bsequently to that correspondence, whatever the
contents of that correspondence were?

_Lord Ellenborough._ I never heard that question put till this moment.
Previous to some supposed correspondence, without stating the nature of
that correspondence, was the information given by you to the Stock
Exchange?

_A._ No, it was given by Lord Cochrane in his publication of the
correspondence in the Morning Chronicle.

_Lord Ellenborough._ We cannot get on without the letters.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ I have no objection to the letters being read now.

_Lord Ellenborough._ That would disturb the order of the proceedings.

_Cross examined by Mr. Richardson._

_Q._ The conversation with Mr. De Berenger was about the 14th of
February?

_A._ Yes it was.

_Q._ Have you not reason to know that about that time he had
expectations of getting some employment in America?

_A._ He mentioned it to me himself.

_Q._ To serve under Sir Alexander Cochrane who had a command?

_A._ To serve under Lord Cochrane as I understood.

_Q._ He expressed his anxious desire and wish to be so employed?

_A._ Particularly so.

_Q._ He expressed a hope that he might make himself useful to the cause,
by drilling the sharp shooters, and other things of that sort?

_A._ That was what he represented.

_Q._ Did you not know that he had had experience as a volunteer officer
in a particular department?

_A._ I had a very high opinion of him as being acquainted with that
science.

_Q._ He had been a Captain for a considerable number of years in the
Duke of Cumberland's Corps of Sharp Shooters?

_A._ Adjutant I understand.

_Q._ You considered him as a man of science and skill in that
department?

_A._ I did.

_Q._ Do you not know that he was making preparations at that time in
order to go to America if he should be successful in procuring the
appointment he was soliciting?

_A._ Not making preparations, those I know nothing of.

_Q._ That it was his anxious wish and desire to go you heard from him?

_A._ Yes.

_Re-examined by Mr. Bolland._

_Q._ Did the Stock Exchange apply to you, or did you go to them to give
information.

_A._ The Stock Exchange applied to me and sent me a subpoena.

_Q._ Was the application made to you after Lord Cochrane's publication,
or before?

_A._ After Lord Cochrane's publication. The information that I gave to
the two gentlemen, Captain Taylor and Lieutenant Wright was prior to
Lord