sider that the interests of human society require, and the cause of virtue demands, that the doctrine should not be promulgated, that the soul of such a monster as Holloway has shown himself to be, possesses any claim upon salvation, or that the pardon of God can be vouchsafed to him, on the mere ground of the penitence which he exhibits, and which was scarcely. ever known to be wanting in a criminal of his stamp.

As we before stated, the letters were written in September and October, breathing the fulness of a religious spirit; we will now view the writer of them two months previously, when religion had no hold upon him whatever, and he hesitated not in the eyes of his Maker to imbrue his hands in the blood of the innocent.

We resume the narrative where Holloway relates the failure of his attempt upon the virtue of the young woman, whom he had taken out to sea in his boat :

"In the course of that same day," he continues, "I again went up to Celia, and told "her to hold herself in readiness to go with

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me. She asked where I was going to take "her to, but I declined telling her, saying she "would know when I came for her. I then "left her, and on my way called at the house "I had hired, and then went home. I then "lived in Margaret Street. I said nothing to any one what was in my mind; and the next morning I arose from my bed with a deter"mination to take away her innocent life; and "after eating my breakfast, I went straight to "where she lived, and asked if she was ready; "she replied, very cheerfully, that she was; I "then began to pack up her clothes, or rather "her box, and went away with it and a few "other things. She wanted much to go with

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me, but I made an excuse, and said, that she "had better stop and get the dinner ready besides, I said, in your state (Celia was then "nearly seven months gone with child) you "will have enough to do to walk there. She "wanted to know where we were going to live. "I said, You will see when you get there. She appeared rather uneasy to know where I was going to take her clothes to; however on that point I would not satisfy her, but went away "with the box, having it only lashed up with "a piece of riband, as she had got no cord "of her own, neither did I bring any with me. "I took it to the house in North Steyne "Row, otherwise Donkey Row, (of which the "accompanying engraving is an exact resem"blance of the exterior,) and took every thing "out of the box and laid them in the room,

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"and then went for the remainder, namely, her "bed and many other articles of hers. I packed them up myself, and when she went "down stairs for something, I took some money out of a very small work-box, un"known to her, and then began to get ready "to start. She wanted very much to go with "me, but I would not let her, but told her to "have the dinner ready by the time I came 66 back. I took them likewise to the before"mentioned house, and sorted every thing out. "It was now coming to the point, and I began "to find my heart beat in a most surprising "manner, and my limbs to tremble; but it came so hot in my mind, Will you again prove yourself a coward? and I answered, No, never. I then again left the house, and "went and got half a pint of beer, which "cheered my spirits, and strengthened my "resolution. Remember, as yet no one knew

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any thing of it but myself. I then went for "Ann Kennett, and told her that I wanted "her to go with me, but did not say where. "She appeared to wonder where I was going "to take her to. I took her to the house, "and we went up stairs. When she entered "the room I think I never shall forget her, "she appeared frightened to that degree, I thought she would have dropped. I said, "Will you prove yourself my friend? She "asked, Have you stolen these clothes?

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replied, No, they are my own. She then "said, You know, William, that I would lose my life for you. I said, I have at all times "thought so. I then asked her if she would pawn these clothes: she said she would, if I "would tell her where I got them. I then

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"told her to whom they belonged. She advised me, for God's sake, not to do what I had proposed. I told her I was resolved. She said, "Do not endanger your own sweet life in "so doing. I said, I will take care that it "is never discovered. She said, Murder can "never be concealed. I said, it is in vain to

"talk like that, who will know it? She then "desired if I did do it, she hoped that I would "not insist on her having any hand in it. I pro"mised if she would pawn some clothes, and "sell some, as I should direct, I would not ask her to do any more; to this she very reluctantly consented. We then began to over"haul the clothes and pack them up, some to

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pledge, and some to sell. I sent her away "with them, and the baby's linen was sold. "Celia's gowns and all her clothes that were "worth any thing were pawned, and the re"mainder I burnt. I remained in the house "until she had disposed of every thing, which "she did as I had directed. I then purposed "going for poor Celia.'

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We must here, for the present, close our transcript of Holloway's narrative. In the subsequent pages he enters into a full and explicit statement of the whole of his arrangements prior to the murder of Celia, but as their general tendency is to render a particular individual, not simply an accessary, but an actual principal in the horrid transaction, we, in justice to the accused party, refrain from the publication of this statement, which could not fail to be highly injurious to her on the day of her trial. It, however, is manifest, from the last passage of the narrative which we have transcribed, that Holloway actually communicated his intentions to Kennett, of murdering Celia, and all she did was to advise him

not to do it; nor to endanger his own sweet life on her account. But in what manner would any other woman, possessed of the common feelings of humanity, have acted? Kennett had it in her power, by either secretly or openly conveying the intelligence to Celia, to have warned her of the fate which impended over her, and in the burst of honest indignation, she would have forsworn the society of a man, who could so deliberately and hellishly concoct a plan for the murder of a fellow-creature, his own wife, and against whom he had no other grounds of complaint, except what arose in his own debased and degenerate mind. In Kennett's assisting to dispose of the clothes of Celia, she rendered herself an actual accomplice in the deed, for the disposal of the apparel was determined on, for the purpose of establishing and confirming the report, which it was intended to raise, that Celia had left Brighton, and had taken all her apparel with her. Kennett could not have been ignorant of the stern and inflexible character of Holloway, and that with him a resolution once formed was tantamount to the execution of it; she had, therefore, little to hope from expostulation or entreaty, but, with the knowledge of his guilty intentions, and with the hour almost in which they were to be carried into execution, did she take a single step, by which those intentions might be frustrated? on the contrary, it is no irrational conclusion to draw, that in her heart, she secretly approved of them, and in some degree we are borne out in this conclusion by the confession of Holloway himself. In the opinion of the world, she was living in a state of open adultery with him, and Celia must have appeared in her eyes as the only and chief obstacle on earth, to the full recognition of her matrimonial right. In the whole statement of Holloway he is wholly silent as to any exertion or undertaking on