Part 162

Mr. Serjeant Best. And this confirms in terms the statement contained in the affidavit of Lord Cochrane.

William Robert Wale King sworn.

Examined by Mr. Scarlett.

Q. What are you by business?

A. A tin-plate worker.

Q. Were you employed, in the course of last summer and this last winter, by Lord Cochrane, respecting the making him any lamps?

A. Yes, I was.

Q. What was the business on which you were employed?

A. In the manufacture of signal lanthorns and lamps.

Q. For the use of the navy?

A. Yes.

Q. Was it a new sort of lamp?

A. Yes; for which Lord Cochrane has since obtained a patent.

Lord Ellenborough. A patent cannot be proved in that way.

Mr. Scarlett. My friend, Mr. Gurney, has intimated to me that he will not object to it. Was his Lordship in the habit of coming to your manufactory, while you were so employed?

A. Nearly every day.

Q. Do you recollect his lordship being there on the 21st of February last?

A. Yes.

Q. Where is your manufactory?

A. No. 1, Cock-lane, Snow-hill.

Q. Do you recollect about what time in the morning he came?

A. Between ten and eleven it was that he was with me.

Q. Was there any particular time when he was accustomed to come?

A. That was about the time he usually came.

Q. Do you remember the circumstance of any note being brought to him by the servant, whilst he was there?

A. Yes, I do perfectly well.

Q. Were you present when the note was delivered to him?

A. I was.