The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1848, Page 1

¢ (NO. 5299 THB FANNY KEMBLE DIVORCE CASE. " Enteresting Geerespondence, &e., &e., dee BUTLER COURT OF COMMON PL PetGaDeLeH . FIERCE BUTLER vs, FRANCES DIVORCE, WITH ANSW To the Honorable Judges of the c of Philadelphia County, the Libel of of the City of Phijadelphia, respectfully showeth : ‘That your libellaat, on the seventh day of June, in ‘the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred aui thirty-four, was lawfully joined in marriage with Fran- cos Anne Kemble, and from that time until the d sertion hereinafter complained of, lived with her, the said Frances Anne, as her husband, and owned and acknowledged as such by ad 80 ed and reputed by all their neighbors and acqusintan: ‘And although by the laws of God, as well as by th mutual vows and faith plighted to each other, they were reciprocally bound to that constancy and uniform regard wi ought to be inseparable from the mar- age , that the sald Frances Aane, from the eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, hath wilfully and maliciously deserted and absented hereelf from him, the said libellant, and bis habitation, ‘end in such desertion and absence hath since con! ually peri a and more, without any reasonable cause, and yot doth continue to abseat herself from him the said libllant, and his habitation. Wherefore your libellant further showing, that he is @ citizen of this State, and hath resided therein for one ear.and more, prays your honors that a subpmas may jsrue forth to summon her, the said Frances Aune But- ler, to appear at the said honorable court, at June term next, to answer the complaint aforesaid. And, also, that a decree of the sald honorable court may be given, for the divorcing and separating Her, the said Frances Anne, from the said libellant’s society, fellowship. and company, inalltime to some, andj the said Hibellant from the marriage, bond ‘aforeruid. as if he had never been married, 6r as ifshe, the sald Frances Anne. naturally dead may be dee Capwatap The above ni ant being duly aworn accor- ding to law, saitheghat the statement of facts contaia- ed in the above libeMg.true, to the best of his know. ledge and belief ; and that the said complaint i6 not made out of levity, or by collusion between hig and the said Frances Anne Butler, for the mere purpose of being freed and reparatedfrom cach\other, but jnsin- cerity and trath, for the causes mentioned in the said bel. PIERGE BUTBER. Sworn and subscribed, 29th \ , 1848, bagbre me, Cuavacey Bucxcey, Aldgeman. City of Philadelphia, 68.» ‘The Commonwealth otennayleni To Frarces Apne But eau ] , Pierce Butler did. on the 30th a with you paeid Pierc % Wed ene cotitmand yon, tho sat 0, Anne Butler, that sottige.aride ' all ot! yxouses whatsoe’ ir person, before our Boutect Cominon fleas, ia and eouuty of Philadelphia, on the first: Ju: to answer the. , ABC eral Assembly. in such tana made gad pro- ud bi fail not. ¢ ’ t, Esquire, Pre- sthirtieth Amuo Domini, one thoussnd eight hun- pelght. ; ed] JOHN'SMITH, Prothonotary. Allowed by i V. Pamsons. conehe To the Honerable the Judges of the Conrt of Common Pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia. Tht answer of Frances Anne Butler to the libel of rf ree Butler,; ing divorce from the bonds of ma- ony, x ’ I. Brances the defendant, raving and of benefit and adv: ol ing the same benefit of all and every the and things hereinafter set fark jn this my a: » if Phad pleadedthe same, or in auy other more proper ‘way, advanced, orset up such matters avd things for auswer thereto, oreo much thereof as 1am advised it | is material or necessary for me to make anewer unto, I, the said defendant, answering, say That true nd | therefore admit. that I, then Frances Ai the 7th the year of ©} with th ‘ot our Lord 1815 to the twenty- iB fateh, tithe year of out word, 1949, or. at any other time, or for any other period. maliciously deserted myreif from d lidellant and his habitation, as it is in the said libel untraly charged. ‘And further answering, | sey, that it is true, and therefore admit, that | di from the habitation of the libell of September, A. D. 1845, and that I havi remained £0 ut it is not true, and I there- fore deny, that ruch leaving and absenting myself from the said libellant’s habitation was wilfal and malicious, or that it was desertion, within the true intent ani meaning of the act of Assembly in such case made and provided. First, Because the libellant hed, for along space of time previously, separated himself from me as a hus- band. Because’ at the time of my so quitting and ab- senting myself from the said libellant’s habitation, and for along space of time before, the terms upon which we were living, and the relations and mode of life of myself and the libellant were such; induced, caused, and compelled, by the libellant’s wrongful and unlaw- fal conduct toward me, thateven if | had left his habi- tation without license or other cause, which I deny, such quitting and abrenting myself therefrom would not have been a desertion within the true intent and ‘meaning of the act of Assembly.in such case made and provided, wor could it be alleged asa ground of divorce. Second. Because I had the assent and license of the said libeliant, so to quit his habitation and absent myself from it, and also his subsequent approval and acquiescence therein, and also because his conduct to- ‘wards me, for # long of time before I so quitted and absented myself from his habitation, was designed and calculated and such as to force me therefrom. Third. Because I should have been justified, as I submit to the court, even without such assent, license ‘approval, acquiescence, or design, in so quitting or aasenting myself from the libellant’s habitation. by his cruel treatment of me, and by uch personal in- dignities offered to me by him, as rendered my condi- tion intolerable and my life burthensome. before or | | | wae also informed by my friend, Mr, Furne | V addressed to the libellant on thi | ‘And in support of these allegations, I crave leave to submit the following narrative :— In the early part of the summer of the year 1343, we were living in the city of Philadelphia, separate and apart, butin the same boarding house, under a mutual agreemont #0 to live; he, the said libellant, furnishing me with a certain separate maintenance; which etate of separation, I crave leave to represent was not caused byany misconduct of mine, or by my neglect or violation of the duties of « wife, but wholly dy the misconduct of the libellant, who for a long time previously, bad ceased to entertain or manifest to- | ‘wards me any tentiment or sign of conjugal affection or personal respect. He neglected me, absented him- telf from my society, left me alone, and otherwise tes- deportment absolute indifferonce itrangemeni. Defore the summer of 1643, unequivocally evinced the more intolerable feeling of aversion, exercising posi- tive, great and habitual unkindness, harshness, aoger directly in language and acts, and dis- wards me atemper and habit of tyranny, rules of life, and g exactions un- He subsequently, but still long | 13 Warranted by the laws of the marriage relation or of | Chrirtian morality. T long continued, however, devotedly attached to him, and earnestly desired. and repeatedly manifested the desire, to recover his tion and win back his regard, In order more fully, and by means of original memorials, to expose the nature of my exertio 4 the habitual sufferi of life, | annex he desise leave to prove true and perfect copii Exhibits A, B, C and D, ofcertain letters addressed by Quring the period referred