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From aue LONDON GAZIct"rE, JulU 15, 1817. Ey lis Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALts, Regent of the United Kingdom of 'Great* Britain and Ireland, in the name anti on the behalf of his Majesty, A PROCLAMATION. • GEnRGE P. R.—Whereas it bath been repre tc:nied unto Us, that . divers misguided persons in score of the midland enntnies of England, have of late years committed various acts of (Mirage,. in breaking and destroying frames used- in making --vockings, lace, and other articles in the frame. worked-kniccd metnotactory, and that, among other instances of such outrages, a most heinom. one was committed on the night of the 2Sth day of -June last, at Loughborough, when - a large number of such frames were broken, and an at tempt was made to murder one of the persons ia trusted with the cure of them ; and-whereas it ham been farther represented unto Us, that such Outrages have for the most part been prompted by a desire, on the part of the journeymen employed in the said mannfactoty, to dictate to their mas ters the terms on which the manufactory should be carried on, or the prices at which work should be dune, which dictation is ntterlv inconsistent with the principles of justice, and destructive of the freedom and prosperity of trade.; and: whereas measures have been taken, by the Wisdom of his Majesty's Parliament, for repressing, such out rrtg'es us future, by increasing the punishment fer the sante ; and in - the hope that such . measures Will effectually deter persons from the future coot mission or such offences, We are desirous of ex tending his Majesty's most gracious pardon to all those whO have hitherto offended herein, except . as hereinafter is mentioned': We have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of his Ma jesty's Privy Council, to issue this Proclamation, and in the name and ou the, behalf of his Ma jesty, We do hereby promise and declare, that every person who bath committed any offence against the form of the Statute made in the 54th year of his Majesty's reign, for. the punishment of persons destroying stocking or lace frames, but bath not yet been charged therewith, and who shall, previous to the first day of September next ensuing, appear before some Justice of the Peace or Magistrate, and declare such his offence, and when, where, and by whome the same was com mitted, shall receive his Majesty's must gracious pardon for such offence ; and that no confes sion so made by any such person shall be given in evidence in any Court. or its any case whatever ; provided, nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall extend to the offence 'so committed at Loughborough as aforesaid, nor to any other offence, except such as may have been committed contrary to the said statute made in the 54th year aforesaid. At the .Court at Carlton.flouse, the 13th of JOly, 1917, Pieseot—His Royal Highness the PRINCE RECENT in Guuncil. Whereas by an Act, passed in the last Session of Parliament, cap. 57, mtituled " - An Act to em power His Majesty to suspend training, and to regulate the quotas of the militia," is is enacted, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any Order or Orders in Council, to suspend the calling out of the militia of the United King dom, or any part of the United Kingdom, or of any county, riding, shire, stewartry, city, town, or place, for the purpose of twin; trained and ex ercised in any year, and to order and- direct that no training or exercising of the militia of the United Ki►sgdom, or any county or counties, rid log or ridings, shire or shires, stewarty or stewar 7 tries, city or cities, town or towns, or place, or places, specified in any such Order or Orders in Council, shall take place in any year, any thing contained in any ACt or Acts of Parliament relat iug to the militia, to the cont►y notwithstanding : And .whereas it is deemed expedient that such training and exercising should be dispensed with in the present year; it is ordered by His Royal i.lighness the Ptince Regent, in the name,and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the rtilcice of His Majesty's Privy Council, that the calling out of the militia of that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain, for the purpose of being trained and exercised in the present year, be suspended, and that no training or exercising of the said militia do take place in the present year. CH ETWYND. Given at the Court at Carlton-house, the 15th day of July, 1517, in the 57th year of his