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mentioned Order in Council, bearing date the 27th day of August 1860,* are or is vested in or belonging to, or are, or is exerciseable by the judge of the Supreme Consular Court of Constantinople, within the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte. And all the clauses, articles, and provisions of the said Order in Council, so far as the same respectively are now in force and unrepealed, and so far as the same or any of them are applicable to such rules, orders, and regulations as aforesaid, shall apply and extend to the said Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents of Her Majesty, and to all acts, matters, and things whatsoever, done by, to, or in respect of them the said Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents respectively, under or by virtue of these presents.

And the Right Honourable Earl Russell, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

EDMUND HARRISON.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, for enabling Her Majesty's Subjects to enter the Military and Naval Service of the Emperor of China with certain British Officers (Mr. H. N. Lay, and Captain S. Osborn, R.N.)†—August 30, 1862.

At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of August, 1862.

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the 59th year of the reign of his late Majesty King George III [cap. 69], intituled "An Act to prevent the Enlisting or Engagement of His Majesty's Subjects to serve in Foreign Service, and the fitting out or equipping in His Majesty's dominions Vessels for Warlike purposes, without His Majesty's Licence," it was enacted and declared, that if any natural born subject of His Majesty, his heirs and successors, without the leave or licence of His Majesty, his heirs or successors, for that purpose first had and obtained, under the sign manual of His Majesty, his heirs or successors, or signified by Order in Council or by Proclamation of His Majesty, his heirs or successors, should take or accept, or should agree to take or accept, any military commission, or should otherwise enter into the military service as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer, or should enlist or enter himself to enlist, or should agree to enlist or to enter himself to serve as a *Vol. L. Page 658. "London Gazette," of September 2, 1862. Vol. VI. Page 130.

soldier, or to be employed or should serve in any warlike or military operation, in the service of, or for or under or in aid of any foreign Prince, State, potentate, colony, province, or part of any province or people, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any foreign country, colony, province, or part of any province or people, either as an officer or soldier, or in any other military capacity; or if any natural born subject of His Majesty should, without such leave or licence as aforesaid, accept or agree to take or accept any commission, warrant, or appointment as an officer, or should enlist or enter himself, or should agree to enlist or enter himself, to serve as a sailor or marine, or to be employed or engaged, or should serve in and on board any ship or vessel of war, or in and on board any ship or vessel used or fitted out, or equipped or intended to be used for any warlike purpose, in the service of, or for, or under or in aid of any foreign Power, Prince, State, potentate, colony, province, or part of any province or people, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in or over any foreign country, colony, province, or part of any province or people; or if any natural-born subject of His Majesty should, without such leave and licence as aforesaid, engage, contract, or agree to go, or should go to any foreign State, country, colony, province, or part of any province, or to any place beyond the seas, with an intent or in order to enlist or enter himself to serve, or with intent to serve in any warlike or military operation whatever, whether by land or by sea, in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of any foreign Prince, State, potentate, colony, province, or part of any province or people, or in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any foreign country, colony, province, or part of any province or people, either as an officer or a soldier, or in any other military capacity, or as an officer or sailor, or marine, in any such ship or vessel as aforesaid, although no enlisting money, or pay, or reward should have been or should be, in any or either of the cases aforesaid, actually paid to or received by him, or by any person to or for his use or benefit; or if any person whatever within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any part of His Majesty's dominions elsewhere, or in any country, colony, settlement, island, or place belonging to or subject to His Majesty, should hire, retain, engage, or procure, or should attempt or endeavour to hire, retain, engage or procure any person or persons whatever to enlist, or to enter or engage to enlist, or to serve or to be employed in any such service or employment as aforesaid, as an officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, either in land or sea service, for or under or in aid of any foreign Prince, State, potentate, colony, pro

vince, or part of any province or people, or for, or under, or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any powers of Government as aforesaid, or to go, or to agree to go, or embark from any part of His Majesty's dominions, for the purpose or with intent to be so enlisted, entered, engaged or employed as aforesaid, whether any enlisting money, pay, or reward should have been, or should be actually given or received, or not; in any or either of such cases, every person so offending should be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and, upon being convicted thereof upon any information or indictment, should be punishable by fine and imprisonment, as in the said Act is mentioned.

