ing a permit for the same, and upon paying a du'y at the rate of 12s. per gallon; but the landing of any spirits, in whatever quantity, without a permit, will subject the offender to the penalty as above.

XXII. The Whaling vessels are not to throw their try-works overboard, whilst at this anchorage, under the penalty of 50l., half of which sum will be paid to the informer.

XXIII. The commanders or masters of all ships or vessels are to give forty-eight hours notice previous to their departure-provided they intend to remain for so long a period. This notice is to be left in writing at the office of the secretary to government, and the master attendant, between the hours of ten in the forenoon, and two in the afternoon. The fore-top sail is likewise to be kept loose forty-eight hours previous to the ship or vessel's departure.

XXIV. The commander or master of any ship or vessel is not, on any pretence whatever, to leave any person upon the island, or take any person from it, of whatever description, without written permission from the governor.

XXV. No commander, passenger, or any other person whatever on board the honourable company's ships, or any other, that may anchor at this island, is to take charge of any letters or packets

for conveyance to Europe, the Cape of Good Hope, South America, or elsewhere, unless such as are made up in a regular mail at the post-office, or have been received from the secretary to government, or the deputy adjutant-general.

The commander of the ship or vessel will fill up the report, of which the form is annexed, for the governor's information, and transmit the same by the officer who communicates these regulations.

No. XVI.

Proclamation, issued by Sir Hudson Lowe, a few days after having sent Lord Bathurst's letters, making an offer of allowing fifty persons, selected by Napoleon, to enter Longwood.

WHEREAS it has been ascertained, that a present had been delivered to an inhabitant of this island, in the name or on the part of one of the foreign persons under detention at Longwood; which present was soon afterwards returned, in consequence of the person to whom it had been delivered, becoming sensible, that his acceptance of it, unless with the governor's knowledge and au

thority, would have been a breach of the Proclamations in force; the governor, however, deems it expedient, in enforcement of the abovesaid Proclamations (with reference also to the general injunction contained in the warrant, dated 16th April, 1816), to give public notice, and public notice is hereby given, to all officers, inhabitants, and other persons whatsoever residing on, or resorting to this island, that they are not only interdicted (as by the Proclamation of October, 15, 1815, from holding any correspondence or communication with the foreign persons under detention on it, except only such as may be regularly authorized by him; and as farther, by public notice of the 11th May, and Proclamation of the 28th June, 1816) from receiving, delivering, or rendering themselves the channel for the conveyances of any communication whatsoever from or to the said persons, without his express authorization; but where any unauthorized communication shall have been or may be conveyed, or attempted to be conveyed, it behoves all those, who are acquainted with it, to give the governor immediate information of the same (or the nearest civil or military authority should the case so require), in order that the necessary steps niay be taken thereupon, under pain of otherwise being considered as privy to the same and held answerable accordingly.

Given at the Castle, James Town, this 16th day

SIR. Having been informed by Lieut. Reardon, of your regiment, that you had charged him to intimate to me, "that you had been informed by Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Reade, that his excellency the governor was very angry at my being an honorary member of the 66th's mess, and that I was not fit society for them; that you had seen part of a correspondence between the governor and myself, which had been sent home; and that you thought I had used the governor ill. That you had intended to call a meeting of the officers, in order to signify to me, that until the business

between the governor and myself was cleared up, I should not have the honour of dining with them, but that you thought it would be better to intimate it to me privately by Lieut. Reardon, in order that I might withdraw quietly."

The assertion which has been conveyed to you, that I have committed any action of a nature to render me unfit for the society of the officers of the 66th regiment, I declare to be a base and insidious calumny. I have demanded frequently, and am now ready to appear before any competent court of justice, to repel any thing which may be brought against me, whether in the form of suspicions, conjectures, reports of spies, semi-proofs, or direct charges. If there is any basis whereon to ground such aspersions, why not bring me to, what every Englishman is entitled to by the laws of his country, a trial. But his excellency, himself, in a letter written from his dictation, has disclaimed " bringing any accusations whatever, against any part of my conduct." It is by a fair and open investigation, that the disreputable source from whence the clandestine denunciation against me has sprung, will be clearly shown, and which will manifest, that a refusal to comply with verbal insinuations, contrary to my conscience, has been the cause of the wrath and oppression with which I have been visited.