text:  The shame of the wretched woman herself living in a state of open criminality from year to year; the grossness of Hackman in his proposal to make this abandoned woman his wife; the strong probability that his object might have been the not uncommon though infinitely vile one of obtaining Lord Sandwich's patronage by relieving him of a connexion of which that notorious profligate after nine years might be weary--all characterise the earlier portion of their intercourse as destitute of all pretence to honourable feelings