Vincennes Gazette, Volume 12, Number 51, Vincennes, Knox County, 27 May 1843 — Page 1

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"TRUTH WITHOUT fear.' YOLOIK XII. YIXCKMVES, INDIANA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1843. NO. 51.

1 1 "T-V.-He Standethat the Door andHnocketh. In the filfP.t loiJnigbt watches List, thy bosom-door! How it knockf th, keocketh, knorketh Knocketh e-vermon! 9T net 'tis thy pulses beating; Ti thy heart of Fin Tn thy Saviour knocks, tint rrieth, Rise nJ If. rne in!' 'JvAttt ro.7."i down wit1! rcik'eea foottp. Tc the hall and hut i rank you Jeaih will tirry knocking, Vhere the door is shut? waiteih, waitcth, w.iiteth But the J-vor ix fast: JrieTed, atvay the Hivemr goeth Death breaks in at last. if hen 'tis time to stand entrenthi;; Christ to lot tl.ee in At the pate of H-'aven bentinjr. Wailing for thy sin: Nay! aln, thou guilty creature! Hast thou then forgot? Jesus waited !on to kt.ow thee. Now HE ISllSH T 11 K k Vill! to saijaix Arjr;. Oh, Sarah Ann! Oh. Sarah A in! Yoi little s'li'mii:' wiz.ar.l You rrnka me tV 1 all over sick. Ami tore about the tj-'zzard. I've ta5o n Sherman's !ozenger. An fc l on milk anil h'M;ev; But, f;rr all, the medicine For ne is mi:ricio:.y. Aid on to on. hv. make 3 t r.-o Thefi there'll ? one t carry; The more the merrier.' Samb A twill v thunder let us marrv! Fr;in Sjrvnt'a M.crazine. A Sketch of Lady Bulwcr. FROM THE I'OttTFOLtO OF OSK WHO KENW HitK BY HELEN BERKLEY, ' B'a:a di Captlio! Bianca di Cap. 10: Lady Bulwer's new novel fur a shd'mg! Hsreitgoes!" cries the pi n;. alette ven-ie-of cheap literary wares, as he bu;tle through t'ie street. Unconscious urchin! What a co-.ijurer h :hit little cracked vcicn of t h i i -? Whst ploasant memonea of tli pat rie np rst : 1 1 : numl! ani trar.spor'ed t !'';r:3 ngnm livinj: over tho rainhov-hnd iunirs, which :i;e ociety and friendship of t'ie ai.h..ress of Bi.'"' di Cape!!, have; Ustinov co:icerratJ. Lovely fjuly L'ulwcr! Whoever camts within t!ie splicn; id' thy peerless fascination, and found tint time r di-j-tdiino could wholly dispel their inll tence? It wa.3 in 1'ari', during the winter of 18 t tha: I tlrt heheld La ly Unlwer. (ietieral ( 'ns-j. Us American Am!assa lor, was giving one rf the most snlen it ! balh fjf tho ?e3?on. Ahont the t.me that hi magnificent suite of apartments began to bo oppressively erowded, a jrentleman approached me, and said: "Let tno ret you out of this thr.'nj Thcro sometliin in the bou 1-vir yo-.idar that is better worth weeing than ail these panting people, that look ai if they were going to melt away with the heat. Lady Hulwer is there. f-he is n great lion. Would you not like so sro her?'' "Oh! yes," I replied, with so little inireM in my tone, that I now cannot help foeiing both wonder and provocation at the recollection of my own listless indifference. "Yo i must discover her, then, without "iy assistance;" said mv friend. "I shall leavo you while vou mako tho expertent.' " That will be rather difficult," I rettirnrd; f r I naver heard her person described. However. I have no oljjction to try my skill ia physiognomy." Wo entered the boudoir. There were not mcro than fifty persons assembled. My companion found tne a seat, and retired, while I nude a survey of tho apartment, and endeavored to select the one. who bore most .resemblance to tho portrait ia mv imagination of La Iv Bulwer. A number of ex trcmidy beautiful women wore present. Several cf them belonged t tho Lngiish nobility. As my ryes glanced around the room they wero soon riveted, as by a spell, upon the form of a majestic looking woman, whose queenlike and peculiarly graceful carriage was unfq ialled by the bearing of any that surrounded her. She was attired hi a robe of crimson velvet. It? long train, bordered with ermine, lay in rich folds at her i'eet. Her form might have been conidared too expansive for perfect beauty, ero it not that it3 fiultless symmetry nada von forget the lire in admiration oi the nroJrliont. iter son, (tarx nair J was simply parted on the whitest of fore heads, and it3 exuberant tresses gathered into ono graceful knot benmd. Her etq liiiteiy rnotihled heal was encircled by n tiara of diamonds ThodO gems rftnini ma of her eyea. wiiiclt were of a bj.ua so intense, and so brilliant, tnat you mistooA them at first for black. And thev always spika iii advance of her lips. Her com flexion was of that transparent whiteness ottlv blending oa tho cnee;:s wita which is seldo'n

