ed and sixty thousand
pounds. These persons, therefore, were so involved, that ruin stared
them in the face, and when they were in this situation, they did as I
allege, and as I maintain I have proved by evidence perfectly
irresistible, engage in this conspiracy, to give this fraudulent rise to
the funds by this false news; and the moment the object had been
attained of the rise of the funds, that moment all the stock was sold,
and sold to the profit that I have proved. So much for these several
stock transactions, which supply the corrupt motive by which these
defendants were instigated to the commission of this crime.

Then, Gentlemen, we come to that which is a very important part, and
indeed a main part of this case, _the identity of Mr. De Berenger_; that
identity, including the question of hand-writing. Upon this subject we
have had, for the last two hours, the evidence which has nauseated every
man in Court; the evidence of the alibi, which no man living can
believe; in which no two witnesses agree; in which we have contradiction
after contradiction from every one of them. My learned friend, Mr. Park,
last night told us we should have the evidence of two watermen, who had
rowed Mr. De Berenger across the Thames, who knew his person perfectly
well, and who recollected the occurrence particularly, because it was
the first Sunday after the frost had broken, and the river became
navigable. I suppose the river is frozen again this morning as they are
not here. Gentlemen, the interval of the night has made the advisers or
manufacturers of this part of the case reflect upon it, and they have
brought, instead of the two watermen from the river, the Irish ostler
from Chelsea. Gentlemen, they who projected this alibi, did not attend
to one circumstance, which cannot fail to have struck you long ago,
namely; that this is a case perfectly unassailable by alibi. Let it be
supposed, that I had not identified Mr. De Berenger by the persons who
saw him at Dover; by the persons who saw him on the road; by those who
saw him get out of the chaise at the Marsh Gate, and get into a hackney
coach; that I had not identified his countenance by any one of them,
still his identity is established beyond all contradiction, for knowing
that an alibi would be attempted, I defeated it by anticipation. I take
up De Berenger at Dover as I would a bale of goods--I have delivered him
from hand to hand from Dover to London--I have delivered him into