complaint rather indecorous from a person who affected so much delicacy and elevation of sentiment on all occasions, and who openly avowed her dislike to the object of it.
But to return to my sentiments and observations in respect to your conduct to me.
By degrees many circumstances seemed to confirm me in the belief, that to get Mr. G. to England, was the sole end of my engagement at Covent Garden; that done, you troubled yourself no further.
You and Miss W. were continually hinting to me how advantageous it would be to me to return to Ireland : provoked at this (which I considered an insult) I complained to Mr. G. who I believe caused you to be silent on the subject, as from that time I heard no more on it.
From my coming to England, I remarked a kind of mystery in your conduct towards Mr. G., that I could not develop the source of, particularly continual quarrels, the subject of which I could never guess at:. for though those disagreements were no secret to me, the cause always was.
Your conduct on these occasions, was repeatedly this, you had a quarrel with Mr. G.; when a few days were past, Miss W. was dispatched to me, requesting my company alone, and to complain of Mr. G.s rudeness to you and her: if I went, I was obliged to listen to a long detail on the subject, which I endeavoured to excuse as well as I could, not knowing how he had offended, then perhaps the very next day, a letter was written by Miss W. to say all should be forgiven if I would come and bring Mr. G. with me: this had been so often repeated, it
became at last quite ridiculous, and I used frequently to say to Mr. G. what indeed was but the truth, "Mrs. Siddons or Miss W. scarcely ever call upon me but when they have quarrelled with you."
These and many other circumstances which I could not account for, such as long private conversations, letters received from you which I never knew the contents of, not directed to our residence, but to a coffee-house at a distance from it, which by an accident I became possessed of. Those letters written from the residence of your friend Mrs. - and from Bath when you went to visit Mr. Siddons, were written in a FALSE ALPHABET, one of which I saw Mr. G. writing an answer to; upon my asking him what it was, he appeared confused, but said, "it is a puzzle Mrs. Siddons has given me to decipher for her."
My suspicions once awakened, I followed the clue, as I before said, which at last exposed the whole of such a character as must shock all good minds to contemplate; what you really are is known but to a few, but they do exist.
I beg leave to remind you of your anonymous friend, one letter in particular, written to Mr. Siddons when you lived at Hampslead, disclosing in very plain terms the conduct you were then pursuing, but which I believed was a calumny raised against you on account of another object, to silence which, Mr. Siddons offered a thousand pounds to detect the propagators.
After what I have now detailed, I appeal to a public, ever ready to hear with candour the complaints of the oppressed. Should the mother of three innocent, and yet infant children, crouch