t must be about the 27th or 28th of February I think, but the
newspaper will prove the date; it might be the first or second of March,
I cannot speak to that.

_Q._ Was it not after the 11th of March?

_A._ I cannot state indeed.

_Q._ It was given to you the day before it appeared in the Morning
Chronicle?

_A._ It was the day before, about three o'clock.

_Mr. Gurney._ Look at that (_shewing a pamphlet to the witness_) have
you received one of those pamphlets either from Mr. Cochrane Johnstone,
Lord Cochrane, or Mr. Butt?

_A._ Lord Cochrane gave me one of those at my own request, hearing it
was published.

_Q._ Look at that which purports to be an affidavit of Lord Cochrane.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ Is that the identical book Lord Cochrane gave you?

_A._ No.

_Mr. Gurney._ Read the affidavit and tell me whether you know that to be
verbally and precisely the same?

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ I submit to your Lordship that will not do.

_Mr. Gurney._ Where is your copy of the pamphlet?

_A._ It is at home.

_Mr. Gurney._ Will your Lordship allow him to go home and fetch it.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Certainly.

_Mr. Malcolm Richardson called again._

_Examined by Mr. Gurney._

_Q._ You are a bookseller?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Were you employed by Mr. Butt to publish that pamphlet?

_A._ Not absolutely employed by him to publish it, but I sold it for him
at his request, he wrote to me to know whether I would sell it for him.

_Lord Ellenborough._ This should be a publication by Lord Cochrane, to
make the affidavit evidence against him.

_Mr. Gurney._ Certainly, my Lord, and if my learned friends wish it, I
will wait till the witness comes back.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ I have no wish to lay any impediment in the way,
therefore if your Lordship thinks there is no impropriety in my
permitting it to be read now, I will do it?

_Lord Ellenborough._ I leave it to your judgment, whether your
resistance does you more good than the admission.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ I will not resist it certainly. If I had the
original I would deliver it up in a moment, but the fact is, we have not
the original.

_The Affidavit was read as follows:_

"Having obtained leave of absence to come to town, in
consequence of scandalous paragraphs in the public papers, and
in consequence of having learnt that hand-bills had been
affixed in the streets, in which (I have since seen) it is
asser