s
observation; it was observation repeated more than once, and it was
observation for the very purpose. The fact confirms the judgment of Mr.
Lavie. I ask, who sent the letter to Admiral Foley? The answer is, Mr.
De Berenger; whose hand writing is it? can you have any doubt that it is
the hand-writing of the person who sent it? On this point, witnesses are
called by De Berenger (one of them a most respectable witness,
undoubtedly) to prove that this does not resemble his ordinary
hand-writing. No, gentlemen, certainly not; he would not write in his
usual hand. Lord Yarmouth says, the character is more angular than his
usual hand. That would be the case, where a man is writing a feigned
hand; but still that occurs here, which almost always does occur, a
person so writing is very likely to betray himself just as he gets to
the end, and when he comes to sign his name, the initials shall be so
striking, as at once to excite the observation of such a man as Lord
Yarmouth, and his lordship says, This R in the signature of R. Du Bourg
certainly does very much resemble the R in the usual signature in C. R.
De Berenger; but, taking the evidence of identity and that together, it
is clear, that he was the person at Dover; that he was the person,
therefore, who sent the letter to Admiral Foley; and the evidence of Mr.
Lavie is therefore so strongly confirmed, as far to outweigh all the
evidence you have had on the other side respecting his hand-writing.

Then, gentlemen, we come a little further; my learned friends last night
addressed you at great length, and with great earnestness, upon Lord
Cochrane's affidavit, and they requested you would not suppose Lord
Cochrane was capable of making a false affidavit. Gentlemen, that Lord
Cochrane would have been incapable of deliberately engaging in any thing
so wicked some time ago, I am sure I as earnestly hope as I am desirous
to believe; but you must see in what circumstances men are placed, when
they do these things; Lord Cochrane had first found his way to the Stock
Exchange, he had dealt largely in these speculations, which my learned
friends have so liberally branded with the appellation of _infamous_; he
had involved himself so deeply, that there was no way, but by this fraud
of getting out of them; he had then got out of them in this way, and
then he found, as guilty people always do, that he was involved still
deeper; he found the great agent of the plot traced into his house, an