FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of AUGUST 16,, At the Court at Carlton-House, the 13th of August 1817, PRESENT, His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT in Council. IT is ordered by His Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, that the Parliament, which stands prorogued to Monday the twenty-fifth day. of this instant August, be further prorogued to Monday the third day of November next. At the Court at Carlton-House, the 13th of August 1817, PRESENT, His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT. in Council. WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fiftythird year of His Majesty's reign, cap. 155,. it is enacted, that it shall not be lawful for any private person or persons to import any goods, wares, or merchandise, from any port or place within the limits of the East India Company's charter, except only into such ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as shall be provided with warehouses, together with wet docks or basins, or such other securities as shall, in the judgment of the Lord High Treasurer, or of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, for the time being, or any three or more of them, in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, be fit and proper for the deposit and safe custody of all such goods, wares, and merchandise, as well as for the collection of all duties payable thereon, and shall have been duly declared so to be, by the Order of His Majesty in Council, in Great Britain, or by the Order of the Lord Lieutenant in Council, in Ireland: And whereas the port of Bristol has been deemed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury in Great Britain to be fit and proper for the deposit and safe custody of all such goods, wares, and merchandise, as well as for the collection of all duties payable thereon; His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, is thereupon pleased to declare, and it is hereby declared, that the port of Bristol is a port fit and proper for the deposit and safe custody of all such goods, wares, and merchandise, as well as for the collection of all duties payable thereon. And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. War-Office, 6th August 1817. Chetwynd. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has beeupleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to approve of the 24th Regiment of Foot being permitted to bear on its colours and appointments, in addition to any other badges or devices devices which may have heretofore been granted to the Regiment, the words "Talavera," "Fuentes d'Honor," "Pyrennees," and in commemoration of the distinguished services of the late 2d Battalion of that Regiment in the battle of Talavera, on the 27th and 28th July 1809; at Fuentes d'Honor, on 3d May 1811; in the Pyrennees, in the month of June 1813; and at Orthes, in the month of February 1814. Whitehall, August 2, 1817. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant unto Sir John Murray, Bart. Lieutenant-General of His Majesty's Forces, and -Colonel of the 3d West India Regiment of Foot, His Majesty's royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the insignia of the Royal Sicilian Order of St. Januarius, with which His Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies hath been pleased to honour that Officer, as a testimony of His royal approbation of the services rendered by him while commanding His Sicilian Majesty's troops in Sicily, and particularly for his distinguished conduct at the battle of Castalla, in Spain, where he commanded an armed force of which a corps of His Sicilian Majesty's troops formed a 'part: 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, August 12, 1817. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath 'been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant unto Henry-Allen Johnson, Esq. His Majesty's royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the insignia of the Military Order of William, of the fourth class, which His Majesty the King of the Netherlands hath been pleased to confer upon the said HenryAllen Johnson, in testimony of His royal approbation of the signal intrepidity displayed by him in the field against the enemy, while acting as Aid-deCamp to His Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of Orange, during the campaigns in the Peninsula; 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, August 12, 1817. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Abraham Flint, of Uttoxeter, in the county of Stafford, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Whitehall, August 13, 1817. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Cursham, of the town and county of the town of Nottingham, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of AUGUST 19, Carlton-House, August 18, 1817. HIS Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased to appoint William Wadd, of Park-Place, St. James's, Esq. to be one of the Surgeons Extraordinary to His Royal Highness. Whitehall, August 16, 1817. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Joseph Hockley, of Guildford, in the county of Surrey, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Whitehall, August 18, 1817. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Gee, of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridge, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. |