to be British ships for all the purposes of trade within the said limits, including the Cape of Good Hope, anything in this Act or in any other Act or Acts passed in this present session of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding.

XCIII. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the shipper of any wine the produce of the Cape of Good Hope or of its dependencies which is to be exported from thence, to go before the chief officer of the Customs, and make and sign a declaration before him that such wine was really and bond fide the produce of the Cape of Good Hope or of its dependencies; and such officer is hereby authorized and required to grant a certificate thereof, setting forth in such certificate the name of the ship in which the wine is to be exported, and the destination of the same.

XCIV. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for any person who is about to export from any of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark to the United Kingdom, or to any of the British possessions in America or the Mauritius, any goods of the growth or produce of any of those islands, or any goods manufactured from materials which were the growth or produce thereof, or of the United Kingdom, or of materials duty free in the United Kingdom, or whereupon the duty has been there paid, and not drawn back, to go before any magistrate of the island from which the goods are to be exported, and make and sign before him a declaration that such goods, describing the same, are of such growth or produce, or of such manufacture, and such magistrate shall administer and sign such declaration; and thereupon the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Commander-in-Chief of the island from which the goods are to be exported shall, upon the delivery to him of such declaration, grant a certificate under his hand of the proof contained in such declaration, stating the ship in which and the port to which, in the United Kingdom or in any such possession, the goods are to be exported; and such certificate shall be the proper document to be produced at such ports respectively in proof that the goods mentioned therein are of the growth, produce, or manufacture of such islands respectively.

XCV. And be it enacted, that no brandy, Geneva, or other spirits (except rum of the British plantations) shall be imported into or exported from the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark, or any one of them, or be removed from any one to any other of the said islands, or be carried coastwise from any one part to any other part of any one of the said islands, or shall be shipped in order to be so removed or carried, or shall be waterborne, for the purpose of being so shipped in any vessel of less burden than 60 tons, nor in any cask or other vessel capable of containing liquids not being of the size or content of 20 gallons at the least;

and that all brandy, Geneva or other spirits imported, exported, removed, carried, shipped, or waterborne contrary hereto shall be forfeited, together with the vessel or boat importing, exporting, removing or carrying the same, and all the guns, furniture, ammunition, tackle, and apparel thereof; provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to any spirits imported in glass bottles in square-rigged ships as part of the cargo thereof, nor to any spirits being really intended for the consumption of the seamen and passengers during their voyage, and not being more in quantity than is necessary for that purpose.

XCVI. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to subject to forfeiture or seizure, under any of the provisions of this Act, any boat not exceeding the burden of 10 tons for having on board at any one time any foreign spirits of the quantity of 10 gallons or under, such boat having a licence from the proper officer of Customs at either of the islands of Guernsey or Jersey for the purpose of being employed in carrying commodities for the supply of the said island of Sark, which licence such officer of Customs is hereby required to grant, without taking any fee or reward for the same: provided also, that every such boat having on board at any one time any greater quantity of spirits than 10 gallons, unless such greater quantity of spirits shall be in casks or packages of the size and content hereinbefore required, shall be forfeited.

XCVII. And be it enacted, that every person who shall be found or discovered to have been on board any vessel or boat liable to forfeiture under any Act relating to the revenue of Customs, for being found within 1 league of the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, having on board or in any manner attached or affixed thereto, or conveying or having conveyed, in any manner, such goods or other things as subject such vessel or boat to forfeiture, or who shall be found or discovered to have been on board any vessel or boat from which any part of the cargo shall have been thrown overboard during chase, or staved or destroyed, shall forfeit the sum of 100%.

XCVIII. And be it enacted, that it shall not be lawful for any person to re-export from any of Her Majesty's possessions abroad to any foreign place in any foreign ship any coals the produce of the United Kingdom, except upon payment of the duty to which such coals would be liable upon exportation from the United Kingdom to such foreign place: and that no such coals shall be so shipped at any of such possessions to be exported to any British place until the exporter or the master of the exporting vessel shall have given bond, with one sufficient surety, in double the value of the coals, that such coals shall not be landed at any foreign place.

XCIX. And be it enacted, that if any person shall, in any of Her Majesty's possessions abroad, counterfeit or falsify, or wilfully use when counterfeited or falsified, any entry, warrant, cocket, transire, or other document, for the unlading, lading, entering, reporting, or clearing any ship or vessel, or for the landing, shipping, or removing of any goods, stores, baggage, or article whatever, or shall by any false statement procure any writing or document to be made for any such purposes, or shall falsely make any oath or affirmation required by this Act, or shall forge or counterfeit a certificate of the said oath or affirmation, or shall publish such certificate knowing the same to be so forged or counterfeited, every person so offending shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of 2007.; and such penalty shall and may be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered in like manner and by such ways and means, as any penalty may be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered under the provisions and directions of this Act.

