The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane Part 96

_Q._ Did you see him there?

_A._ I did; I enquired of Mr. King's men--

_Q._ I did not ask you whether you enquired of Mr. King's men, but, whether you saw him there?

_A._ I did.

_Q._ Did his lords.h.i.+p read the note in your presence?

_A._ He did.

_Q._ Did you leave him there, at Mr. King's?

_A._ I left him at Mr. King's.

_Q._ Had his lords.h.i.+p another man-servant at that time?

_A._ Not in Green-street; no one but me.

_Q._ Where was his other servant?

_A._ His other servant was at his lords.h.i.+p's country seat, near Southampton, and had been there two or three months before that.

_Q._ Had he discharged any servant?

_A._ Mr. Davis he had given warning to, a month after his lords.h.i.+p was appointed to the Tonnant?

_Q._ When did Davis quit him?

_A._ Davis left him about two days, or three days it might be, before he went into Green-street; his time was up then, but he was in Green-street.

_Lord Ellenborough._ For what purpose is this?

_Mr. Scarlett._ Only to shew that we cannot find this person.

_A._ Davis was not in his lords.h.i.+p's service at that time, but he happened to be in the kitchen when the gentleman came.

_Q._ What is become of Davis?

_A._ He is gone with Admiral Fleming, to the West Indies.

_Mr. Park._ Do you recollect what time of the day this gentleman came to your master's?

_A._ As near ten as possible; I think a little past ten.

_Q._ It was so late as that, when he arrived there?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ You were hired to go into the country, in the room of my lord's steward, who was going to sea with him?

_A._ Yes.

_Lord Ellenborough._ I thought you had been in the family seventeen years?

_Mr. Park._ You had been with Lord Dundonald?

_A._ Yes; I was engaged with Lord Cochrane ever since last February.

_Q._ You were in Lord Cochrane's peculiar service only from February?

_A._ No.

_Q._ You said something about having been seventeen years in the service?

_A._ In the family.

_Q._ Chiefly with Lord Dundonald, the father?

_A._ Yes, and with two of his sons.

_Q._ You did not return home from King's immediately?

_A._ I did not arrive in Green-street till near two, having a father living in Castle-street.

_Q._ You do not know whether Lord Cochrane saw this person at his house when he came back, or how long they were together?

_A._ No, I do not.

_Mr. Serjeant Pell._ You have lived with Lord Cochrane several years?

_A._ No, in the family; only since Christmas with his lords.h.i.+p.

_Q._ Do you know the person of Mr. Holloway?

_A._ No, I do not, not even when I see him.

_Q._ Do you know a person of the name of Lyte?

_A._ No.

_Lord Ellenborough._ What did Lord Cochrane say or do when you gave him this note?

_A._ He said, "Then I must return."

_Q._ That was all that he said?

_A._ Yes; I saw him come out of Mr. King's.