Part 114

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 Saturday?

A. I can state the purchases I made on Saturday to the Court; I purchased on Saturday the 19th for the Accountant General L6894:11:4 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.