C. And whereas by an Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the 2nd and 3rd years of the reign of King William IV [c. 78,] intituled "An Act to continue certain Acts relating to the Island of Newfoundland, and to provide for the Appropriation of all Duties which may hereafter be raised within the said Island," provision was made for the appropriation of the net produce of all duties levied within the said colony by any Act of Parliament then or thereafter to be in force there, and for the deduction from and out of such net proceeds in each and every year of a sum not exceeding 6,550. to be applied in the manner, for the purposes, and under the authority therein mentioned: and whereas doubts may arise whether the provisions aforesaid, or some of them, were not repealed or abrogated by some or one of the Acts passed in a session of Parliament holden in the 3rd and 4th years of the reign of His said Majesty King William IV; for the removal of such doubts be it therefore declared and enacted, that nothing contained in any Act passed in that session of Parliament, or in the present session of Parliament, did or doth repeal, abrogate, annul, or alter the said recited Act, or any part thereof, or any of the provisions therein contained; but that from and out of the net proceeds of all duties levied from year to year within the said colony of Newfoundland by any Act of the said lastmentioned session of Parliament, or any Act thereafter passed or to be passed, such deduction shall be annually made as in the said recited Act is mentioned; and that the sum of money so from year to year to be deducted shall be applied from time to time in such manner, and for such purposes, and under such authority as in the said recited Act is particularly mentioned and set forth.

CI. And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present session of Parliament.

CORRESPONDENCE between Great Britain and the 2 Sicilies, on the subject of a Protestant Place of Worship for British Subjects at Naples.-1840-1842.

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No. 73.-Memorandum by the Hon. W. Temple.-(Rec. Jan. 6, 1840.) BOTH Prince Cassaro and the Duca di Gualtieri appeared willing to allow that as the dwellings of British subjects were by Treaty to be respected, British subjects might meet among themselves in an apartment in one of their own houses, whether for purposes of prayer, music, or any other occupation or amusement, without the interference of the police; but the Neapolitan Government objected to any building being erected which being wholly appropriated to religious worship, would necessarily be looked upon by the Neapolitans as a Protestant chapel, whatever outward appearance it might have. The building was not to have the appearance of a church according to the plan, but it was not to be a dwelling-house.

There had been an intention of laying with ostentatious ceremony the first stone of the building, which was to have been done by the British Minister. On being applied to on the subject, he expressed his objections to any proceedings which were calculated to draw public attention towards the undertaking as likely to throw difficulties in the way of its success. He complied, however, so far with the request of the residents as to lay the first stone, but without any ceremony, and in the presence of only 6 or 7 persons, who, having met at his house, crossed a narrow lane which divided the ground on which the building was to be erected from it. There was nothing to call attention in what actually took place; but a report having been previously spread, that some ceremony was intended, what took place was exaggerated by persons set to watch, and on the following day the progress of the work was stopped by the police.

The Neapolitan Government behaved uncourteously, for negotiations on the subject having been going on, the stoppage of the works should not have been ordered without some previous intimation and some reason having been given.

To meet the views of the Neapolitan Government, it was at one time proposed to build one or two dwelling-houses instead of a chapel, with a large room in one of them which might serve for the purpose of worship; but sufficient funds could not be raised to undertake the speculation. The matter rested for some time, till the apartment in the Calabritti Palace was to be let, when it was taken without due precaution or consideration, upon the supposition that not being a separate building, or one appropriated solely to Protestant religious

worship, no opposition would be made by the Neapolitan Government to the English having service performed there.

No. 74.-Viscount Palmerston to Chevalier de Regina.

Foreign Office, January 9, 1840.

LORD PALMERSTON presents his compliments to the Chevalier de Regina, and begs to transmit herewith to him the inclosed copies of a letter and its inclosure from the Bishop of London.*

No.75.-The Chevalier de Regina to Visc. Palmerston.-(Rec. Jan. 11.) (Translation.) London, January 10, 1840.

G. CAPEU GALIOTA, of the Dukes of Regina, presents his compliments to his Excellency Viscount Palmerston, and has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of his letter of the 9th instant, with which he had the goodness to transmit the copy of a letter and of its inclosure from the Bishop of London.

Those documents have been this day sent, with a copy of this note, to his Excellency Prince Cassaro.

No. 76.-Viscount Palmerston to Mr. Kennedy.

* SIR, Foreign Office, January 11, 1840. WITH reference to your despatch of the 28th November, on the subject of the refusal of the Neapolitan Government to allow the British residents at Naples to occupy the room fitted up by them for the purpose of public worship, and to your proposition to remove the archives of the mission to that apartment, in order to overcome the objections of the Neapolitan Government, I have to inform you that I it would be extremely inconvenient and objectionable that the archives of the mission should not be under the same roof as the mission itself; because the archives could not be considered sufficiently secure if so placed, and because they would not at all times and hours be as readily and easily accessible for the Minister as the interest of the public service requires them to be.

Upon the same principle it would be inconvenient that the Consul's office should not be immediately connected with his residence; and in fact if the Consular office were transferred to a place separate from the Consul's house, the consequence would be that the Consul would necessarily be obliged to transact his business in two places, at his house and at his office, and irregularity and confusion would be the result.

The residents who have fitted up as a chapel this room in the Calabritti Palace, ought to have taken the precaution of obtaining *Vol. XXXI. Page 1209.