back their testimony, that the Court cannot hear.

[_The following Affidavit was read._]

"In the King's Bench.

"The King _against_ Charles Random De Berenger & others.

"The Honourable William Erskine Cochrane, Major in the
fifteenth regiment of dragoons, now residing in Portman-square
in the county of Middlesex, on his oath saith, That he was
seized with a violent and alarming illness on the first of
January one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, at Cambo in
the south of France; and that this deponent remained in a
state of dangerous illness until the eighteenth of the
following month. That early in February last he wrote to his
brother Lord Cochrane, to acquaint his Lordship with this
deponent's situation, as deponent had then very little hope of
recovery, and telling him that he had received a notification
that he would be ordered to England, where he should proceed,
if ever able to undertake the journey. And this deponent
further saith, that the annexed certificate was given to him
for the purpose of being laid officially before a board of
medical officers at Saint Jean de Luz, by the surgeon of this
deponent's regiment, and is in the said surgeon's
hand-writing.

_W. E. Cochrane._"

Sworn in Court,
this 14th day of June 1814.
By the Court.

"Statement of Major the Honourable William Cochrane's
Complaint. Monday, February 12, 1814.

"Was seized with the usual symptoms of fever on the 1st of
January, which was continued for the first three days; then
the remittent character developed itself. The evening paroxism
was severe every day, and he was all through much worse on the
third day than on the two preceding days. The treatment
consisted in keeping the bowels perfectly free and the skin
moist, and this was generally obtained by calomel and
antimonial powder combined, in the proportion of two grains,
and three every third hour, and an occasional purge of neutral
salts. When the bowels were well emptied, I frequently gave
saline draughts, which kept the skin moist and favourable for
the exhibition of bark, the use of which was commenced the
16th day. On the 23d he had a crisis, and went on very well
till the 1st of February, when he suffered a relapse, attended
with rather alarming symptom