unlawfully, &c.
write a certain false and counterfeit letter, containing divers false
matters, which said false and counterfeit letter is directed as follows:
"To the Honorable J. Foley, Port Admiral, Deal, &c. &c. &c.
_Dover, One o'Clock, A. M._
_February 21, 1814._
SIR,
I have the honor to acquaint you that the L'Aigle from Calais,
Pierre Duquin, Master, has this moment landed me near Dover,
to proceed to the Capital with dispatches of the happiest
nature. I have pledged my honor that no harm shall come to the
crew of the L'Aigle; even with a flag of truce they
immediately stood for sea. Should they be taken, I have to
entreat you immediately to liberate them. My anxiety will not
allow me to say more for your gratification, than that the
Allies obtained a final victory; that Bonaparte was overtaken
by a party of Sachen's Cossacks, who immediately slaid him,
and divided his body between them.--General Platoff, saved
Paris from being reduced to ashes. The Allied Sovereigns are
there, and the white cockade is universal; an immediate peace
is certain. In the utmost haste, I entreat your consideration,
and have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
R. DU BOURG,
_Lieutenant Colonel and Aid de Camp to Lord Cathcart_.
"To the Honorable J. Foley,
Port Admiral, Deal, &c. &c. &c."
And did then and there send, and cause and procure to be sent, the said
false and counterfeit letter to Thomas Foley, Esquire, at Deal; he, the
said Thomas Foley, then being the Commander in Chief of His Majesty's
Ships &c. employed on the Downs Station, with intention that the said T.
Foley, should, by Telegraph, communicate the false matters in the said
false letter, to the Commissioners of our said Lord the King, for
executing the office of Lord High Admiral, &c. and that such false
matters should be promulgated &c. to the liege subjects of our said Lord
the King.
And that said _Charles Random De Berenger_, did also then and there
unlawfully &c. assert and report to Timothy Wright, and other persons,
that he, the said _Charles Random De Berenger_, had just then landed and
arrived from France, and that the French were beaten, and that said
Napoleon Bonaparte was killed, and that the Allies of our said Lord the
King, were t
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