ck coat?

_A._ A strange black coat.

_Q._ That black coat must have fitted your master vastly well?

_A._ I cannot say, I never saw it on.

_Q._ You brushed it, did not you?

_A._ Yes; but not on his back.

_Q._ You are used to brushing his coats?

_A._ Of course.

_Q._ Now, a servant used to brush his master's coat, must know the size
pretty well; this would be rather a short coat upon him, would it not?

_A._ No; I do not think it would.

_Q._ Upon your oath, would it not have been a great deal too long; was
not it the coat of a man six feet high?

_A._ I did not know who owned the coat.

_Q._ I did not ask you that; but was not that the coat of a gentleman
six feet high?

_A._ I do not know.

_Q._ You are not competent to say what sized man that would fit?

_A._ That coat would fit me very well; it is rather wide.

_Q._ Not at all too long for you?

_A._ No, not at all.

_Q._ You have seen Lord Cochrane, have not you?

_A._ Never in my life, to my knowledge.

_Q._ You have sworn some affidavits, have you not?

_A._ I have.

_Q._ Did you draw them yourself?

_A._ I did.

_Q._ Without any assistance?

_A._ Without any assistance.

_Q._ Whom had you seen before you drew them?

_A._ I cannot say who I saw, thousands.

_Q._ Upon that business?

_A._ No body.

_Q._ Before you made that affidavit, you had not seen any body upon that
business?

_A._ No.

_Q._ Not Lord Cochrane?

_A._ Never in my life.

_Q._ Nor Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?

_A._ No.

_Q._ Nor Mr. Tahourdin?

_A._ I saw Mr. Tahourdin, but he did not know of my making the
affidavits; I told Mr. Tahourdin of my master's absence; I went to tell
him.

_Q._ How soon was that after he left his lodgings?

_A._ I cannot positively say to a day.

_Lord Ellenborough._ What absence do you mean?

_A._ From the 27th.

_Mr. Gurney._ How soon after the 27th did you tell him?

_A._ About the 7th or 8th.

_Q._ Of March?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ You swore your affidavit on the 24th of March?

_A._ Yes; but I drew it out before then.

_Q._ And that without any concert with any body whatever?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Merely for the vindication of your master's character?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ And when you had done it, what did you do with the affidavit?

_A._ I sent it to have it published.

_Q._ To whom did you send it?

_A._ I took it to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone. I found my master a very
injured gentleman.

_Q._ And theref