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Provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal any part of our proclamation of the twelfth of this instant August, requiring the aliens therein mentioned to reside within the limits therein described, except in cases where any aliens as aforesaid, shall be bona fide proceeding on their journey to the port of London and to Gravesend, in order to embark and depart thereat from Great Britain.

Provided always, that this our proclamation shall not extend to any foreign ambassador, or other public minister duly authorised, or the servants actually attending upon such ambassador or public minister, or any domestic servant of any of our natural-born subjects, or of any subject who has been made denizen or naturalised, such servant being actually and bona fide employed in the service of their respective masters; nor to any such alien as shall, by virtue of a license under the hand and seal of one of our principal secretaries of state, or of such person or persons as shall be appointed for that purpose, be authorised to dwell and reside in some part of Great Bri

tain.

We do hereby charge and command that all aliens to whom this relates, do pay due obedience to the same, and that all justices of the peace, mayors, and other magistrates, and all constables and other peace officers, do respectively use their utmost diligence to enforce the same.

Given at our court at St. James's, this thirty-first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and three, and in the fortythird year of our reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

By the KING. A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE R.

Whereas by an act passed in the forty-third year of our reign, intituled,, " an act to repeal an act passed in the last session of parliament for establishing regulations respecting aliens arriving in this kingdom, or residing therein; and for establishing, until three months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace, regulations respecting aliens arriving in this kingdom, or residing therein, in certain cases;" we are authorised by our royal proclamation, from time to time, to require and command every alien who now is in or who shall hereafter come into Great Britain, except as therein excepted, to register himself or herself, and thereupon to obtain our royal license to reside within this kingdom, as therein mentioned; now we, being desirous of carrying into execution the purposes of the said act, do, by this our proclamation, by and with the advice of our privy council, require and command every alien who shall be in this kingdom on the day of the date of this our proclamation, except as hereinafter excepted, to register himself or herself in the manner hereinafter mentioned;-that is to say,

All aliens residing in the city of London, shall, within ten days` from the publication of this our proclamation, in the London Gazette, so register themselves with the lord mayor of the said city.

All aliens residing in the city and liberties of Westminster, or elsewhere, within the bills of mortality (except the city of London, or residing within ten miles of the city of London), shall, within ten days from the publication of this (F4)

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our proclamation in the London Gazette, so register themselves with the magistrates at one of the under-mentioned public offices, in the district of which office such alien shall then reside; that is to say, the police office, Queen-square, Westminster; Great Marlboroughstreet; Hatton Garden; Lambethstreet, Whitechapel; Worshipstreet, Shoreditch; High-street, Shadwell; and Union Hall, Southwark.

All aliens residing out of the districts aforesaid, and within any cities or corporate towns, or within the jurisdiction of the magistrates of such cities or corporate towns respectively, shall, within fourteen days from the publication of this our proclamation in the London Gazette, so register themselves with the mayor or other chief magistrate of such cities or corporate towns respectively.

And all aliens residing in other places in Great Britain shall, within eighteen days from the publication of this our proclamation in the London Gazette, so register themselves with some magistrate of the county or place where such aliens respectively shall reside.

And we do further require and command all aliens who shall come nto Great Britain, after the publication of this our proclamation in the London Gazette, to register themselves in the manner hereinafter mentioned with the lord mayor, mayors, or other magistrates as aforesaid, within two days after every such alien shall have arrived within any such city, town, district, or other place, to which he shall be allowed to proceed, by passport granted for that purpose, except

aliens who are required by our proclamation of twelfth of August last to land at no other port than the ports of Yarmouth, Harwich, Dover, and Southampton, and at Gravesend, whom we hereby require and command to register themselves in manner hereinafter mentioned, at the alien office, in Crown-street, Westminster.

And we do further require and command every alien, for the purpose of obtaining such license as aforesaid, to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the person or persons with whom such alien is hereby required to register himself or herself as aforesaid, a full and true declaration or account in writing of his or her name, age, place of birth, rank, occupation, profession, the place of residence when last in his or her own country, together with the last and principal place of residence before his or her arrival in this kingdom, the name or names of some person or persons in this country to whom known, the reason or purpose for which he or she came to this kingdom, the time when, and the place at which such alien last arrived in Great Britain, and where his or her actual residence has been since such last arrival, and is at the time of giving in such declaration, which said declaration or account shall be signed by such alien with his or her own name and mark.

And we do hereby authorise and appoint the said lord mayor, mayors, and other magistrates as aforesaid respectively, to receive such accounts as aforesaid, and do require and command them respectfully to cause the original account to be transmitted within twe

This proclamation is so much, in substance, like the present, that we thought ie needless to insert both. days

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days to our principal secretary of state for the home department, for the purpose of such alien obtaining our royal license to reside within Great Britain from the said secretary, whom we do hereby authorise and appoint to grant such licenses, or from such other person or persons who now are or who shall from time to time be authorised and appointed by us to grant such licenses.

And we do further authorise and require the said lord mayor, mayors, and other magistrates as aforesaid, to whom any such accounts shall be delivered as aforesaid, to grant under his hand and seal, to the alien delivering such account, a provisional license to reside within Great Britain, under such restrictions as shall appear fit, during the time that shall be therein allowed to such alien for obtaining our royal license as aforesaid.

And we do further declare, that this our royal proclamation shall not extend to require any alien to obtain such license as aforesaid, who shall, before the publication of this our proclamation in the London Gazette, have obtained our royal license to reside in any part of this kingdom.

And we do further direct, that every alien as aforesaid, upon every change of residence, as well to any place in the same city, town, district, or place, as to any other city, town, district, or place, shall give four days' previous notice thereof to the person or persons with whom he or she has been so registered, and shall again register himself or herself in manner before mentioned, according to such new residence, declaring the residence from whence he or she so removed.

