he
had a great coat of that colour (pointing to the grey coat produced by
Solomon); as he went, I observed to my wife, there goes our lodger, he
has a new great coat on; he did not come home again at all during that
day, that I saw or heard; I did not see or hear him the next morning
before nine; I go out at nine. I generally used to hear him before that
time walking about, or ringing for his servant. I made an observation
upon his servants going out on the Sunday at two; I do not think they
were at home _at four o'clock_, which was Mr. De Berenger's usual dinner
hour; the man servant always attended him when he dined, and the woman
dressed his dinner; he did not dine at home on that Sunday. A
conversation took place with the Smiths afterwards, respecting that
Sunday night." Now to be sure it is a most obvious thing, that if he
had been in town at that time, nothing could be so easy as to have
proved where he dined; and probably those who might have been called to
prove that fact, would have been persons of a better description than
Donithorne, Tragear, and the other persons called, to give an account of
him on that day.

On cross-examination he says, "I had nothing to do with his domestic
life. He made a loud rap at the door, and had few visitors. I am a
broker, and clerk of a broker, and out a considerable part of the day."

Gentlemen, the next evidence applies to the Northfleet part of the
transaction.

Mr. Vinn says, (and to be sure it is an odd story he tells); "in
consequence of a note left at my house, dated the 14th of February last,
I went to the Carolina coffee-house on the 15th, where I met Mr. M'Rae,
in company with an elderly gentleman; he desired me to sit down. I had
known M'Rae before for some years, he was standing near the door, and in
about seven or ten minutes, he came and joined me; he told me he had
known me a long time, and that he thought he had now an opportunity of
making my fortune; that he knew from the knowledge I had of languages, I
should have an opportunity of benefiting others and myself; I asked him
what the object was; he said not to travel abroad, but probably at home,
and that almost immediately; that it was a scheme that he had in
contemplation, to be employed by men of affluence and consequence, and
that no man was more competent than myself; he said there was no moral
turpitude in the business, but that it was practised daily by men of the
first consequence." What M'Rae says, i