Part 181

A. I think it is; some part certainly does not look larger; it is less round--it is more angular.

Q. Does your lordship or not, believe that to be Mr. De Berenger's hand-writing?

A. I am not sufficiently conversant with hand-writing, to wish to swear to an opinion either way.

Re-examined by Mr. Park.

Q. That is in pencil?

A. Yes.

Q. With respect to the letter in question, although it is of a larger description than Mr. De Berenger's usual writing, does it appear to your lordship to be at all a feigned hand, as disguising the real hand?

A. Another question to which I am not competent to give an answer; if I was to look through the letter--there is one letter which creates a suspicion, but I should never have suspected it on a cursory view of the letter; it is the letter R before Du Bourg, but that I should have never looked at or suspected; that looks more like his hand-writing than any other part; it looks like the way in which he makes the R of Random.

Q. Does your lordship mean the large capital R, or the little r?

A. The large capital R is the only letter I can see that looks in the least like his hand.

Q. Your judgment upon that letter, upon the whole inspection of it, is, that it is not his hand-writing?

A. I should never suspect it, except from that letter.

Lord Ellenborough. It is a larger character?

A. Yes, it is a fuller character.

Q. It is a stiffer character, and more upright?

A. It is less upright, I think, than his; it is more angular and longer.

Lord Ellenborough. That is his usual writing, is it not? (shewing another letter to the witness.)

A. Oh, yes; certainly, I am perfectly familiar with that.

Lord Ellenborough. You are certainly borne out in your observation upon the letter; look at that letter R again?

A. It struck me on reading the letter.

Q. In what manner an artificial letter may be written, so as to disable a person from saying whether it is the hand-writing of a certain person, you cannot say?

A. I am perfectly incompetent, as I informed your lordship and the jury before, to give any judgment upon that.

Q. What is the uniform of your corps?

A. The uniform is, the waistcoat green, with a crimson cape.

Q. A bottle green, is it not?

A. Some have got it a little darker than others, but it should be a deep bottle-green with a crimson collar; the great coat is a waistcoat with black fur round it, consequently no crimson collar.

Q. The body in your uniform is not red?

A. It is deep bottle green.