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En témoignage de quoi nous avons figné les prefentes, et y avons fait mettre notre grand feel. Donné a Vienne, le quatrieme Maï, l'an mil fept cent quatre-vingt-quinze, et de nos regnes de l'Empire Romain et etâts héréditaires le troifieme.

(Signed) FRANCIS.

In witness whereof we have figned thefe prefents, and caused our great feal to be fet thereto. Given at Vienna, the 4th of May, in the year of our Lord 1795, and of our reigns of the Roman Empire and of the hereditary dominions the third year.

TRAUTT.

BY THE EMPEROR AND KING.
P. DU RIEUX.

AN ACCOUNT

Of the feveral Sums paid from the Revenues of the Dutchy of Cornwall during the Minority of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in pursuance of his Majefty's Warrants, counterfigned by the Lords Commiffioners of the Treafury, with the Dates of fuch Warrants.

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PAPERS

Prefented to the Houfe of Commons, pursuant to Addreffes, relative to Sir Charles Grey and Sir John Jervis.

No. 1.

Copy of a Proclamation at Martinique, the 30th March 1794, by Ge neral Sir Charles Grey, K. B. Commander in Chief of his Majefty's Forces in the Weft Indies, &c. &c. Sc.

MARTINIQUE.
(L. S.)

By his Excellency Sir Charles Grey, K. B. General of his Majefty's Army, and Commander in Chief of his Forces in the Weft Indies, &c. &c. &c.

PROCLAMATION,

Whereas it is neceffary, for the good of his Majefty's fervice, and the comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of this colony, that fome temporary regulations fhould be made for the civil government thereof, till fuch time as his Majefty's pleasure is known, and fuch a regular fyftem is adopted for the future arrangement of all matters, civil and military, as to his wifdom may feem molt meet, for the maintenance of his own authority, and the happiness and profperity of his new fubjects; I do think fit, in his Majefty's name hereby to publish this my Proclamation, recalling to the exercise of their feveral functions all fuch officers of the Courts formerly established for the adminiftration of diftributive juftice during the government of his late Moft Chriftian Majefty, the refpective duties of whom do not in any respect interfere with the authority which, under the prefent circumftances, it is neceffary to leave whole and undivided in the hands of the General in command of this ifland. This is therefore to give notice to the inhabitants thereof, that all Courts which were formerly established under the authority of their late fovereign, for the determination of caufes between individual and individual, will be permitted to exercise their feveral functions, without any application of the forms in ufe in the other British islands fubject to his Majefty, until his royal will and pleafure fhall be expreffed to the contrary: And accordingly the feveral perfons who may be now in this island, and were formerly officers of any of the Courts above described, are hereby required to give in their names, with the nature of their feveral employments, to Lieutenant General Robert Prefcott, that the proper fteps may be taken to restore them to the exercise of their feveral duties, and to supply such deficiencies as may have taken place. Given under my hand and feal at arms, at head quarters, Fort Royal, this thirtieth day of March 1794, and in the 34th year of his Majesty's reign.

By his Excellency the General's

command,

G. Fiber, Secretary.

CHARLES GREY..

GOD SAVE THE KING!

No.

No. 2.

Proclamation at St. Lucia, by General Sir C. Grey, K. B. Sc. &c. c. 5th April 1794.

ST. LUCIA.

(L. S.)

CHARLES GREY.

By his Excellency Sir Charles Grey, K. B. General of his Majesty's Army, and Commander in Chief of his Forces in the Weft Indies, &c. &c. &c.

PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, fince my Proclamation at the island of Martinique, bearing date the 30th day of March laft, whereby the officers of the Courts formerly established for the adminiftration of diftributive justice during the government of his late Moft Chriftian Majesty, Now neceffary to the exercife of the feveral functions thereof, have been directed to be recalled until his Majefty's royal will and pleafure fhall be known; the British arms have spread farther conqueft, and this colony is alfo added to his Majefty's empire, the reduction and poffeffion of which make it neceffary to refort to fome temporary regulations, in like manner, for the good of his Majesty's fervice, and the comfort and convenience of his new fubjects of this ifland. I do therefore think proper to iffue this my Proclamation, allowing and commanding all civil officers of the Courts above mentioned, and herebefore eftablished under the legally regulated government of their late fovereign for the determination of caufes between individual and individual, to give in their names to Sir Charles Gordon, Colonel, commanding this ifland, that the proper steps may be taken to place them in the execution of their ancient duties. And inafmuch as this colony and its government were under the fuperior controul of the adminiftration of the ifland of Martinique, to which references and appeals were made in the profecution of civil caufes; and it may be confiftent to restore the fame forms to the fame channels; I do further make known, that when the ufual courts shall be duly established in Martinique, thofe of this ifland are to be regulated thereby accordingly, until the King's pleafure be fignified relatiye thereto; but the refloration of civil employments above mentioned, and the regulation herein expreffed, are not in any wife meant or intended to interfere with, or to be independent of the authority repofed in the military command of this island. Given under my hand, and feal at arms, at head quarters in the ifland of St. Lucia, the 5th day of April 1794, in the 34th year of his Ma、 jesty's reign.

