als refiding near the fea-coaft was capable of being inftantly removed and fecured for the benefit of the proprietors, I am commanded to recommend it to your lordship to exert your influence in caufing to be made out, as fpeedily as poffible, an account of live and dead stock, in fuch of the parishes of the county of Suffex as are within ten or twelve miles of the fea.

With refpect to the mode of making out the account required, I take this opportunity of tranfmitting to your lordship the form in which it has been executed by the voluntary exertions of the gentlemen of the county of Dorfet; and fhall beg to fubmit it for your lordship's confideration and adoption, unless where it may be found necessary to deviate from it, in confequence of local circumftances and fituations.

With refpect to the mode in which it is proposed to remove fuch live and dead flock in case it should be neceffary, your lordship will communicate with the commander in chief of the diftrict in which the county of Suffex lies, and will concert with him fuch previous meafures for this purpose as may be judged requifite.

The meeting which I have defired your lordship to call on the fubject of my circular letter of this day's date, will afford you an opportunity of fubmitting this letter to the confideration of the deputylieutenants and the magiftracy of the county of Suffex, and will confequently lead to the immediate adoption of fuch meafures as fhall be neceffary to enable the return to be made, which I am perfuaded your lordship will be of opinion is 1o much to be wished for.

I am further to inform your lordhip, that the lords commiffioners of the treafury have received his

majefty's pleasure, that they fhould take fuch previous measures as may be neceflary for defraying any ex. pences which may arife, in confequence of fuch poffible removal of live and dead ftock as I have fuppofed, as well as of any particular loffes which may eventually be occafioned thereby.

Although this circumftance is fuch as muft obviate every poffible objection to the measure, I am nevertheless confident, that all those whom it may concern would, exclufively of every personal confideration or motive, join with the utmost alacrity in the execution of a meafure which has for its object the general fafety of the country. I have the honour to be, &c.

PORTLAND.

A Proclamation of his Excellency the

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland againft illegal and treasonable Affociations.

CAMDEN.

Whereas we have received information, that divers ill-affected perfons have entered into illegal and treasonable affociations, in feveral parts of the counties of Antrim, Down, Tyrone, Londonderry, and Armagh, to fubvert the established, government of this kingdom; and for the effecting fuch their treafonable purpofes, have affaffinated divers of his majefty's faithful and loyal fubjects, who have endeavoured, and threaten to affaffinate others who fhall endeavour, to de-. tect or fupprefs their treafon; and in further profecution of their defigns, have endeavoured to deter his majesty's loyal fubjects from inrolling themfelves under officers commiffioned by his majefty for the defence of this kingdom, during the prefent war, by maiming and

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deftroying their cattle, and by affaulting and wantonly wounding one perfon, avowedly because he had inrolled himself, and by threatening affaffination against all perfons who fhould fo inroll themfelves; and in further profecution of fuch their purposes, have, by felonious and other illegal means, endeavoured fecretly to procure ammunition and other warlike ftores; and particularly, that feveral evil difpofed perfons lately broke into one of his majesty's ftores in the town of Belfaft, in the county of Antrim, and thereout took and carried away ten barrels of gunpowder.

And whereas we have alfo received information, that, on Tuesday the ift of November inftant, a confiderable number of armed men, afsociated in the aforefaid treasonable confpiracies, entered the town of Stewarftown, in the county of Tyrone, and cut and maimed several of the peaceable inhabitants of the faid town, who had refused to join in their associations, and who had agreed to inroll themfelves in the corps under officers to be commiffioned by his majesty, for the prefervation of the public peace, and for the protection of the kingdom against foreign invasion.

And whereas we have alfo received information, that, in further profecution of the faid treasonable purposes, many large bodies of men have affembled, and arrayed themselves, and marched in military order, and with military mufic, through feveral parts of the faid districts, under pretence of faving corn, and digging potatoes, (though they far exceeded the number neceffary to be employed in fuch fervice) to the very great terror of the loyal and faithful fubjects of his majefty.

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And whereas fuch treasonable outrages have caufed well-grounded alarms in the minds of his majesty's faithful fubjects, and are of the most dangerous and pernicious tendency.

Now we, the lord lieutenant and privy council, being determined to maintain the public peace, and to afford protection to all his majesty's loyal fubjects, and immediately and effectually to exercise all powers with which the conftitution has invefted us for thefe purposes, do forewarn all perfons of the danger they may incur, and, on their allegiance, charge them to defift from fuch treafonable practices.

