written a
letter to a person of the name of Vinn, appointing a meeting at the
Carolina Coffee-House for the next day. On the Tuesday Vinn met him. Mr.
Vinn speaks French very well, and Mr. M'Rae explained the business on
which he wished to converse with him; the funds were then in a critical
situation, it would be a very good thing if he would but personate a
French officer, and bring some good news to Town, and that a hundred
pounds were at his service. Mr. Vinn felt a little indignant at this
proposal being made to him, saying that he hoped what Mr. M'Rae knew of
him would have given him a different opinion of him; but Mr. M'Rae would
not let Mr. Vinn go without giving him some French phrases, which you
will find were the very phrases in these billets thrown out when they
passed through the City. It was therefore completely ascertained that
M'Rae was not only concerned as an actor in this under plot, carried on
by the chaise from Northfleet to London, but that he had so long before
as the Tuesday preceding, proposed to Vinn to do that which De Berenger
in fact did.

The Committee afterwards ascertained, that the immediate employer of the
persons in the Chaise was Mr. Holloway, a wine merchant, another
defendant, who independently of his concerns with those persons, chose
to have a little dealing in the funds himself, he had a small milkscore
of about forty-thousand pounds omnium, which he disposed of on that 21st
day of February, at a handsome profit.

Gentlemen, you will not fail to observe that this part of the plot
could have had no effect but for the foundation laid by the appearance
of the pretended officer at Dover and his journey to London; for a
post-chaise coming through the City with white cockades and laurel
branches would have had no effect except to excite laughter and
derision, but for the preparation made by De Berenger in the character
of Du Bourg; and when you find for the purpose of producing the same
effect, such a coincidence of plan, and such a coincidence of time, the
one the basis and the other the superstructure, although I shall not be
able to prove all the parties meeting together, conferring together,
consulting together, still it will be impossible to doubt that these are
two parts of one whole; that this is, in short, not two conspiracies,
but one and the same conspiracy.

Gentlemen, the enquiry respecting the chaise from Dover led to much more
important results. It was the first busin