Part 178

A. Some part of it looks more like his writing than other part.

Q. Is there any part which you believe is not?

A. The writing part is not at all like his writing.

Q. I ask you as to nothing but the writing part?

A. Some are figures.

Q. Looking at those two pages, you say it is not all his hand-writing?

A. No, I do not think I did.

Q. That was your first answer?

Lord Ellenborough. You said "There is some more like his hand-writing, but I do not believe it all is."

Mr. Gurney. How much is there of it that you do not believe to be his writing.

A. Some of the letters look like his hand-writing.

Q. How much or how little of it do you think to be his hand-writing?

A. The smaller parts look like his hand-writing.

Q. Now I ask you upon your oath, have you any doubt of the whole of those two pages having been written by the same hand?

A. Upon my word it is difficult to say.

Q. Not at all so; I have looked at it attentively, and I know it is not difficult to say; do not you believe it all written by the same hand?

Lord Ellenborough. You can say whether you believe it to be De Berenger's hand-writing?

A. Upon my word, I really do not know what to say.

Mr. Gurney. I am quite content with that answer?

Lord Ellenborough. Mr. Park, would you like to look the Dover letter?

Mr. Park. I am no judge of hand-writing, my Lord.

Lord Ellenborough. That may be a concealed hand-writing, and I should think it extremely likely.

Mr. Park. I mean to call other witnesses to this; I have nothing to conceal in this case?

Lord Ellenborough. No; you announced to us that you flatly contradict the whole of the story as to Mr. De Berenger.

Mr. Park. Yes, I do my Lord; I observe this is all pencilling which has been shewn to you?

A. Yes, it is.

Mr. Park. Is this pencil writing in the same kind of character that a man writes when he writes with pen and ink; are you enabled to say from your knowledge of the hand-writing, whether it is or is not?

A. That it is which puzzles me more than any thing, its being in pencil.