her against the arts of her
enemies, to save her from the King. 'They seek my dishonour,' she would
say with the most touching expression, 'and alas! I am fatherless!'
From the vehemence of her indignation whenever she mentioned the name
of Charles, I became at length persuaded that some painful mystery
connected with my marriage remained to be unfolded; and the papers which
her estrangement of mind necessarily threw into my hands, soon made me
acquainted with her eventful history. Such was the compassion with which
it inspired me for the innocent and injured Theresa, that I have sat by
her bedside, and wept for very pity to hear her address her Percy--her
lost and beloved Percy, and at other times call down the vengeance of
heaven upon the king, for his licentious and cruel tyranny.

"It was during her residence on the coast of Devonshire that she formed
an acquaintance with Lord Hugh Percy, whose ship was stationed at a
neighbouring port. They became strongly attached to each other; and with
the buoyant incautiousness of youth, had already plighted their faith
before it occurred to either, that her want of birth and fortune would
render her unacceptable to his parents knowing, which he did, that they
entered very different views for his future establishment in life, he
dared not at present even make them acquainted with his engagement; and
it was therefore mutually agreed between them that she should accept the
proffered services of Lady Wriothesly for an introduction to the royal
notice, and that he in the mean while, should seek in his profession the
means of their future subsistence. Secure in their mutual good faith,
they parted, and it was on this occasion that he had given her a song,
which in her insanity she was constantly repeating. The refrain, 'Addio
Teresa, Teresa Addio,' I remembered to have heard murmured by the Duke
of Buckingham with a very significant expression, on the night when the
agitation of Lady Greville had made itself so painfully apparent in the
circle of the Queen.

"You will believe with what indignation, with what disgust, I discovered
that shortly after her appointment at court, she had been persecuted
with the licentious addresses of the king. It was nothing new to me that
Charles, in the selfish indulgence of his passions, overlooked every
barrier of honour and decency, but that the unprotected innocence of the
daughter of an old and faithful servant, whose very life-blood had been
po