efit, except as you
believe that man. I beg your particular attention to that, that he is
the only person who swears to his having a per centage in this matter. I
think I am correct in that statement, that Le Marchant is the only
person who says De Berenger told him that he was to have a per centage
upon the stock. Now gentlemen, this conversation having been on the 14th
of February, seven days before this transaction, he makes the
observation in this letter, that he verily believes that every thing De
Berenger told him respecting Lord Cochrane was false.

If it was all false, it must be false with respect to De Berenger
himself, and according to his own statement he must have invented this
story, merely to implicate Lord Cochrane in the transaction; it is
absurd gentlemen not to speak to you as men of understandings. Do you
believe that this letter has any other sense, than give me so much
money, or I will do so and so? After threatening him, he says, "As for
my part, I now consider all that man told me to be diabolically false,"
and then without even a new paragraph in his letter, "If my conduct
meets your approbation;" what conduct meets his approbation, that he
would say in all places and at all times that this man's statement was
diabolically false, as far as respected Lord Cochrane; "Can I ask a
reciprocal favour, as a temporary loan, on security being given;" then
he goes on to say, "I am just appointed to a situation of about L.1,200
a-year; but for the moment am in the greatest distress, with a large
family; you can without risk, and have the means to relieve us, and I
believe the will of doing good." And then, because Lord Cochrane most
wisely refuses to comply with this request, we have this man set up in
the box, to tell you this supposed story of De Berenger, which De
Berenger has no means of contradicting; but which I say is so
incredible, and so contradicted by the letter under his own hand, that I
think jurymen, if it stood upon his testimony alone, or even supported
by one or two witnesses to other things, would do most unrighteously if
they convicted upon such testimony as that fellow has given, for I never
saw a man so disgrace himself as he done.

Now gentlemen, with respect to the proof of Mr. De Berenger's hand
writing, as to those things which were found in his box. I put Mr.
Lavie's evidence out of the question; at first his lordship put it, that
it was slight evidence; but that it was evidence