Whitehall, April 27, 1821.

The King has been pleased to appoint the Reverend Mark Aitkins to the church of the united parishes of Dyke and Moy, in the presbytery of Forres and county of Moray, in the room of the Reverend James Smith, deceased.

Whitehall, April 28, 1821.

The King has been pleased to grant unto Captain Richard Saumarez, of the Royal Navy, His royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the cross of a Knight of the Imperial Austrian Order of Leopold, which His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria has conferred upon that Officer, in testimony of his approbation of the distinguished services performed by him before the enemy during the campaign of 1813; 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 also to command, that the said royal concession and declaration be registered in His Majesty's College of Arms.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 1,
1821.

Whitehall, April 30, 1821.

THE King has been pleased to grant unto the Reverend James Stanier Clarke, Doctor of Laws, and one of His Majesty's Domestic Chaplains, the place and dignity of a Prebendary of His Majesty's Free Chapel of St. George, in the Castle of Windsor, void by the death of Dr. Frederick Dodsworth.

Crown-Office, May 1, 1821.

MEMBER returned to serve in this present
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Orford.

The Most Honourable Robert Marquess of Lon donderry, in the room of John Douglas, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds....

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 5,
1821.

Carlton-House, May 4, 1821.

THE following is a copy of an order from His Majesty to the Marquess of Winchester,. Groom of the Stole, which, in obedience to His Majesty's commands, has been communicated by his Lordship to the Lords of His Majesty's Bedchamber:

THE honour of Knighthood having, in two recent instances, been surreptitiously obtained at the Levec, His Majesty, for the purpose of effectually guarding against all such disgraceful practices in future, has been pleased to direct, that henceforth no person shall be presented to His Majesty at the Levee by the Lord in Waiting, to receive the honour of Knighthood, unless His Majesty's pleasure shall have been previously signified, in writing, to the Lord in Waiting, by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

Carlton

Carlton-House, May 2, 1821.

This day His Excellency the Baron Fagel, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plénipotentiary from His Majesty the King of the Netherlands; His Highness Prince Esterhazy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria; His Excellency the Duke de Frias and Uceda, Ambassador Extraọrdinary and Plenipotentiary from His Catholic Majesty the King of the Spains; the Baron de Pfeffel, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from His Majesty the King of Bavaria; and Barou Just, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from His Majesty the King of Saxony, had private audiences of His Majesty respectively, to deliver letters from their Sovereigns; also Monsieur de Kopp, charged with a special mission from His Serene Highness the Elector of Hesse, to notify the death of the late Elector, and to deliver up the insignia of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (with which His late Serene Highness had been invested), liad a private audience of His Majesty for that purpose; and Baron Langsdorff, Minister Resident from His Serene Highness the Elector of Hesse, had a private audience of His Majesty to deliver his new credentials; the said Ambassadors and Ministers were severally introš duced to their audiences of His Majesty by the Marquess of Londonderry, K. G. His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Kut. Master of the Ceremonies.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 8,
1821.

Crown-Office, May 8, 1821.

MEMBER returned to serve in this present
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Ludgershall.

The Right Honourable George Charles Pratt, commonly called Earl of Brecknock, in the room of the Right Honourable the Earl of Carhampton, deceased.

The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

HIS Majesty having been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Edward Paget, G C.B to be Governor and Commander in Chief in the island of Ceylon, he this day took the oaths as Governor of the said island.

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