Part 142

Mr. Scarlett. He knows the fact that he wanted the L.200. You advanced L.450. yourself?

A. Yes, I did.

Lord Ellenborough. In gold or bank notes?

A. In bank notes.

Q. In what description of bank notes?

A. The money was lent in fact by Mr. Smallbone, and he made up the difference; it is not usual to pay in bank notes, and we made it up in checks; his Lordship had left his money at the west end of the town.

Mr. Scarlett. You advanced his Lordship L.450.?

A. Yes.

Q. Was that all that he wanted, or did he want more?

A. No, he wanted L.200. more.

Lord Ellenborough. This advance must all be in paper?

Mr. Scarlett. Yes, my Lord, it is not material to my purpose to shew how Mr. Butt made this advance to him.

Lord Ellenborough. If it was a loan and you rely upon it as such, you must shew in what it was?

A. The L.450. was in a check.

Lord Ellenborough. Then that check must be shewn.

Mr. Scarlett. Mr. Butt was not present, was he?

A. Not that I know of.

Q. At what time Lord Cochrane gave these two L.100. notes to Mr. Butt you do not know, do you?

A. No.

Q. But it was not by Lord Cochrane's desire you took them to the Bank.

A. No; by Mr. Butt's.

Mr. John Bilson sworn;

Examined by Mr. Gurney.

Q. Look at these two L.100. notes; on the 24th of February; were those two notes of L.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?