The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_A._ I did.
_Q._ By whose desire did you go?
_A._ Mr. b.u.t.t's.
_Q._ Are those the two notes you received from him to exchange?
[_shewing the witness the two notes for .100. each, produced by the bank clerk._]
_A._ They are.
_Lord Ellenborough._ Have you seen those .100. notes, which you carried to the Bank to exchange for smaller notes?
_A._ I have this moment.
_Mr. Gurney._ What did you receive in exchange for them?
_A._ I received two hundred notes for one pound each.
_Q._ What did you do with those notes?
_A._ I gave them to Mr. b.u.t.t.
_Cross-examined by Mr. Scarlett._
_Q._ Have you any connexion with Mr. Smallbone.
_A._ Yes, I am with Mr. Smallbone.
_Q._ Do you remember at any time, on the 15th of February, Mr. b.u.t.t lending Lord Cochrane two hundred pounds, in order to make up a sum that he had to pay?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ On the 15th of February?
_A._ Yes, it might be on the 15th of February.
_Q._ Do you remember going with that check [_shewing it to the witness_]
which was afterwards given by Mr. Smallbone, to get the money?
_A._ Yes, that check for .470. 19_s._ 4_d._
_Q._ That bears date the 19th of February?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ You were the person who took that to the banker's, to get the money for it?
_A._ Exactly so.
_Q._ You say you know Mr. b.u.t.t did lend Lord Cochrane two hundred pounds?
_A._ So I understood; I did not see him lend it.
_Mr. Gurney._ He does not know that it was lent?
_Mr. Scarlett._ How do you know that it was lent?
_A._ Only by Mr. b.u.t.t saying so.
_Lord Ellenborough._ At what time?
_A._ The 15th of February.
_Lord Ellenborough._ This check is dated the 19th?
_Mr. Scarlett._ You received in payment for that check, two notes of .100. each?
_A._ Yes, I did.
_Q._ What did you do with those two notes of 100_l._ each?
_A._ I gave them to Lord Cochrane.
_Q._ That was on the 19th of February?
_A._ Yes, it was.
_Q._ Were you present when Lord Cochrane paid those notes back to Mr.
b.u.t.t?
_A._ I was not.
_Q._ Though you were not present when those notes were given by him to Mr. b.u.t.t, do you know that those notes were in Mr. b.u.t.t's hands afterwards?
_A._ I know of receiving them from him.
_Q._ Though you paid them to Lord Cochrane upon the 19th, did you not afterwards receive them from Mr. b.u.t.t?
_A._ I received the two .100. notes I have now looked at from Mr. b.u.t.t.
_Q._ It was by Mr. b.u.t.t's desire you changed them for small notes at the Bank?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ That you say was the 24th of February?
_A._ Yes.
