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through London (and it would be vain and most impertinent if I were to
take up your time to deny it), but I deny that we knew any thing of the
other parts of the business; we are altogether ignorant of it." Now,
gentlemen, is Mr. Holloway to be believed in any part of that which he
said? I take it my learned friend will contend, that he is to be
believed in all that made against himself, and all that made against
Lyte, who was present; but is he not to be believed in the other part of
his story? Will my learned friend contend, that he can take the one
part, and reject the other? I am satisfied he will not. If you take the
whole, then it appears, that Holloway and Lyte admitted that Sandom was
privy to their plan, but that they were altogether unconnected and
unacquainted with the business which took place at Dover, and had no
more to do with Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, Mr. Butt, Lord Cochrane, or Mr.
De Berenger, than any of you whom I have the honour of addressing.

Gentlemen, I should have supposed, in a prosecution of this kind, that
if there had been any connection between the two plots, it would have
been traced in some way or other; you observe the minute points which
have been made in every other part of the prosecution. There has been
labour unexampled; witnesses brought from the most distant parts of the
kingdom; no expence spared; every thing done that could be done to make
good the charge against four of the defendants upon the record. Is it
not a most extraordinary thing, if Holloway, Lyte and Sandom, were at
all connected with Lord Cochrane, Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, or the two
other gentlemen, that no trace can be found, no clue can be discovered,
that can connect the one with the other. Under circumstances so singular
as these, there being not only no evidence of any connexion, but there
being an express contradiction on the part of Holloway and Lyte, and the
only connecting circumstance being explained away, I mean as to both the
chaises driving to the Marsh Gate, I think you will be of opinion with
me, that the two plots are altogether distinct from each other, and that
my clients, although morally guilty, must be acquitted upon the present
charge.

Gentlemen, I cannot but feel, that a kind of prejudice against my
clients may have arisen in your minds; I am not only surprised at it,
but I should have been surprised if it had not found its way there. Here
is a plot conducted in the most artful and most scan