upon my mind; I
most positively swear that I never saw any person at my house resembling
the description, and in the dress stated in the printed advertisement;"
which I suppose will be read, "of the members of the Stock Exchange; I
further aver, that I had no concern directly or indirectly in the late
imposition, and that the above is all that I know relative to any person
who came to my house in uniform, on the 21st day of February before
alluded to, Captain De Berenger wore a grey coat, a green uniform, and a
military cap;" now did he wear a green uniform? They are at issue upon
the dress then worn by him; if he had not this dress on, what other had
he? And if he had the green one on, what true or probable reason existed
for the change of that? the unfitness of appearing in it before his
commanding officer, Lord Yarmouth, is negatived by Lord Yarmouth
himself; supposing him to have appeared in any disguise, it is the
conduct of an accomplice, to assist him in getting rid of his disguise,
to let a man pull off at his house, the dress in which (if all these
witnesses do not tell you falsely) he had been committing this offence,
and which had been worn down to the moment of his entering the house,
namely, the star, a red coat and appendant order of masonry, seems
wholly inconsistent with the conduct of an innocent and honest man, for
if he appeared in such an habit, he must have appeared to any rational
person, fully blazoned in the costume of that or of some other crime,
which was to be effected under an assumed dress, and by means of fraud
and imposition; this circumstance is therefore very important for your
consideration; the judgment to be formed upon it must rest with you, and
you will no doubt consider, whether supposing him to have appeared
before Lord Cochrane, dressed as the witnesses represent him to have
antecedently been, the circumstance of his so appearing in a dress
proper for the commission of such a fraud, as appears to have been
committed on that day, by attracting a false belief of the person being
a messenger bringing great public news, coupled with the fact of his
afterwards walking off with that dress in a bundle, instead of having
that dress upon his back, and also with the evidence given in order to
prove a connexion with the notes afterwards found in De Berenger's desk,
you are not satisfied that he was privy to and assisted in the scheme of
effecting a deception upon the public.

Gentlemen, I