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onstitution. "_Second._ To stir up jealousies, hatred, and ill-will between different classes of her Majesty's subjects, and especially to promote amongst her Majesty's subjects in Ireland, feelings of ill-will and hostility towards and against her Majesty's subjects in the other parts of the United Kingdom, especially in that part of the United Kingdom called England. "_Third._ To excite discontent and disaffection amongst divers of her Majesty's subjects serving in her Majesty's army. "_Fourth._ To cause and procure, and aid and assist in causing and procuring, divers subjects of her Majesty _unlawfully_, _maliciously_, _and seditiously_ to meet and assemble together in large numbers, at various times and at different places within Ireland, for the unlawful and seditious purpose of obtaining, by means of the intimidation to be thereby caused, and by means of the exhibition and demonstration of great physical force at such assemblies and meetings, changes and alterations in the government, laws, and constitution of the realm by law established. "_Fifth._ To bring into hatred and disrepute the courts of law established in Ireland for the administration of justice, and to diminish the confidence of her Majesty's subjects in Ireland in the administration of the law therein, _with the intent_ to induce her Majesty's subjects to withdraw the adjudication of their differences with, and claims upon, each other, from the cognisance of the said courts by law established, and to submit the same to the judgment and determination of other tribunals to be constituted and contrived for that purpose." [This count sets out as _overt acts_ of the above design, numerous _meetings_, _speeches_, and _publications_.] The SECOND count was the same as the first, _omitting the overt acts_. The THIRD count was the same as the second, only omitting from the _fourth_ charge the words "unlawfully, maliciously, and seditiously." The FOURTH count was the same as the third, omitting the charge as to the army. The FIFTH count contained the first and second charges set forth in the first count, omitting the overt acts. The SIXTH count contained the fourth charge set forth in the first count, omitting the words "unlawfully, maliciously, and seditiously," and the overt acts. The SEVENTH count was the same as the sixth, _adding_ the words "and especially, by the means aforesaid, to bring about and accomplish _a dissolution of th
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