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not exactly within :the strict roles tit their, Foal& ' Otclreildinice 'could leave bath. 444 tif changing.
ing, am opportunity of explaining thefie. Cirarn't . the Terdlietef the Jery. ; sad, of.cdartev theee.cooki
stances, and of stating any, grounds bie. had to. adr be newason fort** Court granting% new Wall vh
duce in support of a motion for a nest' trial, and Mick was-the wily evidences on which it,Mas moved.
they tad accordingly heard bine on that subject yes- her. - it • was not neeessary..tbw his Lordship (Mr:
terday. He had endeavoured to show that ha.coold Justice Le Blanc) to expatiate on the nature olthe
lot well decypher the superscription to the noteso' -Offencehere committed; .it mai/moor great migni---
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returned home, not tude, and:Which had beeD.Saaned and carried into
De Berenger,"but .effect with the graded-deliberation. Some instances,
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seeing some officer 'film even of conspiracies, hid occurred, lad could be.
to him tidings act° couceiwcd, in whisk the parties might bah been har.-
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be bad received SC, vied on by considerations which human nature could
ate.. The-note, bow* hardly withstand; bat here, no palliation or este-
from De Berengeit, wee nuatien of the offence could be possibly conceived.
satisfactorr account of it could have been dictated only by avarice on. the
'first received &cements part of some of the Defendants, and by the hope of
health. If he had te--f gain en the part of others of them. The Court had
a private hand„ 'that 1. deliberated on the ease, and they ;NO not, in that
be proved; or if the.: liistance,feel justified in adminiatering one measure. of
by letterf 'coming 17 a i punishment, or of justice, to one of the Defendants,
..avo some mark wldck ; who was guilty of the-same offence, and adi fferenkneal,
which it • must have Min' sure to another of the same Defendants. The sentence of
net accounted .ftlisi, the Chun on Sir TbomasCocbrana, comraonly.called:'
. to be proved. wellith , Lord Cochrane, mid on Richard Gathorne Butt,,,
in granting a 'new dial. t therefore, .was,; that Amy do several) pay to the .
evident*, that shortly before this • King a foie df 10001,414 ' - that the Defendant Rol-
, banks - ter :he ghtaAtte of 5001. ; that each of
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.OIP..ZING'S RENO'S:4I4e 21.
TUX LING D. DX 11111110101111, LOR11.4104110ANE) AND
OTHERS.
The six Defendants in this comb who yesterday
appeared, ,were brought " receir the
judgment of the Court, I
they, bat, been found guilt
Mr. Justice Ls BLANC,
nufoodants, informed tv
40' receive jodgment !in
nivler an istiliittment for a
stniti:et of the' cat.' swore 4.
, rourstfof the lung discessiOn
thesum. of the:Offence
these sis Defendants, with
kiow‘oppeor to abide the J
consnirert,. by false typo,
price of the public funds.
bytto injure those persons
purbbasers on that particular
reports were so circulated,
'Teri to the circumstances
In evidence. It, was in proof, that
day of ‘,ry last, certain

lorerittlii Halite the 21st . ty Fehreat . llt also appeered•
, . bi+A.beeereeeiced at the ~
the funds, ! period money
patina had been speculating Mak in
De- a.check •m awn
.. per . . •Isy A sore of the !mime or
anti that, on the day mentioned, three of. the
*fondant* who now appeared, and one who did not i boo, the litotes- wen 'fir-whiols.lad been
appear, were holders of stock, or contractors for 1 trionsly changed by the • Defendant Butt.-2--Pat
stock, to a very large amount : that .on the Saler- i,these very notes, however, it • was proved had'
clay before the Monday on which the fraud in ques- • employed by Lord Cochrane In paying his coal.mer-
- tip was put in practice, one person had purchased chant, andothers bad been traced to De Berenpr,
'front an army accoutrement-maker, the dress of a and found in his possession after he was taken No
Foreign Officer ; and that on the same day another custody. This- too, was a coincidence which tite-
person, wbo turned out fo be one,of the Defendants _ (wired to be accounted for, if it was meant to shear'
in the present indictment, was seen to bring to his that there was net any connection between them.—
owu house a parcel containing two dressitats and two. When it was seen, however, that the house of Lord
coats as of Foreign Officers. Then, early on the i Cochrane *as ,that to which De Berenger went in.
