iption differs from most of the
offences which come under the cognizance of a court of criminal
jurisdiction. In many cases offenders have been led to transgress the
law by a suggestion of the moment; by a temptation, which, as it has
been urged sometimes at the bar, human nature could not resist; but in
the present instance it has been deliberately undertaken; great
contrivance, and great previous consideration, have been used for the
purpose of laying the plan and procuring the actors who were to bear
their different parts of it; and the whole object of it founded in
avarice on the part of some, and the hope of gain for acting that part
which the others took in this transaction, not for their own immediate
emolument, except so far as they were to receive the wages of their
iniquity.

The court has deliberated upon the case, and the court cannot, in this
instance, feel itself justified in measuring out justice to one by a
different measure from that in which justice would be measured out to
others; the sentence therefore of the court upon you, the several
defendants now upon the floor, is, That you, Sir Thomas Cochrane,
otherwise called Lord Cochrane, and you Richard Gathorne Butt, do
severally pay to the King a fine of one thousand pounds each; that you,
John Peter Holloway, the third person who was to be benefited by this
conspiracy, do pay to the King a fine of five hundred pounds; that all
you the six several defendants, Charles Random De Berenger, Sir Thomas
Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph
Sandom, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte, be severally imprisoned in
the custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea of our Lord the King for
twelve calendar months; and that during that period you, Charles Random
Be Berenger, you, Sir Thomas Cochrane, otherwise called Lord Cochrane,
and you, Richard Gathorne Butt, be severally set in and upon the
pillory, opposite the Royal Exchange in the City of London, for one
hour, between the hours of twelve at noon and two in the afternoon; and
that you be now severally committed to the custody of the Marshal of the
Marshalsea, in execution of this sentence, and be further imprisoned
until your several fines be paid.

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The Indictment 3
The Counsel for the Crown and for the Defendants