'I did, acting on my client's instructions.'
'When he was in Newgate. There were present two other friends of the prisoner. You then offered, if he would sign the document, to withdraw the principal witnesses?'
'I did not.'
'I put it in another way. You promised, if he would sign, that the principal witnesses should not appear?'
'I did not.'
'You swear that you did not?'
'I swear that I did not.'
'You say that you have no power to withdraw witnesses?'
'I have no power to withdraw witnesses.'
'You have no power over the case at all?'