And we do hereby ftrictly charge and command all mayors, fheriffs, juftices of the peace, and other peace officers, and all officers civil and military in this kingdom, and all other his majefty's loving fubjects, as they tender their allegiance to his majefty, and their own fafety, to use their best endeavours to prevent, and, where that cannot be done, to difcover and bring to jus tice thofe concerned in the aforefaid practices; and to prevent and difperfe all treasonable, feditious, or unlawful affemblies; the neceffaty orders having been already iffued to the several officers of his majefty's forces in this kingdom, to be aiding and affifting to the civil magiftrates in the execution of their duties for that purpose.

paffed in this kingdom, in the 36th year of his majesty's reign, intituled, " An Act more effectually to fupprefs Infurrections, and to prevent the Disturbance of the public Peace," it is enacted, that it fhall be lawful for the juftices ofthe peace, of any county, affembled at a fpecial feffion in manner by the faid act directed, not being fewer than feven, or the major part of them, one of whom to be of the quorum, if they judge fit, upon due confideration of the state of the county, to fignify by memorial, by them figned, to the lord lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom, that they confider their county, or any part thereof, to be in a state of disturbance, or in immediate danger of becoming fo, and praying that the lord lieutenant and council may proclaim fuch county, or part thereof, to be in a state of difturbance, thereupon it fhall be lawful for the lord lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom, by and with the advice of his majefty's privy council, by proclamation, to declare fuch county, or any part of fuch county, to be in a state of disturbance, or in immediate danger of becoming fo, and alfo fuch parts of any adjoining county or counties as fuch chief governor or governors fhall think fit, in order to prevent the continuance of extenfion of fuch difturbance.

And whereas twenty-four juftices of the peace of the county of Down (feveral of them being of the quorum) being the major part of the juftices of the peace duly aflembled, pursuant to the faid act, at a fpecial feffion of the peace, holden at Hillborough, in the faid county, on Friday the 11th day of November inftant, have, by memorial by them figned, fignified to

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his excellency the lord lieutenant, that certain parts of the faid county are in a state of difturbance, and have thereby prayed that the lord lieutenant and council may proclaim the parishes of Tullylifh, Aghaderg, Donaghcloney, Moira, Maralin, and Seapatrick, being parts of the faid county of Down, to be in a ftate of difturbance, of which all juftices of the peace, and other magiftrates and peace officers of the faid county, are to take notice.

Given at the council chamber in Dublin, the 16th day of November, 1796. W. Armagh Clare, C. Weftmeath Bellamont Altamont Portarlington Clonmell

Ely Dillon Mountjoy Muskerry Donoughmore

Carleton Yelverton Ch. Fitzgerald J. Beresford H. Cavendish Her. Langrishe T. Pelham Arthur Wolfe James Fitzgerald Robert Rofs

Treaty of Peace, concluded between the French Republic and the King of Sardinia, May 15, 1796.

The French republic and his majefty the king of Sardinia, equally animated by the defire of making a happy peace fucceed to the war which divides them, have appointed, viz. the executive directory, in the name of the French republic, citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter of foreign affairs, and his majesty the king of Sardinia, M. M. the chevaliers de Revel and de Tonzo, to negotiate the claufes and conditions proper for re-establishing and confolidating

folidating good harmony between the two ftates; who, after having exchanged their full and refpective powers, have agreed to the following articles: ing

I. There thall be peace and good neighbourhood between the French republic and the king of Sardinia. All hoftilities fhall ceafe between the two powers, reckoning from the time of figning the prefent treaty.

II. The king of Sardinia revokes all adhesion, confent, or acceffion, public or fecret, given by him to the armed coalition against the French republic; and all the treaties. of alliance, offenfive and defenfive, which he may have concluded against the faid republic with any power whatfoever. He fhall not furnish any contingent in men or money to any power armed against France, upon any pretence, or under any authority whatsoever.

III. The king of Sardinia fairly and entirely renounces for ever, for himself and his fucceffors, in favour of the French republic, all the rights which he can pretend to have to Savoy, and the counties of Nice, Tenda, and Breuil.

