ished that an officer of engineers should accompany him, and when I
suggested that it would be difficult to give him that assistance, from
the small number of engineer officers that could be procured, Sir
Alexander mentioned, that as an engineer officer, he would be quite
satisfied with Mr. De Berenger. I think there was some rank necessary to
accompany such an appointment. I said I could not agree to the
appointment, as far as the naval service was concerned, but I advised
him to apply to the Secretary of State, or to the Commander in Chief;
stating, that if they agreed to it, I should have no objection to let
him accompany Sir Alexander. Lord Cochrane was appointed to the Tonnant,
about the time Sir Alexander Cochrane sailed. I have no personal
knowledge of Mr. De Berenger."

Colonel Torrens, who is secretary to the Commander in Chief, says, "I
remember an application being made on behalf of Captain De Berenger in
the latter end of December, or the beginning of January, by Sir
Alexander Cochrane, to urge the appointment of De Berenger to go to
America, for the purpose of applying his talents in the light infantry
drill, that is, the rifle service; he says, there were great
difficulties started to this application; and in consequence of those
difficulties the appointment did not take place. It was under
consideration, however, at the Commander in Chief's office. I do not
know personally the character of Mr. De Berenger."

Then Mr. Goulburn, Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Department,
says, "there was an application made by Sir Alexander Cochrane, on
behalf of De Berenger;" but he gives no further account.

William Robert Wale King says, "I am a tinplate worker. I was employed
by Lord Cochrane, in making signal lanthorns and lamps. I made him a new
sort of lamp, for which he had a patent. He came frequently, nearly
every day, to my manufactory; he was there the 21st of February. He came
between ten and eleven in the morning, that was about the time he
usually came. I perfectly recollect the circumstance of a note being
brought to him by his servant. I was present when the note was
delivered. He immediately opened it, and retired into the passage; and
he came into the workshop again, and shortly after went away. His
Lordship had been about a quarter of an hour there, that is a mile and a
half from Grosvenor Square; his Lordship only said 'very well, Thomas,'
not making any observation expressive of anxiety as