The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-14 00:00:00

A PROCLAM ATiCI N.

J.T.'SitztititunlCE.
Whereas by an Act of the Pariiament Of the United King-
dam of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the 43d year of
is Majesty's reign, intittaled, " An Act for extending the'
-.4 jurisdiction of the 'Courts Of :Sstice in the Provinces of
Lower and UpperOnsada, 'to the trial and punishment of
-" persons giri;ty of crimes ant! Offehees within certain parts
• of Nerttt America, asijo',•Tag to the said PrOvincet..," it is
amongst ether things enacted, " That all offences contimitted
" within any of the 'lndian Territories, or parts of Auntu'lea,
" uet within the limits of either of the said ProviEees, 'or of
" any Civil Goveratuet ag. the United States of .Auserics,
.41 be stud be deemed to be offenzes of the Sallie nature,
" aad ':-.lsalidaletr4rxd• irs"the'4nne maneer, and be sufsj'..et to
" else sante-Tunisia's:eat; as if the saute had heel* committed
`":evith:B9tieseestid I'rioriesee&C4 Lower or Upper Canada."
'And. rebel-vas by che'said" Act 'it is also enacted, " That
" it bc lawful for the'CiOvicriibr, or Lieutenant Clover-
Li;e, or per sets adanirristeriog tire. GoveruMent for the time
'taxing, of the Preiitce Of Lower Carsoda, by Cauearission
"under Isis hand an; seal, to authorize and empoWer any
person or per-one, wheresoever 'r'esident or being at the
" tins*, to act as Cavil Magistrates ittd :Justices of the Peace
' fee any of the linliats Territories; dr parts of Aenerica, -not
1" within the limits of either of the 'said ProvittetS, or of. any
" Civil Gees-effluent of the Unsited 'States of America, as Mil
" es within the !emits of either of the said Provinces, either
• upon inforsuatiuns taken or git ens within the said Provinces
" LotWer or t'pper tattada, oy out of the said Provinces in
" any part of the Italian Territories or parts of America
" aforee:e.id, fer the purpose oily of hearing oinks and oh-
* fetters, and committing any person or persons; guilty of any
a crime or offence, to safe custody, in order to his or their
4. being conveyed to the said Province of Loaner Canada, to
• tif dealt with aocdrding to Law and, " That it shall bc
" lawful for any persons or persons whatever, to apprehend
a and ta'ie Ziafore any persons so commissioned as afuresai6;,
"'ttsrtie apprefoind and eonvey, or cause to be safely conveyed,
• u-itli all cenVessient spewitoo the Provisicst of Lower Canada,
" asst' person or persons guilty of any crime or offence, there
• to be delivered into safe custody, for the purpose of being
" dealt with acc:irdiztg to Lase."
And whereas by the said Act it is alto further cuatted,
" Thit every such otAolder may and shall be prosecuted end
" tried its his Mijesty's Courts of the krovinte of Lower
" Z',tnada, in which crimes ,and offences of the like nature
" are Usually tried, and where the same would hare been
" tried if such crime Or offence had been committed within
" the !knits of the Province where the setae shall lie tries
4* under the said Act: That every offender tried and eon-
" victed under the said shall Be liable cud iubject to
••• sacs puaisionent as way by any Law in Mem, in the Pro-
" einee whets: he or she shall he tried, be indicted for such
" time or offence, and that *itch Court may and shall pro-
" cavil to trial, justement! eeeention, qr other yttniets-
• for such -crime Or effente, ins the fat:lt 11141thet, in
" every reepect, as tf such ceivat tor "once had Been really
" committed within the jurisdiction of such Court; and to
" proceed also in the trial of any person being a subject of
" his Majesty, who 'shall be charged with any offence, not-
" withstanding such offence sisal? appear to have been coin-
" mit ted within the ilinits of aity Colony, Settlement, or Ter-
" ritory, belonging to any European State."
And xiscrcas divers breaches of the peace, and acts of force
and violence, have lately been committed within the said
Indian Territories, and parts of America, mentioned ant: de-
scribed in the said Act of Farliament, which hate arisen front
contentions between certain Itleoehants, carrying on trade and
eenumerce in the said Indian Territories, under the ,names of
the litelt,on's Bay Company, and North West Company, re-
seectively, and other persons, their servants, agents or adhe-
rents, of tosisoin some have entered into and Seized, and Occu-
pied by force, and with strong hand, las& or possessions,
therein taking, atid by force retaining, divers goods, wares,
merchandise, and other property, and obstructing the passage
of navigable rivers, and other ttatttral passes of the country ;
-and others have met together its unlawful assemblies;, formed
divers conspiracies and eanfederaciei, committed ftibrders;
riots, roots and affrays, and appeased, gone and ridden in
companies, in military array, with armed force, and have
rrscied themselves and others from lawful arrest:llld custody.
We do, therefore, in the name and an the behalf of his Mea
jesty, publish this Proclamation, hereby calling upon the
sxid merchatits, so as aforesaid tarrying on trade and come
merce in the said Indian Territories, under the times of the
:Hudson's Bay Company, and the Notth West Company, re-
sFectively, and upon each and every of thud, and upon all
other parsons, their servants, agents Or adherents, and each
and every of them, to desist from every hostile aggression or
attack whatsoever: And in order to prevent the further erns
ployment of an unauthorized military force, suer du hereby
require all persons who hale been heretofore engaged ins his
Majesty's service, as °Seery or Soldiers, and as such have
enlisted and engaged in the service. of the said Hudson's Day
Company, or North West Company, or either of them, or of
any of their servants, agents, or adherents, to learn the set-
vice in which they may be so engaged, within twenty-four
hours after their knowledge of this Proclamation, under pc-
nal!), of incurring our most severe displeasure, and forfeiting
every privilege to which their former employment its his 'Ma-
jesty's ,service would otherwise have entitled them.
~Ind we do, under similar penaltier, hereby require of all
awl every person and persons whomsoever, whom it doth or
shall, or may in any wise concern, the restitution of all Forts,
Buildings, or Trading Stations, with the property which they
contain, which may have been seized or taken possession of
by either party, to tine party who originally established or
constructed the same, annul were possessed thereof previous to
the recent (UT:ors betereett the aforesaid Cnospaniet.
end we do lierchy require its like manner, of all and every
person and persons, whomsoever, whom it dab or shall, or
may in Any way concern, the removal- of any blockade or inn-
pediment hy whizti any party, person or persons may have at-
St:towel to prevtnt, or interrupt the free passage of Traders,
Sri others of his Majesty's Subjects, or of the natives of the
said Indian 'Territories, with their merchandise, fors, prori-
sitais, and other effects, throeghoat the Lakes, Rivers, Roads,
e.,d oCser usual route or cn!ni.!•,"l:ltil:s tt,7re!teforc 1:11d

