Lord Ellenborough. Have you any letter-book?
A. I do not keep a letter-book; but I keep my letters very regularly tied up.
Mr. Scarlett. You have heard the contents of the letter from De Berenger to Mr. Johnstone read.
A. Yes.
Q. That refers to some documents in your hands, to serve as a security to Mr. Johnstone, in case he should require them?
A. Yes.
Q. Is it your usual practice, when letters of that sort are sent to you, to make the sort of endorsement you have done when you lay the letters by?
A. It is.
Lord Ellenborough. I only asked him as to the inclosure. If I received a letter, I should endorse the date of my receiving it as authenticating the fact; but I should not put the endorsement of the date upon the enclosure, for I know nothing of the date, whether it was received on that day or not; the gentlemen of the jury know whether that is the habit of business or not.
A Juryman. Is the date you have endorsed upon the enclosure, the date of your receiving it or the date of the letter?