of a Ranelagh?

_A._ I saw in Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's hands, the prospectus of a new
public place, he called it, to be erected in the Regent's Park, or the
neighbourhood of the Regent's Park.

_Q._ Do you recollect the name he gave to it?

_A._ I think he called it Vittoria.

_Q._ Will you look at the prospectus, and see whether that is the same?
[_The prospectus was shewn to the witness._]

_A._ I believe this is a copy of the same that I saw.

_Q._ Look at the plan?

_A._ He did not shew me the plan.

_Q._ Did he shew this prospectus, and communicate to other persons at
that meeting upon the subject of it, as well as you?

_A._ I cannot speak to that; he communicated to me in my own apartment
or his own, I cannot recollect which.

[_Mr. Hopper was called, but did not answer._]

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ This gentleman was taken very ill, being kept here
last night; if he comes by and by, I trust your Lordship will permit him
to be examined out of his turn.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Certainly, at any period.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ That is the case of the three defendants for whom I
appear.

_The Right Honourable the Earl of Yarmouth sworn._

_Examined by Mr. Park._

_Q._ You are I believe, or were, the Colonel of the Duke of Cumberland's
sharp-shooters?

_A._ Lieutenant-colonel commandant.

_Q._ It is called the corps of sharp-shooters?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Captain De Berenger was adjutant of that regiment, was he not?

_A._ He was a non-commissioned officer, acting adjutant.

_Q._ How long have you known Mr. De Berenger?

_A._ Ever since a few days after I was elected to command that corps;
that was in the beginning of the year 1811; I cannot fix the day, very
early in that year I know it was.

_Q._ Has your Lordship had opportunities of seeing Mr. De Berenger
write, or of receiving letters from him, and of acting upon those
letters from him.

_A._ I have received a great many letters from him, and have seen him
write occasionally.

_Q._ And you have seen him, probably, on the subject of the contents of
those letters?

_A._ Very frequently; two or three times I have seen him alter the
regimental orders, and have received very many letters from him.

_Q._ Are you, from that opportunity that you have described, in a
capacity to state to his Lordship and the jury, whether you are
acquainted with his character of hand-writing?

_A._ As well as I am with that of any other gentle