she or they may be apprehended and convicted thereof. SIDMOUTH.

And as a further encouragement, a reward of FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS is hereby offered to any person (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 said offenders or any of them to conviction, or cause them or any of them so to be apprehended and convicted as aforesaid; such reward to be paid by the Most Noble the Marquess of Stafford, or by the Secretary of the Lilleshall Company.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of NOVEMBER 25, 1817.

Whitehall, November 21, 1817.

THE Lord Chancellor has appointed Francis Jarman, of the city of Bristol, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

Whitehall, November 22, 1817.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Wardell the younger, of Whitby, in the county of York, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

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The Lord Chancellor has also appointed John Fryer, of Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

Whitehall, November 25, 1917.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Richard Godman Kirkpatrick, of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of NOVEMBER 29, 1817.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

GEORGE, P. R.

WHEREAS the Parliament stands prorogued to Tuesday the sixteenth day of December next, We, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare, that the said Parliament shall be further prorogued on the said sixteenth day of December to 1817. Rr

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Tuesday the twenty-seventh day of January next; and We have given order to the Lord High Chancellor of that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Great Britain, to prepare a Commission for proroguing the same accordingly. And We do further hereby, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice aforesaid, publish and declare, that the said Parliament shall, on the twenty-seventh day of January next, be held and sit for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs: And the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the said twenty-seventh day of January next.

Given at the Court at Brighton, the twentyseventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, in the fifty-eighth year of His Majesty's reign.

GOD save the KING.

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

A PROCLAMATION,

Prohibiting His Majesty's Natural-born Subjects from serving or enlisting or entering themselves to serve in the Military Forces or Ships of War, raised or set forth by the Persons exercising or assuming to exercise the Powers of Government in certain Prowinces and parts of Provinces in Spanish America,

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or in the Military Forces of His Catholic Majesty employed in Spanish America, or in His said Ma jesty's Ships of War.

GEORGE, P. R.

WHEREAS there unhappily subsists a státe of warfare between His Catholic Majesty and divers Provinces or parts of Provinces in Spanish America: and whereas it has been represented to Us, that many of Our subjects have, without Our leave or license enlisted, or entered themselves to serve in the military forces or ships of war raised or set forth or intended to be raised or set forth by the persons, exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in such Provinces or parts of Provinces, and that divers others of Our subjects are about in like manner to enter and enlist themselves and whereas such practices are highly prejudicial to and tend to endanger the peace and welfare of Our Crown and Dominions, we do therefore hereby, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, strictly charge and command all and every of our natural-born subjects, of what degree or quality soever, not to serve in any such military forces or ships of war as aforesaid, and not to enlist or enter themselves to serve therein, and not to go beyond the Seas, or embark, in order to serve, or with intent to enter, or enlist themselves to serve in such military forces or ships of war: and it is at the same time Our Royal will and pleasure, and We do, by and with the advice aforesaid, hereby also strictly charge and command all and every of Our said subjects not to serve, or enlist, or enter themselves to serve in any of the military forces or ships of war raised or set forth, or to be raised or set forth, by His Catholic Majesty, and not to go beyond the Seas, or embark, in order, or to the intent to serve, or enter, or enlist themselves to Rr. 2

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serve in such military forces or ships of war; it is nevertheless Our Royal will and pleasure, that nothing herein contained, shall be deemed or taken to prohibit any of Our subjects, who are engaged at the time of the date of this Our Proclamation, in serving in the military forces of His Catholic Majesty, with Our leave or licence, from continuing to serve therein, provided that such Our said subjects do not serve with the military forces of His Catholic Majesty, when employed in Spanish America: and We do hereby, by and with the advice aforesaid, strictly require all Our said subjects duly to conform to Our commands herein contained, under pain of Our highest displeasure, and the utmost forfeitures, penalties, and punishments, to which by law they will otherwise be liable.

Given at Our Court at Brighton, the twentyseventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, in the fifty-eighth year of Our reign.

GOD save the KING.

Foreign-Office, November 29, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has beenpleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to approve of James Colquhoun, of St. James's-Place, Esq. as Consul General in Great Britain for the Free Hanseatic Republics of Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubec.