APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



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cf tlie general circumstances of 

 which Hn account will be found in 

 our Chronicle for the month of 

 Februarj'. The report at large of 

 the trial iiself occupies a bulky 

 volume; and we can onlj" allot for 

 it a space sufficient for a very sum- 

 niarj' view of the principal points 

 of the evidence, and the result of 

 the whole. 



The persons tried were Charles 

 Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas 

 Cochrane, commonly called Lord 

 Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Coch- 

 rane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne 

 Butt, Ralph Sandon, Alexander 

 M'Rae, John Peter Holloivai/, and 

 Henri/ Lyte. The crime charged 

 was a conspiracy for raising the 

 l''unds, and thereby injuring those 

 who should become purchasers in 

 them ; the Court was the King's 

 Bench, Guildhall, before Lord El- 

 lenborough, on June Sth and 9th. 

 The case for the prosecution having 

 been stated by IMr. Gurney, the 

 first witness called was John 

 Marsh, master of tlie Packet Boat 

 public-house, at Dover. His evi- 

 dence went chiefly to prove the 

 fact of a gentleman, drest in a grey 

 great-coat and a red uniform under 

 it, with a star, knocking at the 

 door of tiie Ship Inn, early in the 

 morning of February 21st, whom 

 he assisted to get into the inn, and 

 who said that he was the bearer of 

 very important dispatches from 

 France. He was fully satisfied 

 that Berenger was this person. 

 This evidence was confirmed by 

 that of Gourley, a hatter, who was 

 at that time in Marsh's house. 



Mr. St. John, who was then at 

 the Ship Inn as a traveller, deposed 

 in like manner to the arrival of a 

 person who asked for a post-chaise, 

 to his dress, and to the identity of 

 Berenger as this person. 



Admiral Foley was then called 

 to prove the receipt of a letter dis- 

 patched to him as port-admiral at 

 Deal, by express from Dover, from 

 a person at the Ship Inn, who 

 signed him'elf R. Du Bonrg, Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel and Aide-de-Camp 

 to Lord Cathcart, and which was 

 proved to be in the hand writing of 

 Berenger. The purport of the let- 

 ter was to acquaint the Admiral 

 that he was just arrived from Ca- 

 lais with the news of a great victory 

 obtained by the allies over Buo- 

 naparte, who was slain in his flight 

 by the Cossacks, and that the al- 

 lied Sovereigns were in Paris, 

 where the white cockade was uni- 

 versal. A post-chaise boy was 

 then examined who drove a gen- 

 tleman in that night from Dover 

 to Canterbury, and another from 

 Canterbury to Siltingbourn, and 

 a third from thence to Rochester. 

 They deposed to the receiving of 

 Napoleons from him, and the lat- 

 ter boy to his dress, agreeing with 

 the former descriptions. 



Mr. Wright, of the Crown Inn 

 at Rochester, brother to Wright of 

 the Ship, at Dover (who was pre- 

 vented from appearirig by illness) 

 next gave evidence of the person's 

 coming to his house, of his dress in 

 the great coat, red uniform, star, 

 and military cap, and of his con- 

 versation relative to the news he 

 brought ; and was positive that 

 Berenger was the man. Other 

 innkeepers and drivers continued 

 the chain of evidence, to that of a 

 Dartford chaise driver, Thomas 

 Shilling, who gave a very circum- 

 stantial account of carrying Beren- 

 ger to the Marsh-gate, Lambeth, 

 and there seeing him into a hack- 

 ney-coach. The driver of this 

 coach, William Crane, then de- 

 posed to the carrying him to No. 13, 



