iness?

_A._ Yes, about nine o'clock.

_Q._ Do you stay out a considerable part of the day?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ What is your business?

_A._ A broker.

_Q._ At that time you acted as a broker?

_A._ I acted as a broker's Clerk at that time.

_Q._ You are out a considerable part of the day, sometimes more,
sometimes less.

_A._ Yes.

_Mr. Gurney._ Now my Lord I am going to what I have stated as the
underplot, respecting M'Rae, Sandom, Lyte, and Holloway.

_Thomas Vinn sworn._

_Examined by Mr. Bolland._

_Q._ In consequence of a note that was left at your house, did you go to
the Carolina Coffee House in February last?

_A._ I did, where I met M'Rae.

_Q._ What day in February was it?

_A._ On the 14th of February the note was dated, and I received it the
15th.

_Q._ On what day did you go to the Carolina Coffee House?

_A._ On the 15th in the morning.

_Q._ Did any body accost you there?

_A._ I met M'Rae, who was at that time in company with an elderly
Gentleman, he desired me to sit down and he would be with me presently.

_Q._ Had you known M'Rae before?

_A._ I had some years.

_Q._ Did he return to you as he said he would?

_A._ He was not out of my sight, he was standing near the door, and in
the course of seven or ten minutes, as far as I can recollect, he came
and joined me.

_Q._ Upon his joining you what passed?

_A._ He told me he had known me a long time, and that he thought he had
now an opportunity of making my fortune; that he knew from the knowledge
I had of languages, particularly that of the French, I should have an
opportunity of both benefiting others and myself.

_Q._ What answer did you make?

_A._ I asked him what the object was, and whether it was to travel
abroad; he told me it was not to travel abroad, but it was probably to
travel at home, and that almost immediately; that it was a scheme that
he had in contemplation, employed by men of affluence and consequence,
and that he thought no man more competent to that than myself.--On my
asking him if there was any thing of moral turpitude in it, he said that
there was none but that it was practised daily by men of the first
consequence, it was nothing more nor less than biting the biters, or in
other words, a Hoax upon the Stock Exchange. I asked him in what way I
could attend to it, or in what way it was to be performed; he told me by
going down to Dartford, Folkestone, or Dover, as I should receive