The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-15 00:00:00

7HE CIVIL TJAR IS AMERICA.

(From the Gazette of last evening.)
BY THE QUEEN, A PROCLAMATION.
VICTOUIA. R.—Whereas we are happily at peace with

all Sovereigns, Powers, and States.
And whereas hostilities have unhappily commenced be-
tween the Government of the United States of America

and certain States styling themselves the Confederate States

of America.

And whereas we, being at peace with the Government of
he United States, have declared our royal determination to

maintain a strict and impartial neutrality in the contest
between the sai t contending parties.
We, therefore, have thought fit, by and with the advice
of our Privy Council, to issue glis our Royal Proclama-
tion.

And we do hereby strictly charge and command all our

Dying subjects to observo a strict neutrality in and during
-be aforesaid hostilities, and to abstain from violating or

contravening either the laws and statutes of tha realm in
this behalf, or the law of nations in relation thereto, as they

will answer to the contrary at their peril.
And whereas in and by a certain statute made and passed

in the 59th year of his Majesty King George the Third,
intitulpd "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 Domi-

nions, Vessels for Warlike Purposes, without his Majesty's
Licence," it is, amongst, other things, declared and enacted

as follows :

" That if any natural-born subject of his Majesty, his
heirs and successors, without leave or license of his Ma-
jesty, hi, heirs or successors, for that purpose had and ob-
tained, under the sign manual of his Majesty, his heirs or
successors, or signified by order in council, or by proclama-
tion 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 in the military
service as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer,
or shall enlist or enter himself to enlist, or shall
agree to enlist or enter himself to serve as a soldier, or to be
employed or shall serve in any warlike or military opera-
tion, 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 exer-
cising or assuming to exercise the powers of Govern-
ment 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
accept any commission, warrant, or appointment as an
officer, or shall enlist or enter hi/Lev, or shall agree to en-

list or enter himself, to serve as a sailor or marine, or to be
employed, or engaged or shall servo 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, or of any
person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the
Powers of Government in or over any foreign country,
colony, province, 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-
vince, or part of any province 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, pro-
vince, or past of any province or people, or in the service of
or for or under or in aid of any person or persons exercising
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 a Beadier, 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
or shall Le in any or either of the case; 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,
retain, engage, or procure, or shall attempt or endeavour
to hire, 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 id any such service or em-
ployment 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, potentate, colony,
province, or part of any province or people, or for or under
the purposenaneor 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 embark from any part of his Majesty's
dominions, for
mp'aity, hintent to be so
enlisted, entered, engaged, or employed as aforesaid,
whether guy enlisting
or
reward shall
have been or shall be actually given or received, or not ;•
ooy, r,
in any or either of such cases, every person so offending
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
being convicted thereof, upon any information or indict-
ment, shall be punishable by fine and imprisonment, or
either of them, at the discretion of the Court before which
such offender shall be convicted."
And it is in and by the said Act further enacted,—
"That if any person, within any part of the United
Kingdom,
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 equipried, furnished,
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 or vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign
prince, state, or potentate, or of any foreign colony, pro-
vince, or part of any province or people, or of any person
or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any
powers of Government in or over any foreign state, colony,
province, or part of any province or people, as a transport
or store ship, or with intent to cruize or commit hostilities
against any prince, state, or potentate, or against the sub-
jects or citizens of any prince, state or potentate, or against
the persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers
of Government in any colony, province, or part of any pro-
vince or eountry, or against the inhabitants of any foreign
colony, province, or part of any province or country,
with whom his Majesty shall not then be at war, or shall,
within the United Kingdom, or any of his Majesty's domi-
nions, or in any settlement, colony, territory, island, or
place belonging or subject to his Majesty, issue or deliver
any commission for any ship or vessel, to the intent that
such ship or vessel shall be employed as aforesaid, every such
person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall, upon conviction thereof, upon any information
or indictment, be punished by fine and imprisonment,
or either of them, at the discretion of the court in which
such offender shall be convicted ; and every such ship or
vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together
with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and stores,
Which may belong to or be on board of any such ship or ves-
sel, shall be forfeited ; and it shall be lawful for any officer
of his Majesty's customs or excise, or any officer of his
Majesty's navy, who is by law empowered to make seizures,
for any forfeiture incurred under any of the laws of
customs or ' excise, or the laws of trade and
navigation, to seize such ships and vessels aforesaid, and in
such places and in suclidnanner in which the officers of his
Majesty's Customs or Excise and the officers of his Ma-
jesty's navy are empowered respectively to make seizures
under the laws of Customs and Excise, or under the laws of
trade and navigation; and that every such ship and vessel,
with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all the
materials, arms, ammunition, and stores which may be-
long to or be on board of such ship or vessel, may be
prosecuted and condemned in the like manner, and 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 the Customs and excise, or of the laws of trade
and navigation."

And it is in and by the said Act further enacted,--
"That if any person in any part of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any part of
his Majesty's dominions beyond the seas, without
the leave and licence of his Majesty for that purpose first
had and obtained as aforesaid, shall, by adding to the num
ber of the guns of such vessel, or by changing those on
board for other guns, or by the addition of any equipment
for war, increase or augment, or procure to be increased or
augmented, or shall be knowingly concerned in increas-
ing or augmenting the warlike force of any, ship or ves-
sel of war or cruizer, or other armed vessel, which at the
time of her arrival in any part of the United Kingdom, or
any of his Majesty's dominions, was a ship of war, Cruizer,
or armed vessel in the service of any foreign prince, state,
or potentate, or of any person or persons exercising or as-
suming to exercise any powers of Government in or over any
colony, proviaco, or part 9f any provilice or peoploboloniug