''Whereas a traitorous and detestable conspiracy has been formed for subverting the existing laws and constitution, and for introducing the system of anarchy and confusion which has so fatally prevailed in'' France: ''therefore, for the better preservation of his Majesty's sacred person, and for securing the peace and the laws and liberties of this kingdom''; be it enacted...That every person or persons that are or shall be in prison within the kingdom of ''Great Britain'' at or upon the day on which this act shall receive his Majesty's royal assent, or after, by warrant of his said Majesty's most honourable privy council, signed by six of the said privy council, for high treason, suspicion of high treason, or treasonable practices, or by warrant, signed by any of his Majesty's secretaries of state, for such causes as aforesaid, may be detained in safe custody, without bail or main-prize, until the first day of ''February'' one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five; and that no judge or justice of the peace shall bail or try any such person or persons so committed, without order from his said Majesty's privy council signed by six of the said privy council, till the said first day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five; any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding...〔E. N. Williams, ''The Eighteenth-Century Constitution. 1688-1815'' (Cambridge University Press, 1960), pp. 424-425.〕