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aoPj except by tho daughters of the "0:e?n isle." Her parted lipa, when she smiled, disclosed a set of teeth, that almost 6eemcd 10 reflect back the same light as a bed of snow upon which the noonday sun is shining. IJat that smile it was more sweet than gay. And as you looked upon her you felt, that it was not the perfections which centered in her person that rendered her beautiful. It was the expression the grace the brilliancy nay it was tho reflection of a soul beaming over all! I beckoned to my friend, and, designating the lady who had arrested my attention, said: "Surely that must be Lady Kul wer? "You are right," he replied triumphantly: "I made h bet that you would discover her, for when she is present there sr ons ') be nnbody ilsc i i the room. Is she not a magnificent woman?" Tne history of Lady Hulwer was at that ii.no upon every lip. Tho envi

ous blamed the compassionate pitied the disintetcsted praised, l.nt her conduct was o unim; lachahle, her character so unblemished, that the voice of slander was hushed in awe. Lven calumny s-'t'gh; net to despoil her of her richest, a'm t hr only possession; her fair fame. I must acknowledge that in common v. it 'a a large port. on of tho American community. I had permitted "( "hev ley " to prejudice t iv against Lady Bulwer. Like too many others, I thought, "the wife, who can so Llazen her l.usband's errorsor vices, to the world, must be unworthy of esteem." Like them I forgot that tint wife might have been goaded to tho commission of thii fault by a long eiies of insults that she 'rniht have b"ou forced to i: as a means of obtaining a livelihood that "to err is human." The day succeeding tho ball given by General LV.s. I beeamo persoi.ally acquainted with Lady Luluer. l or several months nfter that period I saw her almost daily, sometimes passing two am; three hours at a time in her t-ocieiy. i iti ni Hie m r-1 intimately l necamo aeq ninted with her, the more I re -roar bed myself for having breathed a word, or iiarborod a thought, to her disparagement. S ie was exceedingly ingenuous by nat '.re. Her confidence was easily, perhaps tueasifi won. A her history ha I now become s o public, slie did not scruple to relate to me the ctory of the domestic grievances; the origin of Chevi ley;" the cause of her sep-ration from her husband, and I die circumstances winch grew out of the unhappj "feud. Had her sorrows sprung from her own vices, or her own follies. indeed shc miglit have been lesscomnunicstivp. As it was, she had no mo tive lor concealment. It is dillicult to coneentrfito in n few iricf Honb, a history which occnp ed many hours in its relation; and which nvniorv has mo-t faithfully tteasured; ut I will ;ittempt it. Lady Bulwer, then Uosina Wheeler, .i r i . was marrmt at tne age oi eigiucen, to Mr. Bulwer. now Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer. S!ie gave him her heart with icr hatid, and had every reason to believe that he returned his own, until she disovered that he was not embarrassed with so troublesome a possession. Before she ad been married n. year, sho had proofs, to o incontestibte, of iier husband's being i lawless and remorseless libertine. But she was then about te become a mother: a i l w hat will not a woman endure for the sake of her child.' What will not a wo man, who loves, or has loved, forgive? On tho birth of that, in whose endearments she had fondly hoped to find consolation for the neglect and cruelty ot her husband. lis tyranny assumed n new and more dreadful shape. Almost before the young mother was considered outol danger, r.er in fan:, in spilo of expostulations, and toars. was taken from her and placed under tho charge of a wet nurse, who resided everal miles from London. Bulwer de clared, that he would not permit his wife to become a nurry maid; that children wrro his detestation; and that tho "noiy i t tie imp" should be kept at a respectable distance! I.Ou'v iliiiwer ut t noi sunmu to this minntural -ami despotic decror, without remonstrating. nut tier griei and en:reat'e3 only called, forth tho most virulent abuse from her indexible husband. After this incident ho neglected her m re . i . i than ever, and not infrequently, in l.ie moments of ungovernable pnion, sue was forced to su'jmit to personal vio lence. She fl-Toia became n mother, nnd her chil l was a son. 'I hrough tne influence of a compassionato physician, the child was left under her care, nnd her little daughter recalled from ex !e. The wile and mother wa3 now comparatively happy. When her husband wss at home she could only visit the nursery by stealth. b it be generally spent his days and nights in dissipation, and seldom troubled her with his undesirable society. But in his absence, she was continually 6ubjecte ! to the persecutions of his mother, who was originally opposed to the marriage, and showed an open detestation of her daughter-in-law from the beginning. This woman became a 6py upon La ly Bulwer's pctions, and was continually exciting Bulwer's. anger against his wife. Th'i3 state of affairs continued until his dsivbtr wfls alv)yi "ix or seven ypPr !d

