rules began; and therefore, though it might be
imprudent in Lord Cochrane, I shall prove that he did lend clothes to
Mr. De Berenger, for that he returned in the black clothes to his
lodgings, and that he had in a bundle those clothes which he had taken
out on his back. There appears to me nothing so absurd in the story as
to induce you to say, that Lord Cochrane has written to the public that
which was wholly and absolutely false within his own knowledge, in order
to deceive the public.

Gentlemen, when this person found that he could neither go with Lord
Cochrane, nor in any other capacity, to Sir Alexander Cochrane, who was
then out of the kingdom, you will ask me, why did he then escape from
the Rules? Gentlemen, I will tell you:--The fact is, though he was only
in duress for L.350; and although this gentleman who sits near him, who
is his attorney, and will be called as a witness in the cause, was the
principal creditor, who had been his surety for the Rules, he escaped
from the Rules, under the apprehension that he should have detainers
against him for four thousand pounds more. He asked this gentleman
permission to go out of the Rules. I am not prepared to defend the act;
but he was the only person who was beneficially interested in his
remaining in the Rules; for he and Mr. Cochrane, in Fleet-street, having
given this bail, the marshal of the King's Bench could, of course, come
upon them for the amount of that sum; and I will prove to you, that he
had the leave of this gentleman to go, and that this gentleman took the
debt upon himself. He went to Sunderland, and afterwards to Leith; and
he went there to avoid that which he was apprehensive of, namely,
detention by his other creditors, to this very large amount.

Gentlemen, when we talk of prejudice upon this subject, this very thing
has been attempted to-day to be put upon his lordship; and you, as a
matter of prejudice against Mr. De Berenger, namely, that Mr. Tahourdin,
who was attorney for Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, and Mr. Cochrane (a
relation as it was supposed of this family, or there was no sense in it)
were his bail. But, gentlemen, Mr. Broochooft has negatived the fact; he
states that he did not even know Mr. Cochrane Johnstone. Mr. Tahourdin
was a creditor of Mr. De Berenger to the amount of four thousand pounds,
but he had so good an opinion of him that he consented to his liberating
himself; and as to the other security, Mr. Cochrane the bookseller, h