n that way travel
indirectly to the contents of a letter; if the letter says any thing
about a loan of money, you may give it in evidence.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ Will your Lordship allow me to put it in this way.
I have no right to ask the contents of any letter but with humble
deference to your Lordship; I have a right to ask this man what passed
in his own mind, for it does not yet appear that he put it upon paper;
if the question had been what have you written to Lord Cochrane? that
would have been objectionable, but surely I have a right to ask him what
is passing in his own mind upon the subject, to know the motives from
which this gentleman, of whom I shall speak by and by, comes to speak.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Do you give your evidence from resentment in
consequence of having some loan refused to you?

_A._ None individually--none whatever.

_Mr. Bolland._ My Lord, I must object to my learned friend Mr. Serjeant
Best getting the effect of a correspondence which was in writing.

_Lord Ellenborough._ He does not refer to it, but one cannot but be
conscious after what has passed, that all that has ever passed about a
loan has been in writing, therefore it would be the most ingenuous
course to put it in.

_Serjeant Best._ I certainly mean to read this man's letters.

_Lord Ellenborough._ I asked him in the strongest manner possible, do
you now give your evidence in resentment for having a loan, or any other
benefit withheld from you? You may press that if you please.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ I will put it in the way your Lordship suggests. Do
you not now give your evidence in consequence of your being angry with
Lord Cochrane for refusing to lend you money?

_A._ No. So help me God.

_Q._ Now take care. Do you know a gentlemen of the name of Palfreyman?

_A._ I have met him twice, I think, within this fortnight past.

_Q._ You have no resentment against Lord Cochrane whatever I understand
you?

_A._ None whatever.

_Q._ You have never so expressed yourself to Mr. Palfreyman?

_A._ I am persuaded I never have.

_Q._ You never have told Mr. Palfreyman then that you would be his ruin?

_A._ Never.

_Q._ Nothing like that?

_A._ Never.

_Q._ That you would assist the Stock Exchange?

_A._ Never.

_Q._ Nothing of the sort?

_A._ I have already answered you.

_Q._ That will not do. Where did you come from now?

_A._ I came from the Gloucester Coffee House.

_Q._ I should have thought you had b