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_A._ By Sir Alexander Cochrane.
_Lord Ellenborough._ All this must have been in writing, I should think?
_A._ Yes, it was.
_Lord Ellenborough._ You have laid this basis, that there had been some application, and that it had been in contemplation, that he should go out as connected with the service.
_Mr. Park._ That is all we wish, we want to show a connexion with the Cochranes, without this illicit connexion.
_Lord Ellenborough._ No doubt there had been an intimacy and connexion; whether for good or ill is the question?
_Mr. Serjeant Best._ And this confirms in terms the statement contained in the affidavit of Lord Cochrane.
_William Robert Wale King sworn._
_Examined by Mr. Scarlett._
_Q._ What are you by business?
_A._ A tin-plate worker.
_Q._ Were you employed, in the course of last summer and this last winter, by Lord Cochrane, respecting the making him any lamps?
_A._ Yes, I was.
_Q._ What was the business on which you were employed?
_A._ In the manufacture of signal lanthorns and lamps.
_Q._ For the use of the navy?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Was it a new sort of lamp?
_A._ Yes; for which Lord Cochrane has since obtained a patent.
_Lord Ellenborough._ A patent cannot be proved in that way.
_Mr. Scarlett._ My friend, Mr. Gurney, has intimated to me that he will not object to it. Was his Lords.h.i.+p in the habit of coming to your manufactory, while you were so employed?
_A._ Nearly every day.
_Q._ Do you recollect his lords.h.i.+p being there on the 21st of February last?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Where is your manufactory?
_A._ No. 1, c.o.c.k-lane, Snow-hill.
_Q._ Do you recollect about what time in the morning he came?
_A._ Between ten and eleven it was that he was with me.
_Q._ Was there any particular time when he was accustomed to come?
_A._ That was about the time he usually came.
_Q._ Do you remember the circ.u.mstance of any note being brought to him by the servant, whilst he was there?
_A._ Yes, I do perfectly well.
_Q._ Were you present when the note was delivered to him?
_A._ I was.
_Q._ What did his lords.h.i.+p do on receiving that note?
_A._ He immediately opened it, and retired into the pa.s.sage of the manufactory; he came into the workshop again, and shortly after went away.
_Q._ What time of the day was this?
_A._ Between ten and eleven.
_Q._ What time had his lords.h.i.+p been at your manufactory before the servant came?
_A._ It might be a quarter of an hour, but I cannot speak precisely to that.
_Mr. Park._ How far is c.o.c.k-lane from Grosvenor-square?
_A._ I should suppose a mile and a half.
_Q._ I should think it was two miles, did you ever walk it?
_A._ No; I do not know that I have.
_Lord Ellenborough._ That is not of much consequence, I should think.
_Mr. Gurney._ Any distance my friends please.
_Mr. Park._ It is of consequence when it comes to eleven o'clock, the stock was all sold by that time.
_Lord Ellenborough._ Did you see him read the note which he received?
_A._ I saw him read the note in the pa.s.sage of the manufactory.
_Lord Ellenborough._ He made no observation upon reading it?
