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A. I cannot exactly say, but I think it was some day last week.
Q. Did you know before last week that you were to be a witness?
A. No, I did not.
Q. Did you know before last week, that it was at all material that you should recollect the 20th of February?
A. No, I did not know it; but I can tell you one particular thing that makes me recollect it; I let my house, No. 39, Little Queen-street, Holborn, on the 17th of February, to Samuel Nicholson, and went to Mr. Donithorne's to live; and on that very morning, the 20th, the Sunday, Mr. Donithorne (I rather indulge myself with lying in bed on Sunday morning) came to my door and knocked, and told me Mr. De Berenger was come to look over the house, and that if I would get up he should be obliged to me.
Mr. Gurney. I congratulate you on the cure of your deafness[417:A].
Lord Ellenborough. You lay a-bed and were disturbed?
A. No, not particularly; only I lay a-bed on the Sunday till about nine o'clock.
Lord Ellenborough. Do you know Smith, De Berenger's servant?
A. I have seen him.
Re-examined by Mr. Richardson.
Q. You saw them in this piece of garden in the morning?
A. Yes.
Q. My learned friend has asked, whether the alterations are carried into effect, or not?
A. They are not.
Q. Do you know, whether Mr. De Berenger went away after that?
A. He stopped about half an hour.
Q. Has he been absent from a period soon after the 20th of February?
A. Yes; I never heard much about him till last week.
Lord Ellenborough. When they came to you, you immediately recollected the 20th of February?
A. When who came down to me?
Q. When you went to Mr. Tahourdin, you immediately recollected the 21st of February?
A. He asked me, whether I could recollect on what day I came to this house; and I told him I do not know that I can recollect exactly; but I can go to Mr. Nicholson, upon whom I drew a bill at two months, for half the money for the goods and fixtures of my house, and ask him whether it is correct.
Q. He asked you, whether you recollected the 20th of February?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you say you recollected it by being disturbed in the morning?
A. Yes, I did.
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