ended.

_Q._ You mean to state that upon your oath?

_A._ I state that I hold the situation of Secretary and Register to the
Court of Antigua and Montserrat.

_Q._ You have not been prevented from going out?

_A._ In consequence of being compelled to give my evidence either at
this court or some other court.

_Q._ And not on any other account?

_A._ Not that I know of.

_Q._ You know of no other reasons why Government have prevented your
going out, but that you may be kept here as a Witness?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ You mean to state that broadly?

_A._ Precisely.

_Q._ Is that your hand writing? (_shewing a letter to the Witness_)

_A._ It is.

_Q._ Just look at these; are these your hand writing? (_shewing other
letters to the Witness._)

_A._ That is not.

_Q._ That is Lord Cochrane's hand writing, is it not, you have got one
in your pocket that is a copy of one that Lord Cochrane wrote to you in
answer to one of your letters?

_A._ I will look at it. (_the Witness read the letter over._) This is
precisely the same as one I have in my pocket.

_Q._ You have got that letter about you?

_A._ I have.

_Q._ Have you not proposed to my Lord Cochrane to lend you money, and
have you not told his Lordship that if he would not----

_Mr. Bolland._ My Lord, he says he has had no communication but in
writing.

_A._ I have had no communication with Lord Cochrane but in writing.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ Would you have given this evidence if you could
have obtained a loan of money from Lord Cochrane?

_A._ Most undoubtedly; I must have been compelled to do it upon oath if
brought forwards in a court of justice.

_Q._ I will not have a reasoning answer, but a direct answer, and that
answer I will have taken down. Would you have given this evidence here
if you could have obtained a loan of money from Lord Cochrane?

_A._ If my Lord Cochrane had not called me forwards, of course I should
not have given an evidence, but he has compelled me.

_Q._ That will not do, I will put the question again; I want an answer,
yes, or no, to this; would you have given this evidence if you could
have obtained a loan of money from Lord Cochrane?

_A._ I hardly consider that question as fair; if his Lordship says it is
I will answer it.

_Lord Ellenborough._ I rather think the terms of the question embrace
some communications; he says he has had no communications about a loan
in any way but in writing, and I think you cannot i