Lord Ellenborough. When did you write that?
A. I wrote that the 23d of February, the day after I received the letter.
Q. It is addressed to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone.
A. It was sent to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone.
Q. How came your answer to be in your hands?
Mr. Scarlett. It was handed over by us just now; it was given me by Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's attorney.
[The letter was read, as follows:]
"My dear Sir,
"In reply to your favour of yesterday, I beg to inform you, that the only sum I have paid the Baron on your account, since you advanced him the £.50, is a trifle of about £.7 or £.8, which he paid for the printing of the prospectus's of Vittoria. You are very kind in assisting him so much; I have done it till my purse is empty; but had it been otherwise, I would still have assisted him to the extent of my means, notwithstanding the little foolish difference between us.
"I will attend to your wishes respecting the annuities, I will settle with Dawson and Wrattislaw as speedily as possible.