A. I inclosed it in a letter but I did not mark it.
Q. You inclosed it in a letter to Mr. Croker?
A. Yes a private letter to Mr. Croker.
Q. Is that the letter in which you inclosed it to Mr. Croker (shewing a letter to the witness.)
A. This is the letter.
Q. That letter which I first shewed you is the letter you received from your maid servant?
A. It is.
Q. I suppose you rose directly?
A. I rose and sent for the boy into my dressing room.
Q. Did you communicate the news by telegraph to the admiralty that morning.