Part 173

A. No, I did not.

Lord Ellenborough. Did you see it at the time of the receipt?

A. There were two receipts at the time.

Q. Do you know of its existence, by seeing it at the time when it purports to bear date?

A. A little afterwards; a few days afterwards.

Q. When did you first see it?

A. A few days afterwards; I really believe the L.50 receipt I handed myself to Mr. Johnstone, but I cannot charge my memory with it.

Lord Ellenborough. You saw it in the month of February, or when?

A. The L.50 receipt, which was in September or October, I believe I handed over to Mr. Johnstone myself; the other I did not.

Mr. Scarlett. When did you first see the other receipt; was it in February?

A. I think within two or three days after it was given.

Lord Ellenborough. Have you both the receipts there?

Mr. Scarlett. We have, my Lord.

Lord Ellenborough. Then hand them in, if he proves that he saw them about the date?

A. This receipt of the 20th of September 1813, I handed myself over to Mr. Johnstone.

"London, Septr 20, 1813.

"Received of the Honble Cochrane Johnstone, the sum of fifty pounds (by the hands of Gabl Tahourdin, Esq.) on account of large plans, &c.

"C. Random De Berenger."

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Mr. Scarlett. You have another receipt in your hands, that bears date the 26th of February?

A. Yes.

Q. That money did not pass through your hands?

A. No.

Q. When did you first see that receipt?

A. In three or four days afterwards, when Mr. Johnstone called upon me; Mr. De Berenger and I were not at that time upon favourable terms; that will account for my not having delivered it over to him.

"London, February the 26th, 1814.

"Received of the Honble A. Cochrane Johnstone, the sum of two hundred pounds, being the balance of some drawings, plans and prospecti, delivered.

"C. R. De Berenger."