se he thought that on Westminster Bridge he
should be more likely to be met by the officers, and so more likely to
get to the ears of the marshal, so as to lose the benefit of the rules;
he was well known to the usual watermen plying there; and I have two
watermen here, who will prove to you that on that Sunday morning, which
was the first Sunday after the frost broke up, so as to open the river
Thames, which had been shut a considerable time, that on the first
Sunday after, namely, the 20th of February, this gentleman crossed at
that ferry to go over to the Westminster side. Gentlemen, I shall prove
to you, that in the course of that day he was at Chelsea; he had been
known at Chelsea, having lived there for a considerable time before he
was in the rules of the Bench. I will prove that he had called at a
house which I will not name, because we shall have that from the
witnesses from whence the stage coaches go; that the ostler at that
house perfectly well knew him, and that he knew his servant; that he
told him the coach had gone off at an early hour in the evening, and
there was no coach to go for some time; he will tell you, that he knew
this gentleman, and is positively sure that he was there. I shall prove
that he went to another house in the course of that evening; and I have
two or three of the members of that family who saw and conversed with
him between eight and nine in the evening of the Sunday, so that by the
course of time, it was absolutely impossible that he could have been at
Dover by one in the morning, if he had been at this gentleman's house at
eight in the evening. I shall prove that after that he went home to his
lodgings. I shall prove that he slept in his lodgings; that his bed was
in the morning made by his maid servant; that he constantly slept at
home, and that he did that night. I have his servants here who will
prove these facts. I allow that he went out that morning, and went out
in regimentals, which they will describe to you, and went to Lord
Cochrane's upon the errand I have described to you.

Now, Gentlemen, in addition to that, there will be the evidence to be
given by my learned friend, Mr. Serjeant Best, which I have a right, as
far as it applies to Mr. De Berenger, to pray in aid for him. Does it
not immediately go to shew, that it is impossible, but that these
persons who have been examined for the prosecution, must have been
mistaken? I do not ask you to presume that these persons h