tellowing Monday morning, the Defendant De Be- i stantly on hie arrival from Dover, where he, Ineek°pere
renger was seen to make his appearance at the door : smelted the pretended Messenger, Du Boergen
of the Ship Inn, Dover, dressed as a 'Foreign Of-' it was
-seen that previous to his quittisig LoN.
facer, applynig for a post-chaise and four, holding rave's house he had changed his dress,' hairfng
hinestitf out as the bearer of great and important , equipped-himself in a round hat and black cone of -
news, ordering an express to be got ready to convey his Lordship's, and when, on his being taken into
intelligence to the Port Admiral at Deal ; and he, ; custody, part of the produce of this very uote, With
the Defendant Do. Berenger, is expressly recognised., another part of which Lord Cochrane had paid his
and pointed out by.a variety of witnesses as being ; coalmerchant, was found in his possession; when
the person who, so representing himself; was seen 'it was also fotted, that up to the 21st day of Febru-
at an early hour of the morning in question, at the ary, the day on which this fraud was practised, -one
Ship Inn; at Dever, sending off a letter to Admirals of the Defendants, who was pot now, presentl_aed
Foley, which letter, it was proved. by the Adtniral, three of -the Defendants now on the floor, .here,topee-,......, .
he received, .and ithich was signed R. Du Bourg, I,holders of, or Contractor,. for, very large mime of tire nonsuited. . ... ~
Witham Retake, importing that he waie,an Aid-de-' stock; which, en thatAy, they get Olt Or in
COURT or ChM ON PO'
Camp to Lord Cathcart. From Dover this persoteli whole. When all those circumstances werelaid.
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was traced, through all the different stages, to Dirt- !together, and. compared with the Asther, cio ee tatme - • res
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ford, wherehe was again recognised, and again traced ! stances already stated, what doubt could remain of.„ po.._tant cause per„
near the Sea,
from Dartford to London, thp drivers,'. while walk-1 the etistence of a conspiracy among the wholes of , .
hog -up the hill towards town, having conversed with i the Defendants, to accomplish one common object
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him, and had opportunities of observing, that he i That the conspiracy was ingeniously contrived ; that
arm.
as as dressed as he had been represented to be ,it was extensive in its- operation, and most wicked is iv '
Dulla •
ry,
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at Dever, namely, in a red military. coat 'trimmed ' its effect :—that it was
-contrived with the view et 1-I't
Wrightflit other side, on the 1,-
- with gold lace. a grey military great coat, ss fur enriching some at the expenee of others, who es
Tie` which the Setictot-Greneral r...-
,cap trimmed with gold:lace, Ste; On* entering town .he obliged to purchase, such as suitors in Chancery",
reply, the Ouse- Junoc informed teem, .._
'Ol Wished -to get' E' hackney coach, hut objected &c. there could not be the sMaliest dqubt. Onothe I Court . .
would consider of their judgment.
...4weni piaci where he wanliNd he could have one, i nature-of the crime of conspiracy fit was annt.ces.
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on account of its too great publicity. At the Marsh- ! nary for hint to enlarge. When several persons cen. . OREitOGATI-VF. CO— URT
tate, howeseri he got into a hackney.coach; and ' spired and combined together. to effect an object .
there again ,his person and dress were spoken to, 1 which one man, of himself, could not accomplish, law. -
both by the coachman aiid waterman. On getting 'that had been always considered an infamous of.
