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Read in the Wunder reader — freeA. Mr. Tahourdin.
Q. In what particular business is Mr. Tahourdin your attorney?
A. By the desire of the honourable Cochrane Johnstone, who thinks himself very ill used by a set of villains.----
Q. After all that preamble, as to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's being ill used by a set of villains, will you answer my question, what Mr. Tahourdin is doing for you?
A. Issuing some writs.
Q. What have you desired him to do?
A. To issue some writs.
Q. How many?
A. A hundred and thirty-five.
Lord Ellenborough. A hundred and thirty-five writs, of what kind?
Mr. Park. Qui tam actions, and that was the reason I did not propose calling him.
Mr. Adolphus. Are you to pay Mr. Tahourdin the costs of those actions, or Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
A. Mr. Cochrane Johnstone most undoubtedly, I should think.
Mr. Park. I really think that ought not to be asked.
Lord Ellenborough. If a man at my instance issues a hundred and thirty-five writs, to be sure I must bear him harmless; how long has your neighbour Tragear failed?
A. Why he never failed, to my knowledge; he left his shop publicly, and came to my house.
Q. He does nothing in the bail way, by way of filling up his time, does he?
A. I know nothing about his private concerns.
Lord Ellenborough. You take upon yourself to say, that you know he has not failed; is not his wife likely to know, she has told us he did when he came to your house. You may go about your business.
A Juryman. Are you a journeyman or a master?
A. I am a master in a small way, sometimes I keep three or four men.
Lord Ellenborough. Whom else do you call?
Mr. Park. No more, my Lord.
Lord Ellenborough. Do not you prove where De Berenger dined that day?
Mr. Park. No, I have no means of doing that.
Mr. Gurney. I beg to call Mr. Murray, to put one question to him, in contradiction to Smith?
Lord Ellenborough. If that question occasions a reply that will throw us into the night; if you think this case of alibi requires a serious answer, you will of course give it; but I think you would disparage the Jury by doing so.
Mr. Gurney. I will not call him, my Lord.
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