justice, and justice only; and
to your Lordships justice they commit these Defendants.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Let all the Defendants stand committed, and be
brought up to-morrow morning to receive the Judgment of the Court.

Court of King's Bench.

_Tuesday, June 21, 1814._

_Charles Random De Berenger, Lord Cochrane, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph
Sandom, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte were brought up pursuant to
the order of the Court to receive judgment._

MR. JUSTICE LE BLANC.

The six defendants, whose names have been now called, are to receive the
judgment of the court, in consequence of a conviction upon an indictment
for a conspiracy; that indictment, and the evidence which had been given
upon the trial, on which trial the jury pronounced the several
defendants guilty, was more particularly stated to the court yesterday,
in the course of the discussion which took place. The sum of the offence
charged in the indictment was, that these six defendants, together with
two other persons, who do not now appear to abide the judgment of the
law, had conspired together, by spreading false rumours and reports in
different places, to occasion a rise in the price of the public funds of
this country, on a particular day, and thereby to injure all those
subjects who might purchase stock on that particular day; that was the
sum of the charge contained in the several counts of the indictment on
which the defendants were found guilty.

I will shortly advert to the circumstances of the case as they appeared
in evidence. From that evidence it appeared, that some of the defendants
had been, for a short time previous to the time when this conspiracy was
put into execution, (namely the 21st of February,) largely speculating
in the public funds of the country, and that at that time three of the
defendants who now appear before the court, together with one of the
defendants who does not appear, were either holders of stock, or persons
who had contracted for the purchase of stock, to a very considerable
amount. It appears, that on the 19th of February, which was on a
Saturday, a person, not expressly spoken to by the witness, had
purchased of a military accoutrement-maker in this town the dress, or at
least part of the dress, and accoutrements, of a foreign officer,
stating at that time, that it was designed for a person who was to
appear in the character of a foreign officer, and that on the same day
another person who