st._ That is all we want, my lord; was any application
made to the colonial department?

_A._ Yes; there was.

_Q._ By whom?

_A._ By Sir Alexander Cochrane.

_Lord Ellenborough._ All this must have been in writing, I should think?

_A._ Yes, it was.

_Lord Ellenborough._ You have laid this basis, that there had been some
application, and that it had been in contemplation, that he should go
out as connected with the service.

_Mr. Park._ That is all we wish, we want to show a connexion with the
Cochranes, without this illicit connexion.

_Lord Ellenborough._ No doubt there had been an intimacy and connexion;
whether for good or ill is the question?

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ And this confirms in terms the statement contained
in the affidavit of Lord Cochrane.

_William Robert Wale King sworn._

_Examined by Mr. Scarlett._

_Q._ What are you by business?

_A._ A tin-plate worker.

_Q._ Were you employed, in the course of last summer and this last
winter, by Lord Cochrane, respecting the making him any lamps?

_A._ Yes, I was.

_Q._ What was the business on which you were employed?

_A._ In the manufacture of signal lanthorns and lamps.

_Q._ For the use of the navy?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Was it a new sort of lamp?

_A._ Yes; for which Lord Cochrane has since obtained a patent.

_Lord Ellenborough._ A patent cannot be proved in that way.

_Mr. Scarlett._ My friend, Mr. Gurney, has intimated to me that he will
not object to it. Was his Lordship in the habit of coming to your
manufactory, while you were so employed?

_A._ Nearly every day.

_Q._ Do you recollect his lordship being there on the 21st of February
last?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Where is your manufactory?

_A._ No. 1, Cock-lane, Snow-hill.

_Q._ Do you recollect about what time in the morning he came?

_A._ Between ten and eleven it was that he was with me.

_Q._ Was there any particular time when he was accustomed to come?

_A._ That was about the time he usually came.

_Q._ Do you remember the circumstance of any note being brought to him
by the servant, whilst he was there?

_A._ Yes, I do perfectly well.

_Q._ Were you present when the note was delivered to him?

_A._ I was.

_Q._ What did his lordship do on receiving that note?

_A._ He immediately opened it, and retired into the passage of the
manufactory; he came into the workshop again, and shortly after went
away.

_Q._ What time of the day was this?

_A