Majesty's reign. God save the King. Carllox-Housc, Jul,/ 14, 1817. . His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in , the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to appoint Major. General Sir Benjamin Bloomfield to be Keeper of the Privy Parse and Private Secretary to his Royal Highness, in the morn of the Right Honourable Joh►t M‘Malion, who has prayed his Royal Highness's permission to retire from those situations, on account of ill health. Commission in the West Kent Regiment of Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent. dearge Charles Earl of Brecknock to be Captain, vice Croft, resigned. CounniSSion in the Bloxhain and Banbury Squadron of Ox fordshne Yeomanry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Oxford. The Honourable FrOcrich Sylvester North Douglas to be Captain. [For the Bankrupts, &c. see the Last Page.] The following trait, so honourable to the King of DENMARK, deserves to be made as public as possible :—The Danish frigate Minerva sailed from the Downs on the 7th of May last, with a pilot on board, to conduct her f hrougli the Channel. Dur ing the night, while sailing at the rate of seven or eight knots an hour, in foggy weather, she unfor tunately ran dow_n a fishing Smack ‘vhich was lying at anchor : but nut having, any light on board, Was not seen till too late. One man Was saved, the other man and two boys were unfot tunately drowned. As soon as his ftinish Majesty was in formed of this melancholy accident, h e ordered 2G IL to he paid to Mr. Wm. norm ms, of Wool who acknowledges that he is thereby fully and liberally indemnified. JOHN SUTTON, the OHO Who was saved, has also received twenty -guineas 16r the loss'of his clothes ; and his Majesty has also expre.sed laic intention of being useful to the child of the tuatt who was unfortunately drowned. PARLIAMENTARY An Acr to aUoiti l e.al'ps'of Yeomanry o) C': licntcer - Cavalry, when asseintyleil for the Suppression of Riots Or Tuinidti, be quartered and billeted, and Officers on !ia?f Pay to hold certain Commis sions in such Corps, and .to exempt Members in • Corps from serving the Office of Constable. le 7th .;one, 1817.1 • Whereas an Act pa'i;sed h) the forty-fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty, iutituted "Am A - et to cods'al;date, and amend the Provisions of the several Acts relating w Corps 01 Yeomanry and Volunteers in (ireat . Britain, and to make further. Regulations relating thertto whereas it is expedient that Corps of Yeomanry or Volunteer Cavalry, when assembled for sup pression or prevention of Riots or Tumults, should be quartered and billetted, and that Officers -re ceiving • balf-pay should be allowed to hold Com-- missionslis Captains, Lieutenants, or Cornets in such emits, and that effective members thereof should be exempt' fram serving peace and parish . offices May it therefore rlease your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with - the advice and COnSeOt of t he Lords Spiritual and .Temporal, and Comunms, in this present Parliament assent bled, and by the authority of the same, That all persons enrolled in any corps of Yeomanry or Volunteer Cavalry shall, whenever they shall be assembled anti doing military duty for the sly pression or prevention of Riots or Tumults in aid of any Justices of the Peace or Magistrates, be en titled to be quartered and billetted in like manner in every respect,. and under and subject to the sante regulations as 'the Officers, non-commis sioned Officers, drummers, and private men of his Majesty's 'orees. • 11, And be it further enacted; That no Officer who is entitled to half-pay shall be deemed to for feit such half-pay daring the time he shall belong to or he inrolled in or serve or receive pay as Cap tain, Lieutenant, or Co6iet in any corps of Yeo manry or Volunteer Cavalry, b:tt every such Offi cer shall, notwithstanding his holding any such commission'in and receiving pay for the swine in any Yeomanry Corps or Volunteer Cavalry, be entitled to and shall continue to receive his half pay ; and instead of the oath usually required' of half-pay Officers.to entitle them to the 'receipt of their half-pay, every such Officer so entitled to halt-pay and serving as aforesaid shall take the following oath " 1, A. B. do swear, That I had not between the " and the any place of employment or profit, civil " or military, under, his Majesty, besides an allowance of " half-pay, save and except my pay or allowance. (as the case " may be) for serving in the corps of Yeomanry or "Volunteer Cavalry of the • as Captain, Lieute-' _ " nant, or Cornet (as the case slay be)." And the taking of the said oath sh 11 , without taking any other-oath, be sufficient to entitle such peison to receive his half-pay. 111. And be it further enacted, That no Offi cer, !mu-commissioned Ofii4r, or effective mem ber of any Yeomanry Corps or VolnuteerCavalry, shali; during theperiod of his continuing enrolled in and au effective member of such Yetotanry Corps or Volunteer Cavalry, be compellable or compelled to Serve the office of Constable iu thzt parish to which .;;g belongs. An ACT to explain and amend an Acr of the 53d year of his present Majesty, relating to Toils on CARRIAGES used in lIIJSRANDRY, and to remove Doubts al , to Exemption of Carriages, not wholly laden with Manure, front Payment of Toll. Jwie o 'hereas by a Clause in an Act of Parliament made in the 531 year of the reign of his present Majesty, intitided ail Act to amend an Act made in the 52d year of his present Ma jesty's reign, iutituled An Act to explain the Exemption from Toll in several Acts of Parliament for Carriages ens ' ployed in Husbandry, and for regulating the Tolls to be paid on other Carriages, and on Horses in certain other Cases therein specified,' and fur other purposes relating thereto, it is enacted, that from and after the passing , of the said Act, the Owner or Driver of any Waggon, Cart, or other Carriage laden with Manure for Land, passing through any Turnpike, or otherwise passing on or across any Turnpike Road, should not be liable to pay any Toll, nor should any Toll be demanded far such Carriage so laden, or the Cattle drawing the same, by reasots only of any empty Basket or Baskets, empty Sack or Sacks, for more convenient Carriage, or Spade, Shovel, or Fork, necessary for loading or unload ing such Manure, being in or upon . ally such Waggon; Cart, or other Carriage, in addition to such Manure, if the Loading thereof is substantially Manure for Land as aforesaid; any thing in any Act contained to the contrary thereof notwith standing: And is limas Doubts' have arisen whether the said Clause does out extend to give a general grearptien ,from Toll to all Carriages laden with Manure for Land, although the same were made expressly liable to Tull by the respective Local Acts by which Tolls are imposecl and levied for the Maintenance of any Turnpike Roads : And whereas such Construction would operate very injuriously both to the reeeired fur the keeping up such respective Roads, and to the Security of the Creditors who have advanced Money upon the Credit of the same: For Remedy thereof be it declared and enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Cement of the Lords Spiritual and Tem poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That nothing in the said Clause, or in any other Clause of the same, or of any other Act or Acts of Parliament, shall extend or be construed to extend to exempt any such Carriages as aforesaid, or the Horses or other Cattle drawing the same, from any Tolls or Duties imposed by virtue of any Local Act or Acts under which any such Tolls or Duties have been or shall be im posed fur the Maintenance or Repair of such respective Roads upon which such f:arriages shall go or travel. ii. Pi tinkled always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That nothingin this Act contained shall be construed to re peal, vary, or alter any chose ur provision in the said Azt passed in time said 53d year of his present Majesty's reign, nor any other Act or Acts of Parliament; so far as respects any Turnpike Road or Roads,, or the Tolls to be collected at any Gate or Gates erected or to be erected thereon % within the Cities of London and Westminster, or within the distance of Fifteen Nli'es" from the Royal E::charrge.. A:s be it further. caacted l That this Act Ara be By a private letter from Portugal, of the Ist instant, we learn, that strong -reinforcements were then about to embark, and protecd imme diately for the Brazils. Government liad obtained a loan of upwards of 418,000/:"§teiliiik at 6 per cent. secured on duties upon , various to be henceforward pa\ahleatLisial:rottitc.lesConjt spiracies are now little tatked of in Portug a l and apprehensions seem to have subsided, Dispatches, it is sa id, h a d been sent t o t h e Brazils for instructions, as some distingni zi h s .-d persons, as We before stated, bad been found to be strongly implicated in the late politieal ehinations. The Paris Parrs of Sunday liit, wi4ell ivere riue this mart )g, haze not come to b.u.nd. Charleston Papers to tile l6rh :Tone tirriverl this morning. The following are Extracts " ST. JOHN'S, ANTIGUA, NIAY 27.