The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane Part 29

_A._ No, I did not.

_Q._ On that occasion, nor any other?

_A._ No, I never did, you may depend upon it.

_Q._ Nor any thing to that effect?

_A._ No, I did not.

 

_Q._ Who were present at this time?

_A._ Upon my word I do not know; several members round about.

_Q._ Several neighbours?

_A._ Yes, they were members.

_Q._ Was a person of the name of Man there?

_A._ I do not know him.

_Q._ Or Wood?

_A._ I do not know such a person; there were not above a dozen of them there; but I am not there often myself.

_Q._ How many members of the club are there?

_A._ I do not know, indeed; the hat maker pays my money for me; being very much out, I am not there one time in ten.

_Q._ When you are there, you do not know who are present?

_A._ No, I do not exactly.

_Lord Ellenborough._ What is this Hat Club?

_A._ We pay a s.h.i.+lling a week, and have a pint of beer; I have not been there these several weeks.

_Lord Ellenborough._ You get part of your money back in a hat?

_A._ We pay twenty-four s.h.i.+llings, and then have a hat for it.

_Mr. Richardson._ You have described this gentleman's person before to-day?

_A._ Yes, I have.

_Q._ You have been examined upon several occasions before this?

_A._ I have been examined at the Stock Exchange, and before the Grand Jury, no where else.

_Q._ Did not you describe the person as one that had a great red nose, and a blotched face?

_A._ A red nose I said, and his face was very red that morning, for it was very frosty. I said he was pitted with the small-pox.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Red or not sure you are, of the ident.i.ty of the face?

_A._ Yes, I am sure of it.

_Mr. Richardson._ It was you that told him of the stand of coaches in the Lambeth Road?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ That is before you come to the Marsh Gate?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ That is not far from the Asylum, is it?

_A._ No.

_Q._ You went there for the purpose of getting a coach in the first instance?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ And then you told him he might perhaps get one at the Marsh Gate?

_A._ Yes.

_William Bartholemew was called into Court._

_Q._ (_to s.h.i.+lling_) Is that the waterman?

_A._ That is the waterman.

_William Bartholemew sworn._

_Examined by Mr. Adolphus._

_Q._ Are you a waterman attending a stand of coaches?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Where?

_A._ At the Marsh Gate.

_Q._ Do you know s.h.i.+lling, the last witness?