e
is no more a relation of the family of Dundonald, than I who do not know
the persons of any of them; but he is a friend of Mr. Tahourdin, whose
sister is married to Mr. White, Mr. Cochrane's partner; that is the
history of the transaction on which it is supposed that Mr. Cochrane
Johnstone has been putting in bail, because Mr. Tahourdin was his
attorney; but it will appear that bail was put in two years ago, and
that Mr. Tahourdin did not become acquainted with Mr. Cochrane Johnstone
till long after that time.

Gentlemen, there have been other prejudices attempted here; they are
prejudices that I think could never have entered into the mind of any
liberal man; they must have entered first into the minds of the Stock
Exchange Committee, for no gentleman could think of such a thing; that
which I refer to is, that which my learned friend the Serjeant has
commented upon, the proof of Mr. De Berenger being a friend of Mr.
Cochrane Johnstone, from the circumstance of his dining with the family.
Gentlemen, is every one who dines there to be considered as a
conspirator? they are not a committee sitting over their bottle and
hatching this infamy; but it appears that he dined twice at the house of
Mr. Basil Cochrane (who is not implicated in this), not alone, but with
Sir Alexander Cochrane, and a great number of ladies and gentlemen; and
at another time Mr. De Berenger and Mr. Cochrane Johnstone also dined at
Mr. Basil Cochrane's.

Gentlemen, I am told, and I believe, after what I have heard in this
cause, for I have heard it from Mr. Murray, that Mr. De Berenger is a
man of great abilities; his Society and his company were much courted
till his misfortunes put him out of the general run of society; was
there ever such a thing attempted till this moment, as that you were
from such circumstance to prove a conspiracy as against these persons?
On what ground can it be said that his connexion with Mr. Cochrane
Johnstone is a matter of complaint against him? I have proved what it
was; I have proved, out of the mouth of Mr. Murray, and shall prove
again if necessary, that the meeting of these gentlemen there was not a
meeting of business; was there any thing in the conversation when Mr. De
Berenger came in, in the presence of Mr. Harrison, that gives the least
suspicion of a connexion with Mr. Cochrane Johnstone? it appears only,
that he being an ingenious man, engaged himself in this Ranelagh that
was building, from which it was