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compleat their loading of coals before the delivery of the fitters certificates.

An Act for transferring all contracts and secu rities entered into with or given to the Commissioners for Transports, to the Commissioners of the Navy and Victualling.

An Act to permit the importation of prunes, the produce of Germany.

An Act to repeal two Acts, passed in the reigns of King Edward the Fourth and King Richard the Third, which prohibit the importation of wrought goods, and certain other articles.

An Act to empower His Majesty to suspend the ballot or enrolment for the local militia.

An Act to reduce the number of days of muster or exercise of yeomanry and volunteer cavalry.

An Act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventeen; and to permit such persons in Great Britain, as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the first day of Hilary Term one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.

An Act for fixing the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others, on quartering soldiers.

An Act for the incorporation of the Highland Society of London, for the better management of the funds of the society; and for rendering its exertions more extensive and beneficial to the public.

An Act for preventing frauds in the admeasurement and delivery of coals within the several parishes in the county of. Middlesex lying between the parish of Saint Lnke, Chelsea, and the mouth

of the River Colne, near Staines, and also between Limehouse-Hole and the mouth of the River Lee, near Blackwall, and also within the several parishes in the counties of Middlesex and Essex adjoining to both banks of the River Lee, and the branches thereof, between the River Thames and Edmonton.

An Act for amending and enlarging the powers of two Acts of His present Majesty, for constructing an harbour at Porthleven, in Mount's-Bay, in the county of Cornwall.

An Act to enlarge, amend, and render more effectual the provisions of an Act of His present Majesty, for paving and lighting the city of Hereford, and removing nuisances therein; and for enabling the Corporation of the said city to sell and apply the produce of certain messuages and lands in establishing market-places, and otherwise improving the said city.

An Act for enlarging the term and powers of an Act of His present Majesty, for building a church in and for the parish of Newry, in the counties of Down and Armah.

An Act for paving, lighting, cleansing, and otherwise improving the town of West Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, in the county of Southampton, and for establishing a market within the said

town.

An Act for paving and improving the footways, and for cleansing, lighting, and watching the streets and other public passages and places in the town of Melksham, in the county of Wilts.

An Act to repeal a certain part of an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled * An Act to amend an Act of His present Majesty, for establishing a ferry across the River Thames at Woolwich, in the county of Kent."

An Act for repairing and altering the parish church of Saint George the Martyr, in the county

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of Middlesex; and for making further provision for the Rector of the said parish.

An Act for making and maintaining a railway or tram-road from Peak Forest to Beard, and from Peak Forest aforesaid to or near to Woodlands, all in the county of Derby.

An Act for making and maintaining a road from near Gatton-Lodge, in the county of Surrey, to Povey-Cross, in the said county.

An Act for continuing the term and altering and enlarging the powers of an Act of the fortieth year of His present Majesty, for improving the roads leading from the town of Leominster, in the county of Hereford.

An Act for repairing and improving the road from the Lyme turnpike road, in the parish of Gittisham, to Sidmouth, in the county of Devon.

An Act to rectify a mistake in an Act of the fifty-third year of His present Majesty, for repairing the road from Bowes, in the county of York, to join the Great North Road near Sunderland Bridge, in the county of Durham.

An Act for more effectually repairing the road leading from Farnborough, in the county of Kent, to Riverhill, in the parish of Sevenoaks, in the said county.

And eleven private Acts.

Carlton-House, May 21, 1816.

This day the Address of the University of Cambridge, congratulating His Royal Highness the Prince Regent on the nuptials of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and His Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg, was presented by His Highness the Duke of Gloucester, K. G. Chancellor of the University,

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attended by the following Gentlemen, Delegates. from the University: the Caput-the Reverend, John Kaye, D. D. Master of Christ's College; Thomas Harrison, Esq. Commissary of the University; the Reverend William Chafy, D. D. Master of Sidney Sussex College; Thomas Ingle, Med. D. Fellow of Peterhouse; the Reverend Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. Jesus College, Professor of Mineralogy; the Reverend S. B. Vince, M. A. King's, Senior Non Regent; the Reverend George Haggitt,, M. A. Christ's, Senior Regent ; the Reverend Mr. Walter, of St. John's Colleget; the Reverend Ralph, Tatham, M. A. St. John's, Public Orator; the Reverend Joseph Shaw, M. A. Christ's, Senior Proctor; the Reverend Robert Jefferson, M.A. Sidney, Junior Proctor; the Reverend W. A. Pemberton, B. D. Registrary; the Reverend Joseph Procter, D. D. Master of Catharine Hall; the Reverend Martin Davy, D. D. Master of Caius College; the Reverend James Wood, D. D. Master of St. John's College; the Reverend William Webb, D. D. Master of Clare Hall; Thomas Le Blanc LL. D. Master of Trinity Hall; William Frere M. A. Master of Downing College; the Reverend Herbert Marsh, D. D. Margaret, Professor of Divinity.

There was also a very numerous attendance of Noblemen and Gentlemen educated at the University, amongst whom were the Marquess of Lansdowne, Viscount Weymouth, Viscount Palmerston and John Henry Smyth, Esq. Representatives in Parliament for the University; Earls Spencer, Westmoreland, Harrowby, Percy, Compton, Clive, and Denbigh; Lord John Townshend; Archbishop of Cashel; Bishops of Bangor, Exeter, Salisbury, St. Asaph, Chester, Hereford, and Clogher; Deans of Cork and Chester; Doctors Browning, Sutton, Heslop, Gardner, Strong, England, Gordon (Dean of Lincoln), Burnaby, Burney, Curry, Geldart (Regius 1816.

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Professor of Law), John Compton, Chambers, Cope, and Williams; Right Honourable Messrs. Villiers, Shore, and Primrose; Sir James Fellows, Sir Thomas Little, J. Beckett, Esq. Under Secretary of State, Reverend F. W. Blomberg, Reverend J. Stanier Clarke, Reverend Mr. D'Oyley, Serjeants Praed and Copley, Professor Christian, Reverend Mr. Hustler, Reverend Mr. Fisher, Reverend Mr. Buckland, Reverend Mr. Bridge, Reverend Mr. Boston, Dr. England, Mr. Calton, &c.

To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, REGENT of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

May it please your Royal Highness,

WE, His Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, beg leave to express to your Royal Highness our sincere congratulations on the marriage of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales with His Serene Highness the Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg.

Distinguished as the University of Cambridge has been by many and splendid marks of the munificence of your royal ancestors, we cannot but take a lively interest in every circumstance which may, even remotely, concern the welfare of your Royal Highness's family. It is, therefore, with singular pleasure that we regard an event which must be peculiarly grateful to the feelings of your Royal Highness, both as a Father and as a Prince. Most joyfully do we hail an alliance which opens so bright a prospect of happiness to your Royal Daughter, and of prosperity to your people.

Independently of the many virtues which adorn the exalted personage whom, with paternal care and provident attention to the public good, your Royal Highness has selected as the husband of your

daughter,

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