—The Lune, Atnis, and Zepllyr transports, have arrived, at Barbadoes uith reinforcements for this Army, amounting to about 20 Officers and 130 men. O'HARA, of the G3d, and Licnt.-Col. STEWART, of the itOytil 'York Rangers, came out ill the Zephyr; the former has since arrivettat St Ki;Cs, %I:etc the Stiff the Gad is at present stationed. The Engineer, Attny Brig,- after coa veying Col: frt:m iltrbadocs t 4 8!.. arrived here on Saturday ev : ening, and sailcd ye*- . teltirty,. on her return' to Barbadocs, xritl► AL,jor AU SIEN Of the `..?ith Pout, which Re g iment has been ordered home. -t - " The 21st kegitneot are under orders for lie ‘Vest Jades, tittil the Ist IVest Indiri (part of trhich are in Garrison here) ;are destined for the Cape of Good frope.",.., " It is said that Dq. the British Consul at Alag , tiore, who, with so much generosity and reeling, redeemed from slavery', and_ otherwi'se befrientlt-d, tbe American Capt. RILE? and his unfortunate lel:o‘v sufferert, has been appointed American Agcsit to that place, to assist on account of Government any of our countrymen who rully hereafter be its distress, 01 meet with disasters in that quarter. " MONTREAL, JUNE 7.—Gen. PORTER, United. States' Coinmissioner under the Treaty of GhenG and Colonel HAWKINS, United States' Agent for managing the business under said Treaty on be half of his said Government, with their Secreta ries, MitiOrSTRAZER Anti DRLAVIELD, left here Saturday last for St. Regis, where they will meet Colonel OGILVY, his Majesty's Commissioner, aun his party." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT AT LIVERPOOL, DATED JULY 14. There have not been any Arrivals from the United States since the Stli inst. which was the occasion of nay silence. I have, however, this day the pleasure of announcing the following, L. :..-- The Thalia, Moms, froin Philadelphia, in 24 daps; sailed June 20; cargo, 3e515 barrels Flour. Amelia, IlkArutr, (corn New York; 1450 barrels Flour. Sally, IVATsoN, from Charleston; s ailed June 15, .Aith 1002 bates C‘ittoo. Tlsers are now a great number of vessels ready for sea.—.. 1 )e arrivals from the United States into this port. from the Ist January to the Bth amount to 2d9 vesseis, the imports of whirls .E shall give .;tau in. my next.—Flour in prise i.: 56s per bartei_ The Morn.-.; Chronicle must remind the Public of STERNE'S Starling, for it seems to be never tired of the same note—Lord CASTL:LREAGH !---- Lord CASTLEnEAMI I . —Lord CASTLEREAGH I. ! is the inces;iant. -object of its spleen. We coul,l hardly require a less equivocal Proof of the pnolie and private worth of this Nobleman, if we were not fully apprized of -The service s - whias he has not only rendered to tilic Comittry, but 1 48 Europe, , than this unceasing hostility of Party against him. Bit his Lordship would have ample revenge if a ttrneh' coldersentiment than revenge were not likely to arise in his mind, from such pitiful and pointless enmity, in finding that a rude Party Declaimer is the GREAT IDOL on whom the praise of his Lord ship's insignificant assailants are every - clay pro fusely bestowed. Yet if we are rightly informed, the person alluded to, who aspired at the honour of being LEADER OF THE PARTY, in the room of the late lamented Mr. PoNsoNßr, has tem rejectal„ as much too course and violent, and too apt ti• make complaints onfricolousand vexatious grounds, and who,: cotiseilueutly would be likely to sink. the tarty still lower in - the estimation of all the wise and loyal orders of the community. ileerncd and taken ti be a Public Act, and shalt ijz takeu notice of as such by all Judges, Justices, 'and others, *ithoulbeitig specially pleatle•l. NEIV iiTANDING ORDERS of the lIDUSE of COMMONS .1 : nun, 7° die Julii, 1817 Ti►e Honse was moved, that the, Standing Order,—Chap. I. No. That the Chairman of the Committee do sign, with his name at length, a printed Copy of the 13111 (to be called the Cmninitir-e 13ii1) on •which the Amendments are to be fairly written ; and also sign, with the initials of his name, the sereral Clauses added in the Committee," Light be read and the same f/eiAg read Resolved,, That every Map or Plan, and every Schedule or Book of Reference thereto, which shall be produced before the Committee upon any Pritate Bill (whether the same sha: l barn been previously lodged at the Private Bill Office, or nut), shall he signed by the Ciiiiirman of such Committee with his niune'itt length;- and he shall