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PROCLAMATION
FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE FOREIGN
ENLISTMENT ACT.
BY THE KINU-A PROCLAMATION.

°swum. R.
Whereas his Majesty being at peace with all the Powys and
'rates of Europe and of Atneries, has repeatedly declared his Royal

determination to maintain a strict and impartial neutrality In the
clafertn: contests in which certain of thorn Powers and Staten ate
engaged :

Aad whereas the commission of acts of hostility by todividual
subjects of his Majnty against any Power or State, or against the
persons and properties of the subjects of any Power or State, which
being at peace with his Majesty is at the same time engaged in
a sontest, with respect to which his Majesty has de:Lered his deter.
sniaation to be neutral, is calculated to bring Into question the sin-
cerity of his Majesty's declarations: •
And whereas if his lklajesty's subjects cannot be effectually is.
strained from such unwarranted commission of acts of hostility, ft
way be justly apprehended that the Governments aggrieved there.
by might be unable, on their part, to restrain their subjects from
committing acts of violence upon the persons and property of an-
t:Minding subjects of his Majesty :
And whereas the Ottoman Porte, a power at peace with bit Ma-
jesty, is and has been for some years past engaged in a contest with
the Greeks, in which contest his Majesty has observed a strict and
Impetus' neutrality : _ _ .

And whereas great nambers of his Majesty's loyal subjects re-
side and carry on a beneficial commerce, and possess establishments
and enjoy privileges within the dominions of the Ottoman Porte,
protected by the faith of treat:es between his Majesty atd that
Power :

And whereas his Majesty has reccired recent and undoubted In-
formation, that attempts are now making to induce certain of his
Majesty's subjects to fit out ships of war and priratecrs in the ports
of lots Majesty's kingdom, and to embark therein, for the purpose
of csayir.g on, under the Greek flag, hostile operations against the
(Morns" (dorm:merit, of capturing and destroying Turkish ships
sad proprrty, and of committing depredations on the coasts of the
Turkish dominions t

And whneas such hostile operations would be directly contrary
to the provisions of the Act, passed in the 59th year of the reign
of his late Majesty, intituled, " An Act to prevent the enlisting
or engagement of his Majesty's subjects to terve in a foreign ser-
vice. and the fitting out or equipping, in his Majesty's dominions,
vessels for warlike purposes, without his Majesty's license," in
which it is, amongst other things, enacted, " that If any natural
hewn subject of his Majesty, his heirs, or successors, without the
leave or license of his Majesty, his heirs, or successors, for that
purpose tint had and obtained under the sign manual of his Ma-
jolty, his heirs, or successors, or signified by Order in Council, or
by proclamation of his Majesty, his heirs, or successors, shall take
or accept, or shall agree to take or accept, any military commis-
sion, or shall otherwise enter into the military service as a com-
missioned or non-commiasioned officer, or shall enlist or enter him-
self to enlist, or shall agree to enlist or to enter himself to serve as
a 'Maier, or to be employed, or shall in any warlike ot mili-
tary operation to the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of any
foreign prince, state, potentate, colony, province, or part of any
province or people, or of any person or persona exercising, or as-
suming to exercise, the powers of government, in or over any
foreign country, colony, province, or part of any province or
people, either at an officer or soldier, or in any other mili-
tary capacity; or if any natural born subject of his Blajesty
shall, without such leave or license as aforesaid, accept, or
agree to take or accept, any commission, warrant, or appoint-
ment as an offieer, or shall enlist or enter himself, or shall
agree. to enlist or enter himself to serve as a sailor or marine,
qr to be employed or engaged, or shall serve in and on board
any ship or vessel of war, or in and on board any ship or
vessel used, or fitted out, or equipped, or intended to be used for
any warlike purpose in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of
any foreign power, prince, state, potentate, colony, province, or part
of any province or people, ox of any person or persons exercising,
or assuming to exercisi the powers of government in or over any
foreign country, colony, proemce, or part of any province or
people ; or if any natural born subject of his Majesty shall,
without such leave and licence as aforesaid, engage, contract, or
agree to go, or shall go to any foreign state, country, colony, pro
•:2CO, or part of any province, or to any plate beyond the seas
with an intent, or in order to enlist or enter himself to serve, or,
with intent to serve, in any warlike or military operation what-
ever, whether by land or by s:a, in the service of, or for, or
under, or in aid of, any foreign prince, state, potentate, colony,
province, or part of any province or people, or in the service of, or
Gtr. or under, or in aid of, any person or persons, exercising, or
as,urcing to exercise, the powers of government in or over any
foreign country, colony, province, or part of any p:ovince or
people, either as as an officer or a soldier, or in any other
military capacity, or as an officer, or sailor, or marine, in
any such ship or vessel as aforesaid, although no enlisting money
Or pay, or reward shall have been, cr shall be, in any or either of
the cases aforesaid, actually paid to, or received by, him, or by
any person tom for his use or benefit; or if any person whatever
Mithin the United Kingdom of Orem Britain and Ireland, or in
say part of his Majesty's dominions elsewhere, or in any country,
colony, settlement, island, or place belonging to or subject to his
Majesty, shall hire, retain, engage, or procure, or shall auempt,
er endeavour to hire, retain, engage, or procure any person et
persons whatever to enlist, or to enter, or engage to enlist, or to
verve, or to be employed in any such service or employment as
aforesaid, as an officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, either in land or
▪ service, fur, or under, or in aid of, any foreign prince, state,
potentate, colony, province, or part of soy province or people, or
foyer under, or in aid of, any person or persons exercising, or
assuming to exercise, any powers of government as aforesaid, or to
go, or to agree to go, or to embark from any part of his Majesty's
dominions for the purpose or with the intern to be so enlisted, en-
tered, engaged, or employed as aforesaid, whether any enlisting
money, pay, or reward shall have been, or shall be, actually given
as received, or not, in soy or either of such cases every person so
offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon
being confined thereof, upon any it.formation or indictment, shall
be punishable by fine and imprisonment, or either of them, at the
discretion of the Court before which such offender shall be con-
',mad t"

