You have heard on the testimony of Mr. Camperdown that
they were not hers at all, that, at any rate, they were not supposed to be
hers by those in whose hands was left the administration of her husband's
estate, and that when they were first supposed to have been stolen at the
inn at Carlisle, he had already commenced legal steps for the recovery of
them from her clutches. A bill in Chancery had been filed because she had
obstinately refused to allow them to pass out of her hands. It has been
proved to you by Lord Fawn that though he was engaged to marry her he
broke his engagement because he supposed her possession of these diamonds
to be fraudulent and dishonest." This examination had been terrible to the
unfortunate undersecretary; and had absolutely driven him away from the
India board and from Parliament for a month. "It has been proved to you
that when the diamonds were supposed to have vanished at Carlisle, she
there committed perjury. That she did so she herself stated on oath in
that evidence which she gave before the magistrate when my client was
committed, and which has, as I maintain, improperly and illegally been
used against my client at this trial.
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