260 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



not know that Captain Ilarrower 

 had lent large sums of money to 

 tJiblett, nor did he know that the 

 former was about to lea\e the 

 kingdom on account of the im- 

 portunities of Giblett, who wanted 

 more money. Witness admitted 

 that Captain Ilarrower had paid 

 the expenses of the witness to 

 Calais and back. 



[During the examination of this 

 witness he displayed much agita- 

 tion, and frequently took some 

 minutes to answer tiie questions 

 put to him, some of which related 

 to very recent transactions.] 



David Wallis deposed, that he 

 was clerk to the attorney of the 

 prosecutor. Witness extracted 

 from the register- book of tl)e 

 parish of St. George, llanover- 

 square, a copy of tlie marriage of 

 Captain Ueorgc Ilarrower with 

 Miss Susiumah Giblett, on the 

 12th of October 181'2, when the 

 solemnization took place, a copy 

 of which he now produced. The 

 document was dated as above, and 

 certified that George Ilarrower, 

 bachelor, of Uickmanswortli, w;is 

 married to Susannah Anne Gil>- 

 lett, spinster. 



Miss Kliza Giblett deposed, that 

 she was sister to Susannah Anne 

 Giblett, and was present at her 

 marriage with Captain George 

 Harrowcr, with otlier of her sis- 

 ters, on the 1*2114 of October 

 \SV2. 



Cross-examined by Mr. Scrj. 

 Best. — lielicvcd her sister might 

 be living, up to the present time, 

 in perfect unity and happiness 

 with Captain Ilarrower ; Mrs. 

 Harrower did not reside with 

 her father, and of course did not 

 geek protection. [The evidence 

 g^iven by this young lady was 



scarcely audible, from her great 

 agitation.] 



Here the three letters already 

 alluded to, which were given by 

 Mr. Cook, at Bombay, to the 

 witness Burrowes, were put in. 

 and read. 



Henry Adkins, a Bow-street 

 ofhcer, deposed, that he was em- 

 ployed by Giblett, a butcher, of 

 Bond-street, to apprehend the 

 prisoner in 1814. In this he did 

 not then succeed ; but he had 

 lately met witli him in Ilounds- 

 (Utch, and took him into custody. 



The prosecution here closed, 

 when Mr. Serjeant Best rose, and 

 submitted an objection, founded 

 on the sUitutc of James II. by 

 whidi j)arties intermarrying be- 

 yond the seas, and afterwards 

 separating for seven years, were 

 freed from the tics imposed by 

 the marriage act. 



This objection was instantly 

 overruled. 



Capt^iin Iliu-rower, being then 

 called upon for his defence, en- 

 tered into a statement of his con- 

 dition in life from liis youth to 

 the present time. He adverted 

 to the period wlien he had had 

 the misfortune to become known 

 to the prosecutor Giblett, who, in 

 draining him of his 'j)urse, and 

 instituting proceedings against 

 liis liberty and character, had left 

 him but one consolation, an ami- 

 able and beloved wife, unfortu- 

 nalcly the daughter of the worst 

 of men. The prosecution, he 

 said, was the result of a ftml and 

 infamous conspiracy, and not that 

 of a desire to supjiort the laws of 

 the country, or to punisli those 

 who transgressed them. He had 

 been introduced to Giblett in an 

 unguarded way, a»d, feeling a 



conscious- 



