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THE GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, MAT in, time.

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On Saturday, the 28th inst. arrived in this har-
bour, His Majesty's ship Phattini, row nall Bastard.
Pellew, E.g. having on hoard the Hon. Sir Edmond
Stanley, lit. Recorder of Prince of IVales's
with Ilia Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, establish-
ing a Court of Judicature, for this island.
Sir Edmond Stanley landed under appropriate
salutes from His Majesty's ship Phaeton, and the
garrison.
PROCLAMATION.

His Must Gracious Majesty, by his Royal Letters Patent,
hearing date at Westminster, the olth day of Mardi, in the
forty-seventh year of his Reign, having Omagh: fit to direct
and ordain that a Court of Judie.atere should be established
at Prince. of Wales's Island, in the East Indies, and the places
and territories subordinate, and Marled thew tn, and depend-
ent thereon, public notice is hereby given, th it Sir ['Almond
Stanley, Knight, Recorder of the Prince of 11'ii/eit's
has arrived nt this Piesidency, bringing with him His Mules-
ty's Royal Letters Patent, establishing the said Court °Liu.
iticatnre ; and all the European and Native Inhabitiints of
Prince of Wales's Island arc hereby directed to attend the
unmans: of the said Court of J bilication at the Gut eminent
House, to-isurrow morning, at n o'clock, for the purpose of
heerind the said Letters Patent read, stud twitaessing the
establishment of the said Court.
By order uf the Hon. the G rr n and Council,
THOMAS RAFFLLS, Sec. to Govt.
F in C •towallitt, Joth May, 180S-
'1111.1 (lay, at 10 o'clock, the Hen. the Gove-:-.1.-•.r,
and the 31i-inhere of •Council, having assemi,;,,d
in the Council Chamber, in order to receive Sir
Edninnd St iiiky, proereded with him to the Hall
of the Government House, (tar the present appro-
priased as a Court-house,) when Has Mitjesty'a Let-
ters Patent, bearing date the day of March,
11307, were publicly rend; at the -conclusion of
which, a royal salute was fired Irking the. ramparts
of the garrison.
The Recorder then adiniciiike.:, d the oaths pre-
scribed to be takeii by thelJov.rilor, and tendered
the declaration against trans. distiantiation, which
were clity taken and *abseil lwil ; • 404 the Ilecorder
and the other Judges of the said Court, baring af-
terwards taken the like oaths, and ail bst—e ibcti similar
declarations ; ' the ''Gisvernar, Recorder and Coun-
cil, took their. wilts °ollie &arts.
James Canis , . ani",",;irwld by the Honour-
able the Gr a.‘.l t2ouncil, first Sheriff of
Prince of iv %vas their;iworn into that
office, I i t • ; and the Court ofJoiti-
cattire i'.`"!!lty constituted stud formed,
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the S'.ieri was ord.-lot *0 partisill 31;4 prociattil the
Charter, mid Court orJudiestiire, by the
imam grill style ~l' r oil Conti .1. Judicature of
Prelim at'
Tlit Gelli,wit, Pcnclosuation was thin read by
the Siterilfnii.biiert,Coart :
GEORGE 111 ti%, the Grave of God of the United
Eincilowl of Great Rtitsiu and Ireland, Lug, De.
fender of the Faith, and So forth.
Whereas, His Vat Greening Majesty, bplilis Royal Let-
ters Patent. bearing date at WCIItITII,IOCr, talc 25th day of
Marsh, is the 47th year of his reign, did of his especial
grace think at to direct and ordain. that a Court of Jed iris-
tare simuiil be established for the settlement of Prince of
Wales's ;rasa, in the East ladies, and Gm places end uvri,-
Owls* tabardAnte sad ausexed theist°, and depenetnt there.
which 6,Lostd be celled, " The Court of Judicature of
Prince of Wales's Island." and should he holden by and before
the Garernar• and Cotrnril fee the time bring of Prince of
tVales's Island, sad ticCre gee principal Judge, who Murata
Le called ti. Recorder of Priam: ef Wales's Island; and his
ki.jjesty, in Lail by the 114tIlt Utttel Patent, was graciouely
pleased to roeliiinte soil appoint lir Edmond Stanley, lint.
