ably aggravated by the unfavourable state of the season. upon Deeply as I lament the pressure of these evils this country, I am sensible that they are of a nature not to admit of an immediate remedy; but whilst I observe with peculiar satisfaction the fortitude with which so many privations have been borne, and the active benevolence which has been employed to mitigate them, I am persuaded that the great sources of our national prosperity are essentially unimpaired, and I entertain a confident expectation that the native energy of the country will at no distant period surmount all the difficulties in which we are involved. In considering our internal situation, you will, I doubt not, feel a just indignation at the attempts which have been made to take advantage of the distresses of the country, for the purpose of exciting a spirit of sedition and violence. I am too well convinced of the loyalty and good sense of the great body of His Majesty's subjects, to believe them capable of being perverted by the arts which are employed to seduce them; but I am determined to omit no precautions for preserving the public peace, and for counteracting the designs of the disaffected. and I rely with the utmost confidence on your cordial support and co-operation, in upholding a system of law and government, from which we have derived inestimable advantages, which has enabled us to conclude, with unexampled glory, a contest whereon depended the best interests of mankind, and which has been hitherto felt by ourselves, as it is acknowledged by other nations, to be the most perfect that has ever faller to the lot of any people. At At the Court at Carlton-House, the 29th of January 1817, PRESENT, His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, The Lord President, The Lord Privy Seal, Viscount Jocelyn, Lord George Beresford, Mr. Canning, Mr. Bathurst, Mr. Long, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer. By His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES, REGENT of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Name and on the Behalf of His Majesty, A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE, P. R. WHEREAS on the twenty-eighth day of this instant month of January divers persons, 1817. E riot riotously assembled and stationed in different places in the City of Westminster, proceeded to commit certain daring and highly criminal outrages, in gross violation of the public peace, to the actual danger of Our Royal Person, and to the interruption of Our passage to and from the Parliament; we therefore, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, in pursuance of an address from the two Houses of Parliament, do hereby enjoin all Magistrates, and all other His Majesty's loving subjects, to use their utmost endeavours to discover and cause to be apprehended the authors, actors, and abettors concerned in such outrages, in order that they may be dealt with according to law: And We do hereby promise, that any person or persons, other than those actually concerned in doing any act by which Our Royal Person was immediately endangered, who shall give information, so as that any of the authors, actors, or abettors concerned in such outrages as aforesaid, may be apprehended and brought to justice, shall receive a reward of ONE THOUSAND POUNDS, to be paid on conviction of every such offender; which said sum of one thousand pounds the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are hereby required and directed to pay accordingly: And We do further promise, that any person or persons concerned in such outrages as aforesaid, other than such as were actually concerned in any act by which Our Royal Person was immediately endangered, who shall give information, so as that any of such authors, actors, or abettors as aforesaid, shall be apprehended and brought to justice, shall, upon conviction of such offender or offenders, receive His Majesty's most gracious pardon. Given at the Court at Carlton-House, the twenty minth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, in the fifty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign. GOD save the KING. By His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES, REGENT of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Name and on the Behalf of His Majesty, A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE, P. R. WHEREAS by Our Proclamation, bearing date the eighteenth day of this instant, We thought fit, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, in pursuance of an Act passed in the fifty-sixth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to provide for a new silver coinage, and to regulate the currency of "the gold and silver coin of this realm," to name and appoint the third day of February now next ensuing, as the day from and after which, and from thence until the seventeenth day of February then next ensuing, as the period of time during which it should and might be lawful for any person or persons to deliver into His Majesty's Mint any old silver coin, heretofore coined and current, which should by any officer or officers of the said Mint, to be appointed for that purpose by the Master of the Mint, be judged and deemed to be such silver coin of this realm; and the said third day of February now next ensuing as the day from and after which, and from thence until the seventeenth day of February then next ensuing, as the period of time during which there should be delivered out of the E 2 said said Mint, new silver coins, as in the said Act is mentioned, pursuant to the regulations and directions thereof: And whereas We have thought fit, by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, to postpone the commencement of the period of time during which it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to deliver into His Majesty's said Mint any such old silver coin, and during which there shall be delivered out of the said Mint new silver coins of equal amount according to the respective denominations of the said silver: We do hereby, in the name and on the behalf of His Majetsy, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, revoke and discharge Our said Proclamation of the eighteenth of this instant January; and We do by this Proclamation, by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, name and appoint the thirteenth day of February now next ensuing, as the day from and after which, and from thence until the twenty-seventh day of February then next ensuing, as the period of time during which it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to deliver into His Majesty's said Mint any such old silver coin, and the said thirteenth day of February now next ensuing, as the day from and after which, and from thence until the twenty-seventh day of February then next ensuing, as the period of time during which there shall be delivered out of the said Mint new silver coins, as in the said Act is mentioned, pursuant to the regulations and directions thereof. Given at the Court at Carlton-House, the twentyninth day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, in the fifty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign. GOD save the KING. Foreign |