, knowing and feeling that they had done wrong, with a
view to protect the Stock Exchange against giving that monstrous sum for
an imperfect discovery. Had Holloway or Lyte been concerned with any of
the other defendants on the record, I submit there is the strongest
reason to believe, that when he confessed his own guilt, he would not
have been backward in speaking of theirs. He was not aware of the effect
I am giving to his defence when he made it; and if he has done no more
than that which he has stated, I submit to you, under his Lordship's
correction, that you cannot find him guilty; and I submit to you, upon
the reasoning with which I commenced my address to you, that whatever
Sandom, Holloway and Lyte did, is not at all connected with what Du
Bourg, or the person so calling himself, did; that what they did is not
connected with what the other three defendants on the record are
supposed to have done; that there is not only no connexion proved
between the two, but as far as the evidence extends that connexion is
negatived; and then I submit to you, if you are of that opinion, these
persons must be acquitted; because, as I apprehend, two distinct
conspiracies included in one count, both being different offences,
cannot be permitted to be proved in a court of justice. Crimes must be
kept separate; persons must know what the charge is, on which they are
called upon to defend themselves, and miserable would be the situation
of persons charged with the commission of crimes, if one crime was
connected with another totally distinct and separate from it, and both
were brought under one and the same charge, to unite in the same
defence.

Gentlemen, I have stated to you, that the gentlemen for whom I appear
are in a very humble situation in life. Mr. Holloway is a wine merchant,
Mr. Lyte was formerly an officer in a militia regiment, Mr. Sandom is a
private gentleman of small fortune;--they are none of them, by their
situation in life, apparently likely to be connected with any of the
other defendants upon the record. What is there that should lead you to
believe they are so? Mr. Holloway and Mr. Lyte stand under a sufficient
load of guilt already; they have admitted themselves guilty of what they
did on that day. Will you, therefore, because they admitted themselves
guilty of one part of the day's infamy, put upon them the infamy of the
whole? Will you do this, because the two plots happen to take place on
the same day? Can