A. I will read it through, if you please.—[His lordship read the letter.]
Q. Supposing you had heard none of the circumstances which this trial has brought to every body's ears, and of which your Lordship has heard so much yesterday; from the character of the hand-writing of Mr. De Berenger, should you have believed it to be his hand-writing?
A. Certainly not.
Q. Your lordship, I believe, knows that in the month of July, this gentleman was very urgent and solicitous to go out as a sharp-shooter to America, with Sir Alexander and afterwards with Lord Cochrane?
A. He mentioned to me one day, when he came to me on the business of the corps——
Q. Was that in January?
A. I think so; but I cannot swear to the date; he mentioned to me, that he had very nearly arranged to go out, to drill the crew and the marines on board of the Tonnant. I thought he mentioned it in a way to suggest, that he wished some little additional influence, and I got rid of the thing.
Cross-examined by Mr. Gurney.
Q. The writing of that is larger than Mr. De Berenger usually writes?
A. Certainly, it is longer.