By his Excellency the General's

command,

G. Fiber, Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Copy of a Memorial prefented to his Grace the Duke of Portland, praying for an additional Military and Naval Force in the West India lands; and on the Contributions impofed on the Inhabitants of the French captured Weft India Islands.

To his Grace the Duke of Portland, one of his Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State.

The Memorial of the West India Planters and Merchants; Sheweth,

That your Memorialists are not infenfible of the attention of his Majefty's government to the fecurity of the British poffeffions in the Weft Indies; and when they prefume to intrude upon your Grace with a reprefentation of their opinions and withes upon a fubject fo importantly interefting to the public revenue, and to the private fortunes of many of his Majefly's fubjects, they are not induced thereto by a distrust that the fame exertions will not be continued to maintain and fecure fuch valuable dependencies; but they humbly conceive that their local knowledge may enable them to fuggeft fome ufeful ideas refpecting the particular protection of the feveral iflands.

That your Memorialifts, fully fatisfied that the neceffary measures for maintaining the afcendency of the British arms in the British fugar colonies collectively will be purfued by his Majefty's government, have only to exprefs the anxiety they feel in confequence of a late event in the Weft Indies, by which it is proved that an armament may fail undifcovered from the enemy's ports, fufficient in point of naval and military force to do irreparable injury in any of the British islands, against which the attack may be directed. This anxiety is not a little increased, when they reflect upon thofe principles and opinions propagated by the agents of the French Convention, which have a direct tendency to disturb the fettled colonial fyftem of all the islands; to impair, if not deftroy, the neceffary respect and attachment to all established government; and to convert to hoftility thofe who on former occafions, previous to the promulgation of the doctrines already noticed, were active in their co-operations to refift and defeat the common enemy.

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That the nature of all property in the Weft Indies makes it liarly neceffary at this juncture that each ifland fhould poffefs a force fufficient for its protection against predatory attacks of an active and deftroying enemy, fully acquainted with the ftrength or refources of all our Weft India colonies.

That the poffeffion of an ifland for a few days by the enemy, by fuch an enemy as the whole civilized world has now known for the first time, might produce the deftruction of private property equal in value to many millions, and which at this time contributes largely to the fupport of the public revenue.

That your Memorialists are fenfible the poffeffion of the French iflands, is a folid fecurity againft permanent conquelt of tlofe belong VOL. III.

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ing to Great Britain; and that if unfortunately any particular island fhould be captured, the enemy would not be able to hold it long; they therefore do not folicit protection for fuch ifland again ft powerful armaments employed to contend for en.pire in thofe feas, but only wish to be prepared against predatory attacks.

That your Meniorialifis are given to underfland the number of troops in each feparate ifland is at this time far fhort of the peace eftablishment. and unequal to refill an enemy not more powerful than the arnaments which have lately made a defcent on Guadalupe, unless early measures be taken to provide for the refpe&ive fecurity of all the ifands, by increafing the garrifons of each, by ftationing a naval force at thofe iflands, where it may be fafe during the hurricane feafon, fo as to be ready at all times for purposes of defence, or to convey intelligence of any hoftile attempts to the place where the main British force may be ftationed.

That your Memorialists feel deep and unfeigned regret in being obliged to prefent another effential matter to the confideration of your Grace, impofed upon them by a juft and reafonable regard for their own intereft, and by a duty equally urgent upon their feelings, which they owe to themfelves, and friends and correfpondents refident in the colonies.

That when the information was fi: ft received in this country that a contribution or commutation for relinquishing an affumed right to a general plunder of all property in the captured French islands in the Weft Indies was claimed and enforced, your Memorialists did not give perfect credit to it, efpecially as the communciation was confined to one or two more mercantile houfes: That they however felt fo much alarmed, as to defire the gentlemen who had received the letters refpecting it would lay before his Majefty's minifters the information they had received; when they had the fatisfaction to underftand from Mr. Pitt, that this proceeding, in the fhape in which it then appeared to him, was fubject to much objection, and would in his opinion be difapproved by his Majefty's government; that fince that period the fact is eftablished beyond a doubt, and the ruinous detail of these acts of rigour clearly afcertained.

That your Memorialifts, not as public cenfors, but as a body deeply intercited in the due obfervance of those distinctions between public and private property, by which in modern times the rights of conqueft have been qualified, humbly conceive, that the man who in the moment of danger exerts himself for the protection of his country, does not thereby fubject to military execution all his property, wherever fituated, within the range of the conqueror's fword; and that the late deviation from the general rule of public warfare hitherto obferved by civilized nations, is of a nature eventually to have very fatal confequences to your Memorialifts.

That if the fortune of war fhould give to the enemy the poffeffion of any of our islands, the fevere meafures lately enforced against the inhabitants of the French conquered iflands may be retaliated, and extended to the ruin of your Memorialifts, and the inhabitants of fuch islands as may be taken.

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