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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1914. 



Green -street, Grosvenor- square, 

 and there leaving him ; also to the 

 circumstance of his red uniform 

 under a great coat, and to his tak- 

 ing with him into the house a 

 small portmanteau ; and thus was 

 completed the process of tracking 

 Berenger from Dover to Lord 

 Cochrane's house in London. 



The next circumstance brought 

 forwards for the prosecution was 

 that of the fishing up by a water- 

 man on the Thames, of a bundle 

 containing a coat cut to pieces, a 

 star, embroidery, &c. which was 

 recognised by a military-accoutre- 

 ment maker, to be the same that 

 he sold on Feb. 19th. to a person 

 who mentioned its being wanted 

 for one who was to perforui the 

 character of a foreign officer, and 

 who also purchased a military re- 

 gimental coat, and a military -cap. 

 The person with whom Berenger 

 lodged deposed, that on the 20th 

 he went out in a new great coat. 



With the main plot in which 

 Berenger was the chief actor, an- 

 other was stated to be connected, 

 involving M'Rae, Sandon, Lyte, 

 and Holloway. Wit!) respect to 

 this, the first witness called was 

 Thomas Vinn, an accountant, who 

 deposed to having been applied to 

 by M'Rae for the purpose of en- 

 gaging to assist in a hoax upon the 

 Stock-exchange, by personating a 

 French officer along with him, 

 which he refused to do. A female 

 witness, a fellow -lodger with 

 M'Rae and his wife, deposed, that 

 M'Rae brought home, on Feb. 20, 

 a parcel with two coats and two 

 opera hats, the coats being like 

 those of officers, with some white 

 ribbon for cockades ; that he said 

 thejr were for the purpose of de- 

 ceiving the flats, and that he must 



go down to Gravesend — that oa 

 the next day she met him in Lon- 

 don, apparently much tired, and 

 that he brought back a bundle 

 containing one of the coats and 

 hats, and the cockades ; and that 

 he said he was to have 50/. for 

 what he had done. 



Mr. Foxail, master of the Rose 

 Inn, at Dartford, then deposed as 

 to receiving a note from Mr. San- 

 don, dated from North Fleet, on 

 Monday, Feb. 21, desiring him to 

 send a chaise and pair, and to have 

 ready 4 good horses to go to London 

 with all expedition; that in con- 

 sequence, his chaise brought from 

 North Fleet Mr. Sandon and two 

 gentlemen with white cockades in 

 their hats, who immediately pro- 

 ceeded for London with the four 

 horses. A driver deposed to car- 

 rying these persons, the horses be- 

 ing decked with laurels, over Lou- 

 don-briiige, through Lombard- 

 street and Cheapside, and thence to 

 Marjh-gate, Lambeth, where they 

 got out, having taken off their mili- 

 tary hats and put on round ones. It 

 was then proved by Mr. Francis 

 Bailey, that Holloway confessed 

 before the Committee of the Stock- 

 exchange that he was a contriver 

 of this plot, and that Lyte con- 

 fessed himself and M'Rae to have 

 been the persons who accompanied 

 Sandon in the post chaise. 



The next body of evidence pro- 

 duced related to the Stock concerns 

 of Mr. Butt, Mr. Cochrane John- 

 stone, and L«rd Cochrane. The 

 most material points went to the 

 close connexion between these 

 three persons, to the vast amount 

 of omnium which they held on 

 the morning of the day in which 

 the fraud took place, to the sale of 

 th€ whole on that day, and to the 



