A. I believe it was; but the subject of the communication of M'Rae was so little attended to by the Committee, that it never entered their heads that any such sum should be paid.
Q. Was there any letter, or any writing of Mr. Holloway's produced at the time?
A. I really cannot fix my memory.
Q. Have you any recollection of any letter of his having been produced at the time?
A. Certainly none that I can recollect.
Q. Do you not know that Mr. Holloway had written a letter to the Committee of the Stock Exchange upon this business?
A. I really do not know it; it may possibly have been.
Cross-examined by Mr. Park.
Q. This person Holloway was asked whether he had any connection with Lord Cochrane, Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, and Mr. Butt, and he denied it?