d not usually do it?

_A._ I have done it differently; I have said "De Berenger to Johnstone."

_Q._ But you give it a date?

_A._ I have dated it above those words, as usual.

_Q._ When you receive a letter, you authenticate the period of receiving
it, but not the date of a letter received by another.

_A._ I generally do; I enclose it in the letter to which it refers.

_Mr. Scarlett._ Was it so done in this instance?

_A._ It was.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Have you any letter-book?

_A._ I do not keep a letter-book; but I keep my letters very regularly
tied up.

_Mr. Scarlett._ You have heard the contents of the letter from De
Berenger to Mr. Johnstone read.

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ That refers to some documents in your hands, to serve as a security
to Mr. Johnstone, in case he should require them?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Is it your usual practice, when letters of that sort are sent to
you, to make the sort of endorsement you have done when you lay the
letters by?

_A._ It is.

_Lord Ellenborough._ I only asked him as to the inclosure. If I received
a letter, I should endorse the date of my receiving it as authenticating
the fact; but I should not put the endorsement of the date upon the
enclosure, for I know nothing of the date, whether it was received on
that day or not; the gentlemen of the jury know whether that is the
habit of business or not.

_A Juryman._ Is the date you have endorsed upon the enclosure, the date
of your receiving it or the date of the letter?

_A._ The date of the letter.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Certainly it is not regular to authenticate the
date of a letter, to which you are not privy; that is all my observation
upon it.

_Mr. Scarlett._ Besides those plans you now produce, do you know whether
there were other and subordinate plans drawn for the details of that
same scheme?

_A._ Yes, there were.

[_Examined by Mr. Park._]

_Q._ You have been a great while the attorney of Mr. De Berenger, and
known to him?

_A._ Five or six years.

_Q._ Were you known to him before you were known to Mr. Cochrane
Johnstone?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Did you become security for the Rules for this gentleman before you
knew Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?

_A._ Some months.

_Q._ Then it was not at Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's desire that you became
a surety for the Rules for this person?

_A._ Certainly not.

_Q._ Was Mr. Cochrane, who, I understand from Mr. Brushoft, was your
co-surety, any relation