The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1850, Page 3

‘following words:— -My pgax Mas. Forrest, hich please sib, haps 1 had better hold. “his service. ~wonder; all is a mystery. ~ wrote it, he supposes, and, on Monday, igaorant of tention r returned me the original letter. Oa y, 1849, Mr. Lawson sent me a copy of to my father, and his reply to my said y y are in my possession, and are in the = ; 2d May, 1819. Your note came to me last evening as I was go- ‘home, but | did my best in obeying your maa- it was a ult task. A copy is herewith, reserve, or atter you have perused I told him I was ‘orrest came this morning tal’ ao" dieguine our friend as well as his; that | it E ba either, ‘and apeatinned ther I hy received @ note fi which, if he wished to see, was at Lape read it; he read too, the leer re- ferred to. He exhibited much feeling and ap- my course ; I may talk freely to him of you. feeli his estrangement make me I shi Bion ben Art moment. I trust you ap- prove of-what I have done as he does. He was very angry about the Aélas article; had not seen it till itvappeared in the Herald. Southworth the article, met him, and was kind to him. Ever your’s, traly, he New York, May lat, 1349. Joun Sivciarm, Esq., London :— Dean Sin—This ‘afternoon, Mrs. Forrest ad- dressed me a note requesting me to write to you by this rteemer, from which I infer that you are unadvised of some unpleasant circumstances that have happened in Twenty-second street. It is an Freres task, Te rather in any iatmation irst reach you through the newapapers, an in obedienee to her wish, I write. In her note to me, Mra.’Forrest says :—‘ You are the only persen except myeelf, whocould, with propriety, write to my father on the subjec:, a very few lines will suf- ; | will write by next steamer.” On Saturday Jast, (28:h April) Mr. Forrest took our daughter to the house of Mrs. Godwin, (Mr. vy hter,) and there left her with the in- of a formal separation. The cause of this separation I do not, know, aad neither party may ever disclose. It ig now about three months since the first intimation of a diflerence came to my ywledge; yet with the exception of a week or two at most, during which, | reMnarked an extrava- —_ ot feeling, nothing was apparent in the con- luct of either to warrant these events; it seemed le cemnashageensd Those who con- etantly visited them could not perceive anything in the conduct of either ~4 make such an event ne- cessary, or even probable. From the time this unhappy aflair was concluded on between them, Mrs. Forrest has conducied her- self, as she always does, with admirable discre- 3 Mot a murmur has escaped her lips. Mr. ‘orrest has always been kind aad considerate, and nothing in his conduct gives warrant for angry feelings or unkind treatment. He thinks he has made a self sacrifice for some high principle; what, I know not. I am persuaded that both parties are still warm- ly attac’ to one another; he, judging by hia looke, hae suflered deeply, and has grown tea ears older during the lust few months ; she is not jese afilicted. things all considered, make this separation appear a mystery which 1 cannot fathom. Time may do much for both. Of one thing, 1 can assure you, yeur daiughter’s honor is unsuilied. No breath of suspicion can touch it, and all who know her will bear testimony in her favor. The mutual friends of both parties remain the friends of each, which I am sure, is pleasing to Mr Forrest and to her, as it must be gratifying to yqu to know. No efforts shall be left untried to bring about a reconciliation, but I dare not hold out the hope of a successful issue. P Virginia {s with Mrs. Forrest ; Margaret remains at her former Ii ings; her baby is a fine child. All are well in health, Mrs. Lawson joins me in kindest regards to Mrs. Sinclair. With best wishes for your health and happiness, end that you may these tidiags with a firm nerve, is the preseot hope ar sir, yours very truly, James WSON. It will be seen that Mr. Lawson, uader his owa hand, written at the very time, declared that Mr. Forrest read and approved his letter to my father, containing the assertion of my ianoceace ; yet now, it seeming to be necessary for his employer’s pur- he testifies that said letter was seat without Mir Forrest's knowing its contents. He told me about the time, that Mr. Forrest had read aad ap- it. I understand and believe that he so stated to others. 0 As to Mr. Lawson’s desire for a reconciliation between Mr. Forrest and myself, I do mot deny i; was ready to serve Mr. Forrest at all times. amount of his efforts I will briefly state. He called on me in October, 1819, and said that he had a long conversation with Mr. Forrest, and that he hade reason to believe that a reconciliation between Mr. Forrest and myself was by no means ible ; on the contrary, that Mr, Forrest en- tel very different views on many subjects since his separation from me, and wi to come and see me, but would not, unless he 4 be sure not to meet Mrs. Voorhees. . Lawson then suggested that Mrs. Voorhees should leave the house in order to conciliate Mr. Forrest. Some few evenings after this coa- versation, Mr. Lawson called again, and said that Mr. Forrest was most anxious to know whether I had consented to send my sister away, and further, that Mr. Forrest had remarked, “ By this | will test her affection for me, if she has any.” | told Mr. Lawson that we had taken the house in Six- teenth street together, and made all our arrarge- menis to stay there during the winter; it would be most amen sears 9 ~ ry mes ag oe Jeave, and that hia suggestions should have ‘n made prior to the taking of the house; Mr, Lawson said, * Cm sure, for the furtherance of such an object, Ae would consent to go for a week or two.” I te plied that I could not ask her to do so, but would tell her the substance of our conversation, and would let him know her determination the follow- ing day, When | should eal! on him for my quarter- ly allowance. After his departure, my sister and I had some conversation on the subject, and she at once determined to leave the house, and remain away during the of (wo months, which ehe accordingly did. the morning after Mr. Law- son’s last visit, | wrote the following note, which I gave to him myself, and which, he informed me, he immediately sent by Mr. Steveas to Mr. For- rest, at Font Hint Mr. Forrest being, as he said, ‘most impatient to w my devermination: — To James Lawson, Esq. -— Mr Drax Sik :—immediately after your depar- ture last evening, | told my sister the subject of our conversation, aad What had been your former - ice (of which she was not previously aware). at further consaltation, she at ouce to leave the house on