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📜 The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger

Follow a forged wartime report from Dover to a market-rigging conspiracy trial, separating allegation, evidence, verdict, and procedure.

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~20 min
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🏛️ History
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Adults
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What you’ll learn

  1. The rumorDistinguish the alleged market scheme from the evidence used to test it.A forged report gained authority through official-looking details and was connected, in the indictment, to securities trading.
  2. The routeSee how a conspiracy case connects separate acts while preserving disputes over identification and timing.The Dover-to-London journey, the Green Street meeting, and competing alibis show how a shared-plan theory is built.
  3. The verdictSeparate a reported verdict from unresolved factual disputes and later procedure.The jury’s guilty verdict and the court’s handling of affidavits show two different kinds of legal conclusion.

Questions this course answers

What did the indictment allege the false report would do?

The indictment connects the false news to an expected rise in government funds and profitable sales.

What identity did the Dover messenger claim?

The letter is signed R. Du Bourg, lieutenant-colonel and aide-de-camp to Lord Cathcart.

How did the defence challenge the prosecution’s timetable?

The report records an alibi and affidavits about De Berenger’s presence and clothing in London.

What verdict does the report record?

The long title names eight defendants, and the report says the jury found all the defendants guilty.

Based on a real book

This course is built from The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger by William Brodie Gurney — the complete public-domain text, free to read and listen to on Wunder. The book itself is never rewritten or AI-edited; this course teaches its ideas.

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