ence against
either of my clients.

Gentlemen, it is extremely difficult, amidst such a mass of evidence as
has been laid before you, to bring one's attention, or to call your
attention immediately to the evidence that applied to any particular
person. I will take the three cases in the order in which they stand
upon this indictment; and the first of those three for whom I am
concerned, is my Lord Cochrane.

Now, gentlemen, let us examine the evidence that is offered to you, to
prove that he is connected with this conspiracy. It consists in this,
that my Lord Cochrane did, on the 21st of February, sell L.139,000
Omnium; and further, that Mr. De Berenger was, on the morning of the
21st of February, at the house of Lord Cochrane. Gentlemen, as far as I
can collect, from the attention I have been able to give to the
evidence, I have stated the utmost effect of the evidence against my
Lord Cochrane; for, gentlemen, though it was suggested by my learned
friend, Mr. Gurney, that he should trace some of the notes which were
found in the desk of Mr. De Berenger into the hands of my Lord Cochrane,
I beg to state, that there is not one single note traced into the hands
of my Lord Cochrane. I admit that there are notes found in the chest of
De Berenger, traced into the hands of the other two defendants; but I
believe I shall be able, by and by, satisfactorily to shew you how these
notes came from the hands of one of the defendants into the hands of De
Berenger, and to prove that they came into the hands of De Berenger,
under circumstances altogether unconnected with that which is the
subject of your enquiry; but I am, for the present, only considering the
case of Lord Cochrane; and I would beg the favour of his Lordship now to
refer to his notes, and I am persuaded his Lordship will go along with
me in the observations I am making, that there is no evidence whatever
to bring home any one of the notes to my Lord Cochrane.

Gentlemen, the only part of the evidence which has the least tendency to
connect my Lord Cochrane, by means of the notes, with Mr. De Berenger,
is the evidence that was given by a person of the name of Lance; there
is not one other witness that attempts to state, that a single note
traced from the hands of Lord Cochrane, ever was found in the hands of
Mr. De Berenger; now, if you will have the goodness to attend to Lance's
evidence, you will find that there were for a time put into the hands of
Lord Cochrane t