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And John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, of Bryn Bella, Esq. to be Sheriff of the county of Flint, in the room of George Boscawen, of Marford, Esq.

And His Royal Highness was pleased to make the following amendments upon the roll:

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Lord Chamberlain's-Office, March 15, 1816. NOTICE is hereby given, that Her Majesty will hold a Drawing-Room at the Queen's-Palace, on Thursday next the 21st instant, at two o'clock.

Whitehall, March 1, 1816.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to approve of the appointment of Henry Thomas Howard Molyneux, Esq. one of the Representatives in Parliament for the city of Glou

1816.

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cester,

cester, brother to the Most Noble Bernard Edward Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, to be Deputy Earl Marshal of England.

Whitehall, March 16, 1816.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to appoint the Earl of Chichester and the Marquess of Salisbury to the Office of Postmaster-General.

Crown-Office, March 16, 1816.

MEMBERS returned to serve in this present
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of West Looe.

The Honourable Henry William Fitzgerald De Roos, of Boyle-Farm, in the county of Surrey, in the room of Charles Buller, Esq. who has accepted the office of Steward of His Majesty's Manor of East Hendred, in the county of Berks.

Charles Hulse, of Breamore, in the county of Southampton, Esq. in the room of Antony Buller, Esq. who has accepted the office of one of His Majesty's Justices at Bombay.

City of Carlisle.

John Christian Curwen, Esq. in the room of Henry Fawcett, Esq. deceased.

Whitehall, March 5, 1816.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant unto Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ashe à Court, late Adjutant-General of His Majesty's Forces serving in Sicily, and Major in the Greek Light Infantry Regiment, His Majesty's royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the insignia of a Commander of the Royal Sicilian Military Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit, and the insignia of the Royal Piedmontese Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare, which their Majesties the King of the Two Sicilies and the King of Sardinia have been respectively pleased to confer upon that Officer, in testimony of the sense which those Sovereigns entertain of the distinguished services rendered by him at the period of the landing of the French division in Sicily, and at the reduction of Genoa; 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, March 15, 1816.

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

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 19,
1816.

Whitehall, March 16, 1816.

HIS Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to nominate and appoint Admiral the Right Honourable Edward Baron Exmouth, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the said Most Honourable Military Order, in the room of Admiral the Right Honourable Samuel Viscount Hood, deceased.

War-Office, March 2, 1816.

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As the 3d Battalion of the 14th Regiment bore a part in the memorable battle of Waterloo, and on that occasion received the Prince Regent's gracious permission to bear on its colours and appointments the word Waterloo," and as that Battalion has been reduced, and the men are to be transferred to the 1st and 2d Battalions, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to approve of the 1st and 2d Battalions of the 14th Regiment being permitted to bear on their colours and appointments, in addition to any other badges or devices which may have been heretofore granted to the Regiment, the word " Waterloo," in commemoration of the distinguished gallantry displayed by the 3d Battalion in the action on the 18th June 1815.

Whitehall, March 5, 1816.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant unto George Duncan Robertson, Esq. Colonel in the Army, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Sicilian Regiment of Foot, and Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, His Majesty's royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the Cross of the Imperial Austrian Order of Leopold, which His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria has conferred upon him, in testimony of His approbation of the distinguished services rendered by him while com manding the British troops acting in co-operation with the Imperial forces, at the siege and capture of Trieste, and other operations in Italy, during the campaigns of 1813 and 1814; 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, March 5, 1816.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant unto John Duff Markland, Esq. Post Captain in the Royal Navy, and Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, His Majesty's royal licence and permission,

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