Aod it is further eastard, "that if any person within any pert
of the United Kingdom, et in any part of his Majesty's dominions
beyond themes, shall, without the leave and license of his ►lajssty
for that purpose first had sad obtained, as aforesaid, equip, furehh,
It out. or arm, or attempt or endeavour to equip, furnish, fit our,
os arm, or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or armed,
et shall knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the equipping,
furnishing, fitting out, or aerating of any ship or vessel, with intent
or in order that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service
of any foreign prince, state, or potentate, or of any foreign colony,
province, or part of any province or maple, or of any person or per-
sons exercising, or assuming to exercise, any powers of government
in arose, soy foreign state, colony, province, or pan of any province
or people, as a transport or store ship, or with intent to cruise or
C3rfilLit boatibties against any prince, state, or potentate, or
rig iin:t the subjects or citizens of any prince, state, or potentate,
us against the persons exercising, or assuming to exercise, the
powers of government in any colony, province, or part of any
province or country, or against the inhahitants of any foreign
whey, province, or part of any province or ccuntry, with whom
his Majesty shall net then be at war, or stall, within the United
Kingdom, or any of his Majesty's dominions, or in cry settle-
/amt, territory, island, or place belonging or sulject to
his filejesty, issue or deliver any commission for any ship or vessel,
to the intent that such ship or vessel shall be employed as afore-
said, every such person so °fouling shall be deemed guilty of s '
misdemeanor; and shall, u;ton conviction thereof, upou any in-
fumation or indictment, be punished by fine sod imprisonment, or
eiU.:r of them, at the discretion of the Court in which such of-
seeder shell be convicted, and every such drip or vessel, with in:
tickle, apparel, and furniture, together with the materials, arms,
ammunition, and stores whi:h may belong to, or be on board of, soy
such ship or vessel, shall be forfeited ; and it shall be lawful for any
*Men of his Majesty's customs or excise, or any alma his Ma-
jesty's navy, who is by law empowered to make seizures for any for-
feiture, Incurred under any of the laws of customs or excise, or the
lawsof made and navigation, to mire sach ships and vessels aforesaid,
And in such places, and in such matinee in which the officers of his
Majesty's customs or excise, and the officers of his Majesty', navy,
ere empowered respectively to nuke seizures under the laws of
mums and excise, or under the laws of trade and navigation, and
that every such ship sad vessel, with the tackle, appval, and fur-

niture, together with all the materials, arms, ammunition, std
storm which may belong to or be on board of such ship or ves-
sel, may be prosecuted and condemned in the like manner, snd in
such courts as ships or vessels may be prosecuted and condemned,
for any breach of the laws made for the protection of the revenues
of customs and excise, or of the laws of trade and navigation :"
Ills Majesty, therefore, being desirous of preserving to his sub-
jects the blessings of peace which they now happily enjoy, and
being resolved to perserere in that system of neutrality which his
Majesty has so repeatedly declared his determination to maintain ;
in order that none of his Majesty's subjects may unwarily render
themselves liable to the penalties imposed by the statute herein
mentioned, has thought fit, by and with the advice of his Privy
Council, to issue this his royal Proclamation

And his Majesty does hereby strictly command that no person
or persons vhatsetver do presume to take part iu any of the said
contests, or to Commit or attempt any act, matter, or thing what-
soever, contrary to the provisions of the said statute, upon pain of
the several penalties by the said statute imposed, and cf his Ma-
jesty's high displeasure :
And his Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, Both hereby
enjoin all his Majesty's subjects, strictly to observe, as well towards
the Ottoman Porte and the Greeks, as towards all other belligerents
with whom his Majesty is ct peace, the duties of neutrality ; and to
respect in all, and each of them, the exercise of those belligerent
rights, which his Majesty has always claimed to exercise, when his
Majesty has himself been unhappily engaged in war.

(liven at our Court at Winds;;, the 94th day of September, 1826,
and in the 6th year of our reign.
OOD SAVE TUE Kira.