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London, England, 1814-03-12 00:00:00

LORD COCNRANE•'S DECLARJ7I.W

Having obtained leave of absence to come to trwn
in consequence of scandalous paragraphs in the pub.
lic p;pers ; and in consequence of having learnt that
handbills had been affixed in the sheets, in %chid-.
I have since seen, it is asserted that a person camp to
my house, at No. 13, Green-street, on the 21st day
of February, in open clay, and in the dress in which
he hael committed a fraud, I feel it due to myself to
make the following Dersit;on, that the Public may
know the truth relative to the only person seen by tr.l
in military uniform at my house on that day.

COCHRANE.

13, Green-street, March 11, 1814.
" No. 13, Green-itreet, Grosvenor-squarr,
• March 11, lbli.
" I, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord
Cochrane, having been appointed by the Lords Com.
missioners of the Admiralty to active service (at the
request, I believe, of Sir Alexander Cochr me) wl.en
I had no expectation of being called on, I obtained
leave of absence to settle my private affairs previous
to quitting this country, and chiefly with a view to
lodge. a specification to a patent, relative to a disco.
very for increasing the intensity of light.
4‘ That in pursuance of my daily practice of su-
perintending work that was executing for me, and
knowing that my uncle, Mr. Cochrane .lAnstene,
went to the City every morning in a coach, I do
swear, on the morning of the 2 st of February, which
day was impre,sed on my mind by circumstances
which afterwatds occurred, I breakfasted with him
at his residence in Cumberland-street, about half.ptst
eight o'clock, and I was put down by him (and Mr.
Butt was in the coach) on Snow-hill, about ten
o'clock.

" That I had been about three quarters of an hour
at Mr. King's manufactory, at No. 1, Cock-lane,
when I received a tew lines on a small bit of paper,
requesting me to come immediately to my house; the
name affixed, from being written close to the bott,ln.
I could not read ; the servant told me it w2s from an
army officer, and concluding that he might be an
officer from Spain, and that some accident had be-
fallen to r.ly brother, I hastened back, and I found
Captain Berenger, who in great seeming uneasiness,
made many apologies for the freedom he had used,
which nothing but the distressed state of his mind
arising from difficulties could have induced him to do.
All his prospects he said had failed, and his last hype
had vanished of obtaining an appointment in Ame-
rica. He was unpleasantly circumstanced on account
of a sum which he could not pay, and if he could
that others would fall upon him for full £80:)0. He
had 110 hope of bimefiting his creditors in h4s present
situation, or of assisting himself. That if I would
take liini with me, he would immediately go on board
and exercise the sharpshooters (which plan Sir Alex-
ander Cochrane, I know, had approved of). That
he had left his lodgings, and prepared himself in the
best way his means allowed. He had brought the
sword 'with him which had been his father's, and to
that and to Sir Alexander ha would trust for obtain-
ing an honourable appointment.
66 I felt very uneasy at the distress he was in, and
knowing him to be a roan of gieat talent and science,
I told him I would do every thing in my power to
relieve him ; but as to his going immediately to the
Tonnant with any comfort to himself, it was quite
impossible. My cabin was without furniture; I had
not even a servant on board. He said he would wil-
lingly mess any where. I told him that the ward-
room was already crowded, and, besides, I coLl.!
not with propriety take him, he being a foreigner,
without leave from the Admiralty.
" He seemed greatly hurt at this, and recalled to
my recollection certificates which lie had fornieily
shewn me from persons in official situations ; Lord
Yarmouth. General Jenkinson, and Mr. Reeves, 1
think, were amongst the number.
66 I recommended him to use his encl:avour to
get them, or any other friends, to exert their influence,
for I had none ; adding, that when the Tonnan:
went to Portsmouth, I should be happy to receive
him ; and I knew from Sir Alexander Cochrane, the
he would be pleased if he accomplished that object.
" Captain Berenger said, that not anticipating ar.
objection on my part from the conversation he 11-1.,
formerly had with me, he had come away with is
tention to go on board, and make himself useful
his military capac:ty ; he could not go to Lord 1 37•
mouth, or to any other of his II tends in this dress
(alluding to that which he had on), or return to 1...
lodgings, where it would excite suspicion (as lie to:
at that time in the rules of the King's Bench), 1):::
that it 1 refused to let him join the ship now, 1.:
would do so at Portsmouth. Under present circus;
stances, however, he must use a great liberty, are
request the favour of me to lend him a hat to we:li
instead of his military cap : I gave him one, whic.•
was in a back room, with some things that had se-
been packed up, and having tried it on, his uniform,
appeared under his great coat ; I therefore OlL:re,:
him a black coat that was lying on a chair, aDJ

