Q. Was it all bought or paid for, or on account?
A. I decline answering that question.
Q. With respect to the Consols had any of them been paid for or transferred?
A. I had no Consol account.
Mr. Richardson. I will state to your Lordship the object I have in that; I submit it is incumbent upon the prosecutors to prove in support of the allegations of their indictment, which charge a conspiracy for the purpose of enabling Mr. Cochrane Johnstone and the other gentlemen, to sell divers large sums of Government Securities, and so on, that they had an interest in those Government Securities.
Lord Ellenborough. That applies only to the two first counts.
Mr. Gurney. If I leave my case imperfect, my learned friends will take advantage of it.
Lord Ellenborough. It does not apply to the third count, certainly there is a particularity which is quite unnecessary in the others; it states that by certain devices and contrivances they endeavoured to raise the price of the funds, to the prejudice of His Majesty's subjects, to an undue elevation, and so on, there is enough to let in the general evidence.
Mr. Gurney. And there is enough in the first count, independently of the sales.