pardon to any one of them, who shall discover his or their accomplice or accomplices therein, so that he or they may be apprehended and convicted thereof. SIDMOUTH. And, as a further encouragement, a reward of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS is hereby offered by the said Charles John Clavering, Esq. to any person or persons who shall discover his or their accomplice or accomplices therein, so that he or they may be apprehended and convicted thereof, or to any person or persons who shall apprehend and bring the offender or offenders to conviction, or cause him or them to be apprehended and convicted as aforesaid. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of DECEMBER 31, 1816. Crown-Office, December 28, 1816. County of Worcester, The Honourable Henry Beauchamp Lygon, in the room of the Honourable William Beauchamp Lygon, commonly called Viscount Elmley, now Earl Beauchamp, called up to the House of Peers. Whitehall, December 31, 1816. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant unto Richard Armstrong, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Colonel of the 4th Regiment of Portuguese Infantry, His Majesty's royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the insignia of a Knight of the Royal Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword, with which His Majesty the King of Portugal hath been pleased to honour him, as a testimony of the high sense which that Sovereign entertains of the great courage and intrepidity displayed by him in several actions with the enemy in the Peninsula'; 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, December 31, 1816. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William James Voules, of Windsor, in the county of Berks, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Whitehall, December 31, 1816. Whereas it hath been humbly represented unto His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that, in the night between Sunday the 15th and Monday the 16th instant, a farm, called Wakeley, near Buntingford, in the county of Hertford, in the occupation of Mr. James Overall, was wilfully and maliciously set on fire by some evil-disposed person or persons, which consumed several stacks of corn and hay; His Royal Highness, for the better apprehending and bringing to justice the 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 set fire to the said premises) 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 ONE HUNDRED POUNDS is hereby offered by the Right Honourable the Earl of Hardwicke 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. Whitehall, December 31, 1816. Whereas it hath been humbly represented unto His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that, on Wednesday morning the 11th instant, between three and four o'clock, two stacks of barley in the stack yard of Joseph Briggs, at Ossington, in the county of Notttingham, were discovered to be on fire; and that there is every reason to believe that the said stacks were wilfully and maliciously set on fire; His Royal Highness, for the better apprehending and bringing to justice the 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 set fire to the said stacks), 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 by the said Joseph Briggs, to any person (except as 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, to be apprehended and convicted as aforesaid. INDEX. A. ABBOTT, Charles, Esq., Knighthood, 129. Ackland, Rev. T. G., Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Acts of Parliament, Royal assent given to, 38-45-56- Adare, Baron, Irish Viscount, by the title of Viscount Mount Addresses to the Queen, Prince Regent and Royal Family, Alten, Lieutenant-General Count C., permission to accept America, United States of, appointment of A. J. S. John Amherst, Lord, Privy Councillor, 1. Anderson, Major, permission to accept and wear the Portu- Antrobus, G. C., Esq., Secretary to His Majesty's Legation Arbuthnot, Col. Thomas, Knighthood, 192. Arms, Honourable Augmentations of, granted to Colonel J. Armstrong, Lieutenant-Colonel R., permission to accept and Auldjo, Mr. T., approval of as Consul at Cowes, for Ame- Austria, |