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without such leave and licence as aforesaid, engage, contract, or agree to go, or shall go to any Foreign State, Country, Colony, Province, 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, Province, or part 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 Soldier, 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 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, 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 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, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or for, or under, or 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 the purpose or with the intent to be so enlisted, 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 misdemeanor, and upon being convicted thereof, upon any information or indictment, 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 further enacted, "that if any Person within any part of the United Kingdom, or in any part of His Majesty's

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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, furnished, fitted out, or armed, or shall knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming 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, Province, 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 cruise or commit hostilities against any Prince, State, or Potentate, or against the Subjects 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 Province or Country, 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 Dominions, 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 Vessel 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 such manner in which the Officers of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, and the Officers of His Majesty'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 belong 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 Customs and Excise, or of the laws of Trade and Navigation:"

His Majesty, therefore, being desirous of preserving to His Subjects the blessings of Peace which they now happily enjoy, and being resolved to persevere in that system of neutrality which His Majesty has so repeatedly declared his determination to maintain; in order that none of His Majesty's Subjects may unwarily render themselves liable to the penalties imposed by the Statute herein mentioned, has thought fit, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to issue this His Royal Proclamation:

And His Majesty does hereby strictly command that no Person or Persons whatsoever do presume to take part in any of the said Contests, or to commit or attempt any act, matter, or thing whatsoever, contrary to the provisions of the said Statute, upon pain of the several Penalties by the said Statute imposed, and of His Majesty's high displeasure:

And His Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, doth hereby enjoin all His Majesty's Subjects strictly to observe, as well towards The Ottoman Porte and the Greeks, as towards all other Belligerents with whom His Majesty is at Peace, the duties of Neutrality; and to respect in all, and each of them, the exercise of those Belligerent Rights which His Majesty has always claimed to exercise, when His Majesty has Himself been unhappily engaged in War.

Given at Our Court at Windsor, the 30th day of September, 1825, and in the 6th of Our Reign.

God save the King.

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No. 126.-BOUNDARY CONVENTION between Bavaria and France. Signed at Weissenburg, 9th December, 1825.

Preamble. Reference to Treaties of 30th May, 1814, 20th November, 1815, and 5th July, 1825.

1. The River Schwalb to form the Limit between France and Rhenish Bavaria.

2. Tracing of Limit of Cession made to France by Bavaria of part of the Commune of Obersteinbach, and the Commune of Niedersteinbach, including the Wengelsbach Domain.

3. Tracing of Limits of the Forests of Dorenberg, Alsberg and Siebentheile. 4. Tracing of Limit round Weissenburg and Altstadt, on the eft bank of the Lauter.

Reference to Treaties of 30th May, 1814, 20th November, 1815, and 5th July, 1825.

THE Commissioners appointed by virtue of § 6 of Article I of the Treaty of Paris of the 20th November, 1815 (No. 40), namely; on the part of His Majesty the King of France and Navarre, the Sieur Jean Etienne Casimir Poitevin, Viscount de Maureillan, Lieutenant-General of the Armies of the King, Inspector-General of Fortifications, &c.;

And, on the part of His Majesty the King of Bavaria, the Sieur Joseph Stichanes, Councillor of State of his said Majesty, Commissary-General and President of the Regency of the Circle of the Rhine established at Spire, &c.; after having respectively and in due form communicated to each other their Full Powers, and after having made themselves acquainted with the arrangements contained in the Separate Convention concluded at Paris on the 5th July, 1825 (No. 124), the object of which was to decide upon the different points which the Treaties of the 30th May, 1814 (No. 1) and 20th November, 1815 (No. 40), left undecided, have agreed upon the following Articles :

ART. I. The River Schwalb to form the Limit between France and Rhenish Bavaria.

ART. II. Tracing of Limit of Cessions made to France by

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Bavaria of part of the Commune of Ober-Steinbach, and the Commune of Nieder-Steinbach, including the Wengelsbach Domain.

ART. III. Tracing of Limits of the Forests of Dorenberg, Alsberg, and Siebentheil.

ART. IV. Tracing of Limit round Weissenburg and Altstadt, on the Left Bank of the Lauter.

ARTS. V to XX. Detailed Demarcation of Frontiers.

Ratifications.

ART. XXI. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the Ratifications thereof shall be exchanged within 6 weeks, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof the above-mentioned Commissioners have signed it, and have affixed thereto the Seal of their Arms. Done at Weissenburg, 9th December, 1825.