of Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?

_A._ No.

_Lord Ellenborough._ That has been proved over and over again; nobody
made an observation upon it.

_Mr. Park._ I beg your Lordship's pardon; there could be no other
motive, I conceive, in calling Mr. Brushoft.

_Lord Ellenborough._ I understood him to be called to prove, that Mr.
Tahourdin was a surety for the defendant; I never heard an observation
made upon Mr. Cochrane, as being a relation.

_Mr. Park._ Are you acquainted with the hand-writing of your client, Mr.
De Berenger?

_A._ Perfectly.

_Q._ That letter, or those letters lying before his Lordship, which have
been proved, I think you say they are his hand-writing?

_A._ There is only one.

_Q._ Have you ever seen that letter before you saw it yesterday?
(_handing to the witness the letter sent to Admiral Foley._)

_A._ Never; I just saw it yesterday, and that was all.

_Q._ Upon the knowledge you have of the hand-writing of Mr. De Berenger,
is that, in your judgment, the hand-writing of Mr. De Berenger or not?

_A._ Certainly not.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Be upon your guard.

_Mr. Park._ Be upon your guard, and look at it attentively. You have
many times seen and read his letters?

_A._ A thousand times, and received a thousand letters from him.

_Q._ And you do not believe it to be his hand-writing?

_A._ I do not indeed; it is not his hand-writing.

_Lord Ellenborough._ That is the Dover letter?

_Mr. Park._ Yes it is, my Lord. If your Lordship will look at that and
the other letter, you will see a marked difference.

[_The witness compared the two letters._]

_Lord Ellenborough._ The gentleman may look at the two letters; but that
furnishes no argument, for a person would certainly write a disguised
hand at that time, if ever he did in his life. This gentleman does not
go on belief that it is not, but he swears positively that it is not his
hand-writing.

_Mr. Park._ Certainly, my Lord; and there is, on the other side, only
Mr. Lavie. This gentleman having seen Mr. De Berenger write a thousand
times, and received a thousand letters from him. Do you, in your
judgment and conscience believe, that that is a disguised hand of Mr. De
Berenger?

_A._ I do not.

_A Juryman._ Why did you take the two letters up to compare the two
hand-writings, if you had no doubt in your mind?

_A._ I had no doubt at all of it.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Why did you compare the two then?

_A._ I wished to be