FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of SEPTEMBER 11, 1824.

Foreign-Office, September 10, 1824.

THE King has been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint the Right Honourable Sir William à Court, Bart. and K. B now His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Catholic Majesty, to be His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Most Faithful Majesty.

The King has also been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint the Honourable Francis Reginald Forbes, now Secretary to His Majesty's Legation at Lisbon, to be Secretary to His Majesty's Embassy at that Court.

The King has been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint the Right Honourable William Noel-Hill, now His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sardinia, to be His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Naples.

The King has also been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint the Right Honourable Augustus John Foster, now His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Denmark, to be His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sardinia.

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The King has also been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint Henry Watkin Williams Wynn, Esq. now His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Wurtemberg, to be His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Denmark.

The King has also been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint the Right Honourable Lord Erskine to be His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Wurtemberg.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of SEptember 14, 1824..

At the Court at Carlton-House, the 14th of August 1824,

PRESENT,

The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the time limited by His Majesty's Order in Council, of the tenth of March last, for prohibiting the exportation of gun-powder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms or ammunition, to any port or place on the Coast of Africa (except to any ports or places within the Streights of Gibraltar), will expire on the nineteenth day of September next; and whereas C c 2

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it is judged expedient that the said prohibition should be continued for some time longer, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, doth therefore 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 nineteenth of September next), presume to transport any gun-powder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms or ammunition, to any port or place on the Coast of Africa (except to any ports or places within the Streights of Gibraltar) or ship or lade any gunpowder 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 on the Coast of Africa (except as above excepted), without leave or permission in that behalf, first ob tained from His Majesty or His Privy 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 Majesty to prohibit the expor"tation of gun-powder, or any sort of arms or "ammunition, and also to empower His Majesty "to restrain the carrying coastwise of salt-petre,

gun-powder, or any sort of arnis or ammuni-"tion;" and also by an Act, passed in the thirtythird year of His late Majesty's reign, cap. 2, intituled "An Act to enable His Majesty to "restrain the exportation of naval stores, and 66 more effectually to prevent the exportation of "salt-petre, arms, and ammunition, when prohi"bited 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

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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. C. C. Greville:

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of SEPTEMBER 18,. 1824.

Foreign-Office, September 18, 1824.

A DISPATCH, of which the following is a copy, was yesterday received at the Office of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs:

SIR,

Paris, September 16, 1824, Half past Four A. M. I REGRET to acquaint you, that His Most Christian Majesty expired at four o'clock this morning, after a protracted agony. I have the honour to be, &c.

(Signed)

CHS. STUART.

To the Right Hon. George Canning, &c. &c. &c.

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Lord Chamberlain's-Office, September 18, 1824.

ORDERS for the Court's going into mourning, on Thursday next the 23d instant, for His late Most Christian Majesty, viz.

The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans and tippets.

Undress-White or grey lustrings, tabbies or

damasks.

The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords and buckles. Undress-Grey frocks.

The Court to change the mourning on Thursday the 7th of October next, 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,

And on Thursday the 14th of October next, the Court to go out of mourning.

Whitehall, September 11, 1824.

The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Knight, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, His royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the insignia of a Knight of

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