His
conduct, when a young man, was uniformly discreditable in all the
relations of life; and what it then was it continued to be (on the
showing of his own legal representative) after the time when I ceased
to hold any communication with him. He appears to have systematically
imposed a woman on Society as his wife who was not his wife, and to
have completed the outrage on morality by afterward marrying her. Such
conduct as this has called down a Judgment on himself and his children.
I will not invite retribution on my own head by assisting those children
to continue the imposition which their parents practiced, and by helping
them to take a place in the world to which they are not entitled. Let
them, as becomes their birth, gain their bread in situations. If they
show themselves disposed to accept their proper position I will assist
them to start virtuously in life by a present of one hundred pounds
each. This sum I authorize you to pay them, on their personal
application, with the necessary acknowledgment of receipt; and on the
express understanding that the transaction, so completed, is to be the
beginning and the end of my connection with them.
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