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ing, and repairing certain roads, in the county of Aberdeen, and in the counties of Banff and Kincardine.

An Act for continuing and amending two Acts of His late Majesty, for repairing the roads from Gander-lane, in the county of Derby, to Sheffield, in the county of York, and from Mosbrough-green to Clown, both in the county of Derby, and also for widening and altering certain parts of the said roads, and making and maintaining certain branches of road communicating therewith.

An Act to repeal certain parts of and to alter and amend an Act, passed in the forty-sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for inclosing lands in the manor of Lainbeth, in the county of Surrey. And two private Bills.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 15,
1821.

Veneris, 110 die Maij 1821,

WHEREAS the Select Committee appointed to try and determine the merits of the petition of Richard Spooner, Esq. and also the petition of Charles Lilly, Abraham Herbert, and others, freeholders of the county of Warwick, severally coinplaining of an undue election and return for the said county, have this day reported to the House

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of Commons, "That it appeared to the said Com"mittee, that the merits of the said petitions did "in part depend upon the right of election, and "therefore the Committee required the Counsel 65 on both sides to deliver to the Clerk of the "Committee statements in writing of the right of "election for which they respectively contended: "that in consequence thereof, the Counsel for

the said several petitioners delivered in a state"ment as follows; that the right of voting for "Knights to serve in Parliament for the county "of Warwick, is in the freeholders of the same

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county, whose freeholds are of the annual value "of forty shillings, and duly assessed to the land "tax, among whom are included, for the purpose "of this right of voting, those freeholders whose "freeholds are locally situate in the county of the "city of Coventry, or at least such of the last"mentioned freeholders as are not freemen of "or members of the Corporation of Coventry: "that the counsel for the sitting member delivered "in a satement as follows; that the right of voting "for Knights of the Shire for the county of War"wick is in the freeholders of the county of "Warwick only, and that no person in virtue of any freehold situate in the county of the city of Coventry, has any right to vote at any election of members for the county of Warwick: that upon the statement delivered in by the Counsel for the petitioners, the said Committee have de"termined, that the right of election as set forth "in the said statement is not the right of election "for the county of Warwick: that upon the state"ment delivered in by the Counsel for the sitting "member, the said Committee have determined, "that the right of election as set forth in the said "statement is the right of election for the county of Warwick :" I do hereby give this notice, in

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pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in the twenty-eigth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "Au Act for the further regulation of the trials of controverted elections or returns of members to serve in Parliament.”

Given under my hand, the 11th day of May 1821.

CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Speaker.

Crown-Office, May 15, 1821.

MEMBER returned to serve in this present
PARLIAMENT.

County of Down.

Matthew Forde, of Seaford, in the county of Down, Esq. in the room of the Right Honourable Robert Viscount Castlereagh, now Marquess of Londonderry.

FROM THE

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 15,
1821.

India-Board, May 16, 1821.

DISPATCHES have been received at the EastIndia-House, from the Government of Bomhay, respectively dated the 6th and 15th of December 1820, of which dispatches, and of their icclosures, the following are extracts and copies :

Extract from a Dispatch from the Government of Bombay to the Court of Directors of the EastIndia Company, dated the 6th December 1820.

WE have the honour to inclose a report from Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable L. Stanhope to the Adjutant-General, of the first operations of the force under his command in the province of Okamundelt, which have led to the reduction of the tort of Dwarka‡.

Your Honourable Court will, we are persuaded, view with satisfaction the judicious and prompt

*Detachment of artillery, 1st Cavalry, que squadron Pioneers, one company of His Majesty's 65th regiment, six companies 2d and 3d regiments native infantry, 1st and 5th ditto ditto.

A piratical province in Guzerat, situated between the ·22d and 23d-deg, of North Lat.

Or Juggut, North Lat. 22 deg. 15 min, E. Lon. 60 deg. 7 min.

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decision of that Officer, and his considerate bunanity in the hour of victory; as well as the skill, discipline and gallantry evinced by the Officers and troops of every rank and description.

Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable L. Stanhope, to the Adjutant-General at Bombay, dated Camp near Dwarka, November 27, 1820.

SIR,

FOR the information of his Excellency the Commander in Chief, it is with the greatest satisfaction that I have the honour to announce the fall of Dwarka.

On the 24th instant the troops disembarked at Kutch Gud. Finding that Veowalla had been plundered and abandoned, that the peaceable inhabitants had been carried off into the jungles, and fearing the same system might be adopted here, I immediately pushed forward a detachment consisting of 500 sepoys, and the squadron of the 1st cavalry under Lieut.-Colonel Turner, as a check to such a

measure.

On the 25th I followed with the remainder of the force, with the intention of reducing the tower of Rupen Bunder, which commands the entrance of the creek, in my way, but which I found had been abandoned during the night.

On my arrival was met by a Vakeel, who professed great submission but refused to comply with the only terms I conceived myself empowered to grant, that is unconditional surrender as specified in the proclamation, issued in conformity to the instructions with which I had been honoured, a copy of which I forwarded to Mooro Monack as my ultimatum, granting him till twelve o'clock for cousideration, when I received a message proposing, that I should allow him to send his brother to Bate,

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