existed in the possession of one blessing, the affection of that object I had sacrificed so much for, yet you with a Satanic barbarity resolved to deprive me of this solitary blessing, in spite of all you knew I had suffered, all I must suffer.
It is now seven years since, in an hour for ever fatal to me, you visited Dublin to perform the summer season accompanied by Miss W. the daughter of a person I so much respected.
I am grieved to be obliged to mention her, as I shall be compelled to do: your politeness on my being introduced to you was unbounded, as was your commendation of my performance of the first part I played with you; indeed your continual praise of me placed me much higher than my selflove (partial as we all must be to ourselves) ever thought I deserved.
In a short time our acquaintance grew into intimacy, forwarded by Miss W. with whom I had been in the closest friendship for some years. You often complained of languor from your nightly exertions. I had then a curricle in which I proposed to you to take the air as a more refreshing exercise than in a covered carriage, you accepted my offer, and Mr. G. drove you an airing one morning, you appeared delighted with your ride, upon which I requested you might use my carriage as if it were your own; you literally took me at my word, for from that time I was entirely excluded from it.
About this period you proposed to Mr. Jones to perform Hamlet, I now believe for no other purpose than to be taught fencing by Mr. G. for by so doing you had an excuse to have him constantly with you, to the exclusion of my company, as you

said you could not be instructed while any person looked on.
You renewed your engagement to play at Cork and Limerick ; we travelled with you in the following manner, Mr. G. and I set off early of a morning, and stopped at the first stage until you came to breakfast, you then went into the curricle to Mr. G. and travelled with him the rest of the day, generally arriving, as our horses could not keep up with post horses, some hours after Miss W. and myself.
When you came to Limerick and Cork, Mr. G. spent his whole time with you, generally driving you out of a morning, and, whether engaged at the theatre or not, spending all his hours with you. I saw, and felt myself so entirely neglected that I will own, I became very unhappy, and often expressed my dissatisfaction to Mr. G. I was also much distressed at the expenses we were every day incurring without a hope of remuneration; for, as I scarcely ever performed, I had no chance of any benefit of mine succeeding, having no claim as formerly upon the public.
Conscious that you were the cause, you proposed to read Hamlet for my benefit after the theatre closed; you did so, and it succeeded to a certain degree; but I say but the literal truth when I add, not a shilling of the money did I receive, it being all spent attending you to the Lakes of Killarney, and other expenses incurred on your account.
At this time travelling in the usual way as far as Kilkenny, we parted, you to go to Belfast, and I staying to fulfil my engagement there; Mr. G. accompanied you to Dublin, and stayed there till you left town, he then went to England upon a