to. These ais on my pert failed to produce any effect, and indifference aud unkindoess continuing to be habitual, my happiness as ‘was wholly de- atroyed. > From the autumn of 1842, although under the same roof, we lived separate, with a general dissent ‘ofall the intercourse of husband treatment of me ‘ually, thet I sho 7 of God.end the land, to depart wholly from his house ‘and never see him more, without ineurring the charge of deseftion, or any other breach of my duty. Nevertheless, | remained, and continued seaptery etill indulging ® hope of eventually recovering his af- Fecti rming such duties of a wife ashe woall ‘accept, and all the duties of a mother which he would it, until October, 1343, when in consequanec of MMteoveria , a L believed. that he had gailty ofa Dreach of the primary obligation of the marriage con- tract, at anearly, aud what to me had been a ls ua- happy period of my married life; althoagh { do not aa sert such to have been the case as a matter of fact, for asmuch as | have not legal proof thereof; and im con- fequence of my communicating that belief to hic, with the evidence hope of za. union bad boceme extingushsd, course as husband and wile tetally ceased, which ( had adop'ed it, the lass yar inter. Staelf practically terminatad,and thereapo ment of separat! ed into, wader which we continued to live above stated Our two children, both of them girls, yet less than m years of age, were retained by the libsllact under his contrel, bat with » stipaletion on his part, that my intercourse with them rhould by narestricted; , this was constantly faterfered with, the governers whom the lidaliant bet employed t> feach the cb g mode an active and efficient a | sion to come into it, a1 a = : - agent in keeping them a much as possible away from | was prepsred to entertain, if she me. Iwas uot permitted to use a mother’s eare and judgment in reg.rd to their dress, health or education; the libellant forbade them even to accompany me when I went out, and once when I stopped them as they were leaving the house, to speak to my elder child, the libellant violently called her, and taking her by the shoulder, pulled her sway from me, while [ had my armsaround her. This state of things continued, be- coming worse and worse, until the beginning of the year 1844, when hearing om all sides, that the liballaat was makin z pri tions forremoving {ntoa house of his own, | feared the time was come for the fulfilment of his threat to utterly and absolutely separate me frem my childre: Under this hension, I consulted one of my counrel, who inquired of the libellant his intentions in this respect latter led by stating purpose of removing his children{té his own house, and not per- mitting me to accompanying them, except upon oer- tain “conditions,” which [ was to subscribe to, within ‘and which appeared to me so harsh, that my first movement was to reject them unequivocally. annex hereto, @ copy of this reply marked Exhibi ‘The libellant remained fixed fo th ‘ condit/ons,” andthe two elapsed without my heing able to _ lem: to accept the wretched position in his 01 whic! ey would have condemned m> to. ‘n the meanwhile he continued his the removal of my children. and I expectation of their being taken utt ‘About this time my younger child met with an iy avay from alarming accident, and ev fear of losing her bessmey #0 much more intense, from her msimed and helple: state, that I wrote immediately to one of my 5 to entreat him te propore to the libellant terms which appeared to me such as might satiety my reasonable human being; well determined at the time, should they not content the libellant, to accede to those he impose upon me, or to any thing rather than a separation from my children. I therefore desirod my uneel to.inquire of the libellant whether he would bs satinfied with a promise on my part, to bury the past In oblivion, as far as all mention of it by word or letter ‘was concerned, and never to refer toit in any way to any one; our mode of living for thefature, (if under the same roof.) being #0 arranged that | might know notning whatever of that which concerned him; my relations with him being confined to those necessarily This however, not only rejected the terms which I had pro- pored to him, but refused to listento any plan what- ever for my accompanying my children into nis hou upon the ground that having refused to asceds to his conditions the time he appointed—that is, two daye1 joren to abandon my children, and must allide by t¥e choice. * ‘There was then nothing more to be dong by mo but to await his future proceedings In the cofffse he might see fit to pursue. The libellant, in the meantims, havirg completed his arrangements for removing to his present dwelling. in the city of Philadelphia, early in August, one morning, on returning from a walk, [ found my children in the act of preparing for thelr ture. . ing obliged to\ go into their n ,togive up ish of their co! 8 as were packed ai mine, [ ind the libellawt there directing the murs+ry mi pw to pack up their things. He continued in ti room, whistling with ‘the utmost while 1 went through the things from my own. soon as they were gone. T removed myseif from the house, where | had stayed, usts for their sakes, and Bnear tovtheir new resi- 4 ‘ m me, the ement of been unin. y visit fr at yisita to me mention that, on I met tho children het governess, 2n¢, by_her direction me without speaking to me, or taking an; re At the moment of my thseting them, ‘say to them, “ Go on;” though ‘my ry ‘ovild pointed to me, and called out “ There my mother,” the governess reiterated her command that they should pass on, which they accordingly did. Tran them, and overtook them; and upon my asking the elder child how she could bi herself to insult and wound me in @o crue anuer, she re plied that she had acted in obedience to the governess, ‘whose orders her father had told her she was to ohey. After this, my children were not allowed to comé and see fora whole week. % a ae 9 fre- gn to continua my Teeital ty the witty beard quent omissions to send children to see m also often exceedingiy inctnvent holding of the allowance which as it was paid with irregularity. 1 now not only bardly iy mnhen I 1 found th jioe@against me and th 36 | well as mine, that aoe eee Couunre as Chey were, And 8s I received, at this time. letters from England, from my aister, informing me that the libel- lant had written to her, in » tqne expressive of perfect willingners to admit me to my children’s that the libellant bad made the same impression upon him. I determined, upon thair advice, to request from the Hibellant a’ different adjustment of my intercourse with my children, and to clafm my right of being in the house with them. I annex hereto, marked Exibit 2, a copy of the letter dated December 11, 1844, which "occasion. ‘The li- dellant answered this letter by writing to Mr. Furaoss, afew days afterwards, a note, of which Exhibit 3, hereto annexed, is a copy, in which he professed to sent to my proposal, upon the “ooniitions’ he ha formerly proposed to me, as stated in Exhibit 1; but he really added to his former terms, that I should in way participate in the care or control or managem of my children, if I came into his house. This pro- posed new and additional stipulation seemed to me to Tequire careful consideration, before | acceded to it; Dut as the libellant had, when he separated me from my children, allowed me only two days to accept or ro- ect his then proffered terms for my residence under is roof, I thought it necessary to ask for a littletime for reflection upon his letter, which I did at once, by the following note, addressed to Mr. Furness :— « My dear Mr. Furness—Will you be good enough to inform Mr. Butler that the step proposed to me in go- ing into his house upon such terms, is so serious and important, that I must decline giving a positive answer upon the subject, for two or three days, at least. such ® determination requiring the utmost consideration. “Tam yours, ever, truly, “ FANNY.” Mr, Furness communicated my note without deley to the libellant, and received from him the following reply :— “Saturday evening, Deo, 14, 1844. “Dear Sir—Your note of this evening, has caused a painful change in the feeling produced by Mra. But- jer’s letter, 1 believed her sincere when she wrote, *T earnestly request and entreat ‘a to permit me ad- mission to the home of my children.’ And again— ‘As I make this last appeal to you, from the most im- perative sense of duty, and upon the most mature consideration, 1 solemnly assure you that I ‘will keep there conditions not only to the letter, but in the spirit of peace ‘and rectitude; my children and my obligations to them, constrain’ me to this measure, and for their sakes, 1 adjure you to receive my pro- I was full of hope. The home of my chil- siready brighter and happier for them, in to be blessed by a mo- hoped that better feel- hat she was resolved to and make her own pre- ood. Her desire to be it was natural, She hashad seven months to What can I think now? consider the terms of my proposal, and she still re- quires more time, You have repeatedly assured mo that she was ready to come into my house upon the conditions required of her. She herself asks permis- she is told she is freo must consider dons the most parated herself from oftheir father ; for to.come, she draws back and about it’ Is this sincere? 8 solemn of earthly duties—she her children for no cause, but more than a year she leaves them motherless, and thon determi- speake of her return to this sacred duty, as pation requiring the utmost consid ‘4 important, that she m three da. for two o her; but she requires time and co: up her mind to resume those obli to ber neglected children. What did she mean by her letter? What by her appeal to me, made from the most imperat duty, and upon the most mature considerat! ford to cast fresh odium up ‘he shuts bis doors shelter under th dend, ber conduct at present looksvery much as if sueh washer-design, She has deceived you by tolli ¢ could consent to any condition rather rt me and stantly conrent? I im; but what she has already declared she was ready to areent to. She has led you to believe thet her objao- posed last apring and then ra- not now the obstacle that kept her from but that my will was the cause of it; in short, that the reparation but upon me; that my becanre she had not yielded her ass fled time. “Why then does the hesitate to aceapt the same proporal which is mow renewed, and treat it as if it contained fresh stipulations, too burdensome to be agreed to, withsut the utmost consideration! Does this accord with her professions? Is it not an attempt to fix upon me the stigma of eruelly separating her fom hor children? That which f seoeived as sincere in ber lnt- ter does not appear so any longer, Sie mvy tke ae he chooses to consider if it be right to uty ata motuer; but | shgll rvonive how th far dideteat fesliogy from thor | hut against her, t within the epust: into my house ss of parting my ohfldren’s’ | “ Did she expect me to reject her prayer, ond hy | ‘0 t depend upon her, | did nee thei, » ed the libellant mude mej” -our fature happiness. more, much more, our future con- | hourly departure further and further from all noble | this to you, I se Apa Kae to grant that I might | fi not hesitated about coming I must believe that any resolxtion she | may now come to, to return and live with herchildren, | wili be made for expediency, and not solely from « sin- cere desire tod vith them. | oh “yours, very sincerely, } “PIERCE BUTLER.” “Rev. Wm. H. Furness.”” I will insert Mr. Furness’ reply. “P. Butter, Esq.— “Dear Sir: In reply to your note just received, I will merely state my own ‘conviction, that if, in Mrs, Butler’s letter produced so happy an impression upon you, you had met it in its own spirit, and replied. come—come upon the conditions you propose will rely upon the promise’ you so solemnly make to keep them, there would have been, J_ apprehend. no heeltation, not the slightest delay” But. in referri her buck to the letter to Mr. - Meredith, you propose other conditions—conditions which she might indeed | promite to observe to the letter, but in the possthility of observing which in the spirit, she has no belief. In all she offers to do, she is, { believe, thoroughly sincere Besides your letter to me, in answer to her letter to you, produced even on my mind, the painful impres- sion that her letter had net the slightest effect upon | you ; Your friend, “Deo. 16, 1844. Ess.” WH FU After a few days reflection, though I considered the new condition which the libellant invisted upon im- poring on me, ret only agrievousincrease of the hard thip ofthe former terms; but moreover such as to threaten to neutralize any good influence I might hope to bave over my children. and #0 defeat the only pur- pose for which I was going into the libellant’s house; yet awit seems to me impossible upon the whole, to render nugatory the presence of a mother, | determin- ed to accept the new terms, rather than to leave un- tried any means of regaining my natoral relation to my children. Toinform the lbellant of my accep | tance of his terms, I addressed the following note to | Mr. Furnes | “Dec, 18th, 1844 “Dear Mr. Furness :— Will you be good enough to inform Mr, Butler, that [hold myself in readiness to ofit by his permission of living with my children, at Kis convenience ‘The terma he imposew*tpon me, [ will keep to the best of my ability while [ reside under hia roof; at the same. time st deny utterly the cbasee of hatred, which Mr. Butler brings against me; have no such feeling towards any human ter my solemn protest against the deserted my chiliren, to pre- nerve my propel lon with whom has always been my most earnest desire and endeavor. “Tam yours, very truly, This, however. did not satisfy the libel FANNY.” MORNING EDITION----TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, ‘as you have undertaken the management of your ovn household, you ee choore to make such arrange- ments as by @ ing to live entirely separate, \d also restore me to my children, from whom I Nowine deserved to be 4, whose loss is unut- ter |B to me, ‘ 10 sees Lm} in many mn proposing this arrange. tire eoparate establishmen I explain the motiy. that lead me to suggest this plan. You hi m ly lost all affection and 4 for me, and have ai tai such a state of indifference towards me that you can see me and speak to meas you would to one Of y our servants, or a common acquaintance, while in every ersential ofintimate intercourse, affection, con- efidence, kindness, we are utterly,estranged, and have as little in common, whether of sentiment or interest, ws two people who had never seen each other till Meek his state of things appears fect- ly agreeable, or at least, endurable to»you— it is not eo to me, I told you so the other day. | now repeat it, together with my reasons for not being able to endure it, which I aleo laid before you the other day. Having loved you well enough to give you my life, when it was best worth giving—baving made you the centre of all my hopes of earthly bappiness—having never loved any human being as! have loved you, you can never be to me like any other being ; it is utterly impossible that I should ever regard you with indif- ference, My