(circumstanced as he then was) to give you sufficient, security. He certainly did not conceive he had done you any wrong, as professional gentlemen are never supposed to divulge secrets intrusted to them, and this you well know therefore the whole was a pretence to hide the real cause of your resentment.
During Mr. G.'s visits to Paddington, many circumstances occurred to discover your connection with him; your servants were all acquainted with it, particularly your own maid, who detected you going to Mr. G.'s bedroom; also your housemaid, both of whom left your service disgusted at your indecent conduct.
One night that Mr. G. was in your bed-room he happened to speak so loud, that Miss W who was always on the watch at such periods, was obliged to make a noise to drown his voice, but notwithstanding her kind exertions to save your reputation, he was heard.
It would be endless to mention all the various circumstances which have come to my knowledge, and by such means as prove that your conduct is fully known ; though only to a few in England, in Ireland it is publicly talked of, and when I returned there for a short time, a year past, I heard even more than I sought to know; the most ridiculous stories are related of you and Mr. G. two of which I shall relate as told to me.
In one of those journies (sic) you took with Mr. G. you sat after dinner In a room, the windows of which looked into a garden, and had shutters that closed but indifferently; as wherever you flopped you were an object of curiosity, no wonder if some inquisitive traveller should be tempted to look through these

shutters; I suppose it occurred to you, it might be the case, for you went into the garden to look through the shutters to satisfy yourself if you could be seen; but like many precautions in this life, give me leave to assure you it was too late; and the virtuous Mrs. Siddons had already appeared in a new part, entirely different from that she had successfully performed during her whole life.
The other story is as follows: One extremely hot day in the month of August, you and Mr. G. were taking the air (as usual) in our curricle: from some reasons you and he thought fit to stop and put up the head of the carriage.
A party of ladies and gentlemen who were riding on the same road, seeing a carriage standing still, thought that some accident had occurred to the persons in it upon which they rode up to look into the carriage but they saw to their great surprise that instead of their assistance being required, they had been guilty of a most mal-a-propos intrusion.
As these persons had no motive to engage them to be silent as to the situation in which you and Mr. G. were found, no wonder it should serve them as an argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.
I aver, were I to descend to a particular detail of those circumstances which have come to my knowledge, that have passed between you and Mr. G. both in England and Ireland no modest eye could peruse these sheets.
But in the latter place your conduct being more accurately and minutely known, is execrated, as it must ever be when it is known, and I am the object of universal commiseration, as it is