_Q._ What is your general hour of rising in the morning?
_A._ Between seven and eight.
_Q._ Mr. De Berenger"s time of trumpeting is not so early as that I suppose?
_A._ I have heard him at nine o"clock.
_Q._ He did not alarm the neighbourhood at seven o"clock?
_A._ No, I have heard him by eight or nine.
_Q._ Not so soon as that I should think in the month of February, not being very warm weather at that time?
_A._ I cannot speak to the time.
_Q._ If a person went out at eight o"clock that morning, you had no particular reason to know of it?
_A._ No.
_Q._ You had no call to look after him on the Sunday, or Monday, or Tuesday morning?
_A._ No.
_Q._ And whether he slept at home or did not, you cannot take upon yourself to say?
_A._ No.
_Re-examined by Mr. Gurney._
_Q._ My learned Friend has asked you as to your husband observing upon Mr. De Berenger"s going out on the Sunday morning: in what words did your husband make the remark as to Mr. De Berenger"s going out?
_A._ He called out, our lodger is gone out with a new great coat on.
_Mr. Germain Lavie again called._
_Examined by Mr. Gurney._
_Q._ Who was the Gentleman that Mrs. Davidson pointed out to you?
_Mr. Serjeant Best._ I object to that, that is a leading question.
_Mr. Gurney_. I beg pardon.--Did the last witness point out any person to you at the Crown-Office, at the time of striking the Jury?
_A._ Before she came into the Crown-Office she saw Mr. Cochrane Johnstone getting out of a Hackney coach at the Crown-Office door--she then told me----
_Q._ Did she point out any person to you as having seen him before?
_A._ No, she did not then.
_Q._ Did she afterwards fix upon any person as having seen him?
_A._ No she did not, unless I can speak to what pa.s.sed before.
_Q._ Did she mention having seen any person get out of a Hackney Coach?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Who was that person that she observed upon?
_A._ The person she pointed out to me as having seen get out of a Hackney coach was Mr. Cochrane Johnstone--she staid the whole time of the striking of the Jury, he struck the Jury himself.
_Lord Ellenborough._ Then the whole of it is, that the person who was striking the Jury, was Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
_A._ Yes.
_Mr. Gurney. (to Mrs. Davidson)._ Was that person the person that you believe brought the Letter?
_Q._ I cannot be positive to his person.
_Q._ Do you believe that to be the person?
_A._ I think it was.
_Mrs. Abigail Davidson._
_Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Best._
_Q._ How came you to go for the purpose of striking the Jury.
_A._ A person from Mr. Lavie came and fetched me for the purpose.
_Q._ To attend to a.s.sist in striking the Jury?
_A._ No, to see Mr. Johnstone.
_Q._ You were told Mr. Johnstone was to be there?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ And going there you saw a person taking a part with respect to the striking of the Jury?
_A._ I saw a Gentleman get out of the coach as I was standing in the pa.s.sage, I saw a Gentleman come across, that I thought was the person, but I could not be positive.
_Q._ Can you take upon yourself to swear now, that was the person?