So let it be.

I dispute nothing up to this point.

But I ask a question, out of the depths of my own sagacity as a man of the world, which the bitterest of my enemies will not, I think, find it particularly easy to answer.
Granted the fact of the marriage, what proof does it afford me of the innocence of the three persons concerned in that clandestine transaction?
It gives me none.

On the contrary, it strengthens my suspicions against Mr.Jay and his confederates, because it suggests a distinct motive for their stealing the money.

A gentleman who is going to spend his honeymoon at Richmond wants money; and a gentleman who is in debt to all his tradespeople wants money.