in Chief of His Majesty's ships and
vessels employed on the Downs' station, with a wicked intention to
impose upon and deceive the said Thomas Foley, and to induce and cause
the said Thomas Foley to communicate the false matters contained in the
said last mentioned false and counterfeit letter to the said
Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great
Britain. And also with a wicked intention, that by the means in this
Count mentioned the said false matters contained in said last mentioned
false and counterfeit letter, should be promulgated and publicly made
known to the liege subjects, &c. and thereby to occasion _a temporary_
rise and increase in the prices of the public government funds, &c. and
to injure and aggrieve all His Majesty's liege subjects who should
_contract for_, and also, all the subjects, &c. who should _purchase_
any part or parts, share or shares of, and in the said public government
funds, &c. _during such temporary rise and increase_ in the prices
thereof, to the evil example, &c. in contempt, &c. and against the
peace, &c.
[_Fifth Count._]--That the Defendants unlawfully contriving, &c. to
injure and aggrieve divers of the liege subjects of our said Lord the
King, afterwards to wit, on the said 19th February, at the parish and
ward aforesaid, &c. unlawfully, &c. did conspire together, to make and
propagate, and to cause and procure to be made and propagated unto, and
amongst divers of the liege subjects of our said Lord the King, divers
false reports and rumours _of and concerning the said Napoleon Bonaparte
and the French people_, and thereby to occasion a temporary rise and
increase in the prices of the public Government Funds, &c. and to injure
and aggrieve all his Majesty's liege subjects who should _contract for_,
and also all the liege subjects of our said Lord the King who should
_purchase_ any part or parts, share or shares of, and in the said public
Government Funds, &c. during such last mentioned temporary rise and
increase in the prices thereof, to the evil example, &c. &c.
[_Sixth Count._]--That the _Defendants_, on the said 19th February
unlawfully, &c. did conspire, &c. to make and propagate, and cause, and
procure to be made and propagated unto and amongst divers subjects, &c.
a certain false report and rumour, _that a Peace would then be soon
made_ between our said Lord the King, his subjects, and the people of
France, and thereby to occasion a temporary
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