He had been ordered by the Commissioners of the Excise to pay ten thousand pounds into the Exchequer for the public service.

He had in his hands, as cashier, more than double that sum in good milled silver.
With some of this money he bought Exchequer Bills which were then at a considerable discount; he paid those bills in; and he pocketed the discount, which amounted to about four hundred pounds.

Nor was this all.

In order to make it appear that the depreciated paper, which he had fraudulently substituted for silver, had been received by him in payment of taxes, he had employed a knavish Jew to forge endorsements of names, some real and some imaginary.

This scandalous story, wrung out of his own lips, was heard by the opposition with consternation and shame, by the ministers and their friends with vindictive exultation.