Q. How soon did you communicate this to the Stock Exchange?
A. I communicated it within ten minutes afterwards on that day.
Q. After the thing had been publicly known?
A. No, I went immediately on this application being made and promulgated it to Mr. Rothery, of the Atlas Printing-Office, in Houndsditch; I afterwards went to a house in Clement's lane, where I promulgated it to thirteen or fourteen different persons, and I made it public daily in all the companies I went into.
Q. Was that before this happened?
A. It was on the 15th I made public, not the name of M'Rae, but that such a thing had been offered to me, which I refused with indignity.
Q. Some of these gentlemen are here as witnesses to-day I suppose?
A. I did not think it necessary, but I am perfectly willing that they should be called, I have seen two of them in Court and probably they may be so now.
Lord Ellenborough. This is merely a meditated something if you think it worth while to pursue it you may.
Mr. Alley. He only says that it rests upon his testimony, that was all I wanted to know—you gave him two bits of French to assist him however?