FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 13, At the Court at Carlton-House, the 10th of March 1824, PRESENT, The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fiftyseventh year of His late Majesty's reign, ch.57, intituled "An Act to empower His Majesty "to suspend training, and to regulate th equotas of "the militia," it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any Order or Orders in Council, to suspend the calling out of the militia of the United Kingdom, or any part of the United Kingdom, or of any county, riding, shire, stewartry, city, town, or place, for the purpose of being trained and exercised in any year, and to order and direct that no training or exercising of the militia of the United Kingdom, or of any county or counties, riding or ridings, shire or shires, stewartry or stewartries, city or cities, town or towns, or place or places, specified in any such Order or Orders in Council, shall take place in any year, any thing contained in any Act or Acts of Parliament relating to the militia, to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas it is deemed expedient that such training and exercising should be dispensed with in the present year; it is ordered by His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, that the calling out of the militia of that part of the United Kingdom called called Great Britain, for the purpose of being trained and exercised in the present year, be suspended, and that no training or exercising of the said militia do take place in the present year. Jas. Buller. At the Court at Carlton-House, the 10th of March 1824, PRESENT, The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS the time limited by His Majesty's Order in Council, of the nineteenth of September 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 of this instant March; and whereas 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 this instant), presume to transport any gunpowder 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), F 2 with without leave or permission in that behalf, first obe 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 arms 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 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 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. At the Court at Carlton-House, the 10th of March 1824, PRESENT, The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. HIS Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint Charles Godfrey Mundy, of Bur ton ton on the Wolds, Esq. to be Sheriff of the county of Leicester, in the room of Edmund Major, of Blaby, Esq. And His Majesty was pleased to make the following amendments upon the Roll: Camb' & Hunt Norfolk, Somerset, Thompson, made Thomson. Theophilus Thornagh Dilling- Edward Jefferies Esdaile, of York, Sir John Van de Bempdé Johnstone, Bart, made Sir John Vanden Bempdé Johnstone, Bart. His Majesty having been pleased to appoint Sir John Owen, Bart. to be Lieutenant of the county of Pembroke, he this day took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon, instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. Whitehall, March 11, 1824. The King has been pleased to order a congé d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Gloucester to elect a Bishop of that See, the same being void by the translation of the Right Reverend Father in God Henry, late Bishop thereof, to the See of Lichfield and Coventry; and His Majesty has also been pleased to recommend to the the said Dean and Chapter, the Reverend Christopher Bethell, Doctor in Divinity, to be by them elected Bishop of the said See of Gloucester. Whitehall, March 12, 1824. The King has been pleased to grant to the Reverend Samuel Slade, Doctor in Divinity, the dignity of Dean of the Cathedral Church of Chichester, void by the promotion of Doctor Christopher Bethell to the Bishoprick of Gloucester. Crown-Office, March 13, 1824. "MEMBERS returned to serve in this present PARLIAMENT. Borough of Barnstaple. Frederick Hodgson, Esq. in the room of Michael Nolan, Esq. who has accepted the office of Justice of the counties Brecon, Glamorgan, and Radnor, within the Principality of Wales. County of Oxford. John Fane, of Shirburn, in the said county, Esq. in the room of John Fane, Esq. deceased.. |