also mark with the ini tials of his name every alteration of such Map or Plan, and of the Schedule or Book of Reference thereto, which shall be agreed trion by the said Committee; and ever} , such Map 01 Plan, and schedufe or Book of Reference, shall thereafter. be deposited iu the Private Bill Office. • . Resolved, That curry Map or Plan, and Schedule or Book of Referencethereto, which shall be certified by the Speaker of the House us Commops, i❑ pursuance of any Act of Par liament, ,shall pitvitnisly be ascertained, and verified upon oath, to be exactly vonformable in 'all respects to the Map or Plan, and Schedule or Book of Reference, which shall have . been signed by the Chairman of the Committee upon the mu, including and specifying every alteration which may have been made therein by authority of Parliament. Ordered, That the said Resolutions be made Standing Orders of this House; and be printed. • • - J. DYSON, Cl. D. Dom. Com. THEATRICAL REGISTER. • Performed Last Night. . . KING'S THEATRE.—La Clemenza Di Tito. After which, Partie de Chasse D'Henri Quatre. COVENT-GaRDENThe Slave': Gambia, Mr. Connor ; Ze linda, Miss Stephens. After which, The Magpie, or the Maid. • THEATRE ROYAL, HavmAnitEr,—Wild Oats : Rover, Mr. Russell; Lady Amaranth, Mrs. Glover. Alter which, The Nrw Tit cAtitz ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA4IOUSE.—The Ca binet : Prince Orlando, Mr. Pearman ; Leonora, Miss Bug gins. After which, My Uncle, and The Deserter of Naples. NEXT SATURDAY, 19th JULY; LOTTERY WILL — Fr- N ISH.—FIRST PRIZE WILL HAVE L. 20,000 PROBABLY MAY- BE .6.40,300!!—N0 ADVANCE IN PRICE!! MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Waterford. DyE—l Lisbon, I Gottenbuizb. I Dublin. PRICE 0 THIS DAY A•t 1' Bank Stock, . 291 3 per Cent. Red.... 8O 81 80i 3 per Cent. Cons 504 , 1-3 u. 4 per Cents P 54 984 S per Cent.-Navy.Ann... tu'lt STOCKS !twit O'CLt:::=:. Brink L. Ann. .. 214 India Bon Lis, ,1033. . Exch. ni is, ,245. • . Cons. for Acconbf, 81 b ul4 I COURSE OF EXCHANGE, TO ESDAY, JVLY 15. i Ainsterdanz. Ditto, at Sig - 10. 1 Anistei darn 1 Ditto, at Nigiit ' Rotterdam - . 1 I lai.4loney AffUri'i 'l. b -. ol l . ' gli ' A Itona . Paris, 3 Day's sight Ditto • .24 80 2 Us. Bourdeaux, ditto • A viitlil; fort on the - Main [ llN.4lriti Catiii' ' Seville' _ ' . • r .. . si Effective • 35 .Effective 341 ! Bilboa ... • • • • - ' - • Gibraltar .. 3ll Leghorn ' • . 4B. r• , Genoa... .451—Venice Malta... I—Naples1—Naples ...... Palei•nw Lisbon Oporto .. Rio Janeiro i. Nilblin.... / WO of the Bank on Holland.... 2 Port uglal Gold, in Coin . 1.0 0 0 per 01. New, Doli,:r - 0 '5 li HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 19 inknites after 4. j Evening, 43 tuinules after 4. THE SUN. 110 LEM QUIS DICEItE PALSUM AUDIIAT. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1817. We yesterday offered a sincere tribute of re spect to Colonel Al`MAnom, on his retirement ham the service of the PRINcu REGENT, and we • :::(pressed our sincere regret that his Royal High ness thus have been deprived of so valnahht and faithful a. servant. Our regret, however, except so far as it relai.es to the cause of the Calomee l. retirement—bi 3 ill stave of health, is much lessen. ,ed by the Gazelle of last . night, by which we finit that Sir BENJAMIN BLC7I.*I FIELD is a'ppoioted tit tree Offices of Keeper of the Privy ant Private Secretary to his Royal Highness, as 'O4 do not conceive that a more worthy Successor t the Colonel could hare been selected. W e , a rt persuaded, from all we hear of Sir 1180.4.mtir BLOOMPIZLD, that the same gentle and digoifigil court ti.sv, the same benevolent zeal, the same attention to unfriended talents, will be found itr him Ets uniformly marked the conduct of his meritorious !'redecussnr. Our Re.aders 1,611 recoNect that Nve some time siricc 2tated that the are wo to be ealleit out lor tTaining i,i the present year. 'Pie GLizeite of last nigilt conta'ns au Order of Couoa, eon- firminiz this fact. The contains P1 . 0."' chtmation, declaring that "every person who bath commHed any off,!nce against the form of ihe tote wade in the fifty-fonrth year of his PlVEsTz'* reign, 107 the punidiment of persons destroying stocking or Lire fronts, b,tt bath not let beet) charged therewith, and w'uo shall , previous to th.c first day of September next en&tring, appeur beore 500,e Jklslice of the Peace or MO 4 151rR)(• ,itne1 chile curl) his offence, and when, where, and by ,v!) .hr the same was committed, shalt receive hi 3 Maj lay's most graciuus pardon for wch offence:':