ever complained of, and all my efforts could not prevent it.
In hopes of inducing her to be steady to her husband, who
was a free man, I gave him the house to occupy during our
absence; but it appears the attachment was too loose to bind
her, and he has taken another wife: so on that score I do
her no injury.--In England she made her election, and
quitted my family. This I had no right to object to; and I
should have thought no more of it, but not satisfied to
leave quietly, she gave every trouble and annoyance in her
power, and endeavoured to injure the character of my family
by the most vile and infamous falsehoods, which was embodied
in a petition to the House of Commons, and would have been
presented, had not my friends from this island, particularly
the Hon. Mr. Byam and Dr. Coull, come forward, and disproved
what she had asserted.

"It would be beyond the limits of an ordinary letter to
detail her baseness, though I will do so should his
Excellency wish it; but you may judge of her depravity by
one circumstance, which came out before Mr. Justice Dyett,
in a quarrel with another female.

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"Such a thing I could not have believed possible.[19]

[Footnote 19: I omit the circumstance here mentioned, because
it is too indecent to appear in a publication likely to be
perused by females. It is, in all probability, a vile
calumny; but even if it were perfectly true, it would not