Gentlemen, before I leave this part of the case, I would wish also to
remind you that we have had another piece of evidence given against my
unfortunate client, by a man of the name of Le Marchant. I will venture
to say, and I hope you have observed, that a much more extraordinary
witness never did present himself in that box. It does not become me
(and I am the last man to do it) to arraign any one act of His Majesty's
ministers, but I believe that the exhibition made this day in the
presence of some of His Majesty's ministers, will have been sufficient
to set aside any intention of sending him out under an appointment, if
it ever prevailed in their minds; for I do say, I think he would
disgrace any country from which he was sent on any public business
whatever; I think he would not be long in any situation, before he
disgraced himself as a man, and brought disgrace upon those who employed
him. But gentlemen, I do not know whether you observed another thing,
which is, that he shot out of court as if he had had a sword stuck into
him, and appeared no more; I never saw any thing so marked as his
conduct was upon that occasion.

My learned friend has called your attention to his letter, which I never
saw till he read it; my client was protesting against his testimony; but
I cannot call him as a witness against this man's evidence, which Mr.
Richardson endeavoured by his cross-examination to alter, because it was
our duty to endeavour to get some alteration of that evidence, not
knowing how he had conducted himself. I do earnestly beg of you to
recall to your attention, the answers he gave to my learned friend, the
Serjeant; did he not positively say upon that examination, that he was
only kept by His Majesty's ministers in this country to give evidence,
and that he had not given his evidence at all from a feeling of
resentment, because Lord Cochrane had not complied with his request in
giving him money. Gentlemen, when this correspondence comes to be read
by his lordship's officer, is it possible you can believe one word of
that; he in this letter, which is the last my learned friend stated, and
the only one on which I will comment, stated that he believed every
thing that De Berenger had told him respecting Lord Cochrane, was false.
If it was all false, as it respected Lord Cochrane, it was all false as
it respected himself, for this man had no time-bargains as the other
gentlemen had, he was to derive no immediate ben