St. James's Street, Pall Mall and Parliament Street to Westminster Abbey.
The pallbearers accompanying the coffin were Admiral Sir George Seymour, Admiral Pascoe Grenfell, Admiral Collier, Captain Goldsmith, Captain Hay, Captain Nolloth, Captain Schomberg,and his Excellency the Brazilian Ambassador.

I doubt that £ 425,000 will be enough to save the building but at least there is something done.

My thesis is that de Berenger was hired by the government and that it was him who devised a plan of a hoax in which he implicated both Cochranes, Thomas and his uncle Andrew.
Both were highly unpopular with the government and navy/army.

...with a popular naval hero like they dealt with Burdett, Corbett and other supporters of reform.
They desperately had to find some way to be able to disgrace him publicly and totally ruin him.
There are too many odd coincidences in Cochrane's case to believe the government was not involved.

Yes, I might be able to prove that the establishment/government were behind Cochrane's unjust conviction in 1814 and that it was his involvement in radical politics (together with Cobbett and Burdett) which led to the Tory's desire to get rid of him. They knew they could not deal...

An additional problem is that I live in Germany. So almost all research has to be done online. I am desperately waiting for Prinny's papers to be digitised and online available. Up to 1813 they are already available.
De Berenger definitely wasn't the man he pretended to be.

Thanks for your help. They are currently experiencing some issues with their catalogue at the Nat. Archives but I will try again tomorrow.
I am trying to find any evidence that might indicate that he was hired by the government...it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack 😫.

It might be possible that he was 'hired' by the establishment to draw Cochrane and his uncle into the fraud. De Berenger served in Lord Yarmouth's regiment and Yarmouth's mother Lady Hertfort (a stout Tory) was Prinny's mistress at that time.
Is there an archive you could recommend?

...related to intelligence activities, spies, etc. ??

.... without pride, that such things have been done by his countryman; and without solemn concern that such talents and genius should be lost to the land that gave them birth."
- Sir James Mackintosh -Source: HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NARRATIVE, vol. III

... frigates and some smaller vessels in the Pacific they never afterwards ventured to shew themselves, but left Lord Cochrane undisputed master of the coast.'- HMS CONWAY's captain Basil Hall who witnessed the capture of the ESMERALDA in the harbour of Callao -

....and she was steered triumphantly out of harbour.This loss was a death-blow to the Spanish naval force in that quarter of the world; for, although there were still two Spanish....

... desperate resistance till overpowered by a fresh party of seamen and marines, headed by Lord Cochrane. A gallant stand was again made on the main deck but before one o'clock the ship was captured, her cables cut, .....

.... midway on the quarterdeck, as also Captain Crosby, and the afterpart of the ship was soon carried, sword in hand. The Spaniards rallied on the forecastle, where they made a.....

....his Lordship, though wounded in the thigh, at the same moment stepped on the deck, the frigate being boarded with no less gallantry on the opposite side by Captain Guise, who met Lord Cochrane.....

......pushed on unobserved, and Lord Cochrane, mounting the ESMERALDA'S side, was the first to give the alarm. The sentinel on the gangway levelled his piece and fired, but was instantly cut down by the coxswain, and ......

...... alongside the first gun-boat, and taking the officer by surprise, proposed to him, with a pistol at his head, the alternative of silence or death. No reply being made, the boats .....