, and
not one of them has been able to tell you of one single shilling stock
sold by these gentlemen, or either of them, of which they were not
actually in the possession. It is impossible, if he is so rapacious a
man as to engage in a speculation to ruin his fortune and his character,
to account for his not taking advantage of such a state of things.

Gentlemen, next to the profit made by Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, is his
having been engaged to take a house for Mr. Fearn; and here I was led to
expect that my learned friend would falsify the statement made upon oath
by Mr. Cochrane Johnstone; he was to prove, that what he had sworn to,
or offered to swear to, of his not having taken the house was untrue; it
is enough for me to say, that that is not proved; it is an unfounded
statement of my learned friend, proceeding from misinstructions which
have been given to him by his clients; but on the subject of taking this
house, my learned friend must have felt the distress of his case when he
pressed it upon you.--Why, gentlemen, what are you desired to find? not
that these parties were generally engaged in stock-jobbing transactions;
not that these parties had conceived an intention of dealing for a
continuance in the stocks; but that they had planned a scheme by which,
at one stroke, they were to cheat all persons who came to engage with
them in the Stock Exchange; the fraud was to be over in a single day;
they wanted no office for that; that could be wanted only for the
purpose of carrying on that scheme of stock-jobbing, which these persons
began in November, and have actually continued long subsequent to the
21st of February; but does it not appear that my learned friend is wrong
in his instructions. According to the papers we have seen (most
improperly circulated) a house was taken for Mr. Fearn, without his
knowing any thing about it; and Mr. Fearn found himself seated in the
office, without knowing how he came there.--Does that turn out to be the
fact? No; it turns out that Mr. Butt had an office before, which he did
not like; Mr. Cochrane Johnstone took another office for Mr. Butt; Mr.
Fearn came to look at Mr. Butt's office, liked it, and it was kept for
him. In consequence of this, this office, which you are told was taken
by Mr. Cochrane Johnstone for Mr. Fearn, without his knowledge, was
taken by Mr. Fearn for himself, because he found the house to be a
convenient one; and it was suggested to him by his friends, that