FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of OCTOBER 11,
1817.

At the Court at Carlton-House, the 10th of October 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 third day of November next, be further prorogued to Tuesday, the sixteenth day of December next.

By His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES, REGENT of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Name and on the Bebalt of His Majesty,

A PROCLAMATION.

GEORGE, P. R.

WHEREAS We have thought fit to order that certain pieces of gold money should be coined, which should be called" half sovereigns or ten shilling pieces," each of which should be of the value of ten shillings, and that each piece should be of the weight of two pennyweights thirteen grains troy weight of standard gold, according to the weights approved of and confirmed by Us in Council, in pursuance of an Act made in

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the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for regulating and ascertaining the weights to be made use of in weighing the gold and silver coin of this kingdon," and We have further thought fit to order that every such piece of gold money, so ordered to be coined as aforesaid, shall have for the obverse impression the head of His Majesty, with the inscription Georgius III. Dei Gratia:" and the date of the year; and for the reverse thé ensigns armorial of the United Kingdom, contained in a shield, with the inscription "Britanniarum Rex. Fid. Def:" with a newly invented graining on the edge of the piece: and whereas pieces of gold money of the above description have been coined at His Majesty's Mint, and will be coined there, in pursuance of Orders which We have given for that purpose: We have therefore, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, thought fit to issue this Proclamation; and We do hereby, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, ordain, declare, and command, that the said pieces of gold money so coined, and to be coined as aforesaid, shall be current and lawful money of the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall be called "half sovereigns or ten shilling pieces," and shall pass and be received as current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and every of such pieces, not weighing less than two penny weights, thirteen grains and one quarter, shall pass and be received as of the valueof ten shillings of lawful money of Great Britain and Ireland in all payments whatsoever.

Given at the Court at Carlton-House, the tenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, in the fifty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign.

GOD save the KING.

IN pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to repeal so much of two "Acts, made in the tenth and fifteenth years "of the reign of His present Majesty, as au"thorises the Speaker of the House of Commons "to issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown "for making out writs for the election of Mem"bers to serve in Parliament in the manner "therein mentioned; and for substituting other. "provisions for the like purposes:"

I do hereby give notice, that the death of Sir J.T. Duckworth, Bart. K. C. B. late a Member serving in this present Parliament for the town and port of New Romney, in the county of Kent, hath been certified to me in writing under the hands of two Members serving in this present Parliament; and that I shall issue my warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the said town and port of New Romney, at the end of fourteen days after the insertion of this notice in the London Gazette.

Given under my hand, the 9th day of October 1817,

CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Speaker.

Carlton-House, October 10, 1817.

This day His Excellency the Duke de San Carlos, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from His Catholic Majesty Ferdinand the Seventh of Spain, and the Baron Humboldt, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from His Majesty the King of Prussia, had their first private audiences respectively of His Royal High

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ness the Prince Regent, to deliver their credentials; to which they were introduced by Lord Viscount Castlereagh, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Robert Chester, Esq. Assistant-Master of the Ceremonies.

Whitehall, September 15, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant unto the Right Honourable John Earl of St. Vincent, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order, of the Bath, Admiral of the Red Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet, and General of His Majesty's Royal Marine Forces, His Majesty's royal licence and permission, that his Lordship may accept and wear the insignia of an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword, which His Majesty the King of Portugal was pleased to confer upon him in the year 1811, in testimony of the high sense His Most Faithful Majesty entertained of the distinguished merits of his Lordship, and of the eminent services rendered by him to the Kingdom of Portugal:

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, October 11, 1817.

Whereas it hath been humbly represented unto His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that, some evil-disposed person or persons did some time since maliciously maim, wound, and injure five ewe sheep, the property of Mr. James Hull, of the

parish of Potterne, in the county of Wilts, which said sheep soon afterwards died; and also, that some time in the night between Sunday the 25th and Monday the 26th days of May last, a similar outrage was committed upon two mares and a gelding, the property of Mr. Thomas Hull, at Whistley, in the said parish, which said two mares are since dead;

His Royal Highness, for the better apprehending and bringing to justice the person or persons concerned in the felony above-mentioned, is hereby pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to promise His Majesty's most gracious pardon to any one of them (except the person who actually committed either of the said felonies), who shall discover his, her, or their accomplice or accomplices therein, so that he, she, or they may be apprehended and convicted thereof.

SIDMOUTH.

And, as a further encouragement, a reward of FIFTY GUINEAS is hereby offered to any person or persons (except as is before excepted) who shall discover his, her, or their accomplice or accomplices therein, so that he, she, or they may be apprehended and convicted thereof; or to any person or persons who shall apprehend and bring the offenders, or any of them, to conviction, or cause them, or any of them, so to be apprehended and convicted as aforesaid.-Twenty guineas of the above reward to be paid by Mr. W. W. Salmon, Treasurer of the Devizes Society for the Prosecution of Felons, and thirty guineas by the said Messrs. Thomas and James Hull.

As a further encouragement, the Justices of the Peace of the county of Wilts, feeling at all times a most anxious wish to assist in the detection of crimes and protection of property, and moved in

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