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