Monday, and | consented that she shouid do so, feeling sure that you would not urge @ step which is one of some importance, and atiended with, at least temporary, extreme pe cuniary embarrassment, unless you had some re- liable grourd to sappose it would further a food . That your motives are the purest and best l have no dowbt; thet your chief sim in this, is to eflect a reconciliation between Mr. Forres: and myself, you w; whether you act wisely in assuming this most heavy fo geeey you best know: "But, as I said last might, you are working blindfold,g not knowing the causes which led to the present state of things, and, as you teld me, with Mr. Forrest's assurance to you that we contd not live happ ly again togevher. this you cann be 80 pood a pan ‘ad he is, Who weighed all the circumstances, and considered the matter of our separation, fer many mouths before it took place. T do not fee! equal to entering now more fully upon . I write hurriedly, that and briefly, as [ have ou may hav Jot slept since I and Iam sick at head and heart. ours, Xe., Mr. Lawson celled on me © Font Hill on the following day, (Suaday,) and that he would have a conversation with Mr. For. rest; end that he had go doubt, in fact, from what Mr, Forrest had already eaid, he would assure me, that within one week he and Mr. Forrest would come avd dine with me ia Sixteenth street. Lenard no more from Mr. Lawson until a fort- —_. when he wrote me 4 note enclosing © i} which had been sent to Mr. Forrest by a mitli- ner, for some bonneis she had made for me prior to my separation from Mr Forrest. Mr. Lawson called on me one of two evenings prior to this ener, but I dectined seeing bir ; in the firet plage, because | felt hurt at being srifled with On & matter of. such importance ; and, in the second place, because | wished to receive any communication he t have for me in writ- ing. He wrote me as he states, December 1, 1319. His letter contained additioanl matters which he bas omitidd. 1 give the balance of it, and my aa- swer bo it. | reosived your note of Tuesday evening; you still hg une f a es ae You ‘wyive unkinal may arshly, to your —. fever, slace t first knew you, to this hour, have T left a word unsaid, of an act wi t would please or serve you. If T understand you rightly, people have convinced you that | am your e who are these people; what am I accused ind said he should go nd follow your advice willingly, but | there boerdi these, negotiations were . [never your motives for acting you did. T only blamed you for deceiving me as to tate of Mr. Forrest’s feelings, and for gi’ me oO of your attempts, you broach topics which are un- derstood by none a Mr. Forrest and myself; and express opiaions which | am certain Mr. Forrest never sanctioned ; we our own aflai long enough to preclude the necessity of our having any one to interpret them forus. When I saw Mr. Forrest subsequent to our separation, he gave me every assurance of hia belief in my sincerity, and that faith I have done nothing since to forfeit, Prior to these last few weeks, I had always enter- tained a hope and belief, that time alone could heal the existing breach, and that when the reilec- tion of years had soothed some preseat asperi- ties, we might both be ia comparatively ; for this reason I have discouraged al! in- terference in the matter, om have permitted no one to question or discuss Mr. Forrest’s motives or ¢onduct in my presence. 1 conceived the second note which | wrote to ous and to which you refer, to be an explanation of my first, and called at your house the day I sent it, (when! was extremely unwell,) in order to show you that! had no ua- friendly feeling to yeu. I have always welcomed youasa friend, for, till now, I have thought you one ; those who knew better than 1 did, said you could not be so to both parties, but I conceiving our interests (Mr. Forrest’s and mine) to be inseparable, acted accordingly. Mr. Forrest and I parted friends. T learn with sadness, that his feelings have eaee and to you alone can | ascribe the blame. That this should be a matter of little importance to you, I can understand; I am not in a position to e it of consequence— but your Christmas will gain no- thing in mirth or content by the reflection that you have wounded one aizeady wens Sone and without kindred or friends in the w! country on whom she hasa right to rely. With much respect, and some sorrow thus to close a friendship of twelve years standing, Tremain, &e, Caruarine N. Foragst. In his affidavit, sworn before John Livingston, Pennsylvania Commissioner, February 28th, 1850, mentioned in my former ‘cllidavit, ‘Mr. Lawson made the following statement “On the first of February instant, $15.) Mrs. Underwood called at my office, No. 82 Wail street, on private business, then communicated to me, for the first time, herfknowledge of the facts contained in her deposition Mr. Forrest was then absent from the city of New York, and, upon his return a few days afterwards, [ communicated to him the resultfof my interview with Mrs. Under wood, and have no doubt that thie was the first knowledge Mr. Forrest had of the nature of the facts stated in that deposition, at all events through me. _ This was upon the third day after my counsel had distinctly announced that no divorce for crimi- nality could be obtained by my consent. The word “result,” and other circumstances show, and I believe, that the object of that mterview was to induce Mrs. Underwood to make a statement inst me, and that the mode of attaining that object was preconcerted between Mr. Forrest and Mr. Lawson. I cannot procure voluntary affida- vits, but lam informed, and verily believe, that I can prove, oa apy trial where it may be relevant, the representation dly made by said Law- son to his intimates, that the instant Mr. Lawson communiceted this “result” to him, Mr. Forrest upon the floor, with such suddenness and violence ¢ the hurt himself considerably. This was tive weeks after his letter of 24th December, charging me with impurity. It was quite true that Mr. Lawson asked me who was wrong in the un- known cause of our separation, and that | answer- ed that “*I was.” My protest to the Penasy!y Legislature, my former affidavit, my omission to deny the Kenorperaps J word imputed to me ail — admissions of that fact. I did not say Mr. Lawson “ Ah, sir, the difficulty in our case that a third party ‘knows it,” nor saythiog to that eflect, or say anything nearer to it then is herein- after stated. le these were my very words. I deny it absolutely. 