The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane Part 131

_Q._ And then, out of friends.h.i.+p to you, knowing you had little alteration to make, he proposed to a.s.sist you?

_A._ Yes; I first proposed the business, and Mr. De Berenger approved of it.

_Q._ He was going to make a survey of the inside of your house that morning; was he not?

_A._ He did of that also.

_Q._ Particularly your lodgers bed-room; he was very anxious to see that?

_A._ And all my own.

_Q._ He was very anxious to see your lodgers bed-room?

_A._ Not that particularly.

_Q._ You went and knocked up Mr. Tragear?

_A._ Yes; I went up and desired them to rise, and to clear up their room, for that he was coming there.

_Q._ Did you desire them to rise yourself?

_A._ Yes, there is not a doubt of it, for I went up stairs.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Will you take upon you, upon your oath, to say, that you went into that bed-room out of which they had come?

_A._ Yes, twice over.

_Mr. Adolphus._ What is your christian name?

_A._ Isaac Donithorne.

_Q._ Do you know any thing about the Stock Exchange?

_A._ A little; something about it.

_Q._ Have you ever done business there?

_A._ Never in my life.

_Q._ Have you ever employed an attorney?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Who is your attorney?

_A._ That gentleman there.

_Q._ What is his name?

_A._ Mr. Tahourdin.

_Q._ In what particular business is Mr. Tahourdin your attorney?

_A._ By the desire of the honourable Cochrane Johnstone, who thinks himself very ill used by a set of villains.----

_Q._ After all that preamble, as to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's being ill used by a set of villains, will you answer my question, what Mr.

Tahourdin is doing for you?

_A._ Issuing some writs.

_Q._ What have you desired him to do?

_A._ To issue some writs.

_Q._ How many?

_A._ A hundred and thirty-five.

_Lord Ellenborough._ A hundred and thirty-five writs, of what kind?

_Mr. Park._ Qui tam actions, and that was the reason I did not propose calling him.

_Mr. Adolphus._ Are you to pay Mr. Tahourdin the costs of those actions, or Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?

_A._ Mr. Cochrane Johnstone most undoubtedly, I should think.

_Mr. Park._ I really think that ought not to be asked.

_Lord Ellenborough._ If a man at my instance issues a hundred and thirty-five writs, to be sure I must bear him harmless; how long has your neighbour Tragear failed?

_A._ Why he never failed, to my knowledge; he left his shop publicly, and came to my house.

_Q._ He does nothing in the bail way, by way of filling up his time, does he?

_A._ I know nothing about his private concerns.

_Lord Ellenborough._ You take upon yourself to say, that you know he has not failed; is not his wife likely to know, she has told us he did when he came to your house. You may go about your business.

_A Juryman._ Are you a journeyman or a master?

_A._ I am a master in a small way, sometimes I keep three or four men.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Whom else do you call?

_Mr. Park._ No more, my Lord.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Do not you prove where De Berenger dined that day?