And we do further declare, that

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no foreign ambassador, or other
public minister duly authorised,
nor the domestic servants of any
such foreign ambassador, or pub.
lic minister, registered according to
the directions of the laws in force
for that purpose, and being actually
attendant upon such ambassador
or minister; nor any alien not above
the age of fourteen years, shall be
deemed within the meaning and
intent of this proclamation.

And we do further declare, that
all such licenses, and provisional
licenses, as aforesaid, shall be given
without fee or reward, and shall be
subject to no duty or charge what-

soever.

And we do further declare and make known, that every alien who shall be found at large in Great Britain after the time by this our proclamation limited for registering and thereupon obtaining licenses as aforesaid, such aliens not having obtained such license respectively, and not being exempted as aforesaid, will be liable on conviction to suffer imprisonment for any time not exceeding six months, according to the provisions of the said

act.

Given at our court at St. James's, the 12th day of October, 1803, in the 45d year of our reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

By the KING. A PROCLAMATION.

GEORGE R.

Whereas our parliament stands prorogued to Thursday the third day of November next: we, with the advice of our privy council, do hereby publish and declare, that the said parliament shall be farther prorogued on the said third day of November next to Tuesday the twenty-second day of November

next:

next: and we have given order to our chancellor of that part of our united kingdom called Great Britain, to prepare a commission for proroguing the same accordingly. And we do further hereby, with the advice aforesaid, declare our royal will and pleasure, that the said parliament shall, on the said twenty-second day of November next, be held and sit for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs; and the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and burghs, of the house of commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attendance accordingly at Westminster, on the said twenty-second day of November next. Given at our court at St. James's, the twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and three, in the forty-third year of our reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

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"His majesty has given directions for laying before the house of Peers, with as little delay as possible, copies of such papers as will afford the fullest information to his parliament at this important conjuncture.

"It is a consolation to his majesty to reflect, that no endeavours have been wanting on his part to preserve to his subjects the blessings of peace; but under the cir cumstances which have occurred to disappoint his just expectations, his majesty relies with confidence on the zeal and public spirit of his faithful commons, and on the exertions of his brave and loyal subjects, to support him in his deter mination to employ the power and resources of the nation, in opposing the spirit of ambition and encroachment which at present actuates the councils of France, in upholding the dignity of his crown, and in asserting and maintaining the rights and interests of his people."

By the LORD-LIEUTENANT and COUNCIL of IRELAND. A PRO

CLAMATION.

HARDWICKE.

Whereas divers persons, engaged in a treasonable and daring insurrection against his majesty's government, did, on the evening of yesterday, the 23d of July inst. suddenly assemble in the liberties of Dublin, with fire-arms and pikes, and did there commit several outrages, and particularly in Thomasstreet, in the parish of St. Catharine, within the said liberties, did assault the carriage of the right honourable Arthur lord viscount Kilwarden, chief justice of his ma jesty's court of king's bench, and one of his majesty's most honoura

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ble privy council, and did drag the said Arthur lord Viscount Kilwarden, together with his nephew the rev. Richard Wolfe, clerk, from his said carriage, and did there basely and inhumanly murder the said Arthur lord viscount Kilwarden and Richard Wolfe, by stabbing them respectively with pikes in various parts of their bodies, of which wounds they both soon after died.

Now we, the lord-lieutenant and council, in order to bring such enormous offenders to condign punishment, do, by this our proclamation, publish and declare, that if any person or persons shall, within six calendar months from the date hereof, discover any of the person or persons who committed the said inhuman murders on the said Arthur viscount Kilwarden, and the said rev. Richard Wolfe, or either of them, or who aided and assisted therein, or who advised, encouraged, instigated, moved, stimulated, or incited the persons concerned therein to commit the same, such person or persons so discovering shall receive as a reward the sum of one thousand pounds sterling for each and every of the first three persons who shall be apprehended and convicted thereof.

above the said reward, receive his
majesty's most gracious pardon for
said offences.

And whereas it has appeared to
us, that the daring and rebellious
outrages aforesaid were committed
in prosecution of a rebellious con-
spiracy against his majesty's go-
vernment, and that divers other
enormities were at the same time
committed in Thomas-street
aforesaid, and in the neighbour-
hood thereof, in prosecution of the
same treasonable purpose, and that
divers of the persons engaged
therein, did come to Dublin with
intent to commit such outrages and
enormities, in order to induce and
persuade his majesty's peaceable
and loyal subjects in the city of
Dublin and its neighbourhood, by
the tenor thereof, and by appre-
hensions for their own personal
safety, to join in the treasonable
conspiracy aforesaid.

Now we, the lord-lieutenant and council, do hereby strictly enjoin and command all his majesty's subjects, in their several stations and according to their several duties, to use their utmost endeavours to suppress all such rebellious insurrections and treasonable practices, and to apprehend and bring the persons engaged therein to the punishment due to their crimes; and more especially we do strictly enjoin and command the lord mayor of the city of Dublin, and all the justices of the peace of the said city of Dublin, and of the county of Dublin, and all sheriffs and other magistrates and officers within their several jurisdictions, and all other his majesty's loving subjects, to do all acts in their

And we do likewise publish and declare, that if any of the persons concerned in the murders aforesaid, save and except the persons who actually stabbed the said lord viscount Kilwarden and the rev. Richard Wolfe, or either of them, as aforesaid, shall discover any other of the persons concerned in the said murders, or either of them, so that such person or per-power to such purposes. sons so discovering shall be convicted thereof, such person or persons so discovering, shall, over and

And we do hereby further require and command all officers commanding his majesty's forces

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