The grandmother men decla7ad7th"at"Tire child must have a governess. Bulwer agreed with her. and procured the desired governess. And now, indeed, Lady Btdwer'a misery soon baflled description.She was not permitted to have a voice in anything that concerned her child. Hfr studies, her dress, her exercise, her fooj, were all at the command of tho governesp. And this lady in authority did not scruple to tell the anxious mother, when sho remonstrated, that such were Sir Edward's orders. Lady Bulwer complained to hdr husband. But he sometimes laughed iii her face, and told her that tho womai

was as competent a person as could bt tounu, aim vcru vreuii wuiiai, anu ai tin l.v'.V" nnl o! other times he flew ito a rage, nnd for? bade her mentioning the subject. i Before many niontha elapsed. Lad Bulwer inevitably discovered, that th' unfortunate wonrn w . w I anotto r o! tier nu.hand s victim-. t h; wo;mm herself evinced no shame at h r o.m.,.,,.,, .m.c, c.o.u tll iu iii'iv.ici-! oi i.auy i);uir, ana nur own yupposeu supctiorily, assumed ;nrfecl control over the hotiseh' ml. L.ady Inilwer f orders to the domestics were countermanded, her most trival arrangements interfered with, and her children invariably ordered to their studies, precisely at the hour which she had appoi.ited for taking the cir with them. Thus u as she aonnyetl and irritated in every manner by a person who made her degradation the excuse for her assumption of authority. Once more she appealed to her husband, and, it may have been, angrily insisted, that the governess .should be discharged. lie replied, that she should lemain as long as it suited his convenience, an 1 when tho wife answered him. he islrul htr xrliiOio-nJiichj'tUcfi her to the ground! What resource ha sue. r ; ie v..s i, oneness ana "rotnencM; poor, anJ an orphan, while ho waj ailpowerful. Hho livei but for ber cliih'ren, i;ul tor their sakes endured even this indignity. A fen days after this lat occtrrenee, she ieeei ed fcn insult from the governjess, wiiieti exceeded in grossness any I former impertinence. It was late in the evening, and lor otice tier husoand was at home. She sought the parlor, where he was luxuriating over bis wine and cigar, and repeating to him what bad occurred, added: "1 will bear this no longer I cannot bear it any longer. Either Miss must leave tho houe, or 1 shall leave n. You may choose between the two." 'Certainly,' replied Bulwer. with prevoking calmness, have chosen Ion, ago. You shall leave it. And, since you have made up your mind to go, I don't intend to give you your own tune. om "hall pack tdT at once this very moment and Mibs remains where she is I hae promised ber my protection, and she shall have it.' Lady Bulwer acknowledged, that she was deeply incensed. She hastily left the room, went up stairs, and told her two1 bewildered children to put on their cloakv and bonnets. Bulwer soon followed her to demand, why she was not gone. She