_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. b.u.t.t, and he denied it?
_A._ He did.
_Q._ Did he not, in the same conversation, deny that he had any connection, not only with those persons, but De Berenger also?
_A._ Certainly.
_Q._ That you dropped?
_A._ Yes, I did not mean to drop it.
_Cross-examined by Mr. Alley._
_Q._ At the time this conversation pa.s.sed between you and Holloway, M"Rae was not there?
_A._ He was not.
_Q._ It was all in his absence?
_A._ It was in his absence, it was in Mr. Lavie"s office.
_Lord Ellenborough._ The evidence of course can operate only against Holloway and Lyte, who were there.
_Mr. Joseph Fearn sworn._
_Examined by Mr. Gurney._
_Q._ You are a stock broker?
_A._ I am.
_Q._ How long have you known Mr. b.u.t.t?
_A._ Several years.
_Q._ Were you introduced by him to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone and to Lord Cochrane.
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ In the month of February last, were you employed either by Mr.
b.u.t.t or Lord Cochrane, or Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, to make any purchases for them in the funds?
_A._ Yes, I was.
_Q._ At that time where was your office of business?
_A._ No. 10, Cornhill.
_Q._ Was it No. 10 or No. 86, about the 12th of February?
_A._ I believe it was No. 86.
_Q._ Had Mr. b.u.t.t an office?
_A._ He had somewhere about that time an office in Sweetings Alley.
_Q._ From the 12th of February to the 19th of February, did you see Mr.
b.u.t.t daily?
_A._ I think I did.
_Q._ At your office or at his?
_A._ Both.
_Q._ Did you generally see him alone, or in company with either of the other persons?
_A._ Frequently all three together.
_Q._ You mean Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, Lord Cochrane, and Mr. b.u.t.t?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ When you did business for Lord Cochrane, did you in all instances take orders from him or from any person for him?
_A._ Sometimes from him, and sometimes from Mr. b.u.t.t.
_Q._ After you had acted for him upon the orders of Mr. b.u.t.t, did he recognize those orders?
_A._ Always.