burden upon the inhabitants of the said colony, shall be introduced into the said Assembly, unless upon application by the Governor, or on his behalf, specifying the service for which such supply, impost, rate, or burden are required.

Provided further, that all such laws, statutes, and ordinances, of what nature or duration soever, be transmitted to us in the manner specified in our said instructions, under the public seal of our said colony for our approbation or disallowance of the same, as also duplicates thereof, by the next conveyance. And in case any or all of the laws, statutes, and ordinances, not before confirmed by us, shall at any time be disallowed and not approved, and so signified by us, our heirs or successors, under our or their sign-manual and signet, or by order of our or their Privy Council unto our Governor, for the time being, of our said colony, then such and so many of the said laws, statutes, and ordinances as shall be so disallowed and not approved, shall from thenceforth cease, determine, and become utterly void and of none effect; anything to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. And to the end that nothing may be passed or done by our said Assembly to the prejudice of us, our heirs or successors, we will and ordain that our Governor, for the time being, shall have and enjoy a negative voice in the making and passing such laws, statutes, and ordinances as aforesaid. And it is our further will and pleasure, that our said Governor shall and may, from time to time, as he shall judge it necessary, prorogue, or dissolve all such general assemblies as aforesaid.

And we do hereby authorize and empower the Governor for the time being of our said colony, to keep and use the public seal of our said colony.

And we do hereby give and grant to our Governor for the time being of our said colony, full power and authority in our name and on our behalf, but subject, nevertheless, to such provisions as may be contained in any instructions to be given to our said Governor in that respect, to make and execute in our name, and under the public seal of our said colony, grants of land to us belonging within our said colony, to private persons for their own use and benefit, or to any persons, bodies politic or corporate, in trust for the public uses of our said subjects there resident or any of them.

And we do hereby authorize and empower our Governor for the time being in and over our said colony, to present to the Bishop of the diocese of Jamaica for institution, any person or persons to any churches, chapels, or other ecclesiastical benefices within our said colony, as often as any of them shall happen to be void.

And we do hereby grant unto the Governor for the time being of our said colony, full power and authority to constitute and appoint judges, and in cases requisite, commissioners of oyer and terminer,

justices of the peace, sheriffs, and other necessary officers and ministers in our said colony, for the better administration of justice, and putting the laws in execution, and all such other officers and ministers as may lawfully be appointed by us; it being nevertheless our pleasure that all such appointments as aforesaid shall be provisional only till our pleasure shall be known.

And we do hereby give and grant unto the Governor for the time being of our said colony, full power and authority, in case any person or persons commissioned or appointed by us to any office or offices within our said colony, from which they may be liable to be removed by us, shall in his opinion be unfit to continue in our service, to suspend such person or persons from his or their several employments.

And we do hereby give and grant unto our Governor for the time being of our said colony full power and authority, when he shall see cause, or shall deem any offender or offenders in criminal matters fit objects of our mercy, or shall see fit to remit any fines or forfeitures due unto us, to pardon such offender or offenders, and to remit such fines and forfeitures.

And we do hereby give and grant unto the Governor for the time being of our said colony, full power and authority, without expecting any further special warrant from us, from time to time to give order and warrant for the preparing of grants of the custody of such idiots and lunatics and their estates, as are or shall be found by inquisition thereof taken or to be taken and returnable in our Court of Chancery, and thereupon to make and pass grants and commitments under the public seal of our said colony, of the custody of all such idiots and lunatics and their estates to such person or persons, suitors in that behalf, as according to the rules of law, and the use and practice in these and like cases, he shall judge meet for that trust; the said grants and commitments to be made in such manner and form, or as nearly as may be, as hath been heretofore used and accustomed in making the same, under the great seal of this our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and to contain such apt and convenient covenants, provisions, and agreements on the part of the committees and grantees to be performed, and such security to be by them given as shall be requisite and needful.

And our further will and pleasure is, that all public moneys raised, or which shall be raised by any Act or Ordinance made or hereafter to be made within our said colony, be issued out by warrant from the Governor for the time being of our said colony, and be disposed of for the support of the Government of the said colony, or for such other purposes as shall be particularly directed and appointed in and by such Act or Ordinance, and not otherwise.

And whereas our Governor for the time being of our said colony [1851-52.]

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can rarely be present within the same, we hereby declare our will and pleasure to be that the government thereof shall be administered during his absence by a Lieutenant-Governor, to be appointed in manner hereinafter stated, to whom we do hereby grant all such powers and authorities as by these our letters patent are granted to and vested in our said Governor for the time being.

And we do hereby authorize and empower our Governor for the time being, in and over our said colony, by a warrant under his hand and seal, to constitute and appoint the Lieutenant-Governor thereof; it being nevertheless our pleasure that such appointment shall be provisional only, until our pleasure shall be known.

And we do further declare and ordain, that the LieutenantGovernor for the time being administering the government of the said colony, shall, in the discharge of such his office, correspond with our said Governor on all subjects connected with the administration of the said colony, and conform to and observe such instructions as shall for that purpose be addressed to him by our Governor for the time being in and over our said colony, in the execution of these our letters patent.