The PAris Papers of Monday hist, which were
dot thit inorning, have not tonic: to Gang'

,
(Front 04 Sstb Yirk diircrcalitite ildvertiver of July
Su it %FEY 4or OUR COAST.--It is stated in the
National Intelligewer, that the Commiisioners of
the Navy, in addition to the duty of directing the
necessary surveys prepareitory to the selection of
a suitable site,fora Naval Depot and Dock-yard
on our northern coast, are also charged with the
general survey of out coast. It i 9 added, that,
with a view to the instruction of our young of;
the vessels employed in the survey are to be
wholly manned- by thou.
CIIMILZSTCW, JULY 4.

Loss or THE SCHOONER DiSrATCH.—Captairl
Booting, arrived last evening from St. Augustine,
informs, that the schooner Dispatch, Capt. FIELD,
from Havanna; for this port, was cast away on
Carysfort's Leef on the 15th ult.; vessel totally
lost, cargo aryl crew Saved ; Captain B. took up
two of the Crew in the Dispatch's boat off Cape
Florida, the remainder having gone to Nassau.-
Captain B. further informs, that the inhabit-
ants of St. Augustine are in daily expectation of
having the place attacked and taken possession
f,t" by the ./Tr7fr;car7l tprob ably the Patriots), aud.

O,Kt tlicy 4int. gel,et..lly it. favour of cotuiog rat ilt.t
the Utiitc:lStateb' Government.
LOWER CANAbA.

