ted that a person came to my house, at No. 13,
Green-street, on the 21st day of February, in open day, and in
the dress in which he had committed a fraud; I feel it due to
myself to make the following deposition that the public may
know the truth relative to the only person seen by me in
military uniform, at my house, on that day.

COCHRANE."

_March 11, 1814._
_13, Green-street._

"I, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, having
been appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to
active service (at the request, I believe, of Sir Alexander
Cochrane) when I had no expectation of being called on, I
obtained leave of absence to settle my private affairs
previous to quitting this country, and chiefly with a view to
lodge a specification to a patent relative to a discovery for
increasing the intensity of light. That in pursuance of my
daily practice of superintending work that was executing for
me, and knowing that my uncle, Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, went to
the city every morning in a coach.

I do swear, on the morning of the 21st of February (which day
was impressed on my mind by circumstances which afterwards
occurred) I breakfasted with him at his residence in
Cumberland-street, about half past eight o'clock, and I was
put down by him (and Mr. Butt was in the coach) on Snow-hill,
about ten o'clock; that I had been about three quarters of an
hour at Mr. King's manufactory, at No. 1, Cock-lane, when I
received a few lines on a small bit of paper, requesting me to
come immediately to my house; the name affixed, from being
written close to the bottom, I could not read. The servant
told me it was from an army officer, and concluding that he
might be an officer from Spain, and that some accident had
befallen to my brother; I hastened back, and I found Captain
Berenger, who, in great seeming uneasiness, made many
apologies for the freedom he had used, which nothing but the
distressed state of his mind, arising from difficulties, could
have induced him to do. All his prospects, he said, had
failed, and his last hope had vanished, of obtaining an
appointment in America. He was unpleasantly circumstanced, on
account of a sum which he could not pay, and if he could, that
others would fall upon him for fu