ed for them; I am satisfied, therefore, you will see
that this evidence does not connect Mr. De Berenger with Lord Cochrane.
I am quite confident, therefore, that I am right, when I state to you,
that my learned friend's attempt to draw an unfavourable inference from
the circumstance of De Berenger being in possession of notes which once
belonged to Lord Cochrane, is completely answered; and then I state
again, that the only points which remain for your consideration, with
respect to Lord Cochrane, are, first; the large sale of stock on the
21st of February; and, next, De Berenger being at his house on that day;
with respect to the last circumstance, that is proved only by Lord
Cochrane's affidavit, and I think I shall shew that Lord Cochrane, in
that affidavit, completely explains that circumstance.

Gentlemen, with respect to the large sale on the 21st of February, I do
not think the Committee of the Stock Exchange have conducted themselves
quite fairly in a criminal case; because, in a criminal case, it is not
fit to take up a piece of evidence just exactly at that point where it
will suit the purpose of those who offer it, keeping back other evidence
which they know is extremely important, which they must know is
calculated to do away the effect of that which they offer. Now,
gentlemen, for the purpose of implicating Lord Cochrane, the Stock
Exchange have instructed my learned friend, Mr. Gurney, to state, and
Mr. Gurney did, in pursuance of his instructions, state most expressly,
that Lord Cochrane began his Stock Exchange speculations about one week
before the 21st of February; and, till I cross-examined Mr. Fearn, you
must necessarily have understood, as well from the statement of counsel,
as from the evidence that has been offered, that Lord Cochrane, about
six or seven days only antecedent to the 21st of February, had purchased
the whole of the L.139,000 that was sold out on that day; that his
lordship had never speculated in the funds before, and, therefore, that
all his purchases must have been made in order that he might have so
much stock to sell at this particular time. But, gentlemen, it turns out
that Lord Cochrane had been deeply speculating in the Stock Exchange for
several months before, and so the inference, that he purchased this
stock with a view to the event that happened on the 21st of February, is
rebutted; that Lord Cochrane did not first begin to buy this L.139,000
merely for the purpose of sel