at is her name?

_A._ I do not know, she took it up stairs to the Admiral directly?

_Q._ You did not see the Admiral?

_A._ I saw him that night.

_Q._ Do you mean before you left Deal?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ This letter you delivered to some servant at the door?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ And she carried it up stairs?

_A._ Yes.

_Re-examined by Mr. Gurney._

_Q._ After she had delivered it up stairs you saw the Admiral?

_A._ Yes.

_Admiral Thomas Foley sworn._

_Examined by Mr. Gurney._

_Q._ On the morning of Monday the 21st of February did you receive a
letter by that boy?

_A._ A letter was brought to me that that boy brought to the house, and
given to me, I was in bed.

_Mr. Park._ You did not receive it from the hand of that boy?

_A._ No, it was brought to me by my maid-servant at three o'clock in the
morning, I was in bed.

_Q._ Did you get up immediately?

_A._ I read the letter in bed.

_Q._ Is that the letter? (_shewing a letter to the witness._)

_A._ This is the letter.

_Q._ Did you mark it before you parted with it?

_A._ I do not know whether I marked it or not.

_Q._ You know it again.

_A._ I inclosed it in a letter but I did not mark it.

_Q._ You inclosed it in a letter to Mr. Croker?

_A._ Yes a private letter to Mr. Croker.

_Q._ Is that the letter in which you inclosed it to Mr. Croker (_shewing
a letter to the witness._)

_A._ This is the letter.

_Q._ That letter which I first shewed you is the letter you received
from your maid servant?

_A._ It is.

_Q._ I suppose you rose directly?

_A._ I rose and sent for the boy into my dressing room.

_Q._ Did you communicate the news by telegraph to the admiralty that
morning.

_A._ It was very late before I began, I will tell you what I did, I
questioned the boy a good deal, for I must say I did not believe the
letter.

_Q._ I must not ask you what passed between you and the boy, but whether
you telegraphed the admiralty?

_A._ I did not, because the weather was thick, and I further say, the
message I should have sent to the admiralty would have satisfied them--

_Q._ In fact you did not telegraph the admiralty because the weather was
too thick?

_A._ I did not.

_Q._ When you sent for the boy up had you the letter in your hand?

_A._ I had, it was then three o'clock and dark, the telegraph would not
move.

_Q._ I take for granted you had a candle?

_A._ Of course.

_Mr. Gurney._ We