his hand-writing,
but I do not believe it all is."
_Mr. Gurney._ How much is there of it that you do not believe to be his
writing.
_A._ Some of the letters look like his hand-writing.
_Q._ How much or how little of it do you think to be his hand-writing?
_A._ The smaller parts look like his hand-writing.
_Q._ Now I ask you upon your oath, have you any doubt of the whole of
those two pages having been written by the same hand?
_A._ Upon my word it is difficult to say.
_Q._ Not at all so; I have looked at it attentively, and I know it is
not difficult to say; do not you believe it all written by the same
hand?
[_The witness examined it again._]
_Lord Ellenborough._ You can say whether you believe it to be De
Berenger's hand-writing?
_A._ Upon my word, I really do not know what to say.
_Mr. Gurney._ I am quite content with that answer?
_Lord Ellenborough._ Mr. Park, would you like to look the Dover letter?
_Mr. Park._ I am no judge of hand-writing, my Lord.
_Lord Ellenborough._ That may be a concealed hand-writing, and I should
think it extremely likely.
_Mr. Park._ I mean to call other witnesses to this; I have nothing to
conceal in this case?
_Lord Ellenborough._ No; you announced to us that you flatly contradict
the whole of the story as to Mr. De Berenger.
_Mr. Park._ Yes, I do my Lord; I observe this is all pencilling which
has been shewn to you?
_A._ Yes, it is.
_Mr. Park._ Is this pencil writing in the same kind of character that a
man writes when he writes with pen and ink; are you enabled to say from
your knowledge of the hand-writing, whether it is or is not?
_A._ That it is which puzzles me more than any thing, its being in
pencil.
_A Juryman._ We should like to see that road book.
_Mr. Park._ Does your Lordship think the jury have a right to see that;
they cannot take it for the purpose of comparing with any thing else?
_Lord Ellenborough._ It is in evidence, being found in the desk of the
defendant, they may look at each, if they please.
_General Campbell, sworn._
_Examined by Mr. Brougham._
_Q._ Do you know Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
_A._ I do.
_Q._ Did you meet him in the month of September or October last, at a
meeting or hunt in Scotland?
_A._ I met him the second week, I think in last October, at the Perth
meeting.
_Q._ Did he at that time shew you some plans and prospectus of the new
place of amusement, in the nature
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