For your Lordships must have observed that it is rare indeed, that, in a continued course of evil practices, any uniform method of proceeding will serve the purposes of the delinquent.

Innocence is plain, direct, and simple: guilt is a crooked, intricate, inconstant, and various thing.

The iniquitous job of to-day may be covered by specious reasons; but when the job of iniquity of to-morrow succeeds, the reasons that have colored the first crime may expose the second malversation.

The man of fraud falls into contradiction, prevarication, confusion.

This hastens, this facilitates, conviction.