to he the first Recorder of Prince of Welea's Island ; aid
w/sercas the said Gogernor, Recorder, and Cou,teil, in mine.
altabct of Nw Majesty's said Letters Patent, have this day
assembled Cairgsvime in visecnort at the Government-house,
in G. nij.. Tow. • Prince nf Waiits's Island, and after having
rowel the, tame Lettere Patent to he read nuillublished,
e vrociesied to Timbre thematic% for the executor% nf tbe
er..l/ • Powers and A nt/w,rities lbrtdiy .cried in them, by
raking the 'laths, and subscribing the Iterlatirtlbris therein
directed to 'he taken red subscribed,—Thuldii therefore to
proedaim'aird 'publish, that the Court of Judicature of the
;'wine of la in doe manner constituted and
steblisheil, pursuant to the peorAnutis of the said Letters
Patent, end that all Cied, Criminal, and Eecteriast lent Juris-
illation, will Lion, henceforth be exercised in the mot Court
of Judicature of Prince of Watts's Island, iu the manner
MAW the estrut,' by the said Letters Patent direett tt and
prescribed, of which all pelmets are hereby commanded sad
etijrdned to take leutire.—tion a VC Tar.

attract of His Majesty's Choice, bearing date itsth day of
Muth, in the cith year of his Reign.
" And tee do further hereby strictly chaige and command
• ail Goversors, :Marstrates, Ministers, Civil and Military,
" and all oar liege sidijeets, belonging to the fdetnries mud
" Owe, aforesaid, that in the excitation of the several pow-
" ere, jurisdictions and authorities hereby granted, made,
" glees, or 'treated, they he aiding, assistute, and obedient
" iu all things, as they will looser the coatrary at their
" peril "
By errant' of the Itonoutable the Governor and Conned.
THOBIAS RAFFLES, See. to uort.
Sir EDMOND STANLEY tYplAilled the purport
and latent of the Cluirter, and the nutter's' clauses
of it, in au address to the Governor, to the following
effeet
" It is with the most cordial satisfaction that I
avail myself of tins opportunity of presenting to
you, Sir, for the perpooe of being deposited among
the records of this rising and valuable settlement,
His Majesty's Ituyal Charter for erecting a Court
of keldicature, *Waits the island, and the territories
thereunto belonging, and which I trust will iemain
an everlasting monument of His Majesty's good-
ness and parental solicitude for the welfare and
peosperity of the island, and the happiness of all
hi. subjects residing under its Government. For
teweelf, I can never Sufficiently express the deep
and unfeigned sense or gratitude I fed to my so-
%ranes, for his having been graciously pleased to
select me as the Instrittnetit to introduce the ines-
timable blessings of British law and British judi-
cature,into a more remote part of the eastern world,
than those great advantages ever yet had reached ;
sad I shall rnasider the ,resent as one of the proud-
est days of my life, if I shall be so fortunate as to
execute tins high commission in such a manner as
may effectuate the great and noble object for which
it was granted.
" Permit inealso to assure yews, that this Charter
is as liberal and tederiert in its priuciples and provi-
sions. is it is effectual and extensive in its jurisdie-
yen ; in*, much as it coinnsuaicates to all Ili*
Majesty's Asiatic as well as British subjects. the
full enjoyment of personal security, persolial liber-
ty, and private property : at the same time that it
secures to s'el the native subjects, C., free *ltemise
of their religion, indidgea.thein in all their preju-
dices. and parrthe most scrupulous attention to all
delt aucicat customs, usages, awl habits—a 'put-
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Sib/ principle fit itiertintini,iattkipteti by treat
Britain towards her ludian empire, which has con-
tributed much to her own honour and glory, as
well as the happiness of • her subjects in these re-
mote territories.
" The due and impartial adrumistratiou ajnotice.
whiCh secures our lives awl po;perties, isalie grand
cud of civil society ; and it is ht truth the real
source, and only sure foundation, of the strength
and power of all governments. The history of tile
whole civilized world establishes this important
truth, that ray society or government Can flourish,
or indeed long subsist, without a die and whole-
some system of laws; without a superior tributes!,
to which alt the members of it coin resort, for the
establishment of their several right's, and the vindi-
cation of their several wrongs. Deprived of these
advantages, cominerce,the nurse of arts and purest
of wealth, would soon leisimish and die away, cud
all the great and noble inceinives to industry, exer-
tion, and enr-rprise, which hitherto have raised and
elevated nil slit colonies iuto great rominercial
states, would receives fatal cheek, and in the end
be utterly extinguished. It was well observed by
Mr. Locke. that great philosopher and writer on
Government, that
" Where there is no law, there is nu freedom
ati.l in troth, by the British la* we possesses mach
of it as is consistent with the good of civil society
we have a right to do every thing that a good ass
would wish to do, and are only restrained from
doing that which would be injurious to our fellow-
citizens, and destru'etive of our (mu !soppiness.
