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A Letter to Lord Ellenborough From Lord Cochrane
A Letter to Lord Ellenborough From Lord Cochrane Author:Thomas Cochrane Dundonald Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: somewhat differently, and less positively, on the subject of De Berenger's appearance at my House, than in any other account which I have either heard or read: a... more »nd since the Trial, as it now appears, had the advantage of being revised by your Lordship ; and since the Attorney- General assures us, that it is calculated to do away the effect of all imperfect statements; and as we have the further assurance of the same learned gentleman, founded on his knowledge of the noble and learned persons presiding in the Courts, that there is not a Judge on the Bench capable of wickedly altering his Charge, so as to give it a different colour, it must needs be inferred, that the Newspaper Reporters, and the Short-hand Writer employed by Mr. Butt, and the several persons present at the Trial, with whom I have conversed on the subject, did, by some unfortunate coincidence, more extraordinary, perhaps, than the alleged concurrence of circumstances which were supposed to justify my conviction, fall into one and the same error, at one and the same time, and misunderstand the language used by your Lordship, precisely in the same manner and to the same extent. Whether Mr. W. B. Gurney himself did not fall into a similar error, which, independent of " the common practice," rendered it peculiarly proper, and even indispensable, that your Lordship should revise his Report in this instance, I do not think it necessary, and it would perhaps be fruitless to inquire. I hope that your Lordship will not so far mistake me, as to suppose that it is my object to dispute the authenticity of the Charge, as it now appears, revised by your Lordship, in Mr, W. B. Gurney's publication. All that I intend to show, is, that it is still objectionable ; and so far, at least, as relates to myself, not warranted by the Ev...« less