is oath? If so, Gentlemen, the Stock Exchange
and its doors must be shut up for ever; and the great men who stalk
about as the self-constituted Committee of the Stock Exchange, must not
have any thing to do in future, because time-bargains are their daily
bread; they are at that species of traffic daily, conducting themselves
in a manner, whether they like it or not, I say, is most highly
disgraceful.

Gentlemen, is Lord Cochrane to be believed or not? have you any ground
for saying, that this noble Lord has been guilty, not of perjury in the
common sense of the word, but of perjury of a much higher kind, in my
view, for which he must be accountable, for which he knows he must be
accountable, if he has sworn that which he knows to be false, and which
he cannot have done without being one of the most worthless men in the
world. Gentlemen, what has he said? and I beg your particular attention
to it, because the evidence of the brokers will not tally with the
statement at all; he has sworn that he breakfasted with his uncle, Mr.
Cochrane Johnstone, in Cumberland place, which is at a considerable
distance (whatever my learned friend may suppose about it) from
Green-street Grosvenor-square; it is on the other side, I believe, of
the Oxford Road, and near the top of it. It is proved that he
breakfasted with him, for Crain's evidence is, that when he set down Mr.
De Berenger at the door, the answer was, that he was gone to Cumberland
Place. What does Lord Cochrane state; that he went with his uncle in a
hackney coach, which took him into the city at the hour of ten in the
morning. I beg his lordship's particular attention to that part of the
affidavit. Now, Gentlemen, when is it that these time-bargains are
supposed to have been made, in consequence of news which it is alleged
Mr. De Berenger brought. It is sworn that they were made before eleven
o'clock in the day. Why, Gentlemen, we are forgetting distances. If Lord
Cochrane was set down at Snow-hill at ten in the morning, if he
afterwards came back, as he did, to Green-street Grosvenor-square, being
sent for by his servant or Mr. De Berenger, he could not be back before
half-past ten or nearly eleven, and I defy all mankind to state how he
could after that have communicated to the Stock Exchange, the news this
gentleman was supposed to be dispersing abroad, so as to affect the
price of stocks. The whole of the transaction took place before eleven
in the day, and he was not