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“ My Blessed Mary,
“ It rejoiced me beyond measure to hear you are likely to
be well provided for. I am sure the public at large will par-
ticipate in, and mitigate your sorrows. I assure you, my
love, my sincerest endeavours have ever been directed to
your welfare. As we shall not meet any more in this world,
I sincerely hope we shall do so in the world to come.
11 My blessing to the boys, with kind remembrance to Miss
Stevens, for whom I have the greatest regard, in consequence
of her uniform affection for them. With the purest of in-
tentions it has always been my misfortune to be thwarted,
misrepresented, and ill-used in life; but, however, we feel a
happy prospect of compensation, in a speedy translation to
life eternal. It is not impossible to be more calm and placid
than I feel, and nine hours more will waft me to those happy
shores where bliss is without alloy.
“ Your ever affectionate,
“ JOHN BELLINGHAM/’
(t Sunday night, 11 o'clock.”
“ Dr. Ford will forward you my watch, prayer-book, with
a guinea and note. Once more, God be with you, my sweet
Mary. The public sympathise much for me, but I have
been called upon to play an anxious card in life.”
Nothing, perhaps, can mark more strongly the frightful
distortion of his mind than the following note, written by him
the same night:
11 Twelve o'clock.
“ I lost my suit, solely through the improper conduct of
my attorney and counsel, Mr. Alley, in not bringing my wit-
nesses forward, (of which there were more than twenty,) in
consequence, the judge took advantage of the circumstance,
and I went of [on] the defence without having brought for-
, ward a single friend, otherwise I must inevitably have been
acquitted.
« JOHN BELLINGHAM?’
“ My Blessed Mary,
“ It rejoiced me beyond measure to hear you are likely to
be well provided for. I am sure the public at large will par-
ticipate in, and mitigate your sorrows. I assure you, my
love, my sincerest endeavours have ever been directed to
your welfare. As we shall not meet any more in this world,
I sincerely hope we shall do so in the world to come.
11 My blessing to the boys, with kind remembrance to Miss
Stevens, for whom I have the greatest regard, in consequence
of her uniform affection for them. With the purest of in-
tentions it has always been my misfortune to be thwarted,
misrepresented, and ill-used in life; but, however, we feel a
happy prospect of compensation, in a speedy translation to
life eternal. It is not impossible to be more calm and placid
than I feel, and nine hours more will waft me to those happy
shores where bliss is without alloy.
“ Your ever affectionate,
“ JOHN BELLINGHAM/’
(t Sunday night, 11 o'clock.”
“ Dr. Ford will forward you my watch, prayer-book, with
a guinea and note. Once more, God be with you, my sweet
Mary. The public sympathise much for me, but I have
been called upon to play an anxious card in life.”
Nothing, perhaps, can mark more strongly the frightful
distortion of his mind than the following note, written by him
the same night:
11 Twelve o'clock.
“ I lost my suit, solely through the improper conduct of
my attorney and counsel, Mr. Alley, in not bringing my wit-
nesses forward, (of which there were more than twenty,) in
consequence, the judge took advantage of the circumstance,
and I went of [on] the defence without having brought for-
, ward a single friend, otherwise I must inevitably have been
acquitted.
« JOHN BELLINGHAM?’