A. I will look at it. (the Witness read the letter over.) This is precisely the same as one I have in my pocket.
Q. You have got that letter about you?
A. I have.
Q. Have you not proposed to my Lord Cochrane to lend you money, and have you not told his Lordship that if he would not——
Mr. Bolland. My Lord, he says he has had no communication but in writing.
A. I have had no communication with Lord Cochrane but in writing.
Mr. Serjeant Best. Would you have given this evidence if you could have obtained a loan of money from Lord Cochrane?
A. Most undoubtedly; I must have been compelled to do it upon oath if brought forwards in a court of justice.
Q. I will not have a reasoning answer, but a direct answer, and that answer I will have taken down. Would you have given this evidence here if you could have obtained a loan of money from Lord Cochrane?