THE
TRIAL
OF
CHARLES RANDOM DE BERENGER,
SIR THOMAS COCHRANE, COMMONLY CALLED
LORD COCHRANE,
THE HON. ANDREW COCHRANE JOHNSTONE,
RICHARD GATHORNE BUTT, RALPH SANDOM,
ALEXANDER M'RAE,
JOHN PETER HOLLOWAY, AND HENRY LYTE;
FOR
A CONSPIRACY,
IN THE
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL,
ON
Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814:
WITH THE
SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH:
TAKEN IN SHORT HAND BY
WILLIAM BRODIE GURNEY,
Short Hand Writer to both Houses of Parliament.
London:
SOLD BY J. BUTTERWORTH AND SON, FLEET-STREET, AND
GALE, CURTIS AND FENNER, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1814.
[Entered at Stationer's Hall.]
H. TEAPE, PRINTER, TOWER-HILL, LONDON.
THE
TRIAL
OF
CHARLES RANDOM DE BERENGER,
AND OTHERS.
On the 20th of April, 1814, the Grand Jury for the City of London, atthe Sessions-House, in the Old Bailey, returned a True Bill, which setforth:
[First Count.]—That at the times of committing the several offencesin this Indictment mentioned, there was, and for a long time before, towit, two years and upwards, had been an open and public war between ourLord the King and his Allies, and the then ruler of France, to wit,Napoleon Bonaparte, and the people of France:
And that Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonlycalled Lord Cochrane, Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard GathorneButt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, andHenry Lyte, supposing and believing, that false reports and rumours ofthe death of said Napoleon Bonaparte, and of disasters and losses havingrecently occurred and happened to the said people of France, wouldinduce the subjects of our said Lord the King to suppose and believe,that a peace between our said Lord the King and his subjects, and the[Pg 4]said people of France would soon be made, and that an increase and risein the Government Funds and Government Securities of this Kingdom, wouldbe occasioned thereby. And unlawfully, &c. intending to injure andaggrieve the subjects of our said Lord the King, who should makepurchases of and in said Funds, &c. on the 19th February, inFifty-fourth year of the Reign of our said Lord the King, at the parishof St. Bartholomew, by the Exchange, in the Ward of Broad-street, inLondon aforesaid, unlawfully, &c. did conspire, &c. to make andpropagate, and to cause, &c. to be made and propagated, a false reportand rumour, that the French had been then lately beaten in battle, andthat said Napoleon Bonaparte was killed, and that the Allies of our saidLord the King were in Paris.
And that they, the Defendants, would thereby induce the subjects ofour said Lord the King to suppose and believe, that a peace would soonbe made between our said Lord the King and the said people of France,and occasion an increase, &c. of the prices of the Government Funds, &c.
And that Defendants, Sir Thomas Cochrane Johnstone, Richard GathorneButt, and John Peter Holloway, respectively, should then sell, andcause, &c. to be sold for them, to divers liege subjects, &c. diverslarge parts, and shares in said Funds, &c. at higher and greater pricesthan said parts and shares of and in said Funds, &c. would otherwisesell for, with a wicked and fraudulent intention t