or Boat, coming or arriving, directly or immediately from any Port or Place in France, or any Port or Place under the dominion of the Persons exercising the powers of Government in France, or from any Port or Place of, or in, or belonging to any Country or Territory at War with Great Britain, shall (until Our Royal pleasure concerning such Aliens shall be further expressed) be landed or be suffered by the Master or Commander of any such Ship, Vessel, or Boat, to land at any Port or Place within Great Britain, except at the Ports of Harwich, Dover, Newhaven, Southampton, Falmouth, and at Gravesend, unless by our express permission signified under the hand of one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State: And we do further order and direct, by and with the advice aforesaid, that notice of this our Proclamation shall be printed in different languages, and shall be affixed in public places in the different Ports of this Kingdom, and shall also be delivered by the Custom-House Officers to the Master of every such Ship, Vessel, or Boat arriving at any Port or Place in this Kingdom, except as aforesaid, and to all Foreigners arriving in any such Ship, Vessel, or Boat: provided always, that this our Proclamation shall not extend to any Foreign Ambassador or other Public Minister duly authorized, or the Servants actually attendant upon any such Ambassador or Public Minister, or any Domestic Servant of any of His Majesty's natural-born Subjects, or of any Subject to whom Letters of denization have been, or shall be hereafter granted, or any Domestic Servant of any of His Majesty's Subjects who now are or shall hereafter be naturalized by Act of Parliament, such Servants respectively being actually and bona fide employed in the service of their respective Masters, and actually at the time attendant upon their respective Masters; nor to any Mariner actually engaged and employed in the navigation of any Ship or Vessel, during the time that such Mariner shall remain so actually engaged and employed, and certified in the manner, in the said Act mentioned, to be such Mariner, by the Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel, upon his arrival in any such Port or Place as aforesaid. And we do hereby require and command the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain. Given at the Court at Carlton-House, the 2nd day of June, in the 55th year His Majesty's Reign, and in the year of our Lord, 1815. GOD SAVE THE KING. BRITISH PROCLAMATION, containing Regulations for the Registration of Aliens in Great Britain.--2d June, 1815. By His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty,' GEORGE, P. R. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the 55th year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to repeal an Act of the last Session of Parliament for establishing Regulations respecting Aliens arriving in this Kingdom, or resident therein; and to establish for 12 months, other Regulations respecting Aliens arriving in this Kingdom, or residing therein, in certain cases;" His Majesty is authorised by his Royal Proclamation, from time to time, to require and command every Alien who now is in, or who shall hereafter come into Great Britain, except as therein excepted, to register himself or herself, and thereupon to obtain His Majesty's Royal Licence to reside within this Kingdom, as therein mentioned: Now We, being desirous of carrying into execution the purposes of the said Act, do, by this our Procla. mation, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, require and command every Alien who shall have arrived in this Kingdom, since the 1st day of April, 1814, and shall be resident in this Kingdom, on the day of the date of this our Proclamation, except as hereinafter excepted, to register himself or herself, in the manner hereinafter mentioned; that is to say: All such Aliens residing in the City of London shall, within 10 days. from the publication of this Our Proclamation in the London Gazette, so register themselves with the Lord Mayor of the said City. All such Aliens residing in the City and Liberties of Westminster, or elsewhere within the Bills of Mortality (except the City of London), or residing within 10 miles of the City of London, shall, within 10 days from the publication of this Our Proclamation in the London Gazette, so register themselves with the Magistrates at one of the under-mentioned Public Offices, in the District of which Office such Alien shall then reside; that is to say, the Police-Office, Queen -square, Westminster, Great Marlborough-street, Hatton-Garden, Lambethstreet, Whitechapel, Worship-street, Shoreditch, High-street, Shadwell, and Union Hall, Southwark. All such Aliens residing out of the Districts aforesaid, and within any Cities or Corporate Towns, or within the jurisdiction of the Magistrates of such Cities or Corporate Towns respectively, shall, within 14 days from the publication of this Our Proclamation in the London Gazette, so register themselves with the Mayor or other Chief Magistrate of such Cities or Corporate Towns respectively. And all such Aliens residing in other places in Great Britain shall, within 18 days from the publication of this Our Proclamation in the London Gazette, so register themselves with some Magistrate of the County or Place where such Aliens respectively shall reside. And We do further require and command all Aliens who shall come into Great Britain, after the publication of this Our Proclamation in the London Gazette, to register themselves in the manner hereinafter mentioned, with the Lord Mayor, Mayors, or other Magistrates as aforesaid, within two days after every such Alien shall have arrived within any such City, Town, District, or other Place to which he shall be allowed to proceed, by Passport granted for that purpose, except Aliens who are required by our Proclamation of this day's date, to land at no other Port than the Ports of Harwich, Dover, Newhaven, Southampton, Falmouth, and at Gravesend, whom We hereby require and command to register themselves in manner hereinafter mentioned, at the Alien Office, in Crown-street, Westminster. And We do further require and command every Alien, for the purpose of obtaining such Licence as aforesaid, to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Person or Persons with whom such Alien is hereby required to register himself or herself as aforesaid, a full and true declaration or account in writing of his or her name, age, place of birth, rank, occupation, profession, the place of residence when last in his or her own Country, together with the last and principal place of residence before his or her arrival in this Kingdom, the name or names of some Person or persons in this Country to whom known, the reason or purpose for which he or she came to this Kingdom, the time when and the Place at which such Alien last arrived in Great Britain, and where his or her actual residence has been since such last arrival, and is at the time of giving in such declaration, which said declaration or account shall be signed by such Alien with his or her name or mark. And We do hereby authorize and appoint the said Lord Mayor, Mayors, and other Magistrates as aforesaid respectively, to receive such accounts as aforesaid; and do require and command them respectively to cause the Original Account to be transmitted within 2 days to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the purpose of such Alien obtaining His Majesty's Royal Licence to reside within Great Britain from the said Secretary, whom We do hereby authorize and appoint to grant such Licences, or from such other Person or Persons who now are, or who shall from time to time be authorized and appointed by Us to grant such Licences. And We do further authorize and require the said Lord Mayor Mayors, and other Magistrates as aforesaid, to whom any such accounts shall be delivered as aforesaid, to grant under his hand and seal to the Alien delivering such account, a provisional Licence to reside within Great Britain, under such restrictions as shall appear fit, during the time that shall be therein allowed to such Alien for obtaining His Majesty's Royal Licence as aforesaid. And we do further declare, that this Our Proclamation shall not extend to require any Alien to obtain such Licence as aforesaid, who shall have obtained, under any former Act relating to Aliens, His Majesty's Royal Licence to reside in any part of this Kingdom. And We do further direct, that every Alien who shall have obtained any Licence under any former Act, the term of which Licence has expired, shall transmit the same to the Alien Office, in Crown-street, Westminster, for the purpose of being renewed or exchanged for such other Licence as may be granted by our Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, or by such other Person or Persons appointed by us to grant the same. And We do further direct, that every Alien upon every change of residence, shall give notice thereof to the Alien Office, in Crown-street, Westminster. And We do further declare, that no Foreign Ambassador, or other Public Minister duly authorized, nor the Domestic Servants of any such Foreign Ambassador or Public Minister, registered according to the directions of the Laws in force for that purpose, and being actually attendant upon such Ambassador or Minister; nor any Alien not above the age of 14 years, shall be deemed within the meaning and intent of this Proclamation. And We do further declare, that all such Licences, and provisional Licences, as aforesaid, shall be given without fee or reward, and shall be subject to no duty or charge whatsoever. And We do further declare and make known, that every Alien who shall be found at large in Great Britain after the time by this Our Proclamation limited, for registering and thereupon obtaining Licences as aforesaid, such Aliens not having obtained such Licence respectively, and not being exempted as aforesaid, will be liable, on conviction, to suffer imprisonment for any time not exceeding 6 months, according to the provisions of the said Act. Given at the Court at Carlton-House, the 2nd day of June, 1815, and in the 55th year of His Majesty's Reign. GOD SAVE THE KING. SPEECH of The Prince Regent, on the Closing of the British Parliament.-12th July, 1815. My Lords and Gentlemen, I CANNOT close this Session of Parliament without again expressing my deep regret at the continuance of His Majesty's lamented indisposition. At the commencement of the present Session, I entertained a confident hope, that the Peace which I had concluded, in conjunction with His Majesty's Allies, would meet with no interruption; that, after so many years of continued warfare and of unexampled calamity, the Nations of Europe would be allowed to enjoy that repose for which they had been so long contending; and that your efforts might be directed to alleviate the burthens of His Majesty's People, and to adopt such measures as might best promote the internal prosperity of His Dominions. These expectations were disappointed by an act of violence and perfidy of which no parallel can be found in History. The usurpation of the Supreme Authority in France by Buonaparte, in consequence of the defection of the French Armies from their legitimate Sovereign, appeared to me to be so incompatible with the general security of other Countries, as well as with the engage ments to which the French Nation had recently been a Party, that I felt I had no alternative but to employ the Military resources of His Majesty's Dominions, in conjunction with His Majesty's Allies, to prevent the re-establishment of a System which experience had proved to be the source of such incalculable woes to Europe. Under such circumstances, you will have seen with just pride and satisfaction, the splendid success with which it has pleased Divine Providence to bless His Majesty's arms and those of His Allies. Whilst the glorious and ever-memorable Victory obtained at Waterloo, by Field-Marshals the Duke of Wellington and Prince Blucher, has added fresh lustre to the characters of those great Commanders, and has exalted the Military reputation of this Country beyond all former example, it has at the same time produced the most decisive effects on the operations of the War, by delivering from invasion the Dominions of the King of The Netherlands, and by placing, in the short space of 15 days, the City of Paris, and a large part of the Kingdom of France in the Military occupation of the Allied Armies. Amidst events so important, I am confident you will see how necessary it is, that there should be no relaxation in our exertions, until I shall be enabled, in conjunction with His Majesty's Allies, to complete those arrangements which may afford the prospect of permanent peace and security to Europe |