Stirling peerage

83 TRIAL OF ALEXANDER HUMI'HRYS, OR ALEXANUnR.
they ought to be produced in process, if they were found to be so
important as tliuy appeared from the copies to be ; but whether the
documents were produced in process before or after his return to
Scotland lie cannot say : That he left it to liis two sons, to act in
all such matters, as they should be directed by counsel. Declares,
That on the eighteenth day of December last, he was judicially
examined before the Court of Session with regard to the writings
and map before referred to; and a declaration, bearing to be emit-
ted by him in the Court of Session, of that date, beipg shewn to
him, he declares that it is that referred to ; and it being now read
over to him, and being interrogated, declares. That it is correct,
with this explanation, that instead of having granted obligations to
iSIademoiselle Le Normand for four hundred thousand francs, he
granted only two obligations, each for one hundred thousand francs ;
and he made the mistake in consequence of not being prepared to
answer such a question with accuracy at the time he was examined ;
but declares. That the total amount of what he owes to Mademoi-
selle Le Normand, including accumulation of interest for many
years, was computed to amount to four hundred thousand francs,
and, therefore, he promised and came under an obligation by letter
to pay her to that amount ; but he granted regular obligations or
securities to the amount only of two hundred thousand francs, and
she trusts to his honour for payment of the remainder : That he
still declines to answer the questions which he formerly declined
to answer ; and he now states, that his debt to Mademoiselle Le
Normand was entirely a private affair, arising out of remote trans-
actions, and had no connection whatever u itli the present proceed-
ings. And being shewn a card, bearing to have been written by
Mrs Innes Smyth to Messrs de Porquet and Company, dated
Hackney, April 19; an anonymous note to the declarant, dated
April 17, 1837 ; a cover of parchment having on the back, the
words ' Some of my wife's family papers;* an emblazoned pedigree
of the Earls of Stirling ; a letter, Dr Benjamin Alexander to the
Reverend John Alexander of Birmingham, dated London, August
iJOth 17G5 ; a letter, A. E. Baillie to Reverend John Alexander of
Birmingham, dated Dublin, Septemr. 16, 1765; a letter, Dr Ben-
jamin Alexander to Mrs Alexander, King Street, Birmingham,
dated London, July 26, 1766; a paper entituled on the back,
Examined Copy Note upon Miniature portrait of J. Alexander,
Esq. of Antrim, and a map of Canada, having various writings upon
it ; and being interrogated, declares, That he knows the map to be
that referred to, but he cannot identify any of the other writings.
The declaration, the map and writings are now marked, as relative
hereto. And being interrogated, declares. That he has no know-
ledge or suspicion of the map or any of the writings having been
forged ; and, if he had had any suspicion that they had been forged,
he would not have used them, or authorized them to have been
used, and he would Iiavc spurned such an idea : And being inter-
rogated witli regard to the writing orf the cover of the map, now