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_Q._ But it was not by Lord Cochrane's desire you took them to the Bank.
_A._ No; by Mr. b.u.t.t's.
_Mr. John Bilson sworn;_
_Examined by Mr. Gurney._
_Q._ Look at these two .100. notes; on the 24th of February; were those two notes of .100. each brought to the Bank to be exchanged for one pound notes?
_A._ They were entered for payment in the Bank on that day.
_Q._ Have you there the book in which your own entries are made, or those which are made by Mr. Northover?
_A._ I have the book in which is my own hand-writing.
_Q._ What notes did you pay this in?
_A._ One pound notes.
_Q._ You make the entries, and the other clerk gives over the notes?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Have you all the numbers there?
_A._ Yes, I have.
_Mr. Gurney._ I am sorry to trouble your Lords.h.i.+p with having these numbers read; they do not happen to be in sequence. Will you go over those numbers?
_A._ 27th August, No. 1,048.
_Lord Ellenborough._ You had better see what you apply your proof to, otherwise he must go through the list.
_Mr. Gurney._ I am told these clerks have examined all these notes. You have looked over all these notes found in Mr. De Berenger's trunk, have you not?
_A._ I have not looked over them to-day; we looked over them before the Grand Jury.
_Q._ Look over that parcel, and tell me whether you paid all that parcel [_handing a parcel of bank notes to the witness_.]
[_The Witness and Mr. Thomas Northover examined the notes._]
_A._ Yes; those were paid.
_Q._ There are forty-nine in number?
_A._ Yes.
_Lord Ellenborough._ Were all those forty-nine part of the two hundred pounds that were given in exchange for the two .100. notes?
_A._ They were.
_A Juryman._ What were the numbers of the two .100. notes?
_A._ No. 16,601 and No. 18,468.
_Mr. Hilary Miller sworn;_
_Examined by Mr. Gurney._
_Q._ You are a clerk in the Bank?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Have you forty-seven one pound notes that have come into the bank?
_A._ I have fifty-seven [_the witness produces them_.]
_Mr. Gurney._ (_to Bilson and Northover_) Look and see whether those fifty-seven are also part of the same payment?
_Miller._ I believe that part of those notes were received at another period.
_Mr. Northover._ They do not appear to arise from this transaction.
_Mr. Gurney._ I will state to your Lords.h.i.+p the effect of this; perhaps it is hardly worth pursuing; they came into the bank from various quarters, and Mr. De Berenger's name is upon them, but not in his hand-writing.
_Mr. Bilson._ Here are some of them in this account.
_Lord Ellenborough._ They do not appear to be evidence.
_Mr. Gurney._ Then I will not pursue that.
_Thomas Christmas sworn;_
_Examined by Mr. Gurney._
_Q._ Were you clerk to Mr. Fearn, in February last?
_A._ I was.
_Q._ Do you recollect being sent on the 24th of February to change a note for two hundred pounds?
_A._ Yes.
