348 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1S13. 



By his Royal Highness the Prince 

 of Wales, Regent of the United 

 Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, in the name and on the 

 behalf of his Majesty. — ^ Pro- 

 clamation. 



George, P, R — Whereas we 

 have beheld with the deepest re- 

 gret, the daring outrages com- 

 mitted in those parts of England 

 wherein some of the most im- 

 portant manufactures of the realm 

 have been for a long time carried 

 on ; and being firmly persuaded 

 that such outrages have been, in a 

 great degree, occasioned by the 

 wicked misrepresentations and ar- 

 tifices of ill-designing persons, who 

 have deluded the ignorant and un- 

 wary, through the specious pretext 

 of procuring additional employ- 

 ment and increased wages for the 

 labouring manufacturers, by the de- 

 struction of various kinds of ma- 

 chinery, now most beneficially em- 

 ployed in the manufactures of this 

 jiingdora, and have thus seduced 

 them to enter into unlawful asso- 

 ciations, and to bind their con- 

 sciences by oaths and engagements 

 not less injurious to their own wel- 

 fare than destructive of the good 

 order and happiness of society; and 

 seeing that the extent and progress 

 of the trade and manufactures of 

 this country, which have been con- 

 tinually advanced by the invention 

 and improvement of machinery, 

 afford the best practical demonstra- 

 tion of the falsehood of all such 

 pretexts : We, therefore, acting in 

 the name and on the behalf of his 

 majesty, being anxious, by every 

 means in our power, to bring back 

 his majesty's misguided subjects to 

 a just sense of their own individual 

 interests, as well as of their duty to 



his majesty, and of the regard 

 which they owe to the welfare of 

 the community, have thought fit, 

 by the advice of his majesty's Privy 

 Council, to issue this Proclamation; 

 and we do hereby, in the name and 

 on the behalf of his majesty, ex- 

 hort all his majesty's loving sub- 

 jects strenuously to exert them- 

 selvesintheirseveralstations to pre- 

 vent the recurrence of these atro- 

 cious combinations and crimes, by 

 which the public peace has been so 

 long disturbed, and the persons 

 and property of individuals en- 

 dangered and destroyed, and which 

 have so justly drawn down upon 

 the offenders the severest penalties 

 of the law. And we do more espe- 

 cially warn those who may be 

 exposed to such seductions against 

 the danger of binding themselves 

 by illegal oaths and engagements, 

 to obey the commands of secret 

 directors, who, keeping themselves 

 aloof, involve their deluded asso- 

 ciates in all the guilt and peril of 

 violence, robbery, and murder. 

 And we do further, in the name 

 and on the behalf of his majesty, 

 earnestly recommend and enjoin 

 his majesty's loving subjects, when- 

 ever it shall be found necessary, to 

 have recourse to the salutary mea- 

 sures which the wisdom of parlia- 

 ment has provided for the protec- 

 tion of persons and property. And 

 we do further exhort the pro- 

 prietors of machinery not to be 

 deterred from continuing the use 

 and employment of the same, but 

 vigilantly and strenuously to exert 

 themselves in the maintenance and 

 defence of their property, and in 

 the prosecution of their lawful and 

 meritorious callings, in the full 

 persuasion that due watchfulness 



