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Lalo down m youth his life and fame.

 His wife disdain'd life forlorn,

 Without her heart How d, hunor'd lord |

 Then, reader, here their fortunes mourn | WhO tor heiT LoUe their life-blood nour'd. |

 A. BEAUCHAMP.

 NoTE.--Mr Kendall, if he chooses, may in- sert the within lines in this weeks Argus otherwise, he will please returnit to me im- mediately.

 In a letter to William4C. Bradhurn, of the 18th of March last, she says, My father, brother. sister and friends were all dead n was defenceless female uniustly robbed of character" And, as an evidence of the ex- tent of her feelings, she said upon another oc- casion, when speaking upon this subject 7. would deliberately have chosen, the day Mir. Beauchamp started to Frankfort, 10 kill Col. Sharp, to have lain down with him, as |. shall this evening do, and have gladly quit the world, rather than Cols Sharp should have lived. These were the mutual feeling whign we both expressed ;sand we do not shrink from acting up to them" And furthe said

 < Although thedeath of Col. Sharp has cost us both our lives, yet strange as it may seem to some, can never regret i:."

 To Mr Wingate, Beauchamp said, in the presence of his wife, and to which she yielded her confirmation and assent, that the Sharp's had forged cextiicates, showing that the child Of Mrs. Beauchamp was mulatto, and show ing them to Mrs. Sharp, to reconcile her, and quiet the repose of his own family. And that Mrs. Sharp, and Mrs. Scott, her mother, might blame themselves, in a very great de- gree, for thesfn,nder of Colonel sharp.

 This, I always beliered4to be the fact; and so stated to Joel Scott, last February. My belief was founded on the nature of the trans action, and their denial of the existence of these certificates, after they had stated to so many persons that they had them, and, be- lieve showed them to some.

 It was the desire of the Sharp's to conceal these certificates, that has made their conduct so contradictory and absurd. And it was their belief that knew of their existence:atid man. ner of procurement, that has excited their dis, like and suspicion. They did not know how it was possible for me to guess so correctly and thought must have been in conversation or correspondence with Beauchalnp or his wife, to know the fact. It is certain that with theexception of Jereboam Beauchamp, the re- orga'aazang politician, the family and friends of Jereboam Q. Beauchamp, are not as much my enemies, as the family and friends of Col. { Sharp.

 Beauchamp further stated, that Dr. Sharp | was his greatest enemy, and had done him l more injury than even Col Sharp. That his 1 desire was to kill him. also, but he was pre- vented from doing SO by Mrs. .Beauchainp. ! That her opinioa was, that by killing Col. Sharp. the. Doctor would suffer greater pun ishment, by letting him live. She said he 1 would pine out miserable existence" And 1t is my opinion, that Beauchamp's statement at the gallows, that Dr Sharp would be killed, l was made with view ofproducing that effect; l and not because he knew of any person who intended to kill him. They seem to me to have carried the n1alignity of their feelings, I and the spirit of their revenge into their last moments of existence. That they died as much of Pagans IS any two Indians of the ] forest, have no doubt. The Christian sys- tenn of moral philosophy was wholly unknown to them, and his declarations of forgiveness were only used by him as an instrument of revenge. As to her, there is nothing which she has either said or done, that has not giv- en evidence of that feeling. UpontlI whole, they were extraordinary characters. In the midst of all their vices, which were numerous and strong, there is still something of heroism and deyotcdness which we cannot help admir- ring. >. ~. The .nearest that have been able to come to correct knowledge of Mrs. Beauchamp's original cause ofcomplaint against Col. Sharp, was conversation she had with MT sEdring- ton. In that she said as she stated to me, ''I came of as good family as any in Virginia. l moved in the first circles of society. And now, to reflect and see what Col. Sharp has brought me to,is more than I can bear. He has seduced me; and not content with that, he then slandered me, to gratify the feelings of others. And now, am, by the instrumen- taiity of the Sharps, in a dungeon with my husband condemnedto die, for what you, or any other man of yoursspirit would have done." These observations, together with what she has written and done, shew very clearly what she considered her wrongs to consist in. Col Sherp is said to have address sed her. He obtained her confidence and her affections. He riied her chastity, and then abandoned her for anothcr.-But whether she afterwards fell sacrifice to her affections, or her revenge, is what the spirit of her feelings, and the course of her actions, leaves very doubtful. Ambition, love and revenge, ap- pear to be the predominant traits of her char l acter and feelings. And my own opinion is, that disappointed in the two first by Col Sharp, she intended to indulge the latter. by | pouring poison into the cup of his domestic bliss, by taking from Mrs. Sharp what she could not herself enjoy-the blessing of do- mestic peace, and the happiness, of connubial faith. But in this design she found herself ! again disappointed, by the production of cer-