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ment, or either of them for any 
thing alleged to have been done 
contrary thereto, any question shall 
arise, whether the thing so done 
was authorized by the licence 
hereby \given; the proof of such 
thing was done, under the parti- 
cular circumstances, and according 
to the special terms and condi. 
tions requ.red by this order, ghall 
lie on the persons claiming thé be- 
nefit of such licence, 
? W. Fawkener. 
© Additional Instru&ion to the Com- 
manders of our Ships of War and 
Privateers, that have cr may have 
Letters of Marque against France, 
given at our Court of St. Fames’s, 
the oth Day of February, 1795, in 
the Thirty-ffthYear of our Reign. 
George R. 
1. THAT they shall bring into 
the ports of this kingdom all Dutch 
vessels, bound to or troin any ports 
of Holland, in order that they, to- 
gether with their cargoes, being 
Dutch property, may be detained 
provisionally ; aud that speedy re- 
stitution shall be made oi all such 
cargos, or parts of cargoes (or the 
-valug thereof} found on board the 
same, as shail appear to belong to 
proprietors, being the subjects of 
allied cr neutral powers. 
2. That they shal] bring into the 
ports of this kingdom all ships, to 
whatever country they may belong, 
which shall be found laden: with 
naval or military stores, and boun 
‘to any port in Holland, in. order 
thet the said cargoes may be de. 
tained provisionally ; a tull indem. 
a-fiation being given by our go. 
vernment to the. owners and masters 
fall such vessels belonging, to the 
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subjeéts of the allied or neutral 
powers, as may be brought in, in 
consequence hereof, and likewise to 
the proprietors of such cargoes, 
being subjeéts of allied or neutral 
powers. \ 
By his majesty’s command, 
.PorTLaND. 
PROCLAMATION. \ 
(L.S.) 
By his Excellency Fames Seaton, Esq. 
Captain-General and Governor ix 
Chiefin and over his Britannic Ma- 
sesty’s Island of St. Vincent, Sequia, 
and such others of the Islands, cam- 
monty calked the Grenadines, as lie 
to the noirthward of Cuviacous 
Chancellor, Ordinary, and Vice- 
adiiral of the same, Fe. 
IN order that the measures which 
the present critical situation of af- 
fairs obliges me to adopt may be 
understood by the peaceable French 
inhabitants of the island, by the 
society at large, by our country, 
and by our open and avowed ene. 
my, Ihave thought fit, by and with 
the advice of his miajesty’s privy 
council, to make the following de- 
claration ; 
‘Vhat a most cruel and unpro- 
voked attack. has been made upon 
the country, aggravated by every 
circumstance of savage barbarity, 
by a numerous body of armed Cha- 
raibs, aided and assisted by a consi- 
derable number of the inhabitants - 
of the island, of French extraétion, 
who had taken the oaths of alle. 
giance and fidelity to his majesty, 
acting under the direction of Cha- 
toye, a Charaib chief, acknow- 
ledged by them as general and com- 
mander of the whole, at the very 
moment when they were: professing 
an 
