rane, when he was giving me directions, he
said, I once saw captain De Berenger at dinner at Mr. Basil Cochrane's.
I have no reason to think that captain De Berenger is capable of so base
a transaction;" giving his own name to the transaction; "but if he is, I
have given the committee of the Stock Exchange the best clue to find him
out;" he had given them a clue, by giving his name in the manner he has
done in his affidavit; but it would have been very ineffectual if De
Berenger had carried away his own person previous to that; but it was by
accident that he was found at Leith.

Mr. Le Marchant is next called; there is a great deal, he says, which is
no evidence against any body but the person who relates it; viz. captain
De Berenger, and I do not think it at all necessary to state it; he does
himself no credit, and he is a person on the statement of the letters
which have been read, whom Government might do very well in letting ride
at anchor here without going abroad. He says, however, "I became
acquainted with captain De Berenger about eighteen months ago, our
acquaintance continued until the 16th of February; from the 10th to the
16th of January he spent his evenings with me occasionally; I learnt
that he was connected with Lord Cochrane and Mr. Cochrane Johnstone; he
stated that he was about to go to America, under the command of Lord
Cochrane; upon his mentioning this, I put the question to him, how he
could possibly do it under the embarrassments that he lay under, upon
which he answered that all was settled on that score; this conversation
passed about the 14th of February; he said, that for the services he had
rendered to Lord Cochrane and Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, whereby his
lordship could realize a large sum of money, by means of the funds or
stocks. His lordship was his friend, and had told him a few days before,
that he had kept unknown to him till that period, a private purse for
him De Berenger, he frequently mentioned particular intimacy of dining,
breakfasting, and supping with his lordship; he said, in this purse he
had deposited a certain per centage out of the profits which his
lordship had made by his stock suggestion." This is only what De
Berenger says, and the declarations of persons are evidence only against
the parties themselves who make them, and do not prove the fact as
against any body else. "I afterwards heard of the events of the 21st of
February, and made known my suspicions, that captain