sent for from Snow-hill till after ten. Why,
if this gentleman had been a conspirator with Lord Cochrane, when he
heard that Lord Cochrane was gone to Snow-hill, he would have gone on
to Snow-hill, then they would have been near the purlieus of that place
where all this infamy is daily transacting; instead of that Lord
Cochrane comes back. It is too ridiculous and absurd, says my learned
friend, to suppose that Lord Cochrane should be coming back to see an
officer. I hope, gentlemen, that will not appear to you to be absurd
under the circumstances he has sworn to. I can hardly conceive a motive
stronger on the mind of a brave man and a good officer for going back,
than that stated by him. He was not acquainted with Mr. De Berenger's
hand-writing, though Mr. Cochrane Johnstone was. Having a brother in
Spain, he expected that he should receive accounts of him from a brother
officer; is that an unnatural sensation? I trust it will never be so in
the bosom of any one to whom I am addressing myself; it is one of the
most natural that can be stated, and under that impression he goes back,
and holds the conversation which has been stated.

Gentlemen, it is stated to you by my learned friend, the Serjeant, and
he has better means of proving these things than I have, that the
grounds upon which this matter rests, as far as Lord Cochrane is
concerned, will be fully explained. The gentleman for whom I appear was,
at that time, under duress on account of debt; and Mr. Tahourdin, now
his attorney, was his security for that debt. He was a distressed man,
and was desirous of going out to Sir Alexander Cochrane, who had had
conversation with this gentleman, whose bravery and whose character
nobody will dispute; and it will be proved to you Sir Alexander Cochrane
had made application to the noble lord near his lordship, to enable him
to go out to America; but he could not go, because His Majesty's
ministers thought (and I dare say most wisely) that it was not fit to
give him the rank which he claimed, being a foreigner by birth, though
he had been long serving in this country with the approbation of His
Majesty's Government. He was a member of the corp of sharp shooters, of
which Lord Yarmouth or the Duke of Cumberland was the colonel. He was
the adjutant of that regiment, and he had that military garb and dress
which might have been sworn to by Lord Cochrane in the way my learned
friend supposes, or in consequence of the facts which I h