rms, &c. unlawfully &c. did
conspire &c. together to make and propagate, and to cause and procure to
be made and propagated, a false report and rumour, that the French had
then lately been beaten in battle, and that said Napoleon Bonaparte was
killed, and that the Allies of our said Lord the King were then in
Paris.

And that they, the _Defendants_, would by such last mentioned false
report and rumour induce the subjects, &c. to suppose and believe that a
peace would soon be made, and occasion an increase and rise in the
prices of the public government funds, &c.

And that _Sir Thomas Cochrane_, _Andrew Cochrane Johnstone_, _Richard
Gathorne Butt_, and _John Peter Holloway_, respectively, should then
sell and cause, &c. to be sold for them respectively, to divers of the
liege subjects of our said Lord the King, divers other large parts and
shares of and in the said government funds, &c. at higher and greater
prices than said parts and shares would otherwise sell for, with a
wicked and fraudulent intention to thereby cheat and defraud the said
liege subjects, &c. of divers large sums of money.

And that on the said 21st of February the _Defendants_, in pursuance of
said conspiracy, &c. unlawfully, &c. did cause and procure divers false
reports and rumours to be made, spread, and circulated unto and amongst
many of the liege subjects, &c. in certain parts of the counties of Kent
and Surry, to wit at Dover in the said county of Kent, and in and along
and near unto the King's common highway leading from Dover aforesaid to
the said City of London, and also in the said City of London and parts
adjacent thereto, that the French had then lately been beaten in battle,
and that the said Napoleon Bonaparte was killed, and that the Allies of
our said Lord the King were then in Paris. And that a peace between our
said Lord the King and his subjects, and the said people of France would
soon be made, with intention thereby to occasion an increase and rise in
the said funds, &c. in order and for the purpose that the said _Sir
Thomas Cochrane_, _Andrew Cochrane Johnstone_, _Richard Gathorne Butt_,
and _John Peter Holloway_, respectively, should then sell and cause and
procure to be sold for them respectively to divers liege subjects, &c.
divers other large parts and shares of and in the said public government
funds, &c. at higher and greater prices than they would otherwise sell
for, with a wicked and fraudulent intention to thereby c