for not
attending to your good humoured hint about long letters. Even
should you refuse my request, in regard to the L.200, I shall
be thankful for your reply; but if it should convey your
consent, the sum shall immediately be employed towards the
honest but hazardous service of your country, although it
hesitates by proper rank, and otherwise to encourage my loyal,
and I trust zealous endeavours. Forgive the sound but frank
style of this letter, owing to disappointments which would be
intolerable, if the recollection of your kindness did not curb
and relieve him, who must ever gratefully subscribe himself
with unalterable esteem,

dear Sir,
your faithful and obliged,
humble servant,
_C. R. De Berenger_."

To the
Hon. Cochrane Johnstone,
&c. &c. &c.

P.S. Apropos.--You have paid me L.50. on account;--may I
trouble you to tender my most respectful assurances to Miss
J.; that I hope most sincerely to hear that her indisposition
discontinues. Should you no longer want the books, perhaps
the bearer may bring them. Will lowness of spirits be received
as an apology for this slovenly letter and crippled sheet?

_Lord Ellenborough._ This does not appear to have come by the twopenny
post?

_Mr. Park._ No my Lord; but there is an indorsement upon it.

_Lord Ellenborough._ De Berenger was in the King's Bench; he had not
servants to send with it?

_Mr. Park._ Yes, my Lord; it is sworn to by the Davidsons, that he had a
man and a woman servant.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Probably he sent one of them, as you propose to
call them, perhaps they may prove that.

_Mr. Scarlett._ There is a reference in that letter to an assignment of
some property that De Berenger had?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Was such an assignment prepared at your office?

_A._ It was; it was an assignment from Mr. De Berenger to Colonel
Kennedy.

_Q._ What was the subject of the assignment?

_A._ It was an assignment of a share of a patent.

_Mr. Gurney._ We are getting so very wide of evidence, that I must
object, which I am very loth to do.

_Mr. Scarlett._ There was something referred to, that might be a
security to Mr. Johnstone.

_Lord Ellenborough._ That refers to something which is the real thing;
that is all you can prove by this witness.

_A._ Yes, it does, my Lord.

_Mr. Scarlett._ Mr. Johnstone having written you that l