into the coach he gave orders to be driven to Gtos- ; fence, and one which called on the Court for a pu-
. vennr-square, and when he got thither, then desired' nishment, as far- as-it could impose it, proportioned
to be driven to a particular hduse, being No. 13, Ito the nature and extent of the crime committed. It
Green-street • and into this house, being the house was with pain that the' Court, in passing sentence,
of Lord Cochrane,: another of the Defendants, the .l felt itself called oil to refer to circumstances of ag-
hackney coachman proved him to have entered., !granted guilt. It was painful tq the Court to ob-
dressed in a red coat, and in a grey great coat. On i serve men, who,. from their rank, statien., educe-
. that same morning another past of the plot was car- ! tion, and habits of life, ought to, be considered as
Tied cute execution at a later period of the day, by above the commissiou Of offences of such a nature,
another Defendant, Mr. Mqtae, not now present, and so far forget themselves, and that respect and duty
by three other of the Defendants, now on the floor, i which they owed to themselves and to the public, as
Holloway, Sandon, and Lyte. 'On that morning to :reduce themselveeto a level with persous capable
the innkeeper at Dartford received a note from San. of resbrting to such infamous and disgraceful prac-
don, desiring him to send a chaise tied four to North- tires, as that of which' the present Defendants had
fleet, and in that chaise and four,- decorated with beau found guilty, amounting, .as their offence did,
white ribbons, did these Defendants, 'dressed in uni- 'to the worst and most unprincipled species of gam.
forms, with* cocked hats and white cockades,,drive' bring. And it was still more painful to the Court,
Through London, till they got to the same spot where because it was their duty to say, that the greater
De Berenger took his hackney-coach ; there they the opportunities of distinguishing between right and
got out, and nothing more is heard` of them., This, wrong, the higher the station of the offender,. and
vas exactly a counterpart of the other scene which the less temptation be had to be guilty of the of-
commenced its operation at Dover. Then, as already fence, the heavier, on such a person, fell the weight ,
said, immediately an De Berenger's arrival, he drivel, of guilt. More particularly, in the pementinstence, . , -
to Lord Cochrane's house. His Lordship not beingl la the case of Mr. De Berenice,. the Copt -had On Saturday se'nnight, as a farmer was in search
et home, a note is sent for him; it is delivered to:' Looked for, but could not find, where to lay'hold off of a strayed ox on flalsdown, about six miles from
Lim at Snow-hill ; what it contained did not appear, a single circumstance in mitigation of. punishment; 1 Exeter, at a little distance from the road; he disco-
for It was not forthcoming ; but he immediately es• because, after his identity, and Ilse certainty of his i vered a man layine, in the .thicket, almost lifeless,
turns home; and then does De Berenger, with the' having been the representative of the pretended Dui, with his hands and legs tiedfast together. It appears_
privity and consent of .Lord Cochrane, exchange his: Bourg had-been sworn to, not by one, two, or three ; the poor man ,(called G. Blanihfield) was knocked
military coat, dressed in which he bad come into his! witnesses, but _by six in number, an attempt. had' down and robbed by three footpads (seareen) on
Lordship's house, for a black coat of Lord Ctich:' been made, on his part, to show that he was not Du S Sunday, the sth iirstatit, who having rifled hint of all
lane's, and his fur cap for a round bat of his Lord- ° Bourg ; that he had net been at Dover On the more-i he had, about five pounds, deliberated on murdering
ship's, and, so equipped, proceeds from Lord Coch- ing of the clay in question; and, of coarse; that he; him, but afterwards agreed to bind him fast and
rane's house in the same coach in wMch its Lordship was not the person who had been traced, stage i.throw him into a hedge; he remained in this cruel
k.ad returned home from Snow-hill. And, on the after stage, 'from Dover to London, till he was ! situation, without any sustenance, for seven . days,
mime day, is the whole of this large property in 'the at -length fairly lodged in' the house •of Lord ' and not is ithstanding, n lien the-farmer liberated him
fuuds, held or contracted for by the one Defendaot, 1 Cochrane. There was another circumstance in this •he hail qtrength enough left to 'crawl to Siarcross, 0p-
.% no is not present (Mr. Cochrane Johnstone), and i case,• which the Court coed not allow' to pass ~wards of five miles- distance. ITe says he suffered
by three of the Defendants on the flper(Lord Cock." without notice. Though not agreeable to the . intolerable distress from the swarms of insects, and
'tube, Mr. Butt, '.id Mr. Holloway), told ai .ait ad. ! rules of the Court to hear a motion for a newt vermin of-the common, which attacked and tormented
sauce, which advance had been occasioned by the trial, after the lapse of the first four days of the' him, without his being able to dislodge them from his
ireesactions of that day. it was not necessary to Term,-they had so far relaxed the rule as to allow I body. .
