such order, to be committed to the 1793, or if out of those limite, county gaol. within ten days from the said 10th 19. Every alien who has arrived of January, and every alien arriv. in England since the ift of January ing in future Thall, within ten days 1792, shall, within ten days from after his arrival, give to some the 10th of January 1793, and neighbouring magistrate an account every alien arriving in future shall, of all weapons, arms, gunpowder, within ten days after his arrival at and ammunition, in their posfellion, the place expressed in his passport, and shall, within three days from deliver to the chief magiftrate such notice, deliver up to such where he shall be, or, if no chief magistrate all such weapons, &c. magifirate, to a justice of peace of except such only which they shall the district, an account in writing have licence to keep from one of of his name, rank, occupation, and his majesty's principal secretaries of place of abode, and the place of his state. And it shall not be lawful residence for six months preceding, for any such alien, after such des and take a certificate thereof; and livery, 10 buy, or to have in his un in case of neglect or refusal to make poffeffion, or in the poffeffion of such declaration, or of delivering a others for his use, any weapons, false account, to be imprisoned. &c. And any person, negleding 20. Magistrates may fummon or refusing to obey the above dialiens, fuspected of not having de- rections, Thall , on convidion, be livered such accounts, before them, judged to depart this realm, and, and cause them to be arrested. if found therein after such time, 21. Any jufiice of the peace, Thall be transported. mayor, or chief magistrate, may, 26. Magistrates may require aliens by notice in writing, require of resident in their jurifdi&tions, or any housekeeper within their dis. palling through the same, to delitriat an account in writing of the ver up all weapons, &c. in their names, rank, and occupation, of pofseflion, under pain of being orall aliens resident in their houses, dered to depart the realm. 22. Copies of accounts delivered 27. Any of bis majetty's secre. to custom-house officers, &c. and taries of state, or any two justices of paffports and certificates granted of peace, or any mayor or chief by magiftrates, to be transmitted magiftrate, may cause any house, to one of the fecretaries of ftate. rented or occupied by any aliens, 23. The justices of the courts of (except alien merchants), and any Weliminfier may admit aliens to house in which any alien shall be a bail. lodger or inmate, to be searched in 24. As may also any justice of the day-time, in the presence of a peace, by authority of the secre- peace-officer, in order to discover any weapons, &c. and to seize the 25. All aliens, arrived in this fame. kingdom fince the 1st of January 28. And may require, from 1792, shall, if within the limits of housekeepers where aliens may the bills of mortality, or the pa- lodge, an account in writing of all 'rishes of Marybone, Pancras, and weapons, &c. in their houses. Chelsea, on the 10th of January 29. His majelly may send out of the tary of State. the realm any alien who shall have 34. Aliens not fourteen years old be given gratis. 36. Fresh passports or certificates the realm Ihall return, he shall, on may be granted where the former convi&ion thereof, be transported ones are loft or mislaid. for life. 37. Persons adjudged to be trans31. In all questions respecting ported, to be sent to such places as offences against this act, the proof his majesty shall direct. to lie on the party accused. 38. If any person, ordered or 32. No person to be deemed an adjudged to be transported, shall alien merchant, except he shall be be found at large within the realm, med en bona fide engaged in carrying on or, after sentence of transporta, ale trade , and seeking his living thereby. tion pronounced, he shall be guila 33. Foreign ambassadors and their ty of felony, and shall suffer e poi fervants duly registered, and per- death as a felon, without benefit psons naturalized, excepted out of of clergy. this act, S T A T E P A P E R S. Note sent by M. Chauvelin to Lord due a character of ill-will, to which it is yet unwilling to give credit. It has however felt, that its duty T. HE under-ligned, minister to the French nation required it no plenipotentiary of France, longer to leave it in a state of unhas the honour to communicate to certainty, into which it had been his excellency lord Grenville, the thrown by several measures recent- rio instructions which he has received ly adopted by the British governfrom the executive council of the ment-an uncertainty which muft French republic, with orders to lay he shared by the British nation, them before his Britannic majesty's and which is equally unworthy of fecretary of state for the department both countries. of foreign affairs, in case he should “ The executive council of the believe that he could not sufficient. French Republic has, in conlely foon obtain an interview with quence, authorised the minister of that minifter. France at London to demand with the “ The French government, by openness of the ministers of his continuing, since the recall of lord Britannic majesty, if France ought Gower from Paris, to leave at Lon- to consider England as a neutral don its minifter plenipotentiary, power, or as an enemy; and it has conceived that it gave his Britannic elpecially charged him to obtain a majesty an unequivocal proof of the definitive answer upon this point. delire it had to continue to live “ But, in asking from the minií. upon good terms with him, and to ters of his Britannic majesty a frank dispel those clouds which the and open explanation as to their inevents, necessary and inherent to tentions with regard to France, the the internal regulations of France, executive council is unwilling that appeared at that time to have occa- they thould have the smallest refioned. The intentions of the exe- naining doubt as to the disposition cutive council of France, with re of France towards England, and gard to