"The Wendover business is proceeding; but I am awkwardly circumstanced, not having all the documents before me; in Lady M. L. Crawford's business I should wish to attend with you on the spot. Pray excuse haste
I am, dear sir,
your's faithfully
Gabl Tahourdin."
Temple,
23d Feb. 1814.
Lord Ellenborough. Where is the cover of this letter: the cover should be produced, for letters of this sort may be written after their date, and one wishes to have some external thing that cannot deceive; there is no post-mark to any of these letters.
Mr. Scarlett. Did you write that letter on the day of which it bears date?
A. Yes, I did; it was not sent by the post, I believe; I cannot charge my memory, whether it was or not?
Q. I see there is a lady alluded to, Lady Mary Crawford Lindsey; was she a tenant to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
A. No, she was not a tenant; she had purchased a house of his.
Q. There was a business to settle with her?
A. Yes.