"It was not likely that harmony should long subsist in this family,
especially as Lady A-- was a woman of a lofty spirit, who could not
tamely bear insults and ill-usage from persons who, she had reason
to believe, were her enemies at heart. Accordingly, a misunderstanding
soon happened among them, which was fomented by the malice of one
of her sisters-in-law. Divers scandalous reports of her misconduct,
to which the empty pretensions of a vain wretched coxcomb, who was
made use of as an infamous tool for that purpose, gave a colourable
pretext, were trumped up, and transmitted, with many false and
aggravating circumstances, to her husband in Ireland; who, being a
giddy, unthinking man, was so much incensed at these insinuations,
that, in the first transports of his passion, he sent to his mother a
power of attorney, that she might sue for a divorce in his behalf.
A libel was thereupon exhibited, containing many scandalous allegations,
void of any real foundation in truth; but being unsupported by any
manner of proof, it was at length dismissed with costs, after it
had depended upwards of two years.
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