specify the amounts of the stock held by each of the Lord Cochrane till yesterday to state the groin* on The following circumstance, we• are credibly in-
-Defendants; it was enough to say that the whole which he contended that Mi inset-twice would appear, formed, took place lately in the- neighbourhood of
was sold that day. It was in proof, that on or if he-was indulged with 0 Dew trial:' and what 'was Kingsweod. Three of the Cock-road gentry, dur-
about the 27th of February, De Berenger- disop- , the attempt made by him, namely, to tverturn fthe ing the night, entered a house. occupied by a lone
vs-fired, and was afterwards secured, at a distalit Verdict, on the-testimony of certain witnesses, who I woman, who had just retired to rest. They went up
. . part of the country, with large property in his pas- _might have. been called, but. Were not called, to !stairs ; on their approach, the woman had the pre-
session, he having formerly been an insolvenyiviog.:Jr&vocertain facts at the time Of the -trial, within ! Bence of mind to feign herself asleep, and the decep-
M iihin the Rules of the King's Bench Prison, pay- the knowledge of the &Me Lord's Cooosel ; and ' lien, succeeded so .well, that the thieves coosidered
ing stated these circumstances, it Must appear singu- on the testimony of another witness, Who bed been themselves perfectly secure, and accordingly began to
,lac to any one, if there was no connection between examined on otfilk points, little whom no question ride the apartment. Amditg other articles they ob-
. 'therm, that De Berengershould, inalinity on Mier- bud been put as to bee pertietelirfact ? And what stained possession of a elub-box, containing 501. in
rival in town, from Diver, driest() 4rd Cbchrane's .was it, that Lori Cochrane -proposed by these'-wit- cash. They then went down stairs, and were pro-
' house; should 'send for .iiiiaiotdshlfa• to the place, -nessecto establish ?..-; Why, • that Mr.-De life eager, ceeding to regale themselves with the\bread and cheese,
whither he had gone upon business, considered by ; when he came to the bane of Lord,Cecbraster ow when the woman jumped out of bed, threw up the
him as of importance ; that his'Lorrisbip 'Should im- " the morning of ette.2lst° of February last,• was not window, and cried " Murder 1" The Villains inn-
m ediatiely come to him, on being sent 'for ;sand then • dressed in a red onilloelai melladimeiLlserived by all mediately tied, and in. the hurry, of their retreat,
- • that De Berenger should drive away in the coedit the 'witnesses bylviumatili liailriarressouei all the &espied the chief leant their, booty, the club-box,
- - which 'had brought Lord Cochrane hotne, and that' way from Dover, dill he Vradieefillisen birithe tack-' ivivieedstas picked ap"-by the woman, why. bad UV
• too in a dress furnished to -him by ,Ifis-Lordthip. 'ney coachttian • and salutevast* tord Ceeltrane's • itoerelpete pureeekabetn semi. distance. Iris added,
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- ' '....a1a-Theso :were things not' cagily accounted fortj hook; bat lit &trees *niter*. It' wave ptehably, that.tbe woman *wawa *Witte parties, havinghad a
and certainly they had not been accounted for a very prudent exeralatrert ilia:Woo on abs .4vort of full view of them,. whilst they, believing tier to -be
to the satisfaction of the Jury. The Court had Lord Cochrane's Counsel, not to call witnesses to ' fast asleep,
Lima desirous of allowing to Lord Cochrane, though attempt to prove such a fact. It was impu&gn that assns.were employed in plundering bet apart-
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loway dopey to It
the sit Defendants no \ - Court, be imprisoned
in the milady of the Marshal of the Marshafsea of this
Court, for the space of twelve calendar mdlpths;
that, during the said wied, the said Charles Ran.
dom •De Bertmegers said Sir Thomas Cochrane,
commonly called ,Lord Cochrane, and the said
Richard Gatirorne Butt, do each and every of them
stand in and upon the pillory, opposite the Royal
Exchange, for the space of one hour ; and that the
said Defendants be afterwards imprisoned . till the
hues imposed on them respectively be severally paid.