England, have not ceased to its defire of remaining in peace to be the same; but it has not been with her: it has even been defrous able to fee with indifference the of answering beforehand all the republic conduct which the British proaches which they may be temptminiftry maintains at present to ed to make in justiñcation of a rup. wards France. It is with regret ture. that it has remarked in this con “ On reflecting what may be the the reasons which may determine on which the opinion of England, bis Britannic majesty to break with and perhaps of Holland itself, is the French republic, the executive sufficiently known, to render it difcouncil has been able to find no ficult seriously to make it the single other than a falfe interpretation, subject of a war. Should, how. which is, perhaps, given to the de- ever, the British minifiry avail itself cree of the national convention of of this last motive, as a cause of the 19th of November. If a real declaring war against France, would alarm bas been occafioned by this it not, in such case, be probable, decree, it can have arisen only for that its secret intention must have want of understanding its true sente. been, at all events, to bring on a The national convention never rupture, and that it made use, at meant that the French republic the present moment, of the vainest 5, thould favour insurrections, ihould of all pretences, to colour an unjust only to those people who, after cept the war, and repel with in. has having acquired their liberty by dignation an aggreslion so maniiter conqueft, may have demanded the feitly unjust, and so little provoked fraternity, the assistance of the re on its part. When every explanapublic, by the folemn and unequi- tion, calculated to demonstrate the vocal expresfion of the general will. purity of the intentions of France, " France ought and will respect, when all peaceable and conciliatory Enco; - not only the independence of Eng- measures Thall have been exhausted him to land, but even that of those of her by her, it is evident that all the una de allies with whom she is not at war. weight, all the responsibility of the cig thu The undersigned has therefore been war, will fall sooner or later on nomy charged formally to declare, that those who shall have provoked it. 0003 the will not attack Holland so long It will, in fact, be nothing but a gard to as that power shall, on its fide, con war of the administration alone is Opfine itself towards her within the against the French republic; and, bounds of an exact neutrality. if this truth could for a imoment “ The Britith government being appear doubtful, it would not perds bethus set at its ease upon these two haps be impoflible for France points, no pretence for the smallest speedily to convince of this a nation difficulty could remain, except as which, in beftowing its confidence, sto to the question of the opening of has never renounced the exercise of the Scheldt; a question irrevocably its reason or its respect for truth I 2 the the undersigned has received orders Answer of Lord Grenville to the prog to communicate officially to his ceding Note. excellency lord Grenville, inviting him, as well as the whole-council Whitehall, Dec. 31, 1792. of his Britannic majefiy, to weigh, “ I HAVE received, fir, from with the most serious attention, the 1 you a note, in which, styling declarations and the demands which yourself minister plenipotentiary of they contain. It is evident that France, you communicate to me, the French nation is desirous of as the king's secretary of state, the maintaining peace with England; instructions which you state to have The affords a proof of this, by lend yourself received from the execuing herself frankly and openly to tive council of the French republic, dilipate all the suspicions which so You are not ignorant, that since many different passions and preju- the unhappy, events of the 10th of dices are unceasingly at work to August, the king has thought raise up against her; but the more proper to suspend all official comshe shall have done to convince all munication with France. You Europe of the purity of her views, are yourself no otherwise accredited and of the justice of her intentions, to the king, than in the name of the more will the have a right to his most christian majefty. The expect no longer to be misunder- proposition of receiving a minifter stood. accredited by any other authority “ The undersigned has orders to or power in France, would be a demand a written answer to the new question, which, whenever it present note. He hopes that the should occur, the king would have ministers of his Britannic majesty the right to decide according to will be brought back, by the ex- the interests of his subjects, his own planations which it contains, to dignity, and the regard which he ideas more favourable to the re- owes to his allies, and to the geneunion of the two countries, and ral system of Europe. I am there. that they will not have occasion, fore to inform you, fir, in express for the purpose of returning to and formal terms, that I acknow. them, to consider the terrible re- ledge you in no other public chasponsibility of a declaration of war, racter than that of minister from which will incontestibly be their his most christian majesty, and that own work, the consequences of consequently you cannot be admitwhich cannot be otherwise than ted to treat with the king's minis. fatal to the two countries, and to ters in the quality, and under the human nature in general, and in form stated in your note. which a generous and free people “ But observing that you have cannot long consent to betray their entered into explanations of some own interests, by serving as an of the circumstances which have auxiliary and a reinforcement to a given to England such strong tyrannical coalition. grounds of uneasiness and jealousy, (Signed) “F. CHAUVELIN. and that you speak of these expla nations, as being of a nature to Portman square, Dec. 27, 1792, bring our two countries nearer, I the first year of the republic.". have been unwilling to convey to you |