(in certain cases), 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 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 ports of His Serene Highness the Duke of Oldenburgh, 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 into or exported from the said ports in Oldenburgh vessels; and that British vessels are charged with no other or higher tonnage duties on their entrance into the ports of Oldenburgh, than are levied on Oldenburgh 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 date of this Order, Oldenburgh vessels entering the ports of the United Kingdont of Great Britain and Ireland, in ballast or laden,' direct from any of the ports of Oldenburgh, 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 Ff 2

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such ports in British vessels; and also that such articles when exported from the said ports in Oldenburgh vessels, shall be entitled to the same bounties, drawbacks, and allowances, that are granted on similar articles when exported in British vessels:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

Jas. Buller.

At the Court at Windsor, the 19th of October

1824,

PRESENT,

The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fourth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to authorise His Majesty, under cer"tain circumstances, to regulate the duties and "drawbacks on goods imported or exported in "foreign vessels, and to exempt certain foreign "vessels from pilotage," His Majesty is authorised, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, or by any Order or Orders in Council, in all cases in which British vessels, of less burthen than sixty tons, are not required by law to take pilots, to exempt foreign vessels, being of less burthen than sixty tons, from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any of the ports of the United Kingdom, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding; His Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in him by the said Act, and by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the date of this Order, all vessels belonging

to

to the inhabitants of Bremen, and being of less burthen than sixty tons, which shall enter in or clear out from any of the ports of the United Kingdom, shall be, and they are hereby exempted from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any such port, in all cases where British vessels, being of less burthen than sixty tons, are not required by law to take pilots, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

Jas. Buller.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of OCTOBER 30,
1824.

Whitehall, October 21, 1824.

THE King has been pleased to grant to the Reverend Charles Edward Hutchinson, Master of Arts, the place and dignity of a Prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Chichester, void by the promotion of Doctor Robert James Carr to the See of Chichester.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of NOVEMBER 2, 1824.

Foreign-Office, November 2, 1824.

THE King has been graciously pleased to appoint George Bosanquet, Esq. to be Secretary to His Majesty's Legation at Madrid.

The King has also been graciously pleased to appoint Henry Stephen Fox, Esq. to be Secretary to His Majesty's Legation at Turin.

Lord Chamberlain's-Office, November 2, 1824.

The Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household has appointed Captain Alexander Young Dundas Arbuthnot, R. N. of the county of Mid Lothian, North Britain, to be one of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Chamber.

FROM THE

LONDON GAŽETTÉ of NOVEMBER 9,

1824.

Foreign-Office, November 5, 1824.

THE King has been graciously pleased to appoint Viscount Granville, now His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherlands, to be His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Most Christian Majesty.

The King has also been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Sir Charles Bagot, K. B. now His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of All the Russias, to be His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherlands.

Whitehall, October 14, 1824.

The King has been pleased to present the Reverend Doctor James Hunter to the church and parish of Saint Leonard's, in the presbytery of Saint Andrews, and county of Fife, void by the resignation of the Reverend Doctor Francis Nicoll.