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issue. I can only, my Lords, accuse . myself of pee fault, if it can be so called, that of Twit* ion generous and unguarded upon money affairs. I Shall not in- • trude myself any further upae your Lordships' time, only assuring you, that the magnitude of /Di concerns in the funds, Upon which so much stresahas been laid, was not, according to 'my calculation, any thing,e3a traordinary, neither was the sum I iield on the 21st February, . an act of premeditation—my concerns being.. as extensive before that period as at that time, and iris prealt upon that day, which has been se ::md; exaggerated, was only ,alO insteadabf ae3,000 as • stated by the Counsel for the prosecution. Whatever your-Lot dship.' decision may be respeeting myself, I shall bow with submission, fueling conscious of my innocence cf the charge upon 'winch I have b.en found guilty." On the part of Mr. De Berenger,"ati affidavit was pm in, in a :rich he urged his loyalty for the last six teen years to the British Government, during which time he had acted as a volunteer in their service, without reward of any kind; that he had lost a patri monial fortune of 413,000 by the loyal adherence of his father to the British Government during the Ame rican Rebellion, &c. &c. • Mr.' Pank and Mr. Riccannson then addressed the Court in mitiaation of punishment; so far as he was coneetned, stating, that he had already suffered up wards of two n.onths confinement in Newgate. ' • Mr. Serjeant PELL; on the part of the other three, . delendants,who now appeared, 'addressed the Court, observing, that he had a difficult duty to perform; Holloway and.layte having already mule a direct confession ref their guilt ; and he _had no hesitation, onahe part of Sandon, in stating, that he oncurred with them in that confession. The only point he had attempted to urge :it the trial was, that they were nnconnected with the other part • of the conspiracy which . had. proceeded from Dover to London.— He . ..could not now, after the verdict of the Jury, in .sist even on this point. He admitted that it was a :strange. circumstance, that _Mr. Cochrane Johnstone .shoeld, have written to the Stock Excliange.COmmit. tee on theesubject of Mr. M'Rae's offer to give infor ,riatiii as to the whole fraud, if a large sum was paid to illitra; and he also admitted, that.it was a strange co ncidence, that both chaises should find their way teethe Marsh Gate. The circumstance nf the volun tay confession of Honor; ay, with a view to save she Gentlemen of the Stock Exchange from unneces sary espcnce, and the confession of Lyte, also made with the same view, would, he trusted.operate as no small mitigation of punishment which they might otherwise have expected to receive. He did not pre sume to say, that they made the confession of their guilt under any promise of forgiveness or mercy ; but they would, unquestionably, have .been rather reluctant to make such confession, had they been aware, that that would be the only evidence against them, and that they were to expecane mercy., . San. - don had in like. manner conlesseJ guilt; and, though the se three defendants had sua:ai coca guilty of a great misdemeanour, they had surely 'rtr a e they could do to. save troeble and• expense to Lae prosecutors. Mr. Wietfaxas and Isla. DaNalaw followed on the same side. .• Mr: GURNEY, on the part of the prosecution, ns reference had been made to the rank and situation in life, of at least. one of the defendants on the floor, could not refrain from expressing the feeling of sur prise and shame which he felt, at the lamentable spectacle which. had this. day been.exhibited before their Lordships. . It must, however, have the effect of holding out• a salutary lesson to others; shewirg us, as it most forcibly did, that conspiracy, like misery, ;mkt' us acquainted a ith strange companions. He agreed that the case of Holloway -and Lyte was the most entitled to consideration ; they bad spee dily become sensible of their improper• conduct, and had made a discovery of their guilt ; Sandon made no discovery, but still he did not aggravate his offence, as the other defendants bad done, by filing affidavits, in which they professod their innocence.