jesty's royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the cross of the Royal Sardinian Order of Saint Maurice and Lazare, which His Majesty the King of Sardinia has been pleased to confer upon him, in testimony of that Sovereign's approbation of the distinguished services rendered by him at the siege and capture of Genoa in the year 1814; provided nevertheless, that His Majesty's said licence and permission doth not authorise, and shall not be deemed or construed to authorise, the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertaining • unto a Knight Bachelor of these realms:

And His Royal Highness hath been further pleased to command, that the said royal concession and declaration be registered in His Majesty's College of Arms.

Crown-Office, July 1, 1817:

MEMBER returned to serve in this present
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Ludgershall.

Henry Lawes Luttrell, Earl of Carhampton, inIreland, in the room of Charles Nicholas Pallmer, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JULY 5,
1817.

Carlton-House, July 1, 1817..

HIS Royal Highness the Prince Regent was this day pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to confer the honour of Knighthood on Spiridion Foresti, Esq. late His Majesty's Resident Minister in the Ionian Islands.

Foreign-Office, July 5, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to appoint Mr. Balfour Spence, of Lerwick, to be Vice-Consul for the Kingdom of Hanover at the Ports of the Shetland Isles..

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JULY 8,
1817.

By His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES, REGENT of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Name and on the Behalt of His Majesty,

A PROCLAMATION.

GEORGE, P. R.

2,740

10,000

WHEREAS We have thought fit to order that certain pieces of gold money should be coined, which should be called " sovereigns or twenty shilling pieces," each of which should be of the value of twenty shillings, and that each piece should be of the weight of five pennyweights three grains troy weight of standard gold, according to the weights approved of and confirmed by Us in Council, in pursuance of an Act made in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for regulating and ascertaining the weights to be made use of in weighing the gold and silver coin of this kingdon;" and We have further thought fit to order that every such piece of gold money, so ordered to be coined as aforesaid, shall have for the observe impression the head of His Majesty, with the inscription "Georgius III. D. G: Britanniar. Rex. F. D." and the date of the year; and for the reverse the image of St. George armed sitting on horseback encountering the dragon with a spear, the said device being placed within the enobled Garter, bearing the motto "Honi soit qui mal y

pense,"

pense," with a newly invented graining on the edge of the piece: and whereas pieces of gold money of the above description have been coined at His Majesty's Mint, and will be coined there, in pursuance of Orders which We have given for that purpose: We have therefore, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, thought fit to issue this Proclamation; and We do hereby, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, ordain, declare, and command, that the said pieces of gold money so coined, and to be coined as aforesaid, shall be current and lawful money of the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall be called "sovereigns or twenty shilling pieces," and shall pass and be received as current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and every of such pieces shall pass and be received as of the value of twenty shillings of lawful money of Great Britain and Ireland in all payments whatsoever.

Given at the Court at Carlton-House, the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, in the fifty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign.

GOD save the KING.

By

By His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES, REGENT of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Name and on the Behalf of His Majesty,

A PROCLAMATION.

GEORGE, P. R.

WHEREAS it has been represented unto Us, that great quantities of the gold coin of this realm, deficient in weight, are now in circulation, contrary to the tenour of His Majesty's Proclamations of the twelfth of April one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and twenty-first of September one thousand seven hundred eightyseven; and there being reason to believe that due attention is not paid to the weighing of the said gold coin, and to the directions given in the Acts of Parliament now in force with respect to the cutting, breaking, or defacing of such pieces thereof as are found to be of less weight than those declared and allowed by His Majesty's said Proclamations to be current and pass in payment: We do, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, by this Our royal Proclamation declare and command, in like manner as was declared and commanded in His Majesty's before-mentioned Proclamations of the twelfth of April one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and twenty-first of September one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, that all guineas, half guineas, quarter guineas, more deficient in weight than the rates specified in the table 4ollowing;

Guineas, five pennyweights eight grains;

Half guineas, two pennyweights sixteen grains; Quarter guineas, one pennyweight eight grains;

and