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.