--, ~-De Berenger, it now appeared, was the hired and paid agent of Lord Cochrane, Mr. Cochrane John stone, .and Mr. Butt. He had, to avoid detection, endeavoured' to escape from justice, and when sectir ed, had attempted to screen himself by perjeired wit. siesses, thereby occasioning this additional disedvan . urge, gat where there was the hardihood to-sweat there would also be found the credulity to believe.— as to the Defendant, Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, the letters produced in his defence on the trial were either fabricated since the transaction referred to, or if they wi re actuuily written of the dates they bore, they wets equally a fraud or fabrication. In the one case they were a fabrication, ex port farm ; in the • other case it only sheered a more premeditated system of frand and deception,inasmuch as it sheeved, that at the lime the conspiracy was entered into the defendant had been providing a false.and artificial defence, in antici. pm ion of any prosecution which might follow detection. still more d•saerate, however, was the attempt made on the part of, De Berenger, to shew that he was in London within so short a time of the perpetration of the fraud at Dover, that it was impossible he could have beeri tl.e perpetrator of that fraud. "fhe witnesses who had been sn trained, however, and the persons by whom they had been suborned, forgot the case which they had to meet. In the case in question, recegni. Rico of eounteneace had been carried to a. loath its bad neverbi:fave witnessed; and thew was not a single person call-don to point out the pet itg • of the impostor who did ant single tint De Berengerthe moment hecast his eyes upon his caintenance. Not only so, but he had delivered him from hand to hand, till he at length lodged h!rn in the hearse of Lord Cochrane, into which lowa 3 net pretended that any other person answering -o.descrii.tinii had meted on . .the day in question. als7then they had , the affidieit of Lord Cochrane. which he Lail Chosen to repeat to-day. On this he stoulcletoly , retlhat, that it Meet appear strange that his Learned Feslittfl whoa had the tonthict of his Lord-. ship's defence od the tr al, should have seen a wit rea4 relied who, itk was infortned, could 'rose the colour if the coat *orn by Dc kerenger on the day itaqueition to be green, e.nd yet that he should be 'afraid to. pu . ithaa qeestion to him ; not only so, but tha: he should tort call them. The only conclusion could efune to on so unaccountable a proceeding teat• tbis, t' at his Learned Friend was satisfied, after, Atratild nee that lied been 'adduced, particularly that eteray, that if all the servants in Lbrd .Cochrane's Anus had mons that the coat was .green no persost would have beli,:ved tkern. • Allusion h ia.trzcn made to the services of Lord Cochrane: those services had been' neither forgotten nor unrewarded by his Sovereign. He had been .raised to a high tank in his profession, and he had been graced with a badge of dittinction which was understood to add lustre to any rank. He ought to have recollected, however, that those marks of distinction, as they were the rewards for his past, ought also to have operated as inccntives to his future conduct. He had also the, high honour of being the ,Representative in Parliament of that city in the Hall of.which they were now sitting—a trust which, if it did not call on him to watch with attention the con duct of others, at all events called on him to attend scrupulously to the purity of his own. Instead of all this, however, he is seen pfactising a fraud on the funds of the country; palming the fabricated isle can that very Beard by whom he h i mself was employed, and making a brother Officer the organ of publishing this fabrication to the public.