walked from tho apartment, leading her children, without icplying. He accompanied her, saving with mocked gallantry: 'Permit me the pleasure of closingthe door upon vou, madam.' ; This act of politeness ho in reality per-J formed; but not without hastening it by giving his wife a rude push. The unfortunate mother and her luckless children sought protection under the hospitable roof of Mrs. Hume, who resided at a very short tlistance; and who had been Lady Bulwer' s bosom friend from childhood. That the above ta!o is strictly tr;v, I havo other testimony besides the word of Lady Bulwer. Before, leaving Paris I bee-mi? acquainted with Mr. Hume, the husband rf the lady, at whose house sin sought refuge; and he verified to me the history of her inif rtunes and w rongs. Lady Bulwer never returned to the mansion, from which she had been tr - vacefullv thrust. Sho retired with r chddren to tho country; and, for nx mths, resided in great retirement Shi L.4rsiwd h fepjiration fro to ber husband, but a large sum ot money was necessary to file a bill of divorce. This she had no pro'peet of obtaining; f or f he received from Bulwer bnraly the means of sub sistence. Yet, she says, those months of quiet wrre amongst tho happiest of her life. She could have lived on contentedly for years; for the rapidly developing charms of !hc young children compensated her for every privation. But her husband's persecution pursued her even to her set ;!ion. He requested her to sign some papers, the import of which I have forgotten, threatening that her chil dren should reurn to his protection if she. disobeyed. Sho refused; entreating him to leave her unmolested, as sho should never mere molest him. Then came the last, well-aimed blow, which crushed her maternal heart. Her children her cher ished children oar on'y consolation affliction her children, for w hom she had endured indignity, and suffering, privation and wrong were stolen from her by we'l laid strategem, nnd conducted to tbf;r father. While her heart and brain were convidsed by the most terrible fears M their protracted disappearance, a letter iom Bulwcr nias pieced in hrr bands.

It informed her that the children wero now in his possession; and that since she had defied his power by refusing to sign the papers, as a punishmnnt, she should never behold them again? He added, in conclusion: "Madam, remember that you aro fatherless and broiherless, and I will crush you to atoms." These were his very words. The strongest affections of her nature trampled upon, what wonder that she became, frantic? Who is so sinless, that he may fling the stone of reproach, because revenge wai at last awakened in her

bosom? The man before whose talents a i.i . i ;.w. ; a,..; ', . ,r ration, whoso name was trumpetfed from mouth to mouth as a god's, was, like a fiend, exerting all the ingenuity of his crafty nature to keep on the mental rack, abein who had devoted her life to him

