w long Mr.
Sandom first went there, or how long he continued there, but far from
Sandom's being a prisoner in that gaol during the time when Mr. De
Berenger was confined there, my Lord will find upon his notes, as given
by a person of the name of Foxall, that Sandom had lived at Northfleet
for nine months before he sent for the chaise on the 21st of February.
You observe therefore, gentlemen, that there is not the slightest reason
to believe, as far as the evidence extends, that either Mr. Sandom, Mr.
Holloway, or Mr. Lyte, had any knowledge or acquaintance with the other
defendants.

But, Gentlemen, I will mention another circumstance, which puts that out
of all doubt:--I allude to the confession of Mr. Holloway, a confession
made in the presence of Mr. Lyte, and with his concurrence. He admitted
that he had used means for the purpose of inducing a persuasion that a
revolution had taken place in France, which unquestionably at that time
was not true. How stands the circumstance? There was a person of the
name of M'Rae, who was spoken to by Vinn, the first witness called by
Mr. Gurney to this part of the transaction. Vinn told a most
extraordinary story, and I will venture to say, that with respect to Mr.
Vinn, if the case of all the defendants had stood upon the testimony of
such a man as that, no human being, who had been accustomed to watch the
manners and the terms which witnesses use in courts of justice, could
have believed him for a moment. His story was this.--That on the 15th of
February, M'Rae met him at the Carolina coffee house, and he proposed to
him to frame a conspiracy for the purpose of raising the funds; and Vinn
asked him if there was any moral turpitude in the transaction. No human
being could doubt for a moment, that such a transaction would be deep in
moral turpitude. He says, that he told him he would as soon engage in a
highway robbery, as in such a transaction; and then immediately he told
him, that though he would not himself, he could find somebody else who
would engage in that dirty office. Can any human being believe such a
story as this? What passed between him and M'Rae upon that occasion, I
am unacquainted with; but I know enough of your sober judgment, to be
sure of this, that no conversation which Vinn states to have taken place
between M'Rae and him, when Holloway, Sandom and Lyte, were not present,
will be by you permitted to affect their interests.

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