abatement or deduction whatsoever, except of so much as the duties payable on the importation thereof by the Authority aforesaid shall amount to.

And it is hereby further directed that the value of such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize upon which duties are to be levied, collected, and paid, as aforesaid, shall be ascertained by the declaration of the Importer or Proprietor of such Goods, or his known Agent or Factor, in the manner and form following:

"I A. B. do hereby declare that the Goods mentioned in this Entry, and contained in the Packages, (here specifying the several Packages, and describing the several marks and numbers, as the case may be) are of the growth, production, or manufacture (as the case may be) of and that I am the Importer and Produly authorized by him, (as the case same at the value of

prietor thereof, or that I am may be), and I do enter the Witness my Hand, the

day of

E. F. Comp, or other principal Officer"

Which Declaration shall be written on the Warrant of Entry of such Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, and shall be subscribed with the hand of the Importer or Proprietor, or his known Agent or Factor, in the presence of two of the principal Officers of the Customs, who shall certify the same under their Hands, and such Declaration shall be in every respect binding on the Importer or Proprietor of such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize; and if upon view and examination of such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, by the Proper Officer of the Customs, it shall appear to him or them that they are not valued according to the true price thereof, and according to the true intent and meaning of this Proclamation, then the proper Officer or Officers shall detain such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, and cause them to be properly secured, and take them for the use and benefit of His Majesty, and cause the said Goods, Wares, and Merchandize to be publicly sold on account of His Majesty; and at the expiration of three months from the date of the sale, the Collector of His Majesty's Customs shall pay, or cause to be paid, to the Proprietor or Importer afore

said, the value thereof so ascertained as aforesaid, together with an addition of 10 p. Ct. thereon, without any other allowance, charge, or expence whatsoever, which payment so made to the Proprietor or Importer of such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, shall be in full satisfaction for the same to all intents and purposes what

soever.

And it is hereby further ordered and directed, that in case there shall be any overplus remaining from the produce of such sale, after deducting the value so ascertained as aforesaid, together with the addition of 10 p. Ct. thereon, and of the duties paid on the importation, and of the charges arising from the Warehousing and sale of such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, the Collector of His Majesty's Customs shall be authorized to cause a moiety of such overplus to be paid to the several and respective Officers of the Customs concerned in the view and examination of such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, as an encouragement for the faithful discharge of their duty; and the Collector of His Majesty's Customs shall cause the remaining moiety, together with the amount of the usual duties of the aforesaid Goods, Wares, and Merchandize to be paid to His Majesty's Receiver General, together with the amount of the collections made in his Department as usual.

And whereas doubts have been expressed as to the manner in which the duties upon Foreign Goods, Wares, and Merchandize exported from the Ports of this Government should be rated and collected, it is therefore hereby ordered, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested, that henceforward all such export duties payable upon the value of any Foreign Goods, Wares, and Merchandize to be exported, shall be taken and considered precisely upon the same principles which are herein directed for the levying of all ad valorem duties upon Goods, Wares, and Merchandize imported as above described.

Given under my Hand and Seal, at the Cape of Good Hope, this 9th day of October 1811.

[Original.]

Letter from the EARL OF CALEDON to the EARL OF LIVERPOOL. LONDON, October 11th 1811.

MY LORD,-When I had the honor of holding a conversation with your Lordship upon the subject of a complaint preferred against me by a Person calling himself the Revd. Doctor Halloran, I stated to your Lordship the doubts I entertained of his being in orders, and as those doubts have lately been considerably increased, I beg leave to solicit your Lordship's attention upon the subject.

Halloran came to the Cape of Good Hope in the year 1807, and being deputed by the Secretary at War, officiated as Chaplain to the Forces until he resigned that appointment in 1810, having during his residence in many instances performed marriage ceremonies and other clerical duties for the British Inhabitants.

His conduct on various occasions was so immoral and improper that it led me to address myself to my Relative and Friend the Bishop of Down, requesting him to obtain for me some information respecting Halloran's character when at home. With this request the Bishop complied, and procured from the Lord Bishop of Meath a letter the copy of which I have the honor to submit, by which it should seem that Halloran has forged his Letter of Orders.

