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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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