The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane Part 109

_A._ Yes, thereabouts, it might be a little before, or a little after.

_Q._ He gave a good loud knock at the door, in his usual way?

_A._ He rapped as usual.

_Q._ And his usual rap was a loud one?

_A._ Not over loud.

_Q._ Not very gentle?

_A._ Between.

_Q._ Between loud and gentle?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ And he slept at home that night?

_A._ I cannot say that he slept, he went to his bed-room, and the bed when I went in the morning looked as if he had slept in it.

_Q._ Did you see him in bed the next morning?

_A._ No, I did not, I heard him go into the bed room.

_Q._ You did not see him the next day till three o'clock?

_A._ No.

_Q._ Did you write that letter to Lord Yarmouth? (_shewing a letter to the witness._)

_A._ I did.

_Q._ Of your own head?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ No body furnished you with any draught to write from?

_A._ No.

_Q._ Have you your master's military great coat here?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ His military grey great coat?

_A._ Yes; not in this present place.

_Q._ It is at Guildhall?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Now attend to this question, have you not acknowledged that your master slept from home that night?

_A._ Never.

_Q._ Have you not acknowledged it to Mr. Murray?

_A._ Never.

_Q._ I give you notice he is here?

_A._ I know he is.

_Q._ Now I ask you, did you not on Monday the 21st, tell Mr. or Mrs.

Davidson, or both, that coming home, and not finding your master at home, you had left the key for him at the usual place in the area, that he might let himself in?

_A._ I did not tell them so, upon my oath.

_Q._ Neither of them?

_A._ No, neither of them.

_Q._ Did you tell Mr. or Mrs. Davidson that on any other day; did you ever tell them so?

_A._ No, not to the best of my knowledge.

_Q._ To the best of your knowledge?

_A._ I never told them so.

_Q._ As you did not attend your master on the Monday morning, who attended him and brought him his shaving things, and gave him the usual attendance of a gentleman?

_A._ He never has any attendance; I never go to his bed room till about half past eight, and sometimes he is up, and sometimes not.

_Q._ Do you mean to say, he is a gentleman that wants no attendance?

_A._ Yes; he cleans his teeth, and washes himself and powders his hair, without my being in his bed room.

_Q._ He does not usually ring his bell in a morning, I suppose, doing without attendance?

_A._ Not before he comes down to breakfast.

_Q._ What time does he usually come down to breakfast?

_A._ At different hours.

_Q._ What is his usual hour?