Part 118

Q. Did you upon that make known to any parties, and to whom, your suspicions of Captain De Berenger having been active in them?

A. I did so.

Q. To whom were those communications made?

A. To Captain Taylor of His Majesty's 22nd regiment of foot, and Lieutenant Wright in the Honorable East India Company's Service.

Q. Did you collect in any conversations you had with Captain De Berenger, that Lord Cochrane and Mr. Cochrane Johnstone consulted him in any transactions of Stock?

Mr. Park. That is a pretty good leading question.

Mr. Bolland. Did he state to you any thing respecting their consulting him as to stock transactions?

A. Most undoubtedly, or I should not have drawn the conclusions I did.

Q. For what was he to have a per centage?

A. For the ideas he had given to Lord Cochrane, enabling him to make a profit in the stocks.

Q. Did he extend that to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, or Lord Cochrane?

A. To both.

Mr. Serjeant Best. I am aware that your Lordship will not consider this as evidence against Lord Cochrane, or Mr. Cochrane Johnstone.

Lord Ellenborough. No; it is admissible evidence, the effect of it is another thing.

Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Best.

Q. You have been corresponding with my Lord Cochrane.

A. I have so.

Q. You are now a prisoner in the King's Bench, I believe?

A. No; I am not.

Q. You have told my Lord Cochrane?----

Mr. Bolland. Have you ever had any communication with Lord Cochrane but in writing?

A. None individually.

Mr. Bolland. Then I object to any questions except as to letters.

Mr. Serjeant Best. You are a gentleman whose appointment Government have stopped?

A. It is not stopped.

Q. Suspended?

A. It is not suspended.

Q. You mean to state that upon your oath?