enger went into the attics; he did
not go into our room." It is afterwards said by Donithorne, that he went
two or three times into it. "I do not remember seeing any one in the
garden with De Berenger and Donithorne; one of them held the measuring
rod and the other, took the figures down. There was no snow; I think it
was a wet morning, and the rain had cleared the snow away. My husband
failed on the 17th of February; he then came to Mr. Donithorne's, who is
a cousin."

Then Donithorne is called; he says, "I live in York-street, Westminster.
Mr. and Mrs. Tragear came to live at my house, on Thursday the 17th of
February. I had known De Berenger a long while; I am very well
acquainted with his person; I am a cabinet-maker; De Berenger had
furnished me with designs for furniture. I remember seeing him on the
Sunday morning, after Tragear came to my house, which would be the 20th
of February, between nine and ten in the morning; he came to look over
my ground, as I was going to make some alterations in my little garden,
and also some designs for cabinet work. I furnished Mr. Cochrane
Johnstone's house in Cumberland-street, for Miss Johnstone. I saw him
again between eight and nine in the evening; I let him in, and asked him
to walk into the parlour where we were sitting; he said he would walk
into the back-parlour; he stayed about a quarter of an hour or twenty
minutes; he did not go into the garden. In the morning, we were I dare
say, an hour together in the garden; he called in the evening, to give
me an answer when he was to draw a plan for me." (This does not appear
to be business of sufficient consequence to have led this man twice
there in the course of that day.) "I was going to convert the front part
of my house into an inn, and the back part into pleasure-ground; it was
a misty rainy morning, and very cold."

On his cross-examination, he says, "he came as the friend of Mr.
Cochrane Johnstone, to give me plans for furniture; I proposed to him
surveying my house, with a view to the improvements I intended to make.
I went and called Mr. and Mrs. Tragear, and desired them to get up; I
have no doubt of it, I went twice." He is then asked as to some writs
against persons in the Stock Exchange; he says, "I employed the
attorney, Mr. Tahourdin, by desire of Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, to issue
135 writs; Mr. Cochrane Johnstone is to pay for them;" it appears that
these writs are against persons for stock-jobbing transactions