110 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1793. coals, &c. carried coaftwife to A&t for the encouragement of A&t to enable the post-mafter general to fend the mail to the dominions of his Catholic majefty, on board any veffel authorifed by his Catholic majefty to carry the fame. A&t to permit commodities of the growth or manufacture of Afia, Africa, or America, legally imported into Ireland, to be exported thence into Great Britain. A&t to continue the act for regu. lating the flave trade. JUNE 21. Act for the encouragement and Act to enable juftices of the Abftract of an A& for eftablishing Regulations refpecting Aliens arriv ing in this Kingdom, or refident, in certain cafes. 1. It is enacted, that the mafter of a veffel arriving in any port of this kingdom fhall immediately fpecify in writing, to the collector of fuch port, the number, names, rank, and occupation, of any foreigners which fhall be on board his veffel. 2. Under the penalty of 101. for every foreigner on board the veffel whom he fhall have neglected or refufed to declare. 3. That every alien arriving in any port in this kingdom, on or after the 10th day of January 1793, thall immediately declare in writ ing, to the collector of fuch port, his or her name, rank, and occu&c. of their matters or miftreffes, pation, or, if fervants, the name, or fhall verbally make fuch declaby him into writing; and shall ration to fuch officer to be reduced alfo declare the country where they have principally refided for fix months preceding their arrival; and declaration, or making a falfe deevery alien neglecting to make fuch claration thereof, thall be adjudged to depart out of this realm, and, if afterwards found in this realm, shall be tranfported for life. 4. That every alien, arriving as aforefaid, fhall obtain from the collector of fuch port a certificate of fuch declaration in writing. 5. Exception of foreign mariners employed in fuch fhips certified by the mafter to the collector. 6. No alien to import any weapons, arms, gunpowder, or ammunion whatever, other than as merchandize according to law; and fuch weapons, &c. taking an acany officer of the customs may feize count thereof. 7. In cafe his majefty fhall, by 8. No alien fhall depart from the the name, rank, and occupation of fuch alien, and the town to which he purposes to go. 9. Aliens (except fervants of British fubjects attendant on their mafters), arrived in this kingdom fince the first of January 1792, or arriving in future, defirous of changing their refidence, of of quitting the town at which they have arrived by virtue of their first paffport, fhall obtain from the mayor, or a juftice of peace for the diftriét, a palport expreffing the name and defcription of fuch alien, and alfo the name of the town to which fuch alien proposes to re move. 10. Magiftrates may grant paffports to alien merchants to pafs to and from all parts of the kingdom. 11. The mayor of any town, or a juftice of peace of any diftrict, may require of any alien arrived after the 1ft of January 1792, or arriving in future (except fervants as aforefaid), who fhall be paffing through or found in fuch town or diftrict, to exhibit his paffport; and in default thereof, or if he is not in the way to the town therein expreffed, or if fuch mayor, &c. fhall fee caufe to fufpect that he is not, bona fide, proceeding to fuch town, or has landed contrary to fuch proclamation as aforefaid, fuch mayor, &c. may commit fuch alien to gaol until notice be fent to his majesty's fecretary of flate; and, unless his majefty fhall fignify his pleature for the difcharge of fuch alien, he fhall be detained in gaol without bail until delivered by courfe of law. 12. Every alien who fhall refufe to fhew his paifport, or who Thall be found not proceeding to the town therein expreffed, or who fhall land contrary to his majefty's order, thall be imprisoned for any time not exceeding one month, and afterwards fhall depart the realm. 13. Any person forging or altering a paffport, or obtaining fuch paffport under any other name than that which he thall have declared to fuch custom-house officer, &c. or falfely pretending to be the perfon mentioned in fuch palport, fhall be punified as in the preceding fection. 14. Notice of thefe regulations to be printed in different languages, and affixed in the different ports, and delivered to all foreigners; but proof of fuch delivery not to be néceflary to the conviction of any alien offending against this act. 15. Any alien neglecting to depart the realm when ordered by his majefty fo to do, to be committed to the county gaol. 16. Any alien, difobeying fuch proclamation or order of his ma jefty, thall be imprifoned for a month, and then to depart the realm within a time to be limited; and if found within the realm after fuch time, to be tranfported for life. 17. Any fecretary of ftate, who fhall apprehend that immediate obedience will not be paid to fuch proclamation, may give any alien in charge to one of his majesty's meffengers, to be conducted out of the kingdom. 18. His majefty, by order in council, or order under the royal fign manual, may order any alien arrived fince the tft of January 1792, or arriving hereafter (except alién merchants and fervants of British Tubjects), to rotide in fuch diftricts as his majefty thall think necellaty; and aliens difobeying fuck fuch order, to be committed to the county gaol. 19. Every alien who has arrived in England fince the 1ft of January, 1792, fhall, within ten days from the 10th of January 1793, and every alien arriving in future fhall, within ten days after his arrival at the place expreffed in his paffport, deliver to the chief magiftrate where he fhall be, or, if no chief magiftrate, to a juftice of peace of the district, an account in writing of his name, rank, occupation, and place of abode, and the place of his refidence for fix months preceding, and take a certificate thereof; and in cafe of neglect or refufal to make fuch declaration, or of delivering a falfe account, to be imprisoned. 