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the Supply of their Garrisons at St. Helena, Bom- it is Our Will and Pleasure that the Standard ofthe hay, and Bencoolen, or for the Use of the Ships said United Kingdom shall bc the fame Quartering* belonging to the said Company, in such Quantities as are hereinbefore declared to be the Arms or En­ us shall be judged necessary hy the Lords of His signs Armorial of the said United Kingdom, with Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, upon Ap­ the Escocheon of Pretence thereon hereinbefore plication to be made from Time to Ti'-ie, and under described : And that the Union Flag shall be Azure* Licences to be granted by their Lordships for that the Crosses Saltires of St. Andrew and St. Patrick Purpose ; nor to prevent the Exportation of any of Quarterly per Saltire, counterchanged Argent and ihe said Articles "to the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Gules ; the latter iimbriated of the Second, fur- Alderney, Sark, and Man, sor the Supply of the mounted by the Cross of St. George of the Third, Inhabitants of the said Islands, in such Quantities fimbriated as the Saltire :-.And Our Will and Plea­ as may be deemed necessary by the Lords of His sure further is, that the Style and Titles aforesaid, Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, and under and also the Arms or Eusigns Armorial aforesaid, Licences from their Lordships as aforesaid : And shall be used henceforth, as far as conveniently may the Right Honorable the Lords Commiffioners of be, on all Occasions wherein Our Royal Style and His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary Titles, and Arms or Ensigns Armorial ought tobe Directions herein accordingly, Steph. Cottrell. used. But nevertheless it is Our Will and Pleasure, that all such Gold, Silver, and Copper Monies ast on the J5>ay before this First Day of January One By the KING* thousand eight hundred and one, were current and lawful Monies of Great Britain, and all such Gold, A PROCLAMATION, Silver, and Copper Monies as* shall, on or after this Declaring His Majesty's Pleasure concerning the Royal Day, be coined by our Authority with the like Style and Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown Impressions, until Our Will and Pleasure shall bc ofthe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, otherwise declared, fliall be deemed and taken to be find its Dependencies, and also the Enfigns, Armorial current and lawful Monies of the said United King­ Flags, and Banners thereof. dom in Great Britain; and that all such Gold, GEORGE R. Silver, and Copper Monies as, on the Day before HEREAS by the First Article of the Ar­ this First Day of Janoary One thousand eight hun­ W ticles of Union of Great Britain and Ire­ dred and one, were current and lawful Monies of land, ratified and confirmed by Two Acts of Par­ Ireland, and all such Gold, and Silver, and Copper liament, the one passed in the ^Parliament of Great Monies as shall, on or after this Day, be coined by Britain, and the other in the Parliament of Ireland, Our Authority, with- the like Impressions, until and respectively intituled, " An Act for the Union Our Will and Pleasure shall be otherwise declared, " of Great Britain and Ireland," it was declared, shall be deemed and taken to be current and lawful That the said Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ire­ Monies of the said United Kingdom in Ireland ; and land should, upon this Day, being the First Day all such Monies as shall have been -coined for and of January in tht Year of our Lord One thou­ issued in any of the Dominions of the said United sand eight hundred and one, for ever after be Kingdom, and declared by Our Proclamation to be united into one Kingdom, by the Name of the current and lawful Money of such Dominions, re­ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; spectively bearing Our Style, or Titles, or Arms, or and that the Royal Style and Titles appertaining Ensigns Armorial, or any Part or Parts thereof, and to the "Imperial Crown of the said United Kingdom all Monies which shall hereafter be coined and issued and its Dependencies, and also the Ensigns, Ar­ according to such Proclamations, shall continue tc* morial Flags, and Banners thereof, should be such be lawful and current Money of such Dominions re­ as We, by Our Royal Proclamation under the Great spectively, notwithstanding such Change in Our Seal of the said United Kingdom, should appoint; Style, Titles, and Arms, or Armorial Bearings re. We have thought fit, by and with the Advice of spectively as aforesaid, until Our Pleasure shall be- Our Privy Council, to appoint and declare that further declared thereupon. And all and every such Our Royal Style.and Titles shall henceforth be ac­ Monies as aforesaid shall be received and taken in cepted, taken, and used as the fame are set forth in Payment in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, Manner and Form following ; that is to fay, the and in the Dominions thereunto belonging, after the fame shall be. expressed in the Latin Tongue by Date of this Our Proclamation, in such Manner and these Words: as ofthe like Value and Denomination as the fame " GEORGIUS TERTIUS Dei Gratia Bri- were received and taken before the Date hereof. " tanniarum Rex, Fidei Defensor:" And it is also Our Will and Pleasure that the several And in the English-Tongue, by these Words : Dies and Maiks which have been, used to denote the « GEORGE the .THIRD by the Grace of Stamp Duties, and all other Stamps and Marks and " God of the LT;?*t-.d Kingdom of Great Bri- Instruments which before the issuing of this Our •"•« tain and Ireland King, Defender of the Proclamation shall have been in actual Use for any » Faith." public Purpose, and in wliich Our Royal Style and Aud that the Arms or Enfigns Armorial of Titles, or Our Arms or Ensigns Armorial, or any the said United Kingdom shall be Quarterly; Parts or Part thereof respectively, may be expressed, First and Fourth, England; Second, Scotland; shall not, by reason of this Our Proclamation or any ' Third, Ireland; and it is Our Will and Pleasure Thing therein contained, be changed or altered until that there sliall be borne therewith on an Escocheon the fame may be conveniently so changed or altered, of Pretence the Arms of Our Dominions in Ger- or until Our Pleasure shall be further declared there­ jnr-ny, ensigned with the Electoial Bonnet; and upon ; biit that all such Dies, Stamps, Marks, and C 5* ]

