een in a coffee house, it is after
dinner time I suppose. You are sure you never said any thing of the
kind?

_A._ I have repeated it three or four times.

_Q._ You know this gentleman very well, Mr. Palfreyman?

_A._ A very slight acquaintance.

_Q._ Now I ask you another thing--Did you ever disclose this
conversation with Mr. De Berenger till after Lord Cochrane refused you a
loan?

_Lord Ellenborough._ If any application you made for a loan was in
writing, you are not bound to answer that question.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ My question was as to the time of the disclosure to
the Stock Exchange, I will certainly read his letters; this does not
touch me, but my learned friends of Counsel for De Berenger had not seen
these letters. My question is, whether you ever disclosed the matter you
have stated to day against De Berenger till after you were refused a
loan by Lord Cochrane?

_Lord Ellenborough._ But if the proposition for loan was in writing, the
letter must explain itself.

_Mr. Scarlett._ If we are not allowed to examine this witness as to his
motives and his conduct as to these letters, I do not see how these
letters could ever be made evidence.

_Lord Ellenborough._ You cannot examine him as to his motives, without
producing the letters, that would be extracting the most unfair
testimony in the world; I know nothing about the man, I never saw his
face before to-day; but he, as a witness, has a right to the common
protection of the law of the land, and not to have garbled questions put
to him.

_Mr. Scarlett._ We do mean to read the letters.

_Lord Ellenborough._ And then you may call him back to ask him any
questions upon them; but I would not have him answer without the letters
being read.

_Mr. Brougham._ My learned friend merely referred to the letters as a
date, not to the substance of the letters.

_Lord Ellenborough._ But he has said that he never had any communication
with Lord Cochrane, but by letter, therefore the request for a loan, if
any one was made, must have been by writing, and if he is to be
questioned about that request in writing, he ought to have the terms of
that request in writing read before the jury, so as to give a pointed
answer to it.

_Mr. Brougham._ With great submission, my learned friend, did not ask
as to the contents of the correspondence, but in point of date and time
merely; he put this question, Was your information given to the Stock
Exchange previously or su