1 believe that these words, and the words last quoted in his affidavit, were written for Mr. Lawson by one whom he cannot disobey. Tam quite sure Mr. Lawson said no! tome about repentance or atonement. I gave him the idea that the cause was an insult Mr. Forrest could not get over; I think he said something about no one else knowing it; and that | said one other person did haow it; | meant my sister Marga- ret, but did notname her. Mr Forrest's expressed wish for its concealment, bound me to conceal it ~~? all except my sister. r. Forrest speaks of another affidavit in his ssion, Fcoataining a charge against me. The t alleged never occurred, and as he has not ventured to name his wiiness, or even the —— ane 1 can give no further answer to that tation. poy aid not furnish for the press a of my com- in the action for an absolute divorce, as al- ged by Mr. Forrest. My counsel, as I believe, used his beg exertions to keep it concealed, and for that purpose prevented it from being filed. I believe that a copy wi ney’s offi rent to the press by a person friendly to If had sent it, Mr. Forrest would have no right to jain. le by himself and his well-knowa agents, been continually vilti- fying me in the public prints, as | am fully assured. a lengthy and most scandalous attack upor me, made some months nag paper, was immediately sent by him to me, by mail. { have the envelope addressed in his owa hand- writ and a witness whe can prove these facts, cea ma 4 paper = sree and their receipt by me through the mail. Sone time in November last, | was introduced, for the first tinie, to an eminent member of the bar, who was just then retained for me, at the office of my attormey. On the same day, at about one o'clock P is | was returning from said office, through Broadway, to my house, Mr. Forrest met and ear Barclay street, almost touch- paseed me b ing me, end brushing by in such a eg way as for the, moment to startle me considerably. The gen- teman last mentioned, —— the same way to- wards the City Hall, happened to overtake me, a moment after, ang politely addressed me. Mr. Forrest immedi itely returned, and spoke to me with eat rudeness. A few days afterwards (November , 1850) Twas proceeding down Broadway, to my counsel’s office, in an omnibus. Mr. Forrest entered, and addressed me very rudely and inasult- ingly, in the presence of a number of persons, ask- ing about my “ »” o8 he expressed it, referring to the said last mentioned gentleman by neme; and threatening to send me_to the State prison. Carnaring N. Pornest. Sworn before me, this 20th day of December, 1860. Invine Paris, Commissioner of Deeds. cory or by ore AND ANSWER. cHAROR Asche, the said plaintiff ro the said Edwia Forrest, disregarding the solemnity of the marrage vow, hue, sioce the marri of her, the said plain- tif, with him |, committed adultery at divers times and places, and with divers women; and especially he, the said Edwin Forre d_ oftentimes commit adultery with a certain play-actrese, now deceased, at her residence, known as sumber ———— White street, in the city of New York, on divers the said plaintiff, unknown, in the Fond eight handred and forty two nd eight hundred and forty-three ; and aleo on sundry days, to the said plaintiff un- known, with the same actr French's Hotel, in Nortotk, in the State of Virginia, whilet he, the said Edwin Forrest and said actress, were both in the one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, Iso on sundry days, to the said plainutl unknown, in the year one thou- sand eight hundred and forty-four, with the said actrese, at Earl’s Hotel, in Providence, ia the State of Rhode Island, whilet he, the said Edwin For- nd the said actress, were both there boarding. And also with one frequently, on day and times to the seid plaintiff! unknown, between the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand tight hundred jand forty-sever the pre- rent time, at the house number Wooster street, in the city of New York omen mentici plaint, at any or stated in the AFFIDAVIT @F WILLIAM C. BRYANT. City and County of New York, ss.—William © yant being sworn, says as follows :—In January or obrecp-lant, after I was informed Mr. Sedg- wick and Mr. O’Conor had been consulted in re- lation to thie controversy, Mr. Sedgwick acting on behalf of Mr. Forrest, spoke of an annuity to be settled by Mr. Forrest. I spoke to Mrs. Forrest, by desite of Mr. Sedywick, apd obtaiaed her eon- seat to the eufliciency of such annuity, in case the mode of obtaining the divorce desired by Mr. For- rest, could be made satisfactory to her. After several conversations with Mr Sedgwick on the subject, being, as I supposed, fully in possession of the terms on which he desired to arraoge the mat- ter between the parties, | reduced them to writing. A member of my family copied them, and that copy was havded to Mrs. Forrest. Such proposi- tion was in the following words :— ‘The pro d agreement, Firet—That the agreement between the parties which Mr. O’Conorha —_en, be executed. James Lawson is the uustee, ¢ any respectable and pro- per pereon may be su’ tuted. Secondly—That UY . agreement be left with Wm C. Bryant as / . escrow, to be delivered to Mre. Forrest in case of a divorce obtained from the Pennsylvania Legislature, otherwise, to be handed back to Mr. Forrest’s counsel. Thirdiy—Mre Forrest is expected to promise some mutual! friend, who will give assurances 10 her behalf, that she will not interfere to prevent the obtaining the divorce trom the Pennsylvania Legislature. ‘ourthiy—That Mr. Forrest will Hedee himself to some mutual friend, that he will not give any ee to the charges or testimony adduced on the application, and will prevent any publicity being given them by others now or hereafter. He engages, aleo, that the application shall be couched in the most delicate and general terms possible, and contain no charges which may be unnecessary o the object of obtaining a divorce. Mr. Sedgwick will, at any time that may be de- sired, communicate with Mr. O’Conor in relation to this matter. And further this deponent saith not. " Wa. C. Bryant. Sworn to this 18th day of December, 1850, before me. C. B. Wuescer, Commissioner of Deeds. AFFIDAVIT OF CHARLES CONDIT. City and Cownty of New York, ss —Charles a ee oe ee Condit, of the said city, attorney-at-law, being duly sworn, saye e8 follo On the 12th da: rr} De- cember, 1850, I found in the records of Legis- lature of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at the Capitol of said State, at Harrisburgh, a pacer purporting to be an original petition for a divorce, prevented by the above-named defendant, to the ouse of Representatives of said State, on the twenty-first sey of Fobvary last. It purports to bear the original signature of Mr. Forrest, and, as Ibeheve, truly. It is a substantial copy of the oe of Mr. Forrest which was presented to the nate, and contains the fellowing word: “That your petitioner was born in the city of Philade)phia, on the ninth day of March, in the year 1 and resided in the said city until he established himself in the city of New York, in or about the year 1837, where he has resided till on or about the first day of December, 1849, when he resumed his residence in the city of ing mg . Conprr. Sworn to before me, this 21st day of December, 1860. Txvino Panis, Commissioner of Deeds. _ APFIDAVIT OF ISAPELLA J. SINCLATR. City and Cownty of New York, ss.