A. The date of the letter.

Lord Ellenborough. Certainly it is not regular to authenticate the date of a letter, to which you are not privy; that is all my observation upon it.

Mr. Scarlett. Besides those plans you now produce, do you know whether there were other and subordinate plans drawn for the details of that same scheme?

A. Yes, there were.

[Examined by Mr. Park.]

Q. You have been a great while the attorney of Mr. De Berenger, and known to him?

A. Five or six years.

Q. Were you known to him before you were known to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?

A. Yes.

Q. Did you become security for the Rules for this gentleman before you knew Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?