The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-05 00:00:00

PROPLAMATiON
FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE FOREIGN

ENLISTMENT ACT.

f From the LONDON GAZETTE of last Night.]
BY THE KING.—A PROCLAMATION.

GEORGE, R.

Whereas His Majesty being at peace with all the Powers
and States of Europe and of America, has repeatedly declared
His Royal determination to maintain a strict and impartial neu-
trality in the different contests in which certain of those Powers
and State are engaged :
And whereas the commission of acts of hostility by indivi-
dual subjects of His Majesty 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 gm* engaged in a contest, with respect to which His
Majesty has declared his determination to be neutral, is cal-
culated to bring into question the sincerity of his Majesty's
declarations:

And whereas .if His Majesty's subjects cannot be effec-
tually restrained from such unwarranted commission of acts
of hostility, it may be justly apprehended that the Govern-
ments aggrieved thereby might be unable, on their part to
restrain their subjects from committing acts of violence upon
the Orsons and property of unoffending subjects of His Ma-
jesty :

And whereas the Ottoman Porte, a Power at peace with His
Majesty, is and has been for some years past engaged in a con-
test with the Greeks, in which contest his Majesty has observed
a strict and impartial neutrality :
And whereas great numbers of his Majesty's loyal subjects
reside and carry on a beneficial commerce, and poisess establish-
ments and enjoy privileges within the dominions of the OttOman
Porte, protected by the faith of treaties between his Majesty and
that Power :

And whereas his Majesty has received recent and undoubted
information, that attempts are now making to induce certain of
his Majesty's subjects to lit out ships of war and privateers in
the ports of his Majesty's kingdom, and to embark therein, for
the purpose of carrying on, under the Greek flag, hostile. ope-
rations against the Ottoman Government, of capturing and de-
stroying Turkish ships and property, and of committing depre-
dations on the coasts of the Turkish dominions.

And whereas such hostile operations would be directly con-
trary to the provisions of the Act passed in the fiftyninth year
of the reign of his late Majesty, entitled " An Act to prevent
the enlisting or engagement of his Majesty's subjects to serve
in a foreign service, and the fitting out or• equipping, in his
Majesty's dominions, vessels for warlike purposes, without'
his Majesty's licence," in which it is, amongst other things,
enacted, " that if any natural-born subject of his Majesty,
his lteirfor successors, without the leave or licence of his Majes-
ty, his heirs` or successors, for that purpose first had and obtain-
ed under the sign manual of his Majesty, his heirs or successors,
or signified by his 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 commission, or shall
otherwise enter into the military service as a commissioned or
non-commissioned officer, or shall enlist or enter himself to
enlist, or shall agree to enlist or to enter himself to serve as a
soldier, or to be employed, or shall •serve in any warlike. or
military operation 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 of any person or persons ex-
ercising, or assuming to exercise, the powers of government,
in or over any foreign country, colony, province, or part of any
province or people, either as an officer or soldier, or in any
other military capacity ; or if any natural born subject of his
Majesty shall, without such leave or licence as aforesaid,
accept, or agree to take or ateept, any commission,• warrant,
or appointment, as an officer, or shall enlist or enter himself,
or shall agree to enlist or enter himself to serve as a sailor or
marine, or to be employed or engaged, or shall serve in or on
board any ship or vessel of war; or in and on board any ship
or vessel used, or ,fitted out, pr equipped, or intended to be
used for any,warlike purpose in the service of, or for, or under,
or in aid of any fozeign Power, Prince, State, Potentate, co.
bony, province, or pare of any province or people,. or of any
person or persons exercising, or assuming to exercise the powers
offlovernment in or ever any foreign country, colony, pro-
vince, or part of any province or people ; or if any natural-
born subject of his Majesty shall, without such leave and
li-
cence as aforesaid, engage, contract, or• agree to go, or shall
go to any foreign state, country, .colony, province, or part of
anyprovince, or to any place 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 whatever, whether
by land or by sea, 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 for, or
under, or in aid of, any person orpersons exercising, or assum-
ing to exercise, the powers of government in or over any
foreign country, colony, province, or part of any province or
people, either as an officer. or a soldier, or in any other mi-
litary 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, or shall be, in any
or either of the cases aforesaid, actually paid to, or received
by, him, or by any person to or for his use or benefit ; or if
any person whatever within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, or in any 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, re-
tain, engage, or procure, or shall attempt, or endeavour to hiie,,
retain, engage, or procure any , person- or •persons whatever
to enlist, or to enter; or engage to enlist, or to serve, or to be
employed in any such service or employment as aforesaid,
as an officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, either in land or sea
service, for, or under, or in aid of any foreign prince, state, po-
tentate, colony, province, or part of any province or peeple, or
for or under, or in aid of, any person or persons exercising, or
assuiting to exercise, any powers ofgoverninent as aforesaid, or
to go, or to agree to go, or to embark from any part of his Ma-
jesty's dominions for the purpose or with the intent to be so en-
listed, entered, engaged, or employed as aforesaid, whether any
enlisting money, pay or reward; shall have been, or shall be,
actually given or received, or not, in any or either of such cases
every person so 'offending shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanour, and, upon •being convicted thereof, upon any in-
formation, or indiCtment, shall be punishable by fine and im-
prisonment, or either of them, at the discretion of the Court
before which' such offender shall be convicted." And it is
further enacted, " That if any person within any part of the
United Kingdom, or in any part of his Majesty's dominions
beyond the seas, shall, without the leave and licence of his
Majesty for that purpose first had and obtained, as aforesaid,
equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or attempt or endeavour to
equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or procure to be equipped, fur-
nished, fitted out, or armed, or shall knowingly aid, assist, or
be concerned in-the equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arm.
ing of any ship or vessel, with intent or in order that such ship