The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_Q._ Did you see him there?
_A._ I did; I enquired of Mr. King's men--
_Q._ I did not ask you whether you enquired of Mr. King's men, but, whether you saw him there?
_A._ I did.
_Q._ Did his lords.h.i.+p read the note in your presence?
_A._ He did.
_Q._ Did you leave him there, at Mr. King's?
_A._ I left him at Mr. King's.
_Q._ Had his lords.h.i.+p another man-servant at that time?
_A._ Not in Green-street; no one but me.
_Q._ Where was his other servant?
_A._ His other servant was at his lords.h.i.+p's country seat, near Southampton, and had been there two or three months before that.
_Q._ Had he discharged any servant?
_A._ Mr. Davis he had given warning to, a month after his lords.h.i.+p was appointed to the Tonnant?
_Q._ When did Davis quit him?
_A._ Davis left him about two days, or three days it might be, before he went into Green-street; his time was up then, but he was in Green-street.
_Lord Ellenborough._ For what purpose is this?
_Mr. Scarlett._ Only to shew that we cannot find this person.
_A._ Davis was not in his lords.h.i.+p's service at that time, but he happened to be in the kitchen when the gentleman came.
_Q._ What is become of Davis?
_A._ He is gone with Admiral Fleming, to the West Indies.
_Mr. Park._ Do you recollect what time of the day this gentleman came to your master's?
_A._ As near ten as possible; I think a little past ten.
_Q._ It was so late as that, when he arrived there?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ You were hired to go into the country, in the room of my lord's steward, who was going to sea with him?
_A._ Yes.
_Lord Ellenborough._ I thought you had been in the family seventeen years?
_Mr. Park._ You had been with Lord Dundonald?
_A._ Yes; I was engaged with Lord Cochrane ever since last February.
_Q._ You were in Lord Cochrane's peculiar service only from February?
_A._ No.
_Q._ You said something about having been seventeen years in the service?
_A._ In the family.
_Q._ Chiefly with Lord Dundonald, the father?
_A._ Yes, and with two of his sons.
_Q._ You did not return home from King's immediately?
_A._ I did not arrive in Green-street till near two, having a father living in Castle-street.
_Q._ You do not know whether Lord Cochrane saw this person at his house when he came back, or how long they were together?
_A._ No, I do not.
_Mr. Serjeant Pell._ You have lived with Lord Cochrane several years?
_A._ No, in the family; only since Christmas with his lords.h.i.+p.
_Q._ Do you know the person of Mr. Holloway?
_A._ No, I do not, not even when I see him.
_Q._ Do you know a person of the name of Lyte?
_A._ No.
_Lord Ellenborough._ What did Lord Cochrane say or do when you gave him this note?
_A._ He said, "Then I must return."
_Q._ That was all that he said?
_A._ Yes; I saw him come out of Mr. King's.