Part 182

A Juryman. A jacket or coat?

A. It is a waistcoat, very like the light-horse uniform.

Lord Ellenborough. It is almost unnecessary to ask you, whether the members of your corps wear any decorations; a star or a cross?

A. When in uniform, some wear medals that they have gained as prizes given by the corps; they occasionally wear them hanging by a ribband.

Q. You wear no such decorations as this? (shewing the star to his lordship.)

A. No, certainly not.

Q. Supposing a gentleman appeared before you in an aid-de-camp's uniform, with that star upon his breast, and that other ornament appendant, should you consider that was a man exhibiting himself in the dress of your sharp-shooting corps?

A. Certainly not.

Q. If a sharp-shooter belonging to your corps presented himself to you in that dress, you would think it a very impertinent thing?

A. Certainly.

Mr. Serjeant Best. As Lord Yarmouth has been called by the defendant, De Berenger, and has given evidence which may affect Lord Cochrane, we conceive, we submit we have a right to make an observation upon it.

A Juryman. If Colonel De Berenger had appeared before your lordship in the uniform of his corps, would it have been any thing extraordinary?

A. Nothing extraordinary; it would have been more military that he should do so, though I never exacted it.

Captain Sir John Poo Beresford, sworn.

Examined by Mr. Richardson.

Q. Are you acquainted with Mr. De Berenger?

A. I have seen him twice in my life before yesterday.

Q. Have you had any occasion to see him write, or to be acquainted with the character of his hand-writing?

A. Never.

Q. Do you know at any time in the early part of this year, or the latter end of the last, of any applications he was making to go to America as a sharp-shooter?

A. I will tell you the part I took in reference to that business. In the beginning of February, I paid my ship off; after that, I met Mr. Cochrane Johnstone in town, who told me Sir Alexander Cochrane was very anxious he should go out in the Tonnant, to teach the marines the rifle-exercise. I went to the Horse Guards to ask whether anything could be done; I was told it would be useless to apply to the Duke of York; and I told Mr. Cochrane Johnstone of it the day after. I was dressing before breakfast, and Mr. De Berenger sent up to say, that he was very much obliged to me for the part I had taken.

Q. At what time was this?

A. I think, the beginning of February; but before Sir Alexander Cochrane sailed, I met him at Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's, with Admiral Hope and some ladies; I think that was in January, or the latter end of December; there were, I think, fourteen of us, some of them ladies. This application was after he had sailed. When I went to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's, I was to have met Sir Alexander Cochrane, but he went to dine somewhere else, and my Lord Cochrane came in after dinner; he did not dine there, but a great many of the family did.

James Stokes sworn.

Examined by Mr. Park.

Q. I understand you are a clerk of Mr. Tahourdin, the attorney.

A. Yes.

Q. How long have you been so?