Whitehall, February 10, 1817. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has beer pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to give and grant unto Robert Macfarlane, Esq. Lieutenant-General of His Majesty's Forces, Colonel of the 97th Regiment of Foot, and Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, His Majesty's royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the grand cross of the Royal Sicilian Military Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit, with which His Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies hath been pleased to honour him, in testimony of the high sense that Sovereign entertains of the distinguished services rendered by him throughout the different operations against the enemy on the coasts of Italy; more particularly in command of the Sicilian troops at the assult of the entrenchments and capture of Genoa in the year 1814; and in command of the Allied, British, and Sicilian army in the expedition to the cost of Naples in 1815; 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, February 8, 1817. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Pinniger, of Trowbridge, in the county of Wilts, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. FROM THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE of FEBRUARY 11, 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 by an Act, passed in the fiftysixth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to provide for a new silver coinage, and "to regulate the currency of the gold and silver coin of this realm," the Master and Worker of His Majesty's Mint, in London, was authorised and empowered to coin, or cause to be coined, silver bullion into silver coins, consisting of crowns, halfcrowns, shillings, and sixpences, of the standard of eleven ounces and two penny weights of fine silver, and eighteen penny weights alloy to the pound troy, and in weight after the rate of sixtysix shillings to the pound troy: And whereas, in virtue of the powers so given, a coinage of half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences, at the rate of sixty-six shillings to the pound troy, and of the standard of fineness above-mentioned; every such half-crown piece having for. the obverse impression the head of His Majesty, with the inscription" Georgius III. Dei Gratia,'t and and the date of the year; and for the reverse, the ensigns armorial of the United Kingdom, contained in a shield surrounded by the Garter, bearing the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense," and the collar of the Garter, with the inscription “Britanniarum Rex Fid: Def:" with a newly invented graining on the edge of the piece; every such shilling and six penny piece having for the obverse impression the head of His Majesty, with the inscription "Geor. III. D. G. Britt. Rex, F. D." and the date of the year, and for the reverse, the ensigns armorial of the United Kingdom, contained in a shield surrounded by the Garter, bearing the motto "Honi soit ૧ mal y pense," with a newly invented graining on the edge of the piece, has been completed, and is now ready to be delivered for the use of His Majesty's subjects; We have therefore, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of IIis Majesty's Privy Council, thought fit to issue this Proclamation; and We do hereby ordain, declare, and command, that the said pieces of silver money shall, from and after the thirteenth day of this instant February, be current and lawful money of the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall pass and be received as current and lawful money of the said kingdom; that is to say, such half-crown pieces as of the value of two shillings and six pence; such shilling picces as of the value of one shilling; and such six penny pieces as of the value of six pence, in all payments and transactions of money. And We do hereby in further pursuance of the powers given to his Majesty by the said Act, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, further proclaim, ordain, declare and name the said thirteenth day of this instant February as the day from and after which so much and such parts of the Act Act made in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, entituled "An Act to prohibit the importa "tion of light silver coin of this realm from foreign "countries into Great Britain or Ireland, and to "restrain the tender thereof beyond a certain sum," as enacts or provides or may be construed to enact or provide that any tender in silver coin of the realm shall be legal to the amount of twentyfive pounds, or a tender for any greater sum according to its value by weight. And also so much of any Act or Acts whereby the said last recited Act is continued, revived, or made perpetual, shall be repealed, and the same are by virtue of the said first recited Act, and this Our Proclamation, repealed accordingly. And We do hereby in further pursuance of the powers given to His Majesty by virtue of the said first recited Act, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, proclaim, ordain, declare and name the said thirteenth day of February as the day from and after which no tender of payment of money made in the silver coin of this realm of any sum exceeding the sum of forty shillings at any one time shall be reputed a tender in law or allowed to be a legal tender within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, either by tale or weight of such silver coin, or otherwise howsoever. Given at the Court at Carlton-House, the twelfth day of February one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, in the fifty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign. GOD save the KING. At At the Court at Callon-House, February 1817, PRESENT, the 12th of His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT in Council. SHERIFFS appointed by His Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, for the Year 1817. Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Samuel Crawley, of Stockwood, William Stone, of Englefield, Buckinghamshire, George Carrington, of Missen den Abbey, Esq. Postponed. Camb' & Hunt' Cheshire, Sir Richard Brooke, of Norton |