—Isubella J. Sinclair, residing at No. 192 First Avenue, in the said city, being duly sworn, doth depose and say: That ehe knows Christiana Underwood, w: formerly resided im the family of Edwina Forrest and Ce‘herive N., bis wife, and has been ac- nted with her for upwards of three years last st. Onthe 17th of April last, deponent saw and onversed with the said Mrs. Ui lerwood, at No. 18 West Sixteenth street, in said city, when Mrs. jerwood come Copenae if she hed —_ - devit published in newspapers, which s! | made, in the application for a divorce by Mr. borrest, before the Pennsylvania Legislature. De- frase replied that she had seen and read it. Mrs. in the iderwood said, that whilst Mr. Forrest was in South, in the winter or spring of 1848, ehe, Mis. Underwood, called upon James La of said city, for money, who at first declined to give it to her, in consequence of which she had been compelled to pawn her jewelry; shortly after which, she called upon said Lawson, and told him what she had done; that she, Mrs. Un derwood, was angry and excited, and when in that state she communicated to Mr. Lawson some of the circumstances contained in her said affidavit against Mrs Forrest; that the said Law- son then gave her the money for which she had mede tion, and that she had thought no more about the circumstance, until said Lawson called upon her in the winter of 1850, with a paper, on which he had written down the circumstances which she had communicated against Mre_For- rest, in the winter or spring of 1848; that said Law- son then wanted her to ah affidavit, detailing the circumstances which he had written on the peers that shortly afterwards said Lawson and r. Forrest cal upon her, and her ‘to make the effidavit, and that to prevent her from being, oe a liar, in re, to the statement ich she had made to Lawson, in the winter spring of 1848, she was compelled to make the affidavit against Mrs Forrest; that when Lawson and Forrest so called upon her, they both told her that any statement which she might swear to, would be kept a secret, and would never come be- fore the public; that afterwards Mr. ry] the pe hal ot Mr. Forrest, called on her had her affidavit already drawn up, and that she had nothing to do but to sign it; and that Mr. Forrest atterwarde called upon her again, a) ed her to go to the Astor House, which she accordingly did, and when she got there she foand Mr. Forrest and his lawyers there. And this depone: ther snys, that she is nowise related to or connected with Mra. Forrest. Isanenta J. Sincuar. Sworn to, this 7th day of December, 1850, before me, C. B. Wuerten, Comr. of Deeds. APPIDAVIT OF CATHARINE MOONEY. State of New York, Cuy ana County of New York, ss.—Catharine ‘Mooney, of said city, aged fagboeen years, Dees mg sworn, says :—That she knows Edwin Forrest and Oatharine, his wife, and was a domestic in the employment of the former, during the months of January, February, March and April, one thousand eight hundred and forty- vine. This deponent says that the said Edwin Forrest manifested a remarkable degree of tender- nese and aflection towards his said wife, at tim during the period aforesaid, and especially in an: during the said month of April, and so much, that this deponeat would not believe that the sepa- ration would take place, which she had heard of, for nearly all the time eforesaid, as being in con- templation. And deponent further saith, that she knowe Andrew Stevens. On the twenty-second of February, of the present year, deponent met said Stevens, in Broadway, near Great Jones street, in the city of New York, when said Stevens stopped depoment, asked her what Mrs. Forrest was doiwg, to w deponent replied that she wae kee house as usual; said Stevens then eaid to ceponent that he would give deponent a eum of rooney, if rhe would make a statement, or tell things bog Mrs. Forrest; to which offer depo- nent replied, that she did not want his money, and that she knew nothing against Mrs. Forrest. Catnanine Moonry, Sworn to this 7th day of December, A. D. 1860, before me. C. B. Wuerier, Com’rof Deeds. APPITAVIT @F NELSON CHASE. City and County of New York, #—Nelson Chase, one of the ator for the plwintiff in this action, being sworn that on bei with what purported to be a copy of the defenda: nd a netice of a motion to dissolve nm in this cause, he observed in such lement purporting to give an account of cel ings of the Legisiature of Penn- eylvania vpon the epolication of the defendant for a divoree, and referring to the legislative action of two Senators of that Si upon such’applieati This deponent, o9 attorney of the plaintiff, thereupon wrote letters to both of those Sena- tors, enclosing them an exiract from that part of the affidavit which referred to (hem, end the pro- with the eaid —————— house in Houston street, betweet aforesaid, habitually on Tuesday on other days, to her, the said plain in a certain other house in Houston street, in the same city of New York; and also with the said — ————— in the same house in Wooster street, on the thirteth and thirty-first 8 of March, in year one nd eight hundred thousa: avd forty-sew and also habitually from and between the filth day of September, one thousand eight handred and thirty seven, and the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ae eight, with divers women, to her, the said plainti uvknown, inacertain house in the of New York, known as number four hundred and seventy. four Broome street, occupied by a woman named 3 andalso in the summer of the year one thousand eight hundred end thirty- ight, on three several oceasions, in a certain house on the westerly side of Oherry street, between Market etreet and Pike street, in the 4 New York, with « certain women, to the plaintiff wholly ‘unknown; and also on divers days and times, between the seventeenth day of June, one thousend eight hundred and fifty, and the it time, at the of New York, at New wick, in the of New Jersey, and at Phila- delphia, in the State of Ledg hy j= mee ce woman called —,and sometimes oft Lam to plead before any one, or all of them at once. iy atall times to confess the truth, but firm to repel what is