And that if any person within any part of the United Kingdom, or in any part of His Majesty's dominions beyond the seas, should, without the leave and licence of His Majesty for that purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or attempt or endeavour to equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or armed, or should knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship or vessel, with intent or in order that such ship or vessel should be employed in the service of any foreign Prince, State, or potentate, or of any foreign colony, province, or part of any province or people, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any powers of government in or over any foreign State, colony, province, or part of any province or people,- as a transport or storeship, or with intent to cruize or commit hostilities against any Prince, State, or potentate, or against the subjects or citizens of any Prince, State, or potentate, or against the persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in any colony, province, or part of any province or country, or against the inhabitants of any foreign colony, province, or part of any province or country, with whom His Majesty should not then be at war; or should, within the United Kingdom or any of His Majesty's dominious, or in any settlement, colony, territory, island, or place belonging to or subject to His Majesty, issue or deliver any commission for any ship or vessel, to the intent that such ship or vessel should be employed as aforesaid, every such person so offending should be deemed guilty of misdemeanour, and should, upon conviction thereof, upon any information or indictment, be punished by fine and imprisonment, or either of them, at the discretion of the court in which such offender should be convicted; and every such ship or vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and stores which may belong to or be on board of any such ship or vessel, should be forfeited; and it should be lawful for any officer of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, or any officer of His Majesty's navy, who is by law em

powered to make seizures for any forfeiture incurred under any of the laws of Customs or Excise, or the laws of trade and navigation, to seize such ships and vessels aforesaid and in such places, and in such manner in which the officers of His Majesty's Customs or Excise and the officers of His Majesty's navy are empowered respectively to make seizures under the laws of Customs and Excise, or under the laws of trade and navigation; and that every such ship and vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and stores, which may belong to or be on board of such ship or vessel, may be prosecuted and condemned in the like manner and in such courts as ships or vessels may be prosecuted and condemned for any breach of the laws made for the protection of the revenues of Customs and Excise, or of the laws of trade and navigation.

Her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, being desirous of enabling her subjects to engage in and enter the naval and military service of the Emperor of China, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the 1st day of September next, it shall be lawful for Horatio Nelson Lay, one of Her Majesty's subjects, and Sherard Osborn, a captain in Her Majesty's navy, to enter into the military and naval service of the said Emperor, and to accept any commission, warrant, or other appointment under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for their services, and to fit out, equip, purchase, and acquire ships or vessels of war for the use of the said Emperor, and to engage and enlist British subjects to enter the military and naval service of the said Emperor. And it is hereby further ordered that it shall be lawful for every British subject to enlist and enter himself by engaging and enlisting himself with the said Horatio Nelson Lay and Sherard Osborn, and no other person or persons whatsoever, in the military and naval service of the said Emperor, and to serve the said Emperor in any military, warlike, or other operations, either by land or by sea, and for that purpose to go to any place or places beyond the seas, and to accept any commission, warrant, or other appointment from or under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for his service: provided always, that the licence and permission hereby given shall be in force only for the term of two years from the said 1st day of September next, unless by Order in Council made in manner aforesaid, such period should be further extended.

ARTHUR HELPS.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION, of the Greek Blockade of part of the Gulf of Argolis*-London, March 11, 1862.

Foreign Office, March 11, 1862.

THE Right Honourable the Earl Russell, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from the Greek Chargé d'Affaires at this court, an official communication dated the 9th of March instant, stating that in consequence of the insurrection which had broken out at Nauplia, the King's Government had placed in a state of strict blockade some of the coasts of the Gulf of Argolis, specified in a notification from the (Greek) Department of the Marine, dated the 14th February, in the present year.

Printed copies of such notification in the French language (of which a translation is herewith appended), were transmitted by the Greek Chargé d'Affaires to Earl Russell with the above communication, accompanied by a request that the notification might be made known to Her Majesty's subjects.

Notification relative to a Blockade of a part of the Gulf of Argolis. (Translation.) Department of Marine, Athens, February 14, 1862.

It is notified by these presents that, on and from the 13th of this present month of February, all the coasts of the Gulf of Argolis from the roadstead of Astros, not included, to the Bay of Vourlia, included, have been placed in a state of strict blockade by a sufficient force of the Royal Navy.

It is further notified that all measures, authorized by the law of nations and the several Treaties between His Majesty the King of Greece and the different friendly Powers, will be adopted and carried into execution, in regard to all ships which shall attempt to violate the said blockade.

D. BOTZARIS, Minister of Marine.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the raising of the Greek Blockade of the Gulf of Argolis.t-London, May 8, 1862.

Foreign Office, May 8, 1862.

WITH reference to the notification, dated Foreign Office, March 11th last, and published in the supplement to the "London Gazette" of March last, on the subject of the blockade by His Majesty the * Supplement to the "London Gazette" of March 11, 1862.

"London Gazette" of May 9, 1862.

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