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TUESDAY, JULY 1.

GAZETTE.

An act for appointing and enabling commif fioners farther to examine, take, and ftate, the

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SATURDAY, JULY 12. Westminster, July 11. This day, the Lords being met, the royal affent was given by commiffion to- :.

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An act for granting to his Majefty feveral additional and new duties upon stamped vellum, parchment, and paper; and alfo, for repealing certain exemptions from the ftamp duties.

An act for granting to his Majefty a ftamp duty on licences to be taken out by certain perfons uttering or vending medicines, and certain stamp duties on all medicines fold under fuch licences, or under the authority of his Majefty's letters patent.

An act for granting to his Majesty an additional duty upon ftage-coaches and other carriages therein mentioned."

An act for granting to his Majefty feveral rates and duties upon waggons, wains, carts, and other fuch carriages not charged with any duty under the management of the Commiffioners of Excife.

An act for granting to his Majefty a ftamp duty on the registry of burials, marriages, births, and chriftenings.

An act for raifing a farther fum of money by loans, or Exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand feven hundred and eighty-three.

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An act for taking away from the Commiffio ners of Excife in England and Scotland the power of compounding with perfons making malt not to fell, but to be confumed in their own private families.

An act for the more effectual preventing the illegal importation of foreign fpirits, and for putting a stop to the private diftillation of British-made fpirituous liquors; for explaining fuch part of the act impofing a duty upon male fervants, as relates to the right of appeal from the juftices of the peace; to amend and rectify a miftake in an act of the last feffion of parliament, with refpect to the removal of tea from one part of this kingdom to the other parts thereof; and for preventing vexatious actions against officers of excife acting in purfuance of the authority given by excife ftatutes.

An act to enable the adjutant-general of his Majefty's forces, and the comptrollers of army accounts, to fend and receive letters and packets free from the duty of postage.

An act to allow the drawback of the whole duty of cuftoms upon the exportation of rice. VOL. III.

An act for the fale of prize-goods fecured in warehoufes in this kingdom, for which the duties are not paid, or the goods exported within a limited time.

An act for eftablishing certain regulations in the receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer.

An act for making compenfation to the proprietors of certain mefluages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in the county of Kent, purchafed in purfuance of an act, made in the laft feffion of parliament, to veft certain meffuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in truftees, for the better fecuring his Majefty's docks, fhips, and stores, at Portsmouth and Chatham.

An act for vefting certain meifuages, lands," tenements, and hereditaments, in trustees, for the farther fecuring his Majefty's docks, thips, and ftores, at Portsmouth; and for the more fafe and convenient carrying on his Majesty's gunpowder-works and mills near the town of Feverfham.

An act for repealing an act made in the fifth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for repealing the act, made in the laft feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for vefting the Fort of Senegal, and it's dependen cies, in the company of merchants trading to Africa, and to veft as well the faid fort and it's dependencies as all other the British forts and fettlements upon the coaft of Africa, lying between the Port of Sallee and Cape Rouge, to gether with all the property, eftate, and effects,. of the company of merchants trading to Africa in or upon the faid forts, fettlements, and their dependencies, in his Majesty, and for fecuring, extending, and improving the trade to Africa, and for vefting James Fort in the River Gambia, and it's dependencies, and all other the British forts and fettlements between the Port of Sallee and Cape Rouge, in the company of merchants trading to Africa, and for fecuring and regulating the trade to Africa.

An act to provide that the proceedings on the bill, now depending in parliament, for inflicting certain pains and peraldies on Sir Thomas Rumbold, Baronet, and Peter Perring, Efquire, for certain breaches of public truft, and high crimes and misdemeanours, committed by them whilft they refpectively held the offices of governor and prefident, counfellors and members of the Select Committee of the fettlement of Fort Saint George, on the coaft of Coromandel, in the Eaft Indies, fhall not be difcontinued by any proro◄ gation or diffolution of parliament. -i

An act for farther continuing fo much of an act, palled in the twenty-fecond year of the reign of his prefent Majesty, intituled, An a&t for reftraining Sir Thomas Rumbold, Baronet, and Peter Perring, Efquire, from going out of this kingdom for a limited time, and for difcovering 矗 their

their eftates and effects, and preventing the tranfporting or alienating the fame, as relates to restraining the faid Sir Thomas Rumbold, Baronet, and Peter Perring, Efquire, from alienating or otherwife difpofing of their respective real eftates.

An act for paving and regulating Church Lane, in and near the parishes of Saint Mary, Whitechapel, and Saint George, in the county of Middlefex, and feveral other ftreets, avenues, and places, within the fame parish of Saint Mary, Whitechapel, and preventing annoyances therein; and for enabling the inhabitants of the faid parish of Saint Mary, Whitechapel, to raise money to defray the expences incurred in repairing the parish church.