wntrae. Not know- ing how I might be received after two such epistles, } copek Tex te ——4 os have en. "Youre kindly, IL. called Mrs. And this Yeniew, that since his poy tony ene he has committed et divers times and with divers women, mar- or he committed adultery any or either of the ceedings before the Pennsylvania Legislatore, and deponent has received from Senator Walker a letter, a true ony of which is hereunto annexed, marked A ; also a letter from Senator Brooke, a true Cop hich is hereunto annexed marked it further says, that the state- Walker's letter, relative e Mr. tothe votes of the Pennsylvania Legislature upon the application of the defendant foi jivoree, cor- respond substantially with the form tenor of numerous publi¢e prime =o at the time, gi’ the voles of the Legislature upon the application the defendant for a divorce before that body; end deponent believes said letter to be true And this de: t forther says, that the affidavit of Williem H. Howerdtakenjbefore the Honorable William Mitche!l, one of the judges of this court, on the Wth = September, 1860, was taken under the following circumstances :— ‘The enid Howard, immediately previous to the taking of said affidavit, was residing in Boston, and deponent having heard that he was about to leave and go ona voyege to California, had made ar- Se he cet ile ies ton, as d through this city on wa Thagres, but eaid Howard did not arrive in New York antil the morning of the day on which he was egonentthefetore vas unable trom wast of time, e, from » ts have sald Howard exmieed on a witness Spars er ewes pt Ra i{goaneesge ltrs Raa Cane D. Hopart, Commissioner of Deeds. and referred to in said com- A.) ie, November 20, 1850. How ann & Cuass— Gana_emen :—Your favor, covering an extract from the affidavit of Edwin Forrest, is received I should take no part in the legal proceedings now prosressing im your city between Mr. and Mrs. ‘orrest—I mean I should make no affidavit, unless absolutely necessary. I have, however, no hesi- taney in saying. that my feelings and sympathies | are everywhere acknowledged—its commerce whitens are with Mre. Forrest; so much so, that what I | every et, with all these external sigus of splendor can honorably do out of the suit, I will! cheerfully | and perity, within there is discord, dissatisfact do. I bite. with care and wip much astonish- ba ge: ment, read the extract you enclosed me; J must great p are arre: say that Mr. Forrest ‘Me much mistaken in Seat cede, Ant want atiribuung my opposition to his bill to my§ being It sosmiis, om the part of his personal and political enemy. Lie does me, ia Siecd necled beaten ean eealt wane this, great injusuce. It was not a party question; dee: uy nor Was any divorce that was before tha Sonate. i “Lap pmrpige opposed with all my power the bill of Middleton, | it has ever contributed mo: and 1am told he isa whig. I eaid harder things | 120m the indiguation which svery tras #vasbern heart in the oircussion of that bill than I did when the | Mut feel. that we are Upon to ebare ia all the Forrest bill was before us; 00 ia the bill of Wethe- ph a ecg me a th Medes tere ill. 1 opposed the bill of Forrest beesuse I thought ri pesiher the Legislatuse nor the courts of this State | DEBeMts. | The diasatiataotion snd disooatent of pad jurisdiction in the premises, and because I did ‘al nct believe he sustained the charge of adultery. I bape poet wt ry oe . pnt rg endeavored to satisfy the Senate, from our consti- | danger fom no ‘other por upoe the face ot the tution and by authority, that we had not jurisdic- | ¢#11b, than from that which was instituted tor its pro- tion; that to pass his bill would be to stultify our- | tection. 1 doubt if there ever was ® government selves; I opposed it to protect the honor of the State, and the legal reputation of the Senate. In doing this, | lost sight of Forrest. I was not his pepenal enemy, for | never knew bim or saw him, ve on the stage, until by winter. I did not know to what political party belonged until late in the session. I had endeavored to define my position on divorces, long before 1 knew how rabid a loco he was. But the votes in the Senate and House will show that the Senate and Honse did not eset hp on these questions. Mr. Ferrest, making charge against met may show that he hoped for success from party in his application last session; his defeat demonstrates that we were not 80 corrupt as he hoped to find us. He states most rashly that the bill was defeated but once in the Senate. If you can procure the journals ot the Senate and House, the journals of the Senate will prove that he is mistaken. At page 660 of Senate, you will see a motion was made to amend the bill by striking out all divorce of Forrest, and giving the Common Pleas of Phila- delphia city end county jurisdic:ion. This was carried, 21 to 11. The bill thus amended was com- mitted to the judiciary committee, and reported | 9° by the commitiee again, with an amendment. t Upon the vote in the Senate, at page 625, this bill wes rejected by a tie vote, 16 to 16—at page 676 a métion was mede to reconsider the vote, a at page 676, was taken and carried—17 So you see the vote defeating his bill was once reconsidered. Upon the bill thus again, by the vote to reconsider beforejthe Senate, the final vote, at pees, ie was taken, and the bill again rejected by the The following is that on of the ii address of Governor Me: of South Caro! and South :— In contem, our own State institutions. The federal ‘St peace with all the world. Its power in deadly hostility the cause of this hos- South, from & ae. uy than its just proportion; purely constitutional in its character, which had made such rapid strides in breaking down every coustitu- tional barrier, and in tbe prortration of the rights liberties of its citizens. To prove the truth of assertion, I need but point you to the acts of Congress for the last fe’ ars. He must be wilfully bliad who does not see in thems settled determination on the part of Congress to break down the institution ot slavery--an institution, the protection of which is indelibly etamped upom the constitutior—an insti- tution which all our feclings, all our interests, may, all our hopes, are so completely blended that its des- truction must carry with it, in ite dreadful crash, the ruin and dowpiall of our beleved country. The determisation is shown in thé manifest disregard ot rights of slavebolderes under the constitution -it is re shown in the scte which deprive him ot any participa- tion in the territories won upon battle fieids where every sod is sprinkled by Southern blood, and where every silent mound, with burning eloquenoe, tells that it contains the corps of a