As the Bishop of Meath did not appear to have a perfect recollection of the Clergyman's name upon whom Halloran practised the imposition of shewing his certificates of ordination, I ascertained it on enquiry to be Ellicombe; and the place of his residence Alphington in Devonshire. The latter circumstance came to my knowledge through the means of a most respectable friend (a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford) to whom the letter No. 2 was written by his brother. Although the signature is omitted, it shall certainly be added if deemed requisite.

I need not I am confident point out to Your Lordship the importance of clearly ascertaining whether the Letter of Orders under which Halloran has acted has been fabricated. The uneasiness suffered by many of the first families at the Cape, arising from the supposed illegality of Marriages where the ceremony has been performed by one not duly authorized, is very great, and

though the mischief already committed may be remedied, still it is necessary to guard against future Imposition.

I have foreborne to state any instance of Misconduct in Halloran in addition to those already before Your Lordship, but I am prepared to prove, if unexpectedly his Letter of Orders be genuine, that his immoral behaviour has rendered him wholly unworthy of the clerical profession. I have &c.

(Signed)

[Enclosure 1 in the above.]

CALEDON.

ARDBRACCAN HOUSE, March 2nd 1811.

MY DEAR LORD, —I right well remember the name of O'Halloran. For many months it plagued me, and engaged me in a long correspondence with the late Archbishop of Canterbury, the late Bishop of Ely, and a very respectable Clergyman of Appleby near Exeter, whose name, if I forget not, was Allison, on whom Mr. O'Halloran successfully practised his deceits for a length of time. He forged my letters of Orders, and produced them to this Clergyman, after returning from a journey from Appleby to Dublin, whence he had amused him with accounts of frequent interviews with me, of my kind reception of him from my love for the memory of his uncle Dr. Hynes Master of the Diocesan School at Longford, with whom I had been at school when a boy, and who never had such a nephew, and with my going to Kilkenny on purpose to ordain him as I had some reasons for not ordaining him in Dublin.

When on an application to the Archbishop and Bishop of Ely I disclaimed all knowledge of such a person and denied my having ever given him Orders, he practised another most curious forgery. He found, I suppose by the Almanac, that a Mr. Peter Wall was Depy. Registrar of the See of Ossory, and to the Clergyman already mentioned he produced a letter signed Peter Wall, apologizing for not having sooner answered a letter received from him, as it had followed him to a place where he then was for the benefit of sea bathing, expressing surprize that I should have forgotten the circumstance of having ordained him, which he (Mr. Wall) very well remembered, and promising that as soon as he returned to Kilkenny he would search the Registry and send him an authenticated copy of his Letters of Orders. This Mr. Wall had never

left Kilkenny for years before that time, so that Mr. O'Halloran could have known nothing about him except from the Almanac, otherwise he would have managed this forging better. I was not offended at a not very respectful letter I got from Mr. Allison on this supposed letter from Mr. Wall being produced to him, for how was it possible that he could have suspected such a complicated scene of deception from a man of whom he had conceived a good opinion. But to satisfy him I got my Chaplain Doctor Butler to write to Mr. Wall, and his answer and this Impostor's leaving the Country as he understood for America opened his eyes, and some time after he got himself introduced to me at Bath to explain his conduct and apologize for the part he had acted in this curious transaction. I am pretty sure the Clergyman's name is Allison, but his residence I know was Appleby neur Exeter, and he is a very likely person to give some account of this Adventurer. I have &c.

(Signed)

To the LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR.

[Enclosure 2 in the above.]

T. L. MEATH.

EXETER, Oct 6th, 1811.

MY DEAR FREDERICK,-I was glad to have an opportunity of to-day calling on Ellicombe, and the curious history which the tale of Mr. Halloran's life seems now to involve really makes the matter quite interesting. Mr. Ellicombe was formerly on terms of intimacy and friendship with Halloran, and is naturally cautious of betraying private conversation and correspondence. I can only therefore give you the general outline, and I believe a very faint one, of this gentleman's struttings on this stage.

Laurence Hynes Halloran (for the addition of O' to his surname I believe he has added to aid his deception of his Irish Orders) for some few years previous to 1796 kept a school at Alphington, teaching all the Polite Arts, Astronomy, Geography, Arithmetic, &c., and a little Latin and Greek, in short, keeping an Academy. He came there I believe originally a stranger, but he had exactly the talents to impose on the hospitality of his neighbours, and he was during his stay at Alphington on terms of intimacy and friendship with our friend Ellicombe. In 1795 or 6 he applied to