An act for continuing the term, and altering and enlarging the powers of two acts made in the fecond and twenty-fifth years, of the reign of his late Majefty, for repairing the highways between Sheppards Shord and Horley Upright Gate, leading down Bagdown Hill, in the county of Wilts, and other ruinous parts of the highways thereunto adjacent.

And to two private bills.

Extract of a Letter from the Right Honourable General Sir George Auguftus Eliott, K.B. Governor of Gibraltar, dated April 25, 17834 received at the Office of his Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. ON the 23d inftant (St. George's day) public communication was made to the troops of the high fenfe his Majefty entertained of their conduct in the defence of this fortrefs, with the refolutions of both Houses of Parliament: thefe high teftimonies of the royal fatisfaction, and their country's approbation, were received with the loudest acclamations of joy.

The fame day I received the honour of inveftiture with the enfigns of the Bath from the, hands of Lieutenant-General Boyd; a double colonnade being formed upon the King's Bastion,, adorned with the various flags: in the evening there was an illumination and fire works.

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You'll do me the juftice to believe, that at my age, neither vanity nor oftentation could have any fhare in the compliance with what was prefcribed by Lieutenant-General Boyd, who, throughout the whole behaved with the most obliging attention, and was defirous to fulfil his Majefty's commands in the most honourable and diftinguished manner that circumstances would, admit.

The Circuits appointed for the Summer Afsizes are as follow, viz.

HOME CIRCUIT.

Earl of Mansfield, Lord Chief Juftice.
Mr. Juftice Gould.

Hertfordshire. Monday, August 4, at Hertfords
Effex. Wednesday, August 6, at Chelmsford.
Kent. Monday, Auguft 11, at Maidstone.
Sufiex. Friday, August 15, at Lewes.
Surrey, Monday, August 18, at Croydon.

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fum of money by loans or Exchequer bills, to pay off and difcharge the debts due and owing on the Civil Lift.

An act for repealing fo much of an act made in the twenty-first year of the reign of his prefent Majesty, as took off the duties payable upon the importation of that fpecies of Blue called Smalts, and for granting relief to the owners or proprie tors of tobacco of the growth of that part of Great Britain called Scotland, which shall not be worth the duties impofed thereon by an act of the laft feffion of parliament.

An act for granting relief to the United Com pany of Merchants of England trading to the Eaft Indies, by allowing farther time for the payment of certain fums due and to become due to the public, and by advancing to the faid Com pany, on the terms therein-mentioned, a certain fum of money to be raised by loans or Exchequer bills; and to enable the faid Company to make a dividend of four pounds per centum to the proprietors at Christmas one thousand feven hundred and eighty-three; and to regulate the future payment of debentures of drawbacks on East India goods.

An act for altering the duties and drawbacks upon plain muflins, unrated muflins and callicoes, and Nanquin cloths,

An act for appointing commiffioners to enquire into the loffes and fervices of all fuch perfons who have fuffered in their rights, pro

John Williams, Efq. and Abel Moyfey, Esq.
Glamorganshire. Tuesday, August 26, at Cowperties, and profeffions, during the late unhappy

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diffentions in America, in confequence of their loyalty to his Majefty, and attachment to the British government,

An act for the more effectual encouragement of the manufactures of flax and cotton in Great Britain.

An act for the better preventing frauds in the landing and removing of wine in this kingdom, and to prevent the re-landing of refined fugars entered for exportation to obtain the drawback or bounty.

An act for preventing the exportation of corn, grain, or meal, with a bounty, during the operation of two acts pafied in this prefent feffion of parliament, for allowing the importation of

corn.

An act for the farther encouraging the growth of coffee and cocoa-nuts in his Majefty's islands and plantations in America.

Whitehall, July 15. Sunday night laft Lieu. tenant Foliot, of the Baracoota cutter, arrived with difpatches from his Excellency Sir Roger Curtis, Knight, his Majefty's ambaffador to the Emperor of Morocco, dated Gibraltar, June 14; in which he gives an account that the former treaties of friendship and commerce had been renewed and confirmed, and that additional articles, for the better regulation of the commerce

between the two nations were concluded and figned at Sallee on the 24th of May last,

SATURDAY, JULY 19, Weftminster, July 16, 1783. This day his Majesty came to the Houfe of Peers, and being 1 2

in his royal robes, feated on the throne with the ufual folemnity, Sir Francis Molyneux, gentle man usher of the black rod, was fent with a meffage from his Majefty to the House of Commons, commanding their attendance in the Houfe of Peers. The Commons being come thither accordingly, his Majefty was pleafed to give the royal affent to-

An act for granting to his Majesty a certain fum of money out of the Sinking Fund, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and for farther appropriating the fupplies granted in this feffion of parliament.