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know nothing of this? Alas! when Ladv Buhver expected justice or compassion froin tno world, shi forgot, that tho pow ?rful oppressor, not the friendless oppres sed, can alone awaken its sympathies. To unveil the Mokunna they were adoring as an idol, she wrote "('hsvelov;" and faintly shadowed forth a character too deeply demoniacal for human pen to por tray. Blinded to her w rongs by the d.az:ding genius of her husband, the public condemned her. Was she not his wife? What right had a worm to turn upon the foot which crushed ii? Those alone who knew her pnr?nna'dy, and, I m ght rdd, those also who knew him personal! v. defended and excused her. She herself repented of the baty pasiop. which induced her to seek for that justice, which she discovered was a jewel not to he found. She obtained but one object by her work. She gained money enough to relievo her present wants, the sum which Bulwcr a'lowed her being imulTicicnt. I was ahoul a year ai ter t!lf publieation r t "t. ttevej.'v o. that I became acquainted with Lady Bulwer. She was residing in Pari'- as the only city in which she could live respectably on her scanty income. She had many friends there, and w-H universally couru 1. But her thoughts were occupied by her chddren; and she was daily forming some new pro ject to regain them. Bulwcr was t.ien living opmlv in London with the very governess who had created his (Jo.me.slic disturbances; ar.d w ho was then tho mother of several of his children. Worse than this, Lady Bnlwer's unfo-tunate litt! ones were under the care of this infamous v-i!)n; ' hmiivbtim with hrr illegitimate progeny! It was dreadful enough for their mother to feel that they were no longer under her guidance; but to know that they were subjected to the mast contaminadng in.'bience inhaling an atmosphere of vice their pure spirits becoming accustomed to iuiqu.ty she would sometimes ay, that to hear they were dead would be comparative happiness! She experienced great pleasure in the conviction, that her children cherished her memory in spite of their long separation. On entering her apartment one day I observed that her eyes wero swollen with tears, and her manner unusually agitated. I ventured to inquire, whether she hail received news from London? Pointing to a passage in an open letter, she said with deep emotion, "Bead thaU My - poor boy! ho has not forgotten his mother!" Tho letter was from a friend in London. The passage contained the following anecdote. Bulwer wa? setting in his drawing room, which was filled with company, when Lady Bulwer's little son, then about eight or nine years cf age, entered the apartment and stood beside his father's knee. Bulwer had not seen tho child for some time. After looking at him for a m ment, without speaking, ho turned to tlv gentleman beside him, and remarked, with n frown: "llo's devilish like his mother! The boy heard him, looked up. with indignation glowing on his fine coun tenance, and said: "7l;'s devilish glad of it, lir.'" Lady Buhvrt's pecuiirr expressions in conversation, the force and vigor of her laonage, left deeper impressions on my mind than those of almost any odir por1 son, with whom I ever conversed. When ' we wero ta:king over the impossibility of I her obtaining a divorce, and thus recover- ! ing her children, without the possession of a larger sum of money than she hrA any prospect of commanding, she would say: "England boasts of her laws; and she ha? good ones. Batmen made them to protect themselves to guard beasts and birds from injury thry framed no law to shield woman." At another time, when I was vainly trying to persuade her that she would in the nd receive justice even from a harshjudging public, sho replied: "I do not doubt it. There is a species of jutico that comes to all, when death has placed them beyond the reach of injury; hut the sun that shines on our graves cannot beneft our bone i." She was rather apt to he severe, though 1 generally thfro was much of play ruin?0 even in her pveritv, upon the whole "ia'f sex. Sho did not disguise ber belief, that interest was the only barrier that could prevent them from gntifvirg their worst pamions. I onea said to ber laughingly, when she wes drawing a half ludicrous, half etern picture of tho male character: "Come, reme; y"o should nt speak o

without making some exceptions; remember J havo a husband." She answered in a tone, the mingled bitterness and sadness of which I shall never forget: " have a husband too; or perhaps I should not spank

