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ANNUAL REGISTER, 181k 



trumpets and guards being 

 waiting, conducted liim 



Officers of Anus, who demand 

 futrance into the city, to publish 

 his Majesty's proclamation of 

 peace." The gates being opened, 

 he was admitted alone, and the 

 gates then shut again. The City 

 Marshal, preceded by his officers, 

 conducted him to the Lord Mayor, 

 to whom he shewed his Majesty's 

 warrant, which his lordship hav- 

 ing read, returned, and gave di- 

 rections to the City Marshal to 

 open the gates, who, attending the 

 Officer of Arms, on his return to 

 them, said, on leaving him, " Sir, 

 the gates are opened." The 



in 

 to his 

 place in the procession, which 

 then moved on into the city, (the 

 Officers of Westminster filing 

 off and retiring as they came to 

 Temple-bar,) and at Chancery- 

 lane the proclamation was read a 

 third time. Then the Lord Mayor, 

 Sheriffs, and Aldermen, the two 

 former in their state, and the 

 latter in their private carriages, 

 joined the procession immediately 

 after the officers of arms, and the 

 whole moved on to the end of Wood- 

 street, where the cross formerly 

 stood in Cheapside ; and the pro- 

 clamation having been there read, 

 the procession was continued to 

 the Royal Exchange, where it was 

 read for the last time, and the 

 procession returning by way of 

 Gracechurch-street, thronirh Lorn- 

 bard-street, dispersed about seven 

 o'clock, the military returning the 

 way they came. Each reading of 

 the proclamation was preceded 

 and followed by a flourish of 

 trumpets. 



An unforlunute ex;ilosion took 

 place in the Royal Arsenal, at 

 Woolwich, in one of the sheds 



appropriated for making fireworks ; 

 in consequence of which four of 

 the workmen lost their lives, and 

 two others were wounded. By 

 the exertions of the officers on the 

 spot, the fire was prevented from 

 injuringany of the other buildings, 

 and it was entirely got under in 

 less than half an hour. 



21. Amsterdam. — The follow- 

 ing advertisement has been pub- 

 lished here: — 



" The Board of Trade hereby 

 informs all whom it may concern, 

 that it has been acquainted by his 

 Excellency the Secretary of State 

 for Foreign Affairs, that by a de- 

 cree of his Royal Highness our 

 Sovereign Prince, dated the 15th 

 inst. no ships or vessels shall be 

 cleared out or dispatched from any 

 port of the United Netherlands, 

 which are designed to fetch ne- 

 groes from the coast of Africa, or 

 from any of the islands belonging 

 to that continent, and to convey 

 them to the continent or islands of 

 America ; and that all such ships 

 or vessels designed for the slave 

 trade shall be refused admittance 

 at any fort, factory, colony, or 

 possession on the coast of Guinea. 



25. The grandest and most ap- 

 propriate spectatle in this coun- 

 try presented to the royal visitants, 

 was a naval review at Portsmouth, 

 which took place on tliis day. 

 The illuBtrious personages had 

 arrived at the town in the evening 

 of the 22nd, where were already 

 the Prince Regent, and the Dukes 

 of York and Clarence. The two 

 following days were eiuployed by 

 the party in surveys of the har- 

 bour, examinations of the interior 

 of the Impregnable man of war, 

 and visits to all parts of the vast 

 naval establishments and stiipend- 