whole existence having once had you for its sole abject, and all its thoughts, hopes, affections, and parsiona, having in their full harvest been yours, as you well know they were. it is utterly impossible I should forget this ; that | should forget that you were once my lover, and are my husband. and the father of By children ; such love @s mine has been for you, might. in evil hearts, and by evil. means, be turned to hatred: but be sure it never can become indifference in any one, nor in me can it as certainly ever become hatred. Icannot behold you without emotion; my heart still wuswers to my voice, my blood in my veins to your footsteps ; and if this emotion is to be one of perpetual pain—sudden, violent, intense, almost in- tolerable pain - judge how little | am endowed by na- ture with a temperament fit to endure so revere and in atrial. My intercourse with you, if not a happi.iese, becomes one of anguish, and the -y communion which a life of inti: brings, shes perpetually occasions of suffering greater then | can bear. I have told you this already. I appealed to your humanity, when after a pro- longed season ‘of this species of mental torture, 1 found myself, from a combination of moral and physical causes, so nearly deprived of my senses a8 to be upon the point of destroying myself. 1 entreated you to save me from the horrible state of ner’ malady into which this very kind of inter- God knows your He ul ith you had thrown me. sovght # personal interview with Mr. Furness, and re- 8 hardly that of a man, much less of a friend mired still other stipulations, and, among. otheg id However, it is to avoid ol anibg nas ex- fe ings, he insisted upon my signing a written contract Containing some of theterms upon which he would ermit me to enter my children’s house. The vexa- ioas and oppressive form which the libellant required that the agreement between us should aseume, toge- ther with certain other facts, which I propose to prove before the court and jury on the trial of this suit, ap- 1d to me to be purposely designe they’ cer- cale eter me from sisted and sign- ‘itten ot, first igang it, as follows :— children. and retain as ible. the right of a mother over them, I fully nditionally to certain terms referred jieted on by Butler. in a letter to Mr. of Desewber the 18th,,1844 Mr Butler now that I should copy She ee the following t, stating that he considers it to contain no- in any way different from the former ome understanding I proceed to copy and 8 . T peing about to reside in Mr Butler’s house, I pro- mire to observe the following vonditions while living under his roof. Iwill give up all acquaintance and intercourse of whatever kind, whether by word or ac ‘tion, wien member of the Sedgwick family, and hereafter, T treat them in every respect ay entire stravger#yand as if [had never known them. T will acquaintance with any person tlermay dicapprove. Anentire abstinence from all refer- ‘past ; neither will T mention to S07 person nee which may occur in Mr. Butler’s act | will neither write or sped of Mr, Butler to any ‘ove while [ remain urder his roof | will also conform to the arrangements of his houre. as I shall find them on entering it, and I promire, if I find tiyself unable, fol6l any of the af id conditions. immediately: to hive notice toMr Butler of my inability to do s and to leave hig houre “ RRANCES-ANNE BULLER.” (February, 1945» see upon which [ miay hay in 4 the means’ any) 09 which I might. n been at a loss to imagine in what | have ' your will or opposed any wish of yourd. but with regard | to the question which you asked me about the money | which I had borrowed from my sister—this; | believe— I mean, refuring to answer that question, is the only act of opposition to your will with which I cnn tax | myeelf. At the time when [ refused. to satisfy you upon that point, your mode of interrogating me was such aa to rovee all the worst feelings of my nature —pride, Terentment. d a resistance which I conceived justi- fied, toa demand which | thought you had no right to make “But I pe that our position is so perilous now— threatened at this moment by such fatal that there is no possible concession of pride, r resentment, or any other feeling. that I am not pre fired to make for the sake of retrieving the past, and ingthe future. Thagfuture! Do you see-what | Do you contemplate, as I dd,in it the utter | truction of all our hopes, thesdeterioration, it be the complete degradation, of:our cha Lock through the remainder of 0} ith, m: one half of which is now already gassed. at what lies before a home without love, ut peace, with- out virtue, whence we shall each of us make haste to depart as from a place accursed. to seek forgetfulness of ali its disappointments, at_ bitter sources which will return Heirm | but poison into our heart: Look fur- ther yet, think of the lonely present, the dark accu- sing retrospect, the cheerless and fearful prospect which must close the existence of two human beings, who have thus wickedly wasted every blessing that ever’ was bestowed upon creatures most favored by Providence. “ For what a lot might ours be! Have we not youth, health, a most fortunate social position, many friends who rejotce in our welfare—children? Oh! Pierce. | Pierce | I look at our children and tremble, lest God should strike them fer our sins; lest we should be pu- nished in some awful way, through them, for our abut of all the benefits which are dally showered upon w and which we are turning Into judgments against our- relves. For God’s sake, and for your children’s sake, and for your own sake, Pierce,my husband. oh. still pad most tenderly beloved, let vs be wise before it is too late; show me wherein I have sinned in this our ter- rible condition, and mercifally help me to amend it. “ Save yourself, and me, Pierce, and our darling chil- dren, from a ruin woree than any worldly begcary— from self-condemnation of each other. from a dailyand and holy influences. Let us be friends, let us be Chris- tians, let us return to our duties, and to the path where and happiness are found. I impiore you by that which you once had for by that unalterable ich makas me dread ou more then any con- y from your heart all evil thoughts e—forgive me—forgive me, and | merciful dealing. and pt f your conscience. and | the up! ature. Do not, for God's | sake.give yourself up to unworthy pursuits and pleasures | remember your children, Pierce, and as you hope to | influenee them towards what is noble, virtuous and ox- cellent, do not forsake them and dd | ties, of mutual help, compassion a be athing accursed and evil to us ail, which we shall | have to answer for having made #0. Before writing | speak to your heart as May He bless you, and gu! my husbend.”” spok: EXHIBIT BL “In consequence of your refusing to be reconciled to me. or to live with me, upon any but imprssible terms. 