ng 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.

_Q._ Tell us all that he said to you at the time; did he not at the time
when he was giving you directions to print it, say, that if De Berenger
was the man, he had given the Stock Exchange the clue to it?

_A._ After reading the affidavit, his Lordship said "I once saw Captain
De Berenger at dinner."

_Lord Ellenborough._ Was this at the time?

_A._ Yes; he said "I once saw Captain De Berenger at Mr. Basil
Cochrane's--I have no reason to think that Captain De Berenger is
capable of so base a transaction, but if he is, I have given the
gentlemen of the Stock Exchange the best clue to find him out."

_Lord Ellenborough._ Did he say what sort of clue he had given?

_A._ The clue as to De Berenger.

_Mr. Gurney._ By his affidavit?

_A._ Yes, that by that he had given them the best clue.

_Re-examined by Mr. Adolphus._

_Q._ When was it this affidavit was given to you?

_A._ I cannot state the day.

_Q._ Was it so late as March?

_A._ No, i