"tain foreign vessels from pilotage," His Majesty is authorised, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, or by His Majesty's Order or Orders in Council, to be published from time to time in the London Gazette, to authorise the importation into or exportation from the United Kingdom, or from any other of His Majesty's dominions, of any goods, wares, or merchandise, which may be legally imported or exported in foreign vessels, upon payment of such and the like duties only, and with the like drawbacks, bounties, and allowances, as are charged or granted upon similar goods, wares, or merchandise, when imported or exported in British vessels; provided always, that before any such Order or Orders shall be issued, satisfactory proof shall have been laid before His Majesty and His Privy Council, that goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into or exported from the foreign country in whose favour such remission of duties, or such drawbacks, bounties, or allowances, shall be granted, are charged with the same duties, and are allowed the same drawbacks, bounties, or allowances, when imported into or exported from such foreign country in British vessels, as are levied or allowed on similar goods, wares, and merchandise, when imported or exported in vessels of such country: And whereas by an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled

An Act to indemnify all persons concerned in "advising, issuing, or acting, under a certain "Order in Council for regulating the tonnage "duties on certain foreign vessels; and to amend

an Act of the last session of Parliament, for authorising His Majesty, under certain circumstances, to regulate the duties and drawbacks on goods imported or exported in any foreign vessels," His Majesty is authorised (in certain cases), by and with the advice of His Privy Council,

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or by His Majesty's Order or Orders in Council, tó be published from time to time in the London Gazette, to permit and authorise the entry into any port or ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or of any other of His Majesty's dominions, of any foreign vessels, upon payment of such and the like duties of tonnage only as are or may be charged or granted upon or in respect of British vessels: And whereas satisfactory proof has been laid before His Majesty and His Privy Council, that goods, wares, and merchandise imported into or exported from the territories of the Free Hansiatic Republic of Lubeck, are charged with the same duties, and are allowed the same drawbacks, bounties, or allowances, when imported or exported in British vessels, as are levied or allowed on similar goods, wares, and merchandise when imported or exported from Lubeck in Lubeck vessels; and that British vessels are charged with no other or higher tonnage duties on their entrance into the territories of Lubeck, than are levied on Lubeck vessels; His Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in him by the Acts above recited, and by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that, from and after the first day of this instant August, Lubeck vessels entering the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in ballast or laden, or departing from the ports of the said United Kingdom, together with the cargoes on board the same, such cargoes consisting of articles which may be legally imported or exported, shall not be subject to any other or higher duties or charges whatever, than are or shall be levied on British vessels entering or departing from such ports, or on similar articles when imported into or exported from such ports in British vessels; and also that such articles, when exported from the said ports in Lubeck vessels, 1824.

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shall be entitled to the same bounties, drawbacks, and allowances, that are granted on similar articles when exported in British vessels.

And the Right Hovourable the Lords Commis, sioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. C. Greville.

Whitehall, August 14, 1824.

The King has been pleased to appoint Doctor David Lamont to be one of His Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland, in the room of Doctor David Johnston, deceased.

Whitehall, July 30, 1824.

The King has been pleased to present the Reverend Alexander Walker to the church and parish of Elgin, in the presbytery of Flgin and county of Moray, vacant by the death of Doctor Lewis Gordon, late Minister there.

Whitehall, August 14, 1824.

The King has been pleased to present the Reverend John Ker to the church and parish of Polmont, in the presbytery of Linlithgow and county of Stirling, vacant by the transportation of the Reverend Patrick Macfarlane to the parish of Glasgow,

Whitehall, August 14, 1824.

The King has been pleased to grant unto the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Clancarty, Viscount Dunlo, and Baron Kilconnel, in Ireland, Viscount Clancarty and Baron Trench in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and late His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of the Netherlands, His royal licence and permission that his Lordship and the heirs male of his body may accept and use in this country the title of Marquis of Heusden, conferred upon him by His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, by letters patent, bearing date the 18th day of July 1815, as an especial and lasting testimony of the high sense that Sovereign entertained of the eminent services rendered by his Lordship to His said Majesty and His Kingdom, upon divers important occasions: And the King has been further pleased to allow that the said Earl of Clancarty and his successors in the said dignity of Marquis of Heusden may bear, to the arms of his family, certain honourable augmentations also granted to his Lordship by the King of the Netherlands, as depicted in the painting annexed to the said royal warrant; provided the same be first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms and recorded in the College of Arms :

And also to command that the said royal concession and especial mark of His Majesty's favour, together with the letters patent or diploma of the King of the Netherlands, and the relative documents, be registered in the College of Arms.

Whitehall, July 12, 1824.

The King has been pleased to grant unto Sir John Browne, Knight, Colonel in the Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the 13th Regiment of Light Dragoons, and Knight of the Royal Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword. His royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the supernumerary cross of the royal and distinguished Order of Charles the Third of Spain, with which His Catholic Majesty, Ferdinand the Seventh, hath been pleased to honour that Officer, in testimony of the high sense that Sovereign entertains of the distinguished military services rendered by him in the field during the Peninsular

war:

And also to command, that the said royal concession and declaration, together with the relative documents, be registered in His Majesty's College of Arms.