ined Ac fiat! . gotl . Ediirat algal reitiirieili6 .l 7(a-kshirti, only two -days Fiat*, itsitit lA6 aiinuity i2afeti, and . Oriabatery was present iti court at the trial of .FrellricklioFtlatint and at mice, recognised the tin fta-:tk as 112 e 'ebe be bad .porebased cagforwarde4l.ict Woodiancis i cifibret it most in dne coOrse hner-arrived on the daytita- tea IT the butter. 'terrified 4htl bewit . 4eretrat the 6ahsegtief.tes of crfial. hi. hall none, or hOttoei Poi db dtraid4 hastened Whir; Sharpe; who ; flidint of. exhotiatrons; thtints; 2 iiidfiroAtibe, juaicionsti Igen- ded;iturneed him 16 make a et6an breast Ont. As much astounded elaied by this milcwiled infonnittion, it WAS some minutes before I could stascieutty eoficentrate my ttioightz upon the pm per course to be pu r sued.• I ‘vas uot, hevrever, tong in deciding. Leaving, Mr Sharpe to draw tarp an afFutal• of the facts disclosed by Edwards, and to take e.-pm•ial, care of that worthy, l hastened to the jail, in order to Obtain ail:turner:Alt elucidation of aFl'the misterie4 ennneeted with the affair before • waited upon "Itlr. Justice Gro'se. . 'the revulsion of feeling in the prisoner's mind when be learned that the trian for whom he bad so rectlessly micrificed himself lr3A not Mt" nbt his lather, but a cold-blooded ciilain. a‘ho-aixtordim. to . the testi M ony of ergetitit wants, had embiuered, pt.:imps shortened. his mothers last hours was 1111- rti edin te anti excessive. " 1 shrinfti have taken Lney's advice !" he bruerho exclaimed, as . be sinxle to and fro hiscell ; have told the truth at eltz aids; and have left th e rest to God." ilia etp a- tion' of the inciitcntS that had so pouted tit all was as simple as satisfactory.. lie had always, from his earliest days, stood much in awe of his father, who in the, to souse Mordecai, sacred character of parent exercised an irresistible control over him; and when the butler entered the library, he believed for an htstant it was his father. who bad serprised him in the net of reading, his. correspondence - an act which, bower es unintentional , would be . Irtew excite Captain Everett's fiercest wrath.. Hence • arrx-e . the dismay and confasion, which the butler b.al tie , criced. Fre resealed the parcel ; and placed it m his reputed father's dresi‘ingnicun ; and thought lode more of the matter, till, ou entering his wanes bedroom on the first evening other illnnes, be be held Everett pour a small portion of white. podder from the tin flask into the bottle containing kis Urines reedit-Me. The terrible truth at once flashed i two* him. - -- A fierce altercation immediately en sued ha his father's dressing-mom, whither Frede rick followed him. Everett persisted that the-pow der was a celebrated pastern mediounent, which could easi, his amts' life. The young man was not of course deceived by this stialloW falseheod, and from that moment administered the Medicine to the patient with his own hands, and kept the bot tles which contained it locked up in his - eabinell , — " Fool tbat 1 was 4" he exclaimed in conetteiotti, "to trust to such a paltry precaution to defeat that accomplished master of wile and fraud ! On the very moraine of my acmes death, I suprised him Rhyming and locking one of my cabinet drawers. =- ' so dumbfounded was I with terror and dismay atthe sight, that he left the morn by a side door without - observing me. You have now the key to myetin duct. 1 k tithed to look upon the mmderer; bet I would hare died a thousand death rather than .. at tempt to save my own life by the sacrifice M" a father's—bow guilty soever he might be.' Furnished with this explanation, and' the arida- I rit of Edwanls„ I waited upon the judge aluf oh ' rained not only a lespite for the prisoner, big a -war rant for the arrest of Captain Everett. itwas a bu-y evening. Edwards was rerpatch ell to London iu the friendly custody of an intent gent officer, to secure the person of the It:reign. looking vendor of subtle poisons; and Mr. Sharpe. with two constables, set riff in a postchai.se for Wond lands Manor-House. It was late -when they arriv ed there, mid therams ieforitted their' that Cap tain Everett had al They ea rly retired MI torthse sr ri a ' insisted upon seer him; and he presented„irrap ped in a dressing -town. and haughfily demanded their business with him a such an hour. The an .wet smote bim as with a thonderbck, cud he .1a..17e, red backwards, till arrested by tho wall of fie apirtmentp.and then sank feebly-, nervelessly, Into a chair. Eagerly after a pause he qeeistione-d the intruders upon the nature of the evidenee against , him. Sir Sharpe briefly replied that Edwards was in custody. and had revealed everything. •,. , • "It isindeeil so? - ' rejoined Everett, Seeming to derive resolution and fortitude from the very extre=- roily of despair. Then the game is unquestionably'? lost. ft ; was however boldly and skithilly prayed and I am not . a man torrhirnpe . r over a Waitron of the /nee, In a few minutes.. gentlemen," he added, " I shah have changed triftiress;and by featly to accorupany you. • , • We cannot lose ekght of you for an instants replied \lr. nave, "One of the officers racir,.ae.... . company You-" - -I' Be it so : 1' shall tot (keno either Ifiaf or putt lag -,. _Captain- &sena, followed by !be officer. passed.. into his drmaing•rooria. He °Obi gown ; and pointingto a coat suspended on a peg an; the - lather intarmity,wf the apartment, rammed: lbw cohlysahle to reach it fur him. The man hagelled ." to com ply Withhis wish_ Swiftly, F.reteu opened a dreaktitiase whieh-stood on - a table near hint; - the office:the:aril the sham clicking of a pistollocki and ummikawifily•rauniL Too la's! part fang thro%•tt the house. the room wan frthak„ with smoke and the' wretched assn. in mines cge lity4..itOntleil on the floor a - riankitkicnistae, It trontd.be useless to minutely-meapikabtePthe' itnal,wiudiag.up,of thiskayentful:shatna: Suffice it to otiord, tbat.theperioashNecited facts st - ens itiglitistabrAK tin 4 th ht - Mr. Fredrick ins -after a sitthailit; - "reiliteAttl to - Tritidtinf antra tit &Natant:mt °-wrumalik.""4:lWo The* akin Am -ad; t natri artiiZS Valittk" pia theikwitiaibla 141011#firith''ilkl±* °Twos inge . ay.,i'the4,ekiestlant : ' th B SPreM4,-PadP*-Ig the.- aid . is - by no m sa eats ate: andikfti* . t ,.„ 4tt • -A of the letnipnotts Mini; • 13 3
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