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and bound to Russian ports, with- 

 out producing the necessary cer- 

 tificates of the Danish quaran- 

 tine, will not be admitted under 

 any pretext whatsoever, but sent 

 back under a military escort. 



3rd. That all the quarantine 

 agents, as well as the commis- 

 sioners of the ports, and the coast 

 commanders, have got new in- 

 structions with respect to the 

 most rigorous observations, that 

 no vessel whatsoever which may 

 have been subject to the visit of 

 corsairs, and have not been duly 

 purified under quarantine, will 

 be allowed to proceed to the 

 Russian ports. (Signed) 



A. De Dubatchefsky. 



An address of the House of 

 Peers was presented some time 

 ago, 



" For < A return of all persons 

 arrested or committed, since the 

 1st of January, 1817, for having 

 been turaultuously, or unlaw- 

 fully, or in a disorderly manner, 

 assembled in Great Britain, and 

 of all persons whose papers were 

 seized, or whose houses were 

 searched for arms or other offen- 

 sive weapons, or who were detain- 

 ed, in consequence of their having 

 been so assembled, without being 

 brought to trial ; together with 

 the names and descriptions of 

 such persons, their occupations, 

 ages, and places of abode at the 

 time of their being so arrested, 

 and the dates of their arrests ; 

 and also copies of the warrants or 

 authorities by which they were 

 60 detained, or by which their 

 papers were so seized, or their 

 houses so searched, and the dates 

 of their subsequent discharge ; 

 together with copies of the war- 



rants, orders, or authorities by 

 which they were so discharged.' " 

 The return has accordingly 

 been made, and laid on the table 

 of the House : it states, that 



" Within the period specified 

 in the above-mentioned address, 

 no persons have been arrested or 

 committed by his Majesty's Se- 

 cretaries of State, for the offences 

 mentioned in the address, nor 

 have any houses been searched 

 for arms or other offensive weapons 

 by virtue of such warrants, nor 

 have any such warrants been 

 issued for the seizure of papers ; 

 but upon the arrest of the under- 

 mentioned persons for high trea- 

 son, or suspicion of high treason, 

 by virtue of warrants of his Ma- 

 jesty's principal Secretary of 

 State for the Home Department, 

 some papers of those persons 

 have been seized by the mes- 

 sengers to whom those warrants 

 were directed ; viz ; — 



" James Watson the elder 



" Thomas Evans 



" Thomas John Evans 



" John Johnston 



" James Mann 



" Benjamin Scholes 



" William Ogden 



" Wilham Benbow. 

 " It is not known to the Home 

 Department that any seizures of 

 papers have been made, except 

 as above-mentioned, nor that any 

 arrests, commitments, or searches 

 within the scope of the address, 

 have taken place in any part of 

 England except at Manchester 

 and Nottingham. 



" Copies of the address having, 

 by the commands of his Royal 

 Highness the Prince Regent, been 

 transmitted to the Magistrates at 

 each of those towns, it appears 

 E 2 by 



