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&c. did conspire, &c. to make and propagate, and cause,
and procure to be made and propagated unto and amongst divers
subjects, &c. a certain false report and rumour, that a Peace would then
be soon made between our said Lord the King, his subjects, and the
people of France, and thereby to occasion a temporary rise and increase
in the prices of the public Government Funds, &c. and to injure and
aggrieve all his Majesty's subjects who should contract for, and also all
the liege subjects, &c. who should purchase any part or parts, or share
or shares of and in the said public Government Funds, &c. during such
last mentioned temporary rise and increase in the prices thereof, to the
evil example, &c.
[Seventh Count.]--That the Defendants, unlawfully contriving, &c. for
their own lucre and gain, to injure and aggrieve divers of the liege
subjects of our said Lord the King, on the said 19th February,
unlawfully, &c. did conspire, &c. by divers false and subtle arts,
devices, contrivances, representations, reports, and rumours, to
occasion without just and true cause, a rise and increase in the prices of
the public Government Funds, &c. and thereby to injure and aggrieve
all his Majesty's liege subjects who should contract for, and also all his
Majesty's liege subjects who should purchase any part or parts, share or
shares of and in the said public Government funds, &c. during such last
mentioned rise and increase in the prices thereof, to the evil example,
&c.
[Eighth Count.]--That the Defendants unlawfully, &c. contriving to
injure and aggrieve divers of the liege subjects of our said Lord the
King, on the 19th February unlawfully, &c. did conspire, &c. by divers
false and subtle arts, devices, contrivances, representations, reports
and rumours, to induce, cause and occasion, divers and very many of
the liege subjects of our said Lord the King, to suppose and believe,
without true and just cause, that a peace would soon be made between
our said Lord the King and his subjects, and the people of France, to
the great and manifest injury of divers and very many of the liege
subjects of our said Lord the King, to the evil example, &c.
Plea--NOT GUILTY.

The Indictment was removed into the Court of King's Bench, at the
instance of the Prosecutors, in Easter Term.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, Wednesday, 8th June,
1814.
Before the Right Hon. LORD ELLENBOROUGH.
Counsel for the Prosecution. Mr. GURNEY, Mr. BOLLAND, Mr.
ADOLPHUS.
Solicitors. Messrs. CROWDER, LAVIE, and GARTH.
Counsel for C. R. De Berenger. Mr. PARK, Mr. RICHARDSON.
Solicitor. Mr. GABRIEL TAHOURDIN.
Counsel for Lord Cochrane, The Hon. A. C. Johnstone, and R. G. Butt.
Mr. Serjeant BEST, Mr. TOPPING, Mr. SCARLETT, Mr.
BROUGHAM.
Solicitors for Lord Cochrane. Messrs. FARRER and ATKINSON.
Solicitors for the Hon. A. C. Johnstone, and R. G. Butt. Messrs.
BRUNDRETT, WAINWRIGHT, and SPINKS.
Counsel for R. Sandom, J. P. Holloway, and Henry Lyte. Mr. Serjeant
PELL, Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS, Mr. DENMAN.
Solicitor. Mr. YOUNG.
Counsel for Alexander M'Rae. Mr. ALLEY.
Solicitor. Mr. TWYNAM.
THE JURY.
Thomas Brown, Church-row, Aldgate. } Henry Septimus Wollaston,

Devonshire-street. } George Spedding, Upper Thames-street. } George
Miles, Gracechurch-street. } John Parker, Broad-street. } Lewis Loyd,
Lothbury. } John Peter Robinson, Austin Friars. } Merchants. John
Hodgson, New Broad-street. } Thomas Wilson Hetherington,
Nicholas-lane. } Richard Hall, Lawrence-lane. } Richard Cheesewright,
King-street. } John Green, Suffolk-lane. }

The Indictment was opened by Mr. ADOLPHUS.
Mr. GURNEY.
May it please your Lordship.
Gentlemen of the Jury.
It is my duty, as Counsel for this Prosecution, to state to you the facts
which I shall have to lay before you, and to apply those facts to the
several Defendants, and to the Charges contained in the Indictment,
which has been opened by my learned Friend; and, Gentlemen, I am
sure that it is unnecessary for me to request that you will dismiss from
your minds every thing that you may have heard upon this subject
before you entered that Box. It is one of the circumstances which
necessarily attends a free press, that many cases which come under the
consideration of a Court of Justice, shall previously have undergone
some public discussion; without blame to any one, that will sometimes
occur from the nature and publicity of the case itself. It does also
sometimes occur, that they who are accused, industriously circulate
matters which they consider as useful to their defence; and even on the
very eve of trial, force them into public notice. If any thing has fallen
under your observation, either on the one side or the other, I intreat you
to lay it totally aside; to come to the consideration of this subject with
cool, dispassionate, unprejudiced, unprepossessed minds, to attend to
the evidence that