WILLETZ AND BDWARDS V. DRURY. •
This was an action brought against the Defendant,
who keeps a ladies' school, At Chingford, in Essex,
by the Plaintiffs, who are schoolmasters, to recover
the sum of 201. ss. 10d. for the board, tuitloo of,
and other disbursements for, the infant son of the
Defendent.
.: The Defendant pleaded coverture; and upon the
:trial she proved. that she was the wife of Vice-Ad-
laird Drury, formerly Captain Thomas Drury, 'of
Ids. Majesty's ship Alfred ; And diet she• was married
In Jamaica.. What is Megabit. isr this case is, the
IClergyman who performed the ceremony in Jamaica
Appeared in Court, and provedtlte marriage.—Plain-
tills noesuited.
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COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE
A second argument was heard Wit day, in the
im-
"poc.taMp cense respecting the Advowson of Bradwell
thiSea, in, Essex. •
Mr. Spuolyou-GistiAL (Sir Samuel Shepherd)
cited various cases; ,
.tied argued diem, with great,
to favour of the Ptaintif, the Rev. Sft
B. Dudley, Bart.; and Mr. Serjeant Viuotran' .On
the other side, on the part of the Rev. G:Pawson •,
ift; which the Setichor-General, having made a fell
miply, the Cam,' Juitoe informed them, that the
'Court would consider of their judgioeqt.
• : PREROGATIVE COURT, DOCTORS' COlOlOl4,
vies 40.
*ANT AGAINST SKOTTOWE AND ROBINSON.
This was a question respecting the validity of the
will of Mrs. Ann Robinson (wife of Admiral Ro.
binson), late of Pulteney.streot, in the city of Bath,
deceased. The will bore date the 11th Dec.. rBlO,
'and the Testatrix died on the 19th. of the same
month. This will was propounded on the part of
Ilenry Mant, Eta. one of the Executors and Resi-
duary Legatee, and it was opposed by the daughter
of Adm. Robinson, by a former wife, who was lee-
tee under a former will, on the ground of unsound
and imperfect mind of the.deceased at the time of ex-
ecuting the will in question.
On the part of Mr. Mant, the executor, it was
contended, that there was no solid ground whatever
upon which the transaction could be impeached; that
the deceased had often expressed great regard for
Mr. Mint, and that she intended to leave him some:
thhig-handsome at her death, as he had been to her
a sincere, and real friessd ever since she resided at
Bath.
The Court (Sir. Jona lircitou) after hearing the
ether side, and recapitulating the evidence, pro-
nounced for the validity of the will in question.

up to-day 'to .receive the not Weil uecypner toe suporscry
foe+ the conspiracy of which received by him-, and that he I
Ity. with any expectation of seeing
'a, addreasitiehieieelrto the with the expectation of seeing
sem that they wire tatted Do abroad who had to communicate
consequence of a c'enviction the health of his brother, who,
a 'conspiracy. The circus). counts, was in a dangerous stal
re steed yesterday, in the ver, which he So received from
mien which then, took place ; tot produced, tior"viis-any sett
mon was shortly this—that ered as to the time when' hair
ith two others who did not f his brother's bad state of he
t Judgment of the Court, had red such information. through
)rts, to create a rise in the s a !act which Might easily 1
Is of the country, .and there formation was transmitted by
ps who should have become hip,- then the letter ovoid hat
ruler day on which the false oold explain the time at. whit
ed. He should shortly ad.' ived. This, however, was
sof the case as they appeared nor 'w as any thing at-all offered
justified oreof. that for some time I could have the Court in
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