fee gh A 
press it, and to bring the ringleaders 
to punishment. 
Given, &c. Ist of May, 1797. 
By the Commissioners for execu/ing 
the Office of Lord High Admiral of 
Great Britatn and Ireland, &e. 
WHEREAS his Majesty has been 
most. graciously pleased to issue his 
royal proclamation, dated the 11th 
instant, aud thereby to declare that all 
such seathen and marines on board 
any ships of the fleet who may have 
been guilty of any act of mutiny, or 
disobedience of orders, or neglect of 
duty, and who have returned, or 
shall, upon. notification of such his 
Majesty’s proclamation, return to the 
regular and ordinary discharge of 
their duty, shall be discharged and 
released from all prosecutions, im- 
prisonments, and penalties incurred 
by reason of any act of mutiny or 
disobedience of orders, or 
breach or neglect of duty pyevi- 
ously committed by them, or any of 
them. 
And, whereas itis our intention, 
' that on no occasion hereafter the 
minds of the seamen and marines to 
whom the benefit of the said procla- 
mation has been extended, shall be 
disquieted’ by any reproof or re- 
_ proach in respect of ail or any such 
acts of mutiny, disobedience of or- 
slers, or breach or neglect of duty 
as before-mentioned, but thata total 
oblivion of such offences should, 
as far as possible, obtain in conse- 
quence thereof; we have therefore 
thought fit, by these our orders, to 
signify such meaning and intention 
to the several Flag Officers, Cap- 
tains, Commanders, and all their 
subordinate othcers in the fleet ; and 
they are hereby required and direct- 
edto conform to these our orders 
and intentions accordingly, 
any ~ 
PUA. POT R iS, 
251 
Given under our hands the 14th 
day of May, 1797. 
: SPENCER. 
GAMBIER. 
- Younc. 
To the several Flag Officers, 
Captains, and Commanders 
of his Majesty's Fleet. 
By command of their Lordships. 
MarsDen. 
BY THE KiING—A Proclamation for 
the Suppression of the Mutinous and 
Treasonable Proceedings of theCrews 
of certain of our Ships at the Nore. 
Georce R. - 
WHEREAS, upon the represen- 
tation of our Lords Commissioners 
“of our Admiralty respecting the pro- 
ceedings of the seamen and marines 
on board certain of our ships at the 
Nore, we were pleased to command 
our said Lords Commissioners of our 
Admiralty to signify to the said sea+ 
men and marines our gracious inten- 
tions, expressed in our Royal Decla- 
ration, under our sign manual, bear- 
ing date at St. James's, the twenty - 
seventh day of May instant:—[ Here 
the Proclamationrecitesverlatim that 
alrgadypullished, signed PORTLAND | 
And whereas our fight trusty and 
right well-beloved cousin and coun- 
sellor, George John, Earl Spencer, 
our trusty and well-beloved Charles 
George, Lord Arden, of our king- 
dom of Ireland. and W. Young, Esq. 
Rear-Admiral of the White, being 
three of the Lords Commissioners of 
ourAdmiralty, did cause our grac:ous 
intentions, expressed in such our de 
claration, to be signified to the crews 
of our ships at the Nore, and did re- 
quire such crews to return to their 
due obedience accordingly : And. 
whereas it has been represented to 
us, that some of the crews of our said 
‘ships have been desirous of returning 
to their obedience accordingly, but 
‘ have 