Instruments respectively bearing Our Royal Style Our Will and Pleasure to be, and do hereby appoint-j and Titles, or Arms o'r Ensigns Armorial used before that Our First Parliament of the said United King­ this First Day of January One thousand eight hun­ dom shall meet and be holden at Our City of West­ dred and one, or any Pares or Part of such Style, minster on the said Twenty second Day of January Titles, or df such Arms or Ensigns Armorial, shall One thousand eight hundred and one ; whereof the have the like Force and Effect as the fame had before Lords Spiritual and Temporal!, and the Knights, the said First Day of January instant. Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Given at Our Court at St. James's, the First Shires and Burghs of our said First Parliament of Day of January One thousand eight hun­ the said United Kingdom, and all others whom, dred and one, in the Forty-first Year of Our it may concern, are hereby to take Notice: Reign. And We do hereby direct and command, in pur­ suance of the said Fourth Article of the said Arti­ GOD save the KING. cles of Union, that the Lords Spiritual ar.d Tem­ poral, and Commons, who are to serve in the said By the KING. Parliament on the Part of Ireland, be returned in such Manner as by the said Act, passed in the Pai­ A P RO CLAMATIO N, iiament of Ireland to regulate the Mode by which Declaring His Majejiy's Pleasure for holding the First the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and'die Commons, Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain to serve in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and appointing the Time and Place of on the Part of Ireland, sliall be summoned aud re­ Meeting thereof „ turned to the said Parliament, such Lords Spiritual GEORGE R. and Temporal, and Commons, are directed to be HEREAS, in pursuance os the Fourth Arti­ returned, according to the Circumstances of each W cle of the Articles of Union between -Great particular Cafe of the several Lords Spiritual and Britain and Ireland, as the fame have been ratified Temporal, and Commons, so appointed, chosen, and .and confirmed by Two Acts of Parliament, the one declared to be the Members of the respective Housea -passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, and the of the said United Kingdom on the Part of Ireland*: other in the Parliament of Ireland, and both inti­ And We do hereby further (with the Advice afore­ tuled, " An Act for the Union of Great Britain said) declare Our Royal Wi"! and Pleasure., that •<*• and Ireland," We have thought-sit to declare, Our.'said Parliament of Our said United Kingdom by Our Royal -proclamation, issued under Qur-Grest' shall on the said Twenty-second Day of January Seal of Great Britain, on the Fifth *Day of -Novem-' One thousand eight hundred and one, be holden and ber last, thai it was expedient that the Lords and sit for the Dispatch of divers weighty and important Commons of tlie then Parliament of 'Great Britain Affairs: And the said Lords Spiritual and Tem­ should be Members of the respective Houses of the poral, and the said Knights, Citizens, and Bur­ First Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great. gesses, and the said Commissioners for Shires and Britain and Ireland on the Part of Great Britain : Burghs, are hereby required and commanded to And we did, by the fame Proclamation, notify Our give their Attendance accordingly at Westminster Intention to appoint Thursday the Twenty-second on the said Twenty-second Day of January instant. Day of January instant for the assembling of such Given at Our Court at St. James's, the First First Parb'ament of the said United Kingdom, by^ 'Proclamation, under the Great Seal of Our said Day of January One thousand eight hun­ United Kingdom:: And whereas, by force and in dred and one, in the Forty-first Year of Ow pursuance of an Act, passed in the Parliament of Reign. Ireland, and recited in and made Part of the said GOD save the KING. Two Acts for the Union of Great Britain and Ire-' land, and intituled, " An Act .to regulate the Mode By the KING. *' by which the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and •u the Commons, to serve in the Parliament.of the A PROCLAMATION, ** United Kingdom on the Part of -Ireland, shall be For a General FAST. ** summoned and returned to the said Parliament:" GEORGE R. And, in consequence of Our having "by Our said "|^7E> taking into Our most serious Consider*. "Proclamation, under Our Great Seal of Great Bri­ * » ation the heavy Judgments with which Al­ tain, of the Fifth Day of November last, declared mighty Ged is pleased to visit the Iniquities of this that it was expedient that the Lords and Commons Land, by a grievous Scarcity and Dearth of di'-ers of the then Parliament of Great Britain should be Articles of Sustenance and Necessaries of Life; the Members of the respective Houses of the First moreover taking into Our most serious Consider­ Parlament of the United Kingdom on the Part of ation the just and necessary War ir. which We •Great Britain, Four Lords Spiritual, and Twenty- are engaged, for the Maintenance of the - In­ eight Lords Temporal, and One Hundred Com­ dependence of Our Crown, for the Defence of moners, have been appointed, chosen, and declared the Commerce, and of the Rights and Liberties, (according to the Circumstances ofthe several Cases) Civil and Religions, of Our Subjects; and trusting to be the Members of the respective Houses of the in the Mercy of Almighty God, thst notwithstand­ said First Parliament of the said United Kingdom, ing thc fore Punishment which He hath laid upon ot. the Part of Ireland : We do, by this Our Royal Us and upon Our People, He will, if We turn .to Proclamation, under the Great Seal of the United Him in due Contrition and Penitence of Heart, not Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with the only withdraw His afflicting Ilrnd, but moreover Advice of Our Privy Council, declare and publish graciously bless Our Armss both by Sea and Land;