Mr. Hayne And Miss Foote.
[ Mlr. Hayne has addressed the foliowing to X Morning Paper] :- Sir,-lt never was my intention to have troubled the public with any circumstances which havc taken place between- Miss Foote and nmyself, had I net felt something wvas due to truth in the contradic- tion of those paragraphs, which made it necessary my attorney should do, in your colunmns of yesterday. There I had hoped the matter would 'have rested until the action Aliis Foote has thlought proper to commence developed every thing; but the notice taken of it in your paper of this morning compels me, reluctantlI to put the pub- lic in possession of facts which, I think, will justV& my conduct, in- tending to leave my powers of contradicting ouch statemests to the proper time and place Delicacy to the lady would almoest silence me, did I not feel and know it is so little attended to by, or headed on her part. But to the point. I was not aware, whea I made a proposal to Miss Foote, that she had ever been under the protection of Colonel Berkeley-her father and mother having always upheld (and I believed) her to be a paragon af virtue; and had not Colonel Berkeley, in the latter end of June last, in the presence of James Xlaxse, Esq. (as the Colonel's friend), and Thomas Best, Esq. (as my friend), owned her having had children by him, the youngest then not a month old, I should have been in ignorance of the facts until too late to retrieve my happiness. If I were to make every other circumstance ublie at tktis moment, I should not only be anticipating the defence I have at the approach- ing trial, but might rather increase the anxiety than " releve the minds of iMis Foote's friends." ly withers are vnwung. Now a word for Af1r. Foote, who, under the Plea of purchasing a paynmastership, borrowed the sum of one thousarnd one hundred and fifty pounds from me. Alay I ask bim (if he is in this country) to what purpose it has been appropriated; being given to understaud that the fear of being called upon to return it has induced him to make a continental tour. The mention of the above facts out " of the many," will, I trust induce the public to suspend their further opinion until the appeal made to the Court of King's Bench is decided. And in thus in. truding upon their notice, I cannot but congratulate mnyself at my escape. lam, Sir, your obedient humble servant, JOSEPH HAYNE. 28, Upper Grosvenor-street, October 15, 1824. tWe have rcceived the following from the Solicitor to Miss Foote] : In answer to Mr. Hayne's letter, published in stome of the mrnom. ing ppers of Saturday, we are desired tostate, that proposals of mar. riage to Miss Foote were made by him, after he was m full posaes. sion of theeirctwnstances so indeheately alluded to, by him, in that letter; and to expreos a hope that the public will not form aby opi. nion of Miss Foote from the language or tenour of Mr. Hayne's letter, but suspend theit judgment until the truth thas been mani. feated in a court of justice. MR. RYArE AND MISS FOOTE.