s of improving. I introduced De Berenger
to Cochrane Johnstone by mere chance; De Berenger afterwards employed
himself in preparing a plan, and had nearly completed it. Shortly before
Mr. Cochrane Johnstone went to Scotland, in September, he made him one
payment on account of it. Besides the plan, De Berenger prepared a
prospectus; Mr. Johnstone had got a number of that prospectus printed,
early in October, to take to Scotland with him. I conveyed a letter from
De Berenger, and I spoke several times to Mr. Johnstone, upon the
subject of paying for those plans, but no price was fixed upon till
February last; I made repeated applications to Mr. Johnstone, in a
delicate way, to pay him, and on the 22d of February." That is a very
remarkable time, immediately after the transaction on the 21st; if the
gentleman knew any thing of De Berenger's conduct, on the previous day,
it may deserve consideration, whether that was the most likely time, in
point of delicacy, to have made the application. "Mr. Johnstone sent me
a letter on the 22d of February 1814, enclosing a letter from Mr. De
Berenger to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone." Now these letters, if you wish them
to be read, I will read.

_Foreman of the Jury._ We think there is no necessity, my Lord.

_Lord Ellenborough._ They relate to other work he was doing for him;
there was that plan, I should have thought from two to three hundred
pounds very excessive compensation for it; but still there was some
claim affording a ground for money transactions to pass between them. As
to the dates, there is one circumstance of Mr. Tahourdin dating the
letter of De Berenger to Cochrane Johnstone, enclosed in the letter of
Cochrane Johnstone to himself, which appears not very usual in the
course of business; the letters shew other transactions between them.
Whether they were pretended or not, or if existing, then artificially
brought forward or not, may be a question; but the letters certainly are
dated at a most critical time, namely, on the 22d of February. Then he
says, "There is a reference in the letter, to an assignment of some
property, which De Berenger had, which assignment was prepared at my
office: I do not know whether Mr. Cochrane Johnstone answered De
Berenger's letters." He is shewn a letter, and he says, "That is my
answer to the letter of Mr. Cochrane Johnstone; I wrote it on the 23d of
February."

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