South festering with the wou; battles of our comm ero, still green and reoei mitted, that the equilibrium of the may be destroyed, and power given it to carry out its unjust purposes against us— it is shown in the wn declaiutions of the abolitionists, whose wild tace- joism has inspired them with boldness to tell the truth—in the conduct of that class ot politicia: contrary to their convictions of right and justice, in direct violation of their sole defend the constitution, ar current of public opinion of Defore the whirjwind—it is shown in the un public sentiment of the North, @ public sentiment whose mighty waves, for the last ten years, have been moving higher and ‘higher, deshing their foaming orests net our very capitol, but retofore break- —— et. These stormy eee by no Thus you eee that the bill was therefore twice re- fi beam of humanity, are tast becoming frosen a o jected in the Senate. But this is not all. A bill iE mons, wad pean. macs com tke Sener ad been introduced into the House, which finally passed that body and was sent to the Senet. At page 901 of the Senate, you will see that this bill | quences of the abolition of slavery im the States. Thei- ‘was also defeated, 151018. The vote was upon the | terrors are not alone to be seem im the misery caused 16th of April, and we did not adjourn until the 15th to the slaveholder by stripping him ot his property of May. Thus, you see, the bill was three times bought aud honestly paid for by « life ot industr; rt defeated in th te. First, the bill origi ~* | in the starvation and ruin of the merchant Senate, and then the bill of the House. Diseinet | Seaaig,7,.tbe, Pssetion, of those > t e . D or pay him for bill, and at different times. Mr. Forrest is then incorrect when he swears that his bill was only rejected once in the Senate. It was rejected as often as it came to a vote. He is also incorrect when he says that his bill was only finally lost because there was no eececteni afforded to reconsider, or to move a reconsideration. Thisis not sustained by the fact, for you see it was once re- considered—the Senate bill—and it could not be re- considered again. The Heuse bill was defeated the 16th of March, and we adjourned the 15th of May ; and yét no op- roa, to move a reconsideration, when that can done any day. The truth is, no one of the seven- teen who voted on the majority would move a re- consideratin ; and every e' was made by Forrest, but without success. He is false to truth when he says that no time was allowed to reconsider. He had time, but no Senator would move a reconsidera- tien. Mr. Forrest also ‘states that in the discussion, I admitted that | was in correspondence with Mr. N. P. Willis, and was charged with acting the | *' attorney instead of the legislator. I did state that 1 had written to Mr. Willis, and I had stated why ; I saw his name connected with the matter inthe New York papers; I think, excusing the visits of his brother to the house of Mr. Forrest; | be thrown sround them, is # bulwark of men, who and knowing no one in the city in any way con- | know their rights and have the courage togmaintain nectod with the matter, 1 had written him. Mr. | them. Willis is at liberty to shew you the letter or letters, are dissatisfied with the federal gove if | wrote more than one d to him Mr. it has utterly fniled In evcum plies ‘gv Be ee en oe of Mr Charles O'Conor, | °B* for which it was created. The * harmoay a dete a aan vd thi Mr. O'Ceave geod feeling” it was designed to promote between tne gay her thie. Bes. OF | Btates, the injustice, the tanaticinm, the impertinence, may show you the letters written to him ; there is | of the North, bas entirely destroyed. The “ general pothing improper in any of the letters, so far as | fare,” it was intended to promote, has refuited to Pond the nay 57 mg 3 hE LA = 3 jidimg up one section upon the ruin of the otoer. ing the attorney irs Forrest domertic peace and tranquillity’ it was intended made no reply, is nothing more nor less than a | to soure, we have never known, for under its protection Sy ea that ard; and more t at, no Senator dare make it. | did oppose his bill—and with some en- | {0n,0f which can slone be seen amid all the terrors ot ergy, and had good men with me—men beyond | to venerate euc! suspicion, above reproach. he’ than I intended when | eat down, for which ex- cuse me. One thing is strange in the whole matter—why my name should be introduced into this paper by Mr. Forrest. Suppose I were all he says, can that aid him now? It might at Harrisburgh, but cer- tainly not in New York city. If Mr. Forrest wishes nche torn by the storm from its Alpine hills, to sh and bury us beneath their weight. Who can contemplate without a shudder the conse- 0- 0 fields and decaying tewns and vill more diretul consequences resulting from the com- mingling together of two races eo entirely distinot in their genus and character, upon tetms of political | bg g One or the other of them must be anaihilet- ed. and, that too, amid scenes of blood, greater than any which pon her darkest and bloodiest page. | But even laying aside this, great question, we have sufficient reason for dissatisfaction with the federal government. The whole tenor and complexion of its that the constitution, so far as hy fords not the our characters, are to be | ® majority whbse | ry thought, feeling are concentrated in | burning focus of hatred against ws and our institu- tions. Under these circumstances, what are we to look for, or what are we to expect! Through the dim vista of the dark apd gloomy future before us, we can see Bo ing ray of hope that our condition will be better- ‘on the contrary, sad vision of the gradual and decay of our State, until we are reduced to a ition of celonial vassal: far wore than that which our fathers rescued them. Bad experience has proved that the safeguards placed over the rights of our country in the form of parchment, are but parch- ment at last—that the only effectual bulwark which can those are actually supported and encouraged who are betting measures on foot amongst us, the tatal termina- ure before us by the blaze of our Py homes. We are cailed upon to shout horannar to & uvion which has been entirely perverted from its origi. Dal purposes into am engime of fraud. corruption. and : opprerrion.or ineur the odium ef reckless disorganizers, thus to vent his mortiheation at defeat last session, | wh, for ambition or wicked purposes, would pull down he is welcome indulge himself; still, | cannot | a glorious tabric cemented by the blood ef our fath help woven & at he would have acted more like | The history of our State, from the Orst daw: a gentleman, had he omitied all these unnecessary | our revolution to the present time, brands the foul as- persion as false. Whenever and wherever tho ster The record shows how | acted and how | voted, | spangled banner has been raised, her patriot sons and they show Mr. Forrest persisted in his applica- | been among first Co raily to its support, tion for divorce. 