"My health having suffered by long and close confinement, and my oppressors being resolved to deprive me of property or life, I submit to robbery to protect myself from murder, in the hope that I shall live to bring the delinquents to justice."

Cochrane was also expelled from the House of Commons and from the Order of the Bath. There is little doubt that the circumstances were extremely suspicious. Those who wish to form an opinion as to Cochrane's guilt or innocence will find the subject of the trial exhaustively treated in Mr. J.B. Atlay's

Lord Cochrane's Trial before Lord Ellenborough

(1897).

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[Footnote 2:]

Henry, Lord Brougham (1778-1868) acknowledged that he wrote the famous article on Byron's

Hours of Idleness

in the

Edinburgh Review