Majesty Ferdinand the Fourth, King of the Two Sicilies, hath been pleased to confer upon the said Lieutenant, in testimony of that Sovereign's approbation of the distinguished services rendered by him while serving as Aid-de-Camp to LieutenantGeneral Sir Robert Macfarlane, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, &c. at the assault of the entrenchments and capture of Genoa, in the year 1814, and also in the expedition to the coast of Naples; 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 concesion and declaration be registered in His Majesty's College of Arms. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of FEBRUARY 9, Lord Chamberlain's-Office, February 8, 1819. ORDERS for the Court's going into mourning, on Sunday next the 14th instant, for four days, for Her late Serene Highness Maria Elizabeth Duchess of Saxony, Aant to His Majesty the King of Saxony, viz. The Ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black ribbons. The Gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. Whitehall, February 8, 1819. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for constituting and appointing Thomas Marquess of Bath to be His Majesty's Lieutenant of and in the county of Somerset, in the room of the Earl Poulett, deceased. Whitehall, February 8, 1819. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for presenting the Reverend Thomas Strong, Master of Arts, to the Rectory of Theberton, in the county of Suffolk and diocese of Norwich, void by the death of the Reverend John Carleton. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of FEBRUARY 13, 1819. Westminster, February 12, 1819. THIS day, the Lords being met, a message was sent to the Honourable House of Commons by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, acquainting them, that The Lords, authorised by virtue of a Commission under the Great Seal, signed by the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, for declaring His Majesty's Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the immediate attendance of the Honourable House in the House of Peers to hear the Commission read; and the Commons being come thither, the said Commission, empowering the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and several other Lords therein named, to declare and notify the Royal Assent to the said Acts, was read accordingly, and the Royal Assent given to An Act to provide for the care of His Majesty's Royal Person, during the continuance of His Majesty's illness. Au Act for reviving and further continuing, until the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, an Act, made in the fifty-first year of His present Majesty, intituled "An Act to extend an Act, made in the eighteenth year of His late Majesty King George the Second, to explain and amend the laws touching the elections of the Knights of the Shire to serve in Parliament for England, respecting the expences of hustings and poll clerks, so far as regards the city of Westminster. At the Court at Carlton-House, the 10th of February 1819, PRESENT, His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT in Council. His Royal Highness having been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to appoint Thomas Marquess of Bath to be Lord Lieutenant of the county of Somerset, his Lordship this day took the oath appointed to be taken thereupon, instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. At the Court at Carlton-House, the 10th of February 1819, PRESENT, His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT in Council. SHERIFFS appointed by His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in Council, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, for the Year 1819. Bedfordshire, Berkshire, The Honourable Samuel Ong- John Sawyer, of Heywood- Buckinghamshire, John Grubb, of Horsenden, Esq. Camb |