Lord Ellenborough. What absence do you mean?
A. From the 27th.
Mr. Gurney. How soon after the 27th did you tell him?
A. About the 7th or 8th.
Q. Of March?
A. Yes.
Q. You swore your affidavit on the 24th of March?
A. Yes; but I drew it out before then.
Q. And that without any concert with any body whatever?
A. Yes.
Q. Merely for the vindication of your master's character?
A. Yes.
Q. And when you had done it, what did you do with the affidavit?
A. I sent it to have it published.
Q. To whom did you send it?
A. I took it to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone. I found my master a very injured gentleman.
Q. And therefore you took it to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, to be published?
A. I did not take it to be published.
Q. You gave me those very words?
A. He did publish it.
Q. Did you not take it to be published?
A. I did not take it to the printer.
Q. Did you not take it to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, that it might be published?
A. Yes.
A Juryman. Did your master breakfast at home on Monday the 21st of February?
A. No, he did not.
Re-examined by Mr. Richardson.
Q. When was it that you first saw this black coat?
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