ven in the cause.

Gentlemen, it is not my business to argue before you, that Mr. De
Berenger went that morning to Lord Cochrane, expecting to obtain leave
to go to America; it is enough for me that I satisfy you, that he
pretended that that was the object of his visit; but why did he go there
at all? Why my learned friend, Mr. Gurney, has given you the reason for
his going to some person's house before he went to his own. He has told
you, that it would have been highly imprudent, if he was Colonel De
Bourg, for him to go to his own lodgings; the Stock Exchange would have
had no difficulty in finding him out by means of the post-boys, had he
driven home. He determined therefore to make a pretence for stopping at
some other person's house; and what had passed between him and Lord
Cochrane, afforded him a pretence for going to his lordship's.

Gentlemen, bear in mind this; you are to decide this cause upon
evidence; you have no positive evidence of any thing that passed in the
house of Lord Cochrane, except that evidence which my learned friend,
Mr. Gurney, has given you from Lord Cochrane himself; you have had
evidence upon the oath of my Lord Cochrane, that whatever concealed
objects this gentleman had, the avowed object in going there, was that
which he has stated; and in which, I say again, he is completely
confirmed by all the evidence that has been offered in this cause.
Gentlemen, if it was not for this purpose--if this was not the pretence
on which Mr. De Berenger went there, he was much more intimate with Mr.
Cochrane Johnstone than he was with Lord Cochrane; why did not he go
there; Mr. Cochrane Johnstone lived only in the next street; if he went
to the one house or to the other, because of a connection between him
and these parties in a conspiracy, why happens it that he did not go to
the house of the party with whom he was most intimate.

Gentlemen, there is another circumstance you will not fail to observe;
it appears from this affidavit, and will appear from the testimony of
witnesses whom I shall call, that Lord Cochrane was sent for to his
house by Mr. De Berenger; now, in my humble judgment, that is an
extremely strong circumstance to shew, that whoever was connected in
this scheme, Mr. De Berenger could not have considered Lord Cochrane as
privy to it. If Lord Cochrane was engaged in this conspiracy, what
object could De Berenger have for sending for him back from the city,
about half past ten in the m