1 came to my sister's house in order to recover a little from the dreadful state ef nervous itement into which I had been thrown by your treatment of me and [ed rejection of all my attempts to restore, if not the appinens, at least the peace and tranquillity of our lives, 1 have now recovered my composure, and hav- ing been here for several days without receiving any communication whatever from you, presume that it is your devermined resolution that we should separate, and accordingly must now consider what my situation Je likely to be, and how best to make arrangements for the fature. Before doing #0, however, let me remind you, that within the last ten days, | have made repeat- ed and ineffectual appeals to your affections, your comparsion, your justice, and your humanity, [| have entreated your pardon for any and all my past offences, as humbly as it beon ip fanit, todo, [now dosoagain 1 have offer- ed you every sesuraace which a fallible humanbring may dare to offer, of my derire and 9) rpone of fulfill- ing my duty better. I now do so again, ia the hope that ‘endering you all of repentance for thepars, and resolution for the fature, that one rativaal creature should do to another, you may be induced to reflect upon your own share in the wreck of our peace and perbaps perceive that the farther claim you have made upon me, ja such a8 your conscience should no more allow you to offer than mine will permit me to accept. Inthe event. however, of your atill adbering to thie proposition, which I etill unequivocally refase, it remaing to make some arrangements for our foture existence, My sinter leaves town on Monday, I shall not remain ia her bouse atter her departuro, of |,™y own family, nor, indeed, | sonexed to this proposal. comes one woo har, doubtless, often \ Purhapa | t epringing from nervous irritability, which T feel might lead me to the most fatal results, and which arise in great part from physical causes not under my own contrcl, that 1 proj ntire separation from you, ff you till refa van entire reconciliation. I dare not expose myself to influences which I have not rtrength to resist; and if my intercourse with you is not to be one of kindness and cordiality, I eannot a tempt to make it what, on my part, it can never be— one of indifference and careless estrangement. My disappointment éries aloud in my heart whenever [ see you, and the recollection of the past gives such bitter poignancy to the present and such terrible gloom to the fature, that my senses seem ready to forsake me at the eight of the piteous wreck of my existence Inid at your feet—remember with tire faith and love. If, however. you will not nt that I should not return tolive under the fame roof with my children vpow #Hteeterms, I have ernative left—to hire im. will be indiepensabl; et aservant, as I bave no ‘Samen being to ytbing for me; and though while in your house 1 could dispense with a maid, and have doné so at your derire, I cannot, alone as! now am, do without ‘one, These necessary expenses of my maintenance, of course you will provide for, as you do not, I pre- sume, anticipate my becoming a burthen to any of uld I for a moment msent todoso. This, then, is the last proposal I ve to make; and should I not receive an answer from you before Monday. I shall conclude that it is re as you wieh me to adopt, and shall act accord- ingly. EXHInIT Cc. ‘] hear with groat pain that youare.dl. 1 dare not come to you for fear of snnoying and irritating you, but I ‘implore you to let me come to~you, and be with you while you nre suflering and betpless Ob! Pierce, I love you dearly; pray Jet me o: ad nurse you.and do eny thing ‘i tho, world [ @am for you. Iam miserable to hear of your ih —only fend d Tmay come—pray=pray-a0, dear RXHIBIT D, ‘“ You have so repe: eaiygee harshly repelled my attempts to be reconciled to 4, that nothing butan imperative sense of duty would give me courage to ad- Greenest. Bat our mutusl friend, Mrs. to whem I suppose you have expressed your state of feeling with regard to me, has earnestly urged me to makeanother appeal to you, and assured me that she thovght our present angement was s source of as 2 ain to you gsito me. Aa you had declared both preferregOur present foode of living to a more . and that, moreever, in the state of separ- we: le to falfil your va ictus dutlen Thad watoranly fee watts onl tot be desirable for youdo be reconciled to me, and that after such @ declaration on your part, any further at- tempt on mine to alter your determination was really aselfish indulgence of my own earnest wishes. It, however, Mrs has understood you rightly, ‘and hag represented correctly'to me your feelings, you are not happy and satisfied in our present mode of living any n ore than myeelf, and the duty of again attempting to regaina better and less miserable condition for both of us, forces itself upon my mind.— Thardly know what it is that you reqnire of me in order to be reconciled to me. When, saving your indisposition,1 asked you on my knees what it was that you exacted from me, you replied you desired neha: and again, last night, —— ‘aes¥oed me tha® you had told her that com- pli was allthat you expected from me. Compli- afee with your wishes and obedience to your will, in rytespect in which they do not Interfere with the es of my conscience, [am most ready and wil- to . I have already expressed my Ite, both of omission and fasion towards you, and my sincere determi: tion “toendeavor not again to offend or pain you. If, therefore, my promise of compliance and obedience in all bere = where my conscience dees not forbid them, may satiafy you, pray accept: it, and let me again nestly entreat you to restore your affection to me, and again treat me asin heart and soul I have never ceas- ed to be, your true and devoted friend and loving wi! If this letter fails of its object, at any rate let me be; you to consider that I have been moved to write It by the representations of your friend, who that my love and my duty imperatively required that I should again express my feelings to you, and deavor toobtein the answer which she represented yours as likely to return.” EXHIBIT 1. Dean Sin :—At your request I inform you that my intention is to move in the course of this month into the house I bave taken. About the first of July I shall go to Newport for two months. It has never been a wish of mine to separate my children from their mother; the partial separation thet has existed between them, since November last, has ‘been the consequence of Mrs. Butler's“ determination to be separated” from me, a8 formally expressed in her note tome, dated 27th October, 1843. You now in- form me that it is Mrs. Butler's wish to recain with her children. and that if I propose to her to accompany them into the house I have taken, that she will do so. | shall not thwart her wish, previded she is prepared to conduct herself in euch a manner as an inmate of every family is bound todo. Since November last she has been in the constant practice of abusing mein the strongest language to every person that would listen to her. and her most in- timate associstes have been chosen from persons who have taken a violent and bitter part against me.— Should she again become # member of my family and an inmate of my house, ail thix must cease. rc In order that ske may be under the same roof/with her children. I propose to her to accompany them to the house | have provided tor their home. It is ne- cessary.; however, in order to protect myself, and to insure domestic privacy, that certain conditions be ‘These are that ali acquain- tance and intercourse of whatever kind, whether by word er letter, shall at once and forever cease between Mrs. Butler and every member of the Sedgwick family, and that hereafter she shall treat them in every re- pect a* entire strangers, andas if she hed never knownthem, ‘Tbat Mra, Batler will not keep up an acquaintance with any person that I may disxpprove of, and that in her future intercourse with her friends in this country and in Eng! she will not mention any ocir- cumstance which may occur in my house or family, and that she will in ke manner cease to speak of mo in terms of reprobation and repro: If you will re- flect off this, you will perceive thi ve stipulated unusual or unnecessary, but only require olutely essential to the well being and pment of every family. If Mra. Butler con- duty to her obildren paramount to all other considerations, she will bi no