ment to your sacred Person, and in a determination to uphold the honour and dignity of your Majesty's Crown.

That the same gracious Providence, which bas protected your Majesty throughout your arduous journies, may still preserve you long to reign in the hearts of your loyal and affectionate people, is. the fervent prayer of your Majesty's faithful Citizens. of London.

Signed, by order of Court,

Henry Woodthorpe..

To which Address His Majesty was pleased to return the following most gracious answer :

"I receive with the utmost. satisfaction, this testimony of your feelings upon my safe return to: my native country.

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Highly gratified, as I am, by the sentiments. of loyalty and affection which have been manifested in those parts of my realms which I have recently visited, I am perfectly convinced that the same spirit animates the Citizens of London, and all classes of my faithful people throughout the British dominions.

"You may be fully assured of my determination to maintain inviolate all your rights and privileges,. and of the ardent solicitude which I shall ever feel for your welfare and prosperity."

They were all received very graciously, and had the honour of kissing His Majesty's hand.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of NOVEMBER 24, 1821.

Whitehall, November 21, 1821.

HIS Majesty has been pleased to direct, that letters patent should pass the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, granting unto Sir James Saumarez, Bart. Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Admiral of the White Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet, the offices or places of Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Lieutenant of the Admiralty thereof, and also of Lieutenant of the Navies and Seas of the said United Kingdom, in the room of Admiral Sir William Young, deceased.

His Majesty has also been pleased to direct, that letters patent should pass the Great Seal, granting unto William Earl of Northesk, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Admiral of the White Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet, the offices or places of Rear Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Admiralty thereof, and also of Rear-Admiral of the Navies and Seas of the said United Kingdom, in the room of Admiral Sir James Saumarez.

War

War-Office, 23d November 1821.

MEMORANDUM.

His Majesty has been pleased to approve of the 61st Regiment of Foot bearing on its colours and appointments, in addition to any other badges or devices which may have heretofore been granted to the Regiment, the word

Talavera,"

in commemoration of the distinguished conduct of the Corps at the battle of Talavera, on the 27th and 28th July 1809.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of NOVEMBER 27, 1821.

At the Court at Carlton-House, the 14th of November 1821,

PRESENT,

The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the time limited by His Majesty's Order in Council of the fifth of May last, for prohibiting the exportation of gun-powder, arms, or ammunition, to the places therein specified, will expire on the thirtieth day of this instant November; and whereas it is expedient, that the said prohibition should be continued for some

time longer; His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, doth hereby order, require, prohibit, and command, that no person or persons whatsoever (except the Master-General of the Ordnance for His Majesty's service) do, at any time during the space of six months (to commence from the thirtieth day of this instant November), presume to transport any gun-powder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms or ammunition, to any port or place within the dominions of the King of Spain, or to any port or place on the Coast of Africa (except to any ports or places within the Streights of Gibraltar), or in the West Indies, or on any part. of the Continent of America (except to a port or place, or ports or places in His Majesty's territories or possessions on the Continent of North America, or in the territories of the United States of America), or ship or lade any gun-powder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms or ammunition, on board any ship or vessel, in order to transporting the same into any such ports or places within the dominions of the King of Spain, or into any such ports or places on the Coast of Africa (except as above excepted), or in the West Indies, or on the Continent of America (except as above excepted), without leave or permission in that behalf first obtained from His Majesty, or His l'rivy Council, upon pain of incurring and suffering the respective forfeitures and penalties inflicted by an Act, passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second, intituled "An Act to empower His

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Majesty to prohibit the exportation of gunpowder, or any sort of arms or ammunition, "and also to empower His Majesty to restrain "the carrying coastwise of salt-petre, gun-powder, 1.6 or any sort of arms or ammunition;" and also by an Act, passed in the thirty-third year of His Late Majesty's reign, cap. 2, intituled "An Act to 66 enable

enable His Majesty to restrain the exportation "of naval stores, and more effectually to prevent "the exportation of salt-petre, arms, and ammu→ "nition, when prohibited by Proclamation or "Order in Council:"

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, the Master-General and the rest of the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, and His Majesty's Secretary at War, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain. Jas. Buller.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of DECEMBER 4, 1821.

Foreign-Office, December 4, 1821.

THE King has been pleased to approve of M. Angrand to be Consul at Liverpool for His Most Christian Majesty.