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 notify unto the several proper officers of all the said departments respectively, for the information and guidance of them, and of all other officers of the Colonial Government, to wit, the said Government of the said Queen in the said Colony, and with intent to cause and compel them respectively to submit to his pretended authority, and to obey him, the said W. T. Bridges, and his said accroached, assumed, and usurped Government, and other his accroachments, assumptions, and usurpations aforesaid. And the said defendant further says, that the said William Thomas Bridges did afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid, act in and exercise his said pretended authority and other the functions, powers, and authorities of his said accroached, assumed, and usurped Government, and did, from the day and year last aforesaid, for a consider able time, to wit, down to the composing, printing, and publishing of the alleged libel, continue so to accroach, assume, and usurp as aforesaid, and so to act in and exercise the same pretended authority, and other the said functions, powers, and authorities as aforesaid. And the said defendant further says, that, during the said continuance of the said W. T. Bridges so to accroach, assume, and usurp, and so to act and exercise as aforesaid, and before the composing, printing, and publishing of the said alleged libel, to wit, on or about the month of May, in the twenty-first year of the said Queen, he, the said W. T. Bridges, did unlawfully, contemptuously, and against the express declaration of the said Queen, cause certain public papers and records of the said Queen, of great value and importance to the peace and good order of the said Colony, and to the honour and reputation of the Queen and her Government, and whereby, if preserved and produced, the truth or falsehood of certain criminal charges and accusations, theretofore made and then pending before the Queen against the said Daniel Richard Caldwell, would appear, and which were then in the said accroached, assumed, and usurped power of the said W. T. Bridges, to be burned and destroyed, to wit, in the said Colony, by the hands of certain persons, unto the said defendant unknown, then having the custody or possession of the said papers and records respectively, and did thereby defeat, avoid, and make impossible whatever inquiry the said Queen or her said Government might, and otherwise would have directed to be made, into the truth or falsehood of the said charges, and the contents of the said papers and records respectively, to wit, in the said Colony; and the said W. T. Bridges did there-