Part 210

A. It was the Sunday before Shrove-tuesday.

Q. What led you to recollect it so particularly?

A. It was my child's birth-day.

Q. Do you mean that Shrove-tuesday was your child's birth-day, or that Sunday?

A. The Sunday; the first child I ever had in my life.

Q. On that day he told you he had seen Mr. De Berenger at his master's yard?

A. Yes, he did.

Lord Ellenborough. Did he tell you at what o'clock he saw him?

A. Yes; at about a quarter past six.

Q. Did he tell you that he thought it was shocking he should be out of the Rules?

A. Yes, he did; that he wondered whether he had got his liberty or not.

Q. Did he say it was shocking he should be out of the Rules?

A. I cannot particularly say, whether he said it was shocking or not.

Q. Had you known these Smiths long?

A. About three years and seven months.

Q. You are in the habits of visiting them sometimes?

A. Smith came backwards and forwards to Chelsea, when his master lived at the end of the bridge.

Q. Have you kept up your acquaintance with them, since they lived in Chelsea?

A. Yes, I have.

Q. You are very well acquainted with them?

A. Yes, I am.

Q. Had you seen him that day, the 20th?

A. No; I saw him that day fortnight.

Q. Your husband did not stay at home to keep the birth-day of his child?

A. No; my husband is an ostler, and he cannot come and go at his own time.

Q. But he mentioned about the Rules to you, did he?

A. Yes, he did; he said he should enquire from Smith, the first time he saw him, whether his master had got his liberty or not.

Q. Had your husband an anxiety to know whether he had got his liberty or not?