" The 4rtirt and rapid progress which this settle-
ment appears to. Wive merle in commerce, poi el le-
lion, cud cultivation, since its formauots, notwith-
stauding the great disadvantages it had to struggle
with, has netorally attracted the 'mention of the
parent stutr, and escited.its cares. as well as raised
its hopes, fur its future prosperity and advancement.
Influenced by theie eptisitlertatons, His Nlajesty,
is whom the supreme sovereignty of the Wind iv-
' sides, and to whom alone it below's, as the /nun-
. tain of justice. to effete Courts, and to prescribe
by what laws and process they shell proceed (in set-
tlements ceded to_ the British empire), has, by his.
Royal Charter, created this, Court, with
tiara end powers over the Island and itsofrpenden-
cies, eo-eunal with hie superior Courts of Common.
Law and Equity, at M'estosinster; to take cogni-
sance of, and arimitlister redress for, all possible in-
juries that can be committed agpinst the personal
security, peraoual liberty, or private property of
atiy of his subjects. Asiatic or British, Native or
European—and as all ere entitled to its protection,
so ail are subject to its jurisdiction and coercion;
awl in order to secure the enjoyment of those bless-
: oge: Hie Majesty's Court will be always open,
ready to administer redress, and to pronounce, in
the words of the grout Charter-40/i nesabiwas,
nalli verisitmer, art differentia, reclaim eel pude-
" As this Court is tested with full power* to guard
the rights of the living, an it has jurivdiction to
take care of and protect the assets of the dead, anti
for that purpose, as wu F.cidesiastical Court, to
grant probates mid administrations., and c pal the'
just distriiiutiun of their property among their le-
gal representatives, cretittoris and legatees, in
whatever part of the globe they may reside ; rio this
Court is rested with power* to appoint guar/ham of
Samos Bina committees of idiots and lunatics, acid
to ['maestrc their estates for the use of those who
shall be entitled. As a Criminal Court, its juris-
diction extends to all offences, front high treason
cud murder down to the most trivial miatlememior,
and it secures to all the King's subjects, without
distinction. the privilege of Trial by Jury, that
grand palladium of British freedom and w curity,
by which uu snail eats be effected in life or limb, or
tunnelled for any criminal offence, but by the ver-
dict of his fellow-citizens, and the lawful judgment
of the Court. But as St is my intention, as coins
us circuminanees will allow it, to hold a sessiois of
Oyer awl Terminer, awl general gaol delivery, for
this Island and its dependencies, and for that pur-
;Nam to issue a precept to the High Sheriff, to el:un-
man a Grand Jury, 1. shall not now anticipate the
address which I way feel it mysduty to make to
that Grand Jury, _upon the principles of Criminal
Law, the best iurrns of preetutiug oflencer, and
curing the moral diseasee that may appear to pre-
vail in the community entrusted to my care ; and
therefore I shell only now add, that those laws ere
to be administered by a Judge, who is bound by
his oath; as well its Isis honour mid emisciefiest,
to pronounce his jutlg.nents. not according to his
private discretion, bur according to the known and
established law. And us all human tribunals are
hubie to error, so it is it great coosolittion to one,
that my judgments, in all civil Caftil of moinent, will
be euloset to the reivir•ion of the King in Crwd,
upos au appeal : (which will keep the rule of jam;
filar uniform and steady ;) that Court being com-
posed of the most esperienced members of His Ma-
jesty's Cousicil, and some of the high judicial cha-
racters in England. men interested by their property,
formed by their education, said hound by their
duty, to be skilled in the lees of their country.
