The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane Part 112

_A._ No body.

_Q._ Before you made that affidavit, you had not seen any body upon that business?

_A._ No.

_Q._ Not Lord Cochrane?

_A._ Never in my life.

 

_Q._ Nor Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?

_A._ No.

_Q._ Nor Mr. Tahourdin?

_A._ I saw Mr. Tahourdin, but he did not know of my making the affidavits; I told Mr. Tahourdin of my master's absence; I went to tell him.

_Q._ How soon was that after he left his lodgings?

_A._ I cannot positively say to a day.

_Lord Ellenborough._ What absence do you mean?

_A._ From the 27th.

_Mr. Gurney._ How soon after the 27th did you tell him?

_A._ About the 7th or 8th.

_Q._ Of March?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ You swore your affidavit on the 24th of March?

_A._ Yes; but I drew it out before then.

_Q._ And that without any concert with any body whatever?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Merely for the vindication of your master's character?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ And when you had done it, what did you do with the affidavit?

_A._ I sent it to have it published.

_Q._ To whom did you send it?

_A._ I took it to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone. I found my master a very injured gentleman.

_Q._ And therefore you took it to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, to be published?

_A._ I did not take it to be published.

_Q._ You gave me those very words?

_A._ He did publish it.

_Q._ Did you not take it to be published?

_A._ I did not take it to the printer.

_Q._ Did you not take it to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, that it might be published?

_A._ Yes.

_A Juryman._ Did your master breakfast at home on Monday the 21st of February?

_A._ No, he did not.

_Re-examined by Mr. Richardson._

_Q._ When was it that you first saw this black coat?

_A._ On the 21st of February.

_Q._ That was the Monday?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ That was after he came home, which you say was about three o'clock?

_A._ I came home about three o'clock.

_Q._ He was at home?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ He might have been at home before that?

_A._ Yes, he might.

_Q._ Does your master play on any musical instrument?