ess of the Committee to learn
to what place this pretended Du Bourg went in the Hackney-coach from the
Marsh-gate. They found out the Hackney-coachman, and he informed them
that he was directed by Du Bourg to drive, and he did drive straight and
direct to No. 13, Green-street, the house of Lord Cochrane, and it is
not an immaterial consideration in this matter, a house in which Lord
Cochrane had resided but three days, a ready-furnished house which he
had taken of Mr. Durand, and a person must have been on intimate terms
with Lord Cochrane to know where he resided on Monday, Lord Cochrane
having gone into the house only on the Thursday evening preceding.

The Coachman further informed the Committee that when he stopped at this
house Du Bourg enquired for some person by the description, as he
thought, of Captain or Colonel, and that the answer given by the servant
was, that he was gone to breakfast in Cumberland-street.

Having proceeded thus far, the next thing for the Committee to discover
was whether Lord Cochrane was a person who could have any possible
interest in the success of this fraud. They pursued their enquiries upon
that subject, and they discovered, to their utter astonishment, that
this nobleman--this officer highly distinguished in the navy, then
lately appointed to an important command, and one should have supposed
his whole soul ingrossed in preparation for the active and important
service on which he was going--this Representative in Parliament for the
City of Westminster, bound by the most sacred of all duties, not to
involve himself in any situation by which his honest judgment could be
warped, and his parliamentary conduct influenced--they found Lord
Cochrane to have been a deep speculator in omnium; that he had been so
for one week only; that on that Monday morning he had a large balance on
hand, and that on that Monday morning he had sold out the whole of that
balance, and sold it at a profit.

When the Committee had learned thus much, they could not but feel that
it was impossible that it could be an accidental coincidence, that this
impostor, Du Bourg, should have alighted at the house of a person thus
deeply interested in the success of the imposition which he had
practised. But their enquiries and discoveries did not end there; they
found that Lord Cochrane had not acted alone in these stock proceedings;
that he was connected with two other persons, who were still more deep
in them, the one