Friends, I beseech you, move me not to unfold the dreadful dealings, that conspired the death of this most innocent and much injured child. Be satisfied to know her wrongs are not within the reach of human justice; God will avenge them; God will not permit the violator to escape unpunished. Why should I name him? he is not of us; he was not born of unmixed British blood! he is gone, self-banished, fled, and never will he dare to return amongst us, and abide the perilous inquisition, that awaits him. Be patient therefore, my dear countrymen! stir not a hand in my redress, and reverence the tombs of Penruth Abbey, where sleep the fathers and the heroes of your ancient race: account yourselves rather so far fortunate as you are henceforth rescued from a wretch without humanity, an alien to your nation, one who respects no laws divine or human, so void of honour, so abandoned of all virtue, so surrendered to all villainy, that, when the purity of my child repulsed his guilty passion, he scrupled not to make her mind a ruin, and levelled the defences of her reason in order to accomplish the destruction of her innocence--And now, my friends, you, who are fathers, will dismiss your fears; he, that has destroyed my peace, cannot harm you--_My_ daughter dies, that _your’s_ may be in safety. Here I should end, for he, of whom you all expect to hear, seeks not the praise of men, and modestly requires me to conceal the wondrous bounties, he has heaped upon me: but I cannot obey him; I will speak his praise, and in the ears of this assembly declare aloud, that to the charity of John, the young De Lancaster, sole heir of his paternal and maternal houses, I owe as much as man can owe to man--a grave for my child, a patron for my cause and an asylum for my age--Heaven’s best of blessings light upon his heart!--I have said.” END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Harding and Wright, Printers, St. John’s Square. Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: it to be stoped=> it to be stopped {pg 13} and Mrs. De Lancastar=> and Mrs. De Lancaster {pg 15} that I coudn’t get=> that I couldn’t get {pg 97} these addresed him=> these addressed him {pg 118} you are two subtle=> you are too subtle {pg 123} advisable to wave the=> advisable to waive the {pg 275} all villiany=> all villainy {pg 291}