at we know not of, because it has been
only by accident that the Committee learned their employment of Mr.
Richardson, for Mr. Richardson not being a member of the Stock Exchange,
the Committee had no controul over him to exact information from him.
Mr. Butt had employed Mr. Richardson on the Saturday preceding, to
purchase fifty thousand omnium, of which he the same day sold thirty;
and so anxious was Mr. Butt on that Saturday to be possessed of as much
stock as possible, that he endeavoured to persuade Mr. Richardson to
purchase one hundred and fifty thousand, but Mr. Richardson trembled at
the idea of making so large a speculation, and refused to go beyond the
fifty thousand.

You have these persons, then, linked together in such manner, as will
render them perfectly inseparable in these various stock transactions;
having dealt for some little time; having bought and having sold; having
this tremendous balance, this world of Stock, under which they were, on
the Saturday evening, bending and groaning, on the Monday morning they
had disburthened themselves completely of this with a profit of a little
more than ten thousand pounds. If the telegraph had worked, that ten
thousand would have been nearer a hundred thousand--that the telegraph
did not work, was not to be ascribed either to them or to their agent.

Gentlemen, when all this was ascertained, the Committee apprised those
who had appointed them of the result of their labours; they printed an
account for the information of the members of the Stock Exchange; they
then had some private information, that Du Bourg really was De Berenger;
but on enquiry for Mr. De Berenger, they found he was gone off; they had
not, therefore, any positive proof, and on that account they very
prudently said nothing upon the subject. When they had printed this
information, for the use of their own members only; it did get out, and
there were published in the newspapers some accounts of their reports,
some of them correct, and some of them incorrect, but sufficient
undoubtedly to direct the eyes of all men to these three individuals,
Lord Cochrane, Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, and Mr. Butt.

Lord Cochrane, Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, and Mr. Butt, felt that it was
requisite for them to give some explanation upon this subject. Mr. Butt
was extremely indignant at suspicions being thrown out respecting him,
he abused those who had libelled and slandered him, and threatened
prosecution, a threat whi