difficulty in acceding to this proposal, im which cage | need scarcely say to ou, that I will endeavor to make her residence with er ebildr teble as it can be, whilst her excited stat ainet me continues | must beg you to ve & defmuite answer to this propo- sal within two days. I am making arrangements for goin which will be moditied by airs, Butler's determination Yours, truly, (Signed) PIERCE BUTLER. Ww. M. Meredith, rq May 2, 1844 exnimir 2 I bave committed this to the care of our excellent mutual friend, Mr, Farnese, in order that it may reach you in the least distast+fol manner possible at ido not ‘wien anything im the mode of my addressing you to ta ith the object | have fo view. Iam iaduced mort serious comeiderations to make one more my proper position towards my en. my reasons before you, that you may not mleapprehend me, My ister and several of my friends in England, adjare me with the utmost enrnest ners, to make another overtare to yoo, halley- ing that yiu are acvestibie toc ekoonsdle one tor ; and to leave them no doubt as to my | ondnet, and the motives | am actuated by, [ take this step. I'am also told by many persons who bave direct and indirect communication with you, that vou bave expressed regret at my separation from my children. It is very difficult, indeed, to ascertain the precise truth of such reports, passed as thuy are from mouth to mouth; but because [ knew several people who are, | believe, as kindly disposed towards | you as towards myself, who entertain this opinion. I | will not neglect to ascertain if an impression #0 fayo- rable to my own wishes bs true. My chief inducement; | however, in addressing you—and one that makes ali other considerations light—is the conviction that it is my duty to make one more effort—a most earnest one —to obtain from you the restoration of my rights over my children. Your own assurance, given to Mr. Ger- hard, that I should see my children daily, was infring- ‘at the very outset by your taking them to Newport | and preventing my going thither. under a threa keeping them all summer in townif I did so. Since their return to Philadelphia, they have both of them been re- peatedly kept from me, and the seven hours a week which you yourself appointed as my portion of inter- course with my children, have been curtailed at your pleasure, until | have not the slightest reason to reckon upon the arrangement, Within the three weeks ‘ou have,imoreover, deliberately determined that Sarah is to omit ber visit to me reguiarly once a fortnight; thus, not only accidentally and for occasional reasons, but of set purpose and by your own arrangement, the little intercourse you professed to intend [ should with my children is reduced to still less. On the other hend, although my allotted time with them has been thus sometimes infringed upon, and someti: fo a8 to occasion me the greatest incon have never been able toobtain—though I once or twice have requested it—that the hour of thetr visit. should be altered in order. to accommodate me ; nor have I once been allowed their society on Saturday, their | holiday, though 1 have rent to request it repeatedly, | and though they have been allowed to spend it indif- ferently with any friends or acquaintance who invited | them, and eceasionally have passed the greater part of | their holiday afternoon, in which their society was in- variably denied me, in rambling about with no other guerdianehip but that of a very young and ignorant | Irish servant girl, This miserable and {aterrupted in- | tercourte with my children, instead of contributing in any degree to my comfort or happiness, has, through its dependencs upon your will, become a source of constant suffering, disappointment and bitterness tome; and | though | wouldendure all the pain that such wretched TWO CENTS. plicit, ordered me to leave his honee, nor did he after- ward#, in any way, retract that order. On the birthday of my children, the younger dame to inform me that they were going out to spend the day at the farm, where they were born, with their father and the governess, and that the former had sent her to tell me I might go too, if chose. Upon enquiring of her how they were gol she said, her father, the verness, heree:/ and her sister, were going out in a aar- riage, in which. however, there was no room for me; but that I could g I pleased. on horseback, or in. cab. The little creature saw t! jock which such proposition gave me, and throwing her arou) me. seid, Pen’t cry mother, I'll go with y would not, however, take advantage of passion to condemn her to a sad drive therefore sent her with the others, and fo jage alone inaback cab. as | was det neglect no opportunity wi a ined to was allowed me of being with my children; and | submitted to this humiliation rather than pass their birthday this year, as I bad done the year before, when they were taken away to the farm with the governess; and not being permitted to accompa’ , I rode out alone in the public road, listening to their voices, and endeavoring to eatch a glim of them through the trees a they played on the la Not only was my influence with my children de- stroyed in almost every posible ner, but they were taught distinotly by the libellant, that | had no authority over them at all. I had not even the privi- to take them out with me, #o that, when [ made en spplication to the libellant for permission to take my younger child to virit a friend in the neighborhood f the city, for a couple of days, I received the follow- ing reply :— * Neither of the children must be taken to visit any Pergon at any time. June 15th, 1815” Once I asked the libellant, who was sitting with the governers, whether he bad given a certain permission to my younger child, whom I brought into the room with me; he replied by addressing the child, without taking any notice of me I then simply pointed out an objection to the thing. personally addressing and naming the libellant, but he took up ® newspaper, and continued reading {¢ without further regarding me.— Seeing the same child try one pair of shoes which wers too small for her, I sent back to the shoe- maker for a pair of larger ones; Mut, as soon as these came, the libellant returned for those which were too small for her—to ter y children that [ was not to be permitted even t@ change for them communion with my children gives me if they were to derive the slightest benefit from it, am 0 perfectly con- vinced that no good accrues to them from my unfor- tunate position, and the sad and mengre seasons of intercourse with me allowed them, that an effort to | render our relations more what they should be is es | much to be made for their-sakes asmine. * * * | I have known that this musthereafter be the case, and, | indeed, have hoped to receive from my child’s sense of right, some reward in future years for all the bitterness | I bave endured for her sake ; yet I have ever scrupu- | lourly forborne to mention your name to her, other- wise than with the respest which I hope you may be able toinspire her with, But, independently of all there sad causes for thinking it expedient to alter my present position, there is a more serious one still, which, embracing the highest welfare of my child, af- fects me more than any mere consideration of the sad- ness of the lot of these young oreatures—girls—do- prived of the care of mother, which I believe no one has ever yet thought of cowbidering second in efficiency to that ofany porsible substitute. ¢ * * — | ‘There are my motives for again addressing you. I will | ow propose te you & mode of remedying these evile, which I most sincerely hope you will consent to, and for which, failing your acceding