Q. I should have thought you had been in a coffee house, it is after dinner time I suppose. You are sure you never said any thing of the kind?
A. I have repeated it three or four times.
Q. You know this gentleman very well, Mr. Palfreyman?
A. A very slight acquaintance.
Q. Now I ask you another thing—Did you ever disclose this conversation with Mr. De Berenger till after Lord Cochrane refused you a loan?
Lord Ellenborough. If any application you made for a loan was in writing, you are not bound to answer that question.
Mr. Serjeant Best. My question was as to the time of the disclosure to the Stock Exchange, I will certainly read his letters; this does not touch me, but my learned friends of Counsel for De Berenger had not seen these letters. My question is, whether you ever disclosed the matter you have stated to day against De Berenger till after you were refused a loan by Lord Cochrane?
Lord Ellenborough. But if the proposition for loan was in writing, the letter must explain itself.
Mr. Scarlett. If we are not allowed to examine this witness as to his motives and his conduct as to these letters, I do not see how these letters could ever be made evidence.