An act for fettling and fecuring a certain an nuity on George Lord Rodney, and the two next perfons to whom the Barony of Rodney shall defoend, in confideration of the eminent fervices performed by the faid George Lord Rodney to his Majefty and the public.

An act for fettling and fecuring a certain annuity for the ufe of the Right Honourable Sir George Auguftus Eliott, Knight of the Moft Honourable Order of the Bath, in confideration of the eminent fervices performed by him to his Majesty and this country.

After which his Majesty was pleased to make the following moft gracious fpeech

MY LORDS, AND GENTLEMEN,

THE advanced feafon of the year requires fome remiffion from your long and laborious attention to the public fervice. The exigencies of that fervice may oblige me to call you together again at an early period; and I perfuade myfelf, from my uniform experience of your affection to me, and your zeal for the public good, that you will chearfully fubmit to a temporary inconvenience, for the permanent advantage of your country.

The confideration of the affairs of the Eaft Indies will require to be refumed as early as pof fible; and to be purfued with a ferious and unremitting attention.

I expected to have had the fatisfaction of acquainting you, before the end of the feffion, that the terms of pacification were definitively fettled; but the complicated state of the bufinefs in difcuffion has unavoidably protracted the negotiation. I have, however, every reafon to believe, from the difpofition fhewn by the feveral powers concerned, that they are perfectly well inclined to fuch a conclufion as may fecure the blefings of peace, fo much and fo equally to be defired by all parties.,

GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

I THANK you for the fupplies you have fo liberally granted for the public fervice; for facilitating my arrangements towards a feparate eftablishment for the Prince of Wales; and for ena

bling me, without any new burden on my people, to discharge the debt which remained on my Civil Lift.

MY LORDS, AND GENTLEMEN,

IEARNESTLY recommend to you an attention towards promoting among my people, in your feveral counties, that fpirit of order, regularity, and industry, which is the true fource of revenue

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and power in this nation; and without which, all regulations for the improvement of the one, or the increase of the other, will have no effect. Then the Earl of Mansfield, by his Majesty's command, faid

MY LORDS, AND GENTLEMEN,

Ir is his Majefty's royal will and pleasure, that this parliament be prorogued to Tuelday the 9th day of September next, to be then here holden; and this parliament is accordingly proz rogued to Tuesday the 9th day of September next.

CARMARTHEN AUTUMN CIRCUIT.

William Beard, Efq. Archibald Macdonald, Esq. Carmarthenshire. Monday, August 25, at Carmarthen.

County Borough of Carmarthen. The fame day. Pembrokeshire. Saturday, August 30, at Ba verfordwest,

Town and County of Haverfordweft. The fame day.

Cardiganfhire. Friday, September 5, at Car digan.

TUESDAY, JULY 22.

Whitehall, July 22.

Advices have been re

ceived by the Fox packet, which failed from Bengal the 17th of February laft, that peace had been concluded with the Marrattas; that Hyder Ali died in the month of December laft; and that his fucceffor, Tippou-Saib, appeared more pacifically inclined towards the English than his father, having permitted fuch as were prifoners in the towns taken by him to have a free communication with the Prefidency at Madras, to be better fupplied with neceffaries, and to have egrefs and regrefs; that Monf. Suffrein, after watering his fleet at Achin, had coffed over the Bay of Bengal to Ganjam, with nine fail of the line and two frigates, where he captured the Coventry frigate and the Blandford Eaft Indiaman; that the Medea frigate had retaken the Chafer floop of war, on her way from Trincomale with dispatches from M. Buffy to M. Suffrein, by which it appeared, that the reft of the French fleet was in great diftrefs from a violent dyfentery; having loft a number of men, and was unable to join M. Suffrein as foon as intended; and that M. Suffrein' remained only a few days on the coaft, and it was supposed had returned to Trincomale, leaving two frigates to cruize from Ganjam to Ballafore Road, which had captured a number of veffels bound to Madras with rice.

Warsaw, July 20 On Sunday laft, accountswere received here of the plague having broken out at Cherfon, at Oczakow, and in the country adjacent; that in the Crimea this distemper rageď with great violence; and it having begun to ma❤ nifeft itself on the frontiers of this kingdom, or-" ders have been fent to the Polish troops to form a line to prevent it's farther progrefs.