— All this too cme, not from any impetuous or youth ful ,folly or feeling, but to gratify 2 cold calculating' desire of gain : and to this did he add the aggravated guilt of an affidavit, in which he was morally per jured, without running the risk of the punishment annexed to the crime of legal perjury. As to the only other defendant, Mr. Butt, he had also been con victed of this offence, which, from what had fallen Frani . him to-day, it appeared was still unrepented of. Mr. BOtt.aup and Mr. ADOLPHUS, on the same side, did not feel it Accessary or becoming to say one word. _ _ _ Lord ELLENisonotYou ordered, that Mr. De.Beren ger should be remanded to Newgate, whence he had been brought ; that the other defend Ants should stand committed to the custody of the Marshal of the Mar shalsea of the Court; and that they shall all be brought up to receive the judgment of the Court to morrow morning. JUDGMENT ON THE DEFENDANTS. This monting, at at early hour, Lord Cochrahe, Charles Random De Berenger, Richard Buti,:lhomas Hol. loway; Ralph Sandon, and limy I..yie, the persons con victed of the fraud on the Stock Exchange, were brought into the Court of King's Bench, in the cus tody of the proper (takers. . • . 'Sir SIMON Li: liCA'Ne, and the other Judges, took their scats on the bench about half-pist ten o'clok, and the defendants, being then called upon by name, stood up, on the floor of the Cow- . . Sir &slog LEBLANT then addressed thordefendants in an impressive speech. He reminded them that grey had a fur ancl_fall trial, and recapitulated the evi dence, expressing it to be .the •conyietion of his mind, and of_bi!; ?`:other Judg,:s, that the J'Ary were perfectly correct in tile iLfctence !they drew of the guilt of the whole el the defendants. His Loidship then dwelt upon heinousness of their offence, and dr.scrii-,,t1 the coaspiracy of which' they La,: I:eeit iu't'nd gutizr ot.e of the most het i ()us nature. It was n;rnecl i,gainst the property of thou. sands of unsuspeCting individuals, and was calcu lated upon the most cold-I.looded prilciplvs—for the unworthy purpose of overloading the already too fell coffers of rich and greedy men. Needy adventurers were resorted to as the agents to effect this fraudulent purpose, but like other cases of guilt, the enormity and the extent of the fraud at tempted, brought the means of its detection along with it. The conspiracy was conducted with all the .cun ning, artifice, and trick requisite in the opinion of the defendants to effect their criminal purpose, and immense profits to them would have been the conse quence. His Lordship reprobated, in strong terms, the attempts made by certain of the defendants to blind fold and mislead the public by false evidence subse quent to the commission of the principal fraud, 4nd animadverted, in a particular manner, on the attempt of Berenger to prove an alibi as heightening his guilt. The law had wisely attached perpetual infamy to "all persons convicted of a conspiracy, and in the pre sent instance those who administered justice would corrvipce the world that the law is no respecter of persons. His Lordship then passed the Sentence of the Court, which was, that Lord Cochrane, Richard Butt, and Charles De Berenger, should stand for one hour in the Pillory opposite the Steck Exchange, and be impribened for .Twelve Calendar Months in the King's Ecnch ; that Lord Cochrane and R. Butt sfaou . ld also pay a fine of Ore Thousand pounds each to the King. Thomas Holloway, Ralph Sandon, and Henry Lytr, were also sentenced to Twelve Months imprisonment in the same prison, and Hol loway to pay - 4 line of Five Hundred Pounds. The defendants were then led out of Court by the Officers. The crowd - was immense. Lord Cochrane was much affected, and seemed to meet with great commiseration. • . LEEWARD ISLAND FLEET.— A letter from Greenock, of the 17th instant, says—. 4 We are happy to announce the safe arrival of this valuable Fleet. Never, we be. lieve, were there so Many foreign arrivals in the Clyde iganycase day as took place yesterday." FAkiIOU J E}B. Arri ved the Walsingham .Packes,'lrom Surinam, with mails, in 28 days. The Lady Arabella Packet, with mails for Lisbon, and the Windsrw Castle Packet, for the West Indies, are gone into the LoailitWind W. Portmstotrtii; kat ft.—Arrived his Majesty's ships San Domingo, Admiral Foam ; IMpregnahle, Mzgnificent, Bedford, Stirling Castle, Norge, Ban terer, Tisiphone, Bittern, Chatham, and Surly cutter, from Cherborgh.