HC Deb 22 March 1814 vol 27 c339
The Hon. Cochrane Johnstone

rose, from a sense of what was due to his own character, and more especially as a member of that House, to contradict certain statements which had appeared in the public prints, implicating him in an imposition that had lately been practised in the money market. For the present, he should content himself with solemnly declaring, that those statements were utterly unfounded; and that he had no hand in, and no knowledge of, the fraudulent transaction in question. It was his intention, in a few days, to publish a statement which would be found fully to confirm the declaration that he now solemnly made to the House.