SATURDAY, JULY 26. At the Court at St James; the 25th of July 1783,

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at Conftantinople, that the plague, had begun to fpread in different quarters of that city, and had alfo appeared in places in the neighbourhood, and had also broken out at Foglieri, or Foggio, in the Bay of Smyrna; his Majefty in council this day took the fame into confideration; and although it appeared that a quarantine of forty days is at this time fubfifting, by order of this Board, upon all hips and veffels coming from or through the Mediterranen, or from Weft Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, or from any of the ports of the kingdom of Spain within the Mediterranean, or from Minorca or Gibraltar, into any of the ports of this kingdom, or the Iles of Jerfey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark or Man; and alfo upon all hips and veffels whatfoever arriving in the faid ports having any books, filk yaw, thrown or wrought, linea, cotton-wool, cotton-yarn, grograin or mohair yarn, goats hair, Carmenia wool, carpets, camblets, burdets, or other ma, nufacture of filk and cotton, kid skins, skins in the wool or hai, fpunges, wine and oil in chefts, thread ftockings, all goods packed with ftraw and cotton, matts, and matting, and fails, being goods more efpecially liable to retain infection, and which may have been brought from Conftantinople, and other parts of the Levant, into other countries, and from thence imported into his Majesty's dominions in fhips not obliged to perform quarantine; his Majesty judges it neceffary upon this occafion to caufe the faid orders to be enforced; and to that end his Majesty doth hereby require and command all the officers appointed for the fervice of quarantine, to use their utmost care and diligence in caufing the feveral rules and regulations established for the due performance of quarantine, to be punctually and ftrictly obferved and carried into execution: whereof the faid officers, and all others whom it may concern, are to take notice, and govern themfelves accordingly.

STEPH. COTTRELL.

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WHEREAS, by an act of parliament paffed in the twenty-fixth year of his late Majefty's reign, intituled, An act to oblige hips more effec tually to perform their quarantine, and for the better preventing the plague being brought from foreign parts into Great Britain or Ireland, or the Ifles of Guernfy, Jerfey, Alderney, Sark or Man,' it is, among many other things enacted, that all fhips and veffels arriving, and all perfons, goods and merchandizes, whatsoever, coming or imported into any port or place within Great Britain, or any of the ifles afore-mentioned, from any place from whence his Majefty, his heirs or fucceffors, by and with the advice of his or their privy-council, fhall judge it probable that the infection may be brought, fhall. be obliged to make their quarantine in fuch place and places, for fuch time and in fuch manner, as has been, or fall from time to time be, directed by his Majefty, his heirs or fucceffors, by his or their order or orders, made in his or their privy-council, and notified by proclamation, or

published in the London Gazette; and that, until fuch fhips, veffels, perfons, goods, and merchandizes, fhall have refpectively performed and be difcharged from fuch quarantine, no such perion, goods, or merchandizes, or any of them, fhall come or be brought on fhore, or go or be put on board any other fhip or veffel, in any place within his Majefty's dominions, uniefs in fuch manner and in fuch cafes, and by fuch licence, as shall be directed or permitted by fuch order or orders made by his Majefty, his heirs or fucceffors, in council as aforefa'd; and that all fuch fhips and veffels, and the perfons or goods coming or imported in, or going or being put on board the fame, and all fhips, veffels, boats, and perfons, receiving any goods or perfons out of the fame, fhall be fubject to fuch orders, rules and directions concerning quarantine, and the prevention of infection, as have been or shall be made by his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, in council and notified by proclamation, or published in the London Gazette as afore-mentioned, under fuch pains and penalties as are inflicted by the faid act.

And whereas information hath been received, that the plague hath broke out and now rages at Chenon, at Oczakow in the country which is called the Tartary of Oczakow, and in the Crimea, and hath manifefted itself likewife upon the frontiers of Poland; and his Majefty by and with the advice of his privy-council, doth thereupon judge it probable that the infection may be brought into this kingdom from Dantzick, or fome port or place in Royal and Ducal Pruffia or Pome rania; his Majefty doth therefore, by and with the advice of his privy-council, hereby order, that all fhips, veffels, perfons, goods and mer chandizes, now arrived, or that fhall hereafter ar rive, in any port of this kingdom, or the Ifles of Jerfey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark or Man, from Dantzick, or any other port or place in Royal and Ducal Pruffia or Pomerania, do make their quarantine for forty days, which is to commence and be computed from the day each fhip or veffel fhall come to anchor in the place appointed for performing quarantine, and not be

fore.

That the places hereinafter-named shall be and are hereby appointed to be the places, wherein fuch fhips or veffels (not having the infection on board) fhall refpectively perform quarantine; that is to fay, all fuch fhips or vessels which are or shall be bound to the port of London, or any member, creek, or other parts thereof, or to the River Thames, or Medway, fhall perform their quarantine in Standgate creek. All fuch fhips or veffels which are or fhall be bound to the ports of Ipswich, Yarmouth, Lynn, Bofton, Hull, Newcastle, or Berwick upon Tweed, or any of them, or any member or creek thereof, or other place therein, fhall perform their quarantine in Whitebooth Road between Hull and Grimfby. All fuch fhips or veffels which are or fhall be bound to the ports of Carlisle and Chefter, or either of them, or any member or creek thereof, or other place therein, or to any part of the Ifle of Man, fhall perform their quarantine in a place called Highlake, near Liverpool, at the west end thereof. All fuch hips or veffels which are or shall be bound to the

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