to my proposal, | must reek others infinitely to be deprecated. I earnestly re- | quest and entreat you to permit me admission to the | home of my children, upon the following understand- Ing —an entire abstinence.on my part from all refer- ence to the past ; an ¢i ent that I will publish nothing without your conggmt, and that I will neither | write nor speak of yeu to any one soever while I remain under your rocf,and will hold you, of course. at liberty to pursue your own career, without comment or interfo- rence of mine; moreover, | presume { need not add, that I do not expect to see or receive 2 your house any per- son or persons whomay be obnoxious to you. AsI'make this last appeal to yeu from the most imperative sense of duty,and upon the most mature consideration, I solemply agsure you that will keep these conditions, | not only to the letter, but in the spirit of peace and rectitude, My children and my obligations to them constrain me to this measure, and for their sakes | ad- jure yeu to receive my proposal, a pair of shoes, which were too tight, I was now kept, for more than three month, eutirely without money. ‘Towards the close of the month of Jane, and begin- ning of that of July, the libellant’s correspondence with r+ Scoame as violent and abusive in its style, an singular in its subject. The residence of the governess in his houre, under all the circumstances throngh which she had persisted in it, had not ea- caped observation and comment; and, as I had fally anticipated, kad Jed to the most disadvantageous and pasra rumors with regard to her character. Instead, owo+e.", of considering thia, as it really was. the inevitable consequence of her own deliberate course of conduct, both she and the libellant thought proper to attribute there disgraceful, but natural inferences, to calumnious falsehood. on my part; and I was not only called upon by him, repeatedly and most emphati- cally, to deny having ever slandered her, but was compelled to appeal to numerous persons for testimo- pialt, as to whether | had ever accused her of an adulterous intercourse with the libellant. The libel- aie addressed me the following letter upon this subject :— “Purapecenta, Jane 28, 1848. “ A short &.me ago, I received a letter from Mrs, Sar- toris and Mrs. Mackintosh, both of whom are your oor- respondent, ‘Those letters were incomprehensible to me, and contained expressions which I did not under- stand. | Mrs, Mackiritosh says, ‘I entreat you, if you have any wish (either for your children’s sake, your own comfort, or reepectability) that Fanny should re- main in your houre—take some measures for appoint- ing a sueceffor.to Miss Hall. [ must consider her pre- sence an inapit to Fanny, and I do not believe your resent life can or ought to go on while she remains.” irs. Startoris rays, ‘Let me entreat you to modify that most dujust and intolerable arrangement by s,) supercedes my sister im her right her children. No woman would bear euch an intolerable insult as this. There is but one opinion about it here, and that is, that from the moment my sister returned to take her proper place. Miss Hall ought to have been dismissed ‘at once. All your and our friends are in the extremes despair, that this sheuld not have been arranged by expt 8. Dear Sir—The communication that Mrs. Butler has thought proper to address to me, and which was de- livered to me by yourself, contains the expression of a seemingly sincere desire to resume her duty to her children; a duty that she deliberately abandoned fourteen months sgo, and which she has entirely ne- lected during the whole of the subsequent time. Seven mon , | wrote to Mr. Meredith, and named the of ms on which Mrs Butler was free to become agaim en inmate of my family; she then rejected themwawithout hesitation, and now propones otber terms, “ean find no reason for an: ge in the conditions "stated to Mr. Meredith, if Mra. Butler be sincere in her desire to live wl ent: dren, she can have no hesitation in agreein m2, ‘The caures which existed at that time to obligeyms to stipulate such terms, are still iu force; and ie Would not be possible for Mra Butler to live in @y house with- out the most rigid obgervanae of those. “it she determine to accede them, I will endea make enoh changeain the mi wn abeld Gi os old as will enable her tolive tn the famtiy; must bear im mind, however, that in coneequence of her desertion of the children, I have been obliged fora year past toas- sume the entire direction of them, and that the at rangements I have made for their studies and educ: tion, must in no way be interfered with It would be well for Mra Butlor torefer to the letter’ addreseed to Mr. Meredith, and again to weigh the | preeise terms proposed in it; she will find that I re- | quire her to renounce “at once and forever,” all;com- munication with those low-bred, vulgar meddlers, the Sedgwioks. ‘ 1 should be glad to know her determination without delay, a8 astate of uncertainty on the subject is by no meansaggreeable. Yours, very sincerely. PIERCE BUTLER. Rev. Witttram H. Furness. Deo, 13th, 1844. Still, however, such delays succeeded on the part of the libellant, that although my application to him for admission to my children’s house made on | the llth of December, 1844, 1 did not obtain permis- sion to enter it until the 8d of March, 1845, on which day I left the boarding-house in Chesnut street, where | I had been living ever since my children had been taken from me, and went to the libellant’s house in Walnut | street. I annex bereto a copy of the remaining part | ofthe correspondence upon the subject of my adm! sion to the libellant’s house, the letters being mark respectively, exhibits 4, 5, 6. 7,8, 9, and 10. Among the aunoyances of that time, I do notthink it too unimportant to state that anonymous letters were sent me, copies of two whereof, marked exhibits 10 A and 10B,1 annex. and which I was distrested | to believe, were written by the libellant; proof whereof, | if desired, I crave leave to adduce. | It. will be observed by the foregoing narrative, that | the libellant and I, in consequence of his misconduct | to me, were by mutual agreement living separate and | apart from each other, and that the libellant having almost entirely deprived me of apy intercourse with my children, notwithstanding his stipulation that 1° | should be unres:ricted, | ‘an application to him | to be received under the same roof with them. He | entertained and finally assénted to this application | vpon certain onerous conditions, and with the ex- | ception of my admission to his house, our relations were to continue, and did continue as before. It was but # very short time afterwards, before I be- came aware that the sacrifice | had made, had been wade in vain, and that my presence in the house, far tt m being, as I had hoped, of service to my children, w 7 sedulously to be employed as a means of rendering | me odious to them, and destroying the remains of re- | spect and affection which they might still tain for me. No pleasure or enjoyment of theirs was allowed to be derived from me. [ wasrepresented to them as the source of every inconvenience and disappoint- ment which they suffered. About the middle of April Treeeived in anenvelope from the libellant, a letter | spondent of yours, you previous to Fanny’s return to your house.’ “Al this was perfectly i not, ‘who or: wi me in thi oF; and I was totally at a loss jould not remain as the governe+s.of more was I at loss to conceive how It seemed atrangs le I consider her a proper ron to ipstruct my ebildren, that persons living in Ea land should undertake to rule my domestic arrange- mente, and should urge me to dismiss her, nor could I interpret the grave insinuations which their expres- sions seemedtoc nvey. Seme lighthar been cast upon the subject by a letter which Mies Hall herselfhas jast received from ber tisterin Englan nm it 1 which has been communicated to me—it in as follo * Mra. Carpenter, while in London, heard from her Dr. Carpenter, what I think it bost to tell you, painful as it is, namely, Mrs. Butler's scandalous reports re- rpecting yourself, that e criminal connection between er husband and you was the cause of her leaving him, ko» Byron and Lady, Lovelace 1: ner i is report is stat toute Tram Ledy Boece and Leas Upevtaon ine ; ahe byron ‘obable that Mre. Jameson was thetr informan’ as constant Intercourse with them, and she is a corre- Tt in necessary that yeu should say whether or not you have originated such a report. or whether you have ever aad anything which could give rise tolt | require your answer to be plain and direct, eo as either to confirm you as the author, dirprove it totally. PIERCE BUTLE: To which I replied as follows :— on Saturday, Ib to it—to an accu brought a courte, no a letter of your English correspon to do; still less with those of Miss mupicated to you. If my sister or Mi write to you about your affairs, it is etigation nor with my knowledge. I a ‘for diradvantageous reports in circulation about Miss Hall, but not at all surprised at them, as they Bre the natu- ral and inevitable consequence of her position in your family for the past year.”” At the rame time I addressed a note to the governess, denying that I bad ever spoken, written, or even theught the injurious things , which were attributed to me. The libellant, iT, again assailed me on this point. “ Jury 1, 1845. 7 “It is impossible to make any impression on one whore mental and moral obliquity blinds her to all the vices of her nature, whose reason {s sophistry, and whose religion is cant, and whose unbounded self es- teem renders ber happy and satisfied in all her wrong doings, I have, therefore, no hope that you willever comprehend, much less fulfil your duty ass mother. In the endeavor to discharge my duty to my children, 1 am as much bound to protect those who have in any way the care of them, and who are sheltered by my roof, ag | am bound to protect my chiidren themselves. An infamous ecandal having been reported coneern- ing their instructress, it ia right that it should be de- nied and disproved, and this for their sakes as well as her's. Therefore, | again require, that you will expli- citly state whether or not you have ever said any thing which could originate the report alluded to. Your having refused an answer gives me the strongest im- pression that you have done so, and if you do not feat to speak the truth, why not answer explicitly s simple question? You ought to perceive that such areport is, he Bs th LP eee i.) yon canes oe even Q erseif, and unless disproved, plas, ip @ most diecreditable position,for consenting aie at table, day after dey, with such a character. Deny, therefore, if you can, having originated the ‘nfamous 4 clear yourself feom an imputation oman would be ashamed ef,” As for the letter I rect been reall; from my friend Miss Sedgwick. As one of the clauses of my contract of sojourn was, that I should forego all intercourse with every member of this family, | was | much surprised at receiving this enclosure from the li- | bellant; but I supposed be had some special motive for | tending it to me, and as we exchanged no communi- | cation other than written, this appeared to me toindl. cate that he chose me to receive the letter, and I ac- | cordingly opened and read it. I immediately, how- | ever, perceived my mistake on receiving the following | note from the libellant:— | & You have lived in this house a little over a month, end you have already violated the principal condition | which you bound yourself to observe, whi der my roof, I will hold no intercourse #0 utterly wanting in truth and good faith, and there- fore request zou to address no more notes to me. April 12th, 1845.97 Ifelt myself completely caught in a trep, and replied to him as follows: — “ Apne “Tdo not understand what you mean. I ‘6 just received, enolosed by you to me, letter from Miss Sedgwick You cannct bave been more surprised than mytelf. at receiving the letter, but from the fact of yout sending it tome, I presumed you had rome reason for wishing me to read it, which nothing but its coming from you would have induced me to do.” ‘The libellant answered me as follows: — “Before you came into this houre, you should bave informed the Sedgwicks of the conditions to which | you bad bound yourself, and have wa: them to write to you no more; it is probable that you did #0, but being vulgar and obtrusive people, they are a! tempting to persevere in their officioas meddling i my demestic concerns, You were bound by your ob- Vgation to returm unread and in # blank cover, any letter which you knew to come from them. Your doing to by the first letter, might prevent # repetition of such indelicate couduct, and save my house from being infested by their correspondence. Your not deing 0, ie @ direct encouregement to them to perse vere. and your reading and retaining their letter la a violation of all (ruth and honor on your part. “April 12th, 1845.” It will be obrerved that the libellant. raferring to his gonditions” of admitting me under his roof, charged he, by bie note of tha Heth of April, 1815 with be Jrebep thers conerionn, Aud in Game euflsestly ex I replied to the libellant as follows:—"' “ You appear to overlook the fact, that in bringi en accuration of defamation ogainet me, you are bound to prove it otherwise than by your suspicions, or the affirmations of person who isa rto me, and as the guilt of prc pagating malignant falsehoods is, in my opinion. greater than that of « of chastity 1 beg you will dogo, You have also n that rimple denial of » person accused, (and by yourvelf, as you state, strongly suspected.) of what you charge me with, would be utterly, worthless; as anybody capable of os lie would hardly soruple to shield by another “ ‘The intemperate tono of your letter eit those inconsistenciee less surprising then they would other- wise be, and I will only add, that | protest most solemn- ly against the Saworthy treatment to which [ am sab- decked, and whieh tered obtain. proper proote of A ossibly could obtal sad antrue ‘sccusstion whtob the libellant inst me, | transmitted them to him. g understood that the libellant was sbout go- ing cut ef town, to engage lodgings for the children slone. at his Darley farm, | tock an opportanity to tell him that I hoped be would not send the children where I could not be with them ; he, however, made mo re- ply, whatever. 1 then wrote to him a note, as follows :— « Jucy léth, “ [hope you wil! be good enough to make such ar- rangemente as will not reparate my children from me. ne to your house to be with them, and have no right to expect that they will be placed where I camnot be with the: . . . ” The libellant thus replied to my letter :— | bave made an arrangement to send the obildren to the Darley farm, for,two or three weeks, with their former puree, Ann Martin, the only servant who was ever able to exercise apy control over them, and un- der whore care they will be peeesy not vend them to # public watering company them myrelf, which | am notable to do © Tuerday, July 15th.” The ebildren having tent to the Darley farm, and the governess to tering place, the hoase was given up to workmen. to be plastered and painted — Jent tenk vo hia ehote to hie hrvkiverts Rouse, word elove et hecudot Joly sa the aaa