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consciousness of his own Inte- 

 grity, did not suspect a contrary 

 principle to prevail in him. After 

 the acquaintance between them 

 was matured, he married his 

 daugliter, upon whom he settled 

 a jointure of 10,(K)0l. He after- 

 wards lent fiiblett sums of mo- 

 ney amounting to 17,000l. and 

 further sxuiis, which raised the 

 whole of what Giblett had suc- 

 ceeded in diawing from him to 

 more than 30,000l. In fact, he 

 had not only deprived him (Capt. 

 Harrower) of all the money he 

 could by possibility extract, but 

 he had robbed his own daughter 

 of the 10,0001. which had been 

 settled u]ion her. Every means 

 was used by (iiblett to cause his 

 wife to leave him, and live at 

 home with himself, when he of- 

 fered to give up certain apart- 

 ments in his house for her ac- 

 commodation ; adding, " that 

 they would be able to get the 

 whole of the money to themselves, 

 and he" (Captain Harrower) 

 " might go and starve." These 

 proposals, however, were always 

 uniformly and indignantly refused 

 by his wife. He alluded to the 

 commission of bankruptcy which 

 had been issued against Giblett, 

 by which he had contrived to de- 

 fraud him of his money, and men- 

 tioned a circumstance which that 

 person had been heaid to declare, 

 namely, " that he would try and 

 get the money into Chanceiy, if 

 otli.er designs failed of depriving 

 him of the inoperty." He went 

 into a varietv of other statements, 

 the object of which was to jepre- 

 sent Giblett to be a chaiacter of 

 the worst description, a cha- ' 

 racter such as he never thought 

 existed in England, and such as 



he trusted never woxild be found 

 in it again. He also made .some 

 strong allusions to the ungiateft.il 

 part which the witness Thompson, 

 iuid taken against him in this 

 consj)iracy. Finally, he protested 

 his innocence of the crime of 

 which he now stood charged, and 

 trusted that the sentence of tlie 

 Court would at once rescue him 

 from the infamous plot which had 

 been laid against him, and restore 

 him to the arms of a beloved and 

 only partner. 



Mr. Baron Richards summed 

 up the evidence at considerable 

 length. He observed, that it was 

 of little consequence by whom or 

 by what means the prosecution 

 was instituted. The jury, as well 

 as himself, were assembled there 

 upon tlieir oaths, and however 

 painful the duty would be, should 

 they determine \ipon the guilt of 

 the prisoner, still that verdict 

 must be pronounced. The sim- 

 ple question, therefore, for them 

 to try was, first. Had the prisoner 

 been proved, to their satisfaction, 

 according to the evidence of Mr. 

 Burrowes, and the confirmatory 

 confession of that fact to the wit- 

 ness Thompson, to have been 

 married to Mary Usher of Bom- 

 bay ? And, in considering the lat- 

 ter part of this question, was the 

 witness Thompson to be believed ? 

 Next, was the marriage of the 

 prisoner to Miss Giblett, during 

 the lifetime of the before-men- 

 tioned Mary Usher, also satis- 

 factorily proved ? Upon these 

 points he had no doubt they would 

 come to a safe and conscientious 

 conclusion. 



The Jury, having retired for 

 half an hour, retiuuied with a 

 verdict of — Guilty; but recom- 

 mended 