20. Magiftrates may fummon aliens, fufpected of not having delivered fuch accounts, before them, and cause them to be arrested. 21. Any juftice of the peace, mayor, or chief magiftrate, may, by notice in writing, require of any housekeeper within their diftrict an account in writing of the names, rank, and occupation, of all aliens refident in their houses. 22. Copies of accounts delivered to custom-houfe officers, &c. and of paffports and certificates granted by magiftrates, to be tranfmitted to one of the fecretarics of ftate. 23. The juftices of the courts of Weftminster may admit aliens to bail. 24. As may also any juftice of peace, by authority of the fecretary of state. 25. All aliens, arrived in this kingdom fince the 1ft of January 1792, fhall, if within the limits of the bills of mortality, or the parifhes of Mary bone, Pancras, and Chelfea, on the 10th of January 1793, or if out of those limits, within ten days from the faid 10th of January, and every alien arriving in future fhall, within ten days after his arrival, give to fome neighbouring magiftrate an account of all weapons, arms, gunpowder, and ammunition, in their poffeffion, and fhall, within three days from fuch notice, deliver up to fuch magiftrate all fuch weapons, &c. except fuch only which they fhall have licence to keep from one of his majefty's principal fecretaries of ftate. And it fhall not be lawful for any fuch alien, after fuch delivery, to buy, or to have in his poffeffion, or in the poffeffion of others for his ufe, any weapons, &c. And any perfon, neglecting or refufing to obey the above directions, fhall, on conviction, be judged to depart this realm, and, if found therein after fuch time, fhall be tranfported. 26. Magiftrates may require aliens refident in their jurifdictions, or patling through the fame, to deliver up all weapons, &c. in their poffeflion, under pain of being ordered to depart the realm. 27. Any of his majetty's fecretaries of ftate, or any two juftices of peace, or any mayor or chief magiftrate, may caufe any house, rented or occupied by any aliens, (except alien merchants), and any houfe in which any alien fhall be a lodger or inmate, to be searched in the day-time, in the prefence of a peace-officer, in order to discover any weapons, &c. and to feize the fame. 28. And may require, from houfekeepers where aliens may lodge, an account in writing of all weapons, &c, in their houses. 29. His majefty may send out of the the realm any alien who shall have been committed to any gaol as aforefaid for any offence against this act. 30. If any alien fo fent out of the realm fhall return, he shall, on conviction thereof, be transported for life. 31. In all queftions refpecting offences against this act, the proof to lie on the party accused. 32. No perfon to be deemed an alien merchant, except he fhall be bona fide engaged in carrying on trade, and feeking his living thereby. 33. Foreign ambaffadors and their fervants duly registered, and perfons naturalized, excepted out of this act, 34. Aliens not fourteen years old excepted. 35. Certificates and paffports to be given gratis. 36. Fresh paffports or certificates may be granted where the former ones are loft or mislaid. 37. Perfons adjudged to be tranfported, to be fent to fuch places as his majesty shall direct. 38. If any perfon, ordered or adjudged to be tranfported, shall be found at large within the realm, or, after fentence of tranfporta, tion pronounced, he fhall be guil ty of felony, and fhall fuffer death as a felen, without benefit of clergy. VOL. XXXV. I STATE STATE PAPER S. Grenville. Note fent by M. Chauvelin to Lord duct a character of ill-will, to which it is yet unwilling to give credit. It has however felt, that its duty to the French nation required it no HE under-figned, minifter Tplenipotentiary of France, longer to leave it in a state of un has the honour to communicate to his excellency lord Grenville, the inftructions which he has received from the executive council of the French republic, with orders to lay them before his Britannic majefty's fecretary of ftate for the department of foreign affairs, in cafe he thould believe that he could not fufficiently foon obtain an interview with that minifter. "The French government, by continuing, fince the recall of lord Gower from Paris, to leave at London its minifter plenipotentiary, conceived that it gave his Britannic majefty an unequivocal proof of the defire it had to continue to live upon good terms with him, and to difpel thofe clouds which the events, neceffary and inherent to the internal regulations of France, appeared at that time to have occafioned. The intentions of the executive council of France, with regard to England, have not ceafed to be the fame; but it has not been able to fee with indifference the public conduct which the British miniftry maintains at prefent towards France. It is with regret that it has remarked in this con certainty, into which it had been thrown by feveral measures recently adopted by the British government-an uncertainty which must he shared by the British nation, and which is equally unworthy of both countries. "The executive council of the French Republic has, in confequence, authorised the minister of France at London to demand with openness of the minifters of his Britannic majefty, if France ought to confider England as a neutral power, or as an enemy; and it has especially charged him to obtain a definitive anfwer upon this point. "But, in afking from the minifters of his Britannic majesty a frank and open explanation as to their intentions with regard to France, the executive council is unwilling that they fhould have the fmallett remaining doubt as to the difpofition of France towards England, and as to its defire of remaining in peace with her: it has even been defirous of anfwering beforehand all the reproaches which they may be tempted to make in juftification of a rupture. "On reflecting what may be the |