—Wind Westerly. DEAL, Jut.z2o.—Arrived shis morning, and sailed for the River, the Glentanmer, Lattin, from Ma deira; and Haren, LTC!, ER, from. Cadiz; and re main, 'Warren, Soffolk, Malabar, ttlirsert and Ann, Toornat and Mary, Eliza, PrOfii*Aft, and Lord Melville, transports; from HarfrichiNirith the Pied. monsese Legirn, :for -Santini*: • • • . . . THE' g‘rIi;NIING STAR. N DON. TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1814. PRICP: OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Reduced 890 —Cons. for atc. 7111-4 peg Ct. ssif Omnium, pre.—.R.. l l Lung Anus. 16 13-i6ths lculis Boas, Bs. 9s. pm—Exchequer Bills, par, 2s. pr. Every thing respecting the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE of WALES—the idol of the nation—excites great and general interest. It had been reported for some days that the expected marriage would nut take place we did not mention it for fear of mistake ; but the matter was last night noticed in the Hulse of Com mons. Dispatches were this morning received from Sir CHARLES STEWART, our Minister, at Paris. The Duke of WELLINGTON had returned to Paris from Madrid. We have given some farther extratts from New- England Papers, of which we have now received a series to the 22d inst. The Anti-gallican Papers pre sent many well-written articles against the war faction. The success of the Allies againt MADISON'S Corsican friend has given much point to their writing, and their exultation comes nn way shcrt of that which has been so generally expressed throughout the Old World. This morning we received Paris Papers to the 19th instant. It now appears that the report of the return of General BERTRAND from Elba was a mistake, ori ginating in the arrival of another Officer of the same name. • The intelligence respecting France given in these papers, is comparatively uninteresting : the accounts from Spain, however, deserve notice. A kind of mania seems to have seized upon FERDINAND, which he manifests in the restoration of all the gothic ecde. siastical institutions. In a word, he undoes every thing effected by the Cortes, and Spain is to remaii: . in the same rate as in the dark ages. Should his 'plows intentions be fully realisde, Spain will remain the only country that bas got nothing in return for tl:c sacrifices of the last twenty. years. Count VAUGMAUD has been appointed Governor of Martinique by Louis. He was one of his faithful adherents while an exile in this country, and one of those who had a command in the (2niberoft expedition. • The remains of the old Scots Gnards of France have resumed their rank among the King's Body guards. The law to secure the Liberty of the Press, or ra ther to define its privileges, is in preparation. It is expected to be put upon some such footing as in this country. Tile Duke of WELLINGTON gave a grand Ball at Bourdeaux on the 14th. • All the fine spun speculations about substitutes for sugar in France have vanished into air. A public advertisement, by order of the King, for the sale of ell the implements employed in the public establish ment at Rambnuillet for the extraction of sugar from beet -root, has appeared in the Paris Papers. " PATO', JUNE 17. " It is nor true, ag seated in a certain Journal, that Gt•nr•ral Bertrand bas arrived dt Pans; he has no: quitted the I , le.rt Elba. The inibtake arobr from dir arrival al ad 015rer of t' • f. same name. " We stated yesterday, cupyinr irons at. :her .urnai. ..!sat prelarations were niakoig at Rheims for the Coro. Arian of his Majesty, we•uow know that loteroal was misin.ornol" "11 U MARI), JUNE 10. " Letters from Vienna of the nth itt , tant, announce ::.at the Empress Mara Luth•a is still at Schoeitbrim. She has received v)sits troll the na. st wl persons of the Court and city of Viet,na. EWE you tr per-. tis whom she brought with her from France rental' in her service, the others relutti to France. 