wo L.100 notes, which were afterwards found at the Bank,
and in exchange for which two hundred one pound notes were given to the
person changing them, and that a considerable quantity of those L.1
notes have certainly been proved to be found in the chest of Mr. De
Berenger; but permit me to state, that though those two L.100 notes, by
which one hundred L.1 notes were afterwards produced, are for a short
space of time shewn to be in the hands of Lord Cochrane, that the same
witness tells you, that those L.100 notes were got back from my Lord
Cochrane again, before they were exchanged at the Bank; for he tells
you, that he carried those two L.100 notes to the Bank _for Mr. Butt_.
Gentlemen, my learned friend, who cross-examined Mr. Lance, certainly
could not get from him that he was present at the time when my Lord
Cochrane paid those two notes into the hands of Mr. Butt; but it is
perfectly clear, from that which he subsequently stated, that at some
period before they found their way into the Bank, and before they can
furnish any means of proof against the parties, they must have been
returned to Butt's; these notes might have been in the hands of any one
of you, gentlemen; but the question is, on whose account the two hundred
L.1 notes were received from the Bank, for it is these small notes which
can alone connect the party with Mr. De Berenger. Now, I say, Mr.
Lance, in a part of his evidence, stated, that though he was not present
at the time Lord Cochrane returned the two L.100 notes to Butt, yet that
he afterwards received those notes, not from the hands of Lord Cochrane,
but from the hands of Mr. Butt; for Mr. Butt he went to the Bank; for
Mr. Butt he got the two hundred L.1 notes, and those two hundred L.1
notes he delivered back into the hands of Mr. Butt. Gentlemen, I am sure
therefore, that if I have made myself understood upon this part of the
case, I have completely released Lord Cochrane from the effect of this
evidence, for though the two large notes were once in his hands, these
notes were never in the hands of De Berenger. The notes found on him
were the small notes given in exchange for them at the Bank, and these
were given to Mr. Butt, and not Lord Cochrane. It is perfectly clear,
therefore, that though these had been in the hands of Lord Cochrane,
from the money transactions taking place between them every day, it was
Mr. Butt that was the possessor of those notes, at the time the L.1
notes were obtain