of De Berenger was given to them. I am aware my learned friend
stated to you, that the Stock Exchange had some reason to suspect that a
Mr. De Berenger had been engaged in it before this affidavit was
published; but, Gentlemen, my learned friend has offered no proof of the
grounds of such suspicion; the only proof that he has offered upon the
subject, is the proof which my Lord Cochrane's affidavit furnished him
with. Now, Gentlemen, I have a right to say, that the mere circumstance
of Lord Cochrane's introducing the name of Mr. De Berenger for the first
time, in that affidavit, is of itself sufficient to repel the inference
arising from the circumstance of De Berenger's going to his house. But,
gentlemen, I am sure you will bear in mind the very important evidence
that was given by Mr. Wright upon that subject. My learned friend may
repeat again the observation with which he introduced this prosecution,
that those who are wicked are not always wise, and that it so happens
frequently, that men do acts without considering the consequences of
those acts, and that it is in consequence of this want of consideration
that criminality is often brought home to delinquents; but it appears
from Mr. Wright's testimony, that Lord Cochrane was fully aware of the
consequence of the affidavit that he was about to publish. Mr. Wright,
the printer, who was called for the purpose of shewing that this
affidavit had been printed by Lord Cochrane, tells you, that when he
received the instructions from Lord Cochrane to print the affidavit,
Lord Cochrane said this, _I have no reason to think De Berenger was the
man, but if he was, I have given the Stock Exchange a clue to him_; so
that you see, at the very moment that his lordship published that
affidavit, he was perfectly aware of the consequence of what he was
about; and he must know, that if the Stock Exchange could not find out
who this man was who came to his house, it would be impossible for them
to reach his lordship. He must know that they were likely to remain for
ever ignorant who that person was. He comes forward and tells them who
that person was, recollecting at the time he makes the disclosure, that
if that person be guilty, he would by the act he was about to do deliver
him over to their justice. What must those persons think of Lord
Cochrane? who after this can consider him as implicated in the guilt of
this conspiracy? the guilty men knowingly and advisedly point out to
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