FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JULY 19, At the Court at Carlton-House, the 15th of July 1817, PRESENT, His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT in Council. THIS day the Right Honourable Major-General Sir Benjamin Bloomfield was, by command of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, sworn of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly. Whitehall, July 19, 1817. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been graciously pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant to the Right Honourable John M'Mahon, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotton, the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, upon his retirement from his situation in His Royal Highness's family, and in consideration of his long and faithful services, with remainder to his brother Colonel Thomas M'Mahon, Aide de Camp to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and AdjutantGeneral to His Majesty's Forces in India, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. War War-Office, July 4, 1817. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant permission to the 74th Regiment to bear on its colours and appointments, the words in addition to any other badges or devices which may have been heretofore granted to the Regiment, in commemoration of the distinguished services or the Regiment in the action of Busaco, on 27th September 1810; at Fuentes d'Honor, on 3d May 1811; at the siege of Cuidad Rodrigo, in the month of January 1812; at the siege of Badajoz, in the months of March and April 1812; in the battle of Salamanca, on 22d July 1812; in the action at Vittoria, on 21st June 1813; in the Pyrennees, in the month of June 1813; at Nivelle, in November 1813; at Orthes, in February 1814; and in the attack of the position covering Toulouse, on 10th April 1814. War-Office, July 8, 1817. As the late 3d Battalion of the Royal Scots was permitted to bear the words Peninsula and Waterloo on its colours and appointments, and as that Bat talion has been reduced, and the men transferred to the 1st and 2d Battalions, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant permission to the 1st and 2d Battalions of the Royal Seots to bear on their colours and appointments, in addition to any other badges or devices which may have been heretofore granted to those Batta, lions, the words in commemoration of the distinguished services of the late 3d Battalion in the Peninsula during the years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and in the actions at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, on the 16th and 18th June 1815. His Royal Highness has also been pleased to grant permission to the 1st and 2d Battalions of the Royal Scots to bear on their colours and appointments the words "Busaco," "Salamanca," "Vittoria," "St. Sebastian," and in commemoration of the distinguished services of the late 3d Battalion of the Regiment in the action at Busaco, on 27th September 1810; in the battle of Salamanca, on 22d July 1812; in the action of Vittoria, on 21st June 1813; at the siege of St. Sebastian, in the month of September 1813, and at the battle of the Nive, on the 9th, 10th, and 11th December 1813. Whitehall, June 25, 1817. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant unto George Bentham, Esq. Post Captain in the Royal Navy, His Majesty's royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the cross of the Royal Piedmontese Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazare, which His Majesty the King of Sardinia has been pleased to confer upon that officer, in testimony of the high sense that Sovereign entertains of the distinguished intrepidity displayed by him in command of His Majesty's sloop Heron, in action with the enemy at the memorable attack upon the city of Algiers, upon the 27th day of August last; provided nevertheless, that His Majesty's said licence and permission doth not authorise, and shall not be deemed or construed to authorise, the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertaining unto a Knight Bachelor of these realms: And His Royal Highness hath been further pleased to command, that the said royal concession and declaration be registered in His Majesty's College of Arms, Whitehall, July 16, 1817. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant unto the Honourable and Reverend Richard Bagot the place and dignity of a Canon or Prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Worcester, the same being void by the death of Doctor James Stillingfleet. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JULY 22, IN pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for confirming and continuing, for a limited time, the restriction contained in the "Minute of Council, of the 26th of February "1797, on payments of cash by the Bank;" and also of the several Acts since passed, for continuing and amending the same; I do hereby direct, that there be inserted forthwith in the London Gazette the following notice from the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, dated the 17th day of July 1817, namely: "That, on and after the 1st day of August "next, the Bank will exchange all silver pieces "called Tokens, issued by them at the respective "rates of 3s. and 1s. 6d. each, for the gold or "silver current coin of the realm, or for the "notes of the said Governor and Company, at "the option of the holders." CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Speaker. Dated 21st July 1817. Foreign-Office, July 22, 1817. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been graciously pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to appoint the Right Honourable Edward Thornton to be His Majesty's Envoy Ex tra |