" Such are the greatoutli nes of the Juridical Con-
stitution of the Coed. But whilst I can bound to
express piy gratitude to my Sovereign, for his hav-
ing beau pleased to appoint toe to establish and
administer this 0614n:tami permit me to assure
you, Sir, that lam not at all insensible to the ar-
duous and delicate trust that I have undertake',
that of administeriog justice amongst a great and
'growing population, composed of various classes of
inhabitants, differing from each. other all much
in manners and hallits, as, in religion and lan-
guage ; yet I indolge myself with the hope
that I shell he able to encounter any such ap-
parent difficulties ; soul I trust that, by advert-
ing to, and weighing, the greet principles of
universal justice, that existed witecedeet to any
municipal institutions, and which are tile best and
most autlwiatic foutidatioo of all human laws, by
adopting the just and benevolent system of the
common and statute law of England, so for Se
they are applicable to the state, circainstauces,
and condition. of an infant settlement by in-
vestigating and discovering the local cu.totas •f
the different classes of the native inhabitants:
wherever they arise, or may beeouie et all ma-
terial to the due administration of justice. thati
shell be able to build a system ofjurisprudence mid
jurisdiction. upon sound end national foundations,
to reduce the practice of the Court into eontetbass

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lire t regular forM ; end, Upoll the winle, 'that
May so deport my:aff Id the discharge of shill pea
duty, that the injured Audi never leave thus tribune?
nuredrcoaed. thin tl.e inuocent may always aPproie.h
it with cootidence, atid the guilty depart from i t
without reason to.romplaid utinjustice. In the d,:-
licate trust of admismstering the Criniihal La
(•lue attention twin; always paid to the public in.
treest), I shall always endeavour to hare present to
my mind, and to engrave out my heart, that noble
principle of the British Constitution, enforced and
sanctiuued by His Majesty's('uruuutiupOath,"to
(wise I.aw sued justice (in mercy) to be von:Cited in
all his judgments." Tbns, I trust, behalf he able
to mammon the honour and lustre of the Britisi,
character maid judicature (ever famed iu all ages and
iii all countries for its clemency as well as jusdo)
untarnished and thus. remote region
of the world, and furnish un ad.litiOnal proof (Wait
inestim benefits which British dominiou (activit:
on its Asiatic subjects.
" I cannot omit this opportunity, Sir, of mrkutg
say hest ticktiowledgments, for this atteutirm I 118.1
received since my arrival in this settleitietit
shun, of expressing my cuntitlence, that tile EXeett;
tke Government will, -err iseesision• shoal(' re:
quire it), be ready to forward, and cu-operate ire
',milling into effect, the t joie-ottani
of His llajesty, as isninifested by his Ite)ol Blair?
ter."
To which the GOVERNOR replied as follows
di Sir !Lanai!. St:miry—lo receii tug Ills Majesty's
Royal Charter fruirr your haittla, :Mow lute to
,press my warmest acknowlcil4ineuts for your elo-
geoid elucidation, or its provisions, and to arsine
you, on behalf of myself and colleagues, iii the
government of this baud,- that nothiug shall be
wooing ou our part iu currying into effect His Ma-
jesty's.rnost gracious Mien-boas.
establ:iiiiment of a r.gularly-constittned
Court of Justice, is at subject of such 1141 i and im-
,portant consideratiOn, 'mid so essentially cifiatiectid
asith the insmtdiate prosperity of the settlement.
and the welfare-atid happinesii.ist' its inhabitants.
that it affords me the highest grautiearion
ride iu befog dity instrumental in its
mulzotion.
" The anxiety of His. Majesty, that the (.7sitirt
should have every assistance which legal &Wait*
vim reader fully manifested by the appoint-
ment of a Gentleman so emineutly quolitied for
the exrcutiou of the arduous office of Iti.corsler—a•
Gentletuan whom we know to have tilled high
Legal and Judicial Offices tinder His Majesty
Ireland, with distinginolied honour to himself, and
%drainage to his tonatry :.and it is peculiarly gra-
tifyitig to the Member* of this Government,. that.
by the gr.lei tttt d provisions of His Majesty's Royal
Charter, they tune the Immour to be suited ,sith
such einnient abilities and personal merits."
The Court then adjuumed till Friday, the 3.1 of
June.
Gt the course of the tidy, tlw Sheriff read the
Proclantatimi, in English sod iii the native LIP.
guages, in the different harts of the town.
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