_Q._ Have you ever acted as a Broker?
_A._ No, never.
_Q._ Your transactions in the Stocks have been entirely on your own account?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Buying and selling Stock upon your own account?
_A._ The fact is, I held some Omnium.
_Q._ And sold it again?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ About what time?
_A._ I bought it before that time.
_Q._ When was it sold?
_A._ Some days after this transaction.
_Q._ You were in this room twice, I think you said?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ When you first went down, you did not find your company acceptable?
_A._ The gentleman begged I would leave him, and I did so.
_Q._ Upon your oath, how long were you in the room at that time?
_A._ Not more than a minute.
_Q._ It might be less; you went immediately on his requesting you?
_A._ Yes, as soon as possible.
_Q._ The second time, you stated to my learned friend, you left the room immediately after you went in,--how long were you then?
_A._ I suppose a minute; I went up to the table and back again.
_Q._ You did not see him do any thing, but write a letter?
_A._ No.
_Q._ Had he his great coat and cap on, all the time you were with him?
_A._ Yes, I did not see him without them.
_Q._ It was a slouch cap we have heard it described?
_A._ No, it was not; it was a cap without any leaf at all to it.
_Q._ Coming over the forehead?
_A._ No, it fitted the head tight, but had neither a leaf or any thing else to it.
_Q._ What might be your business at Dover at that time?
_A._ I went down for the purpose of getting information.
_Q._ Was that for the benefit of the Irish Charitable Society?
_A._ No, certainly not.
_Q._ If it is not impertinent, for whose benefit was it?
_A._ One purpose was to send information to a newspaper.
_Q._ Another purpose, to send information to whom?
_A._ If any thing happened, such as the arrival of the preliminaries of a treaty of peace, which was expected, I should have come to London immediately.
_Q._ You would have gone to the Stock Exchange with it?
_A._ No, I should not, I have no connexion with the Stock Exchange.
_Q._ Upon your oath, you would not have communicated it to the Stock Exchange?
_A._ I should not.
_Q._ It was by Mr. Oakes"s desire, you say, that you went to Newgate,--was it by his desire you went to Dover?
_A._ It was not.
_Q._ Did he know of your going to Dover?
_A._ He did not.
_Q._ By whose desire did you go down?
_A._ By desire of a friend of a mine.
_Q._ Who was that person?
_A._ He was a friend of mine.