n in uniform, some wear medals that they have gained as prizes
given by the corps; they occasionally wear them hanging by a ribband.

_Q._ You wear no such decorations as this? (_shewing the star to his
lordship._)

_A._ No, certainly not.

_Q._ Supposing a gentleman appeared before you in an aid-de-camp's
uniform, with that star upon his breast, and that other ornament
appendant, should you consider that was a man exhibiting himself in the
dress of your sharp-shooting corps?

_A._ Certainly not.

_Q._ If a sharp-shooter belonging to your corps presented himself to you
in that dress, you would think it a very impertinent thing?

_A._ Certainly.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ As Lord Yarmouth has been called by the defendant,
De Berenger, and has given evidence which may affect Lord Cochrane, we
conceive, we submit we have a right to make an observation upon it.

_A Juryman._ If Colonel De Berenger had appeared before your lordship in
the uniform of his corps, would it have been any thing extraordinary?

_A._ Nothing extraordinary; it would have been more military that he
should do so, though I never exacted it.

_Captain Sir John Poo Beresford, sworn._

_Examined by Mr. Richardson._

_Q._ Are you acquainted with Mr. De Berenger?

_A._ I have seen him twice in my life before yesterday.

_Q._ Have you had any occasion to see him write, or to be acquainted
with the character of his hand-writing?

_A._ Never.

_Q._ Do you know at any time in the early part of this year, or the
latter end of the last, of any applications he was making to go to
America as a sharp-shooter?

_A._ I will tell you the part I took in reference to that business. In
the beginning of February, I paid my ship off; after that, I met Mr.
Cochrane Johnstone in town, who told me Sir Alexander Cochrane was very
anxious he should go out in the Tonnant, to teach the marines the
rifle-exercise. I went to the Horse Guards to ask whether anything could
be done; I was told it would be useless to apply to the Duke of York;
and I told Mr. Cochrane Johnstone of it the day after. I was dressing
before breakfast, and Mr. De Berenger sent up to say, that he was very
much obliged to me for the part I had taken.

_Q._ At what time was this?

_A._ I think, the beginning of February; but before Sir Alexander
Cochrane sailed, I met him at Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's, with Admiral
Hope and some ladies; I think that was in January, or the latter end o