_Bedworth’s_ horrid reflections, in consequence of this discovery of his wife’s unfaithfulness, distracted his mind; and the very means he adopted as a consolation, became a train of circumstances tending to the commission of the crime, which, with bitter tears, he repented, and atoned for by an ignominious death. In time, his mind became more calm, and he seriously bethought himself of settling into regular habits, which a seafaring life had deranged, and subsisting upon his pension, and by his industry. He once more, therefore, obtained employment in his own trade, but, to his irretrievable mishap, became acquainted with _Elizabeth Beesmore_. This unfortunate woman, _who was also married_, was _the sister of his own wife_. Her husband, _John Beesmore_, had grossly neglected her, as well as a _child_, which remained in her care: he had not only denied her and her infant the necessaries of life, but had also declared his determination of never more residing with her, or even in the neighbourhood where she might be. Her case naturally excited the unhappy Bedworth’s commiseration, and he took advantage to complain of the conjugal infidelity and baseness which his _own wife_, her _sister_, had manifested _towards himself_. The similarity of their situations induced a sympathy in Bedworth’s mind; common acquaintance ripened into a kinder intimacy, and he ultimately became attached to her. Bedworth then proposed that she should place herself and her child under his protection, and that they should consider each other as a wedded couple. With this offer she complied, and, while she solemnly swore to unite her fate with his, and never to hold communication with her husband, but to be faithful to Bedworth, as his wife, he as sacredly pledged himself to be a husband to her. _Thomas Bedworth and Elizabeth Beesmore_, thus connected, lived together until the month of April, in the present year, 1815, being a space of about two years and two months. At this period, _John Beesmore_, the woman’s husband, who had hitherto been employed in the town of _Wedgbury_, in Staffordshire, came to London. He discovered the retreat of his discarded wife, and contrived to communicate to her and _Bedworth_, a repetition of his formerly-expressed determination not to cohabit with his wife, and also an assurance that he would not disturb the connection which she had formed with _Bedworth_. _She_ also, at this critical period, took occasion to renew her vows of attachment and fidelity to _Bedworth_, whom she justly represented as having saved herself and child from starvation.