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whilst in Dover lie wrote a letter in that assumed name, addressed
and sent it to Admiral Foley, at Deal, imposing upon him and at-
tempt in 4 to make him an instrument in piopagatiog by the telegraph
to town the take news which be had spread at Dover; and it was
tioally in proof. that he stain queutly absconded, and that not only
the musties and bank-notes which he paid at Dover but also on his
way to London, were hack rotes mid monies winch had passed
through thcbands of Lord Cods: ane, Butt, and Cochrane Johnstone,
but that also the hank notes round in his possession, when la was ap.
reelteniled in Scotland, CllflVlVOntallg to escape out of the cocmtry,
were also bank notes which had been received by him from the same

yes sons.
With respect to the other defendants, C. Johnstone, Lard
£oehrane, and Butt, it was also in evidence that they we holders
of stock in the public fields to On immense amount, 501ne ore
f wh
tiwy purchased so late as the Saturd.sy before the fraud was put into
effect: and the false news having readied the stock Exchange at an
early port of the morniog,, it had the effeet of raising the fonds, of
Ishieli these three persons mailing theintelves, they immediately sold
the stock which they had on ham), thereby not only saving themselves
from considerable loss which must have otherwise occurred to them
on account of the real price of the funds just at that period previ-
ously, but also put a eousiderable sum into their respective pockets
by this contrivance. His Lordship then adverted to the minor part of
the conspiracy ; the under plot carried on by ilandem, liolsoway,
Light. and M' Rae, at Nor thileet, and thence to London, spreading
the same species of false intelligence that De Berenger door,
and tracing them from Northfleet and J)artford, acrd to London, and
to Lambeth, exactly where De Berenger had stopped likewise,
From all this the Learned in his comments, declared, that evi.
dence, manifest evidence, of plot, design, mid craft, was brought
home to every one of the defendarsts : all of whom were united in the
same conspiracy, three of them as principal) e And floe of them as
agents; the latter of whom, from their de-perate and embarrassed
affairs. were fitly chostn us instruments to put so base a contrivance
into execution.
The Learned Judge, then turning to Lord Cochrane, particularly
addressed himself to him, and observed, that it welt with pain he
noticed among the Defendants a person whose high rank, education,
attainments, birth, and the honourable distinction which had been
bestowed upon him by his Sovereign, and by a grateful people. for
Zaunonrable and heroic deeds performed. should be linked with a
banditti of depredators of the worst and (oiliest kind. But inas-
much as be did possess those distinctions and this elevation in so-
ciety, so much the more was ha criminal in participating with those
guilty ofkuders in a crime, which, in its progress, was denoted by
every disgraceful act, and in its perpetration by every unseemly
characteristic ; it was tainted with meanness, mendicity, awl ava-
rice; and with three of the adventurers, had not even the palliative
Of poverty as an apology for the sin : respecting them, therefore,
the Court, in its equal distribution of justice, was hound to Phew
them and the world, that as they sought to gratify their passion of
conspiracy, and us conspiracy was held in the ;le of the
law ()fah iplamons nature, so they must award punishment
tvoltjdC.NlVey infamy with it. Some offenders (and it tiequently
happees) when bronght up for jnik,,ment, had tae plea of sudden
,gust ofpassion to move them to the commission of . ruse, but here
'here was no such thing. A plot, song devised, stint rainiOed, in-
many actors, put into effect with 111111iMil C11)10101 and QrtiT
Ce marked from its commencement, through its progress, and
'to its peroration, with systematic fraud, was the picture only which
Could be given of it. As a punishment, therefore, foe a conspiracy
So dangerous and so extensive, lie wits directed to proneunee the
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