e an effect upon the funds."

Then William Ions, the express-boy, being shewn to the last witness, St.
John, he says, "this is the boy whom I saw sent with one of the two
expresses that was sent that night; this lad went with the express to
the Port-admiral at Deal, I believe; it was the express that Mr. Wright
gave him from the gentleman who was there; _from that gentleman_."

William Ions says, "In February last I was in the service of Mr. Wright,
of Dover; I was called up when the officer arrived there, and was sent
with an express to Admiral Foley; I took the letter I received to
Admiral Foley; Mr. Wright gave me the letter whilst I was upon my pony;
he came out to the door with it; and that letter which I received, I
delivered to the Admiral's servant at Deal. She took it up stairs to the
Admiral, and I saw the Admiral before I left Deal, after the letter was
delivered to the servant, who took it up stairs." Therefore, whatever he
received at Dover he delivered to the Admiral, and what the Admiral
received we have here; there is an interruption in the proof certainly,
in consequence of Wright, of Dover, not being well enough to be here as
a witness; and therefore it did not appear by his testimony, that that
which he, Wright, had received, Wright had delivered to his express-boy,
to go over to Deal with; but that is supplied by the circumstance of De
Berenger, if he was the person, telling Shilling, the Dartford driver,
that he had sent off such an express; therefore it must be presumed that
he had sent that letter which contained an express to the Admiral; and
that which the Admiral received he shews you.

To supply that defect in the evidence, Mr. Lavie was called to say, that
he believed it to be De Berenger's hand-writing; and though this does
not appear to be the ordinary undisguised hand of this Defendant, yet
after Lord Yarmouth, who had given his evidence that he did not consider
it his hand-writing, referred to the letter _R_, the initial letter of
Random de Berenger's christian name, he considered _that_ as resembling
his hand-writing, and you would observe, whether there was not such a
resemblance as Lord Yarmouth mentions, if it were at all material; but
it ceases entirely to be material, when he tells Shilling, as he does,
that he had actually sent such a letter to the Admiral.

Admiral Foley is next called; he says, "The letter was brought to me,
that that boy brought to the house; I was a-bed; I re