can I ask for a reciprocal favour, as a temporary loan, on
security being given; I am just appointed to a situation of about
L.1,200 a year, but, for the moment, am in the greatest distress, with
a large family; you can without risk, and have the means to relieve us,
and, I believe, the will of doing good. Necessity has driven me to ask
your lordship this favour; whether granted or not, be assured of my
keeping my oath now pledged, of secrecy." He has kept that oath, I dare
say, as well as he has kept this; he went and gave information, and
comes forward to-day to give evidence; you remember how he fenced with
the evidence. I ask you, whether you believe, after I have read this,
one word of what he has said. I ask you, whether this is not taking
advantage of the situation of this noble lord. I am sorry to see that a
man can act so scandalous a part, who has the honour of being appointed
to a situation of L.1,200 a year; but I am quite satisfied the moment
the Government know this, that suspension which does exist, will be
continued, and that this man will never be sent to the office to which
he was destined. I am quite satisfied, that when this letter is read,
you will feel, that even as it respects Mr. De Berenger, for it is
applicable only to him, his evidence can have no influence in any court
of justice whatever, for that it comes from a man who, in the clearest
and most unequivocal manner, declares himself most infamous, and most
unworthy of credit.

Gentlemen, I am conscious that fatigued as I felt myself, when I rose to
address you, after having been thirteen or fourteen hours in court, I
have very imperfectly discharged the duty which I owed my clients; but,
gentlemen, I hope they will not suffer, from not having their case
presented to you as it ought to have been. Gentlemen, I do not press
upon you the considerations which, in criminal cases, are often pressed,
and with propriety pressed, upon juries. I do not ask you to take this
case in a merciful point of view; I do not press upon you the common
observation, to temper your justice with mercy. I ask you to look at
this case fairly and impartially; if the guilt of these gentlemen be
made out, so that you, upon your oaths, must declare them guilty, say
so, dreadful as will be the consequence to all these parties; but unless
their guilt is made out, if there be nothing but suspicion, you will
not, upon your oaths, say that suspicion is conviction.

Gentlemen,