Part 166

Q. What is become of Davis?

A. He is gone with Admiral Fleming, to the West Indies.

Mr. Park. Do you recollect what time of the day this gentleman came to your master's?

A. As near ten as possible; I think a little past ten.

Q. It was so late as that, when he arrived there?

A. Yes.

Q. You were hired to go into the country, in the room of my lord's steward, who was going to sea with him?

A. Yes.

Lord Ellenborough. I thought you had been in the family seventeen years?

Mr. Park. You had been with Lord Dundonald?

A. Yes; I was engaged with Lord Cochrane ever since last February.

Q. You were in Lord Cochrane's peculiar service only from February?

A. No.

Q. You said something about having been seventeen years in the service?

A. In the family.

Q. Chiefly with Lord Dundonald, the father?

A. Yes, and with two of his sons.

Q. You did not return home from King's immediately?

A. I did not arrive in Green-street till near two, having a father living in Castle-street.

Q. You do not know whether Lord Cochrane saw this person at his house when he came back, or how long they were together?

A. No, I do not.

Mr. Serjeant Pell. You have lived with Lord Cochrane several years?

A. No, in the family; only since Christmas with his lordship.

Q. Do you know the person of Mr. Holloway?

A. No, I do not, not even when I see him.

Q. Do you know a person of the name of Lyte?

A. No.

Lord Ellenborough. What did Lord Cochrane say or do when you gave him this note?