All persons not absolutely prisoners of war, taken in arms, were to be reinstated in their former positions as citizens--but, as citizens of the British Empire.

In this relation the farther inferences were inevitable.

They were now actually to support his Majesty's Government.

The proclamation ended with the usual penalties--all who neglected to return to their allegiance were to be treated as rebels.
The policy thus adopted by the British commander soon made them so.

The object of the Carolinians, in taking protections and paroles, was to avoid further warfare.