the ensigns of a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath.

By command of the Prince Regent, Sir Richard: Jones was conducted, with the usual reverences, to His Royal Highness, preceded by Sir GeorgeNayler (the Officer of Arms attendant upon the Knights Commanders), bearing, upon a crimson velvet cushion, the star, ribband, and badge of the second class of the Order.

The sword of state was thereupon delivered to the Prince Regent, and Sir Richard Jones, kneeling, was knighted therewith, after which he had the honour to kiss His Royal Highness's hand.

Then His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, Knight Grand Cross of the Order, having received from the Officer of Arms the ribband and badge of a Knight Commander, presented them to the Prince Regent, who was pleased to invest Sir Richard Jones with the same.

The Lieutenant-General, having again had the honour to kiss the Prince Regent's hand, and having received from His Royal Highness the star of a Knight Commander, retired.

Cartlon-House, March 6, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent was thisday pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to confer the honour of Knighthood on Charles Phillips, Esq. Major-General of His Majesty's Forces.

Carlton-House, March 6, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent was this day pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to confer the honour of Knighthood on

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Peter de Havilland, Esq. Bailiff of the Island of Guernsey.

Carlton-House, March 6, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent was this day pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to confer the honour of Knighthood on Samuel Spicer, Esq. of Portsea.

Whitehall, February 28, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, taking into consideration the eminent services of the Right Honourable Edward Viscount and Baron Exmouth, and Baronet, Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet, and Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, rendered to His Majesty and the realm upon divers important occasions, during a life constantly and zealously devoted to his country, but, especially, the signal ability, energy, and valour manifested by him in the conduct of the operations of the fleet under his command against the city of Algiers, on the 27th day of August last, which were crowned with the most brilliant success, and of which the unconditional liberation of all Christian captives then within the territory of Algiers, and the renunciation by its Government of the barbarous prac tice of Christian slavery, were the glorious and happy results, His Royal Highness is desirous, as an additional testimony of the just sense which he entertains of such highly distinguished conduct and merits, that the same should be commemorated by certain honourable armorial augmentations allusive thereto, to be borne by the said Admiral Viscount

Exmouth and by his descendants; His Royal Highness, therefore, has been pleased to give and grant His Majesty's royal licence and permission, that the said Admiral Viscount Exmouth and his descendants may bear the armorial distinctions following, that is to say, "Two civic wreaths and a lion pas“sant guardant, and, on a chief, a circular for"tified castle with triple battlements, and a ship "moored abreast of a line of batteries" with the motto " ALGIERS"; in allusion to the situation of His Majesty's ship the Queen Charlotte, bearing the flag of the said Admiral, at the moment of the attack upon the said city; and, for supporters, on the dexter side "A lion guardant navally crowned,

his paw resting upon a crescent ;" and, on the sinister side, "A figure designed to represent a "Christian slave, holding in his right hand a cross, " and, in his left, his fetters, broken, in allusion to "his recent liberation;" the said supporters to be borne by the said Edward Viscount and Baron Exmouth, and by those to whom the said dignities shall descend in virtue of His Majesty's several letters patent of creation; provided these honourable armorial augmentations be first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, otherwise the said royal licence to be void and of none effect:

And His Royal Highness has further been pleased to order, that this especial mark of the royal favour be registered in His Majesty's College of

Arms.

Whitehall, March 7, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has heen pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant unto Sir Charles Phillips, Knight, Major-General of His Majesty's Forces, His Majesty's royal licence and permission that he may

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accept and wear the Grand Cross of the Royal Sicilian Order of St. Januarius, with which His Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies hath been pleased to honour him, as a testimony of the high sense that Sovereign entertains of the distinguished services rendered by the said Major-General in the defence of Sicily, and in the expedition to the coast of Naples in 1815:

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.

Crown-Office, March 8, 1817.
MEMBER returned to serve in this present
PARLIAMENT.

City of Rochester.

James Barnett, Esq.

Whitehall, March 7, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant the office and place of Reader of Physic in the University of Cambridge unto John Haviland, M. D. in the room of Sir J. Pennington, Knight, M. D. deceased.

Whitehall, March 7, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant the office of Deputy Keeper of the Register of Seasines and Reversions within the 1817. county

county of Wigton unto Mr. George Agnew, in the room of Mr. Nathaniel Agnew, deceased.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has also been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to present the Rev. Peter Chalmers to the church and parish of Dunfermline, in the presbytary of Dunfermline, vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr. Fernie, late Minister there,

Whitehall, March 8, 1817.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Addams Williams, of Monmouth, in the county of Monmouth, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Robert Norris, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 11,
1817.

Carlton-House, March 5, 1817.

THIS day the Address of the Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the three denominations, residing in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, expressing their abhorrence of the atrocious outrages committed against the sacred person of His Royal Highness, was presented by the following deputation: John Clayton, Ab. Rees,

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