r, manifested the frailty of her sex: for while her former lover
was led to suppose that he possessed all the fulness of her affection,
she was literally carrying on a private and guilty intrigue with one of
the worst looking scoundrels that ever disgraced humanity--I mean Phil,
as he is called, only son to Valentine M'Clutchy--who, by the way, goes
among the people under the sobriquet of Val the Vulture. I need not say
what the effects of this young woman's dishonor have produced upon
her family. Young M'Clutchy was seen by several to go into her own
apartment, and was actually found striving to conceal himself there by
his father's blood-hounds who had received information that M'Loughlin
had fire-arms in his house. The consequence is, that the girl's
reputation is gone for ever. 'Tis true the verdict against her is not
unanimous. There is a woman, named Poll Doolin, mentioned, who bears a
most unrelenting enmity against M'Loughlin and his family, for having
transported one of her sons. She is said to have been the go-between
on this occasion, and that the whole thing is a cowardly and diabolical
plot between this Phil--whom the girl, it seems, refused to marry
before--and herself. I don't know how this may be; but the damning fact
of this ugly scoundrel having been seen to go into her room, with her
own consent, and being found there, attempting to conceal himself, by
his father's cavalry, overweighs, in my opinion, anything that can
be said in her favor. As it is, the family are to be pitied, and she
herself, it seems, is confined to her bed with either nervous or brain
fever, I don't know which--but the disclosure of the intrigue has
had such an effect upon her mind, that it is scarcely thought she will
recover it. Every one who knew her is astonished at it; and what adds to
the distress of her and her family is, that Harman, whose cousin was
an eye-witness to the fact of her receiving Phil into her chamber, has
written both to her and them, and that henceforth he renounces her for
ever.

"There have also been strong rumors touching the insolvency of the firm
of M'Loughlin and Harman, and, it is to be feared, that this untoward
exposure will injure them even in a worldly point of view. In the _True
Blue_ there are two paragraphs of the following stamp--paragraphs that
certainly deserve to get the ears of those who either wrote or published
them cropped off their heads.

"Unprecedented Feat of Gallantry and Courage