I did not inthd to take with the : he put up `
hiform. in a towel, and shortly after-wards went
aw.iy in great apparent uneasiness of minds and
having asked nip leave, he took the coach I came
;al and which I had forgotten to discharge in the
haste I Was in.
" I do further depose, that the above conversation
Is the substance of all that passed with Captain &-
tenger, which, from the circumstances attending it,
was strongly impressed upon my mind : that no other
person in uniform was seen by meat my house, on
Monday the twenty-first of February, though possibly
other Officers may have called (as many have done
iince my appointment) ; of this, boiever, I cannot
speak of my own knowledge, having been almost
constantly from home, arranging My private affairs.
I have understood, that many persons hive called
under the above circumstances, and have written
notes in the parlour, and others have waited there in
enectation of seeing me, and then gone away ; but
I most positively swear, that I never saw any per-
son at my house resembling the description and in
the dress stated in the printed Advertisement of the
Members of the Stock Exchange.
" I further aver, that 1 had no concern, directly,
or indirectly, in the late imposition, and that the
above is all that I know relative to any person who
came to my house in uniform on the 'twenty-first
day of February before alluded to. Captain Hettin-
ger wore a grey great coat, a green uniform, and a
military cap.
" From the manner in which tiny character has
been attempted to be defamed, it is indispensably
necessary to state, that my_ connexion in any way
with the Funds arose from an impression that in the
present favourable aspect of affairs it was only neces-
sary to hold Stock in order to become a gainer, with.
out prejudice to any body.: that I did so openly,
considering it in no degree improper, far less dis-
honourable : that I had no secret information of any
kind ; and that had my.espeetatibt; of the success
of affairs been disappointed, I should have been the
unly sufferer.
" Further, I do most solemnly swear, That the
whole of the Omniutri on account, which I possessed
on the 21st day pf February, 1814, amounted tc. one
hundred and thirty-nine thousand pounds, which I
bought by Mr. Fearn (I think on the 12th instant
at a premium of twenty-eight and a quarter : that
did not hold on that day any other sail on account,
in any other Stock, directly or indirectly ; and that I
had given orders when it was bought .to dispose of it
en a rise of one per cent. and it was actuilly sold on
an average at twenty-nine 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 only Stock which I sold of any
kind on the 21st day of February, except two thou-
sand pounds in money which' I had occasion for ; the
profit on which was about ten pounds,
Further, I do solemnly depose, That I hail no
connection or dealing with any one, save as above-
Mentioned, and that.l did not at-any time, directly
or indirectly, by:myself, or by any other, take or pre-
cure any office or apartment foe any Broker or other
person for the transaction of Stock affairs-
" COCHRANE.

" Swots at my House in Great Queen street,
Lincoln's-inn-fields, in the county of
Middlesex, the 11th day of March, 1814.
—Before me, A. GRAHAM."

DUTCH P4PJRS.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 2.

Sllong hopes are entertained here of the surrender
of Antwerp. Nothing more more is known respecting
the interview between the General of the Allies, and
Decaen, the Governor of the city. The meeting took
place in consequence of a flag of truce being sent out
to Merxen, where General Blenkendorp was poste4,
with 2or 3000 men. Some persons suppose that tk
conversation related merely to allowing some of the
inhabitants to leave the town, who were anxious to
escape from the horrors of a siege.
BREMEN, FEBRUARY 29.
A part of the city of Hamburgh was on fire on the
• night of the 27th instant, in consequence of the born-
bardment which had been renewed. As to the pro-
bability of the surrender of the place we have no fur-
ther information on the subject.

FRENCH PAPERS•

MANTUA, MARCH 4.

Fnrt l'Ecluse capitulated yesterday at noon. Five
hours employed by the peasants and citizens-in turn-
ing up and rolling sown treat stones from the rock
which comthands it,' were sufficient to make it sur-
render. The garrison, who are prisoners of war, are
just arrived at Mantua, to be sent• to-morrow to
Lyons, and will be escorted by thirty men of the
National Guard of this town to Pont d'Ain. Our
troops follow up their successes, and advance upon
Versoix and Geneva.
General Marchand is at Caronge, and lays siege to
Genes, into which the enemy have thrown them-
selves. Net one soldier or peasant has been wounded.

MILAN, FEBRUARY 27,
To-day, at three in the afternoon, discharges of
artillery announced to this capital the new and bra-
hant victories obtained by the Emperor over the Al-
Nett armies on the 17th, 19th, and 19th of February.
The joy of the inhabitants is extreme.
Letters from Chamberri say, that the enemy are
almost wholly driven from the 3epartment of Mount
Nam. They made vein attempts to get the people
To rise in their favour; the whole population remained
quiet and faithful to their Sovereign. The old Cie-
1-o:rat Sonnax, his two sons, and a handiul of ancient
;Akers cif the King of Sardinia, hard been sent into
6avoy to raise and organise two regiments in the same
.kif their old
The blue cockade which they proudly
.displayed
,r!rved only to draw upon them the contempt due to
the unweirthy 'conduct of officers, Who having never
done any thing fu: the Empc;ror, i( ceived pensions
from him, and meanly took up arms against the
ft ince aid the new country that maintained them.—
'Ile), fled a: the first news of the approach of the'
French, with the disgrace of havi..g failed in their
enterprize, and the regret of having made themselves
7tti!ty without having received the least advantage,
from it. General Sunnaz died amid the thunder of
the cannon• which were fired on his protectors on the
road to Barrant. Thus Divine justice sometimes pu-
naes traitors on the very theatre of their guilt.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON..

