Part 143

A. One pound notes.

Q. You make the entries, and the other clerk gives over the notes?

A. Yes.

Q. Have you all the numbers there?

A. Yes, I have.

Mr. Gurney. I am sorry to trouble your Lordship with having these numbers read; they do not happen to be in sequence. Will you go over those numbers?

A. 27th August, No. 1,048.

Lord Ellenborough. You had better see what you apply your proof to, otherwise he must go through the list.

Mr. Gurney. I am told these clerks have examined all these notes. You have looked over all these notes found in Mr. De Berenger's trunk, have you not?

A. I have not looked over them to-day; we looked over them before the Grand Jury.

Q. Look over that parcel, and tell me whether you paid all that parcel [handing a parcel of bank notes to the witness.]

A. Yes; those were paid.

Q. There are forty-nine in number?

A. Yes.

Lord Ellenborough. Were all those forty-nine part of the two hundred pounds that were given in exchange for the two L.100. notes?

A. They were.

A Juryman. What were the numbers of the two L.100. notes?

A. No. 16,601 and No. 18,468.

Mr. Hilary Miller sworn;

Examined by Mr. Gurney.

Q. You are a clerk in the Bank?

A. Yes.

Q. Have you forty-seven one pound notes that have come into the bank?

A. I have fifty-seven [the witness produces them.]

Mr. Gurney. (to Bilson and Northover) Look and see whether those fifty-seven are also part of the same payment?

Miller. I believe that part of those notes were received at another period.

Mr. Northover. They do not appear to arise from this transaction.

Mr. Gurney. I will state to your Lordship the effect of this; perhaps it is hardly worth pursuing; they came into the bank from various quarters, and Mr. De Berenger's name is upon them, but not in his hand-writing.