EMIGRATIONS INTO THE CANADAS.---Very kli-.
•cions and• humane arrangements have been made
by Mr. BUCHANAN, his !Majesty's Consul at Nek''.7
York, but who is now here, (or the transmis,ion
of Emigrants from Great Britain, Who arrive in
New York, &c. to the Canadas. In two months
of the present year no less than 00, whit arrived
in New York, have bee► sent comfortably to this
anti the Upper Province :-01 these, 3'29 were
from England, 178 Scotch and 481 Irish.—They
are all mechanics, farmers, labourers, or manu-
facturers, and have among them 105 won►en and
458 children. More than seven hundred settlers
have arrived here in the fleet recently front Eng-
hind.

Our Readers will find in the preceding columns
of our Paper, this day, an interesting Proclan►a-
tion, issued by Sir J. C. SHERBROOKE, Governor
in Chief of Lower and Upper Canada, &c. &c. Sc.!.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
LITERPOOL, DATED AUG. 12.

We have io atrivals this day from the United
States, end only one yesterday, the Drynde,
PLUYMERi from Alexandria, with flour, in 24 days.

Arrived this evening' the Integrity, from Mirainiclii, in 23
days—cargo, timber.

The William, for New York; Courier, Triton, and Ceres,
fur Boston; Nancy, fur Philadelphia; Arniata, for Baltimore
and Sally, for Charleston, will all sail in the morning, wind
permitting.

The Euphrates, Edward, Lady Gallatin, and John and
Edward, for New York ; Balloon, for Baltimore; IIL mine,
for Boston, to sail on Sunday; and several others fur Charles-
ton, Savannah, &c.

The Liverpool Packet will sail on Tuesday or
lirednesday next, for Boston.---Our Corn Mai ket
ibis day was exceedingly dull ; American Flour
495. per barrel.

It is plain that the Morning Chronicle, with all
its eagerness, and all its industry, to discover good
cause for accusations against Government, have
nothing that they can distort into a reasonable
ground of complaint, and, therefore, like a cer-
tain Being, whom we will not mention " to ears
polite," is ready " to play at a small game rather
than stand out." For this purpose it bKs to-day
returned to the hackneyed subject of the
trial. of APKINLEY, at Edinburgh, and is
very angry because a compliment was paid to
the LORD ADVOCATE, who put an end to
the uir.l, when he found th;.t the chief
witness was a wretch wholly unworthy of confi-
dence. But the Chronicle is also angry because
persons of a respectable character in life did not
think it necessary to come forward to contradict
the statement of this infamous witness. They
were not called on to do so by the Court ; and it
would have been strange, indeed, if they had ob-
truded into notice on charges from such a pollut-
ed source. The following is the wind-up of the
Cizronicle's speculations on this exhausted sub-

ject :--
" Whether it was that the facts of the case were
too subborn to be moulded and fitted to the law
which was attempted to be fastened upon them,
or that the legal knowledge of the LORD ADVO*
cArg was too slender to make all the use which
could be made of the means which the law gave
him ; whether justice was toiled by the clumsi-
ness °Lille Law Officer, or the subject aggrieved
by the unfounded and harassing proceedings to
which he was oppressively subjected, there is but
one feeling on the,subject, vii. that such a case
may not again occur even in Scotland "
We shall say nothing of the gross insult implied
in the first part of the alternative, but we believe
our Readers will agree with us in deeply lament-
ing that the Loup Anvocarri does not possess the
wonderful faculties, and profound legal knowledge
of the Morning Chronicle ! ! !

•
There are people, we understand, so excessifey
stupid or so dead to every libet•al sentiment, as to
suppose that we support the political character of
Sir Eamicts BURDETT, because we defend his con-
duct on grounds of justice, honour and humanity,
for not deserting a friend oho was in a situation
involving his reputation and his life. The opi-
nions of such people ought to be treated will)
silent contempt. Our opinion of the political
principles of the Baronet are the same as they.
always were and always will be, unless his poli-
tical character shall undergo ktetal change but
we shall never suffer politics to blind us to an act
of private condUct, in any individual, that may-
deserve respect and commendation.

THE Futibs.—Yesterday wets nearly es bilir
day es an Account day ; upwards of 700,0001.
stuck was delivered, hut all taken without a sha-
dow of depression. The Commissioners of the
Sinking Fund now buy stock every day iii the
week, except Monday and Saturday.
The PRINCE REGENT intends taking a cruise
with the Mlrquis of A.Not.EsElr around the Lae of
Wight, in the new Royal Yacht.