New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-03

diminished her aversion 70 this marriage. Sac Ia
many reasons to doubt the insinccrisy Of Mr. Wa
affection. She could not understand how. haviss
known her well in her best days. II repeat her las
gusgeJ with Indifference, he should have fallen su6
denly and vehemensy in love with her
She wrote him . full letter, concluding that N.
could not marry him, then hurried 10 Load,..
whittier Mr.. W. followed insisting upon her fulsn
ing the engagement, and she told her servant, A.
ways to deny her to that gentlemen.
She then went again to the Continent 10 escan,
him. But he had broed her courier Louis and tia
courier showed himself quite as destitute OF decent
and manly feeling as the Cnevaler hinsef,In Turn
he endeavored TO entrap Miss G into parlor undsr
pretense that Mrs. Austin wished to see her. rAs
hostess suspicious OF the courier, bu, Offended
Miss G. by suggesting her suspicious. On the uay
to Genoa another courier folio wed, ard she IN
sisted, against the courier's Will upon stopping n
q hotel outside the city, in which he endeav.
ored to separate her apartments from those of her
travelling companions. In the other carriage va,
the Chevalier. They reached Geaos, and there
Louis naturally lost the passports and told Miss
it could only be procured by her personal presence
al the Office She went there, and 10 the ll.endenr,
room she finds Mr.. w. alone and determined upon
every extreme. He locked the door, told her that
the house was full OF his men, and tina. be trusted
she would now cheefally fulfill her engagement,
Three hours she expos.ulated and struggled with
this impemous wooer. The remainder we give in
Mr.. Weeds words
"She then, finding an opportunity, seized the
longs broke the WINDOWS ana made an oui-cry, bu.
he Immediately placed his hand upon her mouth
and forced her back TO seat, soon alses which he
made attempt TO administer cal0roform, unsuc.
cessfuly but he said II driven to MAKE a second
attg khA
alarmed her 81 much that she gain promised 10
marry him. He said that where so much happiness
depended upon simple promise, 50 easily violated,
that she ought to assure HIM OF her slnceTlly
that he must have some guaranty and hns ly
that he would send for clergyman and be mar
ried instsn,er To this she interposed positive
objections, but as positively promised TO NARY
him at a proper place aud time. lie asked II she
would give bun urllfea promise OF marriage, 10
which she replied Sfirmativey. Tie then said that
he desired TO protect himself against the possibility
of another disappointment, which, nov that he
seemed near the possession OF the only object ior
whom he lived he feared would crlve hun 10 mad.
ness, and proposed that the written engagement
cbouid convey ~ him half her fortune In case of her
refusal to NARY him. To all this she assented and
at his request wrote the promise OF marriage, and
the forfeiture, in the form and manner dictated ~
the Impressive lover. Things being thus arranged
Mr w. said he would order carriage Leaving
the apartment and passing through another he wai
followed stealihiiy by Miss G., who hearing the
voice of her old nurse IN an outer room into which
w had passed, she rushed forward and fell into hsf
arms. They conveyed her back 10 the apartmentm
which she had been COAhned, whore she remained
with W. and her nurse In a high state of pervoui
excitement. And finally when restored, an hour %
more was passed IN efforts to uanquiiEs and recon
cile her to what had passed and ,nen, at O'Clock
at light Tor morning rather) she was permitted to
return to her hctel On the following day, after
consulting with the British Consul, Miss Gamble
went with him to the real Intendant OF Police aud
preferred a complaint, on which Mr.. WycoH with
his confederates her ourier and valet, "a resident
of Genoa) were arrested and committed to prison,
where they await trial which comes on next
week"
All this seems to neither funny nor entertaining
nor piquant 1t is the miserable attempt Of advsn
turer, evidently destitute of brains as money, TO
possess himself Of woman's fortune, and who does
not hesitate to try first to deraud her Of her honor
az means of getting her money. The heart Of every
decent man will swell and his cheek flush at this
disgrace upon the name OF man and American.