r. Cochrane Johnstone's calling with a letter; I
never told Mrs. Davidson, that a gentleman who called there was Mr.
Cochrane Johnstone. I was not at home; she told me a gentleman had
called there, and described him; I said, most likely it was Mr. Cochrane
Johnstone." Upon his examination I thought he had said, that he had seen
him only once, but then he said, at last, that it was only once at his
house. "I did not tell her on the Sunday, that if my master had been at
home on the Saturday, when Mr. Cochrane Johnstone brought that letter,
he would have gone off on the Saturday night; I did not tell her so
either on the Saturday or the Sunday. My master was at home every day
from the 20th to the 27th, going out as usual. On the 21st, he went out
to dine; he did not tell me where he was going to, or when he came back
where he had been to, that I recollect; he did not tell me he had been
to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's, when he came home, nor before he went out,
that he was going there. When I came home on the Monday, I saw a strange
black coat; I cannot tell whether the coat fitted my master; I never saw
it on; I brushed it; I am used to brushing coats; I did not know whose
coat it was; I cannot tell whether it was the coat of a man six feet
high. I swore an affidavit; I drew that affidavit myself; I told Mr.
Tahourdin of his absence on the 7th or 8th of March; I drew out the
affidavit before that time, and did it without any sort of concert with
any body whatever, merely for the vindication of my master's character.
I sent the affidavit to be published; I found my master a very injured
gentleman; I took it to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, and he published it."
And then he says, "I let him in," that is, De Berenger his master, "on
Sunday the 20th."

Ann Smith, the wife of William Smith, says, "I was a servant with my
husband to Mr. De Berenger, in February last, and had been so two years
and a half. I saw my master at home on the 20th of February; he went out
about nine o'clock in the morning, and came in again between ten and
eleven; he did not stay at home long then, before he went out again. My
husband and I went out between four and five, after my master was gone
out; he went out about four o'clock. My husband and I returned home
about eleven, a few minutes before my master; my husband got in a little
before me. My master came in that evening; he was let in by my husband,
and I heard him above stairs; he had a bit of bread and a