you perhaps?

_A._ No it is not.

_Q._ You verily believe that to be his writing, do you?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Look at that and tell me whether you believe that to be his hand
writing, (_shewing a letter to the witness_) you need not open it, I
have shut it for the purpose.

_A._ Yes I do, that is more like what I saw him write than this; I
believe that to be his hand writing.

_Mr. Park._ I will put a letter A upon it; will you be so good as to
look at that account, (_shewing it to the witness_) and tell me whether
you believe that to be his hand writing.

_A._ I can only say this is the sort of hand he writes.

_Q._ Will you swear that is his hand writing.

_A._ That appears to me to be the same sort of hand.

_Mr. Park._ I will mark this B. They are very much alike.

_A._ They are more like the sized hand he writes in common than this,
this is a larger hand.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ Do you believe these to be Mr. De Berenger's hand
writing? (_shewing three papers to the witness_).

_A._ They are all like his hand writing.

_Lord Ellenborough._ I think this should be kept for your case--I never
saw any thing like this in my life.

_Mr. Gurney._ I take for granted these are meant to be produced in the
defence?

_Lord Ellenborough._ You must be conscious that you are doing an
irregular thing in tendering them now.

_Mr. Park._ I am not conscious my Lord, of doing an irregular thing.

_Lord Ellenborough._ I mean in tendering evidence at a time when it is
not open to the Defendant to do so.

_Mr. Park._ But I may try the credit of the Witness by shewing him
these.

_Lord Ellenborough._ There is no doubt that every Defendant has a right
to give evidence in his turn, but at present we are upon the case of the
prosecution.

_Mr. Park._ Have you not shewn that Letter to various other persons in
order to procure their testimony to the hand writing?

_A._ No, I have not.

_Q._ You have not attempted it?

_A._ I was always conscious that I should be able to prove the Letter,
but this morning finding Mr. Wright was not come up, I asked them if
they had any body at hand that could prove it, so as to avoid being
called myself; but I believe I must be called at last to the examination
of the papers, so that it is not so important my being called sooner or
later.

_Q._ Have you attempted to get other evidence?

_A._ I have not.

_Q._ Was Mr. Stevens applied to?

_A._ Before the Grand Jury, Mr. Stevens