The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_A._ I am clerk to Messrs. Paxtons and Company.
_Q._ Where is their house of business?
_A._ In Pall Mall.
_Q._ They are Bankers?
_A._ Yes, they are.
_Q._ Do you remember a particular circ.u.mstance in pa.s.sing near the Marsh Gate any morning?
_A._ Yes, I do.
_Q._ On what day?
_A._ Monday Morning the 21st February.
_Q._ What did you observe in pa.s.sing?
_A._ I observed a post chaise with four horses, it had galloped at a very great rate, the horses were exceedingly hot, and the man was getting into a hackney coach that the people there told me had come out of that chaise.
_Q._ Did you hear that person who got into the coach say anything?
_A._ No, I had no conversation with any body.
_Q._ Did you follow that coach?
_A._ I did.
_Q._ How far?
_A._ I saw it as far as the Little Theatre, in the Haymarket.
_Q._ Why did you follow that hackney coach.
_A._ Because I wanted to know what the news was.
_Lord Ellenborough._ How came you to know any thing about the news?
_A._ I was told, it was a General Officer arrived with news, and I wanted to know what it was.
_Lord Ellenborough._ You were told it was an Officer arrived with news?
_A._ Yes, I was.
_Mr. Adolphus._ Then you went to your own business, having followed this coach to the Haymarket?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Did he pa.s.s by any of the public offices?
_A._ Yes, he did.
_Q._ Did he stop at any of them?
_A._ No.
_Q._ He went straight to the Haymarket?
_A._ Yes, he did.
_Q._ Was that the reason why you desisted from following?
_A._ It was nine o'clock, and I must be at the office by that hour, and therefore I did not go on.
_Q._ Did you see enough of that person to know him again?
_A._ I believe, I did.
_Q._ Look at him, and see whether you know his person again?
(_The witness looked round._)
_Lord Ellenborough._ Did you see his body?
_A._ I saw his face in the coach, he had a cap on such as the German Cavalry wear, after an evening parade, with a gold band upon it.
_Mr. Adolphus._ Have you seen that person in court?
_Lord Ellenborough._ There is no objection to his looking at the Defendant, and seeing whether he is the person.
(_The witness looked at the Defendant De Berenger._)
_A._ I really do not know that I do see him exactly.
_Mr. Park._ This is the gentleman said to be the man.
_Lord Ellenborough._ If you do not recollect the gentleman's person, say so.
_Mr. Park._ Is the result of your looking that you do not believe this to be the man?
_A._ He is something like him.
_Q._ One man is something like another, he goes upon two legs, and has two hands, and so on.
_A._ It is like him certainly.
