Part 104

Q. What was the price?

A. 28-1/4.

Q. Have you given the account of this to Mr. Baily?

A. Yes I have.

Cross-examined by Mr. Brougham.

Q. You were partner with Mr. Fearn, Senior, Mr. Butts, broker, were not you?

A. Yes, formerly I was.

Q. Did you not apply to Mr. Butt, stating that you had a wife and family, and wishing him to give you some employment.

A. Mr. Butt had been known to me ten or twelve years, and known to Mr. Fearn, Senior, only as being one of my customers in the book line.

Q. Did you not apply to Mr. Butt yourself to ask him to serve you.

A. Not upon this occasion at all.

Q. Will you hear the question first, and then answer it. Did you never before this apply to Mr. Butt to give you some of his business?

A. Yes I did.

Q. And he did give you some of his business upon this day?

A. He did.

Cross-examined by Mr. Richardson.

Q. Was any of the Omnium bought for Mr. Butt, paid for?

A. I would rather decline answering that.

Mr. Francis Baily called again.

Examined by Mr. Gurney.

Q. These gentlemen have informed us that they have furnished you with the exact statements of all the purchases and sales; have you drawn out from their statements the purchases and sales, and the daily balances of each?

A. I have. It may be necessary to state, Mr. Richardson has not furnished me with a written account, but I have taken it down now from his own mouth.

Q. Have you from that made out a general statement of the several accounts containing the daily purchases, the daily sales, and the daily balances?

A. I have.

Q. For Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, Lord Cochrane, and Mr. Butt?

A. Yes.

The account was delivered in and read, as follows;--

====================================================================== | || | General Statement of A. Cochrane Johnstone's Omnium Account, || | from 8th to 21st Feb. 1814 || | || |-------------------------------------------------------------------|| | | through Fearn || through Hichens || |-------------------------------------------------------------------|| | | Daily | Daily | Daily || Daily | Daily | Daily || | |Purchases| Sales |Balances||Purchases| Sales |Balances|| |----------|---------|--------|--------||---------|--------|------- || |1814, Feb.| | | || | | || | 8 | 10,000 | | 10,000|| | | || | 9 | 47,000 | 10,000| 47,000|| 20,000 | | 20,000|| | 10 | 78,000 | 105,000| 20,000|| 150,000 | | 170,000|| | 11 | 115,000 | 35,000| 100,000|| 95,000 | | 265,000|| | 12 | | | 100,000|| | | 265,000|| | 14 | 96,500 | 100,000| 96,500|| 200,000 | | 465,000|| | 15 | 13,500 | | 110,000|| | | 465,000|| | 16 | 18,500 | 10,000| 118,500|| | 200,000| 265,000|| | 17 | 11,000 | 19,500| 110,000|| 50,000 | 115,000| 200,000|| | 18 | 38,000 | | 148,000|| 50,000 | | 250,000|| | 19 | | 18,000| 130,000|| | | 250,000|| | 21 | | 120,000| 10,000|| | 250,000| || ======================================================================