IV. The limits between the ftates of the king of Sardinia and the departments of the French republic fhall be marked by a line through the most advanced points of the frontier of Piedmont, the fummits, plateaux (flat tops of hills), mountains, and other places hereafter defcribed, as well as the intermediate fummits and plateaux, viz. from the point where the frontiers of ci-devant Francigny, duchy of Aofte and Valais, unite to the extremity of the Glaciers, or MontsMaudits.

1. The fummits or plateaux of the Alps at the rifing of the Col-mayor.

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2d. Little Saint Bernard, and the hofpital fituated there.

3d. The fummits or plateaux of Mont-Alban, of the Col-de-Crefance, and of Mont-Iferan.

4th. Turning a little towards the fouth, the fummits or plateaux of Cerat and of Gros-Caval.

5th. Great Mont-Cenis, and the hofpital which ftands to the foutheaft of the lake of that mountain. 6th. Little Mont-Cenis.

7th. The fuminits or plateaux which feparate the valley of Bar. donach from the Val-des-Prés.

8th. Mont-Genevre.

9th. The fummits or plateaux which feparate the valley of Quires from that of Vaudois.

10th. Mont-de-Vaudois. 11th. Mont-de-Vifo. 12th. Mont-de-l'Argenterie. 13th. The fource of the Abayette and the Sture.

14th. The mountains between the vallits of Sture and Geffo, ori one part; and those of Saint Etienne or Tinea, of St. Martin or Vezubia, of Tenda or of Roya, on the other.

15th. Leroche-Barbon, on the confines of the ftate of Genoa..

If fome communes, habitations, or portions of territories of the faid communes, actually in friendfhip with the French republic, fall without the line of frontiers above defcribed, they fhall continue to make part of the republic, notwithstanding any inference that may be made to the contrary from this article.

V. The king of Sardinia engages not to permit emigrants or perfons tranfported from the French republic to ftop or refide in his dominions. He may, however, retain in his fervice the emigrants of the departments of Mont Blanc and of the Maritime Alps, fo long as (L2)

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they give no caufe of complaint by enterprises or manoeuvres tending to oppose the internal safety of the republic.

VI. The king of Sardinia renounces all demand of recovery, or personal claim which he might pretend to exercise against the French republic for causes anterior to the present treaty.

VII. There shall be immediately concluded between the two powers a treaty of commerce on an equitable bafis, and fuch as may fecure to the French nation advantages, at leaft equal to thofe enjoyed in the dominions of the king of Sardinia by the most favoured nations.

In the mean time, all communications and commercial relations fhall be re-established.

VIII. The king of Sardinia obliges himself to grant a full and entire amnesty to all his fubjects who have been profecuted for political opinions. Every procefs which may have been raised on this fubject, as well as the judgments which have intervened, are abolished. All their property, moveable and immoveable, or the value thereof if it has been fold, fhall be restored without delay. It fhall be lawful for them to difpose of it, to return and refide in the dominions of the king of Sardinia, or to retire therefrom.

IX. The French republic and his majesty the king of Sardinia engage to fuperfede the fequeftration of all effects, revenues, or property, feized, confifcated, detained, or fold, belonging to the citizens or fubjects of either power, relative to the actual war, and to admit them refpectively to the legal exercife of the actions or rights which may belong to them.

X. All the prifoners, refpectively made, fhall be restored in one month, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, on paying the debts which they may have contracted during their captivity.

The fick and the wounded fhall continue to be taken care of in the respective hospitals. They fhall be restored when cured.

XI. Neither of the contracting powers fhall grant a passage through its territory to the troops of any enemy of the other.

XII. Befides the fortreffes of Coni, Ceva, and Tortona, as well as the territory which the troops of the republic occupy, or ought to occupy, they fhall occupy the fortreffes of Exiles, Affiette, Sufa, Brunette, Chateau Dauphin, and Alexandria; for which laft place Valence fhall be substituted, if the general in chief of the French republic prefer it.

XIII. The fortreffes and territories above described fhall be restored to the king of Sardinia upon the conclufion of the treaty of commerce between the republic and his majefty, of general peace, and the establishment of the line of frontiers.

XIV. The country occupied by the troops of the republic, and which fhould be definitively reftored, shall remain under the civil government of his Sardinian majefty, but fhall be liable to levies of military contributions, and furnishing provifion or forage which have been or may be exacted for the fupply of the French army.

XV. The fortifications of Brunette and Sufa, as well as the intrenchments formed above that town, fhall be demolished and deftroyed, at the expence of his Sar