s, you will observe, evidence
criminally only as against himself; because what he _confesses_, is not
evidence to affect others. What he _does_, may affect others as parties
to the conspiracy; but what he _says_ cannot affect others; "that it was
only biting the biters, or in other words, a hoax upon the Stock
Exchange; and that by going down to Dartford, Folkestone or Dover, I
should receive instructions." So that in his communications, Dover is
mixed with Dartford, as the probable destination to which the parties to
this business might be sent; "that it was necessary to have for himself
and me, two dresses of French officers;" so that dresses similar to that
in which the Dover plan was executed, were in his contemplation. "I
there stopped him, and asked him whether he really meant to be employed
in this transaction; to which he replied, certainly; and that I should
be in the first place remunerated, and ultimately have a fortune made
me: I replied with indignation, that I would as soon be concerned in a
highway robbery; that I thought he had known me better; I expressed
myself rather loudly, as offended at it; he endeavoured to hush me,
saying, hush! that we might be overheard. He took me up Cornhill, where
I left him; I told him if he would go with me to another coffee-house, I
would introduce him to a person who, though I would not undertake the
business, might do it. I took him there; it was the Jamaica
coffee-house; there was a young man there, to whom I was about to
introduce him; but he turned round suddenly, and I did not: upon M'Rae
returning, he asked me whether I would not give him in writing some
French sentences, sentences such as Vive le Roi, Vive les Bourbons, Vive
Louis Dix huit; I gave him those terms in writing;" so that he might
play off those terms, to assist in the prosecution of this business. A
letter is then shewn to the witness; he says "this is the letter I
received from M'Rae; it is his hand writing." The letter is in these
terms, "Mr. Vinn, Please to meet me at the Carolina coffee-house, about
eleven to-morrow, upon very particular business, yours," so and so.

On his cross-examination, he says, "I am an accountant; I have been
acquainted with M'Rae five years and a half. I never bought and sold as
a broker; I had been in business myself; there was no person to hear the
conversation I have stated. I communicated this at the Stock Exchange to
Mr. Rothery, and mentioned it publickly on the 15th