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firm and unshaken: and that, hold- 
img in abhorrence afl base and sean- 
dalous attempts to shake his loyalty 
and true affection, every good soldier 
will repel with indignation, the in- 
stigators of such wickedness, and 
glory in the opportunity of exposing 
them to the exemplary justice of 
their insulted country. 
By command of field-marshal his 
Royal Highness the duke of York. 
— Wirrram Fawcerr, 
Adjutant-general. 
London Gaxette Extraordinary. 
Wednesday, June 7. 
At the Court at the Queen's. House, 
June 6,1797, Present, The King’s’ 
Most Excellent Majestyinm Council. 
WHEREAS, by an act passed in 
the present session of parliament, tn- 
tituled, <* An act for more eftectual- 
«ly restraining intercourse with the 
«* crews of certain of his Majesty's 
«« ships now ina state of mutiny and 
¢¢ rebellion, and for the more effectual 
«¢ suppression of such mutiny andre- 
* bellion,” itis enacted, That it shall 
be lawful for the commissioners for 
executing the office of Lord High- 
Admiral, or any three or more of 
them, being thereto authorized by 
order of his Majesty incouncil, to de~ 
clare the crew ofany of his Majesty’s 
ships who have been guilty of acts of 
mutiny and rebellion, and who still 
persist therein, and also the crew of 
any other of his Majesty's ships, who 
shall be guilty of any of the like of- 
fences, to be ina state of mutiny and 
rebellion ; and, by such declaration, 
*) warn all his Majesty’s faithful sub- 
~>ets to abstain from all communica- 
sion or intercourse with the crews of 
‘the said ships: Andit is farther enact- 
ed, that it shall be lawful for the said 
commissioners, or any three or more 
of them, in such manner as his Majes- 
ty shall authorize and require, to ac- 
eept the submission of the crew of 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
any ship which shall have been $0 de- 
elared to be in a state of mutiny and 
rebellion, or of any person or persons, 
part ofsuch crew, or of any person or 
persons on beard of anyof such ships, 
or to declare any such person or per- 
sons to have returned to their duty, 
and thereupon to declare the person 
or persons whose submission shall be 
soaccepted, or whoshall beso declared 
to have returned to their duty, to be 
exempted and relieved from all or any 
of the penalties and forfeitures in the 
said act contained, in such manner, 
and under suchterms andrestrictions, 
as his Majesty shall think fit:—And 
whereas thesaid LordsCommissioners 
have represented to his Majesty, that 
it appears to them that the crews of 
theships hereinafter- mentioned, that 
is to say, the Sandwich, Montagu, 
Director, Inflexible, Monmouth, Bel- 
liquieux, Standard, Lion, Nassau, Re- 
pulse, Grampus, Proserpine. Brilliant, 
Iris, Champion, Comet, Tysiphone, 
Pylades, Swan, and Inspector, have 
been guilty of acts of mutiny and 
rebellion, particular'y by taking the 
command of the said ships from his 
Majesty’s officers, by combining to 
obstruct the trade and navigation of 
the port of London, and by other acts 
of the most heinous nature, and that: 
some of such crews had actually fired 
on divers of his Majesty's ships, and 
that all the said crews still persistedin 
such their mutiny and rebellion: His 
Majesty, in pursuance of the powers 
vested in him by the above-recited 
act, is herebypleased, by and with the 
advice of the privy couneil, to autho- 
rize, and by this his order in council 
doth authorize the said Commission- 
ers for executing the office of Lord 
High Admiral, or any three or more 
of them, to declare the crews of the 
said ships to be in a state of mutiny 
and rebellion, and to warn all bis 
Majesty’s faithful subjects to abstain 
from all communication or inter- 
course 
— 
Ss 
ee 
