men, there is one other circumstance to which I would wish to
allude; not that it concerns my clients, for I am persuaded his lordship
will tell you the evidence given by that extraordinary man, Le Marchant,
does not bear upon either of my clients, because though where several
engage in a conspiracy, you may offer evidence that will affect any one
of them, yet the declarations of one cannot affect another; now Mr. Le
Marchant was never in the company of Lord Cochrane, he never heard one
word that Lord Cochrane said; all that he speaks of are conversations
with Mr. De Berenger, which may be evidence against Mr. De Berenger, but
in point of law or common sense are no evidence against Lord Cochrane;
but I will dispose of this man for the sake of the country, that he may
never be sent out of the country in any office. I will shew you that he
is a man utterly unworthy of credit, for I will prove to you by his own
letters that he comes forward to-day, because Lord Cochrane has refused
to lend him money; gentlemen, I have a letter of his, in which he
desires to have an interview with Lord Cochrane; he has admitted his own
hand-writing to the letters, which I will by and by put in. Lord
Cochrane very properly gives no answer to the first letter desiring an
interview; on the 7th of April 1814, the first being on the 6th April;
on the very next day, Lord Cochrane not answering him, he writes an
impertinent letter to Lord Cochrane, which you shall hear read; but I
produce it for the purpose of introducing the letter which he admits
Lord Cochrane wrote to him, and his answer, from which I argue Lord
Cochrane's innocence, and this man's infamy. If Lord Cochrane had felt
himself a guilty man, he would not have denied this man when he
suggested that he could be of use to him in this cause, but you will
find from Lord Cochrane's letter, he says, "I should have hoped, that
circumstanced as I am, and attacked by scoundrels of all descriptions,
that a gentleman of your understanding might have discovered some better
reason than that of silent contempt."

_Mr. Gurney._ My learned friend has not yet proved that letter.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ I proved that he had the original in his hand; this
is the letter of the guilty Lord Cochrane to the innocent Mr. Le
Marchant, in answer to the two applications for an interview. "Sir, I
should have hoped, circumstanced as I am, and attacked by scoundrels of
all descriptions, that a gentleman of your und