The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_Q._ Was that the high price of the day, or the price at which stock opened in the morning?
_A._ I got to my office I think about eleven o'clock, or a little before, I took the orders from the Accountant General's office.
_Q._ At what time did you begin making your purchases?
_A._ I think from eleven to a quarter after eleven.
_Q._ Had the news then considerably raised the Stocks?
_A._ It had.
_Lord Ellenborough._ Is that all you did that day?
_A._ That is all I did that day.
_Mr. Gurney._ Did you do business for any body besides the Accountant General on that day?
_A._ I cannot speak to any thing but what I did for the Accountant General.
_Lord Ellenborough._ Though you cannot speak to any thing else in precise sums, do you recollect that you did buy for any body else on that day besides the Accountant General?
_Q._ I can speak to an entry on my books on that day, but I cannot say whether I did the business myself. I do not recollect doing any thing else myself besides that bargain.
_A Juryman._ At what price could you have bought that lot of Consols on Sat.u.r.day?
_A._ I can state the purchases I made on Sat.u.r.day to the Court; I purchased on Sat.u.r.day the 19th for the Accountant General 6894:11:4 at 70 per Cent.
_Mr. Gurney._ I have called for Lord Cochrane's Affidavit, it is admitted by my learned friends that notice has been given to produce it, and it is not produced.
_Mr. John Wright sworn._
_Examined by Mr. Adolphus._
_Q._ Where do you live?
_A._ At No. 5, Panton-square.
_Q._ Do you know where Lord Cochrane lives?
_A._ At No. 13, Green-street, Grosvenor-square.
_Q._ Had you occasion to see Lord Cochrane in February or March last?
_A._ Almost every day in February and in March last.
_Q._ In the course of that time did he deliver in a paper to you?
_A._ Yes he did.
_Q._ What was it?
_A._ He delivered several papers to me.
_Q._ What was done with that? (_shewing a paper to the witness._)
_A._ Lord Cochrane brought me that affidavit for the purpose of getting it inserted in the newspapers.
_Q._ Did you do so?
_A._ I did, I got it printed in slips, and distributed a copy of it to each of the newspapers.
_Q._ Have you a copy of it?
_A._ I have not.
_Q._ Have you one of the slips?
_A._ No, I have not.
_Q._ Did you receive any other copies of affidavits purporting to be affidavits of persons of the name of Smith?
_A._ No, I had no concern whatever with Smith.
_Q._ Smith and his wife?
_A._ Certainly not, I know nothing of the printing of them.
_Q._ Was the Morning Chronicle one of the papers in which you put Lord Cochrane's affidavit?
_A._ Yes, it was.
_Mr. Park._ It must not be said to be Lord Cochrane's affidavit, till that is proved.
_Lord Ellenborough._ He printed something purporting to be Lord Cochrane's affidavit. I have taken it that Lord Cochrane delivered several papers, one purporting to be an affidavit which this witness inserted in the newspapers.
_Mr. Park._ But when once the expression is used by my learned friend, persons do not get rid of it again.
_Lord Ellenborough._ If he published it as an affidavit, it is quoad him an affidavit.
_Mr. Park._ To be sure, my Lord.
_Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Best._
_Q._ You have said that he brought this paper to you, giving you directions to have it printed?
_A._ He wished it to be inserted in the newspapers.
