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Read in the Wunder reader — freeA. No, it is not.
Q. Then I should apprehend, you would not usually do it?
A. I have done it differently; I have said "De Berenger to Johnstone."
Q. But you give it a date?
A. I have dated it above those words, as usual.
Q. When you receive a letter, you authenticate the period of receiving it, but not the date of a letter received by another.
A. I generally do; I enclose it in the letter to which it refers.
Mr. Scarlett. Was it so done in this instance?
A. It was.
Lord Ellenborough. Have you any letter-book?
A. I do not keep a letter-book; but I keep my letters very regularly tied up.
Mr. Scarlett. You have heard the contents of the letter from De Berenger to Mr. Johnstone read.
A. Yes.
Q. That refers to some documents in your hands, to serve as a security to Mr. Johnstone, in case he should require them?
A. Yes.
Q. Is it your usual practice, when letters of that sort are sent to you, to make the sort of endorsement you have done when you lay the letters by?
A. It is.
Lord Ellenborough. I only asked him as to the inclosure. If I received a letter, I should endorse the date of my receiving it as authenticating the fact; but I should not put the endorsement of the date upon the enclosure, for I know nothing of the date, whether it was received on that day or not; the gentlemen of the jury know whether that is the habit of business or not.
A Juryman. Is the date you have endorsed upon the enclosure, the date of your receiving it or the date of the letter?
A. The date of the letter.
Lord Ellenborough. Certainly it is not regular to authenticate the date of a letter, to which you are not privy; that is all my observation upon it.
Mr. Scarlett. Besides those plans you now produce, do you know whether there were other and subordinate plans drawn for the details of that same scheme?
A. Yes, there were.
Q. You have been a great while the attorney of Mr. De Berenger, and known to him?
A. Five or six years.
Q. Were you known to him before you were known to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you become security for the Rules for this gentleman before you knew Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
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