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and cruelty, and especially when perpetrated by a perversion and a moekery of the laws.
A sense of what is due to my character and sex forbids me to refer minutely to the real causes of our domestic separation, or to the numerous unmerited insults offered me previously to that period ; but, leaving to your Majesty to reconcile with the marriage vow the act of driving, by such means, a wife from beneath your roof, with an infant in her arms, your Majesty will permit me to remind you that that act was entirely your own—that the separation, so far from being sought for by me, was a sentence pronounced upon me, without any cause assigned, other than that of your own inclinations, which, as your Majesty was pleased to allege, were not under your controul.
Not to have felt, with regard to myself, chagrin at this decision of your Majesty, would have argued great insensibility to the obligations of deeorum-not to have dropped a tear in the face of that beloved child, whose future sorrows were then but too easy to foresee, would have marked me as unworthy of the name of mother,-but, not to have submitted to it without repining, would have indicated a consciousness of demerit, or a want of those feelings which belong to affronted and insulted female honour.
The "tranquil and comfortable society," tendered to me by your Majesty, formed in my mind but a poor compensation for the grief oecasioned by considering the wound given to public morals in the fatal example produced by the indulgence of your Majesty's inelinations; more especially when I eontemplated the disappointment of the nation, who had so munificently provided for our union, who had fondly eherished such pleasing hopes of happiness arising from that union, and who had hailed it with such affeetionate and rapturous joy.
But, alas! even tranquillity and comfort were too
