to impeach _all_ the parties who were concerned in the conspiracy. Did
he not, therefore, know the _whole_? When Mr. Cochrane Johnstone
proffered him as a person who should betray the _whole_, and inform
against _all_ the parties conspiring. Are we to be told, that Mr.
Cochrane Johnstone thought he knew a _part_ only instead of the _whole_?
Was Mr. Cochrane Johnstone meditating a second fraud upon the Stock
Exchange? Was he endeavouring to get another L.10,000 out of them, by
tendering them a witness, under pretence of his disclosing the _whole_,
when he had it in his power to disclose no more than they already knew?

Gentlemen, M'Rae has been surrendered by my learned friend Mr. Alley,
who never deserts his client if he can render him any service. No
advocate is more zealous for his clients; yet my learned friend felt the
proof given so irresistible, that he should be disgracing himself, if he
stood up to ask you to disbelieve that proof, or even to hesitate about
it, and he surrendered his client at once. Mr. M'Rae then stands here
confessedly guilty of this conspiracy. Mr. M'Rae, who on the 15th of
February had been proposing to Vinn the same plot, which was executed by
De Berenger on the 21st. You find his companions in the post chaise were
Sandom and Lyte, and their employer, by his own acknowledgment, the
defendant Holloway. What can you wish more to prove that they were all
engaged in this transaction? Mr. Serjeant Pell says, you must take
Holloway's confession altogether; and because he declares, that he was
not concerned with the Cochranes and Butt, you are to take that to be
the fact.--Gentlemen, I do not assent to that doctrine, that when a
defendant makes a confession, you are to take all the circumstances he
alleges in his own favor, at the same time that you take those which are
against him. Mr. Holloway came to propitiate the Stock Exchange
committee; he came to ask them not to prosecute him. He could not have
asked for that forbearance, if he had confessed a participation with De
Berenger and the Cochranes. The only chance he had, therefore, was to
deny his having any part in that plot, which, he knew, they were most
anxious to unravel. But taking the whole of the case together, I think
that it is impossible for you to entertain the smallest doubt upon this
part of the subject.

I come therefore, gentlemen, to the other part of the case, upon which,
after the great length of time which you have employed