The Sun.
London, England, 1805-02-11 00:00:00

Frog LON PON G LEE n, Feb, 9, 04,,

Dy the KII O.
A PROCLAM A 'ION.

CrOitGE R.

Witexeit,3 .alarming aCenunts have..been received'
that the liitettiotis I)itease (,which, with a malignancy
equalling if not,exceetling that oi thee Plague; :has
occasioned s dreadful m irtality in ievital -part's of
Spain, and itr our T.)kv,jk awl Garrison 01 Gibraltar)
has seread 'aed extended itself, to parts* the. C,;ast.,
of the Mediterranean; and, wireketis;-front the seeoso
of the year, in which it his- cOntiritied 'ties tivaus in
those places where it 'has alteady'appieted, there is
no gnod-ground ofTortfitterfee oT hope' that the coin.
partitive coldness and the temperature tif the climate
can affird any obstacle to its introdoetion and ero.
gress in our Kingdom ;
And, whereas, we'feel it to be incumbent upon us
twernploy ouch memo' as, under the roteetion 'and
favOur 'of Divine PlOVidence, may be best calculated
to guard our loving Sultje4ts against the Visitation::
of so dreadful a calamity, we have thoughtlfio: by
mid with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue
/hi; our Royal Proclamation ; and we do herein,.
toy. and with the
,advice of
.our said Council, :most
strittly enjoin and cotornsnd all our loving Subjeas,
and mare especially those residing at any of the Sea.
port Towns,- or in any other places an the Coasts' of
tits Kingdoin, Whither they May themselves be liable
to t")aarantine or otherwise, as they tender the pre.
ser'‘,aiitin of their own lives, and the safety and wel.
fare of all•the Inhabitants of this Kil'igclom, most •
scrupulously. to observe all the Laws of Quarantine:
which now arc or may hereafter be,ie Inter, and all
Orders made by us, with the advice of-our Privy;
iCtiuncil,' or by our Priyy Council, under the audio.
ury thereof
.; and particufirly most 'carefully 'to
avoid any communication with any Ship or Vessel,
or-with aey'pirstin or persOns coming therein,from,
or thsough:the Mediterranean, or from the West of
Idarbary, on the Atlantic Ocean, or from Cadiz, or
tither parted Spain without the Streigtlito lying to
trheaouthoiird of CepeSt.Vincent, or from any place
ea:Which, Ivy our Royal Proclumation,. by and with
the advice of our Trite), Council, or ,by out Orders
in COunetVilic of Quarantine are, or may
:hereafter hr, extended ;.:or with any .bost, or person
therein, coming from or haviog been on. hoard any
instil Ship, unlit such Sliip;:.,Vet,sel,. err Iloati with
the ,ctews'end persons ore board, and,thezoods,
wares, aod rintreharelicea imported therein, ~!1,11';.811
have performed their Quarantine in such placeii and
instiller 'as are or shall hereafter be directr4 in that
behalf,' and until they tespettively ,shail have been
duly discharged therefrom : And we do further—,
strictly exhort, enjoin, mid command, all Magistrates
and Persons in Aueentity, and all others cur loving
Subjeets,, without loss of time, to give inforina.
titan to us, through our Principal Secretary of
Stairs (of the Home Department, or' tai our Privy
Council; of any-persons that they may know or be.
Jieve to have (deeded ilgairm any Of the said Lawit
or Orders; and we. do :hereby warn all persons
whom it may enncern, that; .we have given the
striftest .Orders` for:enforcing, , with the utrneat ri.
geor, the' molt punetual-obstrvatle,e of the Las of'
Quarantine, .and till the Orders,. Rules, and 1t4014.
(ions relating thereto, it being .our firm detetinina...
tion, upon serious eonsideration of the great extetit
of trtisery,pd calamity which a single instance of
imerovidently negteatog any of these Regulations
may briog upon our loving Subjeas,, to cause the,
several Penalties which the LaW has provitikl, or
may provide, to be lel:lilted upon ell those who may
be guilty of any offeneeitgainst the same.
And whereai it is Rho necessary to take the ut.
most precaution to prevent 'the spreading of infec.
tion, in case the said malignant disease, or any,other
contagiotiii nature .(which. God, in hiamerey,
avert I), Should unhappily rnanifest.itself in any.part.
of our United Kingdom, notwithstanding the' pre.
cautions taken to tgliard against the introduttion
thereof, We 'have thought fit, tby and .with the ad.
'vied' Of out said Connell, to take measures for the
establishment of a Board of Health, to consist of.
mitt able, learned, eminent, and experienced in the
study and Praetice or physjc," together with per.
sons most capable, from their knowledge of the Porte
of our Kingdoms, to afford assistance in the. forth.
ing of ltegulations respedivelye.applicable to the
local circumstances of the said, Potts ; Such Board
to hy authorized and direited to'prepare,and digest
the best' Rules and Regulationa for the :speedy, and
*Ritual adoption of the. inose.approVed inetliods of
goardit% -against the imtrode4tiota .and. spreading
of infetiion, and for purifying any ship or house,
or any place in which any coutagioos. disorder may
'haVe menifested itself, and to communicate the same
ter all Magistrates, Medical Persons, arid' others hof
tJur InviniSubjects, who. maybe Aniremi, and may
apply to,be made acquainted therewith ; and we
most striCtly ertjOiti arid, command all 11Ivgistrates
;mei Persona in 'Authority, - elbMedieal.Persons, and
other!. Our 10Ving Subjetie, en;pecially those within
tite.Matititne Counties, to give immediate notice to
us, thiotigh our Principal Sts;CtUtley,, of State for
the Home I)eparittent, or our- Privy Couheil,
ease any pervun or persons :Mould be attacked ,with
any fever, at teodo with new and uncommon Symp.
teons, such as to afford ground for apprehension
that such fever is of the Saute nature as the dis:
order prevailing 'in several parts of Spain, and in
Cobraltar, its order that the most immediate and ef.
fcetoal Tneasores may be taken,: as well for affording
4,41 e aria necessary assistance anal relief to those, at.
ilieied with 'the Beetle,' air fbr preventing the clines.
•
gloss froto-spreadiog amongst our ;loving Sulajeits;
Given at our Court at the Gusset's Palace, the
6t day of February, One thousand eieht
7•-• luatr-
dred steal live, :anti in the Forty-fifth Yeat
our Reign.
GOD save the KING.

r,,hri,,qry 9,18,11

2,1 Regiment of Life Guards, John Field., Coot. to be Vete.