'the rung Prince of Yuma, her son, erjoye the best health." " MADRID, JUNE .5. " Our Of Gazette contains the Lecree of t-e King rela tive to the re-estahli,hment of the religious communities of wo• men. In general, the prean.bles of these edicts recal too much Unfortunate times. Yesterday morning the EMPEROR left Pulteney Hotel in a private manner, and was in conversation in the street some time with the Earl of YARMOUTH, WHIOUL being discovered by he populace who were waiting to see him : he afterwards mounted his horse at the Mews, adjoining the Hotel, and proceeded- to the review in Hyde kark, attended by his Aides-de- Camp. '1 he Emperor of RUSSIA, accompanied by the Arch duchess ofOLDENßuitott, and the Countess of LIEVI,X, went into the Gallery of the House of Commons, titter the departure of the King of PRCUIA. Before his arrival the great body of the Members had left the House, and his Inwerial Majesty only heard a debate on the Irish Distillation Bill. The Royal Sovereigns did not dine with the Duke Of CAMBRIDGE, as , was expected. The EMPEROR and the GRAND Ductless dined together priv.itely at three o'clock, at the Pulteney Hotel • at ten they went to SVulrE's Fete, at Burlington WIDTZ'S GRAND l'sre.—This magnificent enter tainment took place last night : the interest which it excited in the fashionable world is without precedent. The company did not begin to assemble until a late l'hour ; but long before the first carriage had arrived, all-the streets in the vicinity were• crowded with peo pie, anxious to see them pass into this terrestrial pa radise. The first Five Numbers of if Voyage round Great Britain are just published by LONGMAN and CO. Con taining Views of Comhe-Martin—Lynmouth—llfr.t• combe—llfracombe from Hilsborough—Hartland Pier—and Cloven'', North Devon—the Land's End —the Long-ships Light-house off the Land's End— the entrance to Portreath—and Boscastle Pier, on time coast of Cornwall. The Voyage is written by Mr. RICHARD AITON, and illustrated with coloured Prints, engraved by Mr. WILLIAM DANset.i., from his own Drawings, made during the Vayage. It is ptblished in Monthly Numbers, etch Number con taining Two Plates, et:floured, with sixteen pages of Letter-press, price 10s. 04. 1',704 L4I.4f.IfIQN OF PLACL'. • A party of Horse Guards were drawn up abort the gate of St. James's Palace, where the Beadles and Consul)les, and all the Officers of the Ctty of Westminster, attended at half-past ten o'clock in the forenoon of yesterday. The Officers of Arms—Serleants at Arms, with their maces and collars—the Seijeant Trumpeev, with hi 3 mace and collar—the trumpets—drum-ma jor and drtims—and the Knight-Marshal arid tic men—asseMbkd in the Stable-Yard, S. James's ; and the Officers of Arms being Itabired in their respective tabards, and. mounted, the procession moved from thence to the Palace-gate in the followirg order Knight Miroias Mat two and two. . - • . • Knigla Marshal. • • 'Drum Major—Drums. 'T.lnipets. • Serjcart Trumpeter. Pursuivanta. • Serjents se S Heralds. / Serkants ct Arms. • Z Kings ot Arras. Artub• Being come before the gate, the senior Officer of Arms present (attended on his left hand . by the next in rank) read the Psoclamation ltlou'd; whereupnsi the procession inoved on to Charing. Cross in the fol ing order : Horse Guards to clear the way. Beadles t.t Weirminorr, two and two, Bareheaded, with Stares. Constables of W. stminster, to Me r.tannir. Hii,h Constable, with his Stall, on Horseback. • ()Stirs of the High Bailiff of Westminster; with white Wands, on Honiehaek. Clerk of the Wih Bailiff. High B - ”lir and Deputy Steward.' • Horse ;wards. • Knight's Marshal Men. two and two. Knight Marslaaf. Drum-Major.—llnuns. Trtuntiets. Serjeant Trumpeter. Porbuieants. St rjeants HHerald.Scrjeants A S rnlq. Klnr of Arum Sat Anna. Horse Guards.