so. She was always spirited, and in general lively, anil exceedingly brilliant in conversation. She possessed what might have been called genius for repartee. Yet, in spite of her wit, sho was seldom, I think I may say never, satirical. Her daily chit-chat would have made a volume of bon mots. The following anecdotes will show the general turn and style of these jeux (fcytirits. She sail to me a day or two before we left Paris, "Why (ii you not return to America in a steam shi;,? I wonder at your going in a packet!" "I would willingly do so," I replied "and so would the rest of our party, but my aunt, Miss , who accompanies us, reolu'ely object3; she say th i fmi of being linen ?;." "Well that'a but n-iturai, when yon reflect that sho is a spinster." returned Lady Bulwer, smiling; "if she had been married she would have grown quite accustomed to that long ago." At another time a gentleman of the company was disparaging Byron, and insisting that nil his poems were inspired by gin. Lady Bulwer stopped him with "Xo slander, Mr. II , unless you c?n give us some news with it. We all admitted long ago, when you pretended to deny it, that Bvron's poems were full of spirit.' I should till pages if I called upon my memory for moro of these anecdotes. It was impossible to see Lady Bulwer wiihoul be like these every few moments. This style of repartee she introduces very frequently into her works; too frequent. y, perhaps, and cer tainly too indiscriminate! v; for she is apt to put witticisms into the mouths of all her characters alike. When the thought originates in her own mind she is immediately too charmed with it to reflect, that it may be inappropiiate to the character she is then portraying. Another err t is also apparent in every book she has yet published. She writes of mankiud and of life, entirely from her own experience. She ever pictures men as she has found them, rmd (ho world as it has seemed to her. Thus a shadow is lurown over hor brighter! imaginations. And a sameness is conspicuous even in the midst of originality. There appeared to be an union of npposites in the character of Lady Bulwer, Though strikindv spirited in her manner. always se!f-pesesed, quick to decide and prompt to act, though she was gifted with peculiar tact to repelling the advances of a fop, wdio believed her accessible, because she was unprotected: anil though her vetv glance commanded respect from the most frivolous, yet gentleness, grace, ami suavity were her especial attribute. I had many opportunities during my residence in Paris of becoming acquainted with tho firmness and energy of Lady Bulwet's character. I a!o witnessed some of ihe persecutions to which she was even then mbjected by it misguided husband. One instance in particular, by which all Paris was kept in a stale of excitement for severs! days, i worthy of record. If a man is an ordinary villain, at least half the world will give him the credit of being n monster. But if tho atrocities be commits arc of a more heinous nature than the imagination can readily picture, then they surpass belief, and lie is generally considered a tolerably good sort of person, who has been unjustly traduced. This is Bulwer's case; and I should not expect the history I am about to relate to gain credence, were it not authenticated by th publicity, which it obtained at trie time, and by the facts, which wre brought to light before a court of justice. Lady Bulwer hid in her possesion several letters from her husband, filled with fearful menaces and the mot insulting accusations. Bulwer, when informed by Ladv Bulwer's lawyer, of the existence ot thoo nnners. said, in reniv: "l no I i assure vou, the letters are mere forgriei I never wrote any thing of tho kind in my life." "But my dear sir," replied the lawyer. "admitting that tho band w riling, nnd your own seal might havo been imitated, the post-marks could not have been forged. And then, a woman womd hardiy write of herself tho accusations these letters contain. Bulwer, in tho haste and blindness o! his excitable passions, not seeing the snare in which he was caught, retorted: "Let me te i i you, sir, that every word of thee accusations is true. ' In one brent n denied all knowledge of the letters, in the next he showed himseo so p'-riectly ac quainted willi their content", iliat lie was ready to maintain their truth and justicr! These papers he became exceedingly anxious to r g-do, ?s they might at some time bo used to Ids uised vantage. In the daily habit of framing fictil'ous plots to delicbl the pehhr, hn now essayed to form one, which should he rerlized in actun life f r bis own private gratification. La ly Bulwer wrs then raiding in Pa ris, an 1 her husband in London. H feme de chambrc, vho was much attached to her, wns one r vening waylaid in tbc street by a couple of men. Trey com menced corversatirn by faying, th?.' they

; had something to communicate which would be of service to her mis'tress. iThe girl, on hearing this, naturally enough gave them her attention. But ihey seem inclined to chat awhile before they nfiord.

