was concerned?--I don't
recollect doing a job of this kind against King. I might if I saw the
paper before me with my mark upon it. There are so many of them that I
cannot recollect any in particular.

Have you not made an affidavit in the job against King?--Yes; but that is
since this. I cannot recollect whether I have done any other jobs. I
have been in the employment of the Association about six months. I
commenced on the 8th of January. Since the 10th of March, I don't
recollect how many jobs I have been engaged in; they are so numerous I
can't recollect. The orders which Mr. Murray gave me, were to go and
purchase the Reformers' Address at the defendant's shop. I had not any
general directions to buy at this or that shop--not from Mr. Murray. I
had from other persons, general directions to make purchase of works; one
of those persons was Mr. Sharpe.

He is the Honorary Assistant Secretary?--Yes.

(All the preceding questions excited considerable sensations amongst the
audience, and produced a chorus of humourous tittering).

Mr. Justice BEST.--The effect of these questions, Mr. Cooper, you must
feel. You cannot wish, I am sure, to excite the sort of response which
comes from below the bar. You must see that it is done on purpose. You
cannot wish, I am sure, to produce that effect.

Mr. COOPER.--My Lord, I am the last man in the world to do any thing
inconsistent with the gravity and decorum of a Court of Justice. I
disclaim any such intention; and I must disdain the insinuation of Mr.
Gurney, that I have taken up this cause for the purpose of adding to the
public odium in which the honourable Association is held.

Mr. GURNEY said his learned friend, Mr. Cooper, was mistaken; he had
never insinuated anything of the kind.

Mr. Justice BEST.--I am sure no gentlemen at the bar would wish to
produce the effect which all the questions put by you have had below the
bar.

Mr. COOPER said he could not control the feelings of the auditory. He
was only anxious to do his duty to the best of his humble ability, and
nothing should deter him from discharging that duty freely and
undauntedly.

Cross-examination resumed.--What is the office of the Honorary Assistant
Secretary?--It is to do every thing at the office.

To superintend the business of the office?--I consider him as the acting
manager.

Then the Honorary Secretary has a sinecure?--What does the word honorary
mean but a sinecure?

Mr. COOPER