148] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



tiality, endeavouring to shew that 

 in his charge to the Jury he had 

 given an unfair view of circum- 

 stances, and had stated things 

 which had not appeared in the evi- 

 dence. He concluded with im- 

 ploring from the House a patient 

 investigation of his case, and again 

 asserted his innocence in an appeal 

 to the Almighty. He then handed 

 to the clerk various letters and affi- 

 davits for the information of the 

 House. 



Lord Cochrane having been di- 

 rected to withdraw, and an order 

 being made to remand him into 

 the custody whence he had been 

 taken. Lord Castlereagh rose to ex- 

 press his sense of the painful situa- 

 tion in which the House had been 

 placed by its anxious desire to hear 

 . patiently all that the Noble Lord 

 could utter for his justification, 

 but which had been attended with 

 much inculpation of the most ex- 

 alted characters in the country. — 

 He had not interfered, as he was 

 sensible that the wisdom of Parlia- 

 ment would be able to separate the 

 justification from the inculpation, 

 but elsewhere the same prudence 

 might not be exercised ; and if the 

 defence of the noble lord were to 

 be published, it would be the cir- 

 culation of libels and calumnies 

 against individuals and the juris- 

 prudence of the country. He 

 made this observation, that in the 

 event of any future interposition of 

 the law, want of due warning could 

 not be pleaded. 



Mr. Broadhead then submitted 

 his motion to the House, the sub- 

 stance of which wrs a declaratory 

 resolution, stating that " from the 

 record of conviction it appears to 

 the House, that Lord Cochrane, a 

 Member of this House, has upon 



an indictment been convicted of a 

 conspiracy with a wicked and frau- 

 dulent intention to thereby cheat 

 and defraud his majesty's subjects 

 of divers large sums of money." 



il/».JBrotiJne said, that the question 

 which appeared to him to present 

 itself for the decision of this night 

 was, whether the record of the con- 

 viction of the Court below was that 

 document which of itself compelled 

 the House to come to the vote of ex- 

 pulsion; or whether, after all that 

 had been said by the noble lord 

 in his defence, the House should 

 be of opinion that it was incumbent 

 on it to pause, and to satisfy itself 

 upon a careful examination of the 

 evidence, that the expulsion is the 

 conclusion to which it must come 

 in the exerciseof that justice which 

 it is bound to administer. He 

 then argued, that as the noble 

 lord in his defence, had unavoid- 

 ably adverted to the facts and cir- 

 cumstances of the case, unless the 

 House meant to reject his state- 

 ment altogether, as unworthy of 

 notice (which would render the 

 hearing him a mere mockery) it 

 would be impossible for it to come 

 to any satisfactory conclusion, with- 

 out inquiring into the evidence as 

 commented upon, explained, or 

 denied by the noble lord. The 

 hon. member dwelt at some length 

 on this idea; and in reply to Lord 

 Castlereagh's censure of part of 

 the noble lord's defence as being 

 an inculpation of the Judge, notan 

 exculpation of himself, he asked, 

 how he could do otherwise than 

 inculpate the Judge, if he had rea- 

 son to think that his charge to the 

 Jury was erroneous, and his con- 

 duct on the trial partial and inde- 

 corous ? He concluded with mov- 

 ing " That the statement made by 



