to you,
therefore, on behalf of these gentlemen for whom I appear, that their
guilt or innocence with respect to this particular trial will depend
upon this circumstance;--did they form, or did they not form, parts and
members of that single plot in which it is supposed the three or four
other gentlemen were concerned?

Gentlemen, I certainly have not the good fortune to appear for men of
the high rank of those on whose behalf my learned friends Mr. Serjeant
Best and Mr. Park have addressed you. I can introduce no such eloquent
topics as those which my learned friend Mr. Serjeant Best has touched
upon. I cannot illustrate the character or the situations of life of the
gentlemen for whom I appear, with the terms in which Mr. Park has spoken
of his client De Berenger. I know of no claims to honour from any
ancestry to which they can justly entitle themselves; they are men in a
respectable, but in a humble line of life, compared with the other
defendants upon the record; but I know, that it is not upon that account
that you will be less disposed to give a ready and a willing ear to any
topics that may be urged in favour of their legal innocence.

Gentlemen, as I followed the evidence, there was but one point of
coincidence, in which these persons who came from Dartford to London,
could be at all connected with the person who came from Dover, and it
was in the very slight circumstance of the chaises driving to the same
place; and my learned friend, Mr. Gurney, in furtherance of that which
he submitted to you as against Holloway, Sandom and Lyte, as an
ingredient, and a necessary ingredient, in their conviction, stated to
you in the opening, that he should prove they went to the same place. I
could not but be struck with that circumstance, because I knew it was
one from which a connexion might fairly be felt; I was therefore anxious
to watch the evidence which applied to that part of the case, and so far
from finding that the person who came from Dover, under the name of Du
Bourg, went to the Marsh Gate by design, I find that he went there
altogether by accident; for by the evidence of Shilling, the person who
drove him, if I do not mistake it altogether, he first proposed to drive
him to the Bricklayers Arms in the Kent Road, and when he got there he
found there was no hackney-coach, and then to use the very expression of
the witness, "I told him there was a stand at the Marsh Gate, and if he
liked to go there nobody woul