Offices of the Paymaster-General and Secretary at War.

An Act to regulate the trade to and from the places within the limits of the charter of the East India Company, and certain possessions of His Majesty in the Mediterranean.

An Act to continue, until the fifteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, an Act of the fifty-second year of His present Majesty, for the more effectual preservation of the peace, by enforcing the duties of watching and warding.

An Act to explain and amend an Act of the fiftythird year of His present Majesty, relating to tolls on carriages used in husbandry, and to remove doubts as to exemption of carriages, not wholly laden with manure, from payment of toll.

An Act to extend certain provisions of the Acts of the thirty-sixth and fifty-second years of the reign of His present Majesty, to matters of charity and friendly societies.

An Act for settling the right of patronage or presentation of or to a chapel to be called Stansted Chapel, in the parish of Stoughton, in the county of Sussex.

An Act for making and maintaining a turnpikeroad from the town of Crowland, in the county of Lincoln, to the town of Eye, in the county of Northampton.

An Act to continue the term and alter and enlarge the powers of two Acts of His present Majesty, for repairing the road from Wrotham Heath to Foots Cray, and from Wrotham Heath to Maidstone, in the county of Kent, and the road from the said road into the turnpike-road, from Mereworth to Hadlow, in the said county.

And eleven private Acts.

1817.

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PROCLAMATION

FOR PARDONING DESERTERS FROM HIS MAJESTY'S REGULAR LAND FORCES.

War-Office, June 18, 1817.

WHEREAS it has been represented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that there are at this time several deserters from the diferent regular corps in His Majesty's land service, who might be induced to return to their duty by an offer of His Royal Highness's gracious pardon, and that such an instance of His Royal Highness's clemency might have a due influence upon their future behaviour, His Royal Highness has been graciously pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant His free pardon to all deserters from His Majesty's regular land forces, who, not having been previously apprehended, shall surrender themselves on or before the 18th day of August next, to the Commanding Officer of any regiment, or to any of the Inspecting Field Officers of the Recruiting Service, whose stations are mentioned in the margin hereof, or to the Leeds. Commandant of Albany barracks, in the Coventry. Isle of Wight, or to the Commandant Liverpool. of the cavalry barracks at Maidstone, or Bristol. to any of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in Great Britain.

London.
Glasgow.

Such deserters, if able-bodied men, and fit for service, shall be sent to the regiments from which they respectively deserted, or be appointed to such regiments in the United Kingdom as His Royal Highness may be pleased to command; and when so placed shall not be liable to be claimed by any other corps to which they may formerly have belonged.

And whereas many of the said deserters may have

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enlisted into other regular corps, and may now be serving therein, His Royal Highness is graciously pleased to extend to such deserters the benefit of this pardon, and to direct, that they shall continue to serve in the corps wherein they now are, upon declaring themselves to their respective Commanding Officers, on or before the said 18th day of August next, to be deserters; and, after having so declared themselves, they shall not be liable, at any future time, to be claimed by the regiments from which they had formerly deserted.

The Magistrate to whom any deserter from His Majesty's regular forces shall surrender himself, is authorised and required to certify the day on which such deserter surrendered; which certificate is to be delivered to the deserter, to continue in force until the arrival of the deserter at the head-quarters of the nearest military post, provided he proceed at the rate of ten miles a day, unless prevented by sickness; such sickness to be certified by some medical practitioner, on the back of the Magistrate's certificate; or to be otherwise proved, to the satisfaction of the Officer commanding at such military post.

And His Royal Highness having further commanded, that the greatest exertions shall be used, for the future apprehension of all deserters, every soldier now serving ought to be deeply impressed with a sense of the danger to which he will expose himself if he should be guilty of the crime of desertion; and all those who have already committed that offence, ought to feel that they will render themselves liable to the severest punishment if they do not immediately avail themselves of the pardon held out in this His Royal Highness's most gracious Proclamation.

Any soldier who may desert after these His Royal Highness's gracious intentions are made public,

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shall not be, included in the above pardon, but be proceeded against with the utmost severity.

By command of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty

PALMERSTON

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JUNE 24.
1817:

Crown-Office, June 24, 1817. MEMBERS returned to serve in this present PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Chippenham.

John Maitland, of Woodford-Hall, in the county of Essex, Esq. in the room of the Right Honourable Robert Peel, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

Borough and Parish of Buckingham.

Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable James Hamil ton Stanhope, of the Grenadier Guards, in the room of the Honourable Hugh Fortescue, commonly called Lord Ebrington, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JUNE 28,
1817

Lord Chamberlain's Office, June 27, 1817.

NOTICE is hereby given, that His Royal Highness the Prince Regent will hold a Levee at Carlton-House, on Tuesday next the 1st of July, at two o'clock.

Westminster,,June 27, 1817.

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 for settling and securing annuities on Lord Colchester, and on the next person to whom the title of Lord Colchester shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

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