2 Annexed are some Queries which I shall be obliged by your answering on the blanks left for that purpose.
Any thing that you can throw in of Incidents &c. during the Trial I shall be glad of — to come after the verdict — such for instance was Mrs. H__ bing in Court & what occurred respecting her —&c. — &c. at what time Giblet left the Court &c.
Capt. Harrower's Defence reads disjointedly—Perhaps a reviewal of your Notes will enable you to throw in a little of connecting matter. His conclusion is insufferably bad but if the man really said no more it must go of course. I imagine it possible that as you conceived yourself hurried for the defence you may today not dislike the opportunity of again referring to your note book. I enclose the Observer Report—it may refresh you ["turn over"] possibly. When can you let me have Ans'rs to the enclosed queries & the MS? I need not urge Despatch in a Case of this sort. I do not expect impossibilities.
3 [Hone:] What Counsel examined
Grisseau?
[Dowling:] Mr. Adolphus
[Hone:] Was not Grisseau's
name Thomas le Garde?
[Dowling:] Yes.
[Hone:] What Counsel ex'd Burrowes?
[Dowling:]
Mr. Gurney.
[Hone:] Burrowses Xn Name?
[Dowling:] I could not
catch it.
[Hone:] Who was Sol[icito]r for Prosecution? Is it
Henson?
[Dowling: Yes.
[Hone:] Who is Stokes?
[Dowling:]
[one word][?] attorney of
Giblets.
[Hone:] Who Sol[icito]r for Harrower?
[Dowling:] I
can't learn.
[Hone:] The 3
Letters
[Dowling:] You have got them.
[Hone:] Was
Charles Forbes Esq [one word][?] called to give
Evidence?
[Dowling:] Did not appear.
[Hone:] Who Examined
Elizabeth Giblet?
[Dowling:] Mr. Adolphus
[Hone:] Who Examined
Adkins?
[Dowling:] Mr Gurney.
[Hone:] You do not say whether
Harrower called any witnesses.
[Dowling:] His counsel did not think it
necessary.
[Hone:] I have been informed that he was about to do so,
that his [two words][?] and other respectable
persons who knew Harrower in India were ready to speak to his Character but
that their testimony was declined by the Court. Can you give me any
information about this?
[Dowling:] You have been misinformed. Mr.
Serjeant was about to do it when they appeared to consider it unnecessary as
an idea was generally entertained before the charge that he would be
acquitted.
[Hone:] Names of Judges before whom tried?
[Dowling:]
Sir Simon Le Blanc of the Kings Bench
Mr Baron Richards of the
Exchequer
Mr Justice Abbot of the Common Pleas
[Hone:] Which
presided?
[Dowling:] Mr. Baron Richards
[Hone:] Name of the
Sessions? If February Sessions or any other?
[Dowling:] The February
Sessions for the County of Middlesex holden in and for the same County at
Justice [one word][?] the Old
Bailey
[Hone:] Who were Counsel for the Prosecution?
[Dowling:]
Mr. Gurney, Mr. Adolphus.
[Hone:] Who for Harrower?
[Dowling:]
Mr. Serjeant Best, Mr. Alley, Mr. Pooley, and Mr Arabian.
[Hone:] Is
not Miss Giblet's name, Susannah Anne?
[Dowling:] Yes