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by the native powers hoftile to your interests.

We have the honour to be, &c.
HOBART.

(Signed)

ALURED CLARKE. EDW. SAUNDERS. G. W. FALLOFIELD. Capitulation of Amboyna, tranflated from the original Dutch, Feb. 16, 1796.

NOT finding ourselves equal to withstand the great force with which we have been furprized, we the underfigned governor and council do hereby give up this fettlement, with all its dependencies, and place the fame under the protection of his Britannic majefty, upon the conditions mentioned to us in the letter of the right hon. the governor of Madras; and that is, upon condition that we may keep all our private property, and be allowed a reasonable subsistence; that the inhabitants be guaranteed in the fecure poffeffion of their • private properties; and that the fenior and junior fervants of the civil establishment, the clergy, the military, and marine, receive their ufual pay.

It is upon the above conditions that we fhall, to-morrow morning, give over all the guards of the fort to the troops of his Britannic majefty, after receiving the ratification of this inftrument by his excellency the commodore.

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Capitulation agreed upon between his excellency Peter Rainier, efq. commodore, commanding the fea and land forces of his Britannic majesty in these feas, and F. Van Boeckholtz, governor of Banda, &c. &c.

IN confideration of our great want of provisions, and the great force with which the British have appeared before this fettlement, and to refift which would bring deftruction and defolation on the harmless inhabitants of this place, we therefore think it prudent, for the fake of humanity, and from our confidence in the honour and generofity of the English, to accept of the terms offered to us, and to deliver into their hands this fort and fettlement, with all its dependencies, upon the following conditions, viz.

That private property be kept fecure to every individual of this fettlement, whether in or out of the company's fervice; that the fervants of the company, civil and military, be kept in their respective ftations; as far as may be thought neceffary for the administration of juftice; and the civil government of the place, the governor alone particularly excepted, as the government muft, of course, be vefted in the English; that the military continue to receive their pay, and are not to be forced into the British fervice contrary to their wifhes; and the civil fervants also to be continued on their present pay; and fuch an allowance made for the provifion of the governor as his excellency the commander of the British forces may think adequate. The governor, however, and any other fervants of the com

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pany, fhall be permitted to retire from the fervice, either to Batavia or elsewhere, whenever a conve nient opportunity fhall offer.

Upon thefe conditions we, the underfigned, confent to deliver up Fort Naffau, the fettlement of Banda, and all its dependencies, to the troops of his Britannic majefty tomorrow morning, upon receiving a copy of this capitulation, ratified and figned by his excellency the British commander. The keys of all the public property, and all accounts properly authenticated, fhall be immediately delivered over to the British, and the government entirely vefted in them, Fort Najau, Banda Neira, March 8, 1796.

(Signed) T. VAN BOECKHOLTZ. A. H. VUEGE. F. SAIGANG.

(L. S.)

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ed to recommend it to your lordfhip to exert your influence in caufing to be made out, as fpeedily as poflible, an account of live and dead ftock, in fuch of the parishes of the county of Suffex as are within ten or twelve miles of the fea.

With respect to the mode of making out the account required, I take this opportunity of tranfmitting to your lordship the form in which it has been executed by the voluntary exertions of the gentlemen of the county of Dorfet; and fhall beg to fubmit it for your lordship's confideration and adoption, unless where it may be found neceffary to deviate from it, in confequence of local circumstances and fituations.

With refpect to the mode in which it is propofed to remove fuch live and dead ftock, in cafe it should be neceffary, your lordfhip will communicate with the commander in chief of the diftri&t in which the county of Suffex lies, and will concert with him fuch previous meafures for this purpofe as may be judged requifite.

The meeting which I have defired your lordship to call on the fubject of my circular letter of this day's date, will afford you an opportunity of fubmitting this letter to the confideration of the deputylieutenants and the magiftracy of the county of Suffex, and will confequently lead to the immediate adoption of fuch measures as fhall be neceffary to enable the return to be made, which I am perfuaded your lordship will be of opinion is 1o much to be withed for.

I am further to inform your lordship, that the lords commiffioners of the treasury have received his majefty's pleasure, that they

fhould

fhould take fuch previous meafures as may be neceffary for defraying any expences which may arife, in confequence of fuch poflible removal of live and dead flock as I have fuppofed, as well as of any particular loffes which may eventually be occafioned thereby.

Although this circumftance is fuch as muft obviate every poflible objection to the meafure, I am nevertheless confident, that all thofe whom it may concern would, exclufively of every perfonal confideration or motive, join with the utmot alacrity in the execution of a measure which has for its object the general fafety of the country. I have the honour to be, &c. PORTLAND.

Copy of a letter from the chancellor of the exchequer to the lord mayor.

Downing-freet, ft Dec.

My Lord, I TAKE the liberty of tranfmitting to your lordfhip a copy of a letter which I have thought it my duty to write to the governor and deputy governor of the bank, and of the memorandum therein referred to, which it is their intention to lay before a court of proprietors this day. I have the fatisfaction of thinking that the plan therein fuggefted is likely to receive the greatest countenance from many great mercantile bodies and refpectable houfes in the metropolis.

The repeated proofs which the citizens of London have given of their zeal and public fpirit, leave me no doubt, that, if it appears likely to promote the interefts of the country at this important crifis, it will receive their chearful

fupport in their individual capacity, as well as that of the corporate body, and of the different public companies. It is unneceffary for me to ftate the effect which fuch an example would produce throughout the kingdom. With this view I would request your lordship, if you fee no impropriety in the meafure, to take as fpeedily as poffible fuch fteps as you may think moft advi feable for bringing the subject under the confideration of the common council, and of the different public companies, and for ascertaining to what extent they may be inclined to contribute to the fuccefs of the plan, in the event of its receiving the approbation of parliament.

I have the honour, &c.

W. PITT.

Copy of the chancellor of the exchequer's letter read at the Bank.

THAT under the prefent circumftances it seemed peculiarly neceffary that provifion fhould be made for the fervices of the enfuing year, without having recourfe to the accuftomed way of raifing money by a loan, at the present price of the funds. It was therefore in contemplation to propose to parliament that one-fourth of the income of individuals of a certain clafs fhould be applied to that purpose, to be repaid according to the terms fpecified in the inclosed memorandum. There were ftrong reasons to believe that many gentlemen would voluntarily fubfcribe a larger proportion than what might be required of them, but the extent of contribution greatly depended on the examples that might be given, particularly

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on that which might be held out by the bank of England. He therefore earnestly hoped that the court of directors of the governor and company of the bank of England, and the proprietors, impreffed with that zeal which they had always manifefted for the public good,

and convinced of the importance of the prefent crifis, would be induced to take the lead in a measure fo highly conducive to the maintenance of public credit, and which would ftrongly tend to the acceleration of a permanent and honourable peace.

Account of the total net produce of all the permanent taxes for one year, ending October 10th, 1796.

£. S. d.

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