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1814.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK
3 per Cunt. Red. shut—Cons. 71ft —for ace. 72f
4 per Ct. shut-5 per Ct. 981—Onnihun 2711
India lsunds I Is. 12s. pr.—Exchequer Bills Ss. 59.

Letters from Deal, received this morning, mention
the arrival of two Messengers from Holland, with dis-
patche, f rom Admiral Yourro. The letters further state
the arrival of a Gentleman from France, by way of
Holland, who tn ings accounts that the CROWN PRINCE
of SWEDEN, before he had left Holland, was known
to have arrived at Mons, where he fixed his head-
quarters. That the French people, through all the
towns which he passed, were in a state of great alarm
and consternation. The adherents of NAPOLEON are
In great dread of a counter-revolution.

A French Nobleman, attached to the suite of the
BouOhm Princes, arrived yesterday at Deal, from
the Coast of Holland, on board ,of the DICTATOR
man of war. He is the bearer of dispatches from
His Royal Highness MoNsieue, now in France, to
His Majesty Louis XVIII. and they are said to con-
tain the most gratifying accounts of the dispositions
of the Inhabitants of France to shake off the fetters
of despotism, and restore the legitimate Sovereign
to his rightful inheritance.
The above Nobleman passed through part of the
Army of the CROWN PRINCE at Mons, on Sunday
last : the whole were hastening up, by forced marches
to join the army under BLUCHER.

Yesterday, in a Second and Third Edition, 'we com-
municated upon official authority, the Highly grati-
fying intelligence of Lord WELLINGTON'S advance,
and of the further successes of the Allied Armies, in
the direction of the Capital. With the nature of the
accounts from Lord WELLINGTON our Readers were
already made acquainted through private channels.

The dispatches from Lord BURGHERSH are dated,
as we stated yesterday, at Troyes, on the 4th instant.
The details they contain were communicated in our
third edition ; and we subjoin the official commoni-
cittion we received on the subject for the perusal
of such of our Readers as did not receive a third
edition. •

To the subjoined particulars we have to add, that
although Bummaa's recent movements were unknown
to Prince SWAIITUNBERG. the Messenger heard, on
bis• route, that the Silesian Army was once more
moving on Ferte•sous-Jouarre, which is between
Chateau Thierry and Meaux, and is situated on the
Marne.

“ FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH
The dispatches from Lord BUROFIRRSH are dated
from Troyes, on the 4th instant.
They contain the 'highly gratifying intelligence of:
the.recapture of Troyes by the Allied Army under
Prince SCHWA RTZ::NBERG, after a most obstinate en-
gagement, whicti took place on the tid inst. The
French, under Marshal OLIDINOT, were defeated be-
tween Bar-sur-Seine and Troyes, with the loss•' of'
Three Thousand prisoners (Fifty-two of whom are
Officers), and Ten pieces of cannon. •
The Allied Armies occupied Troyes next day,
which the French had abandoned with great preci-
pitation the night before—many prisoners were made.
The Allies are again advancing in the direction of
Nogent-sur-Seine, the bridge of which the enemy had
. destroyed.
No mention whatever was made at head-quarters
of tiny Armistice.
The inhabitants of Troyes made no resistance to
the Allies.

The Plenipotentiaries were still at Chatillon.

But, perhaps, of all the welcome intelligence re-
ceived yesterday, none can be considered as of more
importance than the fact communicated in a letter
of the 4th, from Head-quarters, stating, that "Mon-
sieur had been joined by about eight thousand of his
countrymen, part of them cavalry c—that is, as we
understan ! the last expression, part of them are on
horse-hack, ready to act as cavalry.

We 'nave no hesitation in repeating our opinion,
that no event has occurred for a considerable time,
so fraught wi h danger to the despot, or holding out
a better hope to the cause of social order and legiti-
mate soveregns. The allied Sovereigns stood pledg-
ed to their own subjects— to the French people—to'
the world, not to interfere with the internal govern-
ment of that country, which, under the usurped power
of bad men, has been made the scourge of Europe
for these twenty years. In consequence tlley could
not commit themselves by a direct act in favour of
the ancient dynasty; but they afforded the HousLe of
Boußcoss an opportunity of proving the loyalty of
their ancient subjects, and the first fruits promise a
most Iti;:ul.ant harvest. The moral effects which
may possibly flow from this manifestation of popular
feeling c:inilot be calculated. What may we not ex-
pect from a pe ple wly.se mayors, magistrates, and
public functionaries, men nominated by BONAPARtE
himself, " exert themselves," according to his own
statement, " to prevent t' e citizens from measures
of defence," against invading armies? The fact
speaks volume and needs no comment.

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