The National Register.
London, England, 1814-03-13 00:00:00

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THE NATIONATI nEtnsTErt,

on the rootlliog of Febtnaty the t‘ist, two men dressed like foreign-
ers, and pretended to have come it eently front the coast of France,
linded near his house from a stx-oared and having called
him
sip, delivered to hint a note, purportiog to have been mitten by a
rson of ihe name of Partridge, whom he had formerly known at
Dover, requesting him to t.ke those two persons to London, who
had great public neWl to communicate to Government, 'but not to
iffer them to he at ativ expence ; tlmt he accordingly did order a-
e:atise from Dartford, and they proceeded (in the manner already
+described) to Mat sh-Ga te. where they alighted : that they then went
to We-Aminster Bridge, and took a boat to Whitehall, and on enter-
irg one of the pa,saeus of that building the two men took leave of
Ltw, by saying they had no forther orcasion for his services : that
he ha-, not seen or hear:l or them sinee ; that be has, however, seen
Varttidge, and finds that the order sent to was a forgery. Mr.
Sandom ,hatch that lie Lad no account in the Stock-Exchange ; that
Le di,clainted RN knowledge of any of the parties in the plot. sled
*aid that for some time he believed the report (which was circu-
lated) to have-been trim

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the number. I recommended Mm to use his endeavour to get them or
any other friends to exert their influence, for I had none; adding, that
when the 'Formant wint to Portsmouth, 1 should be happy to rm•
!rive him ; and I knew from Sir A. Cochreoe, that he would he
pleased if be accomplished that object. Captain Berenger said, that
not anticipating any objection on my part from the conversation he had
formerly had with me, he had come away with intention to go on-board,
•riad make himself useful in his military capacity; he could not go to
Lord Yarmouth, or to au; other of his friends In this dress, (alluding
to that which he had on) or return to his lodging., where it would
excite suspicion (as he was at that time in the rules of the King's
Bench) but that if I refused to let him join the ship now, he would do
An at Portsmouth. Under present circumstances, however, he must use
a great liberty, and request the favour of me to lend him a hat to Weal'
instead of his military cap : I gave him one which was in a tr-ck roma
with some things that had not been packed up, and having tried it on,
his uniform appeared under his great coat ; I therefore offered hint a
tila:k coat that was laying no a chair, and which I did not intend to
take with me : pal up his unitUrm in tt towel, and'shortly afterward*
went away in great apparent uneasiness of mind; anti having asked my
leave he took the coach I came in, and which I had furgotten to die
charge in the haste I was in.
I do further depose, that the above conversati'm is the substance of
all that passed with Captain Berenger, which, from the circumstances
attending it, was strongly impressed upon my mind : that no other
person in Iloilo' in was seen by me at my house. on Monday the trst
of. February, though possibly other Officers may have called (as tom,y
have done slice my appointment), of this however I cannot speak or
my oan I,nowledge, having been almost constatiCy from home, sr'
ranging my private affairs. 1 have undewood that nom, person*
have gaily d under the above circumst:oices, and have written notes in
e parlour, and other. have waded there in expectation of seeing me,
and then gone away ; but I most positively swear, that I never saw
any person at my house resembling time description and in the dress
stated in the printed advertisement of the Members of the Stock Ex:
change ; I further aver, that I had no concern, directly or indirect:,
rat the late imposition, awl that the above is all that I know relatiy
to any person who came to my house in uniform on the 21st day of Fe
bruary before alluded to.--Captain Berenger wore a grey great cOate
a green uniform, and a military cap.
From the manner in which my character has been attempted to So-
defamed, it is indiwensahly netessitry to state that ray connection in,
any way with the Funds arose from an impression s:tat in the present
favourable aspect of affairs it was only necessary to hold Stuck in order
to become a gainer without prejudice to any body : that I did so
openly, considering it in no dee, ce improper. far less dishonourable:
that I had no secret information of any kind ; and that had my expec-
tation Of the success of affaits been disappointed, I should have beer&

the nniv sufk: er.
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Further I do most solemnly swear, That the whale of the Onminm
account, %%bib 1 possesscii on the !itst day of February, one thousand
eight liundrcrl and fourteen, amounting to one hundred and thirty-nine
thousand pounds, which brought by Mr..Fearn (I think) on the 1-2 th
instant, at a premium of twenty-eight and a quarter ; that I did not
holt.l on that day any other sum on account, in any ',biller Stark, di•
rectly or indirectly ; and that I! had given (orders when it was bought
to dispose of it oil a rise of one per cent. and it was actually sold on
an average at twentyloine and a half premium, though on the day of
the fraud it might have been disposed of at thirty-three and a half. I
further swear that the above is the oily Stock v. hich I sold of any
kind on the 21st day of February, except two thottsand pounds in
money which I had occasion for; the profit on winch was about ten
pounds.
Further T do solemnly depose, That I had no conrivetion or dealing
with any one, save as atoove-mentioned, and that I did not at anif
time, directly c,r ecily, by myself, or by any other, take or pro-
cure any cHire or apartment fur any Broker or other person for the
transaction of Sb'ck affdirs. COCHRANE,

Sworn at my house in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's
Inn-field,., in the comity of Middlesex, the 11th
day of March, 1814, before me,

A. GRAHAM.

Canvas.ing in tl►e City of Westminster has already com-
menced in expectation of a vacancy in its representation.
It is said that two Swedish vessels have,, in defiance of
the late treaty between the Courts of Stockholm and Co-
penhagen, been captured by the Morwegiatn, and con-
ducted into one of their poits, w4erc the crews ir4Ye kW)
vut under etrmtl