1 wish, for the eake of Mrs. Por- Hg yer pl which they have tro: \« [aetna eg tree the efforte made by Mr. | ‘7s y sears back, when it first beeame manifest that ‘om ¥ Mt pr, u. Ww. corruption had erept into our system — that the powers ours, oun Ei. WALSER. ofthe feceral government about to be wed to der itw esti: —that the coustitution ‘arolina. prompted by her ardeut he n, threw bereeif, solitary and alone, © the breach by the interposition of ber Btate sovereignty, to eave both the constitution and the Union Yet for this generous, this selt-sacrifeing act, all the power, patronage and influence of the federal ve been used Lo brand the actors to that | mists, and cover their names with all testify that (B Rapnor, De Co., Dec. fith, 1950. GentLemen—Mr. Keed has informed me that on or about the 16th ult, a letter to me was forwarded by you, making some inquiries of me in relation to the Forrest divorce case, as it was preseated io our Legielature last winter. I have not received the jeter, therefore cannot precisely anewer any ingviries upon the subject. Bit I have seen a copy of the New York Herald, of the 29:h of November, io which my name, as that of a Senator, is most offensively introduced. I pronounce all the iasina- ations, ond intimations,and accusations of that pub- tieation, so far ae I aim concerned, to be utterly false and calumnious. Ll opposed the bill to diyorce Mrs. Ferrest, be- cause [ thought, and etill think, it very wrong andin violation of every rule ot right and decency. | op- pored it actively and earnestly, with no personal acqueifitence whatever with Mra. Forrest, and no “ correspondence whetever with her or her counsel, | $° the «nem I saw, or thonght I saw, very dangerous infla- | “*?® ences at work in favor of the bill, and used my best |, And most disinterested . exertions to counteract | .)4' porrersing the advantages of the developemeuts | ae sae peat Peele of on chases cok ooter Thick time in ite progress will wake os to Unis effect | think T was wrong. Very respectfully, | Joxse Brooxr. ed upon them to forget their private griets and rash to the standard of their commo: South Oaro- lina bearded bishall’ We end lasting basi ty. upon whieh ever, They. like tra im partial historian. univ fluenced 4 pitjudices which surround us, Meeers. Howtann & Cnase. Catharime N. Forrest agamst Edwin Forrest — City and County of New York, s8.—Oharles 3. French, of eald city, clerk in the office of Heary H. | memors Leeds & Co., auctioneere, doing business at No & Wall sireet, in said city, being duly sworn, says follews:— On the seeond duy of November, 1849, the above nemed Edwin Forrest purchesed of Henry H. Leeds & Co,, at their enid place of buri- neem, two covered sofes, for the price or sum of one hundred agd sixteen dollars, At the time of seid purchase, Mr. Forrest gave directions to have the sofie sent over to the North River, to be trans- ported wp said river, to his place, known as Font Hill, m Westchester county, which was aceord- ingly dune ©. 8. Frexcn. Sworn before me, thie 20:b day of Dee , 1850 D. Horart, Commissioner of Deeds Mr. O’Conor then read an affidavit made by Caleb Van Tapsel, inspector of ele eorge B. Rockwell. Towa Cler Mr. Forrest voted at the election November, 1849. His object in doing #0 was to prove that Mr. Forrest was a resident of New York, end © and not of Philadelphia The connsel then commenced the argument, and at three o'clock the court adjourned to this mora- ing. im the hearte of posterity, as the abie | defenders of conetituttonal liberty, and the foariers of the only temedy by which the Usion No, t have been ion glorious Uvien under w heir bread & ig to it with all tb child to its mother's bosom th tyrants aod plauderers we owe for it we have no lo Dot live Unlens we are recreant to all we have hereto- jore beld dear or sacred, to done #0. | dangers plead, | um pet tongued, they should be, It could bring back fn to its original purity, aad iictate the terms | security, But ae long as these unhappy di- JOUR Xiet a6 ONE AA BMONgEt promikeDt politicl- ne, treason fourishes and traitors are rewarded. the cnly bope which ie left us is to bearts and st . And i Baval Intelligence, A Naval Court Martial was ordered to convene at on board the United States thip. Pe the Saranac, for mutinous and seditious conduct It iscompored of Onpt. Aulick. Preside Commanders Armstrong. Kelly, Lieutenants Davis and Poor, members. Tabb, Esq. Judge Advooste while in New York, and confinement. After serv — up to the gang uty. but that they preferred the hopes of fithy juere. to their slirgiance to their country like the “bare J udeam”’ who lor thirty pieces of silver sold his fide his God, aud with it his hopes of ever ion nave been accused of raphness— beware that we not from tameness—lest wo “ hug the delusive until our enemies bave bound us ‘homas 0. The man was tried enced to several weeks out bis term, he wae nd feclings, Senators and Re- it my dety to ure whatever Sere teen wire tne, yo neem ative thab prerentativer: influence my position y, released 1 touching the federal relations between the North kein South should fail, and South our federal relations, I wish I could eee the same cause for satisfaction that I see in er- | t in deserted | 8, but im the still | the property | rade and und | fmd but Lite g f . ir fatal blindness to these inte~ Teste and dangers shons jaduce them to join the should triumph, what will they seta etn ir a triumph over their victory should asee: waile and groans must, sooner or later, be theirs. | very effort has beem made to irclate our State, an@ prejndice ber in the eyes of the cther Southern States, | by bolding owt the idea that she wishes to lead them. | But. lam sure I speak her universal sentiment, whem that rhe is willing totollow any one of ans re thet will lead off upon the path oi or All we aek ir. that, im the dey amd hour e! ber er. we moy be nesigned a place im the picture ¢ flesbing of the guns. | 1 bave givem you, (very i etly, I koow,) my | views and icelings on this all Mugportant subject. Ido | not presume to direct your counpils; but iaclination, ae well as duty. deman@ that I should carry out your high bebests. I owe no allegiance to any power upom xerpt that which I owe threug! Caro- when she speak*. her voice must be Cr Bound to ber by every tie which man holds sacred om earth. I seek or desire