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fraudulent intention to thereby cheat and defraud the said subjects of

divers large sum of money, &c.
[Third Count.]--That the Defendants on the said 19th of February
unlawfully, &c. by false reports, rumors, arts and contrivances to
induce the subjects of our said Lord the King to believe that a peace
would soon be made between our said Lord the King and his subjects,
and the said people of France, and thereby to occasion without any just
or true cause a great increase and rise of the public government funds,
&c. and to injure, &c. the subjects of our said Lord the King who
should on the said 21st of February purchase and buy any part or parts
and share or shares of and in the said public government funds, &c.
then and there, to wit, on the said 21st of February, unlawfully, &c. did
conspire, &c. to make and propagate, and cause and procure to be made
and propagated unto and amongst divers of the liege subjects, &c. in
the county of Kent, to wit at Dover, Deal, and Dartford, and other
places in that county, and also unto and amongst divers of the liege
subjects, &c. at London aforesaid, and places adjacent thereto divers
false reports and rumours that the said Napoleon Bonaparte was killed,
and that a peace would soon be made between our said Lord the King
and his subjects and the people of France.
And that the said Defendants would by such false reports and rumours
as far as in them lay, occasion an increase and rise in the prices of the
public government funds and other government securities, with a
wicked intention to thereby greatly injure and aggrieve all the liege
subjects of our said Lord the King who should, on the said 21st of
February, purchase or buy any part or parts and share or shares of and
in said public government funds, &c. To the great damage of all the last
mentioned liege subjects, &c. To the evil example, &c. and against the
peace, &c.
[Fourth Count.]--That the said Defendants unlawfully contriving, &c.
to injure and aggrieve divers of the liege subjects, &c. on the 19th
February unlawfully, &c. did conspire, &c. to write and cause to be
written a certain other false and counterfeit letter containing therein
divers false matters of and concerning the Allies of our said Lord the
King, and the said Napoleon Bonaparte and the French people, and to

send and cause and procure the said last mentioned letter to be sent to
the aforesaid Thomas Foley at Deal, the said Thomas Foley then and
there being the Commander 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,