—Horsn Guards flanked the Procesbion. The multitude assembled to witness the spectacle at St. James's and Charing-cross was immense ; but the centre of attraction for those who were most anx. ious to witness the ceremony was Temple-bar. Here ' the crowd colleved was great beyon.. all. example. On . forrner occasions it has been customary to line the szreets ' , kith soldiers; but yesterday this pre - aution was diipereed with. The c nsequence was, from 11 in ti7e morning till 'the time at which the p r ocession passed, the streets near Temple-bar exhibited a scene of confusion perfectly 'indescribable. The constables exerted themselves gi eally to cle.ir the way, but it was impossible for thent effectually to repress the crowd. ist about twelve o'clock, a bar was placed across the road in front of the gates of Temple-bar, which were shortly alter closed. The LORD MAYOR arrived . in his state coach at a quarter before one, accompanied by the City Marshals, and preceded by French horns and clarionets. The gates were opened, and his Lordship passed through, turned, and shortly after came hick, and drew up near the Temple. He Tea mained sitting in his carriage for about an hour, when the procesSion not arriving, he accepted of an invita. tion which he had received from Child's banking. house, and adjourned thither to take some refresh ment. There he spent several hours. The crowd, in the mean time, continued to accumulate to such .degive, that it was with the ntmnst difficulty a de. uctiment of infantry which arrived in the afternooq could force their way through. A party of horse snldicrs came to the Bar, but were obliged. to retract their , ceps, make a short detour, and pass thtougk Chancery-lane into Fleet -street, in order to proceed to their ultimate destiUation. These, as well as the foot seldiers, went eastward, and did not at all draw up in Fleet -street, or at least iu that pan of it titarest Temple-bar. It was not till five o'clock that the LORD MAYOM was informed the procession was at hand. He im mediately left the house, where he had been enter, tained, and returned to the state coach. At seven minutes after five, one of tee officers at arms, whose arrival had been previously announced by the soand of trumpets, knocked at.the gates of ' t emple Being asked by the City Marshal from within-- a -, " Who comes there ?" he replied-66 The Officers of Arms, who demand entrance into the City, to publish his Majesty's Proclamation of Peace." The gates being opened, he was admitted, attended only by a trumpeter on horseback. He advanced to the codes of the LORD Mayon, and having bowed twice to his Lordship, presented a letter. The LoaD Marcus read it, ordered the gates to be opened, and clistnis*d the officer, who had no sooner returned,than the procesion began to move forward. The Horse Guards, Trumpeters and Heralds, as seen through the Bar, had a grand and interesting appearance. When the Heralds, who are most superbly attired, were seen apprnashing, the shouts of the vast assemblage burst forth v. itl, unrestrained energy and unaffected pleasure. The Heralds bowed as they passed the LORD Mayon, and proceeding to the end of Chancery-lane, the cavalcade there halted. The Heralds were here uncovered, and the Procla. oration was read. This ceremony, the renewed huzzas -of the crowd announced to be completed at twenty five minutes past five. The procession then moved on towards • Cheapside, the trumpets, kettle drums, &c. playing " GOD S ive the KING." Detachments of the Horse Guards, with trumpets and kettle-drums, (both horse and foot), preceded the Heralds or Officers at Arms. After the Mace bearers on horseback, the Loan Mayon, in the city state coach, tell into the procession, which was closed by a party of the Blues, followed by a long train of private Gentlemen on horseback. The Loan Mayors was greeted with three cheers, on his joining the cor tege, and the shouts of the multitude were often re. peated, while the cavalcade contin.,ed to advance. It moved on to the end of Wood -street, where the Cross 1.1 11 h : 7 : d i it g .uory b ath e l e e n ri t ax h sc e th r ta e inm r g e ee a : d a , formerly stood in Cheapside, and the Proclamation continued to p ti r le oc i e ' s mc sien hfill re a t t u i rn n ed w b a y s and tlie immed i ately eodfi'atGeiryaacectterhu,nehLsitlreetd.through Lombard. street. The trumpets sounded thrice, previous to. yea wheren and l t e h e P 14)C"SiMI BREAD.---No alteration in the price this week.— The Quartern Loaf as k.leven pence Three-farthings. This morning, at one o'clock, died, in the 65th year of his age, Mr. Srocgoa forty-four years Bookseller in Piccadilly. LONDON : Vrintral by Levet. him • ,•Pittett Viatery Published there, and at OW bear Uffice,Teurple Dar.,