The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane Part 65

_Q._ Was that the high price of the day, or the price at which stock opened in the morning?

_A._ I got to my office I think about eleven o'clock, or a little before, I took the orders from the Accountant General's office.

_Q._ At what time did you begin making your purchases?

_A._ I think from eleven to a quarter after eleven.

_Q._ Had the news then considerably raised the Stocks?

_A._ It had.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Is that all you did that day?

_A._ That is all I did that day.

_Mr. Gurney._ Did you do business for any body besides the Accountant General on that day?

_A._ I cannot speak to any thing but what I did for the Accountant General.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Though you cannot speak to any thing else in precise sums, do you recollect that you did buy for any body else on that day besides the Accountant General?

_Q._ I can speak to an entry on my books on that day, but I cannot say whether I did the business myself. I do not recollect doing any thing else myself besides that bargain.

_A Juryman._ At what price could you have bought that lot of Consols on Sat.u.r.day?

_A._ I can state the purchases I made on Sat.u.r.day to the Court; I purchased on Sat.u.r.day the 19th for the Accountant General 6894:11:4 at 70 per Cent.

_Mr. Gurney._ I have called for Lord Cochrane's Affidavit, it is admitted by my learned friends that notice has been given to produce it, and it is not produced.

_Mr. John Wright sworn._

_Examined by Mr. Adolphus._

_Q._ Where do you live?

_A._ At No. 5, Panton-square.

_Q._ Do you know where Lord Cochrane lives?

_A._ At No. 13, Green-street, Grosvenor-square.

_Q._ Had you occasion to see Lord Cochrane in February or March last?

_A._ Almost every day in February and in March last.

_Q._ In the course of that time did he deliver in a paper to you?

_A._ Yes he did.

_Q._ What was it?

_A._ He delivered several papers to me.

_Q._ What was done with that? (_shewing a paper to the witness._)

_A._ Lord Cochrane brought me that affidavit for the purpose of getting it inserted in the newspapers.

_Q._ Did you do so?

_A._ I did, I got it printed in slips, and distributed a copy of it to each of the newspapers.

_Q._ Have you a copy of it?

_A._ I have not.

_Q._ Have you one of the slips?

_A._ No, I have not.

_Q._ Did you receive any other copies of affidavits purporting to be affidavits of persons of the name of Smith?

_A._ No, I had no concern whatever with Smith.

_Q._ Smith and his wife?

_A._ Certainly not, I know nothing of the printing of them.

_Q._ Was the Morning Chronicle one of the papers in which you put Lord Cochrane's affidavit?

_A._ Yes, it was.

_Mr. Park._ It must not be said to be Lord Cochrane's affidavit, till that is proved.

_Lord Ellenborough._ He printed something purporting to be Lord Cochrane's affidavit. I have taken it that Lord Cochrane delivered several papers, one purporting to be an affidavit which this witness inserted in the newspapers.

_Mr. Park._ But when once the expression is used by my learned friend, persons do not get rid of it again.

_Lord Ellenborough._ If he published it as an affidavit, it is quoad him an affidavit.

_Mr. Park._ To be sure, my Lord.

_Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Best._

_Q._ You have said that he brought this paper to you, giving you directions to have it printed?

_A._ He wished it to be inserted in the newspapers.