And whereas it is necessary that provision be also made for the execution of these our letters patent, in the event of the death, incapacity, or absence of the said Lieutenant-Governor from the said colony; now, therefore, we do further declare our pleasure to be, that in the event of the death, incapacity, or absence of the said LieutenantGovernor from the said colony, all and every the powers and authorities hereby vested in him shall thereupon be, and the same are hereby in any such event, and until our pleasure shall be further signified, vested in such person as may in manner aforesaid be appointed by our said Governor to be the Presiding Magistrate of the said colony. And we do further direct and enjoin that these our letters patent be read and proclaimed within our said colony.

And we do hereby require and command all officers, civil and military, and all others the inhabitants of our said colony, to be obedient, aiding, and assisting unto our said Governor or LieutenantGovernor of our said colony, or Presiding Magistrate of our said colony, in the execution of these our letters patent, and of the powers and authorities herein contained.

And we do hereby reserve to us, our heirs and successors, full power and authority, from time to time, to revoke, alter, or amend these our letters patent, as to us or them shall seem meet.

In witness, &c., witness, &c.

Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace, this 20th day of March, 1852, in the 15th year of our reign.

By Her Majesty's command,

JOHN S. PAKINGTON.

CORRESPONDENCE relating to the Negotiations respecting Poland.-1814, 1815.*

No. 1.-Visc. Castlereagh to the Earl of Liverpool.—(Rec. Oct. 21.) MY LORD, Vienna, October 9, 1814. I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship a memorandum. on the affairs of Poland, copies of which I deemed it necessary to present to the Austrian and Prussian Ministers.

I acquainted your Lordship, by my last courier, that I feared no effectual resistance could be made to the views of Russia in that quarter, and that the 2 neighbouring Powers were more likely to seek their own aggrandizement in other directions than oppose themselves to the pretensions of their more powerful neighbour.

I was not the less confirmed in this impression from perceiving that the extravagant tone of war which Austria had held was accompanied by an equal jealousy of Prussia on the side of Saxony, and of France in Italy, which at once proved that compromise, and not resistance, was really intended; and, further, from knowing that Prussia, feeling she had no other support than Russia to secure to her Saxony against the views both of Austria and France, could not afford to risk that support by too decisive an opposition to the Emperor's designs with respect to Poland.

Under these circumstances I conceived that the only chance of doing good was to take up some ground of opposition short of war, and to endeavour to bring Austria and Prussia to a compromise in Germany, in order that they might unite against Russia upon the Polish question.

The existing Congress appeared to me to furnish a suitable expedient, as it enabled these Powers to represent to Russia, without menacing her with war, that they could not make themselves, in the face of Europe, the instruments of their own humiliation, by recommending that as just, wise, and proper, against which they had been so long engaged in remonstrances; that it was one thing silently to submit, and another to originate a measure of national danger.

With this view I desired an audience of the King of Prussia. I found His Majesty, as in England, the advocate of the Emperor of Russia, although personally averse to his measures. I represented that the evil might yet, with proper management, be arrested without a contest. I pressed His Majesty not to abandon the interests of his Monarchy in despair, and begged that he would oppose every obstacle, short of arms, to an arrangement which left his provinces uncovered, and his State in obvious dependence upon another Power.

Laid before Parliament, 1863.

I then opened myself unreservedly to Prince Metternich and Prince Hardenberg, and endeavoured to make them feel the dangers to which their disunion exposed both their Monarchies. The latter explained himself very frankly, that whilst Saxony was in doubt, and with it the possibility of Prussia being suitably reconstructed, it was impossible for him, more especially feeling as his King did, to risk the favour of Russia; but that if Saxony was assured to him by Austria and England, he could then unite with Austria to oppose such resistance as prudence might justify to Russian encroachments.

I found Prince Metternich without any fixed plan. In descending from his war language he appeared to me to fall into the other extreme, and to think, in fact, only of compromise. I represented the necessity of an understanding with Prussia as the only chance of present good, or possibly of future safety.

Prince Metternich the following day had an interview with Prince Hardenberg, and professed his willingness to enter into his views with respect to Saxony, provided an understanding could thereby be established with respect to Poland, and certain German points of minor importance. The parties profess a mutual desire to understand each other, but there is a certain degree of mutual distrust and fear of Russia which does not justify me in speaking confidently of the result.

I endeavoured to derive some aid in this attempt from the appui of France; but, unfortunately, the manner in which Prince Talleyrand has conducted himself here rather excited apprehension in both the Austrian and Prussian Ministers than inspired them with any confidence in his views. Although adverse to the designs of Russia in Poland, he betrayed not less hostility to theirs in Germany and Italy; and both, perhaps not unnaturally, seem equally to dread the appearance of a French force at present in the field.

The question must thus take its course amidst all the difficulties that surround it. I shall do my best to give it a safe and creditable direction. If I fail I shall endeavour to separate the British Government, as far as possible, from any share in its determination. I have, &c.

The Earl of Liverpool.

CASTLEREAGH.

(Inclosure.)-British Memorandum.-Vienna, October 4, 1814. [See Vol. XXII. Page 1000.]

No. 2.-Viscount Castlereagh to the Emperor of Russia.—Vienna, October 12, 1814.

[See Vol. XXII. Page 996.]