_A._ No body.
_Q._ Before you made that affidavit, you had not seen any body upon that business?
_A._ No.
_Q._ Not Lord Cochrane?
_A._ Never in my life.
_Q._ Nor Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
_A._ No.
_Q._ Nor Mr. Tahourdin?
_A._ I saw Mr. Tahourdin, but he did not know of my making the affidavits; I told Mr. Tahourdin of my master"s absence; I went to tell him.
_Q._ How soon was that after he left his lodgings?
_A._ I cannot positively say to a day.
_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?
_A._ On the 21st of February.
_Q._ That was the Monday?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ That was after he came home, which you say was about three o"clock?
_A._ I came home about three o"clock.
_Q._ He was at home?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ He might have been at home before that?
_A._ Yes, he might.
_Q._ Does your master play on any musical instrument?