ed hr the promised information." Does Ladv Bulwer always treat vou well?' asked one. -Would yon not like to havo a place where you could get higher wages? 'She treats mo very well,' replied tl 1; 'I am satisfied where I am.' in 'But doesn't she ever get into a passion with you?' '.No, sir, she docs not.' Well, havo you never observed any thing improper in IW conduct, which vou couui let us know r Lome, now, be a good girl, an 1 tell us all about her. and you shall not repent of it.' M have nothing to tell,' answered the girl, who now began to be frightened 'Pray let me go Jioins quietly.. You shall go in a moment; but rirrt think a httle whether you cannot remember something she has done, which win not exactly the thing something a little out of the way?' 1 have never seen any thing at ail out oi the way. But don't you think,' continued the man, 'that if we wero to give you two hundred francs iou could remember something?' 'I do not know any thing to remember.' Just think a little take time. Let mo see suppose I were to mako yen a pre.s; ent now of fee hundred francs jest u present for y our faithfulness don't you suppose it would bring to mind soma little indiscretion? Five hundred francs' that's a pood deal of monev.' I could not te!l you any thing if you were to give fve thousand,' ?aid the g.rl, so pry let me go; and she attempted o hurry away. 'Not till yon premise that ou will iy nothing to your miptross of having met us! If you i e fuse you never spoke woids in your life, that yoj wiUhrvesu .!i cause to repent.' 'I shall not ray an'yhiog I -romisc yen I will not only let me go" And the girl broke awey from them, and hastened hom. Sho was rt firt deterred, In 'he threat of the men, from disclosing to Lady Bulwer ber conversation with them! But her love of her mi(ress, and her drend"thst some ecret plot was forming to in jure tier, nt length overcame every other apprehension. Sho went to Ladv led'-er and related want had occurred. Lady Bulwer at onoo felt the conviction, th-v these caitiffs were but instruments in tie. hands of her husband. She told the girl, that should they meet her again she must evince no alarm; bin rather draw them n to conversation, with a vie.v of discover1'irr Their ohiorf 10 fi i' hi.t a. ,0, m-iiting such inou:ne If they made he: :UV I'loo-itl'i:). fi'io must neither retire nor aecp. it; but ted them, she would converse with them a? en on tho subject, and immediately return lorne oiul communicate w hat had trans ired. In less than a week the girl was aTam accosted by the ra'ne men, who were rowling about near the door of La ly iiiiwer s residen -e, crlie !o,'o-.ved the in structions of her mistrcis; rr.,1, a? soon as they were out of sight, rati heuuo ?md instantly made Lady Btilwr acquainted with what ha I taken place. I he men, after trying to gt her t ) cr:v. that she had sect! Lady Bu! wor commit so mo indiscretion, or to bring somo charge, against her. which he could be bribed li naintain in a court of justice, and find ing that ! did not choose to accuse her mistiess fdscly, attempted another gvr!.. I hey asked tne girl il she could not man age, should they give hor a larg" sum cf money for ber troublr, to con-eal them si night in Lady Buiwcr's chamber? Their object, they mated, was to possess themelves of some valuable papers in her rsritoire, nnd they tuld tho girl that she need not be fearful of being d'seovrcd, as thev would take care that Ladv Bul wer should never mention the Mi'ecet. Phe g ri replied, that it would take her '-emo lime to make up her mind, but that sh" would meet them the next evening, ar.d let them know what she had concluded Jo Delighted with their "ii ees, thev left her, promising a magnificent reward for her prrvicrs. Lidy Bulwer instructed tho faithful crea'ure to keep her appointment with the men. end to u-i! them, that they should be re.lmil'ed to her mistiest' chamber be fore she retired that night. Ties femm. h eha-nhre met the villains once more, and communicated with thr-ni r.s -, hr-.d been instructed. The men 'ired tb-t ther might le safely concealed hrforo Ladv Jul wrr could er.ter the apartment. A Into hour that night was agreed upon, and the prli' separated wiiii mutual path l-.vtie:.. At the, hour proposed. :V ;r:e;i p- v.- . ed lhe;r,se!vr. Thev were v(ip , if,pV;. phlv consented b 'v.-rr n the rurtrjin-'d bVt end th" wall. The "err e d: churr.hr wbtui " fry tho g w,s arr.-mged to thi.- ) th fecdon, left trie apartment. A mem ent efierwards, L?dv Hub.vr herself entf red ih room, attended Hv h -r lawye-. Sh immediately walked to tho bed. gn' dtp-ring avav the eurtetns, d cclo-pd 'bterrified ruffians trem'i egiy ro icbiug