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    offence is aggravated when it has been unprovoked ; or how much more heavily it falls on those whose names , even because they are illustrious , cannot be withdrawn from public notice . A Tory newspaper , a mighty supporter of our " holy religion , "

    protestant principles , social order , and glorious constitution , finding the impression of the evidence in the recent trial rather too strong- to be trifled with , gravely and with great candour , recommends the husband to banish from his mind all the unworthy suspicions which had been infused into it ; and then , we suppose , to recall Mrs . Norton , and tell her to be sure and

    lore , honour , and obey him , till death shall them part—a very moral and magnanimous mode of closing the transaction . To what being in this wide world does it signify whether there be one atom of absurdity more or less in the cranium of the Honourable George Norton ? He is nothing to the world ; nor would the world ever have heard of his existence ,

    had it not been that , in an evil hour for the recipient , he bestowed his less noble name upon a Sheridan . But she , the injured , insulted , and outraged ; where is the " remedy" for her " wrong ? " She is to be soothed by the hope that her husband may change his mind ; his opinions are not immutable ;

    he may not think , to-morrow , that Lord Wynford is a wise lawyer , or Trinette Elliott a trusty housemaid . And is it to be endured , after all that has passed , that such a woman as Mrs . Norton should ( unless indeed she so please ) be bound for life to this man ; bound his legal slave beyond redemption ; his inalienable property ? And yet the very Tories who flung her reputation at Lord Melbourne ' s office , with infinitely less scruple than they would have flung a glass bottle at his head ; w 6 uld uplift their hands and eyes at the assertion of her right

    to A substantive existence ; and all the judges and all the bishops would cry out on the immorality . Man and wife they are , and so they must remain , in spite of the cruelty , the injustice , the grossness , or the utter falsehood , involved in the assumption of such continued mutual relation . And all because the clergy have not sense and learning enough to discover , or not honesty enough to tell , the true meaning of a text in the New Testament , which has just as much to do with the morality of a public law of divorce , on reasonable grounds , as it has with the commutation of tithe for hop-gardens , or with the adoption of poor-laws for Ireland .

    ihe public are invited to bear with these disgusting investigatioma , because title and property are at stake , and legitimacy of deacent must be ascertained . Now it may really be questioned , whether legitimacy of descent ever did the country so much good as these trials do it harm . Would the peers be worse than they ^ are , had nineteen * twentieths of them owed their existence to a different paternity ' ? How would it improve his Grace of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/6/