no other fate than that which is to be hers If she is te triumph, (as all her sons who have been devoted to her cause can do.) I claim a share in her glory. Ifshe is to fall, all that I desire i« & grave upon her bosom. All that I have. and all 1am, I here devote to her eerview. me while living, no more glorious epitaph In conclution. suffer me te remind you!” that all our efforts must fell unless we put our trast in Him in whose bands are the destinies of nations. And, while we are in the discharge of the high and 8 which devo! nus. let us not forget to implore the guidance tion of our Heaven- ly Father, and bis blessings upon our country and its cause. when dead. Scotland. CONDITION OF THE HIGHLANDS, (From the North British Mail} The slarming situation of the Highland pe thie their fifth year of famine, was fi ae their attention closely to t) 7. It was clearly perceived that. when the r hausted, the miserable pon that ¢: ‘grent deal worse positio iteelt felt, with a heavy consciousness ‘a thet it was ting the wretched Highianders to the brink of jened all its benevolent la an abyss. Every ps spe: nearer the dreaded catastro routine of the Belief Board one of and agonising operations to which be called. It was like he eg | t tom by atom. So: the por and saw clearly where it wouldend, proposed the adoption of bold mearures—the aboliton the deliverance of estates from the shitckles and the legal responsibil the population with emplo; was considered utepia is appreaeh ‘be day come, and the uto- have a right to id by what means the op- | ponente of their measures propose to meet the difloul- ties of the crisis A public subscription is impossible, and « grant from Parliament is Tar hopelees There is nothing but the Highiands, therefore, to relieve the poverty of the Highlands. It is useless to say brought theus a step dered the of entail that property in the Highlands is m d, and ite owaers poor and scarcely able to pi interest of debts selena to whom it may, the soil is there, hunger will eat its way down through parchments it entail, and incumbrance, until it sa 4 mortgs, tisfy its cravings on the solid produce of mother earth. ‘The people must be fed; that is the first barden upom land. If the claim of thi is uot recon- rf the propr ing this demand, the law of entail must be al " It the law of titles be another obstacle, it too must be Estates Commission is our mode ot get- od abyss. Itis the deal bet- No fear of Scotiand,”’ it was said im nage her own business, and extri- sefully from the difflcuities of the It is Ireland that we have reason to Ireland betes od t immense superseded by an Incumbered porate disease. alarmed for.” grants of money, and an Eueumb mission, which cuts every Gordian knet between pecrle dnd the soil; while Beotland is left to strug opelersly against legal artificial difloulties, the victim of her own good e ment be made to feel t r precisely the same remedy is necessary, A real in- stead of @ rham own Of the soil ix the great want oF both countri now i r responsibility, be aiso its proprietors in fact ; an plain end ho.rst end aecom ed, all further dim- culties with regard to the maintenance of the peo will venieb. d from the fetters of eni iv their estates, and endowed with rot aminiovoring them, we will then be ghiand landlords an as- for the H overpment ot which at pretent avail them We could then call upon the government to offer loans for all Kinde of agricultural improvement in the Highlands. ou the principles of the Drainage Ac Pre party being in a nat condition, eapitai alto thus supplied would at once becom sabsirtynce te the population, which pidly into anarchy and fami The present state of the w of property is at once P rigorous and indulgent to the Highland landlords, It Grst deprives them of their rights, and, as if to com- pensate Chem for the loes, it then relieves them of their dutier Tt deprives them, by th tering thelr pro it permite them to loyment for n introduced. tally of (he oeiety odera at onoe of eh de ps & chiet to go The Highlands need a ell compelled by law to perform their daties Ted to huaiet their rights We w THE AMERICAN MINE RKOKORAN Non Netis Brown ot Tennessee. Minister Piewipo- e ity trom the U cited States to Kurtin, has recently written a letter to bis friemus wt home. He ways: Om the 19th of August I waa preemted to the Kmprees and cther memwbe: iw per the minieter with, nesording to curtom here, and the Whole ceremony between the ¥ mperor and myseit #ae & mere coflversation of about tep minutes. He tes fine looking man. and would im- pe with the idea of superiority. He is over built y of charsoter os man in the empix ment. 1 raw him on twe e gieund drilling bis troops. On one day there eighty th 4 troops, ef all arm der pa- +, There i pot wot been an Amerie rinee I arrived trade here is meeh merly. Several causes exist for thir. piace, We buy verylittie from & drilling, and sail cloth mk» hat rhe used to boy from us mediately through Great Our veerels ucement to come here, for, in the rain, they bave to retorn in ball Tam about as reotly, is mow boughs int ritain | well pleased as L expected to be, exeept L tear th of the min much ae | n will be isan. i would rather have teen, to bring m could not etand the clinitate. I shai ask leave to return home mext spring oF ema mer Tanrats or Avera Acamnst tae Usrrep Srares.—A Washington letier writer, spec king of the course of the United * wards the Hungtrian refugees, saye—It a that Austria bee been acting a part toward this go- Vvermment which mey terminate ina desolation of our crplom felations. As | uaderstand the matter, the pinetat Vienna instructed the Aus trie charge at thiscopital, M Haisemaa, to rep. resent to the administration, that in the event of Kossuth and bis compatriow being received and af- forded en esylom here, it would be cause sufficient for that government to withdra # ite representative. Accordingly, Mr. Clayton was officially informed of the ultimatum; but before he had ume to de- cide upon his cause, Mr. Webster was installed as hie eveceesor. Mr. Webster was not long in de- termining whatto do. Llerepresented to Mr. Hul- eemen that the refugees of bleeding Hungary would be received with open arms, and that, if Austria demanded, his passports would be ready at any moment. ‘Whereupon Mr. HL. wrote home for further instruction: it these not having ar for auavever may se which we are eng any rarbness of indiscretion. And | beevech remember (hat we are now actors in one of the most important roenes the world has ever ki . We on the d, the ¢' ined diplomat may be supposed serve only inarwe capacity. This aston T Williom Grose was executed of Res oi eail Tnd.om murder of Jona B